same boat but i heard that we don't need to use all 8 hours.

this is amazing! thank you so much for sharing!!

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Is anyone taking the Jan LSAT applying for the 2024 cycle?

meeeeee

i am down!

would love to join too please!

I’m so happy to be done with it today. I had no issues with remote testing. Goodluck to everyone ❤️❤️

I chopped of my hair and dyed it haha

I moved my lsat date to April, would love to join!

Oh okay, I am glad to hear that your health is okay now. Believe it or not, the LSAT is more traumatic for me :( To be frank with you, I am not eyeing a T20 school. I fell in love with this law school I visited and everyone is telling me that all I need is a 152+ to get admitted since my UGPA is high. Although I am really praying to get a 160+ to get a full scholarship.

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I am happy that you survived it. I hope the same goes for me as well. How long have you been preparing for the LSAT? Did you prepare for it while battling cancer?

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As a cancer survivor, I understand what you are going through and how difficult it is just to have energy for a test let alone the day.

The LSAT can wait. You don't have to take the test now, and what you are going through is infinitely more important.

It happened when I was a child. I've been in remission now for 22 years. As for studying for the LSAT, I've been at it for about 2 1/2 years now (but I've been studying seriously for only 4 months or so). I am a splitter so I have to nail the LSAT in order to have schools inside the T-20 talking to me.

Just focus on your health and happiness right now. The LSAT can wait, and it is ok to postpone until the Fall '18 admissions cycle to get more studying in. You're going through something traumatic (LSAT and Cancer), but know that you don't have to do either one alone.

Sounds like a burn out. :| Just do light drills and relax before the actual test day? :) I wish you the best of luck (3(/p)

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So I've been following advice to go over questions just to refresh my brain before the LSAT. LG has always been my strongest section, with usually going between -3 and -5 timed. It was the section I originally needed the most work on/struggled with the most. I spent almost 2 months training LG and significantly improved. However, within the last four days, I have been absolutely bombing it.

Bombing as in, I cannot even get 2 games completed in under 35 minutes, and if I do, I get an entire game wrong. I can't answer more than one question with confidence. My brain goes completely blank and I feel like I've lost all the skills I spent months working on. Every other section is fine/the same as before.

I know that some people drop a few points in their PT the week before the exam but I'm doing fine in LR and RC. But it's like, as soon as I see an LG question, especially one with a MBF/MBT/CBT/CBF (i.e. with no additional premise), I completely freeze up and can't answer the question. I've forgotten how to approach it. I've also seemingly lost all ability to make inferences. I have no idea what's going on. I feel like how I did 3 months ago when I first started LG and didn't know what I was doing.

I'm seriously worried I'm just going to bomb the LG section on Saturday and I just don't know what to do anymore -____- has anyone had experience with this, and what did you do?

I tried doing that but my siblings aren't with me on this. I took up law in my country for 2 years but coming from a political family here is really hard for me. This is the reason why I decided to pursue law somewhere else. My dad did not like the fact that none of my older siblings followed his footsteps. They all ended up as a doctors, which is why my dad is putting so much pressure on me and I got burnt out. Everyone is pushing me to go back to law school since I am the only one who doesn't have a "title" next to my name.

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Just a quick suggestion about the pressure from being from an Asian family...I don't know if it's relevant to your situation, but in mine it helped to try to get an older male that your parents would respect to advocate for your position. Sometimes in patriarchal societies, it makes a big difference. I know it did with mine when I was applying for programs back in college - which was about a 100 years ago :D. It's not "fair," but if that's all it takes, it's worth giving yourself a break to get through all this. Hope your recovery goes well...

Sorry I cried when I read this. Thank you. I'll message you immediately and update you of my decision with regard to the LSAT. I really appreciate this reply of yours. (3(/p)

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I agree that it's worth thinking about delaying. I just feel someone should point out what a badass you are to keep right on studying through cancer. I say delay and keep studying. The LSAT's not going to stop you if you can just give yourself the time to do things right.

If you do just have to take it for whatever reason: The emotions and the anxiety are a part of it, you just can't listen to them and allow them to make decisions for you. They make very bad decisions, so you've got to compartmentalize and set them aside so that you can just do your thing. Listen to the rational part of your brain, trust it, and just do what it says no matter how scary it may seem and how nervous it may make the rest of you. If that voice can't break through the fear or if you fail to follow its lead, you cannot do well. Although your average is not where you want it to be, you did break 160 on the one, so it's not impossible. Don't think about the score though. Focus on what's in front of you. 160 is too much pressure to put on yourself right now and you won't hold up to that well. What you can do is this one question, this one passage, this one game. And if you can't, who cares? You know there's going to be one particularly hard LG, one particularly hard RC passage, and a healthy handful of curve breaker LR questions. So there's no reason to panic over something you always knew you were going to come across. Your margin of error is big enough that you don't really need to get 100% of those. Actually, you don't really need any of those. On the most recent test, PT 83, you could miss literally every 5 star LR question, every question on the hardest RC passage, and every question on the hardest LG and still score a 164. So when you come across these, just don't worry about it! There's no reason you have to get these hardest questions right and so there's no reason to let them fluster you. And even if you just take a blind guess at these, you should statistically get four or five of them right. So really, that 164 is a 167. So once you've taken the curve breakers out, that still leaves you with a very healthy margin of error of -12 to still break 160. I hope thinking of it that way puts things into perspective. When we really get in trouble is not when we struggle on individual questions. It's when we let those struggles carry over into questions we wouldn't be struggling with otherwise. This compounds itself and we fall apart. So if you get stuck on something so what? Just miss it. It'll be fine. You'll be fine.

Congratulations (3 (3 (3(/p)

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I just want to say thank you, so much, to 7sage for having such a great, affordable LSAT curriculum. I followed their advice and studied for about a year before taking the December 2017 LSAT. I scored a 162 and got into the University of Calgary, my top choice since I want to study environmental law! I'm super excited to start my program in September (and move somewhere slightly warmer than Winnipeg, Manitoba)!

Thanks 7sage!!

I am happy that you survived it. I hope the same goes for me as well. How long have you been preparing for the LSAT? Did you prepare for it while battling cancer?

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As a cancer survivor, I understand what you are going through and how difficult it is just to have energy for a test let alone the day.

The LSAT can wait. You don't have to take the test now, and what you are going through is infinitely more important.

With my current health status, it may take a lot of time before I can fully recover. I am scared that by the time that happens, it is too late for me to take the LSAT. I do understand that there are people who go to law school at the age of 30 and above, but I really want to follow the timeline I have set for myself.

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I would take care of your health. The LSAT changed to unlimited tries from its previous restricted amount.

On a website called lawstudents.ca I read a post about a guy that wrote the LSAT 6 times and still got into law school. School and the test will always be there but your health is something that is far more important. Stay happy and strong, study longer and take it when you are at your best.

I am feeling better compared last year but since I am still undergoing a series of tests and treatments, your suggestions got me thinking if I should wait till I am completely better. I am 25 though, and coming from an asian family, the pressure is reaaaaaally bad. :|

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I would take care of your health. The LSAT changed to unlimited tries from its previous restricted amount.

On a website called lawstudents.ca I read a post about a guy that wrote the LSAT 6 times and still got into law school. School and the test will always be there but your health is something that is far more important. Stay happy and strong, study longer and take it when you are at your best.

Thank you, a huge part of me badly wants to push through and take the exam on Saturday. But with everyone's suggestion, it is best if I weigh things today before making a final decision.

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Yes, put your health and recovery first. Sorry you went through these stressful experiences. I'd vote for studying longer and taking it when you're ready.

Thanks (3(/p)

same :(

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Still nothing and I'm fading fast :(

congrats (3 still waiting on my score and im really nervous :((/p)

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Thank you to everyone telling me congrats! I am really so happy right now. I was hoping for an 8-9 pt increase, but an 11 point has me on cloud 9. I am in the 75th for the schools I want to get into. Now I'm obsessing over LSN!!

this is really funny :))

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There is a state of emergency in this area [near LSAC]. Big snow storm is supposedly coming so there’s a strong chance that they will be closed. I hope the employee in charge took the big red “Send Score” button home with them tonight.

Lol, I think there is roughly a 25 percent chance that LSAC's system is literally a single button. They take turns after each administration presiding over the button, and the hopes of thousands rest on the whims of Jeremiah the accountant this time. In December Stacy from HR got drunk and tweeted out that she was going to push the button early. The higher-ups deleted her tweet, but it was too late, they couldn't risk the karmic retribution of interfering with the sovereignty of that month's button pusher. And thus did we rejoice in the streets at the merciful whim of a mysterious organization, shrouded in the mist of archaic rote process.

Still no score guys :(

-virtual hugs-

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I.cannot.sleep

It's March 1 already here, hope they release it already :/

Goodluck to all of us :|