Hi everyone I was looking for a little bit of advice...

I started studying for the LSAT in December with Kahn Academy (I know horrible choice) with a diagnostic of 153. I improved to a 157 after two months hired a tutor and was PT between 167-173 before the July flex. I got a 167 and was not surprised as I felt I had made some mistakes on the games.

I am switching over to using CC and was wondering if anyone had any advice on navigating through it with the hope of taking the exam again in October. For reference my splits looked like LR: -0 to - 4 RC: -0 to -6 (most inconsistent section) LG: -0 to -3.

Thank you all in advance.

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Hi all!

I just hit the 160s for the first time (yay!) it was a BR score so I'm not sure how consistent it will be going forward... but exciting nonetheless! My issue is timing, I score MUCH higher on every section untimed as I'm sure many others have experienced. I am looking for ways to learn to maximize my time in order to close this gap quickly.

I scored a 147 timed and a 163 untimed on PT 52 today - granted, I would typically score 154/155 timed but did not answer nearly all the questions, as I was trying to focus on maintaining accuracy.

Now that I seemingly am maintaining accuracy (thanks to my first ever 163, as well as other untimed sections where I was averaging similarly) I figured it made sense to begin focusing on timing and test taking strategy. In LR I feel that I often have to re-read the argument in order to get its gist, which I know is a huge waste of time - if anyone has advice on this specifically it would be helpful!

I can NEVER make it to the last RC passage timed, I assume this will just come with practice?

Here is the breakdown of my BR score for context:

LR1 - 21/25

LG - 23/23

LR2 - 17/26

RC - 18/26 (Q15 was removed from scoring from exam)

Thanks in advance!

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Does anyone have advice for keeping your PT scores more consistent? Over the past two weeks I’ve fluctuated between 165 and 172, taking roughly 4-5 PTs a week. Today I took two PTs and scored a 166 on the first, 171 on the second, less than six hours apart from one another. I know this is probably a wack study method, but I’d appreciate any advice lol

So I just finished the exam. Got two LGs - LRs were ok - and was killed by RC. Anyone else out yet?

I'm waiting to hear back from one law school and recently I just had the attorney general's office decided to join in on a brief that I wrote for a law firm. Is this something that I should update the schools with and let them know? It's a reach school for me. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Hey everyone!! I really don't like reading on my computer/electronics for extended periods of time, and have a lot of trouble with long-term focus and concentration. I've been taking practice tests, and I always do the worst on the last section by somewhere between 3-6 incorrect answers. For example, today on my PT I scored LR -2, LG -3, and RC -9 (a much worse score than I typically get for RC).

I'm taking the October flex test and wanted to see if anyone else has/had this problem, and what strategies have worked for you!

Proctors: Three nice ladies. They followed the rules strictly.

Facilities: Mason Hall and some students were in an Angell Hall auditorium

What kind of room:Large classroom with long tables,

How many in the room: more than 40

Desks:Big long tables, more than enough place for you to lay out your materials

Left-handed accommodation:I don't know, I'm not left-handed

Noise levels:Generally quiet, though people upstairs moved their chairs and caused some noise for a few minutes.

Parking: I don't drive

Time elapsed from arrival to test: Less than 30 minutes

Irregularities or mishaps: no

Other comments: Very cold air-conditioning, so remember to bring a jacket; You cannot go to the bathroom once you've checked in

Would you take the test here again? I hope I don't need to take the LSAT again...But yea if I am going to take the Dec one.

Date[s] of Exam[s]:Sep 24 2016

Hi everyone! Hope everyone is foing okay during these difficult times and have all they need (or at least teh capacity to get what they need). I also hope you are practicng social distancing and takign advantage of all the streaming services available!

I have decided to take a gap year to really work hard to get the score I need and want before I apply to law school. I am planning to, ideally, register for the September and/or October LSAT(s). I'll have at least 6 months to study for this exam if I use April-May to go through the core curriculum again while doing online remote learning (with a potential pass/fail transcipt recording) and I will ideally start focusing on timed practice (PTs and sections) starting in June until the end of the summer and/or until I take the exam. I will be able to study full-time during the summer and potentially until I take the exam. I have not done any kind of studying since October of last year and none of the studying I have done in the last 6 months was consistent so it is safe to say I am starting from square 1, with some knwoledge of the lsta and curriculum.

I would like to get some thougths on a few things:

If I plan on taking the LSAT in the Fall, should I take prep tests using the Flex feature or take them normally?

If anyone has an Instagram page dedicated to their journey to law school, leave your @ below! I recently created a "studygram" and am looking to connect on Insta w more prospective law students :) !

Hi all (sorry this is long),

I just got my score back for July and got a 162. Unfortunately, this was below my average of 164-166 and below my record of 169 but I'm just going to get back to it and try again. Now, I'm having a little trouble figuring out where to start. I'm wondering if I should go back through the course, although a bit quicker, to reinforce the basics or if that would be a waste of time and I should start trying to hone in on the sections and question types I need the most improvement on.

If I could guess, I would say that RC probably damaged my test day score the most, I've been able to score as low as a -3 but haven't been able to get that down consistently, and had even seen myself scoring -10's on PT's leading up to the July test. Also, I can imagine I didn't do as well in LR as I would have liked, I was having confidence errors before the test and although I've scored a few -0 to -3's before, my average was more like -4 to -6, mostly losing points on harder questions. I started to get a skipping strategy down and implemented that on test day and for RC, I was focusing on the Trainer's reading for structure methods while writing very short summaries of each paragraph during the read. I do admit my blind review's probably were not up to par, I started to find that I was having so many confidence errors that I was blind reviewing questions I got right and totally skipping those I got wrong, so I started to let blind review go for the last month or so before the test. Also, I have a ton of trouble learning from the mistakes I make during the test and really internalizing how not to make those mistakes again in the future.

If anyone has any advice on any of these things, please reach out! I've reached out to a few tutors already and I'm hoping I can hit my goal of 170s eventually. I've been studying for this test for so long and I won't let it defeat me!

From the Blind Reviewing I've done so far, the only thing that I've left out in the step by step process that J.Y has in the syllabus is actually flagging the questions while taking the timed exams. I've felt sort of reluctant towards flagging because I can imagine it taking me too much time to debate over how confident I am about each answer choice for a question during a PT. I now feel like I'm missing out on this crucial step in the process of how to Blind Review efficiently, but I also still think it may cause me to over-analyze every question during my PT's. I wouldn't want to spend an extra amount of time trying to figure out whether an answer choice is 100% correct on a question just so I can leave it uncircled... Isn't it a stretch to be going through this deep of an analysis for every question?

Maybe the analysis most people go through during their PT's is more flexible than I'm assuming, and there should actually be a lot of overconfidence/under-confidence errors to expect at first, due to not actually being 100% certain. Please let me know how you guys have benefited from this approach.

I would really appreciate any feedback on how some of the top scorers out there have gotten the most out of Blind Reviewing using this approach.

Hi I'm most interested in going to Stanford and although I've contacted the admissions office I haven't been able to get in touch with students. Are there any students or graduates who'd be willing to message? I did try the Facebook alumni page as well to no avail. Thank you!

Hey there,

I've been looking over the LSAC website and noticed their list of schools in Canada that offer a J.D and the list of schools in Australia that offer a J.D as well.

Is it really possible for me as an American to attend a law school in another country, attain a degree and then practice law and live there?? If so, I'm really going to consider it.

Any help would be appreciated, and while I wait for a response I'll see what google has to say haha.

Thanks in advance.

Are international LSAT exams switching to digital too? I am taking the June LSAT in Korea, so I would like to know if it will be digital or paper.

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Hi all!

I just reserved a time slot, 4:30PM PDT, for my August Flex. However, I just realized that in the previous email of LSAC, the times available are 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Eastern Time. Does it mean no time slot can be selected after 4 p.m. PDT? Does anyone have similar issues?

Thank you for your help in advance!

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I was WL by HLS. Really happy!

If anyone has experiences of what it is like to be on wait list for HLS schools, LMK.

Already submitted my LOCI. My favorite professor at Columbia University (got an A+ and worked alot together this year) wants to submit another letter of rec because she did not write one since i was not done with her course during my application period. Even tho HLS generally advises against this, should I do it? Should I call them up to ask or just send in a compelling LOR?

I intend to using 7Sage for LG and another resource for RC and LR. However, I'm having trouble trying to create this personalized curriculum, as I'm not sure which lessons are geared towards Logic Games (other than "Intro to Logic" and "Advanced Logic". Any help is much appreciated!

Hi everyone,

I have been studying for a while now, and I fluctuate a lot, I score high and then low, I just need someone to give me guidance on what I'm doing wrong or I might just lose my head.

I'm currently unemployed so I'm looking for more affordable options, also I don't know how much tutoring I need, but I do need someone to evaluate my approach and point out to my weaknesses that I can't seem to pick up on.

Thank you!

Would love to have a study buddy so we can push each other and root for eachother.

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Hi everyone,

I am attempting to study through chunking. What I mean is, in order to get myself back in rhythm of studying I'm going to use the chunking method so I don't burn out, so I can understand what I am learning, and to properly execute what I learned through practicing.

My main concern currently is how should I chunk the material?

For LG I do pretty well, I'm somewhere between 3-4 questions wrong (this is was the case in FEB) I don't know where I stand currently until I do some practice LGs.

The biggest section I want to focus on is LR. So,what should I chunk? Should I do 3 30 min chunking sessions throughout the day and have different concepts to chunk such as MP/MC, STR, Weaken or do 1 30min chunk session with 2-3 concepts and then later on in the day go through some flashcards to reinforce what I learned and do a couple of practice problems?

I believe this could help a lot of people if they don't have time such as myself.

What are your thoughts?