I just came here to vent, but also look for help. I've been studying since last August, and it feels like I'm stuck in the same place. I've read the books, I've done the wrong answer journals, and I did the fundamentals on 7Sage, but it feels like nothing is working. On the drills, I feel way more comfortable, consistently getting just one or two wrong depending on how many, and even level 4/5 questions I get right every time. My diagnostic was a 148, but since then I've only had PT scores that are 153-155. Whenever I do sections for LR, I get about -9 to -7 on the first go, but on my Blind Reviews I'm consistently getting -3 to -2. The same goes for my PTs, where my blind reviews have been improving as I went from 165 to now scoring consistently in the 168 to 170 range. I've spent months trying to close this gap, but literally nothing is doing it. I'm already taking a gap year and plan to test in November; however, with my new full-time job, it's even harder to study. If I wasn't improving before, I don't see how I would now with this new schedule. At this point, I want to give up.

Has anyone felt this way? What are some tips, and how did you close your gap or motivate yourself?

I've been studying for over a year now. I stopped in January 2026 until May because I gave up from showing a lack of improvement, so I decided to just focus on improving my GPA and take a gap year. I've been consistently having issues with closing the gap of my blind review and my actual score. In all my timed sections, I'm usually missing -8 to -6, but I will invariably miss -3 to -2 in Blind Reviews. This has been happening for months, yet I feel like I'm in the same boat, no matter what I do. I think it's a timing issue because I feel like I'm improving in drills by getting better with accuracy, it's whenever I get to the actual test that it gets bad, and it feels like everything I learned goes out the window.

I'm accepting any tips or brutal honesty below, because my GPA is low and I need to get a high 160 to counter it, preferably by November. I've decided that I'm not prepared for the October test, as this will be my fourth time taking the LSAT, the second time I took it, I was severely underprepared, so I want to make sure I'm 100% ready...

I've been taking some Practice tests for a while, but when I do them, my LSAT scores are pretty low, around 150. However, my Blind Review scores has been improving up to 160-164 consistently. I can't seem to bridge the gap, and want to know how anyone else fixed that problem? When I do BR's I usually choose my second choice, which is always right, instead of taking more time to actually read the question I just click that one and move on, so I'm not sure if timing is the problem? I would also like to see how to choose my second choice on the real test first. If anyone has any tips, please let me know.