Self-study
Hello everyone! I recently took my Argumentative Writing and today I received my official Lsat score of 164. I expected something around this because the test itself was very difficult, and it was my first official test. I will definitely retake it in October (because of international test dates) and I would love to hear your advice on how to improve more in these upcoming months. I will also have to write my essays while preparing for the test so I could apply as fast as possible upon receiving my score.
I also have a choice to keep this current score or delete it, I would also appreciate your ideas regarding this. I would love to hear your ideas and advice on all of these. Thank you!!!
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Definitely don't cancel your score! Even if it's not what you wanted, it's your first score and showing an upwards trend is great. I also kept a similar score because I told myself if I cancel it, then everything depends on the next time I take it and I personally wanted to have a backup score on file to fall back on in the worst case scenario, and not be in a situation where I don't have a single score on file that I like.
@shay_lsat Thank you! Yes, I am thinking of keeping the score also because they will assume it was even less than it is now. The idea about backup score is also great!
Try to evaluate why you think you scored a 164 vs what seems to be your norm that's significantly higher. No one can really say what exactly you need to improve but 164 means you answer ~15 graded questions wrong.
Your account shows you scoring relatively consistently in the mid 170s range so try to work out which parts you wavered with on test day and try to iron out those kinks. Maybe it's being quicker on the easier questions where you should be able to grab and go with less hesitation. Maybe it's needing to have a few ingrained habits ready to pull out on certain question types. It can be a lot of different things but you've put in the work already that should enable you to self evaluate to give yourself decent direction to focus on.
There's pretty much no reason to reject the score. It's a good score and a better score will only reflect well on you. Even if it didn't reflect well, schools see that you rejected a score so, even if they focused on all scores, you're leaving them room to assume worse than what you really scored.
@Adam Thank you!! I took an online exam so it was a weird experience, and I think that I was thinking too much about how difficult the questions were and not focusing enough on answers. I am thinking of reducing study hours to 3-4 hours a day, because I really don't know what else is there to study. I just do drills + sections and then review them. Also, yes I will keep this score