Hi all,

The other day I took a PT without a Scantron out of necessity (I'd forgotten to take the one I'd printed out with me). I just wrote my answers down instead. The amount of time I had per section really shocked me. And the point increase I experienced seemed significant. It made me realize I was spending way more time being obsessive about bubbling in than I'd thought I had. I just wanted to share this experience in case it applies to anyone else -- you might be surprised how much speed you can gain by just bubbling a little bit faster! Doing a section or two without a Scantron might be a good experiment.

Is there a way to see what my standard deviation or variance has been in the LSAT analytics? Ideally for raw score, scaled score, and score by section.

I am a bit confused and I hope someone will be able to help me. I did receive a traffic violation which was reduced. Would I still have to say yes to the following:

Have you ever been charged with and/or convicted of a criminal offense, including any matters that may have been expunged, or received anything other than an honorable discharge from the military?

Whats the best way to check your answers after pulling a set from the question bank? The questions don't say the test they are from and there is not a key at the bottom.

Do you feel the weight of the looming deadline of the LSAT? Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed with trying to maintain good grades while studying for the LSAT? None of my other friends can truly relate, and I would really just like to know that I am not alone. I normally don't post on here, but I just want to know that I am not the only one that feels such intense pressure to preform well. I feel like when I'm not studying for the LSAT, I am studying for school. The amount of work and study time isn't what is stressing me out; but rather, its the feeling that I have never studied enough in one day. Can anybody else relate to any of these things?

Okay. So... A college towards the top of my target list emailed me with notice of their Law Day (an open-house event, not an Admitted Students thing). I didn't have any plans to go to it, but we all suddenly and miraculously had it clear on our schedules, including crash space with a friend after the long drive. So I'm going. And it's this Friday. And now I'm kinda panicking, because I'm not really sure what to expect.

Can anyone who has gone to one share their stories? I believe there will be a mock class, but so far, I haven't received any kind of itinerary, information, etc. I'm going to do some business casual wear (nice jeans, top, light weight jacket). There should be a bit of walking involved.

What would you suggest I bring with me? I figure something to write with and take notes down. But beyond that? Things not to bring? (Parents won't be an issue, nor will my kiddo. I read over that thread already. :lol:)

Hi guys, I just want to share some of my experience and what I did to improve rom 158 to 168 in 2 weeks, and hope this will help some of you :)

I started studying for LSAT back in June. My very first cold diagnostic was 163, I focused on CC and hoped that once I finish the CC I would be in 170 range. Well... That's not what happened.

The thing I didn't realize that until now is that LSAT is an actual EXAM, not a thing where you just use algorithm to solve. In another word, the skills you learned from CC should be used flexiblelly rather than mechanically when solving problems. I noticed that starting PT 70, LSAT LRs are significantly more difficult to parse, if you are like me who just mechanically use rules, then you'll have a hard time getting through the section under 35 minutes. You should definitely try developing your LSAT intuition as you learn, not just mechanically apply rules.

Drill by questions types definitely helps. I was frustrated and disappointed at myself for consistently missing 10 questions per LR section that's -20LRs per exam!!! Drill by questions types, read each explanation very carefully. If you don't understand JY's explanation completely, google questions and head over to Manhattan, PowerScore forums for helps. There's no such thing as the best explanation, you should study whatever that helps you.

Don't lose hope, and try to be hopeful. I thought I was never gonna break 165, but here I am. Everything is possible, given that you study right. And by study right, you have to figure out what method works for you, rather than mechanically sticking other people's method. It was definitely a long and difficult journey for me from June, but nonetheless I've learned so much from JY and all the 7Sagers here on the forum and in the comment sections. I couldn't do it without you guys. GOOD LUCK!

Even when I'm blind reviewing my RC sections I'm still getting a lot wrong. I look for the answers on Manhattan Prep and Powerscore, and it seems like even they can't give an accurate explanation as to why an answer is correct. So how are people doing well on RC when some of these answers are unexplainable?

Was just wondering whether there are any students from India who are planning/would be appearing for LSAT in 2019?

Hello!

So RC is consistently my worst section. Do y'all have any life-changing RC tips that really helped you raise your score or changed the way you approached the passages? I'm getting anywhere from 6-8 wrong per RC section. I'd really looove to get down to just -4, so affording myself one question wrong per passage. Well I'd love to get down to -0 but ya know, 2 weeks left and all so I'm trying to be realistic. I have trouble connecting the ideas sometimes and then when the words get more unknown and the concepts more complex and confusing I just get lost (like in science passages..) I'm doing the low res summaries for each paragraph but I find that just mainly helps me with knowing the main point/structure of the passage. When it comes to the inference questions or anything that asks me to operate on a concept I struggle more.

Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

Thank you for your time!

I have a rough draft for my PS and I was hoping someone could please read it for me, offer suggestions, or anything. If you want, we could even swap them and I would love to read yours as well. Let me know please!

7Sage’s first lesson in the core curriculum is: the LSAT is hard. I recently reread this lesson and wanted to add some thoughts: especially for people who might not have gotten the score they desired from the most recent administration of the exam or who are currently struggling to hit their goals.

An elite score on the LSAT has the potential to be worth $100,000 in scholarship money. This is a ton of money. To give some perspective: the average winner of an episode of Jeopardy wins about $12,000. Years of memorizing facts and figures ranging from everything from state capitals, flags, quotes from literature, pop culture references and even physics comes down to 21 minutes of rapid fire questions and an average award of $12,000. A person who wins Jeopardy has undoubtably spent years-decades even- collecting knowledge and fashioning skills for that moment.

What’s worse is that if that person wants to win what an elite LSAT score can provide them: they have to win 8 times in a row, this against 8 different pairs of equally qualified, equally hungry people who have been preparing equally hard for the next 21 minutes.

For what it’s worth, Uncle Sam will then take roughly 25% of their earnings. Which means the person who wants to win the equivalent of what an elite LSAT score can afford them must win about 11 straight games against a total of 22 other equally qualified, equally hungry people who have been studying a lifetime for the next 21 minutes!

So what we have here when we draw these parallels, is a reassertion that what an elite school can afford us is quite amazing and therefore it shouldn’t be surprising that the LSAT is hard. More specifically: that an elite score on the LSAT is hard. But, inch by inch progress can come and with the right study schedule, discipline and a supportive community: progress will come.

But, when you’re in the thick of RC or LG drilling or cracking necessary assumption question patterns, don’t get down if your score is not increasing quickly or linearly, for many test takers, it will be a laborious process. This thing is supposed to be hard and sometimes we lose sight of that, especially on the internet, where it seems like everyone has a high score. I think given some perspective on what an elite score can provide a test taker, it’s really no surprise: the LSAT is hard! Hang in there!

David

https://classic.7sage.com/lesson/the-lsat-is-hard/

I am having serious neck and upper back pain from studying for LSAT. I am studying 4-5 hours per day, and it is really affecting my performance.

Has anybody had this problem? If yes, what did you do ?

I feel like I've been studying for the Nov LSAT for years!

I need to re-group and give the last 2 weeks all I have, but I can't seem to get myself mentally back to where I need to be.

I feel like my family doesn't want to talk about it with me anymore because it has been such an all consuming thing in our house for so long, and so I am left to internalize all my stress and sleepless anxiety alone.

Sorry to be such a downer, I'm just exhausted.

Has anyone else out there felt anything similar? The weird thing is that my numbers are okay and I really do want this goal for myself, so I don't know why I'm falling apart right at the 5 yard line.

Anyway, any advise or encouragement would be appreciated. Thank you all for being there for me in the short time I've spent with the 7sage community. It has been incredible. You guys are great.

Can the PDF prep tests be viewed after accounts expire?

Hi!

If you've ever tested in a hotel, do you have any recommendations/stories of experience? I'm thinking about staying at the hotel the night before, even though I only live about fifteen minutes away. Have any of you stayed in the hotel where you were testing before?

Hi everyone,

I've been meaning to post about my September administration for some time but I've been too busy studying/traumatized. With November's test coming up, however, I figured I would share my story a) as a distraction from stress studying and b) to make sure no one else does what I did in September.

I took my September test at USF in San Francisco. My roommate, the protagonist in this story, agreed to drive me to the test center in the early morning. I lived in the Mission District of San Francisco, which is a solid 15-17 minute drive away from the test center, and so I decided to get to the test center about forty-five minutes early. I solidly packed my ziplock bag, printed my admissions ticket, and got to USF about forty minutes before the test started. My roommate Bryan drove off with my iPhone (I wrote down his number on a piece of paper and planned to call him on a friendly stranger's phone after I got out of the test), and I decided to calm my nerves across the law school at the cathedral that loomed over the campus on an enormous hill. As my Catholic concentration began to break during my third Hail Mary, I glanced at my ziplock bag and mentally went down the checklist of the things I wanted to have with me in the test center. Beef jerky - check. Water bottle - check. Apple - check. NYT article to read before the test - check. Admission ticket - ...fuck.

I had forgotten my admission ticket in my roommate's car. By the time I realized, there was only twenty minutes left before the test center closed its doors. I began to panic. I ran out of the cathedral and hysterically began asking undergraduates around campus for their phones to call my roommate. In my crazed paranoia, I didn't even think about asking someone to use a printer at USF's library. I needed that admission ticket - it was the only way in. Finally, a Good Samaritan (who I must have terrified by my hysteria) lent me her phone, and I was able to reach my friend. He was home, in the Mission, fifteen minutes away from campus. It was 8:17. I asked him to do whatever he could to get to me, but at that point I was resigned to sit for November.

My friend drove a silver Acura and the law school was situated at an intersection at the top of a massive hill, where one could clearly see each car driving up from its base. Every silver car I saw for those excruciating minutes made my heart rise to my throat only to feel crushing disappointment when it turned out to be yet another San Francisco Prius/Tesla. 8:27. 8:28. 8:29. Those last sixty seconds between 8:29 and 8:30 were the most draining sixty seconds I ever felt between eight months of studying. 8:30. 8:31. It was over. Then, suddenly, I saw a silver car gunning up the hill. I sprinted in its direction, and like a quarterback handing off the football to a running back in the end zone, I grabbed my admission ticket and ran back up the hill to the front of the law school. 8:32. I was the last person in line, and by some miracle, was let into my test room. I had forgotten all my meditation techniques, my negation techniques, my focus on looking for the word "any," etc. All I cared about was that I had gotten into the test center, and although I bombed my first section (my heart rate was through the roof), I was glad I had the opportunity to sit for September.

My September test was about six points below my average and therefore I plan on retaking for November. I attribute the lower score to some personal relationship problems that arose a week before the test and also my self-inflicted meltdown before September. What would I do differently? Probably focus less on making sure my jerky is packed and make sure I secured my admissions ticket.

TLDR: 1) Show up early to your test center. 2) Print more than one admission ticket and staple one on your body.

Hi all --

I'm looking for some advice in terms of studying for the LSAT and pacing myself leading up to my upcoming exam.

A little background: I took the February exam this year. I also took a course leading up to it (Test Masters), and while I really liked the course, and I really threw myself into it, I realized after I got my score that maybe cramming all of that information in 3 months wasn't the best for me. When I first took my dry practice test on the first day of class, I got something like a 145. My score definitely improved a ton through the course, and by the time I was taking practice tests independently leading up to the test, I was pretty consistently getting 160s. I also got some 170s too, which was encouraging but seemed too good to be true.

And I was correct. I don't know what happened, well, I kind of do know what happened because logic games are usually my strength and I sort of froze after a very confusing section, plus my reading comprehension stands to be improved....and let's be real, I make silly mistakes in logical reasoning too. I ended up getting a 150, which was pretty disappointing. I definitely put way too much pressure on myself and burnt out on test day.

So, I'm taking another stab at this via 7sage. I just took my practice test and got a 159 (161 BR). I want to take a disclosed test next time around because it really sucked not to know what I got wrong, so, I can't take the test until June. That's a lot of time. I want to use it wisely but also not die/fizzle out. But I'd really like to aim for a 170. Is that insane? Can I do this without losing my mind? As a 26 year old, am I running out of time/waiting too long?

Honestly, this is all so foreign to me because I would theoretically be the first lawyer in my family and I certainly was not surrounded by lawyers growing up or even in college. I work in politics now, so really it's tough to detect sincere advice :)

I hope I don't sound like a complete dummy!

hi everyone, what would you suggest are the best study tools to prepare for the LSAT. i am currently using the lsat prep offered by the khan academy online but i’m not sure how effective it is. i plan on retaking the lsat in january

I subscribed The Economist paper magazines and thought it helped my reading skills. But they don’t have many LSAT-style law articles. Is there any law magazines that are recommended for LSAT extra-curriculum reading? Preferably something that has paper version since I prefer to read on paper and won’t be taking the digital LSAT (hopefully).

I have a quite low cGPA as I was pretty sick during my 2nd and 3rd year but it is not well documented.

I have 3.09 cGPA, 3.49 L2/B2 GPA, 166 LSAT.

My background is Biomedical Engineering and was part of a varsity team at the uni.

I do have quite strong background in research and all. Also, strong ECs including Policy researcher.

Not sure if anyone is familiar with Canadian Law school admission..

I applied to Western, Ottawa, York, Queen's with Access Claim and will be applying to Dalhousie.

At least once or twice during a PT I'll catch myself losing interest or feeling tired. I'm sure I'm not the only one who runs into this issue. Are there any techniques or tricks that can help re-energize you mid section? I know sometimes changing my posture helps. In undergrad I would to raise my hand and speak if I found myself getting tired. That seemed to help so perhaps quietly reading the stimulus under your breath can achieve a similar result. Yawning is also something that seems to positively affect alertness and puts you in a more relaxed state. I'd love to hear how you all stay alert!

hey guys, i havent bought a plan yet. I learn through video explanations the best. which subscription plan has the most LR videos by JY?

This past weekend I was going for run and I tripped, fell, and broke my distal scaphoid (small bone in my right, dominant hand). I can write but very slowly. I can still diagram but it is painful and difficult. I took the September test and got a 155 so I was really hoping to take it in two weeks again as I feel ready to kill it. I am all ready to apply to law schools for this admissions cycle otherwise so I am supper bummed :(

How do I go about this? Do I just email them?

If I can't get accommodated, is January too late?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Hello,

LR has always been the section that came the most naturally to me. After reaching a certain baseline of studying/understanding the test, I’ve consistently scored a -4/-5 on most LR sections. The issue is, I found that during the real exam + the digital field exam I was getting -7/-8 on at least one LR section from test day nerves + not having an actual strategy for many question types and second-guessing my “gut” on test day. The 7Sage analytics pointed out that my errors generally come from Flaw, Sufficient & Pseudo Sufficient Assumption, and MSS questions. I focused on those videos/problem sets in the core curriculum for about two weeks, and saw the minute differences between the right answers and the trap answers I would pick. I did fairly well on the drills and felt like I had a better strategy of how to approach the question + how to decide between two answer choices that seemed right on first glance rather than solely relying on my gut answer choice.

But, upon returning to timed section practice, I found that I was second-guessing myself on virtually all of the LR section (not just the question types I was studying). I would go back and forth about whether I was missing some tiny detail that was important or over-analyzing that same detail. It seems, based on my incorrect answer analysis, that was doing the latter (over-analyzing) especially if I gave myself more time and blind-reviewed (my LR BR changes have been almost always wrong lately). It’s frustrating though because analyzing all the details is exactly what I trained my mind to do in order to do well during the question-specific drills. I saw my score go from -4/-5 to -8/-9 and I’m not sure what to do. I’m taking the November exam and have been studying for a very very long time (on and off for over a year... I will not be taking this exam again haha) so I’m not sure if I should just go back to my original “gut” feelings and accept my -4/-5 range (with likely more wrong on test day) or if there’s some way I can absorb this improvement by the 17th. It makes logical sense that doing well on the drills should have helped overall, but it didn’t.

Anyone have suggestions or experience something similar?