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I'm sorry that you didn't feel like it went well! :( I know it's so hard, but try not to beat yourself up and take a couple of days off (if you plan to take it again). I know it sounds cliché, but you may have done better than you think! I'm gonna be real here: for my September test, I had to go cry in the bathroom of the test center right after the test, haha. I thought I absolutely bombed it. I didn't get my goal score, but I also didn't bomb it (actually just tied my previous LSAT score again). Maybe it will be similar for you? Keeping my fingers crossed for you!
I work full-time also so often it means getting up earlier (6am to study) or finding time in the evening after I finish work (6pm onwards). I tell myself it’s just a temporary period of life where I need to be giving up my free time for this greater goal. If you’re struggling to fit in studying around everything else, could your volunteer schedule be flexible so that it’s not everyday and leaves you time to study in mornings or evenings?
I don't think one practice test a week is bad, but are you doing drilling in addition to the blind review during the other days of the week or just blind reviewing the previous week's practice test only? Drilling sections and my hardest question types has helped me so much, maybe will do the same for you!
Annoys me to no end when I get the lowest number wrong in the experimental section haha. Nice job!
No advice because the literal exact same thing is happening to me down to the scores lol. I also do much better on my practice tests and don't have issues with timing, and then on the actual LSAT I second-guess everything and have to read questions three times because I'm nervous I've missed a crucial detail. I'm also taking the Oct LSAT next week; I'm wishing you the best of luck! I'll let you know if I come across anything useful for this in the meantime :)
Any advice on closing the gap between practice tests and official tests? My practice test scores are getting higher but my official LSAT scores seem to stay the same :(
For sure! I've been working with @RJlsattutor for a couple of months now and highly recommend :)
I unfortunately don't have much advice on the vobab perhaps other than reading as much as possible to start to recognize words in context. I really commend you for doing this test in a second language, I find it hard enough as a native English speaker haha. Richard will probably have better advice than I could have, but maybe prioritize untimed practice for those level 4 and 5s and keep a wrong answer journal to track any recurring mistakes on those? Something that helps me there is looking for patterns in how strong the answer choice should be. Also utilize your analytics to see the priority levels of different questions and then do drills specifically in the 3-5 star range under the drills tab.
What has helped for me is spending more upfront time reading the passage (3 ish mins, 4 for harder science) which then helps me to get through the questions faster. Also trusting your gut and if you can't get a question after 2 mins, flag and move on!
I had this too and they were blowing up the study group I'm in recently, but the account almost always appears as recently deleted by the time I see the message. Worryingly, at one point they offered tutoring or "alternative methods if the person doesn't want to study"
If it's financially within reach, perhaps look into working with a tutor? I was finding myself plateauing at the low 160s and have gotten up to the high 160s since working with my tutor. They can help diagnose issues and build you a personalized study plan for improvement. If a tutor isn't an option, perhaps try joining a study group where you can study alongside/get help from fellow study members on questions?
Do you feel like you aren't understanding the questions or it's more so you struggle with getting questions correct under timed conditions?
I chose A for this one before fixing in BR, but I'm still not sold on why A is wrong. It didn't seem necessary for me that Earth hadn't passed through clouds of cosmic dust earlier than 800,000 years ago. Would it matter if it passed through a dust cloud 1 million years ago, but then passed through heavier/more persistent clouds 800,000 years ago? Or am I thinking of this as too strong and like a necessary question as opposed to a strengthen question?
I also work with an LSAT tutor who advised me to really be taking advantage of weekends. I usually take Friday as my day off and then try and do more like 4 hours on Sat and Sun (this includes a practice test for me).
Seconding this! I was studying in the evenings, but found that it became too unpredictable if I worked late or was just exhausted by the end of the day. I now plan to study in the mornings (wake up at 6 and try to study from 6:30-8:00) before logging on) and then even if I can't get through everything, I have the evening as a buffer. I find it's much less intimidating to have only like 30-60 mins of studying to do after work because you've already gotten some done than starting fresh in the evenings when I'm tired. I've also started drinking two times as much coffee as I used to while studying and working haha
I took August and September and agree that the interface was wider. Maybe I blacked it out and changed it in the first section and forgot, but I usually set the font to large on 7Sage and had to do that on the August test, but I felt like the font was more like the large size on September test already? Maybe because of the wider interface
This happens to me also on 7Sage sometimes so not just you. The fun part is it also happened to me on the official Sept LSAT 🙃
This particular issue hasn't happened to me - maybe reach out to Lawhub support? I will say I find the new masking method both tedious and glitchy; sometimes I will click masking and then the answer, and it will select it or vice versa.
@Pri thank you for your advice!! Do you think it would potentially affect how admissions counselors view me if I’m taking the test 4-5 times?
Looking for some advice from anyone who may have experienced something similar. I’m currently signed up to take the September (12th) and October LSATs (have taken it twice previously). I took the August LSAT and had been going through a bit of a slump at the time and ended up getting the same score as the first time I took the test. The slump lasted a few weeks, and has only just started to turn around in the last 1.5 weeks. In that timespan, I’ve taken my two highest scoring PTs (8 points higher than August score).
My question: I had resigned myself to most likely not taking the September LSAT as I wasn’t yet at my goal score and wanted to build consistency and confidence to get there before taking it again in October and to break the slump. But now that I’ve had my two highest scoring tests that have been around my goal score in the past five days, I’m reconsidering. Do I ride the momentum this week and hope it continues, or do I stick with the plan to get more consistent with these scores before October to prove it’s not a fluke? Any advice appreciated!
This happened to me literally within the last few weeks, and I feel like it only started getting better in the last week. I scored my highest PT ever and then immediately dropped like 8 points on the next one and hovered closer to there for the next few. Naturally, I was pretty upset about this since I'd been putting in a lot of time studying and couldn't understand how I could go backwards so dramatically. It took a few weeks to break out of it, but I just really tried to maintain confidence that if I could get that highest score once, I could do it again. I also did take a couple of days off from studying, as I was feeling burnt out between studying and work, and then felt better coming back. Just make sure you are not losing confidence - you have to go into every PT and drill thinking that it could be your best one yet.
You could also try shaking things up a bit. I was studying in the evening after work, but have switched to studying in the mornings before work to shake off the 'funk' a bit. That also seems to have helped, just switching routine a little.
Reddit made me so scared haha, I looked at it ealier this week and said nope never again