Take a break next week. Feeling burnt out on the day of the test isn’t great. So take a 2-3 day break before the test. The day before I would do some light drilling.

For now I would focus on RC and make sure you are asking yourself why you are getting the wrong answers wrong. Do some LR too though of course. Add in some wrong answer journaling for that too. You got this!!

I took the September, but signed up for October just in case. If money isn’t an issue, I would say just do it.

It took a lot of pressure off of the September lsat for me, which was my first ever lsat. If you want to apply this cycle definitely don’t wait until Jan.

I say just spend the money and if you’re elated with your October score and don’t need to take November, buying November isn’t even necessarily a waste of money, as it very well could have led to reduced stress on the October LSAT and better performance

@jmccaule77 I’m really glad to hear that. I’ve learned that its so easy to get down on yourself for doing “bad” but that mindset doesn’t help at all. We can all accomplish our law school goals no matter what, regardless of one test score. We got this !!

@Emmawills I didn’t but I did hear it was difficult. For me the sept lsat had many difficult Qs at the beginning of the passages so that kinda threw me off. I’m not sure if the August lsat was the same way but I’m wondering if it was more difficult too

getting a nice coffee from dunkin, something good to eat, and going to the bars later 🤣 perks of still being in college during lsat studying. So excited to be almost done, we all need to treat ourselves after the test!!

@RosiesDiner that’s honestly really helpful because i do the same thing. Thanks!

Congrats!! That’s awesome. Do u have any tips to get from high 160s to hit that 170? I’m stuck around 167 ish, what did you do to make that jump?

Nice job! what did you do the week of the exam to help you be mentally ready for it? I'm taking it in september, so i'd love to hear any advice, congrats on the amazing score!!

i have the same problem - scoring better on LR in drills/sections than PTs. This might not be the case for you but for me it was anxiety and fatigue surrounding the full PT that made my scores on these sections a bit lower. What helped me is trying to view every LR question as if it was the "only one", and also just getting better at handling fatigue which comes simply with time and practice. not sure if that makes sense but i hope it helps and nice job! this is an amazing score regardless.

congrats!! My scores are coming out the same way where i'm chilling with LR but the RC is what's bringing me down. what do you plan to do to help "bridge the gap" to get to a 170? currently trying to do the same.

is it wrong to just accept i'll prob get questions like this wrong on the real exam? I mean, 60% of people chose the wrong answer - the one I chose too, B. in a timed, high-stress environment, idk how i could deduce B isn't right but C is. of course i still review these questions and practice but wow lol.

yeah don't do more than 1 a week. Might be controversial, but i don't even think 1 a week is needed for every person. sometimes every other week is fine and can work. PTs aren't where you improve your score necessarily, they're just are good ways to improve your test-taking endurance to prevent fatigue on the real test and to also document your progress as you study. in this last month, i recommend taking more time to address your weaknesses and focus on drilling to build up accuracy and get more comfortable with the speed of the test rather than burning out by taking so many PTs.

@superchillasian You're kidding 😭😭😭😭

don't get in your head about this, that's how you can do worse on the exam. you have the skillset, so you know you can do it - it just boils down to test day anxiety that can screw things up. If it helps, i've heard many stories about people doing better on test day. I just saw a tiktok of a girl saying she scored 12 pts higher than her last PT on her june lsat and was shocked. So many people do better, while some do worse, and some score similar to their PTs. just go into it knowing that yeah you could do worse, but you also could do better, so all you need to do is show up and try. best of luck!

like i get the reasoning for C, this is just a really stupid question

The point isn't to read through the passages fast, but to read through them effectively. Make sure you highlight throughout the passage, whether it be conclusions, differing opinions/author's opinion, etc. Whatever you feel is important. How you get better at this is through practice. Also, I think that you shouldn't worry about reading RC as to understand the content - you should read it to understand the structure of the passage. To me that's the priority. Building a semblance of the structure of the passage in my head always helps me and helps me answer questions even when I don't understand what the passage is talking about (because sometimes there's really science-y passages where half the words I haven't seen before... in moments like this it's useless to try and digest it all, and you'll waste a lot of time trying to understand everything being said).

i'm at the point where i wasn't even shocked when i saw this. i just laughed. i think i'm so used to LSAC screwing test takers over that it's just normal now.

@Hacheeee I've been having this issue as well!