@Elecoo "So, if you’re planning to take the test any time between now and June 2025, you can rest easy. Your writing sample won’t be scored. Beyond that point, though... we’ll just have to wait and see. The LSAT loves to keep us on our toes!"

The article is outdated because it refers to the 2024-2025 testing cycle in the future tense, when it is in fact in the past. The article suggests multiple times that there are changes coming to the argumentative writing section in the near future, and the fact that the article is at least two years old makes me wonder if it actually reflects changes that have occurred since the article was published.

If you are taking the Aug/Sept test, I would hold off on doing frequent PTs for now and wait until you get closer to the date. My advice would be to focus on drilling for now, taking practice tests maybe once every 2 or even 3 weeks. Then when you get into May and June you can do once every two weeks, and in July once per week. Make sure as you go to reserve a certain number of fresh tests and keep in mind how many you have left when you are scheduling.

I'm saying this because in my own experience the full prep tests were more useful for getting familiar with the grind of doing a full test as the date gets closer. Using them up early is a waste of resources in my opinion, because you're still learning the material and practicing a full test at that point isn't going to help as much for the real test if it's still months away. What you don't want is to use most of your prep tests two months in advance and then get to July without any fresh tests to work with (which would actually happen if you started taking a full test every week this early on).

You might benefit from taking a break. I have experienced similar "brain fog" type feelings and it's usually due to spending more time studying than I should and getting burnt out. Even if you don't feel burnt out the pressure of studying for so long might be getting to you. My recommendation would be to try taking 2-3 days off if you haven't as a reset- this kind of break also helps reduce anxiety if you are stressed about your study process.

1. The study schedule tends to over-recommend LR exercises as opposed to RC exercises. There doesn't seem to be any particular reason why this should be the case. Often when I've wanted to balance it out I've had to generate additional weeks before finishing the current week to get more RC drills.

2. For "study plan types" I really wish it would offer a "mixed" option with core curriculum lessons recommended simultaneously with drills and sections. Ideally the lessons would be recommended for your weaknesses (e.g. if your highest priority is on conditional reasoning, you get recommended a few lessons for each week for CR along with drills etc). In my opinion it doesn't really make sense to do 5+ weeks of lessons all together and only then move on to practice. These things might work better in conjunction.

3. The only other thing I'll add is that I agree with @mrickett, and to a certain extent prefer it if the system doesn't have too many adjustable bells and whistles. Because at the end of the day if you are the kind of person who generates the study plan in the first place then you want to be guided; having to make too many decisions myself would stress me out a bit.

Holy cow this one is a reach

This question might be an exception to the LSAT in general not being a "knowledge test." E is a pretty flawed choice unless you have some pre-existing knowledge about these figures.

@Kevin_Lin Thanks!