Day 104 / 168 Week 18 of 28 Phase 4: Integration + Timed Sections

LR Pacing: Two-Pass Sections, Flag-and-Return & the Skip Decision

🕑 ~75 min · Archetype A — LR Deep Dive

LR Pacing: Two-Pass Sections & the Skip Decision

Day 67 introduced section anatomy. Today formalizes the pacing system you'll use on every LR section from here forward.

1. The Two-Pass System

Pass one: move through every question, answering confidently-solved ones and flagging (never leaving blank) anything taking too long. Pass two: return to flagged questions in order of confidence, spending remaining time there.

2. The Skip Decision, Quantified

A reasonable trigger: if you're past 90 seconds on a question with no clear progress toward elimination, flag and move on. This isn't a hard rule — it's a default that overrides the instinct to grind.

3. Budgeting the Section

35 minutes for roughly 25 questions is about 84 seconds per question on average — but real pacing isn't uniform. Bank time on fast, easy questions early to spend on harder ones later.

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. With about 84 seconds per question on average, should every question actually take 84 seconds?

A. Yes, exactly, every time

B. No — easy questions should take much less, banking time for harder ones

C. No, spend equal maximum time on every question regardless of difficulty

D. Time doesn't matter question to question

Correct answer: B. 84 seconds is a section-wide average, not a per-question target — the whole point of banking time is spending less on easy questions to afford more on hard ones.

LawHub drill-tier LR section, timed, deliberately practicing the two-pass system with explicit flagging.

Tomorrow: the RC version of the same pacing discipline, allocating 35 minutes across four passage sets.

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