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Thank you so much for your response. It honestly still feels unreal that I actually pulled it off. Yeah! I'm happy to share some tips:

I started with Mike Kim's The LSAT Trainer and then subscribe to 7Sage Core. I loved everything that these two sources offer. Everything on 7Sage is honestly so good. IEven though all the lessons are on the website, I kept a separate notebooks and take detailed notes there like I'm going to a college lecture. That helps with information retention a lot. Whenever possible, I attended free live webinars offered through 7Sage for some additional help. I highly recommend a wrong answer journal and a blind review journal if you don't already have those and actually doing them/ reviewing them before your next PT. The analytics and drill tools were great to determine weak points and what to practice in between PTs.

Reading was super hard for me until I followed this reading format on what to read for: Main Point (low-res summary), Concepts, Characters, and Organization. Something clicked when I did this and RC became a lot more manageable. I practiced doing RC with unlimited time until I got great accuracy rates and then moved on the doing timed session.

Train like an athlete - another golden 7Sage advice here. Routine was super important for me. For the first two tests, I was just too nervous to do well and I tried to follow a set routine for the third test. For one month leading up to the test, I wake up at the same hour, ate similar high-protein breakfast, worked out, and did the same pre-test routine before doing a PT at the exact time that I scheduled the test for. It took me a minute to figure out what to eat and what form of caffein to consume to stay full and alert during the test without having to go to the bathroom! I stay sober for the entire time I was studying too!

Anxiety management - I struggled a lot with testing anxiety. I always scored 170+ during PTs and so it was a shock to get a 159 during my first attempt. I'm a big volleyball fan so I watched a lot of Olympic volleyball this summer and decided to adopt a mentality like them: you can't think about the point behind you or the point in front of you, just the point in front of you. If you lose a set, you can't delve on it, have to move on to another set. I literally wore a shirt from Haikyuu to the test and then when I didn't do that well during the first section, I wanted to CRY!! I took that one minute between sections to do some breathing then literally said to myself "You lost that set. Time to move on to another set!" and then I did much better during the last three sections.

A little luck - Logic games were the bane of my existence. I nailed them outside of real tests but always cracked under the pressure to solve these on time during game time. Honestly so glad it is no longer on the test! Also I'm pretty sure the first section that I "bombed" was experimental. Woohoo!

Hope that helps and good luck!!!

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159 to 170 - Do I need an addendum for this?

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