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Hey!
I'm currently registered for the 2025 November LSAT and I started studying (seriously) at the beginning of August. My current diagnostic is a 145 and I've done only two other PT's afterwards with the same score and I want to at least get a 158+ on the real LSAT. Is it possible to attain that or am I being delusional lol? I study at least 4 hours on weekdays after work and 6-8 hrs on weekends too if that helps.
Any tips, suggestions, reality checks, etc. will be greatly appreciated :)
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Hi! I am in the same boat!! I am looking for a study buddy if you are up for that!
Hello, this is very much possible. I began studying in July with a 156 diagnostic, and am currently PTing around the 167-169 range (with some variability) and I am registered to take the test in October. Here are my suggestions:
It is much better to study 1-2 solid hours heavily focused compared to 6-8 hours. I am honestly not sure what you could even do for 8 hours studying wise without burning out.
Focus on doing drills a lot more than "learning the logic". I know 7sage has courses but I found them to be very confusing and over complicated, when often you can get an intuition for a lot of questions after you see them enough times, and understanding why the correct answer is correct.
At this point - and this may seem counterintuitive - slow down. If you want a 158, you can still afford to get quite a few questions wrong on the test (5+ per section). That means you have a much better chance improving your score by slowing down and instead of trying to answer 25 questions in a section (and as a result, rushing through most and answering inaccurately), slow down and aim to answer 18-20 questions per section, and just guess the last few in the last 1 minute or so. This way, you have a much higher chance of getting 20/25 correct, and mathematically, you have a high probability of getting 1 of the 5 correct too.
This is the biggest tip that helped me: you need to understand that there is only ONE right answer, and as a consequence, 4 WRONG answers. Often we kid ourselves into thinking that we chose the "second best" answer, or the "trap answer". But any answer that isn't correct is wrong for one reason or another. Which brings me to my final point:
Be very honest with yourself as to why you got an answer incorrect. When I first started studying, I would look at the correct answer and tell myself: "Oh that makes sense, I just misread the question". But this isn't true generally. Firstly, the questions are very carefully crafted, and not only did I not select the right answer, I also chose the WRONG answer - which means I had to have had a misunderstanding of the question as a whole, not just misreading it.