I definitely return to flagged questions. Like, yeah, I do my best to get them right in the first go around and I flag liberally, but it gives me some peace of mind to go back and take a second glance. It also make it easier for me to move on the the next question if I have it planned to go back through the ones I've flagged. I rarely ever change my answer, but sometimes it's easier to see how what I already chose was right or how actually, this other option is the better answer after being away from it for a bit. One important thing to note, though, is that I also trust my instincts. If I can't solidly convince myself that the first choice was wrong and this other one is correct, then I leave it.

This is exactly right and it’s a great strategy. If I have any doubts about a question or I think “gee that one was kinda tough” I flag it. I’ll usually flag about 5 or 6 and after I finish I’ll go back and look at those answers real quick. Usually I don’t change any but sometimes I will change one. Almost always when I do change a question I get it right the second time meaning the change was correct. More often than not I’ll miss 0 on LR, and the fact that I go back and review flagged question really does help.

Thanks for your reply! Do you find your flag and return approach works also for Reading Comp? Or do you only do it for LR?

I only do this for LR (and occasionally LG.) The first reason is that I rarely have time left at the end of RC. Usually I’ll have less than a minute remaining after doing an RC section but I’ll often have five minutes or so remaining after LR and LG. Occasionally I’ll flag a question in RC if it’s really troubling but I find I rarely have time to review it and obviously it’s better to answer all the questions than to review previous questions. Second I believe that it’s easier to answer questions right after reading the corresponding passage and revisiting a previous passage after you finish the rest of the section means that you won’t remember that passage as well.

I'll do it for reading comprehension as well as logic reasoning

For reading comp if I flag a question I'm generally thinking "I'd like to go back and review the part of the passage that talks about this if I have time". I flag very sparingly and if I have 2-3 minutes left at the end I'll go back to one or two.

Oh I flag all over the place. Stuck between 2? Flagged and skip. Don't like someone's name in an argument? Skip. Too many words? Skipped. Then I just cycle back through. Usually as long as I go back and forth between questions eventually whatever I misread the first time I'll catch. Saves my energy and sanity for when everything else is done

There's no medal for powering through. It's just a needless waste of time and energy

I flag 2-4 questions a section and I definitely return to them, but I pick which answer I feel is right first before moving on. That way, when I come back I have a direction for evaluating the question. I will only change my answer if I can prove definitively if another answer is correct AND the one I previously picked is wrong. This worked wonders for me! Earned a 177 in November :)

Thanks for replying! How much time do you give yourself to return to flagged questions? Do you have a specific deadline or is it whenever you finish all the questions?

I definitely flagged questions, but I would try to get them down to two before moving on.

This as well. Going back is a luxury.

Time permitting, go back to the few that you flagged and give them a second look with fresh eyes. But beware! Don't change an answer without a really good reason. If you have a real moment of clarity and say to yourself "oh, obviously, of course this other answer is the better choice," then go ahead and select that new answer. Otherwise, don't let self-doubt and second-guessing get in your way.

Get it right the first time. If you don't have time to get it right on the first try, why will you have time to get it right on the second try? Invest your time up front on the argument/ passage and master the stimulus. Then read the question stem. Then pick the right answer. If you understand the stimulus well enough, they can ask you anything and you'll be able to predict the correct answer before even getting to the answer choices.

sounds a bit psychotic put this way, but I did this too. I didn't flag any questions, and would work each question until I had an answer I was satisfied with. I'm a fairly quick test taker, so I would usually have time to take a quick pass through the section at the end, but it rarely led me to change my answers. IMO, it's good to be in the habit of taking each question separately and getting to a place where you're happy with your answer, rather than flagging everything that confuses you & ending up with a bunch of half-baked answers.

Definitely return. I had a strange problem though. I would often change good answers after a second look, basically overthinking it. I learned that for me, I should pick the answer that felt right thinking to myself "I'll come back to this, so just pick the best answer for now", then I would try my best not to change it when I came back. Once in a while I would spot a wrong answer, so it was worth it to always come back.

I wouldn't even pick and answer before flagging some really hard questions. Even getting a couple answers eliminated before flagging and coming back later can give you the fresh perspective to find the right one. If you are getting extra time that is even more reason to flag and come back later.

Absolutely! There's often 1-2 questions I'm not 100% comfortable on, so once it seems like I hit a wall in terms of making progress, I'll mark off my "best" answer and bookmark it to get another look later. Sometimes, just the shift in perspective can help you recognize something you missed when you come back to it. For RC, I'd do the same but to a quick glance at the bookmarked question before going to the next passage to see if doing some other questions might help you recognize something you missed.

I returned to flagged questions for logic games and reading but took all the time I needed to be confident in my answer the first time around. Flags were mostly for if I recognized the question as particularly complex/took a lot of time the first time around. For logical reasoning I didn’t bother flagging because I generally had enough time to review every question again, so no need to really prioritize.

I "flag" in the sense that I'll look at a RC passage or LG and say "this looks like it will take lots of time and I won't ace it." Then I'll move on and save that for last. But I don't "flag" in the sense that I'll come down to two answers and return later. For some reason, blind review either keeps my score the same or worsens it, literally has never improved it. So now if I get it down to two, I pick one based on gut feelings and move on.

I mean I flag with the intent to return to them, but it really never goes down like that

Aim for perfection. Be a turtle that goes in a straight line. Flagging and returning, I feel, wastes too much time. That said, maybe skip a question after a couple reads, do the next, then return and answer even if still not sure. Reading something else might help you see it differently when you return to it. But I would hate the anxiety of knowing you have a bunch of questions you need to get back to. I feel like it will make you miss questions rushing to return to other questions.

I think beginners ask this question out of confusion of what protectors mean when they say “don’t flag and come back just get it right the first time.” Most people who start the LSAT don’t know how to read LSAT stimuli carefully enough to understand, predict, and know they got the answer choice right. What these proctors are trying to tell these new students is they need to just obsess about getting one right at a time, rereading the passage very carefully several times if they have too. Most new students are too concerned about time and spend too little time invested in passages that they just flag 20% of the section (just 5 questions). If you are not confident on 20% of the section, you don’t have time to get through this section with accuracy. LSAC has you right where they want you: believing their BS answer choices to waste your time on the exam. You are lying to yourself if you think you will rush through the section and have enough time to then come back. More importantly, you are too concerned with time! That’s what these proctors want you to understand: you don’t have to finish the section to score in the high 160s. Why are you trying to finish by skipping easier questions to get to harder ones? You are less likely to get them right then the question you are on now. I think you should be flagging during time review, but not under the lie that you are going to have time to come back later. If you, for even a second, debate two answer choices on any section, flag it. You need to review that question because you almost stepped in big pile of disease-filled LSAC dung. I get -0/1 consistently on LR. Rarely do I not already predict the answer choice. Even rarer, I fail to predict and there’s two appealing answer choices to me. Even rarer, on a second review of both answers choices, I don’t then eliminate the wrong choice. Even rarer, on a second, third, or fourth glance at the stimulus, does my confusion persist. Ok at that point I KNOW there are other places I’m gonna pick up that point. Until you are there, don’t lie that you’re coming back. Master the section by putting in the hard work on each stimulus.

I always select an answer, but if I'm not sure, I mark it down to be reviewed later. I learned this from the LSAT Unplugged YouTube video where he interviews the woman who wrote the loophole book. I can't think of her name and couldn't find the episode real quick. In it, they say, especially in LR, when you get down to 2 answers left to choose from, go with your gut and flag it. They said people spend a lot of the time trying to decide between two answers instead of saving time. You've then got a 50 percent chance anyway, and when you come back, you re-read it fresh. He was saying our brains keep a memory cache so when we re-read it over and over on the first pass, we are going with the same cache. However, if you do other questions and come back and re-read it, you may see it a bit differently (I've done this and feel it works. I sometimes realize I was not reading the question correctly or missed something.) Most of the time, your gut guess between the two ends up being right, but sometimes you'll see if totally differently. This definitely improved my score. It also clears your mind for the next questions because you know you already made a choice, so you're not thinking about having to go back and make sure you don't leave it blank.

I never flag questions. First off I never anticipate having time at the end of a section. Frankly, I’m very uneasy if I blaze through a section with minutes to spare (with the exception of games). Usually it means several questions probably didn’t get the time/attention they deserved. Second, you’ve already invested like ~1 min. or so of work into the problem, it’s best to invest the extra minute or so it’ll take to solve the problem than to waste that minute, rush through the rest of the section, come back and reread, and then answer. My personal mantra on this has been measure once, cut once.

Multiple 17mid official scores, no extended time (because it's almost always cheating if you're scoring in the 99th percentile,☺️). Here's my approach: **Both in LR.** You return to flagged questions if you have time, and usually, I did have a little time (2 - 5 minutes). But generally, I did not move on from a question unless I knew I answered it right. If I didn't know the answer, I would just figure it out. The questions aren't so hard that I couldn't reason it out in the moment. The questions I flagged weren't because I thought I answered them wrong, but because the questions were more difficult, and it's possible I got something wrong. But yes, I could flag 10 questions in a section and miss none. However, occasionally, I went back to a question before time was up and realized I had previously answered wrong. But most of the time I would go back to a flagged question and realize I was right, and I was just confirming I was right. Both in practice and one the real test I would flag multiple questions and use all of the 35 minutes I had to answer them and recheck them when there was time. But I was not moving on from questions thinking I probably got that wrong, merely, that was difficult – I'll go back after I'm done to triple-check I didn't miss anything. **However, in RC** and LG, I just answered it right to first time around, even if I flagged them. I never had time to go back in RC. I could only answer 25 questions in time, and I would answer 25 questions correctly and guess B on the last two – in practice and the real test. RC questions are easier in difficulty, so as long as I read and comprehended, there was really no reason I couldn't answer it right. It's only when I tried to rush and finish the section that I had issues with accuracy. **With LG**, I answered it right the first time around and went back and checked randomly when I was done because I was usually super fast in this section. I think I rarely flagged in LG because it's pure logic. If I missed something, it's because I misread a word and had no idea I was doing anything wrong. Usually, the only way I figured out is if I had an answer that wasn't an option. I rarely missed in LG, but if I did, that would likely be the reason. If I ever was unsure of an answer in LG, it was almost always because I misread the prompt or got one of the instructions wrong. But you really shouldn't be guessing anything in LG. If you need to guess, you need to go back and figure out the different possibilities with the rules again. It's likely you're going to keep having issues if you don't.

Definitely retuned to flagged questions. I think I made 4 passes over the test working from low to high fruit.