Hi everyone!
I am extremely new to 7Sage. I am not (unfortunately) unfamiliar to the LSAT. I recently took my LSAT back in June, and I got a pretty decent score of 155 after studying for a month with Kaplan's physical test prep (I completed all of it, and I think my score is pretty decent for only a month of prep-work). The problem is, I want to get into UNC Chapel Hill's Law School- which means my LSAT score will definitely hurt my application, even though everything else is really solid, including my GPA. So, I rationalized it, and I decided I was going to find a prep course so I could practice more LSAT questions, so I can memorize the question patterns even faster and increase my overall question accuracy under the time constraints of the test.
My big question is, how much of my time should I devote to the study lessons provided by 7Sage? So far, I am using my old knowledge from Kaplan and relating it to the 7Sage lessons. But, should I put more of a heavy focus on the practice problems, and sit the lessons on the back burner? Or should I follow the study plan and learn how to tackle LSAT problems quickly and effectively? Should I do an even 50/50 split of both? I just want to make sure I am maximizing my time, which I do not have a lot of when all is said and done (Friday afternoons and weekends aside). For context, I am doing 1-2 hours prep daily, until the January LSAT. Thanks for your input!
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my fav thing about 7sage is the questions are built into the lessons. I had a higher diagnostic and already studied a bit when i joined so what i did was just go thru the lessons, and if i got a question right at the start, i skipped the rest of it with just a note on the summary. This got me through the entire lesson plan in 3 months of studying just 6-8 hours across each weekend. i skipped foundations but if i struggled with an issue, i went back to the lessons they link themselves on it.
@zunair Thanks for the input! I won't totally ignore the foundations, I still want to make sure that I understand them well
Skip the foundations, skip the lessons on LR question types you are extremely confident in, and join some live sessions!
@mjfromcanada Thanks for the input! I will most likely review the LR question types and strategies to deal with them, but I think I could take the Foundations sections pretty light. I do not have the Live Session subscription, unfortunately
@Lsac’s#1Hater that sounds like a plan! If you’d like, skim through the foundations, but you can skip anything you please!
@Lsac’s#1Hater A suggestion from someone who prepped with other material before 7sage, I agree with skimming the foundations to verify that you feel comfortable with them.
Additionally, if you can, the live level of subscription is genuinely worthwhile as a way to supplement understanding of question types if you find yourself running into a pattern of issues that you aren't able to self diagnose or if you feel like you're starting to hit a wall in progress.
I also love it as an intermediary way for me to study when I'm "cooling down" or "warming up" for a session as a lighter mental effort.
@Adam Thanks Adam! I might consider it a little down the road, but for now I'm sticking towards a more self-paced, solitary study plan, because that's how I usually operate best