Happy (or horrifying) score release day! I've got a message for all of you, especially those of you facing a disappointing result.

Watch the video for more, but here are some core points.

1) You are not your score. Your appeal as an applicant, your promise as a lawyer, and your broader identity as a person are multi-faceted and do not reduce to a single result from a single try.

2) The purpose of practice, including early official takes, is to learn novel, interesting lessons. Regardless of your result, if you thoughtfully pull novel and interesting lessons from this administration, you're set up to be a stronger testtaker than you were before the August test.

3) Heed my advice later in the video about how specifically to address gaps in your blind review, practice test, and official scores.

4) We've got resources for you today. Most notably, we're stacking office hours throughout the day so you can get the emotional and practical support you need. You can find those chat rooms in the left-hand sidebar of this page.

5) See also this special episode of the 7sage podcast where Bailey, Alex, Kevin, and Ethan discuss what you should do today.

I decided to take a night off of studying for my birthday. That turned into a week off, due to my youngest catching the back to school bug and then passing it to me. This morning was when I was supposed to jump back into the swing of things (I work overnights). I’m sitting there procrastinating the night away and finally just do the dang thing and start a drill. Immediately get an itchy and irritated throat and an overall ‘I don’t want to do this’ sense. Pause my drill and pull out a cough drop and the first thing I see is it telling me to “buckle down and push forth”. Then I read the rest and just laugh at the irony and get back to studying. May my halls wrapper motivate you all as well.

After plateauing in the mid 160s for weeks before the September LSAT, finally got into the elusive 170 club. Keep grinding y'all. Best of luck next week!

I just took pt 156 and did so awful I feel like throwing up. Literally did worse on it than on my last two actual LSAT attempts. I'm genuinely sobbing at the library right now. I have no idea how I'm gonna reach my target score of 165 when I just got a 153 on this PT. I hate this test so much it literally kills my spirit. Gonna review it tomorrow but I just feel so discouraged right now.

Hello everyone! I am writing the LSAT in October, and I was wondering if there is someone here who 1. Wrote the LSAT online and 2. Has ADHD. I was formally diagnosed in April of this year, and started medication before starting LSAT prep. I was hoping to converse with someone about their experience of writing the LSAT while having ADHD. Please feel free to leave a comment here or reach out directly, I’d love to ask a few questions!

Sincerely,

MJ

It's been a few weeks since our last forum post on games. Since then, we've added:

• Tone Tasting 🍷 (detect author's attitude)

• If-Then Blitz 👾 (identify sufficient and necessary conditions in conditional statements)

• The Monster Files 🫈 (practice strengthening/weakening causal arguments)

Check them out and let us know what you think!

We're also rolling out various other updates each week to other games (adding additional content, adding pause functionality for games that involve timing).

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

Does anyone have any advice for not psyching yourself out on harder RC passages? I find myself freaking out and having to re-read over and over again because I convince myself I can't understand the passage. I've tried focusing on finding the structure/opinions/etc., slowing down, taking deep breaths, and even powering through, but then I finish and I have no idea what I just read. Any advice?

I wanted to share this as a PSA for anyone participating in or organizing study groups on 7Sage — and, hopefully, as constructive feedback for 7Sage itself.

I recently created a free study group for the November LSAT. The goal was simple: get people together consistently, review PTs, work through difficult questions, and help each other improve. Around 20 people joined.

Then someone joined and immediately began soliciting members for a paid course.

I’m going to link their profile below. Please do your own due diligence before giving anyone money or personal information. I’m not interested in making accusations beyond what I can personally document.

https://7sage.com/discussion/profile/Ethan%E2%80%8C

What really frustrated me, however, was trying to figure out how to deal with the situation.

As the person who created the group — and therefore has some responsibility for the environment and the people I invited into it — I expected to have some basic ability to moderate it.

Instead, I couldn't find a way to remove the person from the group, and I couldn't find a straightforward way to report the behavior.

I also tried to communicate with 7Sage about it, only to discover that there doesn't appear to be an actual human being available to talk to. You're essentially left dealing with an AI/bot support system.

That was really disappointing.

There is a tremendous amount of money involved in LSAT preparation. Students are spending hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars on courses, tutoring, and prep materials. If you're going to provide a community environment where students organize study groups, I think there should be some basic safeguards:

• The ability for group organizers to remove disruptive or inappropriate members

• A straightforward way to report suspicious behavior

• A way to contact a human when there's a legitimate moderation issue

• Most importantly, some protection against unsolicited commercial solicitation

I won't go into the full extent of the gray market surrounding LSAT preparation — and the ecosystem that LSAC inadvertently props up — at this time. But please, be extremely careful before spending money on a third party. Do your research, verify who you're dealing with, and don't assume that someone offering a product or service through an LSAT community is automatically legitimate.

I also found that the platform lacks some of the collaborative tools I was hoping to use, particularly around screen sharing, marking things up together, and whiteboard functionality.

https://7sage.com/discussion/62242/question-for-people-who-use-discord-for-study-groups

I genuinely wanted to keep the group on 7Sage. I don't particularly like moving people onto third-party platforms (not even to mention all the drama with discord), which is why I tried to make this work here in the first place.

Unfortunately, I don't feel comfortable organizing a group when I can't adequately moderate it.

So I'm dissolving the original group and moving the new one to Discord.

But I don't want the takeaway from this to simply be “7Sage bad, use Discord.”

I actually like what 7Sage provides. I have personally paid real money for this resource, I still will continue to pay money for this resource and the reason I created the group here in the first place is because I believe there is tremendous value in students being able to help each other.

That's exactly why I hope someone at 7Sage sees this as an opportunity for improvement rather than simply a complaint.

If students are going to use the platform to build communities, they should have the tools to keep those communities safe, useful, and focused on studying.

I learned something from this process, even if I wish I hadn't had to learn it this way.

I'm still going to try to build the community I originally set out to build. I just have to do it somewhere else for now.

Hopefully, something positive ultimately comes from the experience.

My goal was and is to get a 170 or greater. I started studying with a free class in fall 2025. In this class, we learned the basics and walked through questions. We were supposed to do two PTs a week, but I just did one PT a week and sort of fell behind. I locked in in December 2025 and studied every day for about 3 hours (I read the RC bible and did two sections a day then reviewed that night in my wrong answer journal). Before the test, I got a 170/173 once and was averaging mid to high 160s. I got a 160 on the February LSAT of this year and haven't studied since.

I really struggled with reading comprehension timing. Some passages I just wouldn't understand and I would get entire passages wrong. Reading has always been my strength but the timing, even with the tools given to my by the free class and the RC powerscore bible, I could not increase my score. I did a lot of practice and outside reading with the strategy of reading for structure, arguments, etc. and was never really able to master the timing of it all and the challenging questions would just often seem to extrapolate more than I was comfortable doing.

I got pretty good at LR after a lot of practice, still struggled a little bit with timing but was mostly got 1-4 wrong one every section.

I am restarting my studying with the goal of taking the February 2027 test. I'm a week into 7sage core concepts and have watched most videos on 2x speed, there have been a few tools that could be helpful in helping me perfect/refresh my LR but I feel like I know a lot of what these videos are explaining. Any advice on how to go about preparing for the Feb 2027 test? and improving at RC beyond external reading for structure/POV/arguments and a ton of practice?

I'm four days out from writing the LSAT, and I completed two timed sections today as light review and made so many careless mistakes (more mistakes than I would usually commit on an LR and RC section). Could I be experiencing fatigue? How do I work around this to feel ready on test day?

Even as many of my other question types have solidified, this question type in particular seems to be the hold out. I never seem to feel confident in my answer choice. What strategies work on these?

I have been averaging -2 to -4 on RC and then at the end of August beginning of September I am now averaging -8 to -9. I really don't know what to do and I am not feeling good. Any advice would be appreciated!

Why did I go from getting some of the sufficient vs necessary questions right to getting none of them correct?

Hi,

I started with a diagnostic of 140 and now I am in mid-160s zone (BR 170+).

I have around 5 weeks from now and was curious if I can get some feedback on how to close that gap. I did read a lot of posts about bridging the gap between actual score and BR but was wondering how I can improve on specific weaknesses I have which are as follows:

1. I think my biggest weakness is time management. I get anxious of the time and tend to panic while looking at the questions. I don't have any accommodations since it is not super serious but was wondering how I can fight this time management issue.

2. I am a bit of a perfectionist and tend to take a lot of time in the passage for RC. When I read for the details, I miss the structure and when I read for the structure, I miss the details. What are some good RC techniques I can implement?

3. With regards to LR, when I panic with time, I tend to misread things and make mistakes:( How can I prevent this from happening?

Thank you all of you in advance for your response! Really appreciate your time!

Hi all. I've been studying since January of last year and took my first official test in June 2026. I got a 158 on that test although my PT's had ranged from upper 150's to mid 160's so I was pretty upset although not extremely surprised. I then took a week break and then continue studying for the August test. My score gradually went down, then shot back up to my low to mid 160's range. I took August and felt pretty good about it, then received my score back and basically did the same as my June test. I am someone who is wanting a 170+ and ideally wants to apply "early". I know this is sometimes seen as an unrealistic expectation, but I want to go to a great school and am willing to do whatever I have to to get there. That being said, I am registered for the September and October administrations. I don't know if taking September is a "wasted" attempt if I don't feel a lot more confident about seeing improvement just yet, and maybe it would be more beneficial to really grind until October and take that test only. If I still don't get where I want to be, I am left with either applying later this year with a November test score that's hopefully in the 170's, or I delay my application until next admission cycle in 2028. I'm feeling conflicted because I don't want to leave my future self in 2028 with only one final attempt, but I also am afraid to potentially take only one test (October) or risk not applying early. I'm looking for advice on what I should do next (Be nice please LOL). Thank you!

My exam is this September and I am currently scoring 152 and 154. My blind review is usually around 168.

Should i still go ahead and take the test or I'm I better off rescheduling the test for another time?

I feel helpless as I have been practising but don't seem to hit high scores while taking the practice test under timed conditions. Any suggestions on what to do?

I scored 156 2 weeks ago so this gave me the confidence I needed. I take my test in October and my goal is 160+.

The LR scores are consistent with what I usually score (I'm hoping to get the -7 down to -5/-6 just so I have more room to mess up in RC if needed) but I feel like my PT scores always depend on the RC section. I haven't scored this well on RC in so long which made me very happy.

My top priority is making my RC scores consistent- just 2 weeks ago I got -15 on RC which really messed with my score. Before that I was scoring -7 to -11 for any RC section. So idk it just makes me nervous that on test day, it feels like my score heavily depends on the types of passages I get- but at the same time i need to remember, no matter what the content is about, the process of reading for structure is always the same!!!

These last two weeks I have been focusing on deeply reviewing my wrong answers for RC and trying to force myself to only read for structure- so hopefully that will help my consistency. Any tips are appreciated!

I am having a hard time reading even the LR stimuli because they are so badly written most of the time; is there more information digging into how to pick apart the terrible writing and turn it into proper English? I have a BA in Ethics/Philosophy with a minor in Technical Writing. I have also spent a decade writing engineering and legal documents for major corporations. And OMG this reminds me of the worst writing I have ever read. Now, according to the AI (which I am taking with a two ton boulder of salt) this is the entire point of the LSAT. I know I don't have perfect grammar myself, and I absolutely have room to improve in my own writing; but some of these are practically unintelligible. I feel like every single passage needs to bleed with red ink before its even readable.

Im having a hard time distinguishing the difference between purpose of paragraph, purpose of context, and meaning on context questions. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I could distinguish the question stems and how to approach each different question type?

Hi. When practicing untimed RC sections I am right where I need to be in terms of my score, and normally am only over by a minute or two for time. When I do a section timed however, I miss double, and find myself using half my allotted time for the first two passages. I turn the timer off to try to help stress, but doesn't seem to work. Any other tips? Thanks!

Any tips to avoid imposter syndrome or self-sabotage before the Sept test? I've been consistently getting in the 160s on PTs but have so much fear/doubt that I won't perform well on test day. Any advice is appreciated! Thanks

Am I the only delusional one that's secretly hoping the Sept LSAT is on the easier side after hearing how the August LSAT crushed a lot of people?

One way or another - to all my fellow Sept test takers -- WE GOT THIS!!!

Hey folks!

I am taking my first LSAT in six days. I was wondering if anyone had helpful advice to prepare for test day. I am consistently scoring my goal score, but I wouldn’t mind boosting it a bit more. Is it a good idea to take more PTs or should I let my brain rest?

Any advice is welcome. Good luck to everyone taking the September test!

I've registered for the September LSAT on the 11th and have been preparing actively until last week. I was pretty confident about my everyday progress and was hitting my target scores frequently until last week.

A week ago, I had a mental and physical crisis. Mentally, I was trying to do some detailed analysis to improve my RC by spending a whole afternoon reading and taking notes on a few of the hardest passages, and then I felt like I couldn't read English anymore — I felt like the words were floating in front of me and didn't make any sense anymore.

Physically, since I have a 9-5 job that requires me to sit at my desk all the time stressfully, and I have to sit for a few more hours before and/or after work for LSAT prep, I had the most serious neck and back pain of my life. I couldn't sit, lie down, or sleep with that pain. Going to urgent care tomorrow.

This is my first official LSAT, and now I really don't think I can hit my target score this time. I've only studied for a few months (along with my 9-5), and I seriously couldn't commit more time to the LSAT. I've also registered for the June LSAT but canceled it at the last second — I wasn't prepared well for that one and was really uncomfortable taking it without any confidence.

I plan to apply next cycle, and I think the September one is probably worth a shot. Even if I can't hit my target score, here are some pros:

1. I can become more familiar with the test center environment. I have ADHD and my 150% accommodation has been approved, but I'm not sure if I can perform well when people are walking, typing, and just breathing around me. So I can collect data this time to see if I should ask for other accommodations.

2. I don't wanna bail again this time — last time I was only about 35% prepared, but this time I was at 90% until last week. I don't expect a miracle to happen this time, but bailing on myself feels bad too.

3. I can cancel my score anyway, though it would use up one of my LSAT attempts.

Well... didn't realize I've written so much already, and sorry for bringing some negative energy... I probably just want to vent and can't find anybody in my real life. Looks like I've already convinced myself to take the September one, but still wanna hear your thoughts!

For the people who are on the same boat, you are not alone — here's another broken soul (and body). Let's just hang in there!!! We will be fine!!

I'm so disappointed man... During the summer, before college started, I, was doing so well, My scores broke 160, I rarely ever lost more than 5 points on RC and LR. But todays PT, and of recent, have just been deplorable. Last weeks PT was 157, todays PT is 155, i haven't scored a PT in the low 160's since 3 weeks ago... I'm so tired of all of this. My official is next week too, like, cmon man.