I had my first dream about law school. All this time and I've read a few posts here and there about dreams. Here is mine. I shoplifted at two stores. By the time I left the second store, with what looked like a white extension cord (no idea why), the cops were on to me. It was like watching a tv show but it was me and I was trying to hide from them (along with the white extension cord). They were after me and I knew it. I thought well this is it - I will now have to check off the "character and fitness" box and disclose the shoplifting and potential arrest. I will never go to law school now. I remember having the worst feeling about screwing up and knowing that my dream of going to law school was now gone. It felt so real!! I'm so glad I woke up but was really shaken up about it!! Whew - back to studying.

I'd love to hear opinions on this... especially from top scorers. I'm PT-ing around 165 right now and time is my issue on missing RC and LG Q's. I have been typically reading all 5 answer choices but I've been trending away from that recently. If I've read the stimulus carefully and know what answer I'm looking for, I may just skim for the correct AC and move on. Do you think this is the best approach? Or is it better to eliminate answers and confirm the right choice (get two chances instead of one to get it right)? This may be an area where I just need to figure out the best approach for myself but let me know what you think.

So... I just started studying for the LSAT a couple months ago when I decided to take a shot at being a lawyer. I was studying wit Kaplan book for a few weeks and covered most of the logic games before I started 7sage a couple of weeks ago. I'm still on strengthening questions and I haven't taken a diagnostic prep test (which I'm doing with the june 2007 prep test tommorow.) Any tips on the specific lessons I need to definitely need to cover before the November exam? I'm aware that I will probably have to retake it but I still want to do my best this first go round.

Just to give everyone a little back ground info about my LSAT journey. I've been study for the LSAT for about 4 years now, since graduating from college. I have been through a number for different courses (binary solutions - in person class at NYU, velocity lsat-online/remote tutoring) and read a good deal material (LSAT trainer, LSAT super prep books, Power score bibles,). By far 7sage is the best course that I have been through thanks to the community and the truth in "lawgic" that they teach. I'm scheduled to sit for the Nov. 17 LSAT and my best score has been a 151 thus far but my blind review potential is showing a 164 (theoretical best). How can I close the gap in this amount of time if possible? My target score is anywhere above a 155 - 160. My reading comp is my weakest section where i'm getting 10/14 on timed 20/27 BR. Games are my best section 15/16 timed 21/23 BR. and LR is middle of the road 15/20 and 9/19 timed, 23/26 and 18/25 BR.

I've recently watched the post core curriculum and i'm starting to follow some of the steps but i'm open to any advice you all may have for me.

Thanks in advance!

P.S. I applied last cycle and got into my "B reach school" T-50 with a scholarship but I took a year off from work and to take the lsat again using 7sage and to try and get more money and get into my A school (T 5-13).

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?

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?

During the actual LSAT, is it ok to quickly take a sip between sections? If not, what to do if the thirst has become distracting?

Drinking ample fluid before the test might be a problem too since that will make me want to go to bathroom prematurely, which is distracting, too...

I’m a coffee drinker so the dehydrating and diuretic effect of caffeine is a concern for me, even though I only drink one cup a day, in the morning. But I don’t have the capacity to wean off coffee now since the test is in two weeks and the withdrawal effect can be a huge headache (pun intended).

Any advice would be highly appreciated!

I'm an International Student and I am well aware that you need to be a US, Canadian or an Australian citizen in order to apply for an LSAC Fee Waiver.

However my financial constraints make it very arduous to proceed with all the application costs (CAS Registration, College Applications Fee, Test Fee etc.)

Is it possible in any way possible for International students such as myself to apply for an LSAC Fee Waiver?

Any help in this regard is duly appreciated.

Hey future lawyers,

Don't forget to vote!

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I started studying for the LSAT last year in October 2017. I took the December LSAT and got a 137. I haven't studied since. I would like to take the September 2019 LSAT and if need be the December 2019 test. What course is best suitable for me? I really want to score between 160 and 170 and do well to hopefully get scholarships to pay for school?

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 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?

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.

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?

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.

We all know to meditate, sleep, exercise, eat healthy, and establish a routine. Any other tips for attaining the right mindset for test day?

• Write your test anxiety away. Research shows that writing about your fears and anxieties before a test boosts test scores (http://science.sciencemag.org/content/331/6014/211). Write about what you anticipate will be on the test and your worst fears about how test day will play out. Setting it down on paper can be cathartic.

• Practice self-compassion. It's a better motivator for self-improvement than self-criticism. In one study of students taking a difficult test, those who wrote about their mistakes from a compassionate perspective were more motivated to study than those who didn’t (http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0146167212445599). Identify a weakness or mistake, and then write about it from a compassionate and understanding perspective.

• Build confidence. Visualize success. Imagine getting your target score in the mail.

• Use positive affirmations or mantras. You can have a specific one for each section, like @AllezAllez21 did. You can tell yourself you're good-looking, à la @"Cant Get Right".

• Be grateful. When you're sitting at your desk, right before you take the test, take a moment to express gratitude. This test is a lot of things. An opportunity is one of them.

• Take deep breaths. Stress accretes over time, and test day adrenaline only makes things worse. No matter what, stay calm.

• Compartmentalize and do damage control. If you're faced with an impossible question, think of it as question 101. If you have a bad section, tell yourself it was an experimental.

• Be an observer, not a participant. Don't participate in the frantic, nervous energy at the test center. Stay in the zone by staying above the fray.

• Look forward to test day. You have done all the work. Test day is just a chance to show them what you've got.

• Treat this test like just another PT. Remember you can always retake.

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!

So my untimed scores are around 175/176. It takes me about 46 min to finish a section. However, on an times PT my score drops down to 163-165, anyone have tips on how to improve timing while maintaining accuracy?

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.

Anxiety and worry are getting in the way of my reaching my full LSAT potential. How do I stop this? Or deal with it so that it's not affecting me during the timed LSAT sections I do?

This hasn't been a problem lately until this past weekend when the proximity of the November LSAT hit me.

I just reread this and will be following the tips: https://classic.7sage.com/lesson/winning-the-psychological-battle/

If you have any other suggestions, please share!

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!

Can the PDF prep tests be viewed after accounts expire?

I am currently a junior and took the LSAT for the first time in September 2018 beginning of my Junior year of college. I got a 171 on the test.(-1 LG, -5 LR and -4 RC) I am shooting for a top 20 Law school and know a top 6 is probably not realistic. A scholarship would be great but is not a deal breaker. I am not a URM , have a good GPA(not great 3.5 ) from a top LAC with a difficult major economics and math minor and great leadership in college (on board of my college Mock trial and worked for residence life). also have 2 good summer internships mostly economics focused and hoping to have a great legal internship as a rising senior this summer.

I studied for about 7 wks last summer following my internship in DC last summer and before I went back to start my junior year of college. I had a concentrated 7 wks (not working, was finished my internship) so although only 7 wks of studying , It was FT studying without working or school stressors. I purchased the Starter course in addition to purchasing from Amazon PT 72-84. I got a 162 on my diagnostic in June prior to studying and focused MY timed practice test (72-84, 36, 44 )on the more recent exams instead of the older exams included in the starter course. My 15 timed PT were between166-174 so I guess I was pleased with the 171 I got on test day although I believe I could have gotten a little higher.

I know law schools only use the highest score, but my fear is if i shoot for a second time not only could i be wasting a whole lot of time , I could score lower and it might look better to have one attempt at 171 with no repeats or cancellations rather than take it a second time and posssibly score below 170.

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!