Im taking the October LSAT. When do I do the argumentative writing? is it available to do after the exam or only before?

Hey guys, so I've been studying for about 2-3 months straight. I scored a 141 on the January LSAT, 125 on the June LSAT, and I'm scheduled to take the October 10th LSAT. My most recent PT (earlier this week) was a 143. It's not a huge jump but I'm glad there's been improvement. I've finished the foundations section of the study plan, and have been working through the LR and RC sections in the morning and Practice Block sections in the evening. I know it's unlikely to score in the high 150s and above, but I believe I can at least score a 150 or high 140s. I know there's a school out there who will take a chance on me. Maybe it's good delusion, but I believe in myself too much to reschedule for another LSAT. This is the one! Does anyone have tips for improvement they'd like to share? Or maybe words of encouragement? It took a lot for me to share this so be nice please!!! Peace and love to everyone who comes across this post!

Hi there, I finished the core curriculum and now I don't know how to proceed with the practice phase. I took a timed test and did worse than my diagnostic. I'm a bit overwhelmed by all the tools available for the practice phase and don't know how to utilize into a schedule. Is there somebody at 7 Sage I can talk to?

I have been not been able to score above a 156..any advice on how to break into the 160s?

Hi all! I'm studying for the upcoming November LSAT, and I'm looking to tutor others as a part of my study plan and my interest of tutoring the LSAT in the future. I have an advanced understanding on how to approach RC and LR, but I think that explaining the concepts to someone else would help to solidify the concepts even more. And in the meanwhile, I can also help someone else's understanding of the test. Thing is, I don't have any friends that I know personally who are interested in taking the test in the near future. So I was wondering on how one would get started on doing so.

For reference, I scored a 168 on the August test, with a starting diagnostic of a 152, and have been studying for almost a year.

Thanks!

Hi, I am struggling with science related passages and or stimulus. Science does not come naturally to me. While reading the passages/stimulus, I find myself getting lost and thus struggle to answer the question stem correctly.

Does anyone have tips on how to tackle questions when you are not strong in the topic?

I’m trying to diagnose some pretty big RC inconsistency. I’ve scored as well as -6 on a full RC section before, but my last two full sections were -11.

On PT150.S4 today, I went 6/6 on Passage 3 in about 8 minutes, but I spent about 11 minutes on Passage 1 and 10 minutes on Passage 2 while still missing several questions, which left me only about 5 minutes for the comparative passage and I had to guess on a lot of it.

In review, I’ve noticed that on some misses I actually understood the passage pretty well but wasn’t scrutinizing the answer choices carefully enough, e.g. things like subtle term shifts, overstrong comparisons, and answer choices that were “mostly right” but had one bad word.

For people who had volatile RC and eventually became more consistent, what helped most: better passage mapping, more disciplined answer-choice evaluation, or getting better at cutting losses on a passage that isn’t clicking?

I’m especially curious how to interpret going 6/6 on one passage inside a -11 section. Does that usually suggest the core comprehension ability is there but execution/timing is inconsistent?

Just got 100% correct on another Level 4 difficulty RC passage!

My RC practice this week has been a much-needed confidence boost. I’m starting to feel like I might actually be able to get through a passage and questions in under 9 minutes!

My untimed RC accuracy has been getting noticeably better, so now it’s time to start shifting gears. Next up: the 3-passage focus strategy! Aka. Can I do passages with 11 minutes each and hold accuracy?

Building the accuracy → bringing in the timing → holding it all together.

The progress is progressing!

I only improved by a point since my last PT from 2 weeks ago. I’m feeling so defeated. Do you guys have any tips?

Hi everyone, I've taken 2 PTs after my diagnostic and the discrepancy of scores between the actual PT and the BR is large. Both PTs, I scored a 151 but on BR I scored a 167 and a 171.

Does anyone have tips on how to do better?

To be honest, I was not feeling confident at all, but I surprised myself! I know I need to improve on LR, though - luckily the section I did the worst on turned out to be experimental, open to tips and suggestions on improving!

UPDATE: We moved too quickly! We hear you and the all notes view available in the top nav is coming back ASAP and will be there until we make sure to have a better option in place.

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OP:

We simplified the top-level menu by removing the notes icon. The overwhelming majority of you weren't using it there. Instead, you were using notes while in a lesson or reviewing a single question, so that's where we've kept it.

Where to find notes now:

• Lessons: Click the note icon in the lesson to see and add your notes.

• Single question page: Click the notes icon to open the notes sidebar.

• Review tester: Nothing has changed. Notes are still right where they were.

As a gift to my fellow Californians and night owls, I've moved the lofi stream to Thursday evenings at 7pm PST/10pm EST. With any luck, this'll be our new forever timeslot.

Roll through tonight and AMA, or watch me do whatever it is I decide to do. Current idea is to build a big ol' repository of how various common flaws are phrased and share it with people.

trying to find the courage and confidence to stay motivated for my october LSAT. my blind reviews keep decreasing and i feel like im missing something. my original blind reviews were 170s and now back to mid to high 160s and am feeling like im slipping away. any tips?

Today I decided to implement a new strategy for LR. As soon as I choose an answer and I'm fairly confident, I move on. In recent practice I tend to skim each answer choice again and reread the answer I selected a few times. I would also briefly skim the question itself. On this section I finished all the questions with 5 full minutes remaining which allowed me to go back and look at a few of the questions I had flagged. This suggests to me that my initial instincts are correct more often than not, and spending that extra time reviewing is mostly unnecessary. I'm feeling extremely motivated. I test in October!

My LSAT journey is going on two years now.

I've never been a drug advocate and never will have to be after this - this test has served me ego death and I am better off for it.

I steadily improved from low to mid 160s to low 170s throughout May this year, then felt like I lost all of that progress when I scored way below my improvement in June, my third time testing (despite feeling like I did well - later realized that was cope because I did have a lot of questions I spent too much time on and was stuck between two answers on).

I completely spiraled. I had too many personal and familial conflicts occurring at the same time as this repeated failure. I felt so numb to everything and felt like trying more at this test wouldn't be worth the time, money or effort.

With the advice of my husband and fellow successful LSAT warriors, I decided I needed to focus on my health more than studying. I needed to refine my strategies. I knew how to answer these questions. I just couldn't perform when it's timed and back to back and I can't sit at a question for ten minutes.

Since focusing on my physical and mental health consistently every day, I've been super consistent in my scores for the first time in this whole process and feel more confident getting to the right answer.

Even then, I still feel like this PT from yesterday is not a reliable data point because this test has repeatedly evaded me when it matters. And also because it's an older one. I'm trying to shut down this thinking and stay level-headed. Thinking I will do a PT from the 140s next week.

Regardless, I think I'm finally internalizing that your mentality matters way more than your skills at a certain level.

• meditation to stay calm and present

• eliminating ruthlessly - do not entertain or try to explain bad answer choices to fit the stimulus, get rid of them

• skip and return to questions at the end when your mind starts to run circles around itself - do not entertain the spiral

• remove the importance of the task from doing the task (falls under meditation)

Going to focus more on improving my RC over the next few weeks.

This whole journey is not what I asked for, nor wanted, but I've come to understand it's what I needed. And it's not over yet.

Onwards! Let's crush October once and for all.

I think this is my highest or second-highest RC section so far. Since this test is originally from 2006, is this an accurate reflection of my performance on the actual LSAT?

My husband is forcing me to be positive throughout the last weeks before my test. He is a classic ray of sunshine...I, however, was meant to be a lawyer, essentially. He is getting really tired of my pessimism, and so I'm writing a post to tell you all that my score improved yesterday...(sorry in advance). Taking the test timed is my most difficult issue, and yesterday I was able to do an LR and RC section with modified time, meaning that over the next few weeks I will slowly close the gap between the time I am doing and the required time for the LSAT.

He said I should be proud, so here's to trying!

This test feels like a state of purgatory.

I scored a 137 as my first LAAT then went up to 141. I’m taking it again in Nov. I am using the drills and can see improvement, how often should I do PT between now and the end of October?

If I take the LSAT twice and I am happy with my argumentative writing from the first one. Do I have to do a second argumentative writing?