5.6 - How to Review LG

Welcome to our final Logic Games lesson on reviewing LG. We'll keep this one short and sweet.

Remember that the whole purpose of review is to learn from our mistakes. In games, this often means developing your pattern recognition and watching explanation videos up until the moment you catch whatever error or errors led you astray.

Game performance tends to fall into one of three categories: you crush it accurately and quickly, you get the questions right but you take longer than you'd probably have on test day, or you miss several questions regardless of your speed.

I'm going to focus on these latter two.

When You're Accurate But Slow

I see this a lot in more intermediate-level students.

When you're getting the questions right but it's taking you 15+ minutes to solve a game, I'd recommend finding an explanation video that takes things one step at a time, especially ones from prep providers who teach worlds.

Watch the video in small increments. Follow along with the instructor as they make their splits. Listen carefully to their reasoning. Listen to the questions they ask themselves as they go. Typically, these will be the things you either didn't do, or didn't do efficiently, during your attempt.

While I don't recommend keeping wrong answer journals or other gimmicks like that, try to make mental note of where you've seen similar games and similar rules. This will pay dividends on test day, as you're bound to see similarities in those games to games you've practice in the past.

When You Bomb

This is more characteristic of newer students. Often, when you just totally blow it on a game, you either missed some crucial piece of information in the game's rules or passage, you misinterpreted a rule, or you just plain stink at making worlds. The good news is, each of these errors is coachable.

For the first two, you have to slow down. Period. There's no excuse for misinterpretation. You have to read at the speed of understanding—your understanding. That speed's going to be different for everyone.

For the third, you need to practice more games, particularly easy ones. Recall from our section introduction that the key to LG is equal parts practice and working upward in difficulty. Easy games are fertile soil for developing your world-building skills. You also have to learn to obliterate them if you have any hope of perfecting the section.

And watching explanation videos isn't only advisable for intermediate / advanced students. Find a teacher who resonates with you and consume their content. Watch how they do what they do and why. You'll improve much faster than you think.

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That does it for LG. I'm sad to see games go but we'll still have arguments to harass and passages to learn from. So it ain't all bad.

Join us next chapter as we touch on the writing sample.

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