Just did it. LG-RC--LR. I found games easy only one trickier one. RC was average with one tough passage. LR was pretty average, I flagged around 6 questions in the back half. Having LG be easy was a good confidence boast def one of my better tests.

Sept 2019 Games section (nasty ass game game section, hope ya like flowers). Sept 2016 (one super hard Misc game). June 2009 (Let the mauve dinosaurs haunt you).

honestly, I had this problem too. What helped was asking myself why am I freezing? I answer "Well I'm scared I am going to not finish and get them all wrong" It's this flight or fight instinct that you have to overcome and the best way is to keep doing things timed, completely bombing it/not finishing,take a breath, BR the questions, review your wrong answers, and repeat. Overtime you will get over this fear that takes over when you freeze up and you kind of develop an internal clock that just knows when you are spending too much time on a question and helps you keep pace to the point where you barely look at the timer.

NB. A separate tactic that also helps is to take 10 secs to breath and reset when you freeze up. Close your eyes, count in your head, and then get back to work refreshed.

Sleep, eat well, read a book, Watch a TV show, play video games, swim, exercise. Literally do anything that you find relaxing and enjoyable. You want to enter the test well rested and happy. Studying for the LSAT will make you unhappy. So don't study anymore.

Short answer is no. Long answer is I generally find LR and RC from the earlier ones a little easier but games harder while the new tests tend to have standard games/LR but more challenging RC

Do Flex, its less draining, its what you're doing on test day. But make this one your last one before August.

Depends on your time frame. If you have time, do it as the CC says. If you want to maximize your study time do Flaws, Str, Wk, NA, SA, MSS because those are the most common.

Yes it is very achievable. Last year I took the Sept 2019 Test (the one with the nasty game section). At that point I had 7 weeks of studying total under my belt and my top score was a 158. Despite getting -11 on games I still pulled off a 160. Anything can happen on test day and you could no doubt be in the zone and score your best. That last week I only did sections and really focused on weakness like certain LR questions and game types.

Yea, this really applies to all sections and was really helpful in saving time. If you read a stimulus in an LR section and just do not understand it, skip it. If see a question in LG that you know you gotta brute force it which takes time, skip it. Even skip a game after reading the rules and realizing its gonna be a mess and come back to it later. Everything is worth the same and there is no point sinking more time into a question you prob still got wrong anyway.

Burn out is real, I studied on and off for a year and I whenever the signs of burnout came I would immediately stop studying for a few days. It does wonders and you will feel so much better

So I got seven right through elimination and moved on being so confused, then changed on BR to A cause I literally gave on on looking for B after control finding for it and still seeing nothing.

Sounds like a timing thing. One thing that helped me a break into the mid 160s was skipping questions. I found myself actually completing sections in time when I started skipping super long hard timing consuming questions and getting the easier ones out of the way first.

If hes not lazy, its not him. If it is him, hes lazy

Id focus on just high priority questions, do sets of question types you struggle with, focus on flaw, SA,NA, Wk, Str type questions cause those show up the most.

PT 74 I got 167 on recently w flex. Games were a little tricky. I did PT88 for real last year (got 160), avoid it but I recommend doing the games from it, you can learn a lot

What is above is true however if you happen to get wait listed, a score increase can help you get off the wait list.

In out games are pretty common, I would say highly likely you could see one.

I'm taking August but also down to BR some LR with people. Currently high 160s BR in the 170s.

I mean sounds like you got time and as long as money isn't an issue in retaking I would try in Oct. you would be surprised how much you can increase in that amount of time. I took the test three times already and next week will be my last, I don't regret retaking, I learned from each test even as I didn't get what I wanted. So go for it, if you do worse you still have the 154.

The way I improved significantly on the hard questions was I just made sets of the hard questions, did them timed, bombed them, and then spent a lot of time on blind review. Often times the hard ones are hard either bc a) the stimulus is super convoluted or b) the answers choices are there to confused you (or both if its really hard). Practice translating the hard stimuli and answer choices over and over until you understand.

It depends. If you are going for as much practice as possible, there is no harm in doing 4. You are never going to have to do 4 sections back to back cause there a break in the regular test after 3 sections. I'm taking August Flex and just do three back to back because for me the hardest part is doing three back to back. I like just doing three cause it gives me more time for blind review. Also if you need more LR practice do 4 sections.

I'm taking August but I'm always down help.

Yea its possible to get 168. You may start to realize you need to increase your study amount as you go along. Everyone learns different and there is no perfect way to do it. I did RC LG and LR at the same time with Monday taking a PT and blind review. Tuesday I only did LR, Wednesday I did games, Thursday was for RC, and Friday was for proofing games and going over specific Lr problem types and passages I had trouble with. Then I took Saturday and Sunday off to chill and do other things. So far has worked for me got a 169 last week (granted I study 5 hours a day). So maybe it could worked for you

I recommend you just redo the game section, RC section, and LR section(s) separately on different days, blind review them, then review again. See if anything changed and if your reasoning for the answers changed. I've had this happen recently with PTest 70 RC section so i just did the section a few times until I really understood it.

I just started mine. I just chose a personal story that means a lot to me. For example, I am writing about a 1st amendment discrimination issue involving my group on campus and how I helped resolve it, how it influenced me to want to be a lawyer, etc. Just be specific and genuine.