I am new to this LSAT journey and I started the Law Hub Prep Test 140 about 2 1/2 weeks ago. I completed the first section at a café and immediately realized how difficult the LSAT is lol. I took about a week off before I did the second section again at a café and thought I probably didn’t do that well. Then I took another week off and in that time became very anxious as I learned more about the LSAT and realized that I’m most likely going to score low. Tonight around 9 PM I crash-coursed the last two sections and I ended with the score of 136. I’m looking for some advice and/or people’s experience of a similar low score and any tips on how to not feel so bad about the low score and also feel hopeful that I can get into the high 160s that my plan is by September of 2027.
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Hello friend,
Please know that this is said with only the best of intentions. Depending on your circumstances, you might need to shoot for September 2028 admission. The LSAT is absolutely gruelling, you basically have to relearn how to think. I am assuming you are taking the January test, which leaves you about two months from today to prep. Unfortunately, that’s not a lot of time in the grand scheme of things. You’ll need to go through the foundations, LR, RC, and then do a bunch of practice, and even then you may not be scoring a high 160 (or you might be!). I don’t want to make any assumptions about your circumstances, but if you work, are currently in school, are a guardian of a child, anything that can really take away time and energy from prep, it’ll be harder and more gruelling.
Here’s what I’m proposing. Consider September 2028 admission. If you are absolutely set on writing this January to apply for September 2027, then you need to do everything in your power to clear your schedule and dedicate time to prep. Also, quality over quantity. Studying for eight hours a day will not help, it’ll just harm. They recommend about 1-3 hours a day 5-6 days a week. For me, after I finished the core curriculum, I was doing Monday-Friday drills and classes, Saturday off, and a timed PT under test like conditions on Sundays.
I truly wish you all the best with this, and I do want you to be set up for success to get that goal score!
My immediate advice to you is that it's way too early to make any long-term decisions or panic. You should go through an entire curriculum on taking the LSAT (I recommend 7Sage but I'm slightly biased). Once you complete that, you can take an informed diagnostic that will give you a much better sense of how long it'll take you to reach your goal score. It still will just be an estimate, but you can have a much better picture in about a month than you have now. So I wouldn't set any firm dates about 2027 or 2028 until you've done that. The LSAT is indeed quite difficult, but think about other difficult tests you've taken in your life. And think about how much more difficult they'd seem if you took the test without taking the class first!