@Aquamoon Oh, yes. He's right about that aspect of it but I think in a general sense the amount of negative space is still substantial. I don't recall ever seeing a glaring contrast between the tester and the app itself.

Yes. There's unfortunately a lot of negative space. You can adjust the zoom but that doesn't address what you're talking about. Additionally, as far as I know, no keyboard shortcuts work on the LSAT tester, or at least they aren't supposed to.

Your 10 minute break will begin immediately just like when you do your PT. I can't speak for all testing centers since I've only been at one but I imagine they're relatively similar. When I went I break [or if I needed to run out to the restroom mid-section], I was told to check in with the proctor at the door so they could note me being out of the testing room and also to check in with them on my way back. That means that you should account for the 20-30ish second process of checking back into the room but also know that it should be a quick process.

And, yes, you will want to be back in your seat a little before the time runs out because, if you don't, it will start without you.

You kind of hint towards it but what would you consider a score you're happy with? It's not impossible to swing above your median PTs but how much higher are you aiming to do?

Significant break throughs aren't impossible, especially when adjustments can significantly improve your accuracy up to the 150s and low 160s but that also requires knowing what that adjustment needs to be and working it in without overly taxing yourself going into your test.

Have you tuned into any of the live sessions where one of the tutors walks you through how they digest a passage in pieces while pausing to think about how things interlock together and kind of label a paragraph or a section of one in their head or on their passage map? I'm assuming you have but if you haven't, either look up when the next sessions are or just look back at past recorded ones because I think they do a great job of breaking down how to try to approach the passages.

Spending 3-4 minutes and sometimes a little longer if it's a really dense passage is worth it so you can tackle most of the questions without needing to mine the text again. Likewise, if you feel like you want to practice doing this, you can pull up old RC passages you've done and drill the passage by practicing the process on a passage you've already done while trying to resist going back to the passage unless it's a specific reference.

Once you feel more confident with the approach, take a stab at a fresh RC passage and then multiple passages back to back as you progress.

Where do you feel your gaps are?

Do you feel compelled to have to go back to the passage to scan for text to support an AC?

Do you feel like you're going back to the passage to get an idea of what the question is asking?

Do you feel like you're being tempted by answers that aren't descriptively correct, too specific, too broad?

Do you think you're spending enough time on the passage digesting it to ensure that you don't need to scan for information when hitting the questions?

Are you doing a good job of making sure that as you go through the passage that you're pausing to think about how things are interlocking together?

Are you tracking when different PoVs are chiming in and noting where it's clearly the author vs a characterization of another PoV?

Are you spending too much time trying to digest the passage so that you feel pressed for time on the questions?

I could only see myself doing that if I assumed that there's a good chance I won't get through all the passages or all the questions. However, I've only heard of people doing it in reference to this.

I could see it maybe making a marginal difference to deal with a 4th passage fatigue by front load the hardest section but then I'm letting myself sink time into doing something that's taking away from my goal of getting through the whole section.

@Lsac’s#1Hater A suggestion from someone who prepped with other material before 7sage, I agree with skimming the foundations to verify that you feel comfortable with them.

Additionally, if you can, the live level of subscription is genuinely worthwhile as a way to supplement understanding of question types if you find yourself running into a pattern of issues that you aren't able to self diagnose or if you feel like you're starting to hit a wall in progress.

I also love it as an intermediary way for me to study when I'm "cooling down" or "warming up" for a session as a lighter mental effort.

Jealous. Congrats on the slow and steady progress and trusting the process. Hoping I can slowly work my way up there by October.

If you ever manually select a date range to look at your analytics, know that it will preserve that for when you look again. If you said you wanted to look at the past 58 days (date range today to 58 days ago), when you look at the analytics again, it will keep that date range even though it's the next day. For example, it wouldn't include August 31 because the last day in the range would be August 30.

It's not easy to do but, beyond trying to check yourself when you catch yourself envious of others, also try to ask yourself what it would take for you to get there yourself. While we can resort to the truism of "comparison is the thief of joy," comparisons can also help us reach our next levels and see what we need to do to get better. We have a built in bias to compare ourselves to people who are "better" than ourselves and to try to do more than just get self pity out of the comparison we can also try to harness that for self benefit too.

It is saying that but on the basis of the idea that either E and Z should be banned because they are worse for the environment or T should be legal because E and Z are worse for the environment and not illegal.

There's no need to cancel a score. The vast majority of schools will only receive your best score. Additionally, what's the shame in dropping a few points, something that's well within the score band, of your first score? I ended up getting the same score that I got in January, which while isn't what I wanted, is roughly what happened in your case.

Lastly, cancelling score is leaving the school to infer potentially the worst, which didn't happen.

Assuming your stats are proper on your profile, maybe you could try using another studying tool/approach to help rebuild and reinforce your foundation. The Loophole is a common one (and one that I personally) that people point to but there's many different resources out there.

Choose one, go through their foundations, feel free the skip over aspects you know well, and when you get through it, go from there.

If you have any specific questions, I'm always happy to respond if you shoot me a message. I'm not an lsat tutor but I have a tutoring background in other subjects, and have been studying off and on (mostly on) since July '25. Likewise, I can empathize with delaying a cycle and try again the following year as I'm in the process of that right now.

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.