Hey folks! I'm restarting my studies after taking a break from this past July up until now. I got a 160 on the June '24 LSAT, and I'm hoping to bump that up closer to 170 either by this coming April or June. Any suggestions for warming back up to studying? I'm thinking starting off with untimed drills and moving more toward timed.
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I don't think you need to call LSAC. If you go to this website: https://www.lsac.org/lsat/lsat-dates-deadlines/september-2025-lsat, you'll see that July 22 is the test change deadline for no cost, so you can make a call at that point. You could push back to October or any other late test date at that point.
#help How might I get more practice with questions like these? Look at the more difficult SA questions in the CC/drills?
Sometimes when I load a new lesson in the syllabus, the video playback controls like video speed do not show, just the time and play button. If I refresh, sometimes it shows up. But does anyone know why this is or how I can fix it?
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Here's a question. If you took the LSAT this past June and complete the old version of the LSAT writing, it looks like you don't need to do this new argumentative writing section if you retake the test later this year. But would it be advantageous for you to do so? It sounds like they are taking the new version more seriously. I guess it might depend on your writing skills, but do you think it might be better to do the new version of the writing section even if you have an old version on file with LSAC?
Well, as you'll probably be tired of hearing soon, the true answer is: "it depends."
If you are able to hit your goal scores of 170+ by September, then you'll have plenty of time to apply this cycle. Check out the admissions lessons and the sample timeline for an idea on that. Depending on how your studies are going, you may want to start working on application materials like your personal statement as well.
I once was in a similar boat as you, aiming for 170, just beginning my studies in the summer of 2023 (basically two years ago) hoping to apply that coming cycle as well. Well as much as I was putting in the work, my score was not nearing 170, really barely into the 160s so I decided to delay. I finally was able to reach 160 for the June 2024 test, but decided to delay again, and I'm waiting on my June 2025 score, but I was PTing around 168 with a high of 175 so I'm feeling pretty good this time and definitely going to apply this cycle. I might take the test one more time in Sep or Oct depending on my score I get back this Thursday.
So like I said, it depends really on how your studies are going, whether you're approaching your goal score or not, and the flexibility of your timeline. Best of luck to you!
I would email LSAC
Hey! I don't think there's a way to have your results from LSAC/LawHub imported automatically (although I think they're working on this–see this thread: https://classic.7sage.com/discussion/#/discussion/39551). I recently took a PT on LawHub and I had to switch to paper mode and input my answers that way. It doesn't take too long, but yes, you don't get the time metrics, but that's probably not vitally important either. Best of luck with your studies!
I'm still working on getting better at this too so I hope others who have been successful at improving from blind review and wrong answer journaling, but I think another question you should ask yourself, is what can you improve on or do differently should you face a similar question in the future.
Strong argument by analogy!
I'm going through some of the core curriculum after doing a comprehensive study book with Kaplan, and I'm doing some drills now. Would you suggest I hold myself to time constraints during those drills? For example, I just completed a 5 question drill set with a pretty difficult question (5 stars) that I ended up getting correct, but it took me 5 minutes when the suggested time was 1:33. I know there's BR too, I'm just not sure if it is worth it to do timed practice right now.
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I am pretty sure you can take it 24/7. I tried to look it up on the LSAT website, but couldn't find any information. You might find more information through Prometric (the people who administer that part).
I took this past June LSAT, and I'm considering taking it again in September or October. I've got a lot of data in the old 7Sage, but it is also a pretty natural time to switch over to the new site. I believe I can always look back at the analytics on the classic site, correct? Would you recommend making the switch? I am not entirely wedded to the old platform and usually don't have too hard of a time getting up to speed on a new platform.
I've taken the official LSAT twice in exam setting, and yes, every RC section had a comparative passage. Both times I've taken it though, there was only 1 RC section so I knew that was scored. In the current PT's available, yes, you're correct that the newer PTs often use an older RC section as the experimental section and it doesn't have a comparative passage. But that is not how it would be on the actual LSAT. It's always best to treat every section as if it's scored.
I appreciate the example of how football participation has dropped in the US over time. That crystalized why D is correct for me. #feedback
One thing to try is if a question feels too hard or you're spending too much time on it, skip it and see if you can come back to it in the end. This way you'll spend more of your time on the lowest hanging fruit so-to-speak.
Also, continue to do a mix of untimed drills of more challenging questions (3-5) so you build that conceptual understanding as well as timed drills with a mix of questions so you can improve your strategies for timing like getting through the easier questions in or under target time (you should see this in your analytics), skipping like I mentioned above, and just efficient strategies for getting through more difficult questions.
This is a hard test, for me (I PT in high 160s, low 170s with BR between 173 and 180) it took a lot of practice over several months.
Hello! Is it to late to get involved? I'm definitely interested
Hey there, I live in South Durham, planning on taking in either April or June. Would love to study with y'all.
One other thing to add on: when you manually enter your answers into 7Sage after taking a test on LawHub, you can't input the time you spent on each question so hopefully that would be something that could be imported
Working my way through the CC, and right now on LG. Should I do the board setup and questions before watching the videos? It feels more active learning to me that way whereas just watching the videos would be passive, but I also don't want to take on bad habits. Any advice?
Agreed with @ that it would save some time in transferring over the results from LawHub for PTs where we wanted to practice using the LawHub platform which is most similar to what you would see on test day
First off, welcome, you got this!
Have you looked at the Core Curriculum yet? I would recommend starting with this lesson: https://classic.7sage.com/lesson/all-about-the-lsat-august-2024/
And also working through the other lessons under the "Welcome to 7Sage" header.
Good luck with your studies!
I got excited at first because I live in Durham, North Carolina, USA, but looks like you're in Durham in the UK. Durham cousins!
Very impressive! 166 is very good score. A good rule of thumb is take the average of your last 5 PT's so you really can't know for sure until you take the next one, but seems like you've got a lot of potential!
Probably depends on the actual scores. I would be more surprised if you went from 154 to 160 to 166 for example as opposed to 140 to 146 to 152
I started studying for the LSAT a couple weeks ago. I first used Khan Academy, then started using the Kaplan book, and after a couple recommendations from friends, have made it to 7sage. I am planning to take the LSAT in the October administration giving 10-11 more weeks of studying.
I'm trying to make sense of the difference in allotted study time between Kaplan and 7sage. Kaplan seemed to think it was perfectly reasonable to spend 2-3 months studying and hit your goal with 15-20 hours per week. 7sage prescribes as much as a year! Right now, the study calendar is prescribing me 40+ hours per week. Can someone explain why there's such a big difference between Kaplan and 7sage? Will I be okay taking the LSAT in October? How can I adjust the tools 7sage offers?
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Building off of what Atlantis said, yes, your focus and timing might be better doing one section rather than a whole PT, and there's really only one way to improve on this and that's practice and drilling. I'd recommend focusing on speed drills like first 10 in 10 in LR or first 2 in 15 in RC and also considering doing half PT's (1 LR section, 1 RC section) and doing those until your section scores are similar to what you get when you do just 1 section. Once you've done that, build up to a full PT. Hope this helps!
Also in Durham and interested!