Hey guys,

I recently started doing timed sections and I do horribly on them lol. I'm getting roughly 12-16 correct during timed sections, but during untimed sections I'm doing much better around 22-24 correct.

I was wondering if anyone had any tips during this transition phase. I'm really trying to close that gap so that my timed sections can actually reflect my capabilities.

Thanks!

Hi all,

I work full time and some days it just isn't realistic for me to study, how do you deal w the feeling of guilt when skipping a day. I know that the two days a week I don't study don't set me back much especially because I am past the point of learning fundamentals, but I can't help but feel guilty.

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Hello fellow 7sagers! I know a lot of us have our LSAT either tomorrow or in the coming days. I just want all of you to remind yourself of how much you have studied and to have confidence in your ability! You worked HARD and you should believe in the effort that you have put into this test. It's okay to be nervous, I'm nervous, but I also know that I've put hundreds of hours into studying for this test, just as many of you have. Set your heart ablaze and overcome your limits!! Hoorah!!!! (good luck to everyone lol)

Hi all! I hope everyone is having a fabulous time studying. I know I am.

I've been studying for the June test and plan to take it this weekend. I have improved dramatically in LR and am projecting my goal score when taking LR sections but still find myself stuck with lower RC performance pretty consistently around ~-9/-11. LR is typically -2/-5. Does anyone have any tips for scoring more consistently on RC? I feel like I am understanding the passages but sometimes feel that none of the answers really fit so I am stuck choosing the least problematic one and end up being wrong. I've been outlining the passages and translating them as I go which has been helping but not totally effective. It's also not a timing issue so any advice from high RC scorers would be greatly appreciated.

Good luck to all who are testing this week!

If anyone is having a hard time with LR and feeling unmotivated or frustrated, look no further than the work of Kevin Lin. Kevins videos on this platform and his earlier content on youtube explain some of the most frustrating concepts in LR in a way that always makes sense and is oddly reassuring. He always seems to have figured out the best way to get me to understand the concept or problem, and I appreciate it just as much every time. I discovered his work before I even had a 7sage account and was so delighted to see he works for the awesome team here at 7sage. I know he's active in the discussion page so Kevin if you're reading this, thank you from your biggest fan! You've helped me (and I'm sure many others) through a lot of stress-filled days and nights!!

My first LSAT is Saturday, and I’m wondering if folks who have taken it before think its best to keep studying the night before, or take the evening off and let your brain be?

Im thinking of continuing to study and drill the evening before, but go to bed early to rest up, and then just review the reminders I’ve written myself on the morning of, but I was wondering other people’s thoughts/approaches?

I am taking the LSAT for the first time this saturday and the during the previous two weeks, I was scoring at a 162-164 and then suddenly this week I seem to be doing 7-10 points worse all of a sudden. I am getting things wrong that I never have before and when I blind review, its like I suddenly stopped being able to read and comprehend when I was drilling and pt-ing. During the blind reviews, I am able to easily get the correct answer so I don't understand why I keep getting it wrong the first time all of a sudden

Now I feel like the more I get wrong, the more I get into my own head, and then the worse I do which makes me really nervous for saturday.

Any tips or advice to get out of this cycle.

On the bright side, I definitely plan to take the lsat atleast once more

Hey everyone,

I just started studying for the LSAT today and I'm looking for a good wrong answer journal template. Does anyone have one they'd be willing to share, or know of a thread/resource that has a solid template?

For context, I took a diagnostic and scored a 139. My goal is to reach the 160s by the fall, so I'm trying to build good habits from the start and make sure I'm reviewing effectively.

For those of you who use a wrong answer journal, I'd also love any tips on how you actually use it. What information do you track? How often do you review it? What made the biggest difference in helping you improve?

Any advice from people who started in a similar score range and made significant gains would be especially appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Hi, I am taking my first LSAT this week. I have studied a lot and I know I am prepared, but I still have really bad testing anxiety and the anticipation of testing day is making me worried that I may start freaking out during the test. My heart beats extremely fast when I am nervous and I am scared that will happen and I will panic.

Does anyone have any tips to overcome this anxiety?

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone is in the same boat as me or has advice: I am not feeling ready for the June LSAT. It could be a mix of anxiety but also I have not been PT consistently at the score I want. I did get score preview but this would be my second time taking it (1st time was last year and didn't consistently jump back into studying until start of this year). Should I just reschedule to a later date? Should I just do it? Will it look bad to take it 3 times? What about if I cancelled the score and taken it later.

Feeling frustrated, confused, anxious, plzzz help

Taking the June exam in 3 days… just PTd for the last time and scored 7 points lower than my last PT. Really frustrated and not sure what I should do.

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Wrong answer journaling, the process of explaining and reviewing your wrong answers, helped me go from a 155 diagnostic to a 177. This was the deciding factor in getting a full scholarship to a T-25 law school (because it definitely wasn't my 3.3, well below median GPA lol).

I wanted to take some time to explain 5 methods of wrong answer journaling that might help you review and see the questions in different ways.

1. Explain every wrong answer, not just the one you got wrong

This is probably one of the most helpful ways you can increase your understanding and depth around each question. You definitely want to understand your own individual wrong answer choice, but if you can go the extra mile and understand why every single wrong answer choice is wrong, you'll be that much better on guard against similar choices in the future.

2. Visualize the problem

This can actually be pretty helpful for taking the test in the first place, but drawing things out has been helpful in the past when I'm having trouble visualizing what's actually happening in the stimulus.

You can use the annotation tool to do this on www.lsatjournal.com to save diagrams to each entry as of... well, yesterday.

3. Summarize and break down the stimulus

Sometimes, you just weren't able to translate the stimulus into its most basic logic. Maybe it was a specific word or confusing phrasing that tripped you up. Logging every time this happens and writing down the simplified version of the stimulus can do wonders for your overall "translation" ability.

4. Come up with a "lesson" for that particular problem, and turn it into a flashcard

I like to think about every single wrong answer as a critical lesson. Sometimes, that lesson shows up across multiple problems that you get wrong. That's the point at which it becomes your own mistake pattern that you want to identify and defend against.

I would have ongoing lessons and add the new question ID on a flashcard every time I made the mistake - this helped me keep a running list of all of my major issues so that I could be mindful of eliminating things on a pattern level instead of just an individual problem level.

5. Take a break

This is less related to wrong answer journaling and more to what effective review looks like in general. If you're getting to the point where you're making the same mistakes and burning yourself out, sometimes just a few days or a week off can help your brain reset and internalize all of the work you've already been doing.

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Anyways, good luck out there y'all. And I hope this helps in your study journey.

Hi! I'm unable to click on answers in the new interface RC drill. I've been doing RC drills w the new UI and haven't had an issue before, but today I can't click on or cross off answers. I didn't see a button for "stop passage time tracking" (the way the drills in current Lawhub version do); lmk if I'm missing something.

Hi all, I have finally reached the clarity of mapping RC out for structure as opposed to content and wanted to know how I could maximize this approach while still pacing during the section(s)?

Many thanks

Hello! I saw that the drills assigned for homework have customizable settings. Are there any specific setting that we should be using? And is it recommended to manually select questions that align with the topics taught during the week? Thank you!

On practice result pages and the all questions page, we offer "Timing vs. target" and "practice timing" filters:

Do you use these? Which ones? When do you use them, and why? I'm especially eager to hear from users who have timing accommodations. Thanks!

Hi everyone!

I am aiming to write the test for the first time this August and am hoping for above 165. However, I would be happy with anything remotely close to score as well (162-170). I am planning to write the September exam as well, just to give myself another few weeks after the August date to see if I can improve.

For reference, I have been studying about 10-15 hours a week fairly consistently since around mid February. Most of my studying up until this point has been going through the 7Sage curriculum, reading The Loophole by Ellen Cassidy, picking at the Kaplan LSAT prep book, and I have been working with a tutor to hone in my reading comp/logic skills for the past 3 weeks.

I feel like I have been fairly successful in bringing up my score. Two years ago I wrote a diagnostic and only scored a (devastating) 127. This past December, I decided to try again and managed to get a 143. Since February, I have put in around 170 hours of studying and have managed to bring my score up to mid to high 150s on practice tests and sections. On blind reviews I routinely get into the mid to high 160s, and sometimes the 170s.

With only 2 months left till August, the countdown is on and I am open to any tips you may have on how to effectively break into the 160s before August!!!!

Basically, I have used all of the RC material that's available for drills and sections. That wouldn't bother me at all if I knew for a fact that I can still improve regardless of whether I've seen the passages before or not. However, I don't really know how to feel about it. For example, I just finished a section and got the best score I've ever gotten, but I don't know if it's because I had read those passages before or because RC finally clicked for me. I will admit that I don't really remember any of the answers to the questions that were being asked, so I felt as if I was answering them myself, but at the same time I did have a tiny little notion of what the passages were about, and I felt like going through them was a lot easier because I had already read the passages before...

So, because I've never gotten a score higher than 161, I was wondering if some other people experienced this issue before and if that fact stopped them from progressing or if they were able to get better despite it. And if so, then do you mind sharing some tips? For example, now that I have read some of these passages, what should I focus on? What can I do in order to make sure that I am still improving? How can I feel confident that whatever result I get is mine alone and not just previous knowledge? Any information would be super useful.

Has this happened to anyone else?

one day I’m drilling and my scores are fine, improving even. Then say a few days later, I’m drilling again and they are worse then ever.

Here’s what specifically happened to me:

Last Tuesday so 5/26 I was drilling a category of LR questions that need the most attention. I drilled 10 questions (on the “harder” difficulty setting) and managed to score a 7/10. I was extremely happy. (Yes I do review my wrong answers)

Then I took the next few days off from the LSAT And grinded for hours (at least 5-7 hrs) each day to with the goal of completing my 3 summer classes early so I can focus entirely on the LSAT.

Today I just got back to LSAT studying, (so about 5 days off from LSATS) and did terrible with my drills. Same category, same difficulty. Horrible scores. For some reason today when I got back to LSAT prep it was like my mind wasn’t sharp like it was before, it also felt like I couldn’t comprehend the words I was reading much less apply them critically.

Everyone online says that scores fluctuating can be a sign of burnout and that you need to take a break and basically allow your brain to take in the knowledge and whatnot.

But I did take a break, at least from LSAT stuff. For those 5 days I didn’t work on LSATS at all. Just my normal class work.

So I’m extremely confused and rather discouraged.

Has this happened to anyone else? I can’t afford to separate my time into 1 day studying the next 5 no studying you know?

Does anyone have any tips? Experience? Literally ANYTHING

Hello! I am potentially going to postpone the exam, and I have already done so before. I am not scoring exactly where I want to be yet. Is it bad to postpone the exam or should I just go ahead and take it?

Thank you!

Marisa Myers

I'm almost 3 months into my studies and my best PT is 159 untimed. Any tips on improving LR stamina and speed? I start disassociating after the first section and my focus just plummets. I can't even attempt timed PTs yet; I have never finished a section and attempted all questions. Any study tips or ways to improve focus and not experience cognitive overload? I'm trying to slowly build it up and focusing on fundamentals but wondering if there's ways to speed up the process.

For context, my diagnostic was 139 so I know I'm improving. My biggest issue isn't understanding every question but maintaining focus and processing information efficiently for multiple sections. Did anyone else struggle with this? What can help build endurance and transition from untimed accuracy to timed performance?