LR Section Anatomy: Difficulty Curve, Question Order & First-Pass Strategy
LR Section Anatomy: Difficulty Curve & First-Pass Strategy
Zooming out from individual questions to the section as a whole: how difficulty is typically distributed, and what that means for how you should move through it.
1. The Rough Difficulty Curve
LR sections tend to start easier and get harder, though not perfectly monotonically — there are usually a few harder questions early and easier ones scattered late. Don't assume "later means harder" absolutely, but budget more time for the back third on average.
2. Question Order Isn't Sacred
You're allowed to skip around within a section. If question 6 is bogging you down, move to 7 and come back — don't let one hard question eat time budgeted for three easy ones later.
3. First-Pass Strategy
A reasonable default: move through steadily, flag (don't skip blank) anything over ~90 seconds, finish a full first pass, then spend remaining time on flagged questions in order of your confidence.
Practice items on this page are curriculum-authored in LSAT style; they are not official LSAC questions. Real drilling happens on LawHub — see the assignment below.
Q1. Should you assume the last question in a section is necessarily the hardest?
LawHub drill-tier LR section, timed, deliberately practicing the flag-and-return first-pass strategy described above.
Tomorrow: consolidating the trap library built up across ten weeks of E-day work into one organized reference.