I hope you are hearing all the encouragement of everyone here. I agree with them that while studying for this test is important, it is NOT the most important thing ever and your mental health is more important than any test. You may not want to hear this, but maybe taking a break would help you. I delayed applying last cycle after my little brother passed away unexpectedly and I honestly fell into a combination of mourning and depression. I stopped studying for a few months altogether and tried my best to get through what I was going through. Even now I'm not 100% back to myself but I've turned a page in my attitude with studying for the Lsat and while i'm not doing as great as I'd like, I think sometimes we have to allow our human sides to work things out. If this is something you want, don't give up on yourself just yet. Give yourself a break to be human and then recover and come back. The fact that you're looking for encouragement to me says you want this and are struggling with how to keep going. Take a break but know that for some of us we may never be feeling 200% great while studying for it and that's ok too, it's about optimizing what you can. As for me, I'm here drilling LG. If you need a study buddy, hit me up :)

The highlighting tool on the Digital Lsat to me is basically useless, I took it July 2019 some people had my experience and others said it worked fine so I guess it's subjective? I really don't know. I used to highlight keywords/phrases and I still do while studying/drilling but I don't when I PT because of that experience. I have switched to jotting down a note if I really feel I need to or doing a "loose highlight" knowing I may have highlighted things I didn't want to, it's more of a "something important is around here" visual. The highlighting tool is too clunky and it is a waste of your time to sit there trying to make it do what you want it to do, complete time suck. Start adapting to using it only sparingly if you rely on highlighting/marking majorly as I did before. I'm in the midst of that and I hope it forces me to engage more internally. I sometimes look like i'm spacing out but nope, i'm staring at the stimulus and thinking.

@ how long do you think it would take to go through all of them? I'm going through the LG ones now. Tx. Just wondering how long it took you?

I know you memorize the correct answer by the second or third go, but did you memorize how to ARRIVE at the correct answer? Sometimes you do and I think it's still ok if you memorized how you arrived at the correct answer because hopefully you're learning some ways to do things from that. What is not ok is to just memorize the correct choice without any reason for it. The point of Blind Review is that you internalize how to get to the correct answer through repetition. For some questions, it's about getting the diagram right. For others it's using that diagram in the most time-efficient way to get to the right answer, so yes I absolutely go through the answers every time. Doing the diagram is only one portion, yes, it's a big portion because if that diagram is backwards you're going to have a hard time moving through the questions fast, but to me getting the diagram is basically getting the building block upon which the rest needs to be built. Do the questions!

Whatever happened in January, it's done. I think you should take a test with fresh eyes and see what happens. If you land in the 150s where you were normally then maybe keep studying and re-take the next test. Not sure what school you applied for and if you'll make the deadlines but look into that. If the answer is no, you will miss your 2021 cycle and that is disappointing but I wouldn't try to get into my school of choice with a subpar performance knowing I normally do significantly better. I think you can improve a lot.

I do hope you cancelled your score because it does seem something went wrong for you that day and hey, you're human it sucks but it happened. If it happens again, take a look at the "complaint" process for the digital lsat so you're prepared just in case something is off with your workstation or something. I had a technical problem where it was questionable if all my answers were recorded due to the proctor leaving and attempting to reconnect but there was a log that popped on my screen showing they did not and that they exited during my last section. I knew 100% that I answered every question but due to the technical problem, I was worried all my answers were not transmitted. It was an ordeal. It took forever and apparently you only have a week to get this process underway...or at least that was the case last year. Just try to arm yourself with knowledge on what are options should there be a technical issue you need resolved. I wish I had done that but my score was not as drastically lower as your experience. Anyway, good luck. You can do this!