Hello fellow 7Sagers. I need help/advice on what's been happening to me. I have stopped practicing for the LSAT for about 3/4 weeks, and when I came back to it, I went from scoring in the mid 150s into the mid 160s. My score then kept fluctuating, and eventually reached 167. However, I haven't been able to reach the mid 160s for the past 5/6 practice tests. I have no idea why this is happening, and on the test I just took, I scored 152!! I don't understand how my score could be decreasing and/or fluctuating as much as it does (between 152 and 167 on 9 practice tests in total). I am taking the December LSAT and I only have about 4 and a half weeks of prep. Do I start focusing on individuals sections or weaknesses in each section? Do I take untimed sections? Do I keep taking practice tests? What do I do?! Please help, and honestly all the advice will be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
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@ I will do that. I will start focusing back on the fundamentals and take untimed sections. I feel like the mistake I made was to completely disregard what I learnt, and to simply answer the questions based on intuition only. That's what I'm hoping going back to the fundamentals will help me with. Thank you very much for your response!
@ Exactly. I am definitely re-going over the lessons. I read a lot about the February LSAT and the general consensus appears to be that applying this late in the cycle is not a very good idea. However, applying with a score that does not reflect my potential wouldn't be a better idea in any way, so in the case that this happens, I might have to take the February LSAT. What's your take on it btw? Thank you very much for your response!
@:
#PT 30:
- Score 162
- LG: -2
- LR: -14
- RC: -10
#31:
- Score 151
- LG: -15 (didn't do one full game)
- LR: -15
- RC: -12
#32:
- Score 157
- LG: -11 (didn't do one whole game again)
- LR: -12
- RC: -10
#33:
- Score 167
- LG: -0
- LR: -6
- RC: -11
#36:
- Score 155
- LG: - 5 (didn't do one whole game again)
- LR: -18
- RC: -12 (didn't do one whole passage)
#40
- Score 158
- LG: -6
- LR: -13
- RC: -9
#41:
- Score 159
- LG: -4
- LR: -16
- RC: -8
#42:
- Score 154
- LG: -3
- LR: -19
- RC: -14
#50 (yesterday's test):
- Score 152
- LG: -6
- LR: -12
- RC: -19 (didn't do one full passage and got multiple mistakes on the other ones)
@: I realised that I the section that I sometimes get stuck on a game because I mess up the setup, which wastes a significant amount of time and often leads to mistakes. I usually didn't have any mistakes in LG before starting to study for the LSAT again. It's very unusual for me to get so stuck on it and waste so much time.
For LR, I have realised that Necessary Assumptions, Flaw, Parallel Flaw questions are all ones that I have less than 65% accuracy on them. So I decided to work on these ones this week, untimed, and get back to the basics. Really try to decipher each one of those types of questions untimed and see whether I can get at least 80% accuracy on them.
For RC, I don't know if there's much to do; my score fluctuates the least on this section so I doubt that I'll see much improvement on it as well.
Let me know what you think and THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR FEEDBACK!
Thanks for your encouragement everyone. I'm feeling a bit better today. I'm really worried about taking the lsat while on antibiotics, lacking sleep, and recovering from 39.5 temperature. I still have until 11:59 PM tonight to decide. But I must admit I am being scared by some close ones about taking it in Feb... Your comments are really helping me look at this from a different perspective :)
I'm down for studying in TO. Let me know where's most convenient. I live downtown Toronto
Hey everyone,
I hope you are all relaxing before the test and not exhausting yourselves! I am unfortunately posting this message because I woke up today feeling very very ill. I have a fever, soar throat, and my whole body is in pain. Even coughing causes pain.
If I remain at least as ill, my cognitive performance will be significantly impaired. Not to mention, I may very well get other people sick.
I already took the test once in June and I did not reach the score I needed, so I definitely don't want to attempt to retake the test without being in maximum mental and physical shape; doing the contrary will show no significant improvement. So, my question is, how much am I negatively affecting my chances of admission by taking the LSAT in February? I have read a lot about this topic, and almost everyone's opinion is that I am cutting my chances by a high margin.
Please let me know what you think, any advice would be much appreciated.
Thank you very much!
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@ You're right. I'll start with PT60 onwards starting my next preptest!