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Hello Everyone, please, can someone give me some advice. I have been studying on and off for the past nine months, and I am still having a great degree of difficulty with timing. My accuracy for each section is about 70% under real time, but I am only finish 3/4 logic games for every test I take, and 3/4 passages under real time for the RC section. As for the Logical Reasoning sections, I consistently finish somewhere from 17-19 questions. and end up getting 4/17, making me miss a whopping 11 questions per logical reasoning section. In the nine months that I have studied I typically just do drills, and as a result I have only taken like 3 diagnostic exams, because each time I see my score, become very depressed, so I just do drills and forget about taking a whole exam. Now, because I am struggling with reading and logic games especially, I am taking the rest of this month to do the RC and LG sections for preptest 40-49, and to study a few parts of the core curriculum. And then I will start doing full length practice exams again. My diagnostic score is a 148 without any guessing on questions. The whole time I've been studying for this exam, I have questioned whether I will ever reach my target score of the mid 160s. My mother is a nurse and worked 12 hour shifts 5-6 nights a week to put me through undergrad, and wanted to go to Law school, but she couldn't because she had me at an untimely point in her life! I want to go to a T20 so bad!!
In 2.5 months, I will be leaving for China to serve in the Peace Corps to teach english at a university in Southern, China. I am pretty positive that after my first 3 months of being there and settling in, I will have a few hours each day to study after classes and what not. People in my life are telling me to just take the exam in June, but I don't want to score too low. Also, there are test centers in China, but if I am correct, I would not be able to see what I missed after the scores come in.
I would be so eternally grateful for any advice anyone has for me regarding when to take the exam, or the RC section. I think that I can improve my LR and LG sections with more practice, but I am completely defeated when it comes to RC, just did a practice section now, and scored -11 out of 26...
If you really want to go to law school, then I think you should take two or three gap years and try the GRE or maybe consider getting accommodations, because you might be performing less than ideal due to extreme anxiety. You are extremely young and if you have American citizenship, good health and a college degree, then you are extremely fortunate and can become very successful in your life (e.g. nice salary, good marriage, work opportunities or whatever you define success to be, etc.) regardless of whether or not you go to law school. Law school is just a more linear track than entrepreneurship or trying to climb the corporate ladder. Either way, if you really want to become a lawyer, then if I were you I wouldn't quit. You don't have to enter law school right away. You can take some time off and get some experience and that will make you a way more competitive applicant for pretty much every law school, even if you aren't able to get a job at a name brand company.
Also, look into other LSAT prep companies for a different perspective. In my opinion, 7 Sage is the best LSAT prep company out there (especially for logical reasoning), but the different ways that other companies like the demon and reading comp hero explain questions can give you a different perspective regarding explanations and the best study practices that can supplement the material of 7 Sage and enable you to understand the reasoning and assumptions of stimuli more deeply and thus move through questions more quickly.
I think getting a legal education is the blessing of a lifetime, but there are so many other ways to be successful and do fulfilling work that enables you to live a comfortable life and make an impact. Maybe walk away from this test for about 6 months to a year, travel to a new country, get a job that seems interesting to you, research legal careers and shadow attorneys and then come back to the LSAT or GRE if law school is something you still want to do. Also, really consider seeing some sort of professional to see if you are neurodivergent or have dyslexia or anxiety, because certain conditions like these can really hold many extremely capable people back and make them perform well underneath their capabilities. Honestly, some people have to much anxiety surrounding this test. If they cared less and focused more on family, nature and their hobbies, they'd probably see a 10 point increase in their score just from that alone. Anyways... I'm not suggesting your frustrations aren't warranted. This test can be extremely annoying and sometimes I think the test writers are awful people, so trust me I understand where you are coming from. I wish you all the best and I hope this post helps you and others, because when I graduated college 7 years ago, I wanted to go to law school so badly and put so much pressure on myself. I took about two tests, saw how low my scores were and then just gave up, largely because I had limited perspective. However, I'm back to studying again 7 years later at the age of 29 and my studying process has been much much better this time around. ~