Hi guys! I've posted on here before about improving my PT score to my BR score and here I am again lol. I'm only on my second PT after the CC but I have taken the LSAT before. On the last two PT's my timed scores and BR scores are as follows:

PT Feb 97:

Timed: 161

BR:170

PT36:

Timed: 155

BR:172

I will make note that PT36 was the first time I took the digital LSAT and I was so clunky with it and also for RC the passages were cut off (until I realized AFTER the timed test that it worked if I used the 7Sage format). I know I struggle with timing big time during LR and RC. When I do BR I feel in control and I really feel like I'm starting to master some of the Q's and I feel more and more confident with practice.

I was wondering if I should get a tutor to help me bridge this gap? If so, where can I get a tutor?? I love seeing the 170's on my BR and I'm really starting to get a hang of it (thanks to 7Sage!) but I feel clumsy and awkward during the timed PT. Any tips are appreciated!!

Another one of these! I want to thank 7sage for their fantastic LSAT curriculum, the admissions course and 7Sage Editors who helped me produce the best piece of writing I have ever crafted. I also want to thank everyone who posted such helpful advice in the discussion posts, you have all formed such a powerful and uplifting community. 7Sage is one of the main reasons that I am headed to law school at all so I wanted to put one of these grateful posts out here. For quick reference, my diagnostic was a 150 and my LSAT journey was 158, 158, 166, 163 (lol). 3.4 and non-URM. I'd love to give back in any way I can, so please feel free to post or PM if you have any questions re LSAT, applications, UCLA, etc.

When we will these tests be released on 7Sage? Thanks!

Will I be able to print lsat test once I enroll?

I prepared LSAT from 2016, while I wasted the best time to prepare it. Now I have a job and have to work every single day, thus time for LSAT preparation is too precious and rare for me. I still get 150 - 155 after several months' review, and now I doubt whether I make a right choice, to take LSAT and to go to law school? Am I not talented in law and LSAT?

I find that my vocabulary volume is low, and I do not even have logical sense (maybe?) I do not know how to restart. Building up confidence? Preparing vocabulary? Watching course videos? Or just do preptest again? I have no idea about the test, about what should I do. My username looks so ironic now. I do not even know if it is desirable to spend time on complaining myself here instead of doing more PTs or blind reviews.

Thanks for reading my incoherent narrative. Maybe I need someone to dampen the enthusiasm of me to give up LSAT as soon as possible and the dream of becoming a JD student.

Hello,

I am a graduating senior who has majored in history / art history. I am very serious about applying to law school, as I would like to go into patent law/copyright law. I actually wanted to later work in an art institution like a museum or an auction house that needs specialists in copyright law :) But before I start dreaming too much, I will like some advice on how I should plan the next few months. My initial intention was to get a job and work in the art sector a bit more. I had several interviews, but ultimately I was rejected at the final rounds. I feel extremely bummed, because my plan isn't really falling through. And if I got a job, I was planning to apply in 2020 not in 2019. However, it seems like I won't be getting a full- time job and I have time to study during the summer. Should I focus on studying and apply in 2019?

** disclaimer: I did start studying last summer and seemed to plateaued around low 150. Then I focused back on my undergraduate courses because I didn't want my GPA to drop.

Any advice will help! Thank you so much :)

Hi everyone,

I am wondering if anyone has taken the lsat at a hotel in Vancouver or the Pacific Link College in Burnaby? Both locations are very close to me and I wanted to see if anyone has previous experiences at those locations before I register, however, I'm kinda leaning towards the Pacific Link College because the hotel listed on the website is Hyatt Regency which is downtown and very close to a hospital.

Hi 7sagers!

Today was my bad day! I had a lot of questions wrong on the course.

I used to just make it sure that I understood why I was mistaken for wrong questions and why the correct answer choices were correct.

But I honestly think it’s less likely through this way that I will get such questions right next time I happen to revisit them.

So I wonder if you guys have any good methods to review difficult questions or important lessons on the course.

I am also curious if you ever solve the questions you got wrong on the course again and if you do, how!

Hi folks:

Inviting you to BR all of PT 62 with me on Sunday morning.

I will lead a review of all Sections of Pt 62

We start at 10:00 AM in the morning.

Meeting online on Zoom:

Join here https://zoom.us/j/513392294

Who am I:

I am a fellow Sager who recently scored a 170 on the March LSAT thanks to 7sage. To pay it forward I am hosting weekly BR's every Sunday until the June exam to help my fellow sagers achieve a similar score or higher.

Is it just my computer, or is this site's background color black? It's hurting my eyes!

Hi! I am studying for July 15.

I've taken 9 PTs to date, just begun doing 2 PTs/week (will ramp up to 3 in the month before the test).

Besides PTs/BR, I drill difficult questions with Khan (to simulate digital testing) and 7sage.

I've scored as high as 175, but frustratingly, I'm more often around 168.

I generally average -4 on LR (though this can be affected by mentally weariness/clarity), LG getting to foolproof level (but with miscellaneous misses), and RC -4.

For those consistently in the 170+ range, how do I say goodbye to the 168? And establish 170 as baseline? Would you recommend more or less of something as I continue?

I want to clear 170 on test day, dreaming of NYU ED acceptance. UGPA 4.0 and currently in a MA program in the MENA region.

Any wisdom is welcomed.

Unfortunately, I had been using the Mastermind watch for my studies (started last year) and took a break during the school year to focus on those studies. I am now currently studying for the September LSAT and have come to see that the MM watch is no-longer allowed. I am a fan of the style of watch. . . does anyone know whether there are any watches that roughly share the same design that are still permitted? I was looking @ the Perfect score watches, but also see that there are multiple versions of the watch, so I am unsure whether some are allowed while others are not?

Anyhow, any and all responses are appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Lucas

Hello!

If you have testing accommodations, how do you alter the settings to take the practice digital lsat with the needed extra time?

Thanks!

Hi,

I only recently stumbled across a 7Sage page outlining the common LR argument flaws (https://classic.7sage.com/19-common-lsat-argument-flaws-that-students-overlook/). I have not gone through most of the CC since I was far along in my studies before coming to 7Sage, but I can't believe I had never seen it before.

Can anyone else share specific links, lessons, parts of the CC etc. that they find to be particularly helpful ? I figured this could be useful as a place for gathering some of the most useful, salient resources out there. It could also serve as a nice review for myself and others for the days prior to the LSAT.

Thanks.

I'm extremely unfamiliar with tablets so please excuse my ignorance, but would something like an Amazon Fire HD or a refurbished-but-dated iPad work for taking digital PTs? I'd prefer to use an actual tablet rather than my computer, but I simply don't have the money to spend on a Microsoft Surface Go (used or otherwise).

I know I've reached out to a few of you over the last few months as I've been struggling in my prep (thank you to those of you who replied with great advice), but I seem to have hit a wall and could use any advice I can get. Sorry in advance, it's a bit of a long post!

I started my LSAT journey in Feb 2017, where I took a diagnostic test a scored a 140. Over the next 10 months I used Powerscore but I didn't really see any improvements and joined the 7Sage community in March 2018. I've been studying full-time since November 2018

Since then, I took about 3 days off and started again, doing retakes and practice tests and drilling sections. I identified my weak areas as being in LR where I needed to really engage with the stimulus and and in RC where I had to make sure I was taking in what was being said (Because in untimed practice I was fine, it was in a timed situation where nothing I was reading seemed to be retaining) and I did drills and figured out strategies to improve. I also read Ellen Cassidy's book and the LSAT trainer because I know these target weak areas such as mine. I'm hesitant to take any more PT's because I don't just want to burn through them.

I've done my best to focus on the learning and inculcating good habits, rather than chasing the score, but I am still stuck on a 158 and my BR is still a168. My aim is to get to a 170+ and I am registered for the June and July exam. I have already put over a year's solid work into this and I don't want to just give up because I know people score 170+ all the time. I know my diagnostic is much lower that the average (that I have seen) and I've realized I take much longer than most people to understand things - but I don't think of myself as dumb or anything, I just have not been able to get my learning to where it needs to be to get my dream score.

Clearly I'm doing something wrong, I'm just not sure what. Any advice on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated :)

Is it true that some law schools leave an applicant’s application in limbo after it has been submitted and never respond?

I keep seeing everyone talk about the CC method and blind review (BR).

What is the CC method, how can it be applied, and is it somehow better than blind review?

Hello7sagers,

I have been experiencing slight anxiety around taking full length practice tests. I can take a full section ..maybe even two timed full sections in a day and it feel fine. However, when I sit down for a full length test I get so much text anxiety that it makes me want to just stop with my entire test. I don't feel ready, but I know that one full test a week along with timed sections throughout the week..of course with thorough review is the way that I will get better. Is there any advice you all have on how to overcome this?

So because of my university final exams stopped studying for the LSAT for a month. I almost finished the LR section in the Syllabus. So mu question is should I go over everything in the syllabus quickly (because im kinda scared that i forgot lots of things because of this 1 month "break") or should I just continue the syllabus?

So I just scored a 162 on my last PT with a 173 after BR. I've known from the beginning that timing would be my main concern. I'm taking the June LSAT so I don't have the luxury of getting to study and review everything. Trying to figure out what to prioritize....

Im wondering if I should spend the next week going over CC, doing untimed drills, etc or focus on getting faster? If so, do you have any suggestions for study drills to get faster? I was thinking of taking an LR section and giving myself only 1 minute for each question. Or maybe trying to do confidence drills where I pick my first answer and move on without reviewing?

Thank you in advance!

It's so true: Burnout is real. Headaches are painful. And this material is dense enough that we MUST give it time to sink in! I've been going hard at this since Dec. 9, with hardly a day off at all. So I'm about to leave town, and I'm not going to look at anything to do with the LSAT for the next four days. Peace out!

I realize that on the actual test there's no need for this at all, but I often practice sections during my down time at work and like the ability to pause if I get a phone call or something like that. If this has already been addressed somewhere or if it's super obvious, I'm sorry!

Hi, all. Longtime lurker, first-time poster.

I’m sitting for the June test and aiming to score over 170. I have been prepping since the end of January and began doing PT’s just over 3 weeks ago, starting out with 162 and 165 on my first two tests (June 2017 and Dec 2015 respectively). Since then I have jumped all over the place (as low as 157 on Sep 2009 two weeks ago and as high as 166 on June 2012 just two days ago) but am shaking out a 162 average.

The trajectory doesn’t look as I had hoped (especially after pulling a 165 on just my second PT), although I have read progress is often not linear. I have a little tutoring assistance that’s so far focused on shoring up LG (I am missing 9 on average, although the initial average was much higher—I am going through foolproofing now). I am missing 8.5 LR on average and 5 RC on average.

With just over 5 weeks to go, I am becoming a bit worried. I am unsure how much my performance is a matter of focus and recognition being below where I need it or how much is comprehension/ability (not that these are necessarily mutually exclusive). At this stage I think I have probably gotten most of the meat out of the major guides and would potentially be wasting valuable time poring through them for info that may not add anything.

Does anyone have any specific recommendations or suggestions on “quick” strategies for shoring things up? For LR, I keep reading about pre-phrasing but have not tried it intently. With RC (legendary for being almost impossible to improve) I have gotten the basic advice to read paragraphs twice, remember that most answers are not really inferences but are actually in the text, etc. but I think this alone is too basic.

Any suggestions anyone might have would be greatly appreciated!

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