Hi there! I’ve been studying with 7Sage for the LSAT since the beginning of September (prior to that I read a prep book for a month) with an initial diagnostic of 160. Since then, my altogether score hasn’t improved and is often lower than my diagnostic, hovering in the high 150s. If I slow down and take my time, I get more answers right, but miss answering the last few questions. I speed up and answer all questions, my accuracy tanks to bring me right back to where I was. In terms of study habits, I study for about 30 min-2 hours a day every day depending on availability, doing a mix of untimed drills, timed sections, and the occasional PT. I tried using the targeted drills, but to be honest the answers I miss are so random that there really isn’t a pattern of concepts I am continually getting dinged on so it didn’t help much. I mostly miss Level 4 and 5 questions, but I occasionally (frustratingly!) miss a Level 3 or even 2. So basically, my question is this: is it normal to have not improved at all (even gotten marginally worse) in 2 months? Do I need to be doing something different? Do I need to be studying differently? For those who were stuck in the high 150’s and low 160’s, what got you out of your plateau? Did you get a tutor or change your study routine? I’d love to hear. I’m planning on taking the LSAT in January. Thanks!

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  • Monday, Oct 20

    If you’re missing questions randomly then that indicates to me that you’ve got a problem with your fundamentals. All the LR questions really just test your ability to make associations, but they’ll make it harder with confusing language and erroneously referring to different sets of groups between the premise and conclusion and stuff like that. What do your analytics say are your priority question types?

    Perhaps the problem lies in your ability to read and understand the argument? Or perhaps you’re not picking up when they erroneously change terms like referring to rainbow trout in the premise but make a conclusion about trout in general? Might be time to work through the core curriculum again.

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