WOOP WOOP SO PROUD!

Not at all. I've been told by multiple schools that if you submit before Christmas you're beating the rush and are in a good place.

Omg thankssss this is so cool!

If you have no reason why the answer you picked would be wrong, don't switch it. Don't talk yourself into another answer cause "it seems better". There is no better or worse on the lsat. It's right and wrong.

When I first started trying to understand conditionals I diagramed them all. Now I'm pretty good at them so for the most part I can do them in my head. But when the question feels particularly hard to follow, I diagram it. Better to waste a few seconds diagraming and getting the right answer than wasting minutes trying to understand it in your head and getting the wrong answer.

Take it as a good omen. Trust yourself. Maybe take note of what you did differently this time. Then go into the test as calmly and confidently as you can. You've got this!

read more in your free time and focus on analyzing the books you read. That way you're basically studying for RC in your free time. Then it's easier to apply those techniques to actual RC sections

@Gcastillo1513 This is what Lsac says on their website about it "In-person LSAT test takers will be assigned noise-reducing earmuffs as part of their equipment and materials. In-person test takers can only use the earmuffs assigned to them."

when i took it they had some provided for you at the testing center. they worked decently well

Go you! What an accomplishment!!

Felt this. On meds for my anxiety and the thing that helped was making lsat studying feel fun. Either motivating myself with treats or a fun thing for doing sections/drills or by playing the lsat games on here. Basically anything that makes studying feel less daunting is key. Now this is gonna be the hard thing to wrap your head around: at the end of the day the score you get is gonna be the score you get. Make it less about needing a specific score and more about seeing how much you can improve. Focus on rewarding yourself for the progress you're making rather than this idea that you have to get a specific score or else. That "or else" mentality is going to make studying that much harder because this test really does require you to be confident in your abilities. It's hard to do (I struggle with it myself) but you have other parts of your application that are just as important so don't stress too much about this one part.

Maybe try doing fewer questions per section? Since you seem to be doing all the questions, maybe aim to do 20 to 22 questions per section with 100% accuracy. Then just guess on the last few questions of the section. This might sound silly, but if you do this, you can actually get a higher score than what you're currently achieving. You clearly have the understanding of the questions to get some of those right with a little extra time, so give yourself the time to do that. Reading faster isn't going to get you the answers faster. Taking your time will.

Definitely add it to your resume! This is super cool and an incredible accomplishment that not everyone can say they've achieved. Adding it can't hurt but not adding it can.

@DulasiTennakoon That's so great! I'm sure you'll get your RC down too!

@jamandaa me but with legally blonde

MAKE IT A GAME! The games on 7sage help a lot with this. They're honestly a lot of fun. I also try to think of LR questions like a puzzle I'm trying to solve cause I love a good puzzle. RC is the hottest gossip you've ever heard. Oh you want to eat a little treat or watch a funny video or get a coffee? Well you have to finish this section first. Set it up where it feels rewarding and fun in the moment and eventually it'll actually be something you look forward to.

You don't. Take your time on the passages. Make sure you understand them. Even take brief notes if that helps you. I usually aim for 4 to 6 minutes on each of the passages. Then, if you did that work well, you'll be able to zoom through the questions with higher accuracy. It'll be a lot easier to catch the issues with answer choices making questions that used to take you a minute and a half only take 30 seconds. It's okay to reread. It's okay to take your time. You can still get a good score and guess on the last few questions of a section.

I just had this exact issue for nearly a year! Literally just scored a 160 today for the first time. I realized I understood the questions really well but I wasn't fast at solving them. So I was making the mistake of trying to read them faster and work through them quickly. This simply does not work. Your brain is gonna work however fast it wants to work. So the best thing you can do is allow yourself to take the time needed to solve the questions. Focus on accuracy over completion. Make sure you understand the passages completely so when you get to the questions you don't have to look back at the text. Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast. Your goal is maximizing points. You can get in the mid 160s with roughly -5 per section. So if you do 20 questions and get all 20 right then guess on the last five, that's better than doing 25 and only getting 15 right because you didn't give yourself the time you needed to work through some of the ones you were capable of getting correct. It's so hard to do, I'm still struggling with it, but as I've already seen improvement, it's what I recommend.

@Farah I mean everyone's journey is gonna be different but I realized I was trying to do the same things to get into the 160s that I was doing to get into the 150s. So after a good month of going back through my wrong answer journal and reviewing my old studying habits I figured out what I needed to focus on going forward. Self reflecting and reviewing past mistakes, while time consuming, is what I feel has led to the most improvement for me. You need to pin down what your problem is, whether its comprehension, speed, or just test anxiety, then try to tackle it head on. I spent a lot of time working on comprehension thinking that alone would translate to my goal score, then I assumed reading faster would get me the points I still needed and that wasn't the case. This test requires a lot of pivoting and a willingness to try new strategies until you find what works for you. But more than anything, you need to be confident in yourself. I scored the lowest at the times I felt the least confident in my abilities. It's worth it to take the time necessary to make studying for the lsat fun (the games on 7sage helped me a lot in that department). If it's fun for you, everything else about it will seem less daunting. I hope this helps!

I've been applying to jobs for almost a year now and have probably sent over 300 applications. I know the job market in general is pretty bad right now and I'm sure others are having similar experiences. But haven't gotten a job yet and I'm assuming this gap on my resume will look less than ideal. How should I approach this on my application? Should I not address it? Or should I be writing an addendum for it? If the latter, how would one explain that without coming across as a worse applicant?

i'm around mid 150s (but in the high 160s/170 Blind review) and would be down to join

ooo that sounds so great!