Someone either added people taking the lsat in other months to the list to pull from or clicked on something wrong when selecting who the send the email to. If it doesn't say you're registered for September on lsac.org, there's no reason to think you somehow are signed up when you aren't.

I'm sure it varies by testing center but in the waiting area we weren't forced to wait in silence and people were allowed to be on their phone or have a book if they weren't starting yet. I will say that you definitely want to be there on the earlier side because in the event there's any issues causing things to back up, they'd admit people by who checked in first for the time slot.

Going to echo Alex. I don't want to say something is or isn't possible in terms of score but it sounds like slowing down and trying to better reinforce the fundamentals is a far better use of your time than trying to drill questions, let alone sections or PTs.

If the 7sage curriculum doesn't connect with you, I'd suggest maybe trying a different resource like The Loophole by Ellen Cassidy. I can't say if it really differs that much from 7sage but it's what I used as the basis when I first took the LSAT last year. You would probably improve if you brute force questions but I don't think that's the best use of your time and the limited amount of official LSAT questions and tests.

Likewise, I don't want to say that MC are the "easiest" questions but I think they are one of the most approachable question types as they intuitively connect to how we generally think about arguments. The other question types aren't explicitly as intuitive and without a firm understanding of both what the stim is doing and how the question is looking to test you, you are going to run into a world of issues, even if you sometimes or even oftentimes get the question right.

A streak is great but a streak isn't in and of itself sufficient. You wouldn't expect someone who started tacking on tons of miles of running day after day without a foundation to do well, but they're still keeping up their streak. Similarly, you want to make sure you are working with the strongest of foundations you can give yourself because it is directly linked to the capacity you have to consistently improve with a given question type or aspect of the test.

I'm not an LSAT tutor but I do have experience teaching and tutoring students in other subjects. I self guided taught myself with a few books and paper LSATs in a few months when I took it in November last year before using 7Sage for a second go in January. I opted to not go to school this year because I wanted to get a higher score and make myself a better applicant. If you'd like to talk over message or if you'd like to talk more in depth like on Zoom, I'd be happy to give my 2 cents.

Ultimately, I think the LSAT is a big opportunity to "teach" yourself how to study and approach something systemically. You don't have to but it's a great exercise, especially since we're going to be going to law school.

Remind yourself that you're built different and others will break on the curve in our service 💪

A way to help cement and verify what you just read is to have 2-4 words that identify what's in that paragraph. It can be written down or just mentally noted but it helps put a little flag down about what information was noted and, if needed, you know where to look back to.

That's good to know. I was waffling on if I wanted to register for October now but I know I'm going to be taking it again then short of me knocking it out of the park in August.

Thanks! This is really helpful. That's what my original personal statement was entirely. I suppose my concern was that I had already been accepted last cycle to a school and almost felt like I needed to note that. And as I'm writing that, I know that's silly since obviously it's not a unique thing to do and the schools I'm applying would know that happened anyway.

Last quick question, should I be concerned about reusing my personal statement as long as I'm editing it rather than just resubmitting it? I don't want it to seem lazy to the schools I'm reapplying to.

This might be too much of an speicifc question for you to answer but I'm a nontraditional applicant. I started studying in July 25, took it twice (once in November - 160 and second in January - 164), applied in March, was accepted into a school, and opted to push off for a cycle to get a better lsat score and apply earlier in the cycle (aiming for late October/early November).

My new personal statement is going to highlight the process of not going to law school this year and instead next year as me not pushing it off but instead knowing that I was more capable and could do better. It's being interwoven with a quote about values and also the right "when" being important.

Do you think I should also have an addendum to note my improvement even with it being an aspect of my personal statement? My assumption is that I'm able to hit at least 168 or higher, especially since I'm taking it next week with that being a reasonable score and again I'm October when I'll be even sharper.

Only you can know what makes sense for you but it sounds like you're doing roughly what I did last year. I started studying in July and ended up taking it once in November, a second time in January, and applied in March. I can't know for certain but I feel like I didn't get as good as offers with my score compared to if I had applied earlier.

I'm still around so I obviously opted to delay a cycle to study more but part of my calculus was that I felt like I was near certain that I could improve my score considerably. Easier said than done, but I would work out at some point how you will judge if want to delay a cycle (assuming that option is on the table). If debt and the best school/offer possible that you'd be able to get aren't as big of a concern, I think you have enough of a timeline given what you said.

Just know that if you take it in January, I feel like that's about as late as you really want to be taking your LSAT before applying given the assumption that you are likely going to be focusing on studying rather than doing your applications to then shift to a focus on your applications.

There's no downside to canceling. I stopped for a few months between January and May and didn't have any issues when I came back.

Edit: Apparently that's wrong. You might lose your analytics if you stop longer than this.

There's undoubtedly many different aspects you can still improve on but my suggestion is for you try to figure out your bottleneck with timing.

Are you getting to the question going "wait. What did the stim say?"

Are you getting bogged down in all of the answer choices regularly leaving yourself to go "most of these sound reasonable" or "I don't know which ones are clearly wrong"?

Are you getting snagged on handful of question types worse than others?

Are you second guessing yourself, leaving you to double check at times when you should have been able to lock in and move on?

If you are saying yes to the first one, I'd recommend doing translation drills. If you've read the loophole, you know what I mean but they're pretty self explanatory. Focus on just reading the stims of a section without touching the question itself and just focus on digesting the stim, translating it into your own words, and trying to come up with a prephrase (what's the potential loophole/gap in logic?, what could be an inference?, what would resolve this paradox?, what are these two disagreeing over?).

You don't necessarily need a prephrase for everything but they're useful both because they oftentimes set you up for the right answer depending on the question type and it requires active thinking.

In my opinion, one of the main goals everyone has or should have with the lsat is not letting the test direct your thinking. When you let them think for you, you let them guide you to the wrong answers.

Similarly, if you feel like you're saying yes to the other questions I asked, work your way through the aspects related to them and focus on drilling in on those specific skills. While it's possible to improve on everything all at once, I think it's generally more efficient and effective to try to focus on specific aspects more directly. That's doubly true when we're trying to preserve as much test material as possible for practicing.

Flash cards or other ways to drill strategies is a good way to help you connect what you should be doing with a question type. With flash cards, you get the benefit of writing down your strategies and reminders to help internalize them and a quick and easy habit to work in as part of your studying. They're great for warming up and/or cooling down with in a session to help build up the repetition with minimal friction.

Another way to help reinforce what I should be thinking about is explicitly saying in my head what the question type is after I've read it.

Yeah. Maybe support wasn't the right word but in terms of how I've heard from people who care about me, they have have concerns about how much I'm throwing myself into all of it, especially considering the LSAT is "just" the test to get into law school. Sometimes, at least for me, it'd be nicer just to hear people tell me to "full send it" rather than give me concern.

I totally hear you. It's tough putting in this much time, effort, and reorienting yourself and your life to a big goal that you feel like or know that it's achievable. That is only compounded when it feels like people you know and care about don't get what you're trying to do.

I'm a similar position in that I started studying in July '25 with the goal of me entering law school this cycle. I even hit my "goal score" and was accepted into a law school. I opted to not go and subject myself to another cycle of studying so that I can both get a better score and get my applications in earlier (I applied in March '26).

Its not easy to both feel like you're sisyphus pushing up the boulder up a hill for eternity, burning yourself on both ends of the candle, while other elements of your life feel like they're downplaying what you're setting out to achieve.

I think it's worth scheduling some time with yourself to fully work out scenarios where you ask yourself the question "what if I don't meet my goal for this cycle?" No one can tell you what you're red lines are, what indicators you're using to make the call, and you of course know your life better than anyone talking to you online. However, you're setting out to go to law school and presumably be a lawyer which means that you should evaluate the multiple outcomes and directions you have in front of you.

Many people (most people?) end up studying for longer than the timeline you've given yourself to give themselves time to get their "good enough" score. I'd like to also emphasize from personal experience that your goal is likely not just to get into a school but a school you both want to go to and with less debt rather than more.

Regardless of what you set your red lines to be to make one call or another, giving yourself time to do this will help you when you're met with people who raise doubts or questions or when you compare yourself to others. Pushing down your feelings and thoughts only make them bubble up more and oftentimes in a time or manner that you'd rather not.

Hopefully this is coherent enough and connects with what you're dealing with. If you'd like to talk anything out or have any questions about the lsat or just how I've dealt with things to give you a different perspective, feel free to message me.

This is a different one in addition to the breaking 170 classes. I'm sure it's similar point of breaking through curvebreakers and another catchy title but more than enough to pique my interest. I've really enjoyed the breaking 170s.

For starters, I think you should check again to see if you could register now. The email and website to login for registration weren't the most clear in terms of the proper timing and mine was open at 12 pm edt as opposed to what they said was just 11 am (which is correct if they meant est but it's daylight savings right now).

Additionally, I think you should be able to register for the 5th. My impression is that Friday and Saturday are the days that are the toughest to compete for because people are trying to work in last bits of studying.

Last thing: If you aren't sure what they mean by lsat eligibility Id, you can find that in your lsac profile

Mine is saying 4 pm utc which translates to 12:00 pm edt. Seems like someone when formatting the general email or the scheduler opening up neglected to note that it's edt right now rather than est.

Hard to tell perfectly from just one pt but it seems like the 3rd and 4th passage are where you bleed points the worst. There's rules of thumb of aiming to have 20 minutes left for the 3rd and 4th for a reason. They are sometimes (oftentimes?) the harder passages/questions and you're already mentally taxed from the first two passages. This potentially points to an rc fatigue thing rather than entirely you flubbing as a whole.

Why would it translate into your analytics if it wasn't part of you doing the exercise, whether it be a drill, section, or pt? Your recorded analytics are based upon completion with however you formatted the exercise, in this case a timed pt.

The correct answers achieved on blind review are valuable experience but it wouldn't be good for blind review to reflect as your "true" pt score because ideally those pt scores are about as reflective as the real lsat as possible. In the real lsat we don't get second chances at questions we didn't answer or a chance to reflect and change answers. That's what the pt score represents in theory.

That being said, you can delete the result or exclude it from analytics if you prefer so that it doesn't act as a mental drag. I did two sections on Saturday that I underperformed relative to how I both generally do and what I know I'm capable of. I could do either of the things I said but it doesn't change that I'm also clearly capable of letting the test think for me rather me being perfect at actively thinking. I did another few sections yesterday on Sunday and instead I hit -2 and -1 on them.

Both these and the others are reflective of what I'm able of doing and 7sage analytics are there to help us see that and use it as direction.

You actually can. It's not the most obvious but you can start your blind review and then quit to resume later

You can adjust what material you have in your drill or section pool. Just click on your account and go to "PrepTest Pools" and you can adjust from there what can be pulled for different options.

PTs are explicitly going to be different than a section, let alone a single passage drill. Part of that is obviously time related but another factor is fatigue and sharpness over time.

A way you can work on both of those factors without forcing yourself to do whole PTs is to do a few sections back to back or make yourself do a section of rc at the end of a study session which would be a way for you to simulate some mental fatigue to push up that endurance and work on keeping yourself sharp even when you've been going for awhile.

A few things that might be worth thinking about related to this:

1. What is your accuracy untimed? Obvious statement but the better you are at getting them right untimed will help under timed conditions. If you push yourself up there, it will help prevent you from bleeding points on some questions.

2. Training under a full pt is going to tax your endurance in a manner that a drill or even doing a few sections won't do. This is in part because obviously you're doing more on the pt but also that the tests are literally designed to work as a whole. Some sections are easier than others but they are balanced out in the entirety of a test.

3. Part of it is that getting better requires doing and evaluating which isn't necessarily fun when you see "lesser" scores and wrong answers on questions you feel like you should generally get right.

There's not enough information to really know if it isn't possible but is there a reason you have to only take it once? I originally went in with a goal of 160 last year, took it a second time and hit 164, and opted to go next cycle despite getting into a school.

Is there a reason why your timeline is dead set on September rather than thinking longer term? There may be but just throwing that out there.

That aside, I think you're making critical errors in your understanding of the stim, the answer choices, or both. Translation drills (drills where I literally just focused on the stim and a potential prephrase of where holes in the argument were, how something could be resolved, what could be an inference) without even touching the question or the answer choices were my bread and butter into my 160 and I still swear by them for people who are having trouble breaking into the 160s.

It may feel like taking a step back but it's a great way to build fundamentals without the extra burning of materials (you only see a question for the first time once) and the extra strain and burnout of going through the question and reviewing it.

September/October are relatively far away that I would say it's not worth disregarding BR. If you are in a final grind with an explicit focus on working on timing and endurance, it's worth doing so you can focus on building those skills.

As someone who's working to move from the low/mid 160s (Nov - 160, Jan - 164, Aug - ?, Oct -?), I'm heavily focused on working out kinks that stand in my way from scoring ~ -14 to closer to -10 and hopefully less. We're at the point where the small things make a big difference and grinding out questions won't necessarily get you there or may not be the best usage of your time. BR is useful both in reinforcing "yeah. I had this Q down" in a similar manner it is for understanding why you chose the wrong AC.

At least for me, part of what I know I can benefit from and leverage better is time usage. If I can become just a bit faster on the first 15 questions, I have that much more time to help me slow down on the latter 10.