I was wondering do the August Prep Tests get added soon?

Hello all, I'm currently 2 weeks away from testing and FREAKING OUT. I was getting mid 160s in my PTs all summer long, and got 169 on my PT last week which I was super happy about! This week I did my PT and got 158....which is what I got as my diagnostic score 4 months ago. I noticed that in my last two sections I got around -10, which is really abnormal for me.

I really think that this is due to fatigue. I'm working 20 hours a week at my job plus studying a lot and am really burnt out. I'm having trouble focusing and studying for the LSAT which is reflecting in my PTs. I wanted to know if anyone has any advice, since it is really hard for me to take rest days and I want to bring my score back up before I test Sept 12, but also don't want to tire myself out more. Any advice is appreciated!

Long story short, I got into a very bad car accident five days before my LSAT date (Wear your seatbelt everyone. Mine saved my life). Despite having a mild concussion, I decided not to postpone my LSAT because I was already registered for September. I took some drills in the days following the accident and scored around where I had been, so I thought my score would be fine. Day of, however, my brain felt like cotton. I ended up scoring a point lower than my last official test a year ago. That'll be a fun addendum, I guess.

Just mildly frustrated because I took a PT the day my scores released and got a new high score. Looking forward to September's I guess. sigh

Hey all, so i got a 167 on the august test (yay!) which was my first attempt (after like 400 hours of study), but my pt were more in the 169-170 range. I'm what would be called a "reverse splitter" right now, with a boost in the GPA and job experience categories (I plan to work for several more years). I'm interested in schools that range from a 168-171 median (hoping to get that scholarship $$ lol). However, I just moved and started a new job that is heavy on travel. Still adjusting to that. Def not complaining about my situation, but wanted to hear people's input! Should I retake in October/November? Don't know if I could commit more than 5 hours a week or so with my schedule, worried about burnout. Open to all (polite) input!

149 diagnostic → 159 🥹

third time really is the charm 😭 i’ve tried studying for the LSAT three separate times now. the first time, i started way too early and eventually fell off. the second time, i was a full-time student, working two part-time jobs, and juggling all of my student orgs and extracurriculars, so studying consistently just wasn’t realistic.

this time, i finally committed to it w the help of 7sage and a tutor. i just scored a 159 on a full timed practice test 🥹 10 points higher than my diagnostic!!! i’m so close to breaking 160 and genuinely so proud of myself because there were sooo many times i felt like i wasn’t improving or that i just wasn’t good at this test.

third time’s a charm fr 🥹📚⚖️ 160+ i’m coming for youuuuu. if anyone has any advice for my last month of studying before my officia test in oct pls lmk

Any advice? This is my third 164 in a row. I am aiming for a 168 in October. Is that possible? I took a reading section immediately before this to "fatigue" me a bit before taking the test.

I do not know if anybody will read this, or if it will help anyone at all, but it helped me so I thought it would be good to leave here. These are a few things that I think helped me in my lsat journey, studying up to a 175 with 7Sage as my platform. Feel free to take everything with a grain of salt, as I have a few logic courses (taken during undergrad) to give me a bit of a background on how certain entailments work, and bc of that I started with a pretty high diagnostic.

1) Use the break to refuel!

Your brain actually does run on sugar, and the lsat uses an incredible amount of mental energy! During PTs and during the exam, bring something to eat (big fan of granola bars myself) that has a good amount of sugar in it. It sounds really simple and even a bit stupid, but I swear it took my PT from a 171 to a 177. It's also worth it to eat the same thing each time, to put yourself in the proper headspace/simulate test day. They let you bring in food, it's worth it to use it.

2) Have a visual shorthand/style for diagrams

One of the things that I learned in logic courses was to diagram conditional reasoning using concentric circles. The outermost circle is the necessary condition (the "then" statement) and each subsequent inner circle is the sufficient condition (the "if" statement) to put one in that outer circle.

For example, if the statement were to say "all firemen wear suspenders" (which could also be worded like "if one is a fireman, one wears suspenders" or "one is a fireman only if one wears suspenders" or "one cannot be a fireman unless one is wearing suspenders") then I would diagram that statement as a small circle labelled "firemen" within a bigger circle labelled "wears suspenders." This really helps me to visualize the fact that ALL firemen (sufficient condition) are within the suspenders (necessary) category, but not everyone who wears suspenders may be a fireman. You can do this with multiple circles inside each other, and it also helps to recognize contrapositives, bc now one can physically SEE that if one is outside of the bigger circle, then one simply cannot be inside any smaller circles inside it. I wish I could upload a photo to show, but using just brackets, it would look something like this:

[ (fireman) wears suspenders]

or for the more complex example of "all dogs are good. all good things go to heaven" it would look something like: { [ (dogs) good] going to heaven}

and now we can physically see that if something is not going to heaven, it is not good and it certainly isn't a dog, but there may be things in heaven that aren't good or aren't dogs.

3) Take Your PTs Under "Test Day Conditions"

I think this one may be a bit obvious, but truly, try and start your practice test around the time you would on a test day. If you can, do it on a Saturday or a day off, wake up like you would be heading to the test, eat the type of thing you would that day, sit at a desk with only pencils/scrap paper, etc. I am an anxious person, and when I feel like I have done things before, it can really make them feel more approachable/normal.

Um yeah that's some of my tips/ I truly wish you all the best of luck and hope all of your score dreams become a reality!!!

This is my third 164 with no real "weakness" for questions. I tried slowing down on questions and fully understanding them, but this is just torture. I am literally 3-4 questions away from a 170.

I just scored a -1 (172) on a RC section, meanwhile I scored a -6 (151) on the practice RC drill consisting of 2 passages that I did right before that. I don't think I did anything different - the passages were just much easier for me to understand in the full RC section.

How can I address this type of inconsistency? RC is my weakness. I would greatly appreciate any tips or advice from folks who previously struggled on RC and now slay it.

I’m looking for articles that are similar to the more abstract LSAT Reading Comprehension passages—especially ones on topics like feminism, art, literary criticism, or cultural theory.

Does anyone have recommendations for good sources to practice with? I’m mainly looking for material that matches the style and density of those harder LSAT passages.

Took the August LSAT then took two weeks to travel and stopped studying ( Also was hoping I was done) got my score back and mmmm could do better I think but I feel like I had reached peak studying right before August test now have lost my momentum and idek how to get back into it for October test

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actually i'm just kidding because i didn't get a 179...

I got a 180!

Thank you 7sage for being such an amazing resource!

And thank you to my study group on discord (https://discord.gg/P4SYFEjZu) for being so supportive and helping me so much!

Got a 161 last August, then a 163 Last October, to then check my score for August 2026......

178 BABY!

Crazy feeling.

7Sage really has some amazing resources and strategies on here! All of the prep course/materials I used were from here.

To anybody who still has to take it, you got this!

Hi all! I recently took the august LSAT, and I am not too happy with my results. I was consistently doing far far better on my practice tests, so I was super surprised. I want to see if I should change my study approach, and the main piece of advice I am seeing from tutors or well-scorers is to (instead of excessively drill) I should "review." This is probably a stupid question, but what does it really mean to "review"? All I know to do is watch/read the explanations, and wrong answer journal. Is there a process to thoroughly review the question and figure out what I did wrong? What have people found to be a successful tactic? I would appreciate any ideas!

Immediate reaction to the score release is purely frustration... I knew from the moment I walked out of the test center on August 8th that I underperformed. It was my first official test and I'm taking the one in September, and I know that I will do so much better this time around.

But I can't help but to feel disappointed in how it all went. More motivation I guess!

Anyone in a similar boat?

Hey all! I have started to notice a rather unfortunate pattern with my studying. When I spend 2-3 days focusing on LR or RC, I find my full timed sections land at around a -6 to -4. HOWEVER, when I take a few days off/focus on the other concept (Ie, I focus on RC for a few days instead of LR), my sections drop significantly to -11 to -9.

Has anyone else struggled with this? If so, how did you get over this?!

Hi all — I’m looking for some advice!

I took the LSAT in June after roughly 8 months of studying, but unfortunately fell approx 10 pts shy of my desired score. RIP

Since then, I’ve taken an almost 3 month hiatus from studying. I’m not in a huge rush to apply, so I’d rather take the time to prepare properly and really push myself toward a score in the high 160s before taking it again.

For some additional context, during those 8 months, I only took about four or five full-length practice tests. Looking back, I think one of my biggest issues on test day was mental endurance. By the time I reached the end of sections, I found myself feeling so mentally fatigued that it was almost like I couldn’t read English anymore — obviously not ideal.

I also didn’t drill full sections nearly as much as I probably should have, particularly in RC. A lot of this came from a fear of “running out” of material, so I spent a significant amount of time on individual questions trying to really dig into and understand them rather than prioritizing volume and timed practice.

I’m starting to get the itch to begin studying again. Ideally, I’d like to retake the LSAT early next year, although I don’t plan to schedule an exam until my PT scores are consistently where I want them to be.

I’d really appreciate hearing your advice on where you think my time would be best spent at this point…Specifically:

• Whether it would be worthwhile to redo the core curriculum from the beginning

• How much emphasis I should place on drilling versus full-length PTs

• How to get past the fear of “running out” of practice material

• Strategies for improving mental endurance and managing fatigue during sections/the full test

• Anything else you think could be particularly valuable given my situation

If you’ve been in a similar position, I’d love to hear what worked for you.

Thanks so much if you’ve read this far!

I just scored a 176. I never tested above 170. 7sage is so amazing

Hey everybody!!!!!

Thought I’d post here in case anyone is in the same position I was and needs motivation. I’d been scoring consistently in the 158 ish range since I started studying. A week before the August test, I scored 165 and then a 152 (I actually posted on here about it). I was afraid the 165 was a fluke and I was somehow doing worse. Plus, everyone says you do worse on the actual test.

I just got my scores back… 166!!!!!!!!! Not as stellar as a lot of amazing people in the discussion, but good nonetheless. Don’t freak yourself out before the exam convinced you’re destined to do worse. You got this, there’s an end in sight. And 7sage is AMAZING!!! Go to the live classes if you haven’t, those helped me jump out of 158 purgatory.

Edit: In case anyone was wondering/ is in a similar boat, my diagnostic was 147 and I started studying May of this year!

I’ve noticed that I tend to get assumption based questions wrong. I think where I go wrong is that I got straight into the answer choices without spot the gap. Does anyone have any tips on how to improve in this skill?

First off will say, 6 months ago my message was help how to stop missing easy questions before #15. Now its how do I stop missing the 4 and 5 start questions later in the section. Good problem I think.

So how do I stop missing the 4-5 star questions later in the section. I am pretty much getting all the questions right before number 15 the 1-3 start questions and getting them right fast. Now I am missing 4-5 star questions frequent misses are in order of most frequent (LinkA, Causal, Phen-Hypothesis), NA, Flaw etc. Now sometimes I can see the gap right away, other times I absolutly cannot even see the gap, and I find that if I dont spot the gap in the stimulus, its basically just a guessing game through the answer choices. Also when review sometimes it just doesnt click for me and I am still not sure.

Any adivce would be great.

Just wanted to briefly thank 7sage and this community! Raw score was a 160, first official exam was 169 back in June, and I just got a 180 on the August exam! Thank you so so so much again and good luck to everyone taking future exams!!!

I apologize if this is a dumb question, but is there a button to hide answer choices in the new LSAT format? Am I just missing it? Did they take it away? I'm taking the test again in September and couldn't find it in my most recent PT.