I think taking the core curriculum and "a few practice tests" are not enough for getting 150+ scores. As far as I know, most of the students who've got high scores had taken at least 80% of all the preps and even reviewed more than twice.

I am also not yet prepared, but I think taking the steps that others have done is necessary for me to get the score that I'm aiming at. So don't blame yourself (I think you are smart enough!) but if you really want to get into law school, you'd better take more time and set a goal to practice almost all the preps (there are more than 80 preps, and that's a lot..) and then decide whether the LSAT is learnable or not. You would finally think "the LSAT is learnable" as others do.

I also started with Starter course, and then I upgraded it to Ultimate. and there is no regret at all. You will get more than the money you invest.

It's been already two years you wrote this post but I want to say thanks to you for sharing your awesome insight! I'll practice the way you teach and I feel like that would really help me to get better scores!:)

I think this is one of the trickiest MC questions I've ever seen.

I had to write this comment because I was on the exact same page with you last year. My dad was diagnosed with lung cancer and had a surgery, getting a quarter of his lung removed. Even though the surgery went really well and he is very healthy now but at that time it was such a chaos and disaster. My family and I spent days crying. I was about to start studying for the LSAT but I had to stop everything because as you said I had to stay up all night to take care of him at the hospital. Besides lacking of time and energy, my broken heart didn't let me have enough space to study and couldn't focus on anything but his condition. Most of all, I felt really sorry for him and couldn't say to him anymore that I still want to go to law school which gives a huge financial burden to him. But thankfully, as he got better, I was able to get a chance to keep studying and here I am waiting to take the test in October.

I completely understand how you feel. At that time, I felt like everyone in the world is happy and secure, except for ME. But it would be really weird if you were totally fine and kept working on even though you got that family issue. No one will blame you, and everything will be fine if you go to law school a year later. On the contrary, if you can push yourself to do everything you've planned and that's what you really want, you definitely can do that! Take the test! But one thing I wanna say is, if you feel uneasy to take care of everything and feel burdened and stressed out, it's okay to let them go. You also need to take care of YOURSELF in this hard situation. I think you are doing so well. and thanks for sharing you story. I hope your mom gets well soon.

if you got this question wrong, go and checkPrep56 sec.3 21:)

I don't know why I considered this question so hard. I think "most" statements still horrify me.

[analogy]

The cook has indicated that apples, pineapples, oranges count as fruit.

However, I know with certainty that no friends in my class had ever eaten such things, so the fact that my classmates ate fruit is unfounded.

→ They would have eaten some kinds of fruits, mango or peach, other than apples, pineapples, and oranges. It did’t say like “fruit → apples, pineapples, oranges” but “apples, pineapples, oranges→Fruit.” Those two have a huge difference.