What's your time frame looking like, how are you doing in other sections? If you are already crushing logical reasoning and logic games, you'll find it quite monotonous to go through the entire course. In that case you'll probably be fine to just do RC.

If you'd go through the whole course anyways, or if you have a tough time in LR in particular, then I'd go in order.

While you can understand the RC section fine on its own imo, some of the strategies and notations and stuff used in breaking down passages were explained in LR. I'm sure either way you'll catch on quick if you have a decent grasp on it.

Ill wake up, eat breakfast, do a LG from 1-35 or a PT I've already done, hit the gym, get back and do one more harder LG, maybe one or two LR questions from 1-35/PT I've already done, depending on how I'm feeling and then get to it. But I mainly just use 1-35 so I don't dip into material to use for PTs on other days. For me a simple LG or two gets my head in the LSAT mood and focused, even if I've done it before. I'm sure everyone has their own routines though. Find what works for you.

Depends on how many you take per week, how far out from your test you are (if you even have a date picked yet), and more.

It's definitely true IMO that the more recent PTs are more valuable, it makes sense. I wouldn't say the older ones are so different that they are a waste, it's more that, the people putting together your test are more likely to have been involved in the more recent tests, they will better reflect recent trends and stuff like that. The skills are transferable though, which still gives them value.

Currently, I full PT stuff in the 59-92 category. I've excluded the recent 10. I used 5 or the most recent 10 leading up to my last take, I am now dipping into the remaining of those in the lead up to January.

I will use material from the 36-58 category for problem sets and drills. After I finish a PT and look at where I struggled, I'll grab similar question types from these tests and work on them throughout the week before my next full PT. Ill also grab games from here and stuff, as I try and do at least one hard logic game per day. I am saving the 50-58 tests though, and not grabbing things from these. In case January doesn't meet my expectations and I want one more time, I do want some extra to fall back as I start to burn through more of 59-92

So basically, I need to get off 7sage and just practice writing automatically, as the more automatically I can produce characters, the more mental resources I will have for other activities, such as the LSAT?

Remember there is a reason that the LSAT allows 5 takes rather than one and done. Things happen. Go crush January!

One thing to remember is that just cause you apply doesn't mean you have to go. If your financial situation allows, you can apply and see what you get and then decide. I'm sure many can relate to your situation. It's really tough. However, a higher score means more doors and more scholarships. If one year extra is the difference between a full ride or a half scholarship, that's the equivalent of a pretty solid salary. If it keeps you out of debt, it will not only put you in a way better situation to start out your life and career, but will also prevent a huge source of stress for many people. At the end of the day, is graduating and starting your legal career at 26 really that big of a difference compared to starting at 27? When you have 30+ years to work in the field, that's nothing.

Whatever you decide, go crush it, and good luck!

What I found really helped me recently with Logical Reasoning, was grabbing either my dad or a friend, and reviewing that section with them, and trying to explain and defend to them why I though each answer choice was right or wrong. My dad in particular is very good at playing devils advocate for some of the trap answers. It's also more fun to review with others, which also prevents me from phoning in a review if I start to get bored. I went from being all over the place score wise in LR, to consistently getting 3 or less wrong.

Of course, it is easier said than done to find someone willing to spend an hour to review a test with you. But if you can, I highly recommend it and wish I had done so earlier.

Friday I take a full PT. Throughout the weekend, I will blind review. Ill try to grab my dad or a friend if they are willing to help, treat them to coffee and lunch and I will go through the Logic Review and Reading Comp sections with them, and I'll try and justify why every answer is right or wrong to them. I found that having to justify my answers to other people really helps me notice all the tricks that are employed. if you have someone willing to help, I'd definitely try to review with them. At least the LR section. They also keep me accountable. I can't get bored and just phone in a review when it's with someone. I'll review games myself.

Monday I will take it easy, since it's monday :( and I spent all weekend reviewing. I won't do much studying, if any at all, but I'll plan out the next three days. Ill look at what went wrong on the most recent PT. And decide what I need to work on. Specific Question types, stuff like that. Then Ill so some drills tuesday, wednesday and thursday.

Back to friday and repeat. I personally feel like If I do 2 PTs a week, I don't have time to thoroughly review them, and then actually focus on what went wrong. Id rather really get my moneys worth on each.

Took it earlier. Felt really good about LR as usual. Surprisingly RC felt pretty good. A little scared about LG. The first, third and last games weren't too bad, but for some reason, I just could not process something about the classes in upper and lower halls game. Had to guess on a few of those due to time.

I would stick to the newer ones, although the actual newest PT doesn't have explanations as of yet, but I imagine it will sooner than later. The newer ones will better represent what you will take. The most recent 10 are very valuable because of that. Even if that 166 was a bit of a fluke and you find yourself scoring a couple points lower on more recent preptests, that's still an impressive jump in such a short time. It may not be worth changing up too much of your study routine.

With that said, depending on how much time you have, I would start taking at least a preptest a week though to the lead up. Maybe 2. Probably not more, you want to give yourself time to blind review. Only so many preptests, don't waste them. Simulate the testing conditions.

You may want to think about a couple things:

What time of the day do you find yourself doing better. As i went on, I found I do a bit better after lunch, not so much in the mornings.

Is there a certain location or area you do/feel better testing in?

What warmups help you do better? Perhaps you find you do good with a really light warmup, or an easy logic game, maybe your best tests are just diving in, or a full section before.

Have an idea of these things, or at least be consistent about it. The pressure is much more immense on the actual thing, so the worst thing would be to find yourself testing in a new place at a time you don't normally test at, you know? Keep as much familiar as you can.

Good luck! And remember (circumstances depending*) your first take doesn't have to be your last, one year off and waiting for next cycle isn't the end all if things go bad.

I hate volcanoes. All I have for them is hate. Jazz sucks too, and I hope everyone forgets the history of it. And I'm going to make it my personal mission to make sure no parks or roads ever get grants again...

Basically, I don't think I did well.

When you are 67 or so and looking at retiring, you probably wont care if your career was 37 years long vs 36 years long or something to that effect. You have potentially a long time to spend in the legal field, so don't forget that. If one extra year can better set you up for success, I'm sure future you will thank you.

Instructions unclear, selecting B on LSAT

Having to decide between last flex or waiting until august is rough, lol.

22 was nuts, it's always crazy when you see that a wrong choice was selected significantly more than the right choice.

While A seemed correct, on the actual PT, I spent a lot of time wondering if some shenanigans with the total students in W and P would make it not true. The key for me to get this was to draw it out on paper, where I realized, no matter how funky the distribution of students is among P and W, their total cannot be more than the school as a whole. Once that fact became clear and I drew it out to really understand what that meant, the fact that A was true became obvious.

Still, fug math problems

I think a couple things here:

It is totally possible to increase your score that high. Especially if you struggled in logic games, that is probably the easiest section to improve on. If you have no background in formal logic, then I think you'll find it not too difficult to bump up that logical reasoning score as well.

While it's great to shoot for the 170s and I think everyone should be aiming high, don't define yourself based on the score of this test. You're not a failure if it turns out you cant break into the 170s, your just one of 90 out of 100 people. 170 is tough. There's great opportunities for everyone, so do your best, but don't be discouraged.

You should take the LSAT when you are scoring in your target range consistently on practice tests. Going from a 154 to a 170 in 3 short months is no easy feat though.

One extra year won't hurt if that is what it comes to to get a better score and into a better school, especially if that better score can net you a better scholarship.

Also, remember you have multiple takes, so it's not like if you took it in October, you're done for.

Anyways, in short, continue to study when you can and take the lsat when you are happy with what you are scoring on practice tests.

I registered pretty shortly after it opened up and I had the option to pick a variety of times and days between April 10th - 13th personally. Are you sure you can't scroll through to another day? If not, perhaps all the other slots on the days are filled already. Being my first go around, I'm not sure how quick they fill up.

The way I see it, if you're ready to take the test, I'd imagine at some point you've PTd at a score you're happy with. So you know you can do it, and what you've done has worked. So I don't want to change too much up. Ill take a PT on the weekend like usual, and spend the week with a similar amount of time reviewing what went wrong and what went right. That and constant reminders that, at least for me as my first attempt, it doesn't have to be my last, so I can just relax and try not to get too stressed out about the real thing.