First, any progress is impressive and serves as great motivation to keep going! I would say to Blind Review those sections/drills to see how much foundational knowledge you still need to build bc that should come before working on timing. I find it helpful to study as strategically as possible - try to find out exactly why you are missing questions.. is it certain question types, are you second guessing yourself, misunderstanding the question stem, etc. Pinpoint you're weaknesses and go after them strategically... and don't give up!!! You never know when your breakthrough moment will be!!!

Also reallyyy not a science person. What has helped me is pretending like I'm my pre-med best friend. I channel her energy as I read the passage and pretend I've taken Organic Chem and Physics. On a similar vein, is just reading with confidence (even if it's fake) bc I noticed that the second I saw the passage/stimulus was science related I was already telling myself that I wasn't going to understand the question, I'm so lost, I'm getting this question wrong, etc etc. When in reality they are never testing you on background knowledge so it's okay if you're not a science person because you don't have to be :) That might not be the most helpful trick ever but when you go into a question already thinking you're not good at - you will in fact do worse!

Only other thing I can think that has helped me was really not get bogged down in the actual sciencey language bc you do not need to even have a remote understanding of how viruses work to do well on a passage about viruses (using an example from this mornings drill lol). You don't need to have a full understanding of the thing but you need to know how that thing relates to the other thing and how the author feels about those things together and whatever the critics say about the things... if you can abstractly pull out the relationships and themes the writers are trying to push - the passage with nine different bacteria names becomes easier

I second this!! I good rule I heard under timed pressure is be 60% confident and move on. It has served me well :) It was scary at first to not reread every question 100 times but once you reach a good point in studying you have to just trust you're foundations!

I felt the same way ... big brick wall with RC for a very long time. I'm definitely not an expert bc my RC score still needs work but one thing that has helped me (and I always hated when people would give this advice) was that I started reading for leisure. I noticed a big problem was my comprehension of the passage and recall. The actual questions are not super tricky especially if you are able to conceptually understand most LR questions - RC questions are a lot more simple in nature.

After struggling for forever I finally realized that I needed to be reading long form content outside of my studying. Bc when I thought about it my RC passages were lowk the longest stuff I was really ever reading in one go. I got a book that I knew I would be genuinely interested in and could sit for a period of time and read. Bc I like my book I was really focused on retaining that material I was reading. This really translated into my RC passages! This is also coming from a former Reading Log faker in elementary school. Traditionally I have NOT been a huge fan of reading just to read

I really really feel like this has helped me (also deleting social media bc my attention span was so bad helped at lot - and thats slightly extreme but im at my wits end with this test) Anyways, hope this was somewhat helpful to someone! Best of luck!!!!

Yeah!!! Before I was working full time I was sitting in on every single one of his classes. He's seriously the best, no BS kinda teacher. He's especially great at teaching the advanced LR material. Sometimes I feel so lost in the sauce and he's really able to break it all down clearly

Idk if this is helpful but I focus less on the time of each individual question and more about how long a chunk or set of them take. Once I started breaking up my timed sections into chunks I found I was hitting my timing goal much closer. This obv takes practice though. A lot of failing before it got better. For reference when I do a timed section this is how I break it up in my head:

1st 10 Questions in 10 minutes

2nd 10 Questions in 15 minutes

Final 5 Questions in 10 minutes

I found that this helped keep me on track with timing without necessarily freaking out if one question took more than a minute. If a question took longer I feel comfortable I can make up the lost time in other questions. Luckily the exam doesn't test you on how fast you can answer each individual question but how accurately you can get through the whole section. Hopefully that made some sense? Best of luck!!!

Anything that Henry teaches is really great!!!

Nah this question is evil

Yeah hated this

@Tori123 That's great - Ive taken it twice and I would also recommend taking a small drill or two the morning of the exam (if feasible with time/how far the exam is). But my exam was at 8am and I did get up early to literally do a LR drill of 5 questions. This helped my brain not go into the test completely cold and like already in "LSAT mode" bc I felt like I always struggled getting into my groove. I did the morning drill completely untimed and did not hit submit to get my results. I honestly would advise against stopping studying completely like a day or two before. I would stop timed/pressured practice a couple days before but for me keeping my mind in the right headspace was super important. But good luck!!!!!

No more PTs! Continue to drill but nothing super intense. Keep your normal routine and don't think of the test as any different than your practice exams. (as much as possible haha)

Give yourself more time!! 3 weeks isn't a ton of time to move PT scores. Also remember that PT scores don't necessarily represent your progress with studying. It can take a while for that progress to be reflected in a full timed test. Be patient!!! (also make sure to blind review those PTs bc it can tell you a lot about what your weaknesses are)

I'm in the same boat! This is actually my second time taking the test but I want to take it one more time in October for this application cycle. When I took the test the first time I felt like I gave myself too much of a break (a couple weeks) and I definitely lost a lot of stamina and focus. It took me way longer than it should've to get back in the swing of things. This go round I gave myself the weekend to literally not think one thought about the LSAT and this morning I got back on the horse (but gradually getting back into it, definitely not my full study load. Light untimed practice).

I think, unless you feel extremely burned out, it can be good to keep building on what you have and not lose routine. When you take the time off make sure you really take it off - don't think about the exam or feel guilty for taking the break or else taking the time off isn't really beneficial. On the flip side when you decide to get back to studying - commit to it. I definitely wasted too much time last exam deciding whether I should be resting or really studying.

That's just my personal experience though!

I personally think the adrenaline rush of test day made me forget about half the things I thought would make or break my experience - like snacks, caffeinated bev, what I was wearing, etc. What I feel like made a huge difference was that I really slowed down the day before, cleaned my apartment, got my nails done lol, lit a candle, and got a good night of sleep. That morning I had so much adrenaline the test seriously felt 30 minutes long and I lowk felt like I blacked out after I walked out the testing center. Take a deep breath, BE CONFIDENT!!! (confidence is sooo underrated on test day I swear it can move you several points), and it really isn't as scary as it seems :) You'll probably walk out about be like "oh... that was it? the thing I was so stressed about??"

I've done two things the last couple weeks that have reallyyy helped my ADHD and studying. One being removing social media/short form content from my phone - it was just absolutely killing my attention span. I also started reading an interesting novel in the morning and at night. The practice of sitting there and making myself continuously read for a long period of time definitely built up my stamina to read RC/comprehend LR. I would also say practicing boredom in my everyday routine helps SO much. When your brain isn't constantly focused on the next immediate dopamine hit the test becomes a lot more bearable. (All of this has been hard but definitely paid off)