Fifteen to 20 hours per week, even if its M-F, is only 3+ hours per day. If you prep test that's most of it. I have to go over the previous days issues so that adds another 1-2 hours. I agree you can burn out, and I also know it takes time away from studying for the information to distill and take hold, so 5-8 hours per day may be excessive for some, but I find if I don't drill for more than 3-4 days, I get slower... so I have to build that practice into any daily routine. My opinion is rather than limiting the hours per day, it's better to take 1, maybe 2 days off, if you're burning out or performance is suffering. But some issues just lend themselves to a 5-8 hour day for me.

I too have always been a late night person. it took a good 2 months to move my body clock back. Since you probably don't have major obligations (if you're sleeping until noon), try the "east coast/west coast" approach and set your watch ahead 3 hours. Keep your phone off in the morning and don't use your phone for an alarm. Do some form of exercise (even a 20 minute run) in the afternoon as a study break. I found that the sitting and drilling sapped my metabolism but also made it difficult to sleep. Do not read your phone, watch TV, or eat after a certain hour (for me it's 7:00 pm). Part of my late night routine was due to procrastination and probably a little ADD... So I have to write lists every day and have a morning set of tasks that I have to accomplish by an early hour deadline. I use a dry erase board in my office (a visual other than phone is key), and it's amazing to me how much I can accomplish when I get up before even 7:00 am. I even put things like "take a shower" and "make coffee" on the list. It keeps your tasks organized so you don't waste time and forces you to be accountable to something. This isn't just good practice for the LSAT, but for Law school as well. Take it from someone who spent most of their life pulling all-nighters for school and work, it's not as effective as a set routine every day. After 2-3 months you will automatically get up at an early hour even if you occasionally stay up late. Law school requires routine, diligence, and sacrifice, like the military...so just do it.

I wish I had read this discussion before I cancelled my score. For the last 3 weeks I have gone into a cave and felt demoralized by the LG section in September. Even though I felt good about the other sections, I knew I couldn’t rebound from the high number of LG random guesses. The soonest retest I could get was November which just misses the deadline for early binding at my 1st pick. Now I have my responses and am dying to know what I scored on my other sections.

But at least I don’t feel all my preparation was for nothing. I’ll crack open my old prep books today and give it one more try.

Absolutely more difficult. I was feeling positive that I’d at least finish the games, but I sort of blacked out after the second ptoblem. I had no idea how to execute..,it looked foreign.

I feel unexpectedly depressed...not about the test (thats a whole different feeling)...But an empty feeling because I’ve been so consumed with prep that I can’t find the motivation to do anything else. I’m actually fighting the urge to practice LGs...

I love G.O.T. too, but could have done without the term bastards.

Ok this is it for me! I ended up canceling the September test because of I suffered a blackout on that horrific LG section and came to when they called time. The soonest I could retest was November. Everything was going pretty well until my last section RC. At around question 17 I could not enter some of my answers. Neither the stylus nor my finger worked. I tried everything, then the proctors came over and also had no luck. By that point I had to shoo them away just to see if I could get anything to stick. On some only a few of the choices would register. They took my name etc but I just cant keep taking this test!