LSAT Prep Illinois

LSAT Prep Illinois
When Should I Start Studying For LSAT?

I am about to be a Sophomore at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and I want to go to UCLA law, my GPA is a little low (3.16) but I know what I need to do to improve it and I am aiming for about a 3.8 I bought the kaplan lsat prep booklet to get a head start but the reasoning section is so hard that I'd rather pay to take the LSAT prep class, but is this a little too early to have most of my energies focused on passing this test?
Journalism Major (yes my GPA should be higher but I ran into Alcohol)

You'd be starting way too early in my opinion. While it may be helpful to look over a few questions here and there, if you launch yourself into studying 2 years in advance, you will without a doubt burn yourself out. It helps to have everything somewhat fresh when you take the test, because there are a lot of rules.

I'd recommend taking your books and looking over them now and then. Don't kill yourself. Then, decide when to take your test. Probably you'll take it the spring of junior year or summer before senior year. That's when you should take a class (I'd recommend Testmasters since it helped me score 12 points higher). Take the class very seriously and study a few hours a day on your own time. As the test gets closer, start bumping up your study hours per day. The 3 weeks before the test, I was studying 6-8 hours/day. This way, everything will be fresh in your mind and you won't be trying to remember some rule you went over 2 years prior.

Your focus now should be getting your grades up. Study hard, because GPA is very important. Good luck!

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