It's happening to me too! I get the beeping sound.

Is LR getting harder? The tests between 2005-2012 seem to be way more manageable than the most recent ones...

I totally get this, it was happening to me too. Whenever there was an "easier" LR section I would sail through but if it was a little bit harder I would get a lot more wrong.

I found that consistency is a problem when you don't know why the right answers are right and the wrong ones are wrong. Especially for the harder questions (I'm assuming you're getting the easy ones right if you're getting -5 and -3), you need to really understand the stimulus and the ACs. If you find yourself relying on your intuition for most of the questions and can't pin point why you are choosing an AC, that shows that you are not at 100% understanding so you might actually be getting questions right due to luck and as a result you're not paying attention to them during review. The next time around when a similar but harder question comes along, you might not get lucky and get it wrong. Try maybe doing questions by type and isolating your weaker types. Then do hard questions of those and make sure you understand exactly why you got it right or wrong. Soon, your intuition will get sharper and you'll be able to handle anything they throw at you :)

I feel like this is super common with the exam nerves setting in and burn out from all the studying. I also experienced a score dip right before I took the November exam and I panicked (which I think was the reason that I did ed up scoring below my average). This time I've been doing much better and again I experienced a dip but I'm not letting it scare me. I think it is a good idea to finish on a high note so take sections and redo games to rebuild your confidence. Good LUCK!

I have also experienced a scary drop in my scores from 170+ to two 166s in a row (this is my second go at the test). This actually also happened to me last time (I was doing low 170s and then started scoring significantly lower closer to the test) and I think that by letting it affect me I hurt my performance in the test (ended up with a 166 which was lower than my average). This time around when that started happening I took a full 48h break, went back to basics for a day (diagramming, reading and annotating passages) and did much better on the next PT. I took my last PT today (I'm scheduled to test next week) and I got a 173. Positive thinking is so important and I won't make the same mistake of beating myself down like last time. Convince yourself that you're as ready as you can be for this upcoming test (ie. fake it till you make it if need be). And like JY said in his motivational post, there are second chances with the LSAT.

Good luck to everyone!!!

(also writing this motivational message made me feel better too so maybe try writing down reasons why you should feel confident)

I'm having the same problem because the last two PTs I took have been disappointing and I don't want to go into the test with a negative streak. Before I took those two PTs(I got 166 in both) I was averaging at 175 and I even got a 180 just before dropping to 166. That made me super anxious because it's the score I got in the actual November LSAT and what I'm trying to improve on. Today I got a 171 which is not as good as I was hoping but still better. Should I continue doing other PTs to try to get back my high score streak or am I risking burn out? Ideally I would want to go into the exam after a streak of consistent 170+s but what if I take another PT and I my score drops again? I think that would be terrible for morale. Any opinions?

These are the PTs I've taken since I began my second round of studying after the November exam. They're listed in order from latest to oldest (I took May 2020 today). I would really appreciate any advice or insight. Could this be a confidence thing/burnout or a sign that I'm not ready? If you'd asked me 3 PTs ago whether I was ready I would have said yes 100% but now I'm not so sure. My weaknesses have been in the RC section (usually not a problem section for me (-2.4 average) and LG (average 2.6) where I missed key inferences and failed to split when it was way better to do so. I don't have anyone in my family or close friends to reach out to for advice on LSAT/law school stuff so I'd appreciate if someone has something to offer as advice.

May 2020: 171

PT80: 166

PT65: 166

PT84: 171

PT78: 180

PTC2: 176

PT68: 177

PT74: 167

PT69: 176

PT67: 171

PT71: 174

PT64: 177

PT63: 175

I am Latinx but I'm not sure how they would know my ethnicity through my application (unless I explicitly mention it in my DS -which I probably will) since Latinos can be white after all. I did go to college in the US so I have an undergrad GPA and it's quite good 3.9high.