Day 119 / 168 Week 20 of 28 Phase 4: Integration + Timed Sections

Parallel & Method Family Speed Drill: When to Skip Parallel

🕑 ~60 min · Archetype A — LR Deep Dive

Parallel & Method Family Speed Drill: When to Skip Parallel

Same format again, plus a strategic note: Parallel Reasoning and Parallel Flaw questions are often the most time-expensive per question on the test, since they require reading and evaluating five full argument structures instead of five short phrases.

The Skip-Parallel Calculus

If time is tight late in a section and a Parallel question hasn't resolved quickly, it's often a better trade to flag it and secure two faster questions elsewhere than to grind it out — a deliberate, informed skip is a legitimate pacing tool, not a failure.

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 3 minutes left in a section, you have an unstarted Parallel Reasoning question and two unstarted shorter questions of other types. What's the reasonable move?

A. Always do questions in printed order

B. Consider the shorter questions first, since they're more likely to be answerable in the remaining time; return to Parallel only if time allows

C. Always do Parallel first no matter what

D. Leave everything blank

Correct answer: B. Given real time constraints, prioritizing likely-quick wins over a known time-expensive question type is sound, deliberate pacing strategy.

A set of drill-tier Parallel and Method questions, self-timed, practicing the skip-or-commit decision explicitly.

Full PrepTest #3 tomorrow — the third scaled-score data point.

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