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stevenamaisnik990
Thursday, Dec 26 2024

Hello tausifnbashar,

A law school will not review an incomplete application. If you submit your application without an official and valid LSAT score on file, then your application will not be reviewed. If you already have an official LSAT score on file, then your application can be reviewed, and you can update your file later with a new score.

There is no reason to apply early if you are only submitting an incomplete application. Wait until you have your score so you know where you should apply.

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Tuesday, Dec 17 2024

You need to relax bro. It’s clear to me why you scored outside of your range, you’re freaking the heck out. Start studying less, wind yourself down until like 2 days before the test and then don’t study anymore at all. If you’re PTing in the 170s then you’ve learned the material. Your progress isn’t going to come from studying any longer, not substantially anyway. It’s a mental game for you now, breathing exercises and accepting your expertise over the LSAT.

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Monday, Dec 16 2024

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Hey everyone,

I started the LSAT PTing in the high 150s before I found 7Sage. 7Sage has been instrumental in my journey to achieving higher scores; by the time I sat for the September LSat I was PTing in the low-mid 170s (4 months-ish of studying). I notice a lot of people here are sharing their study habits so that others may attempt to emulate them, and while I’m sure there’s some value to that, I’m here to tell you that I climbed with absolutely no method to my madness:

I studied when I felt like it (often, but irregular), I would wake up and go to sleep when I was tired (sometimes asleep by 4am and up by 2pm), and I would take random days off. I had the 7Sage app, which I would take with me to events that I didn’t think I’d enjoy (and just do exercises at the event). The only thing I would regiment is my practice tests, which I tried to make as “test day” as possible (I took 8 PTs overall).

I scored a 171 on the one and only official LSAT I’ve taken. I was going to take it again the following month, but serious family issues made it an unattractive prospect, and I was happy with a 171.

I say all this to highlight that the test, and studying for it, is a very personal affair; you need to find what works for you. All these people can offer you their words of wisdom or tips and tricks, but at the end of the day all you need to do is figure out how to understand the question being asked.

However, if I was to make one recommendation to someone seeking improvement, or highlight one aspect of my own studying which dramatically improved my results, it would be thus: blind review. Blind review, blind review, blind review. I can’t overstate how dramatically that changed my performance. Be mercilessly honest with yourself, and push yourself to fully understand questions and the ‘answers’ the test writers are providing you BEFORE you reveal the correct answer.

As a final note, be kind to yourself. You reading this here are in a select minority of test-takers who is probably taking their LSAT prep very seriously. I met countless students (at UC Berkeley no less) who were just “going to take the test and see how it goes.” You are already ahead of them, and if you take your studying seriously, you’ll finish miles ahead of a significant portion of test takes.

Best of luck 7Sage-ers!

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Tuesday, Aug 27 2024

No, you can not assume that the intermittent wind of the late morning continued into the afternoon, and you're right to suppose that LSAT testers would punish someone for making that assumption. They did not need that as their pitfall for that answer, but it could very well have been such a shortcoming.

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Tuesday, Aug 27 2024

It could be, but that doesn't fit the principle. It's not asking for a logical conclusion, it's asking for a principle match. So, in this case, you're looking for a scenario that fulfills the sufficient and necessary conditions.

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Tuesday, Aug 27 2024

You're suppose to do whatever helps you get the right answer. Personally, I did not write this out on paper and was able to understand it, but others I often do write out. It just depends on how your mind works. You're always trading your time for point, so it's just a judgement call with how much time you want to invest in the point for this question.

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Tuesday, Aug 27 2024

Nope! It can have absolutely nothing to do with the stimulus. If instead of the actual choice D it said, "Most dogs who bark loudly are hungry" then that answer choice would still be the correct answer. It still doesn't weaken the support for the company president's recommendation.

More interestingly, the answer choice could have been, "middle-level managers who train in time management are likely to assassinate their bosses" and that STILL would have been the right answer. Because although it might give a really good reason as to why you wouldn't want to train your middle-level managers in time management, it doesn't weaken the SUPPORT STRUCTURE for the ARGUMENT that the stimulus is making.

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Tuesday, Aug 20 2024

I thought it was C because my thought was that more of the bacteria is in contact with nutrients because now it's covered in nutrients, where in other situations it's just one of its surfaces. Thus the phenazines aren't as needed.

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Friday, Aug 16 2024

Indeed, it might share some symptoms, but E says "ALL" symptoms. Nowhere in the passage is there an indication that the author would agree that members of a non-cohesive group would ever, for example, think that a proposal is good because they failed to critically scrutinize the idea.

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Friday, Aug 16 2024

Totally agree. It's almost like a confusion of necessary for sufficient. The cakewalk HAD to be capable of surviving the flux. The 'correct' answer reads like a sufficient condition; the environment was sufficient to make the cakewalk succeed.

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Saturday, Aug 10 2024

Hello! I am also interested :) I'll be taking both the September and October LSAT

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Saturday, Aug 10 2024

Pardon, I saw you answered this question already.

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Saturday, Aug 10 2024

How do you recommend we effectively annotate self-made paragraph breaks if we're taking the tests online?

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Friday, Aug 09 2024

That's a good thing, no? Double the content if you need it!

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Friday, Aug 09 2024

Yes, -2 overall for the RC section. I have only taken a few practice tests though, so my analytics may not be too useful yet. Thank you for the reply!

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Friday, Aug 09 2024

Yes, -2 overall for the RC section. I have only taken a few practice tests though, so my analytics may not be too useful yet. Thank you for the reply!

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Friday, Aug 09 2024

Interesting stuff, I wonder if this will be particularly useful to someone like me who's only hitting -2 on average for RC. Is it worthwhile to change the way I approach the RC section, or should I just keep practicing?

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Wednesday, Aug 07 2024

Holy cow I did it.

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Wednesday, Aug 07 2024

I found other sections much harder than this one. Some sections just come more naturally to some than others. It's good you've noticed what's hard for you, now you know where to focus your attention! You've got this! ^-^

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stevenamaisnik990
Saturday, Aug 03 2024

Rather than he's finding a claim to be false on the grounds that if X were the case then Y would not be the case.

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Saturday, Aug 03 2024

I really struggled to select A because I imagined it would say: "Finding a claim to be false on the grounds that it would if true have consequences that are true."

Because he's finding a claim to be false on the grounds that if X were the case then Y would also be the case.

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Saturday, Aug 03 2024

You are probably looking to strengthen the argument, rather than make the argument possible. Pay CLOSE attention to the argument that the author is making. Have you been Blind Reviewing your answers? I've found that very helpful.

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stevenamaisnik990
Friday, Aug 02 2024

Are not for you YET*

Keep at it and you'll get them too!

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Friday, Aug 02 2024

They got me! :C

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Thursday, Aug 01 2024

I tried doing things on paper, but I just found it too difficult. I've been finding a ton of success performing the logic in my head and digesting the information naturally, rather than trying to break everything down into Lawgic.

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