I'm in a similar situation, my girlfriend of 3 years broke up with me earlier this week, the cops came to my neighbour's house today during my exam, and just due to emotional duress, I didn't do as well as I've been scoring, I decided I didn't do well enough and canceled my score.

That being said this was a retake for the high 160s, I already have a 161 on record and I've decided I can live with that, I have no desire to kill myself retrying and whatever happens, I'll make it work.

If this is your first test, or a retake and your other scores aren't that great/where you want, there's no harm in letting it come in, because you can at least still retake, or not have a decreased score. Though if you're adamant you did bad, and you needed an increased by a small margin, I'd cancel and sign up for that retake, or work as hard as you can on the rest of your application.

November is a bit short to build a method that works for you, but I usually have been going -4 or less, typically less. I think the thing that helped me most was reading for View, Structure, Argument, and Main Point, rather than trying to actually fully understand what's written or the concepts in front of me. If you look at the RC questions, most of them have to do with the different views, the structure or organization of the passage, arguments that are raised, or the author's main point.

A lot of people struggle because they try to actually understand the entire passage, and sometimes that's possible, but more often it's a time sink and will just confuse people. If you try not to get too in-depth, and focus on reading it a little more abstractly, being able to recognize those things I mentioned, you can answer most questions (and know where to find the answers to questions that ask something specific), than if you read and have no real gameplan. You don't even need to notate much either, just try and get a mental note on where these things are, and practice your first few passages doing this untimed and slowly start timing yourself more. You'll likely find a drastic change.

And if you can't even find those things I mentioned untimed, then that tells you that you need to start from square 1 and build up. The good thing is that RC, as with any other part of the LSAT, is incredibly learnable, and if you don't do as well as you'd like, you can always retake the exam. Do your best, but hopefully this gives you a direction to go in. All the best!

Unfortunately all the allowed materials are already noted, and a whiteboard isn't one of them. You'll only be allowed 5 blank pieces of paper to write on.

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Just took the test and echoing what others said. It felt pretty fair I thought, so do not stress it too much!

I had to take this one as my Oct 2020 Flex did not go as planned and I would say that this was definitely a nicer test to have for a retake (in terms of difficulty).

I took the October 2020 Flex too, so if it seems like it's a nicer test at least as far as a retake goes, then that makes me feel a lot better about my performance for tomorrow. Hope you did well!

The best advice I've gotten is to do at least 1 problem set per section the week of your exam to make sure you're not rusty and to keep up the rigor, but it helps to take a break and not do a PT, and if you happen to do one, leave it ungraded, so as to not psych you out in the event you don't score where you want. You're not going to learn anything significant the week of the test, and so the best thing you can do is focus on calming your nerves, and making sure you know how to pace yourself and pay attention to the LSAT, aka, make sure you know you won't slack on the exam.

I'm interested! I'm taking the Flex on Oct. 3rd.