Hey all,

I'm registered for the June LSAT. I have been studying/ watching 7sage videos and practicing since the beginning of February. For the final stretch what makes the most sense studying wise? Should I be doing a practice test weekly, biweekly? I have not completed all of the videos and practice sets but have a brief familiarity with every section. My weakest section is definitely Logic Games. Any advice? Thank you!!

I just noticed that LSAC has offically announced all LSAT tests after Augest will be come back to offline, and there will be only three formal sections: 1 RC, 1 LG, 1 LR and 1 test sections.

However, the current 7sage is undoublely emphasizing LR sections since in past there are 2 LR sections. There are about 120 hours of course, in contrast with 40 hours for LG and RC.

Just wondering should we put more effort on RC and LG right now with the change of LSAT mentioned above?

I've been listening to the podcasts and have learned that some people will tutor for free to gain a better understanding of the test. I'm just wondering if anyone is tutoring for free currently? :)

I'm scoring in the 160s and would like to be 170+ by August! Any help is really appreciated :)

When I create problem sets and check my results after completing them, I do not see explanation videos. Why is this/where can I find explanation videos? I've notices this with logical reasoning mostly.

I know you can cancel your LSAT score after 6 days of taking the exam, I think? Then it'll show as canceled on your record. However, if you do a registration refund way before taking the exam, will your record show canceled or withdrawn/refunded? Also, how bad is it to see a withdrawn/refunded on your record?

Hey! I purchased the LSAT 1-year membership last summer. I have done almost all of the lessons and maybe 2 practice tests through the entirety of this year. Life has been rough AF. I am from SWLA Louisiana and we were hit very hard with 2 hurricanes (leaving campus destroyed) and COVID19. Nonetheless, I still plan to take the last LSAT-Flex in June. After much time away from 7sage, I made a 148 cold; BR is a 156. I plan to review over everything today. It looks like I missed the most in reading comprehension. This is in addition due to running out of time, so I could not finish the sections. Of course, this score is not horrible considering I went in not doing it for a long time, however, it is certainly not where I want to be. It seems like I just need to get into the groove of taking PTs. Hopefully I should see a boost if PTs are done consistently??

My study plan is to do 2 PTs a week with a BR section every day in between. Any advice? Your projection of my score if I kept this plan? Do I need to amp it up to 4 or 3PTs a week? I would be okay with an 155, however, I want a 160 to be comfortable. (not sure if thats even possible rn) Just let me know what you all think!

Hey guys, I just wanted to let y'all know my general situation and ask for advice if you have any. I'm in between my junior and senior years of undergrad at Mississippi State with an anticipated Law School start date of Fall 2017. I will be graduating with a B.A. in History this December. I started studying for the LSAT in March. I went through Mike Kim's LSAT trainer, and I have a decent grasp LR (-4 or -5 per PT, I know I can improve) but I'm really struggling with Logic Games (-12 or more per PT, mainly as a result of time), which is how I arrived at 7sage. I was registered for the June LSAT, but was forced to cancel after a death in my family the week of the test. Is the the 3 months before the September test enough time to improve to -3 or -4 on Logic Games? My target schools are Alabama (Median of 163) and scholarship at Florida (157 median, 160 75th percentile). My highest PT so far has been 159/160. My UGPA is 3.93. I'm about 13% of the way through the core curriculum.

Generally,

(1) If a Q opens itself up to being diagrammed (the indicators are all there, conclusion has them too), diagram it immediately, or

(2) Even when the same conditions apply, go with intuition and what you "know" has got to be the missing link. If time allows on 2nd round, diagram to check.

I do the latter almost every time, but I feel guilty/lazy? Is this bad form? Are there any 170+ scorers out there that balk at doing this? I just feel like my intuition kicks in faster than a diagram.

Ps: I do normally get these Qs right, and that's the only reason why I'm not referring to my intuition as pure luck.

Thanks!!

Looking to tutor 1-2 people free of cost. The requirements are that you've gone through the CC (thoroughly) and are currently in the PT/Section phase of your studies. Low-income/students with fee waivers will get preference. We'll have a brief call where you can tell me about yourself and your goals to see if we're a good fit.

I've been tutoring casually for a while now, however, I myself am still a student of the LSAT and will be the first person to admit if I don't feel as though I can help or don't understand something. Last 3 PT avg is 174.5/180 BR.

Hi everyone --

I know that many of you are getting ready to take the exam, and so with J.Y.’s blessing I thought it might be helpful for me to post a few quick last minute tips here on the 7Sage site (I’ve also posted this on reddit and my tls thread). These tips are not specific to the trainer (though those of you familiar with the trainer will be familiar with these suggestions). I know that at this point, most of you are focused on taking and reviewing PT’s -- what I’m about to mention are all simple suggestions/exercises that you should be able to integrate into that PT work fairly easily. Not all suggestions are meant for all students, so please, of course, pick and choose whichever you think might be useful for your situation -- if any of this accidentally contradicts 7Sage advice, please assume that they are right and I am wrong :) --

For LR

During this final period it can be very helpful to firm up and habitualize your question-specific strategies and thought processes. To that end...

Without looking back over your work, create a notecard for each type of Logical Reasoning question. On one side of this notecard, write out the most important things to know/keep in mind for that q type, and on the other side, write out the basic strategies you generally try to employ. Once you’ve done the best you can from memory, return to your notes and lessons and such and make sure to fill in the q types, key priorities and such that you missed initially. Review these cards before PT’s, then, in your PT review afterwards, use these cards to assess your methods, figure out where you need to modify strategies or put in a reminder for yourself, and so on. These actions can help you notice, and address, those areas of prep where perhaps your learning has yet to fully convert into skills and habits.

LG

The more automatic you feel about your notations/diagramming strategies, the less nervous you will feel about what might appear on the games section, the better you will be able to set up your diagrams, and the faster and more accurate you’ll be at doing the work necessary to solve questions.

So, to that end, without look back over your work/learning products, try to create a list of all the different types of rules that can appear in Logic Games, and try to organize all of these rules in some way (for example, trainer students know I organize rules in terms of ordering, grouping, and so on). Note how you plan to diagram each of these rules. Then go through games you’ve played in the past, just looking at the scenarios and rules, and fill in your notes with all the various other types of game rules you missed initially. Create notecards of any rules for which you don’t feel automatic about your notations, and study those carefully. Review all your diagramming strategies before taking PT’s, then, in your review, review carefully whether you were able to use diagramming methods effectively for every rule. Take note of, and carefully review, those situations when you were not.

RC

It’s very important to understand what pressure does to your brain (and, consequently, to your reading process): it literally changes the way that you think and the way you read. If, in all your practice, you are far more relaxed (and perhaps forgiving of yourself) than you will be during the real exam, it is possible that you are going to find it very difficult to apply all that you’ve gained during your practice on the real thing -- it’s very possible you will end up reading the passage very differently from how you intended to, and end up rushing too much and overlooking important concepts, or being too careful and wasting too much time, and so on.

So at this point you want to do whatever is necessary to train your brain to read the passage exactly as you want it to. Make your decisions about which reading strategies you want to apply, make sure you are practicing applying them under enough pressure, and get enough practice in so that you can feel a “set rhythm” for how you read LSAT RC passages. It gives you a great advantage to go into the test with a consistent, habitual, and effective method specifically tailed for reading LSAT RC passages, one which is practiced enough so that you apply it without having to think about it.

Timing Strategies/Mindset

Finally, you want to use for final prep to set your timing strategies, determine what you are going to do should tough timing decisions arise, and practice applying those timing strategies/making those timing decisions.

Nearly everyone who takes the exam wastes a lot of unnecessary time and energy thinking about section timing, rather than the question in front of them. It puts you in a much better position if you’ve anticipated potential issues, have the right mindset about them, have practiced dealing with them, and so on.

So, getting your timing strategies set should be one of the main goals of your final PT work. You want to think about your ideal timing, and how you’d like to balance your time through a section and so on, but you also want to make sure to practice and think about timing challenges -- how long to give yourself when stuck on a certain type of question, or how to balance your time between two RC passages when it seems like you don’t have enough to finish both, and so on. One way to experience/practice these challenges, especially if you are in a very high score range, is to artificially limit the time you have per section (say, to 30 mins, etc.) for a couple of your PT’s and test out your survival strategies.

Final Random Timing Tip

In my experience, one of the most common ways in test takers end up wasting time is by over-investing it in the hardest problems -- you want to avoid this as much as possible.

To illustrate, imagine that you are in the 160-165 range and your goal is to get that 165. Depending on the scale for that test, you know that you can miss about 20 q’s or so and still get the score you want. And if you were to take all the q’s from any one particular LSAT practice exam and order them in terms of difficulty, you’d perhaps find that about 70 of them are ones that you feel fairly confident you can get right without too much difficulty, 20 of them are ones that are challenging for you, and, depending on the day, your mindset, etc., you might get right or wrong, and finally perhaps 10 are so hard that you think it’d be very unlikely you can get the right answer in a reasonable amount of time no matter what.

The best way for you to use your time is to --

1) get through the easier 70 as fast as you comfortably can without making errors.

2) recognize when a problem is of extreme difficulty and don’t allow yourself to spend too, too long on those hardest 10.

3) give yourself as much time as possible for those 20 in the make/break down that will determine where you will score within your range.

Keep that in mind, and make sure you don’t allow yourself to over-invest too much time or energy in those hardest problems -- the harder ones aren’t worth any more points.

Again, not every suggestion is for every student, but if you read this whole thing I hope you found at least some of it useful -- I wish you all the best on test day -- Mike

JY/Jonathan, would you guys mind creating an explanation video for every one of the questions in the problem sets? The questions I end up getting right have explanations whilst the ones that I end up getting wrong...don't. Thanks.

Is there a way to take 5 section exams on 7sage?

Hi all, would anybody know what the experience of taking the LSAT at home might be like for someone with time-based accommodations? For example, will the proctors already have my proof of eligibility, or will I need to show them my letter? Do I get placed in a separate room? Has anyone run into problems with this? Thank you!

Hi!

I just signed up for the August 2021 LSAT. Since this test will have four sections instead of three with the experimental section being added, for practice test purposes would you suggest that I stick to taking practice tests with just three sections with the Flex option or should I do all four sections of a test?

Thank you

I'm reading a book called Limitless (not to be confused with the movie!) right now alongside my LSAT studies, and it's helped me, a self-defeating-prone type, tremendously reevaluate my potential for success and abilities to grow. One thing that's continued to challenge me is missing the "silliest" things--a stray word here that changes the entire meaning of a stimulus, or choosing a CBT when the Q-stem asked me to pick the MBF, or most recently skipping over a "non-X" in a game and reading it as an "X." When I realize what I've done, I figuratively and literally facepalm.

And then I'd plunge into a very serious downward spiral of "What is wrong with me? I'm just always going to make these oversights, no matter how carefully I try to read." Earlier in my prep when everything was new and scary, it was "How am I ever going to learn, remember, and be able to apply this confusing lesson before me, let alone the entire LSAT Everest of things that remain? I guess I'm just not cut out for it."

My friend, NO.

One of the anecdotes in Limitless is probably a familiar one to many. It's the one about Einstein and his tendencies to make little calculation errors on his path to giving us some of the most formative theories in science today. In spite of all these mistakes, he is the literal image that comes to mind when we think of "genius" in any field. But it resonated with me this morning as I was reading of his struggles as a student and thought about my own on the LSAT.

If anyone needed to read this today, just know that you're not alone. Many of us are in this boat, which may look a little different from one day to the next, but you know what? We're still paddling our way forward when the motor isn't speeding us along. Sometimes the winds of understanding and lawgic are in our sails; but other times it may feel like they're pushing hard against us. You and I, we may not be perfect or anywhere close to it. We will still make mistakes along the way, but it's not because we're never going to get it, nor because we're "bound to" make them. I am not. You are not. We can train ourselves to get better, think more critically, miss those operative words less, and overcome difficultly-worded sentences, paragraph by paragraph, game by game, question by question. You may need to change up your methods or ask for help. No shame there; I'm pretty sure all the 7Sage legends have at some point in their prep. Your practice will translate into progress, and as long as you still want to defeat this beast of a test, you CAN fight today's battle.

And don't forget to relish your "small" victories along the way; as an LSAT student now and a soon-to-be law school student, these milestones are your proof in the pudding and strongly support the claim you must make everyday: I may struggle through it, but I can do this. I am not my mistakes, no matter how many I make or how "silly" they are in retrospect. But they can be much more than just the thing I didn't do right:

"Was Einstein considered a failure because of his mistakes? Hardly. Most importantly he didn’t let his mistakes stop him. He kept experimenting and making contributions to his field. He is famously quoted as having said, 'A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.' What’s more, no one remembers him for his mistakes—we only remember him for his contributions... You might think you have to be perfect, but life is not about comparing yourself to anyone else; it’s about measuring yourself compared to who you were yesterday. When you learn from your mistakes, they have the power to turn you into something better than you were before."*

That is all. Carry on, LSAT Einsteins-in-the-making :)

--

*Kwik, Jim. Limitless (p. 96-97).

On the LSAC website I read that only 3/4 of the sections are actually scored (taking the test in August so it will not be flex). Since 7sage marks all 4 sections, is the score given by 7sage inaccurate? I got a 162 on my first practice LSAT with only the free trial under my belt and I am very happy about it, but is my actual score lower?

Hi!

I have a few questions regarding practice tests.

First, after taking a practice exam, should i keep studying and doing problem sets? Or is it better take a break after the exam and continue studying the next day.

Second, how do I get the most out of my practice tests? Meaning, in order to improve significantly on the next exam, what measures should I take? Should I go through all the questions I got wrong and figure out why they were wrong and what answer makes it right? Should I redo the games and think of better strategies to tackle them? In terms of reading comp, do I re read the passages to try and understand them better?

Also, how do I get better with time? I tried to do the regular 35 min time limit but caught myself significantly running out of time so I used the 50% added time. It definitely helped but next time I want to really try and finish successfully within the allocated time I will be given on the actual test.

Any tips and strategies would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!!

hi, I feel like the website has been really slow to load problem sets, pdfs, and even the discussion board over the past few days. Other websites have been working just fine, so I'm inclined to think that this isn't a wifi issue? Just wondering if I'm the only one experiencing this, but if not, would really appreciate a fix! thank you :)

Hi... I need help downloading the PDF's for the logic games.

It asks for a password but I wanted to confirm is the password the same one when I log into my account?

I have tried that and it does not work.

Looking for some help, thanks!

Hey, everyone. In my quest to become an LSAT test-taking machine, I made some digital flashcards to help me memorize some key concepts in LR:

-- Valid/Invalid argument forms

-- Logical Fallacies

-- Stimuli Indicators (premise/conclusion, sufficient/necessary, causation, some/most/all)

-- Question Stems

-- Strategies by Question Type

I'm going to flip through these every day from now until the September test date until they can instantly be recalled from memory. And obviously, they're a compliment--not a substitute--for other forms of preparation. I thought I'd pass them along, just in case you find them useful, too.

If you like them, great!

If you don't like them, please tell me how you think they can be improved.

If you spot an error, please let me know.

If you have some great flashcards that help you memorize important LSAT info, please pass it along, too.

Thanks!

I at first thought a 170 would get me into the school I wanted, but now I'm hearing many more people are getting 180s. I feel like the 2022 cycle is going to be more competitive, so really should I be shooting for a 175?

Hi all, I am working full time while studying for the LSAT, currently planning to take the June test. I want to take some time off work before test day to review and study full time, right now I can take 1 week off. Just curious if anyone has any advice if I should take the full week off before the June test date, or perhaps stagger the days off (i.e. take a long weekend the week before and 3 days off before test day)? Not sure how helpful it is to take a full week off before test day in terms of gains in studying so close to the test. Thanks much.

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Hey all,

Do you think between now and the June LSAT it is realistic to improve my score by at least 20 points? My issue is mostly with timing...When I take the test untimed I get roughly -3 on LG but my LR and RC fluctuates. When I take it timed, however, I basically bomb everything bc I run out of time.

Thoughts? Advice?

Thanks in advance, I appreciate it!

Hello,

I am struggling with keeping in the time constraints I've set for myself during my PTs. I try to remind myself to look at the display timer every time I click on the next question or am going through ACs, but sometimes I am deep in a LG and totally go over time before I've had the chance to look back. I used to use my phone to time myself and it would sit directly in front of me as I took a hardcopy PT.

Since everything is digital, I'm trying to switch up my practices accordingly... But I'm wondering if anyone has used the LSAT analog watches available and would suggest them? I'm thinking that with the watch right next to my sheet of paper, it will be easier for me to keep an eye on the time. Do you think I should invest in a watch - and if so, which one - or do you think monitoring the timer will become easier with practice and would be best to stick to the display timer only?

Would appreciate some advice before I spend the money on a timer that may hinder my studying in some way rather than help! Thank you so much!