Dear LSAC thanks for letting me kick your ass this January!!! 161 and couldn't be prouder!!

A 161 may seem like a mediocre score to many, but my goal was always a 160; and I managed to surpass it on test day. This was my fifth attempt at the LSAT and it really became a psychological battle for me.

My first score in 2019 was a 149; Jan 2020 cancelled; Feb 2020 151; Jan 2021 150.

To say that I was devastated in Jan 2021, when I scored a point lower than what I had scored a year prior, would be a hasty understatement. At that point I really did not believe I could do it. To have to get back on the horse, and start studying for something that felt hugely out of reach was really difficult. I didn't know what to tell my friends, family, and I felt like all my aspirations were about to go down the drain.

My only regret is not meeting my tutor @"Chris Nguyen" sooner. I wasn’t sold on spending money on private tutoring; but Chris knows how to identify the way his students learn best, and matches that in every session. Sounds cheesy - bur Chris truly taught me how to believe in myself again, he changed this whole exam for me and I genuinely looked forward to our sessions. I was so anxious through this whole process and booked extra sessions with Chris just so I could feel empowered and capable. He is more than a tutor, but a mentor, a coach, and a trusted friend. He could (quite literally) read my body language, and if he thought I was anxious or worried he would ask me what’s up and we'd chat about whatever was on my mind to try to get to the root of the issue. He is the hardest worker I've ever met and is always looking for ways to better himself for his students.

To anyone looking for tutoring - Chris is your guy! I would especially recommend him if you are a nervous test taker like myself.

I'm hopeful that this score will be able to get me into an Ontario law school - either way though, a huge accomplishment for me.

Can anyone help me figure out how to blind review after entering answers from a paper test? I understand how to convert to digital and see my score, but I'm hoping to be able to enter my paper answers and then blind review them. Right now, whenever I take a paper test and enter the answers, I'm not able to then get a blind review score and it's breaking my heart!

I hope everyone is doing well and that studying is coming along nicely. I’m sure we can all use a dose of motivation from time to time and I recently came across a podcast that I have found to be a great resource for me thinking long term on what can sometimes feel like a very long and difficult road to becoming a lawyer. Keeping the goal in mind is always very helpful to me. I have several areas of law that interest me, but have always been curious as to what it would be like in other fields and what their day to day work looks like. The How I Lawyer Podcast interviews practicing lawyers from a variety of specialities to answer these questions. I’d enjoy hearing back from you on whether you found this helpful in motivating you, and maybe what fields became of interest after listening. Here’s a link for those who use apple products:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-lawyer-podcast-with-jonah-perlin/id1546577526

The podcast can also be found on a variety of other platforms.

Enjoy your weekend and happy listening!

1 Year and 30 PTs Later

I'm EXHAUSTED and am so happy it's over. Thank you 7Sage and this community!

January 2021 Diagnostic: 145

June 2021 Flex: 163

October 2021: 163

January 2022: 171

I know everyone will ask so here are my resources:

-7Sage

-PowerScore LR Bible

-The LSAT Trainer

-Kaplan LSAT Book (was terrible, do not recommend)

-Fox LSAT Prep LR

-Manhattan LR Book

-Cambridge LR Books

-The Loophole (I barely read this so I have zero insight)

My strengths: LG (usually -0) and LR (-1 to -3)

My beast: RC though I managed to get -1 to -5 toward the end of my studying

What ended up being a game changer for me after my October LSAT:

-Read stimulus first!

-Take a break. I was studying so much I was burnt out and bombed the October LSAT. I took a one month break from studying and then was scoring in 170s consistently after that. Burnout is REAL. Take a break. Studying 4 hours a day is only going to burn you out.

-RC Tip: Treat RC as a giant LR stimulus i.e. find the conclusion in each paragraph, identify relationship it has with other paragraphs, etc. Do NOT choose an AC that you cannot find support for in the passage. The answers are all in the passage, even the "most strongly supported" and "inference" ones, everything is in the passage.

Wishing everyone the best of luck, go kill it!

Did you just take a random PT without knowing anything about what the LSAT even is, and is that considered your diagnostic score?

I actually started the LSAT journey in March 2021. I didn’t have a curriculum, I was just taking random PTs here and there, check answers, and study off of the answer explanations. I to this day never took a timed test, and all my untimed tests were always in the 160s. Then I took a half year long break. If I take a timed test now, would that be my diagnostic?

I am a non-native speaker. But I did it. I have done all the PT 50-92 3 times in the past 9 months! Drilled all the Questions from PT 1-45.

Hi all,

For those of you who have completed the LSAT writing portion, do you mind sharing with me your experience with the LSAT writing interface?

Thank you for your help!

It took a year of hard work and I gained a lot of tips and tricks. Would anybody buy an ebook for $5 of the tips and tricks I learned?

Which PTs do people drill from? and where do people start taking fresh PTs from? I have heard differing opinions so interested to hear what people think is the best?

Is there no LSAT being offered in July 2022? Isn't there usually?

Is there a difference in meaning between the following two statements?

Superficially, they seem to mean the same. But if I were to diagram them out, they do seem to differ in meaning.

Hey everyone,

After receiving my goal score on the January administration, it is time to hang up my LSAT cleats. With that comes a bittersweet departure from the 7sage community. Before doing so I want to check on a small administrative detail. Will my data be deleted when I close down my account? Only curious on the off chance I were to reopen the account. Best of luck to everyone going forward.

Hey y'all-- hope everyone is having a good Wednesday!

I just wanted to make a quick announcement about this week's LSAT Tips newsletter, which you can read here: https://7sage.substack.com/p/lsat-tips-to-retake-or-not

In this week's edition, I write about whether or not retaking the LSAT is a good option.

I hope it's helpful!

Hello,

I just got a 165 in jan 2022 lsat, and I want to improve from 165 -> 170 by August.

I'm an international student whose primary language is not English, so I seem to struggle a lot in RC (typically from -8 to -4).

I'm looking for a RC tutor who can help me improve my RC skills!

I love your content and it has been very helpful. However, you need a de-esser really bad. It will clean up your audio and get rid of the harsh "ess" noises. It really hurts my ears. R.i.p. headphone users. Does this bother anyone else?

Hi 7Sagers. I'm taking my first attempt in February and I was curious how people handled different instances of things going wrong during the test: things like misreading or missing a rule during a logic game, not having enough time to get to all your LR questions, not understanding an RC passage well, etc?

I'm trying to make a plan for how I would handle things if they go wrong in order to decrease my anxiety so any help would be greatly appreciated!

Can I connect LSAT law hub with multiple third party test sites? I have mine connected with Powerscore already, but I feel like 7Sage is better and want to switch but do not want to lose all the questions and test taking history saved on powerscore...

Does anyone else like genuinely think differently after all these months of studying for the LSAT, like I cannot listen to people talk sometimes without evaluating their speech and criticizing their use of logic silently in my head LMAO the lawgic lessons are just always in my brain now

Sometimes I see like 10 quizzes back to back on the same topic in the curriculum. Once I believe I understand it, should I still be doing the quizzes, or skip over some and not do all of them... What worked for everyone else on here?

Hi!

So, last week I took a practice test and scored a 171, which I was pretty surprised about. I've taken about 4-5 PTs in all and expected to be around the mid 160s given my previous scores.

Today, I took another test and got a 165.

Long story short, is it normal to have this type of fluctuation, or was the 171 a fluke? Do you all experience that type of change in score as well?

I felt equally confident during both, and I'm feeling discouraged now that my score didn't increase as much as I thought it had :(

Since LSAC is still administering the test in a digital format some of JY's tips and tricks that are integrated into the CC, that work great for a paper version of the test, do not translate well to the current format.

The main example I have in mind is when a question stem includes the word except in it. JY tells us to circle the four 'right' answers and bubble in the one 'wrong' answer on the answer sheet. This idea inside the digital test does not translate into high efficiency and clarity like it does on paper.

So, digital LSAT takers, studiers, and teachers what tips and tricks do you have that work particularly well for the digital format of the LSAT?

I know the actual LSAT right now is 4 sections (1 of them being experimental). I'm a bit confused though - if we take a 4 section preptest on 7Sage, we get a score that takes into account ALL sections. But the actual LSAT only scores us based on 3 sections right? Since one of them is experimental?

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Guys i'm honestly embarrassed to ask this question because I should know this by now but... is physical scratch paper allowed for use in LG during the current digital lsat? or in any other section?

Hi everyone,

On Thursday, February 10, at 9:00 PM ET, the 7Sage Tutoring Team will host a webinar about "Need for Speed."

You’ll get a chance to ask your questions at the end.

:warning: You’ll have to register for this webinar in advance.

:cookie: After the webinar, we’ll award one attendee with a free hour of LSAT tutoring. We'll pick the winner by lottery.

:warning: The webinar will be recorded, and we may post it on our site or on YouTube. We may also share the audio on our podcast.

→ Please register for the webinar here:

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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

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