Hi everyone! I just got back to college this past year. I am hoping to take the LSAT again in January and apply by February. I took the LSAT back in April for the first time. I am hoping to improve with a 10-20 point increase. Is taking two practice tests a week with Blind review a good method to study? I am forgetting how to attack the LSAT again....

Hi! If you're scoring in the 170s in PTs in the 40s through 60s but your score drops to mid to higher 160s in the 70s and 80s would the latter be more reflective of your potential score for the real lsat? If you experienced a score slump in the more recent PTs which sections were you getting most wrong in? and what did you do to improve? Is it useful to practice with earlier PTs if the recent lsats are modeled more on 70s and 80s?

hey guys,

this is just a little rant I guess. I thought I was improving and bringing up my score and I did prep test 88 for games alone and got -12 it was really hard for me and I struggled ALOT. Usually on games I get anywhere between -3-5 wrong. This was just a very shitty experience. It sucks I have to pay the 200$ Canadian to move it but I would also rather move it than get a low score. I don't know if anyone feels like this but it definitely is just a shitty feeling when you feel like you progressed but didn't. On the bright side I am happy because I will still be able to apply for my schools and all with the November score it will delay me by a month but I'd rather be delayed with a higher score.

I'm taking the October LSAT and have a bit more than one month left for prep. My goal is to break consistently into the high 170's.

So far, I've taken 18 full-length timed PT's incl. BR: J07 (161), 36 (180), 37 (169), 38 (169), 39 (170), 62 (177), 63 (174), 64 (176), 65 (171), 67 (171), 68 (177), 69 (172), 70 (173), 71(173), 80 (170), 79 (175), 82 (172), 83 (172) - in that order.

From PT69 onwards, I've really been stuck in the low-170's. I still have September to improve, and planned to do PT84-May20 & eventually PT81 and PTC2. The plan was to continue having faith in the BR process and rigorously review the test every time after I take it, understand why each correct AC is correct and why each is wrong, become certain why I was attracted by wrong AC and what drove me away from the AC etc.

However, I'm not really sure whether this will allow me to achieve my goal:

It doesn't seem to be an issue of focus or silly mistakes, since I typically finish the sections on time and the LR-questions I miss are typically the ones that I only understand all AC after very rigorous review (from PT79 onwards, I even got some of them wrong during BR - I feel that the 80's have way more hard LR questions and way more subtle wrong/right AC, which sucks up more time).

An averaged score breakdown from my last 7 PT's looks like this: RC -5, LR1 -2, LR2 -1, LG -1.

RC seems indeed to be my weakest section. Sometimes it's something that I either forgot or misunderstood in the passages which leads to wrong questions, but the majority of my mistakes are due to weirdly formulated or subtle AC that I typically get right after a very close look during BR. Even during BR, I get 1-2 questions wrong on RC.

It seems to me that it requires some further fine-tuning of my skills in order to get into high 170's. Will this fine-tuning likely come simply through BR (like I've been doing it until now), or would you recommend some other approaches?

Besides competency itself, what else could be factors to improve on? I admit that during the last 2 weeks or so I've slacked a bit off in terms of reading The Economist, but I started reading it regularly again and two days ago I went through my vocab list again. Otherwise I can't really think of other factors...

Hello, I'm wondering if I can drill 1 LR question at a time or one LG at a time. I like to see if I got something correct right away. But from what I can tell you can only drill by adding each question yourself? That just seems like it takes a lot of time. Thank you.

I have been studying for 3 months now and have been struggling significantly. Yesterday I was Diagnosed with ADHD and was prescribed Adderall which I am a bit hesitant to take. I am wondering if any one here has bee diagnosed with ADHD and either takes their medication or doesn't, and how it affects them when it comes to studying.

Also, are you going to ask for timing accommodations on the LSAT? Do you know if this affects our chances of getting accepted at a school or even a job in the future? How will this look on our record if we use accommodations?

Title says it all...

How do you find motivation to keep studying after the August test in preparation for October? I took a week off...it's slowly turning into two weeks.

I just want to know my score!!!!

In a month and a half I moved from a 148 diagnostic to a 158. I am registered to take the October LSAT and so I have about 6 weeks left. My dream is to score a 165 but that seems impossible right now. If I take 2 practice tests a week and drill my weaknesses can I do it? I have a job and so I only have time to do LSAT stuff about 15 hours a week tops. Should I move my test to November?

Hi everyone! I am taking my second LSAT here in October and have been consistently scoring around the mid to upper 150s. My goal score is a 161-163. I am desperately trying to improve and have ample time to do so, but need some advice. Any thoughts or advice to help improve my score let me know- please!! Also would be happy to provide any of my metrics for each section.

Hi,

when and how often should I be taking pretests? is it okay to take preptests before I finish the cc?

Hello everyone! I'll be taking the LSAT for the second time in November and 7Sage has been wildly useful. I alternate between core curriculum and practice tests since some of the material is not new to me. What is your day to day studying like, do you use materials outside of 7Sage? Just curious to know where other November folks are because I would love to know what else I could incorporate at this time! Best of luck to everyone!

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Every time I take a timed test I don't get to finish the last section of RC and often the last section of the LG too. There just seems to be too little time, and I worry about it during the test, which also costs time. Anyone has any strategies for finishing on time?

Hello all, I took the August 2021 lsat last week. I checked the lsac website after taking the test and I saw a special note on my account saying “temporary hold”.

I contacted lsac and they said they are just making sure that there was no technical issues. I had no technical issues through out the test. Plus I completed the writing section.

Does anyone have/is experienced this or know what’s going on ?

I keep seeing different information about this, so I wanted to ask here. If you've already completed a writing sample for a different test date, do you need to do another one if you retake the test?

Just took my first LSAT last week after a few hard months of studying for it. Upon finishing the test I decided to give myself the week off. Well that week has passed and today marks my first day back. I have done exactly two problems sets and already feel like I deserve the rest of the day off haha. Anyone else doing something similar? How is everyone staying sharp in preparation for their scores?

Prep tests, problem sets, or the LSAT explanation page aren't working for me when I click on them. When I click on a prep test or a problem set, nothing opens or expands and I can't access any prep test or problem sets. Is anyone else experiencing this issue? I've restarted my computer, cleared my cache and used different browsers but the problem still exists for me. I'm on Mac.

Quick one - is Grammarly allowed during the writing section? Can't seem to find any prohibitions on LSACs site or any information on Google.

Does anyone know if taking the LSAT is better than getting the GRE for admissions and scholarships? Or does it not matter? If you are trying to go for PhD/JD is it better to just take the GRE and apply or should you also take the LSAT?

Hello Everyone,

I understand that the new LSAT is only scoring three sections with the 4th section being experimental. My question is, lets say I receive two RC sections, would that mean that one RC section is experimental or could both RC sections be scored and either a LG or LR is experimental? Thank you!

I was wondering if anyone had any advice on getting out of a plateau? Timed PT score is mid-high 150's, BR is usually low 160's. While I'm doing timed PT's, followed by BR and Full Review but I'm not seeing any numerical improvement (however, I do feel like I'm learning something from each test I take). The main sections I struggle with are LR and RC (esp with timing). Is this normal and how do I start seeing an actual improvement in my score? I'm trying to get in the high 160's (at least) for the October LSAT. Thanks all!!

Like many if not most (all?) of you, I heard many times about how the LSAT isn't really useful in law school, just a rough predictor of 1L grades, you just have to do it to get in, etc.

That is a fucking lie.

I've lost count of how many times I've thought or written in my notes this week, "oh, just like the LSAT" particularly when it comes to translating dense material, and critically examining the reasoning behind decisions. Not only is it not irrelevant, I would say a great deal of it is directly applicable. Unless my school is some weird radical outlier (narrator: its not) expect to use the skills you're honing now. Hopefully that motivates you to put the time in and learn this stuff the right way. It'll not only help your score and therefore your admissions outcomes, but also your potential understanding of the material, and ability to examine and destroy hypotheticals and pick apart issues, therefore your test scores, therefore your grades, therefore your job outcomes...

Not that you can't rock law school without having learned this stuff previously, but damn its so much of the same skills. Maybe that we believe these skills don't translate over says more about the type of prep many people/companies push, or why the test seems so difficult to us.

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Hey everyone,

I just took my first practice test since my diagnostic and I'm a little disappointed. My diagnostic was a 143 with 150 BR and first PT after finishing the curriculum was a 147 with a 157 BR. Time constraints are really hurting me and I could use some advice on how to be faster/more efficient during the test.

Also, LG under the time constraint absolutely wrecked me (-13 during time constraint with -3 BR). I'm registered for the October exam but now I'm a little hesitant considering I'm a little over a month away from the test date.

Let me know what y'all think!

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