LSAT Reading Comp, Logic Games, and Logical Reasoning with 5 Minutes Left

"Any strategy in reading comp if I have only five minutes left when I get to the last passage or game?"

If you have five minutes left, you want to go back and attack anything you had difficulty with previously in the section.

So if there's a tough problem you encountered, you weren't sure about, spend a few extra minutes on that.

If you have five minutes left for the last passage or even the last game, your odds obviously are not going to be that high.

(Keep in mind our average amount of time allotted is 8 minutes and 45 seconds.)

You want to attack any general global questions for reading comp. So those would be: main point, primary purpose, passage organization, best title for the passage, author's tone, anything general in nature, those are easier to knock out.

And those are the sorts of things that you want to be knocking out anyway when you're reading the passage for the first time. That's what you want to walk away with. 

If you had five minutes left when you got to the last logic game, that's a very different story. In that case, you want to make your main diagram, answer any orientation questions, then answer any local questions because those give you a jumping off point.

You simply have to draw the diagram for those. There's no major inference that you need to have seen at the beginning.

If you had only five minutes left and you still had something like 10 hard logical reasoning questions remaining, then I would probably just focus on a few of those hard ones because they require the time.

You might not be able to solve them in only 30 seconds per question. That doesn't strike me as the most reasonable course of action. So I'd be thinking about just cutting your losses and doing fewer rather than trying to attempt everything.

That's a general theme of my answer for this question:

Don't try to do an extraordinary amount of questions in a very short period of time because the harder questions have a greater deal of complexity and will actually require more of you than the easier questions that would appear earlier. 

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