Hey there! Wishing you best of luck and hoping that you get the outcome you wish for. I am so inspired to read about your magnificent 10 point increase. I, too am hoping for that bump from my feb score to when I re-take in June. Can I ask your study plan in the span of those 3 months and how you managed to pull that off? You can DM me if you feel comfortable.

I would take it in June if you want to ensure that September will go as smoothly as possible. Even though it will be more expensive, there is nothing that can simulate the test day feeling besides actually participating in test day. I would not go in with the expectation that you'll nail it in June, but take it so you can experience what you'll face (and hopefully crush) in September.

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Does anyone remember the order of the RC passages? Keep seeing different orders from people recapping the test and it's making me nervous. I remember:

Two concepts on women's rights

2/3: Belize/Sports and art (can't remember which was second/third)

4: Complexity Theory

The RC was 1. Women's rights (De Gouget), 2. Art and Sports Aesthetic (comparative) 3. Belize Indigenous rights and logging and 4. Complexity theory is better than the theory of Everything (subatomic particles)

@ Yes, the LSAC emailed me on Wednesday afternoon with the new date and the new test center location. I think these decisions are being made by each cancelled test center, because a friend who was also going to test at USF got that email. I would definitely give them a call if they haven't informed you by now, just in case!

I just received word from LSAC that our test is being rescheduled to December 1st and it will be an undisclosed test. Hope you all received some news too! Do you guys think it'll be an older February test, or a "version" of the November test?

Does anyone know which test will be administered as a make up test for those test centers that were closed? An undisclosed February test or the same November test?

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Spoke to the LSAC office today we should hear something by weeks end when the make up exam will be. They said we will take the same test and will get the scores the same time as everyone else. Hope that helps. How are you studying? Self study or tutor etc? We get a little extra time to prepare!

Hi! Thank you for calling and letting us know. My test center (USF) got cancelled as well on Saturday. Isn't it kinda crazy that they will give us the same test even though there is so much information out there about it already?

wow you're the best! Thank you so much @

Hey all, this may not be the right place to post this but our test center closed because of terrible air quality in SF. Does anyone know/have any predictions what test they may use for our rescheduled test and when it may be?

USF just closed too :/ we got the email 30 mins before the start of the test lmao

Happy to swap :)

Would also recommend calling.The LSAC website says a test center in Folsom and Pleasant Hill closed due to the fire. I am testing at USF and refreshing the page constantly

@ When you say 1.5 years cumulative, about how much would you say you study per day? Have you made your way through all of the Ultimate+ material including all the practice tests?

I've got about 8 months to study at about 4 hours a day and am wondering if it'll be enough. I know it varies from person to person, but I'm interested in seeing what others find to be the right amount.

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So since I am working 40-45 hours a week, I can only do about 2-3 hours of studying per week day and then 10 hours over the weekend. In total I can average 20 hours of studying in a good week. On bad weeks its more like 15 hours. Which is why it took me more than a year to have a 15 point increase from my diagnostic to my average score. I think that if you can do 4 hours per day, you are going to be in excellent shape in 8 months! I wish I could have quit my job to dedicate 4-5 hours to LSAT per day, unfortunately that wasn't an option for me. That being said, I do think its the quality of your studying rather than a certain amount of hours that you need to hit. Just focus on learning concepts, testing your understanding and then reviewing your mistakes. So if you can study very efficiently in those four hours each day,you'll be just fine.

Also, I am 90 percent through the Ultimate + material and have done all 83 available practice tests. I made the mistake of blowing through them quickly when I was preparing to take the last two official tests and sincerely regret it. If you're just starting out your studies, just be sure to go through them slowly and squeeze every last drop of knowledge out of them.

Hey there, so I usually get up from -1 to -3 on RC, and I've been studying for about 1.5 years in cumulative. However, my biggest jump from RC came when I started reading regularly outside of LSAT studies, also known as reading for fun. I like to read on my commute back and forth from work, totaling about 40 minutes per day. On weekends I would read 1.5-2 hours total. I usually would read any where from self help books to articles from The Economist to Political Fiction/Nonfiction. Currently I am reading The New Jim Crow. I think extracurricular reading has everything to do with speed and accuracy on RC as it trains you to retain focus. I wish I had started reading much earlier in my LSAT studies instead of trying to force myself to practice on passages which I had no interest. Now, after reading books I actually enjoy outside of my studies, I can push myself to focus on LSAT passages and pretend I care about the details.

Hey sberg2014,

It's absolutely exhausting to work 40 hours a week (and maybe more for others) and then come home and study. However, I have found that I am extra efficient with my time, since there is such a time crunch (testing in June), that I can only devote myself to one other thing, the LSAT. I have also found that if I study at my office, I am much more likely to not want to crawl into bed and pass out.

My typical study schedule during the work week involves coming in an hour before work to study, and review parts of the core curriculum where my foundation is a bit shaky. Then during my lunch break hour, I take a timed section and blind review. Then in the evening, I stay an additional hour after work to go over questions I missed even after BR. If in the rare occasion there are no questions to review, then I go over games that have given me a hard time or go back to the CC and review more material.

On weekends I go the library and take a practice test on Saturday and BR, then do post BR review that evening. And then do same exact thing on Sunday. However on weekend evenings I take a bubble bath and self care to the max and watch some TV and order in.

As you can see, I have literally no life, but I do think it will be worth it.

I may or may not have teared up several times while watching this, but can confirm I will carry his message wherever I end up.

@ Totally! Feel free to do so, happy to help.

Hi @, I took the diagnostic in February 2017 and scored the 166 in July 2018. However it could've been a much faster timeline if I wasn't working full time and sometimes overtime. If you can set aside three to four months to dedicate 6 hours a day to the test, I am sure you can get to your desired score much faster. Non-urm means non under represented minority. URM's are American Indians, Alaskan Natives, African Americans/Blacks, Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans.

Hey @, thanks for your response. I agree, but I've been deceived in the past by this tricky tricky test. I was PT-ing at a 165 average before the February test, and ended up scoring a 158. Not quite sure what happened, but I feel dubious that PT scores accurately reflect test day score. I do think test taking anxiety may have played a role in February. That being said, my PT average is at 170 right now, doing 5 sections and all. So I am debating whether I should go ahead and take it in July or wait until I hit 173 consistently to take the test. July will be my third take.

UVA just sent a fee waiver! Quite surprised to receive one from them but my wallet is smiling