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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.
Did you all happen to hear back on the font size holding across sections once it's set in the first section?
Thank you for sharing, this is really encouraging! Manifesting the same for myself haha
I haven’t found a way to do this, but fully agree with you. It feels like a time penalty against people who don’t have perfect eyesight (my eyesight is good and even I need to make the new font large to read it properly)! It was super frustrating on the August LSAT where I had to change it every section. At least on 7Sage, if you’re doing a practice test it remains consistent after you’ve selected it in the first section.
Having some difficulty with this one. I understand the author lays out a path forward with a solution, but I don't hear the author advocating anywhere within this. Should be be considering the authors disdain for the impasse between the two sides as implying that the author wants the solution?
I think it can go either way but if it makes you feel better, the first time I took the LSAT I tied my score with my highest practice test at that time! :) Good luck on Friday!
Completely feel you on this, especially in the last month, when I've had a bunch of 12-hour work days, and my brain is fried by the time I get to studying. No real tips other than emphasizing breaks when you can. I keep reminding myself it is a temporary season of life, and that it will feel so amazing once I've submitted all my applications and can just focus on work and life. It will feel like we have so much free time at that point haha
This is a great omen! I had the opposite happen with my practice test yesterday and would have loved this instead haha. Good luck on the test!
@niaxain ugh I know :( I'm already signed up for September too so I'm wondering if I just take the L of sunk cost on this one and focus ahead to that one. Idk, this sucks lol
I use the Sage AI to analyze my results when I take sections, and it helps me to flag trends it sees as problematic, which helps me then adapt. For example, Sage AI told me I was reading the passages too fast and then spending too much time on the questions. I now try to take a full 3-4 minutes to read the passage slowly, and find this helps me feel more confident and to move more quickly on the questions. It also flags for me when I'm spending too long on something or particular tags I struggle with, and then recommends drills to focus on them.
Maybe try a little bit of practicing different things to see what works for you? I know some people take notes, highlight differently, etc. I also recommend working more on RC untimed before going back into timed sections. I was also struggling with RC and, while I'm not perfect on these, the changes I mentioned above helped me go from -7 average to now anywhere from -4 to -1 (on most sections now anyways haha)
Are any August test takers considering not taking the August LSAT because of all these last-minute changes? I keep thinking they're done and then they do something else and it's making me nervous one week out.
I was asking my 7Sage AI assistant this recently, and it identified something pretty interesting. I was consistently reading the passage pretty quickly and then spending lots of time on the questions, but I should actually be doing the opposite. I tried slowing down my reading and taking more like 3-4 minutes per passage as opposed to the 1.5-2.5 I had been taking, and then found myself much more confident going into the questions. I also spend less time needing to go back and re-read now, which again helps me go through the questions faster and more confidently. Maybe give that a try? Your AI assistant can tell you how long you spend reading and help set goals for you.
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?