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Hi everyone, my timed scores currently are in the low150s and my blind review scores are in the mid160s. I started preparing in the summer of 2025 and gave the October attempt and scored in the low150s. I started studying again in mid-November and plan to give the June LSAT. I keep revisiting fundamentals, have a detailed WAJ. I am eager to move into the 170s and willing to put in the work. I am unsure how to design the best study schedule to target the issues I am facing (listed below). For example: at this stage, how should I split time between timed and untimed practice? I would appreciate any guidance on how to move forward. Thank you so much!
Major Issues:
Exporting my learnings from previous questions into new ones instead of treating each questions as its own universe;
Struggling to develop the attitude of a skeptic as well because I am unsure if I have a complete handle on the question;
Develop a different way of approaching the questions by moving away from my prephrase;
Struggling with engaging with answer choices and test each against the stim (especially for harder questions).
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This is my response to someone else who was scoring a bit lower than you but the essence applies to what you're dealing with too, especially if you're doing a proper blind review and hitting mid 160s. If you have a strong grasp of everything, on a blind review without caring about time you should be able to get closer to high 160s if not low 170s. You're theoretically taking each suggested question to look at again at face value with no time limit so the only limiter should be you're understanding of what's going on in the stim and how it interacts with the question or what's going on in the passage and how it interacts with the question.
This sounds like a significant issue with how you're reading and processing the stim and passage. I'd recommend you putting aside trying to do full PTs and focus just on doing drills of translating stims and not even trying to do the question itself so you can improve timing and accuracy in processing the information you are going to need to use to answer a question.
I don't know the easiest way to do this on 7Sage but when I did my first round of studying leading up to my first go at the LSAT in November I did drills just reading through stims, translating them, and coming up with prephrases. A prephrase isn't necessarily going to set you up for the question but it ingrained a habit of me needing to take in the stim, translate it accurately, and have a concept of what the question would be focused on.
Focusing just on translating allows you to focus on honing those skills without tainting questions for future use, better allocate your limited studying time, and get yourself to the next level faster so that you can tackle those questions better than you would have otherwise trying to do it all at once.
This is obviously outside of utilizing 7Sage but I spent a weeks if not a month and change doing these translation drills (there's more basic versions of the drills and more advanced ones). I attribute most of my 160 in November to these drills even though I used old materials on paper, never did the test on computer before test day, and had some obnoxious test day jitters.
For current reference, I'm now consistently hitting mid to high 160s on my PTs and hit mid 170s on one of mine. But I was hitting high 150s low 160s on PTs before I even touched 7sage over the past month and change. Getting a hang of translating accurately, efficiently, and in a timely manner will go an incredibly long way.