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I am applying for the Law School Cycle of 2027. I was going to have my final LSAT be October, and I am essentially done with my essays/resume/letter of recs. However, I always have a what if I do better feeling and debating signing up for November. So far law school admission counselors have been saying before January is "early" but I know it is so competitive that past years before Thanksgiving is considered early. Do you think it is worth it to take the November, worse case scenario if Oct doesn't go well, and apply by December 2nd (when the results come out). Or is that way too late? Thank you!

We just added 2 new games:

• Stem Stash 🐿️: Train your ability to recognize LR question stems

• Signal Fires 🔥: Practice making inferences and avoiding wrong inferences from conditionals

And we updated The Monster Files with 1 new case (Mothman).

We also added the ability to resume where you left off in any game. So if you navigate to another page or try a different game and come back, you'll have the option to continue your previous run or start over.

(Download the standalone LSAT Games app for iPhone or Android to keep playing when you're offline.)

I just finished the foundations course on SevenSage and my score on my first PT after foundations just dropped 9 points in comparison to my initial cold diagnostic. I'm feeling defeated. I know that this is a good point to see where my score is and to improve it from there. I am more familiar with what the test looks like but I was having a GIGANTIC problem with time. I would have expected my score to stay the same or at least improve a few points here and there. I was taking my time with the first 10ish problems and then seeing the clock tick and rushing the rest of the exam under time pressure. It was not a good feeling. I am gonna spend the next few days deep reviewing. First I will blind review and understand why I got every singe questions wrong. I'm feeling so overwhelmed. I got through only 2-ish passages on RC, rushed the third, and didn't even get to the last passage. Is anyone experiencing something similar upon completing the foundations straight off the bat?

On 7sage, there are difficulty ratings for each question, 1-5.

How many of each are on the actual LSAT? 20% of each difficulty? or mostly level 3-5 questions?

I'm interested to know so I can better expect what the actual LSAT will be like

So, at my height I've gotten to a 172-175, but generally I am at 170, and feel like I improved most dramatically, not when I had private tutoring, but when there were office hours on 7sage and I could go over questions where the explanations did not make sense.

Now, sadly, confusingly, 7sage got rid of this feature. And I have noticed a stalling in my progress, where I am not reasonably able to get mid 170s regularly.

What I want to know, is from you top scorers, who were obviously very detail oriented in your studying, how did you write up lessons/takeaways from questions where the AC explanations on 7sage or out there generally were unhelpful?

I find at this point the explanations out there aren't helpful, the chatbot isn't helpful, and what I am trying to do is understand the questions that I got right but unconfidently or that I got wrong well enough that I can discern a pattern that I can use in future LSAT questions.

Please please share the insight!! How!!

Hi everyone, I'm scoring in the mid 150s but need a 160+ for November. I'm also taking the October LSAT but have not been able to figure out an effective studying method. I am decent at RC but LR is my biggest issue. When I do an untimed section I get around a -4, but timed it goes up to around -10.. My worst question types are flaw, strengthen/weaken, conditional reasoning, and phen-hypothesis.

Sometimes I get perfect 5/5 on my timed drills on lvl 4-5 questions but then get stuck on a lvl 2 or 3 which makes no sense. So if anyone has any advice on what I should do to improve quickly please let me know! Should I do untimed short drills, do timed full sections, or take a PT every other day? I'm not sure.

Hey guys! I’m scheduled to take my first LSAT in October, and I’m wondering if I should still register for the November test just in case.

Would you recommend registering for November now, or waiting until I get my October score back? The next test after November would be January, which feels a little too late for me since I’m hoping to apply this cycle.

I’d really appreciate any advice from people who have been in a similar situation! Thank you!

We just shipped a new setting that gives you more control over when PT equivalent scores are displayed.

Quick refresher: PT equivalent converts your performance on a drill or section into a PT score using statistical modeling. Some of you have told us it's not that helpful for drills, and that's fair. The prediction is more robust for sections than for drills, and even within drills, a 30-question drill produces a much more reliable estimate than a 3-question drill.

So we've added a toggle in Settings > Preferences that lets you control PT equivalent separately for sections and drills.

The new defaults:

• Sections: PT equivalent is on

• Drills: PT equivalent is off

If you liked seeing PT equivalent on your drills and you're wondering where it went, just head to your settings and turn it back on.

Decided I am not going to take the LSAT again (85% sure), but me and my friend came up with a new term "skydive school" : the school you have relatively no chance of getting into, but you just apply to anyways

does anyone have any tips for reading comprehension?

I feel like I don’t know what I’m reading at times and get confused on the questions.

hooray! but also not hooray bc i talked myself out of at least half of these right answers! PLZZZ I REALLY NEED THIS CHAT gulp..my october fam lets go

Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone had any advice or feedback on how to break into the 160s?? I have been studying for the LSAT since February of this year and took the June LSAT scoring a 157. I hope to take the November LSAT and my ultimate goal is to score a 165. However I am feeling very discouraged as it's been a few months and I still can't seem to get my score higher than a 159.

I do study about 15-20 hours a week. I have switched to heavily reviewing my mistakes, going back to foundationals for questions types I struggle with, and drilling those specific questions. I have also switched up my RC passage strategy by doing the harder passages first which has helped my score slightly.

I honestly am feeling really discouraged with my progress and was hoping to have reached my target score by now. At this point if I unable to reach the 160s I might wait till next cycle to apply for school. If anyone has any advice I would love to hear it!!!!

I've always read the Q stem first.

It was to my dismay that, recently, I saw JY reading the stimulus first in a live attempt video. I didn't know such an approach was commonly used.

It's true that occasionaly, reading the Q stem first felt like it might not have been the fastest approach. But those occasions were rare.

Help me fight my approach crisis please:

What's your approach and why? And I'm hoping the answer isn't "whatever feels best" xD

Exactly a week before our score releases… how are we feeling? What have you guys been doing to calm down after the exam? Personally I’m just excited to see my score now.

I love stem stash its a great warm up

Hey Y’al! I’ve noticed that whenever I am rigid or methodical with defining my sufficient or necessary conditions and there are several conditional statements in a stimulus, I often miss opportunities to chain them together due to the rigidity I apply of whether it’s the same condition/concept being referred to. For example— will add Q example later

How to be more flexible in wording concepts or conditionals in order better chain them? What is too flexible? I don’t want to chain the unchainable

https://7sage.com/discussion/11505/hoodies-on-test-day

Anyone have any updated info on this? I get chilly easily so I would be sad if they told me to take my sweatshirt off 🥶

I had to share this!

I will preface, I do think this was a bit of an easier section and I did recognize a couple questions from drilling that probably let me do them faster.

I have had trouble not finishing my sections, so I started adding extra time on sections and seeing where to find ways to shave off maybe 30 seconds and then giving myself less time on the next section I try.

I set my time to 42 minutes here and not only is this my best LR score yet, but I realized at the end I had 6:40 remaining!

This is the confidence boost I needed as I knew for so long that I could get to this level! I know that I still have a long way to go and this is definitely a biased attempt. But I remember when I first started studying, I tried doing sections with no timer and taking almost an hour to do it and still getting a bunch of questions wrong.

Small wins like this really make me confident and Im beyond thrilled!

I hope you step on Lego, THIS WAS THE HARDEST TIMED PT I EVER TOOK IN MY LIFE I GOT A -15??? (44.44% accuracy.) After doing some extensive research, I was informed that this is one of the most notoriously structurally complex section in history combined with my amazing luck I hapoened to encounter it. My primary goal/accuracy per timed section is a 60% - 70% so scoring a 44.4% on a section THAT difficult I’m not too dissuaded and will continue to study harder, but my God I hope the test maker’s phone charger breaks 😭

BR gaps like this make studying for this test extremely annoying...

Hi!

Just wanted to ask, do/did any of you struggle with two answer choices and chose the wrong one. If so, did you over come it? How?

and

Is that supposed to be a good sign of improvement?

Thanks 😊

guys everyone drop ur master tips for the lsat to help us all out plzz!! rlly struggling, need to see things from other ppls pov, and pls make explainations super simple like ur explaining it to a 5 year old, or using real world examples, thank u sm

A common request is to have the ability to hide the reason why a question is recommended for blind review (the tooltip that shows when you hover, telling you whether it was flagged, skipped, too slow, guessed, etc.).

We just shipped a new toggle for this. Go to Settings > Preferences, and you'll see an option to turn off the reason for the recommendation.

A couple of things to note:

• This only hides the reason. You'll still see that a question is recommended for blind review, just not why.

• This is different from turning off blind review recommendations entirely (that's a separate toggle).

Turn it off, and hovering over a recommended question won't reveal anything about why it was flagged. Turn it back on anytime if you want the reasons visible again.

Hope this helps those of you who prefer a cleaner review experience. Let us know what you think!