Hi everyone,

As we recently announced, we've created lessons to explain law courses you’ll take in your 1L year. As part of that effort, we also want to teach you how to write a law school exam.

Law school exams truly are unlike any exams you’ve written in undergrad. That in and of itself is daunting enough. They also happen to account for the entirety of your 1L grades.

Therefore, if your 1L grades are important to you, it’s important that you become acquainted with how to write good exams.

So, we’re giving every student enrolled in an LSAT or Admissions course the opportunity to take part in a mock Crim Law exam. We don’t want your very first experience with writing an exam to be one with so much riding on it. Rather, do a trial run with us and we’ll hold your hand. We’ve temporarily opened up some lessons normally available only to students enrolled in our Law School Explained courses.

If you want to take advantage of this opportunity, first listen to or watch some lectures (appx 2.5 hours), then read one case (appx 45 mins), and finally write an exam (2 hours).

“Waah, that’s a boatload of work!”

It sure is.

From the exams that we collect, we will select three, anonymize them, and offer detailed feedback.

The lessons, the exam, and the feedback will all be provided by Prof. Daniel Epps of Washington University in St. Louis School of Law.

If your essay is selected for review, you’ll be receiving personalized feedback on how to improve your writing. The catch is that the feedback will become part of the course to benefit other students as well.

If you submit an essay and we do not select it for review, you’ll still gain free access to the critiques of the three essays that we do select. This will enable you to compare your own exams to see where you can do better. Normally, those lessons would be only available to students enrolled in our Law School Explained courses.

If you’re concerned about the odds of your essay being selected, I’d direct your attention to the quote above. Because we’ve setup the process to be time consuming and demanding, I don’t expect that we’ll get too many responses. This mimics what you’ll quickly come to expect as normal once you’re in law school. It also has the additional effect of filtering for only the original gunners.

If that’s you, then I wish you good luck.

You may begin here.

Deadline for completion is October 31.

I see 7Sage has the option to simulate the LSAT-Flex which simply removes one of the LR sections from a practice test. From a prep perspective, is there any benefit to doing this? I see it from the alternative position and being more advantageous to work on an extra 25 LR questions. What might I not be thinking about?

Hello,

So for the first time I broke through into the 160s range with a 162 in Blind Review but my actual score was a 153 (155 on average). Is this a good sign and how do I go about closing the gap and reaching a 162 on my actual test? My test is in January and I would like to get as close to my BR score as possible. For BR I had 4 wrong in LR, 6 in RC and 7 in LG (this was surprisingly bad but I was dealing with test 68 game 4, which is considered to be one of the hardest games ever and thus didn't make any improvements in my BR)

Its an issue of accuracy with my timing and I don't know how or if I can close the gap. Thank you 7sage community

I haven't been able to score a 150 (untimed) the closes I've gotten is a 146. Recently I find myself stuck at a 143 (timed) but when I do blind review, I manage to get 150 (I've gotten this twice my last two PT's). I don't know if I'll be able to start scoring in 150's by January (untimed). I would really like to get into school for the fall. My LSAT goal is mid 150's. I'll take a 150 too honestly. Anyway, my top two schools' deadlines are March 1. I COULD take the Feb LSAT, but I'm wondering if that is risky. Should I wait for next cycle? I feel like my time is running out. My next test will be the third attempt. I would try at most 4. Advice?

I'm nearing the end of the core curriculum and I will begin doing preptests every couple of days, but since I'm limited with time before the January LSAT I wont be able to get through most of the practice tests. That being said, should I just focus on doing the newer tests, or the old ones, or a mix of both? I expect to be able to do about 15 in the time I will have remaining before my exam so I want to make sure that I am making the right choices.

So I was trying to understand what is different about the LSAT-flex and noticed on the LSAC website it said it is made up of 3 sections: Analytical Reasoning, Logical Reasoning, and Reading Comprehension. So there is no logic games section on the flex version or am I missing something?

Hi all,

Just wanted to share that the 2020-2021 LSAT dates are released! See link below :)

https://www.lsac.org/lsat/lsat-dates-deadlines-score-release-dates/future-lsat-dates

Hi all. I'd like to sign up to take the April LSAT flex. This option to test from home is very appealing to me for many reasons so I am hoping to take advantage of it before it's gone. I have a full time career and am a single parent. Took the LSAT 15+ years ago and got a disappointing 154 after testing mid-high 160s. It was demoralizing and changed the trajectory of my career. Now here I am again studying, understanding all the concepts when giving myself ample time but bombed my first practice test (149). I got most of the LG wrong (-17) because of nerves but scored higher in RC (-4). I'm here looking for advice - I'm overwhelmed by figuring out how to study with all of the choices available - online platforms, programs etc. I've been reading PowerScore bibles and they are helpful but feel like if I don't have a concrete plan for the next four months, it's not going to be enough. Does anyone have a good four month study schedule they can share that focuses mostly on LG and LR? A live course that might help in addition to PS or 7Sage? Or do you have a tutor recommendation that could help me navigate these choices and create a customized plan based on my strengths and weaknesses? Thank you!

Can you please provide a PDF version of this entire MAP or if you have multiple files you can send it to me as well. I need this for visualization perspective! Big picture perspective!

Thanks

Below is a list of LR questions that contain numbers and/or percentages. I'm working through these and I thought I would share. Hopefully this is helpful!

PT7, S1, Q11

PT9, S4, Q13

PT11, S2, Q12

PT12, S1, Q8

PT12, S1, Q14

PT12, S1, Q19

PT13, S2, Q18

PT14, S2, Q25

PT14, S4, Q18

PT16, S2, Q9

PT16, S2, Q14

PT16, S2, Q20

PT17, S3, Q24

PT18, S4, Q7

PT19, S4, Q11

PT20, S1, Q24

PT20, S4, Q5

PT20, S4, Q7

PT21, S3, Q3

PT22, S2, Q23

PT22, S4, Q12

PT23, S3, Q16

pt24-s2-q5

pt24-s2-q15

pt24-s3-q25

PT26, S2, Q5

PT26, S3, Q19

PT26, S3, Q24

PT27, S1, Q9

PT27, S1, Q23

PT27, S4, Q6

PT27, S4, Q14

PT28, S3, Q11

PT9, S2, Q17

PT9, S2, Q7

PT29, S1, Q20

PT30, S2, Q4

PT30, S2, Q17

PT31, S2, Q15

PT35, S4, Q4

Hi, I am retaking the LSAT in January in hopes of increasing my score. I am looking for an affordable tutor who can help. If you know of anyone please let me know. Thank you!

Hey everyone, so since my fall semester just came to a close, I am about to start serious LSAT study again. I am pretty stressed about it all though, because for about a year and a half I’ve been studying the CC and full proofing LG. I have gotten to the point where I’m pretty comfortable with LG, but it has been so long since I’ve done any LR or RC. I am just concerned that all of the studying I did previous to fool proofing has been for nothing, since I didn’t keep up with it very well while I was fool proofing. I wanted to start taking PTs over the winter break, but I’m unsure if I’m ready since I haven’t done much LR training while I was foolproofing. So I guess my question is, how important is consistency if I’ve already studied for so long? Should I go ahead and begin practice testing, or should I redo all of the CC on LR and RC, which initially took me about 6 months?

I purchased the prepaid plus account however it is not linking to my account and I am not able to access the questions and all on my account. Can someone please help and walk me through it? 

is there a lesson on taking the contrapositive for combined conditional statements where "and" is in the sufficient condition/"or" is in the necessary condition. Trying to work on my conditional chains. Thanks!

I'm prepping for the January Flex and was hoping to get some tech advice. I had issues that caused me to cancel my November score (my connection was lost through ProctorU but my Wifi seemed fine...?). I've heard investing in an ethernet cord might be worth it. Thoughts? Other ideas?

I started LSAT preparation with 7Sage back in May, and I started with around -10 to -16 on RC. Having Chinese as my native language, I really coudn't see a way of improving RC since I had serious trouble just to understand the passage itself. 7Sage's low-res and main point method was incredibly helpful for me, and JY gave detailed explanations for each LSAT, which was even more helpful for me since my problem was not being able to comprehend the passages. After bombing my July test, I came back with a 11-point increase to a 173 on August-flex, and eventually ended up with this 176 on November-flex.

I would like to thank 7Sage and JY particularly for making this improvement possible. Lastly, here's a note for all fellow non-native speakers: trust yourself and really try hard for it, we as non-native speakers can achieve a 175+!

I have the Prep+ from LSAC and the 7sage plan. However, when I try to link them by pressing the button it just transfers me to LSAC, prompts me to log in LSAC and just takes me to the Prep+ LSAC page to do practice tests... okay..?

I want to follow along with JY's videos in the syllabus but it won't let me properly link. What is going on?

I also tried going in my email and clicking 'Link to Coach' there

hey everyone,

I remember JY used to do group-based BR for every new PT that comes out.

I'm just wondering if there is any news that he might do the same for the may 2020 test? Or did I miss it?

Thanks y'all

As a preface, I know quality matters much than length, and someone could respond not to worry about the average, just focus on making a clear strong case, but I'd like to get an idea of about how many words an average LSAT writing response is/should be. Thanks!

Hey guys! I’ll be taking the LSAT for the first time in January of 2021. I have been studying like crazy, and plan to study everyday for a few hours at least until that day. Unfortunately, I am unable to afford any formal LSAT tutoring, so I have been using Kahn Academy, one LSAT prep book, and basically any YouTube videos and methods I can get my hands on. I was wondering if you guys had any other study tools that I could utilize. I’m currently scoring around 160 on practice tests, but would like to get that up. Thank you!

I work at a law firm and my current assignment is to draft a protocol to terminate an agreement, and I'm having trouble applying what I've so far learned in logic. I'd love to hear what you guys think about this particular article in the agreement that we're asked to terminate. It's something along the lines of:

This Agreement shall come into force as of the share acquisition of the New Shareholder has been accomplished.

It's not so neatly put but my understanding is that it is a conditional statement, and that it can be translated as 'Share acquisition → Come into effect'.

My first question is do you think this is the correct translation??

The second issue is (let's assume the above logical translation holds here) that the acquisition of shares has NOT taken place in our case. A senior associate told me that the Agreement has not come into effect because of this, which made me think: sufficiency necessity confusion!! We cannot infer '/Share acquisition → /Come into effect' from 'Share acquisition → Come into effect'!!!

BUT I've come to think that he has a point..

All along we learned that given Jedi → Force, it would be fallacious to infer anything from /Jedi since the rule becomes irrelevant when we negate the sufficient condition. Why? Because we simply do not know what would happen outside this world. In the '/Jedi' instance, you could be a force user or not, we simply do not have enough info from just Jedi → Force.

But in this case, we have an entire agreement to figure out what happens when. And in our agreement, there is no other condition or instance that makes the agreement enforceable. No sort of 'This agreement shall enter into force upon signature by both parties' clause, etc.

So, my second question is, since our conditional statement has become irrelevant (since the sufficient condition about share acq. has not been satisfied) and since we have no other condition to trigger the necessary condition, can we conclude that the necessary condition will also not take place (/Come into effect)??

Sorry for the length of this post but I'm looking forward to a discussion :)

Hello!

I am currently going through the 7Sage Core curriculum and am looking to test in January. I am a fee waiver recipient and was wondering if there was free/low cost high quality 1:1 tutoring available.

Thank you!

This discussion is for those who are feeling overwhelmed in the process of studying and preparing for the LSAT.

I started with a 129 diagnostic mid-October, I have about six weeks left until the January LSAT and I've improved to a 152 today.

I remind myself it's okay to take a mental break and recoup, keep practicing, stay strong, and don't forget to breathe!

I am aiming for a 170.

How do I unlock PTs 1-30 with Ultimate Plan?

Hello Everyone!

After looking at the results of the poll I put up about what sort of free tutoring opportunities people would like to see, it is clear that (by a relatively small margin) the people have spoken and BR calls for full length PTs has a plurality of support. Therefore, that is what I shall do. I want to involve students as much as possible, so here is another poll. You let me know what era of PT would be most helpful and I will select one from that era that I think presents particularly noteworthy pedagogical opportunities (likely a challenging RC section among other things). Once I have these results, i'll make an announcement with more details, a PT choice, and a date within a day or two! Thank you!