I did my Sept 2026 LSAT and the first two sections felt great. Then after the break there was a HUGE technical error and I got kicked out after FULLY reading passage 2. The technical error lasted about 40 minutes and then we got placed right back where we were - so I had to

1) catch up on the reading because after 40 minutes it becomes foggy

2) Answer all the questions with the passage

3) do this in probably 4 minutes to keep on track of my timing.

To say the least I was freaking out. The testing centre was confused and it was just a mess. I finally get my anxiety calmed down and go to passage 3 - WHICH I GOT KICKED OUT AGAIN FOR 40 MINUTES. This is where it started to go downhill, shes crying in the test centre, doesn't know if i will finish the test and also has things to do which did not account for a 2 hour delay. Once i finally got back i was in the last section - which people were leaving at this point and it was very distracting. Anyways, I got approved for a retest date but i am feeling DEFEATED. I am working so much now and have to retake the test in 8 days – ugh.

Need motivation to start studying again for 8 more days while I work 7 of them leading up to the test 😔

(also this is my 3rd time taking the LSAT and first time I had felt confident going in)

I've recently hit a plateau in my PTs. In the past month, I have gotten 163-160-162-161 with blind reviews in the low to mid 170s. I'm anywhere from -3 to -6 in LR with my typical section being -5. RC is all over the place but I see myself improving a lot (even if it's not translating to PTs yet). I feel like I need to switch up the way I'm studying in LR. I struggle the most with flaw questions and questions with heavy conditional reasoning. Under timed conditions, I make small mistakes in my diagrams and chains that cause me to get the question wrong. Untimed I feel fine. Does anyone have any tips to grab a few more points? I'm taking October and November and my goal score is a 165+ to be a competitive applicant at my top schools (I'm a splitter). Any advice is very much appreciated!

Do you guys find it useful to watch the videos explaining questions even when you get them confidently correct? I have been debating watching them on the lessons or just moving past in an effort to get more practice in when I felt the question to be easy.

Hello, LSAT peeps! 👋🏾

I’m 37 and officially starting my LSAT study journey tomorrow! 🎯 My goal is to take the exam in January 2027, and I’m excited (and admittedly a little nervous) to see where this journey takes me.

It’s been a long time since I’ve been a student, so getting back into study mode feels both unfamiliar and exciting. But honestly? I’m absolutely loving the process so far. There’s something really motivating about challenging yourself to learn something new and pursue a goal that once felt so far away.

I’d love to connect with others who are currently studying for the LSAT or starting their journey, especially anyone working toward a high score. 📚🧠

Let’s encourage each other, share strategies, celebrate the wins, and push through the inevitable moments of frustration. 😂

January 2027, here we come! 🚀

Who else is on this journey with me?

I'm so so so happy right now I can't even breathe

I am at the point in my LSAT journey that I decided to write letters to the future children (I don't even have, mind you), telling them that they had better appreciate all the mind-numbing, gut-wrenching, self-abusive work their future momma is doing right now.

I demand respite!

Good evening everyone!

Hope y'all are having a good start to the week! I need some advice on how to format my resume & what to include.

Here is how it is currently formatted:

1. Education

2. Work Experience

3. Skills

4. Achievements & Awards

I have been looking at all possible examples online and they are all so different its hard to pinpoint what I shouldn't and should add. I haven't seen many with the skills section and the achievements & awards are apart of the education. Any help with this is greatly appreciated!

I just started test prep with 7Sage, but I had previously been studying on my own for about 1-2 months. I was wondering if I should study for 4 months and take the January LSAT. That would leave me with three months to fix problem areas before I take the April LSAT. My other option would be taking an extra month to study before I take the LSAT for the first time in February and having two months before I take the LSAT in April. If I take the February LSAT I will not get my score back until a week after the deadline for the April LSAT registration. I am currently doing 3 hours of studying per day Monday-Saturday and taking Sunday off.

Taking my Last (3rd) attempt in October. Pray for me.

Recently, I hit a plateau where my PT scores were in the lower 150s. Thinking that my studying wasn't really getting me anywhere, I started to second-guess how serious I was about the LSAT. After taking todays pt and seeing my score 5 points higher than the last I am still in shock. So glad to see that all of this hard work is finally paying off!!!! 😊

I’m so happy to get a higher score during BR. I’m really trying to figure out how I can get my timed score closer to my blind review score/ how long it typically takes for the gap. I’m set to take my exam in October. I know it’s just about 4 weeks away but any tips on getting closer to the 170+ range is truly appreciated. Thank you!!

Best of luck to everyone!

ETA: It was not nearly as scary as I built it up to be. I was well prepared. Shout out to 7Sage generally and special credit to Chapin and Henry's live classes and Kevin's Conditional Logic in 30 Minutes video!

Hi everyone, I'm Hana! I'm a 7Sage tutor and 178 scorer. I'm doing an LSAT AMA on Reddit until 6pm ET. Feel free to drop in a question on this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/7SageLSAT/s/bs1ymrJRkC

On the drive alone to the center I cried my ahh off and later on finished the test feeling like I did so much better than expected. Not sure if the test was easier than the PTs I took, but I went through it with barely any mental exhaustion and my timing was so much more precise. I'm definitely still taking the October test since I realized I still have plenty of room for improvements.

Imma list out things I should keep in mind for the upcoming tests:

1. Never again attempt to take a timed PT the few days before test day. There's no benefit to it, and even if there is, the consequences to your mental health outweigh all of it. Just no. An untimed one might be fine, but you are definitely better off just doing casual drills.

2. Never again look at Crystal Ball. They predicted that PT 148 (the most disgusting thing ever written) is one of the PTs that resemble the September test. I barely got 150 on that PT and was so depressed. Unless you are sure predictions can help you in some way, just pretend it doesn't exist and give yourself the peace of mind. I, in fact, would have had better sleep the night before if I didn't check Crystal Ball.

3. The best thing to do just before test days is preparing yourself mentally well so that you can comfortably breeze through the stupid arguments. That means random drills and 7sage games. Not learning new things, but reinforcing your reading habits.

How did you fix an LR execution gap where your Blind Review is much stronger than your first pass — even when untimed?

I’m early in my LSAT prep and currently drilling LR untimed. I’ve noticed that my Blind Review/re-review reasoning is consistently better than my initial answers, even though my initial drills are already unlimited time.

The issue doesn’t seem to be that I don’t understand the question types. When I review a miss without seeing the correct answer or explanation, I usually identify what went wrong and change to the correct answer. My recurring mistakes are things like:

• compressing language in the stimulus too early and losing an important relationship

• reading two similar but meaningfully different concepts as the same (how long something formed v. when it formed or attempt v. success)

• overlooking a word/phrase in an answer choice that changes what it means

• understanding an argument better on the second read and then realizing my original AC was based on a slightly different representation of it (making the wrong AC sound right basically)

I’m intentionally not working on speed yet. I want to make the reasoning I’m capable of during BR happen reliably on the first encounter.

If you had this problem, what specifically helped? Did you use a checklist, change how you read/translate stimuli, force yourself to verify answer choices against the stimulus, do smaller drill sets, keep a particular kind of wrong-answer journal, etc.?

I’m more interested in concrete habits that eventually became automatic rather than just “slow down/read carefully.” You can still say the latter though.

I've been scoring in the high 160s low 170s recently, but I would be suprised if I broke 160 on that. IDK what the hell happened it just felt like such a struggle

My relationship with the LSAT might be more complicated than my relationship with my estranged dad.

I've been taking this test off and on for three years. I completely underestimated my first attempt. The tutor I hired had the audacity to look me dead in the face and say, "Oh girl, you're fine. You've got this." What she neglected to mention was that having "this" and having 300 spare hours to study for "this" are two very different things.

I'm a trial paralegal in Big Law. In 2023, every COVID-delayed trial got rescheduled at once like judges collectively said: "can't settle by now? parties didn't die? here's a docket that might change that." Every one of them collided with my LSAT date and I spent like $600 moving the things because no trial attorney is approving their paralegal's time off the week before trial. Take away their paralegal and they'll start wandering the courthouse lobby like a Roomba with low battery.

I was working 200 to 250-hour months. My sleep schedule became a whisper in the wind. At one point I genuinely thought to myself, "Just do it, pull off the stupid band-aid. You can take the LSAT immediately after a three-week federal trial. You are a MOM who was literally in labor with a soccer ball sized baby head about tear you in half during senior finals and still aced a few of them."

Reader, I could not. I knew I was bombing it while I was taking it. Scored in the high 140s. Somehow way lower than my first cold practice test. Half my blood volume was energy drink. I still smelled like airplane and redwells.

Then my grandma died four days before my second attempt. "But she was in hospice, right? Didn't you know it was coming?" Yes, Jan. She was in hospice. She had also spent roughly thirteen years refusing to die out of what I can only assume was pure spite and some weird elixir of life consisting of pork rinds, Pepsi, and cigarettes.

I pulled her off life support as her POA in 2014. She survived. Seven respiratory failures. Cardiac arrest. Every time I thought, "Surely that's it." Nope. At a certain point she became less of a grandmother and more of a Gollum (I know how that sounds, promise I loved her). But I genuinely started to believe she might outlive me, my son, and his future children. So no, despite all available evidence, I did not think she was actually going to die. I kind of thought it was more likely she was already dead and I was hallucinating her existence. Didn't sleep before the exam. Had recurring nightmares they were cremating her alive. Somehow scored six points higher, but still lower than my first cold practice exam. A win is a win. Law schools disagreed.

After that, I gave the LSAT a break and got a master's in legal studies instead because AI is coming for all of us and I'd at least like to be automated last. Loved it. Crushed my classes. Took courses alongside practicing attorneys working on their LLMs and set the curve more than a few times. Increased my earnings by like 40%. Professors kept telling me, "You belong in my JD class." I was like, "Cool, could you put that in writing and mail it directly to LSAC?" (they did). They also suggested one of the expensive prep courses. I took one that "guaranteed a 165." Logic Games got removed, which was my worst section. Trial season cooled off. I had successfully run out of grandmothers.

So I walked into my next exam feeling fantastic. Then scored exactly the same as I did the time I took it while grief-stricken, resembling a schizophrenic raccoon after a night of no sleep because I was sitting on my living room floor listening to the Bee Gees, burning a cigarette like sage, and trying to summon Grandma with a Ouija board to make sure she wasn't rising for a comeback tour before I greenlit the cremation and filed for the death certificate.

Yet somehow the score was identical.

The frustrating part is that I consistently scored in the 160s on practice tests. That's literally all I need. I'm not trying to get into Harvard. I have a kid who's going to college in the time it will take me to blink twice and even entertain the thought of having another baby. I'm barely in my 30s still recovering from a daycare bill that already harvested one of my kidneys.

So I studied another 200 hours and took the LSAT again. One point higher. Rejected again. Apparently letters from law professors, equity partners, and nearly 10 years of legal experience are no match for getting five more questions right about evolutionary biology and a guy named Trevor's commute to work. You can manage a SCOTUS appeal (that I can't name drop or half the readers will hate me) but if you confuse the answer choice that flipped the names of the two feminist authors you had 3 minutes to read about you might subsequently kill 14 years of hopes and dreams in a matter of a few hours.

The annoying thing is that I'm not even a bad test taker. JD-Next? Great. Professional certification exams? Nearly perfect. The LSAT, however... I have theories. One is that I do not think in process of elimination. Get asked a question? Answer it. I am far better at free response style testing in general when the writers aren't given the opportunity to insert a few negatives into what could otherwise be a positively framed answer choice. The other is that legal work trains you to challenge plenty of assumptions presented to you. The LSAT says: "For purposes of this question, assume the author is telling the truth."

And somewhere deep in my litigation-trained brain a tiny voice immediately responds: "Objection. Foundation" & then I dwell and time escapes me. Trap answers start to look like the IG clickbait that convinced me to buy a shower harness for my German Shepherd. Then I review it, much like the shower harness, and feel like a moron.

But honestly, I've met phenomenal attorneys with mediocre LSAT scores and brilliant LSAT takers who failed the bar multiple times. So, if you're like me and have the working-memory capacity of a half-eaten baby carrot, I see you. We do the dance. We appease the gatekeepers. Nobody asks for our LSAT score ever again. Or maybe I bomb it one last time, quit law forever after 10 years building a non-attorney dream career in litigation, move to the woods, and become an oil painter with suspiciously strong opinions about John Roberts.

Either way, I'm taking it tomorrow. My husband already removed everything from the bathroom I could plug into the wall, so I'm not tempted to bathe with it in the meantime. My highest practice score so far is a 171. If I hit my modest goal of 164, I might actually call my dad after twelve years and ask him to lunch if he answers. Which means, in a very real way, the LSAT may finally do what years of therapy could not. If you check back in with me and my score is under a 160, I will definitely be in a white padded room (where I probably belong by now).

Think like a robot. May the force be with you.

I just took PT 150, and after scoring -5 to -2 for my timed LR sections for the past 2 weeks and improving slightly in my score for my RC sections I ended up getting around 10 questions wrong on both LR sections and was having trouble even finishing 3 LR passages in the time alloted. I had some trouble during the test, having to pause to move testing locations 3 times, so I assumed that was the problem. However, even on BR I find most of all the questions extrodinarily hard, almost like the writing style for the questions have completely changed from the earlier PTs. Is this an issue anyone else has been dealing with, and is it something I should expect on the upcoming LSATs?

How long did it take you guys to get through all the question types and start actually understand them atleast on a level 3/4 basis. I want to get through them thoroughly in 6 Weeks so far I got down MC, MSS, POI. I am aiming for Low to Mid 16os. and after I feel I mastered the Qtypes where would you suggest I go from there? I am aiming to take the test in November.

Good morning everyone,

I am taking the LSAT Saturday morning and this is my second attempt, I am not so nervous like before and have been scoring in the high 160s on practice tests. Helpful to know…..study the question types, find the premise and conclusion and eliminate the incorrect answer choices, do not burn yourself out overthinking and if frustrated take a break think positive and get back to it. Read slow pay attention to the wording, start picking your pace up and don’t waste too much time and keep it moving to the next. Everyone learning process is different but you got this.

Good luck to all that are taking the September test and stay positive!

Literally just finished the lsat. Won’t be discussing content or layout of the exam but I’m so relieved to be done. May have to take the October lsat I signed up for… I was finding it way more difficult than I expected.

Most annoying part is not getting the results immediately. And just waiting. Here’s to hoping I did better than expected 😭

If anyone took the September LSAT I hope you’re all proud of doing it regardless of the score. It takes a lot of mental strength to even study for and take the exam so that’s a huge accomplishment.

I just took the September LSAT! I’m so relieved that it’s over and that I can finally have free weekends lol. I’ve been studying for almost a year now and this is my second time taking it. I feel like I did good but nerves got to me in the beginning. Here’s my experience and tips for anyone anxious!

I was super nervous when the test started because I was psyched out about people watching me focus (lol), but I gradually got used to it as time went on later in the exam. If anyone also struggles with anxiety or adhd, I would recommend just staying calm and ignoring everything around you. Don’t psych yourself out or get frustrated if you can’t focus. Just take a breath and slowly read the stimulus. It’s ok if you’re slower than usual, just don’t stop and worry! It’s also ok if you find yourself wandering a bit, just correct yourself and you’ll hopefully become adjusted throughout the test.

Good luck to everyone else scheduled to take it! Hope everyone gets their target scores ⭐️