Have to admit I'm a little confused about this whole "retaking" business. I didn't do as great as I wanted, but it seems like a lot of schools frown upon retaking and only consider your lowest score, or average your scores. Is retaking really a good idea?

Also I can find hardly any information about having a PhD already and getting into law school. I didn't do super great on the LSAT but I have a PhD from an ivy in biomedical sciences (I'm interested in patent law) and was very successful in grad school. Think this will compensate in any way for a mediocre score?

This is all so stressful!! Hang in there everyone!!

I too just scored lower this week than I have any other time. It was very discouraging, and I don't want to cancel because I want to apply early admission to one particular school. However, I took a deep breath and re-assessed how I had been studying. For me, I was trying to cram in all the lessons and was recently realizing I wouldn't have enough time to complete them all. Given what I've studied now, I think the best approach is to continue to take practice tests, and then really, really focus on why you got answers wrong. Not only that, while you are listening to the explanations, identify what type of question it is, and then take notes during the explanation. You'll start seeing patterns even if you didn't' get a chance to take that course session. If it helps, take that same practice test again after the explanations to make sure you absorbed the information and can apply it. Then just keep taking them!! If you're feeling really time crunched at this stage in the game, focus on your worst parts. I was actually surprised that my weakest parts were not the logic games, so I need to shift my attention to the logical reasoning (which thankfully is a section where patterns can easily be established). Good luck everyone!!