Given the rising number of people applying for law schools how does that impact admission difficulty? For instance, a would a score like a 170 hold less weight than it did before because of how many more people are scoring high and applying?

2-3 hours a day is a totally acceptable amount of studying if you're using it correctly. One thing that will help you tremendously and what got me PTing in the 170s was recognizing patterns and making predictions. You've practiced enough now where you've seen every question type, you should try getting to a point where after just reading the stim and the question you should immediately have an idea of what your answer looks like before you even read the answer choices. Going back and revisiting the core lessons will also help with this if you haven't already.

Redo the questions you've gotten wrong in drills, and redo PT's from before. Try to force yourself to rethink the reasoning behind each question instead of just remembering the answer.

I'd say don't sign up until you've hit the score you want on a clean PT at least once., but that also depends on how confident you are in your abilities. And be careful about burnout, take a week or two off if you need to, you probably won't lose much progress in that time.

For LR my strategy is to speed through the first half of the section, aim to be done with the first 12 questions in 12 minutes, then you can have about 2 mins per question on the last 10 hard questions. The key to making this work is predictions and pattern recognition, if you know what kind of answer you need before you even read the AC's, it will save you much time. For RC there's no shortcut to being faster, its just something that comes with practice. However, I will say active reading is a better strategy than making low resolution summary. Think you're making a summary in the back of your mind about the passage, and every sentence you read you update that summary a bit. Hope this helps!

Take drills after lessons. Could be just targeted for the question type your lessons were about, or just random drills. It's important to practice what you learned in lessons right away. Even an hour a day is just fine. I also work a full 9-5, most workdays i didn't spend more than 2 hours studying, and I'd say its worked out quite well for me.

When you PT you should do the experimental as well. Most of the questions you'll encounter in there are questions you'd see anyway, so the extra reps will be very helpful. Also that way you'll be more prepared for the real exam stamina-wise when you'll actually have to do 4 sections.

Same! Also took mine remote today with zero issues!

Same I took it on Saturday with no issues. Really sorry that happened to OP and hope they'll let them retest!

@actuallymk yeah try to space out your PT's. Otherwise you'll run through fresh PT's without having learned all that much

Can the streaks include activity from before or do you guys not have that data? I've been studying for a year now I'm curious to see the activity.

I agree, please add an option to turn off adaptive question selections! Doing random questions is pretty important to my studying process, so its really annoying when the setting basically only gives me RRE questions. I've also literally drilled thousands of questions so even if I get better my priorities and percentages for RRE still won't change.

It would be nice if there was a separate toggle to turn it on and off. Often times when I drill I just like to have 7sage give me random questions of varying difficulties and question types, but now with adaptative now unless I select specifically for other tags it will only give me RRE questions and its quite annoying.

Do not spam PT's. I'd say only after you've mastered the basics should you start taking PT's regularly, once a week is probably a good amount. And make sure to blind review every PT and every drill.

@J.Y.Ping For the screensharer, I can't view the chat when I'm sharing screens, it'd be great if that could be fixed!

9PM is definitely much better than 8PM! As a West Coast resident there was no way I was getting off work in time to make it at 5PM in my time.

I spent 5 minutes trying to get at this question. Whole time I was super skeptical about D because I was thinking, what if its the case that most mail are correctly addressed, just that most of them get damaged? Didn't even take into account the first 4 words of the question stim lol

Stimulus:

/support -> /allow

/support -> /allow

A:

/arrested -> /break the law

break the law -> arrested (holy shit what a fucking contrapositive)

B:

/arrested -> /break the law

arrested -> break the law

C:

grant -> successful

/grant -> /successful

D:

support -> successful

successful -> /no support

E:

support -> successful

/grant(or support) -> allowed

@gurbytown Yeah thats definitely a good point. I've done timed sections in my office with noise in the background and did mostly fine, I guess I should try doing full PT's with more noise too.

On the test thinking back I was probably extra rattled in the first 15 minutes by the noise on S1 and maybe S2. Obviously I'm not sure since I don't know which parts I bombed, its totally possible I actually did fine in the opening but just choked in the harder sections. But thanks so much for your input!

@SCasey_ Thats a good decision on your part, good things can come from taking a break! I was plateauing in the 60s last year, then I took a break for a few months and when I came back I was able to break 170s, though I suppose given the results today I didn't go as far as I thought I did ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I am trying to apply for the 2027 cycle so timeline wise its not the end of the world yet, but this test is definitely taking a toll on my mental and I'd really like to get it over with. Best of luck to you!