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I'm at the point that I just don't know what's wrong with me and why I can't break into the high 160's/170's. Somebody please tell me, because I'm lost. I planned on talking Sep exam and am now panicking.
First, I have always been under the assumption that I can just keep studying till I get the score I want. That's why I've been at this for so long. Here is my history. I have taken Testsmasters in-class course twice. I did the LSAT Trainer by Mike Kim. And most recently done 7Sage. I have taken every LSAT except 76 and 77 (Scores below ordered in the date I took them). When I blind review exams I always get almost a perfect score if not a perfect 180, so I get the concepts. I never run out of time except maybe 3 questions on games and sometimes have to rush my last RC passage a bit and complete in say 5 minuets. The questions I get wrong are a random assortment of easy/hard/different types of questions. It's worth noting that my two biggest jumps were after a prolonged break (easier to see if the info below is graphed). And so I'm wondering if maybe I should just kick my feet up till Sep 24th in order to make another jump. My typical day consists of finishing my 8hrs at work and studying 3-4 hours after work. At this point... I feel like I'm just an idiot. I have studied the LSAT more than anyone I know or read about. I'm about ready to pull my hair out. Any advice?
# Date Taken Score
61 7/19/2013 140 (Day 1 of Testmasters Course 1)
63 8/17/2013 145
54 8/19/2013 147
55 8/22/2013 146
64 9/7/2013 148
56 9/18/2013 152
65 9/28/2013 152
62 9/30/2014 146 (Apx Day 1 of Testmasters Course 2)
68 10/4/2014 153
55 10/11/2014 153
56 10/12/2014 154
58 10/19/2014 155
64 11/8/2014 149
65 11/15/2014 155
67 11/22/2014 156
52 3/11/2015 162
53 6/8/2015 158
7 6/14/2015 164 (The LSAT Trainer Book Diagnostic)
54 6/14/2015 160
9 6/18/2015 161
10 6/22/2015 156
11 6/23/2015 160
12 6/30/2015 159
13 7/8/2015 160
15 7/9/2015 155
16 7/11/2015 160
14 7/12/2015 162
18 7/12/2015 161
19 7/13/2015 158
20 7/16/2015 158
21 7/28/2015 163
22 8/4/2015 161
23 8/5/2015 162
24 8/6/2015 162
25 8/11/2015 161
26 8/11/2015 163
28 8/18/2015 166
29 8/19/2015 160
30 8/20/2015 161
27 12/19/2015 166
31 12/20/2015 154
46 1/24/2016 157 (7Sage Studies began)
47 1/30/2016 161
48 2/7/2016 155
49 2/15/2016 162
50 2/25/2016 161
51 2/27/2016 164
45 3/16/2016 164
32 3/17/2016 166
33 3/21/2016 165
34 3/22/2016 163
35 3/27/2016 163
36 4/2/2016 166
37 4/3/2016 163
39 5/23/2016 164
40 5/26/2016 163
41 5/28/2016 162
42 6/4/2016 163
38 7/1/2016 165
43 7/6/2016 163
44 7/8/2016 161
57 7/12/2016 162
59 7/21/2016
69 7/24/2016 162
70 7/31/2016 165
71 8/7/2016 158
71.5 8/8/2016 162
72 8/23/2016 163
73 8/26/2016
74 8/28/2016 158
75 9/3/2016 160
76
77
Thank you all for the input! I really appreciate it. Sorry for the late reply. I was having quite the ruff day when I posted that and I took time away from all things LSAT. Currently based on how I feel and what you have all said I'm definitely going to take a break and slow down my studies. Anxiety and burnout may have a lot to do with this. I'm also going to review fundamentals more than just doing PT's. Hopefully I can walk into test day fresh and do well. Otherwise I'll reassess and take a different approach to studies as some of you have recommended.
But going down the line...
Yes, @ I get all the Q's I marked as questionable as right before I grade the test. I am not skipping questions simply because I am aiming so high I don't feel you can skip much of anything if aiming for 170's. Typically if I get a Q wrong I just didn't infer something that I should have or didn't go into the questions with a strong sense of what I should be looking for. Somehow I make such inferences when the clock is going is my issue. And thank you, I am proud of what I have done but I'm aiming just a bit higher! :)
@.rizeq Thank you for that. :) I did finish the curriculum fast. I did what it said, and thought there would be no harm in just keeping myself fresh once while back. That's because I planned on taking an earlier LSAT. I( have delayed many times. I think that's why I'm so stressed now because I feel I've really reached a point where I need to just do it. I am for sure taking your advise and reviewing fundamentals. That is my plan now till the test because I am hearing that from multiple people. More PT'ing won't help at this point. And I totally agree back to back PT's are dumb. I never plan to do that btw. It's always because something threw me off. I work full time in big law and a late meeting can kill my ability to test. So I only do back to back when my schedule was messed up on a prior day. Wish I didn't have that happen! Life goes on :)
@ Thank you for the thoughtful response! Hopefully I can show that potential on test day! You are correct, I may not have taken full advantage of the 7Sage resources and finding my weaknesses. I should put more of my pt results in and analyze it more in depth. And i'm not totally sure how to go about the tutor idea. It's so close to test day and I work full time. But I will for sure be reviewing fundamentals and videos on 7sage. Maybe even revisit old Testmasters material. I agree i'm burned out. This close to September my best bet may be to relax a bit. So that's my current plan becuse it's a bit late in the game to do other tactics. True, I don't want to push back. I'm going to see how this month goes. It's too late to withdraw now I think. And I may do Dec if I don't feel good after taking Step. Is that a a bad idea? I sure don't want 2 scores on my record... but time off now till the Sep test might just allow me to relax enough to show my potential of a high score on test day.
Same goes to @. I will for sure be taking a week off (half way done, haha) and see how things go. I don't plan to hammer studies before Sep because obviously what I was doing was not working. Thanks!
@ it is quite possible I did no leave enough time between exams. Sadly that's a fact of the past. I did was the courses said to do... but ended up pushing back test dates over and over because I was not where I want to be.
@.parham Thank you. I have never recorded myself, but often write how long a game took really quick at the bottom of the game. So that I can see where I lose time. I am always finishing games, but it get's close sometimes. I commonly skip the last game question if it is a replace the rule question so that I can get to other questions. But i have never seen more than 2 of those on an exam. I'm not sure what a BR call is... But my games are actually pretty good. The time i lose on LG is if i get stressed and bomb a game. I do feel I just need to relax and then I do games well. I typically already watch game videos if I missed many or took too long on one. Thanks for the advice!