Tips for a Test-Taker with ADHD | LSAT Demon Daily, Ep. 200
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 เม.ย. 2022
- Student Ben asks the guys if they have any advice for LSAT students with ADHD. Nathan recommends reading ADHD 2.0. The book explains that people who have ADHD tend to get bored quickly when something’s too easy and give up quickly when something’s too hard. For this reason, it’s important to find your right difficulty level while studying. LSAT Demon’s smart drilling feature does this for you! The algorithm adapts to your skill level and selects questions that are hard enough to challenge you-but not so hard that you can’t figure them out. As your skills improve, the questions gradually become more difficult.
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I think Nathan has ADHD lol the way he ran around that Libby thing like not actually getting to the point. Welcome to the family Nathan 😂
Really liked this conversation. It should be noted that most adhd symptoms everyone experiences to some extent. This can cause problems because a lot of people feel like they experience something similar and because they can overcome it, they see that we cannot, they think of it as a moral failure of some kind. Like there is not enough effort or want.
But in truth they don’t experience these things they same way, anywhere near as often, or as severely.
From my experience, although I may not have done as much “work” as a typical person before I was diagnosed, I put in twice as m uch effort. And it was draining. I only really noticed the degree of effort I used to do once I was diagnosed, and those efforts were no longer wasted.
Again, I really liked this convo and you have convinced me to read adhd 2.0 👍
I'll be a bit charitable and say that to be honest, It appears that both of these guys have a limited understanding of ADHD and are doing their best to assist someone who may be neurotypical with genuine advice.
That said, the barebones of the advice would be to 'read a book', and I would presume anyone suffering from ADHD more than likely may done the necessary screening, testing, and question-asking with a psychiatrist to understand its effect on their day-to-day. I assume this because there would be no other way for you to get an accommodation on the Lsat without proving you indeed have ADHD which would require the aforementioned screenings.
The advice in this video ultimately comes across as kinda shitty to put it respectfully so if you're like me who suffers from ADHD and has the ambition of becoming a lawyer here is my advice. I will preface this by saying this is what works for me not only on the LSAT but in my day-to-day as I work full time.
1. See if medication is a worthwhile endeavor. It may or may not work for you depending but if it's within your means I would check and see if it's available.
2. Don't create goals create systems. To have long-term success in studying you need effective time management and a system of accountability. I use apps, todo lists, alarms, sticky notes, and timers to be as effective as possible and even then I hit ruts
3. Before you question your understanding of an answer or a lesson. Review any and all alternative information.
-Unlike most neurotypical people it could be possible that how something is explained is creating more issues than the actual core concept. I had this exact issue with conditional reasoning. I had to print out flash cards and literally watch several videos for it to be properly broken down. You need to accept that you understand information unconventionally.
4. Bouncing off the system idea. Here are some apps I use to track productivity and timing. Notion, Todoist, Streaks, Flow and Tiimo. - It is not perfect but the central idea is to constantly engage your mind with whats next.
5. Always end studying on a high note! Bonus dopamine points
6. Forgiveness. To study effectively. you need to be able to forgive yourself in moments when you don't understand things. Unlike most people it's easy to scapegoat our ADHD and think being a lawyer is not in the cards. That is not true. Rather than raising the ceiling, that is to increase our expectations of ourselves, I find it far more effective to be a floor raiser. Increase the baseline expectation of what you can do. Create new normals and when you trip up keep going!
Okay, rant over. If anyone finds this comment because they searched ADHD and Lsat and found this video. Just know I'm cheering you on!
Thank you so much, that’s exactly what I searched. I’m taking the LSAT again June. The encouragement was needed.
just had my igce biology its my best subject and i messed up completely. i have chenistry physcs and other subjects that i dont understand anything. I dont have any extra time. i wanna cry
Our libraries have seeing machines, ice cream makers, instruments AND even light sabers. Lol. The library is cool.
Thanks, I’m getting a grip on this.
Who else got distracted and didn’t pay attention? 😫
Prior knowledge is helpful.
The de mon is a good tool.
I just have so many students that can't deal with quiet. Even when I play calm music to fill in some of that dead air, the silence drives them crazy. Any advice?
They treat it with amphetimines and or stratera. Lsac is equal opportunity.