I honestly wouldn't take the test. You're just going to hurt yourself, and in the likely scenario where you don't meet your expectations, it'll undermine your confidence and hinder your ability to grow as much as possible.

This isn't meant to be a knock against you - the LSAT is really fucking difficult for practically everyone (even for those who do well on it), and I want you to have an adequate amount of time to not just study but to PROCESS the information you learn. It can take a few weeks after going through the entire curriculum before it randomly clicks and you find yourself smashing past scores

This is arguably one of the worst written LSAT questions I've seen and this definitely should've been removed. I rarely see a question where I think "no, I got this wrong because this was a poorly made question", and this is one of them

-23 is definitely a concern, especially if you are getting this after doing the LR curriculum. Ask yourself the following:

Did you actually sit down and practice? Or did you skip through lessons without seeing if you understood what was being explained?

How are you responding to choosing the wrong answer on the practice sets? Are you watching the videos to see where you messed up, or did you simply move on?

Have you been BR'ing (and doing so properly)?

What problems have you been struggling with the most?

Are you practicing the tests under actual test conditions (i.e timed)?

If you just started doing practice tests, 23 is concerning, but I wouldn't fret too much. It just means you'd need more time. If it's been a decent amount of time, you will need to seriously reflect on your study habits and figure out what is going on, because getting -23 on LR essentially caps you out at around 154 I believe assuming you get no other questions wrong for RC/LG.

Concerning those two, how are you doing on them? If you're struggling tremendously with all three, I would look into a tutor if you need guidance on effective ways to study and learn

Did absolutely terrible due to noises in my house and I think general nerves. Really fucking sucks since I was steamrolling PT's the past two weeks, made sure to get familiar with the actual test UI, and my proctor was really nice too. Such a waste of time just to probably get a 156-158 come 11/2

almost everything. For LSAT motivation? CARTI ONLY WLR GANG LFGGGGGGG

Touch grass and I don't even mean that as a joke. You will gain so much more from spending tomorrow unwinding and sleeping a lot TODAY and TOMORROW (not just one day). Forcing yourself to keep studying will just make you crash and burn

Michael JEFFREY Jordan would NEVER lose to JY in a game of basketball!!! LeFRAUD "CCP SUPPORTING" James has been absolutely EXPOSED by his -6 LG performance in 2011

Taking it Saturday; I took a practice test yesterday and have stepped off the gas. Sure, I’m taking a look at old LR and RC questions/passages I bombed, but I realize that the lsat isn’t a test you just cram info in. Having these next few days to relax, take a breather, and make sure you sleep enough for the next few days will help you way more than anything else

worst part about this is I identified the flaw, but picked the wrong answer smfh

22 is fucking stupid it should've been C

100% do not do 4 or 5.

I think alternating between 2/3 is better. You do Su/Tu/Friday and Monday/Thursday every other week. Once you reach the last week, do 1 last practice test and focus more on looking back at problems/sets you struggled with. You'll gain more out of reviewing the tricky ones than to do another set of relatively easy questions you generally get correct mixed in with the priority questions you're messing up

I'm bad at RC, but I went from being garbage (talking -16) to doing a lot better by focusing more on ruling out bad answer choices.

I usually would be able to rule it down to 2 choices. If I'm struggling, I leave it and go back to find what word choice makes it wrong. Too narrow? Too strong word choices? It does suck when you feel like some questions are guessing between two, but it beats randomly guessing

Also, yes low-res summaries really help. Like, do not avoid doing them, especially for hard passages and the comparative ones

Taking Saturday. My plan is a practice test today and Wednesday. I spent a weekend getting really ahead of classes so my plan is to do those, look at RC passages I bombed (RC is my worst section), and just take a breather.

I've been doing about 3 tests/week for awhile, and suddenly stopping will raise my nerves. Treating the official test as a practice one will really help me stay confident.

On the days before I do a practice test, I always do a hard RC set the day before, and then a medium difficulty LG the day of. It gets my brain running

It's not too late in the sense that you can still get accepted into some schools, but if you're shooting for T14 (let alone T50) you're at a big disadvantage. There's less spots available, and opportunities for scholarships are a lot lower.

I know it's not the answer people want to hear, but unless you're applying to a local school, waiting it out for 2024 may be smarter. It'd let you save up money by working and not need to take the LSAT in January. You'd be able to take it later and maximize your chances of doing well. By then, you'd hopefully submit applications really early next year and have an advantage

this video was pretty bad tbh, he could've gone further in depth

Those questions tend to be the last ones (if not then skip it) and are big time sinks - they essentially boil down to "Do you understand the main inference of the rule or not?"

To answer these questions, I will try to make a diagram that breaks the original rule. If you can make a diagram that is not possible under the original rules, then it is the WRONG answer.

If, however, you realize you cannot break the original rule under the new one, then it is the right answer.

ANyone who says not to answer should be immediately banned from ever commenting or giving advice here

fuck you Bach you bamboozled me

fuck this passage it clapped my cheeks

I noticed a few things from what you wrote:

“ My routine consists of mainly drilling LG and LR as I’ve heard RC is not worth practicing as much. I average -9 or -10 on RC.”

“ Now, with that being said I’ll mention that I have not gone through the entire CC. ”

The question becomes what did you do during your hundreds of hours of studying? By skipping out on the curriculum, you likely weren’t studying effectively or correctly, thereby reinforcing bad habits and incorrect logical reasoning that’s made you feel like you’ve hit a wall.

I would personally reach out to a tutor and ask them for help. If you’re stuck in the low 150’s and are aiming to apply to schools with medians above it, you may seriously need to consider applying for next year and hoping you study effectively enough to get a good score in summer 2023.

Also, practice RC. There’s no reason you should be skipping it if you are averaging -9 on it.

when do I get to scream objection at people and cross examine birds?

Take one day to just let out all of your stress. Go have fun, be absolutely not productive, and forget about the LSAT

We tend to push ourselves so hard that some of us collapse towards the finish line. I do not want that to happen to you. Make sure you are staying healthy and not revolving your life around the LSAT.

The day or two you spend not looking at anything will let you absorb stuff and give your brain a much needed break. If you insist on studying, I've found just doing a problem set or two helps keep my brain fresh without feeling overwhelmed

Yeah screw that I'll just take the L on this question lol

I agree with what Matt said. There's no shame in doing bad in certain sections and I'm worried you may be conflating poor performance with being dumb.

RC is tricky in the sense that you have to be really good at quickly collapsing the passage into the key point of each paragraph and being good at inferences. "The author likely reacts to X", "X would most likely support", and other question stems all depend on you being able to derive the main point of each paragraph.

I'd spend time doing the RC curriculum and going over the difficult RC problem sets. Once you've done enough, you'll see what type of problems you're getting wrong to hopefully help you address the incorrect reasoning that's leading you to losing points

I think not having an LSAT score above a 166 may decrease your chances for a fatter scholarship, but I wouldn't give up on applying to those schools. Worst case, apply to some other ones, see what schools are offering, and give yourself as much leverage as possible to negotiate scholarships with the schools you prefer that are open to negotiating

Best of luck mate