I'm not sure if this would help but you might as well give it a try. Sometimes when I'm nearing the latter half of a reading section and my brain starts to feel foggy, I take 3 deep breaths. I also have tried stretching for 2-3 minutes while breathing right before a section and found that it really wakes up my brain.

You're going to have to find a technique that tells your brain to snap out of it when you start to daydream. I think it's all about doing small things to train your focus and eventually it will become habit.

Awesome job!!!

Thanks everyone. Would any of you recommend retaking old PTs as well? What's the strategy with that?

Always next time.

I had the same situation as you - 2 LGS. The easier LG was the experimental unfortunately :(

As someone who has been working full time and studying for the LSAT for about the past year and a half (it's been a really long time!), I connect to almost everyone commenting on this thread. I work a demanding job so I know that the struggle is real...but it's not impossible. I have learned how precious little bits of time are: 10 minutes reviewing missed LR questions while waiting for your next train or that extra 20 minutes you get when you can convert your lunch break into a quick study crunch. Make a very precise schedule of how much time you can allocate to study versus how much time every other engagements require. This will make you realize that you need to work smart with the little time you have. It's not about doing many hours of work, it's about being productive and progressive with limited ingredients. If you're going to sit down 2 hours after work every day to study, make sure you're not hungry or distracted. If you're starting to nod off, close the books and hit the sack. Wake up early then to make up that missed time with a fresh mind.

Personally, I would wake up at least 1-2x a week early on weekdays (at around 4 or 5 in the morning) if I didn't spend 2-3 studying the night before. I would also study around 4-6 hours a day on the weekends. I minimized socializing to only hanging out with my significant other (who took the LSAT too) and then rarely with some close friends.

Additionally, I actually didn't talk to my coworkers about my LSAT too much. They're attorneys or paralegals who are also taking the LSAT so I didn't want to add to any anxiety or nervousness by talking up the exam.

daaaaamn. Welp! This was a hard one :/

I eliminated D because of the word "knew", I think D would have been a better answer if it said "it's like arguing that a society had alcohol around but never drank it". What if the society knew how to brew it but didn't have the materials to brew it? I think the reasoning that we have to assume alcohol and tobacco are good things makes sense to an extent...for the correct answer choice (C) to be true we have to assume that having telekinetic powers is a good thing. What if telekinetic powers is not advantageous? The stimulus explicitly states that linguistic skills are evolutionarily advantageous but (C) never makes that explicit claim that telekinetic powers are advantageous. We make that assumption because well...we think: of course it'd be awesome if we can read everyone's minds! But that's also an assumption so I don't think that reasoning works...

Hey there!

I think in terms of your address, all you need to make sure is that the address of your LSAC account matches your current address since that's where they will send you your test score. You can also obviously view it electronically once it is released. As long as the first and last name of your ID matches the one that is on your LSAC account, you should be fine. Call LSAC if you are still unsure.

Good luck fellow test-taker :)

Overall, how difficult/easy did you find your test?

When conducting the memory method for this passage, would you write a few lines for each paragraph? I feel like one sentence per paragraph would not suffice because there's just so much damn information in paragraph 1.

Hi Luis,

Do you have an example question? Can you post the # and maybe I can take a stab at helping you :)

it's okay @ :P come on a double date with me and my ryan gosling look-a-like.

@. I must say I feel bad for this Margot Robbie twin sister look-a-like and hey at least the trilogy can last for 11 hours.

At least the LSAT is a valentine that won't stand you up

Just tried to read Milton's poem really slowly and still have no idea what the heck he's saying. Something about him trying to pluck berries and hairy mantles?

I think you're simply not allowed to take the LSAT more than 3 times a year; as in you can't sign up to test the test the fourth time. I'm not too sure about the last question but my hunch is once you register and take the test then that counts as you one instance of taking the test. Even if you cancel your score, you can't erase the fact that you took the test. Actually I'm pretty sure of this because every time you take the test, schools will be notified. Even if you cancel your score, it will still be noted that you have been exposed to the test.

I think you inverted your explanation for question 20? You're asking whether physical laws are harder to discover than biological laws but the answer choice says that biological laws are more difficult to discover than physical laws. Am I not understanding your explanation correctly? Either way I'm still confused about why this answer choice is 100% wrong. I can understand why it's wrong if you interpret "discover" to mean that biological research is harder to conduct and therefore it's literally harder to seek and find biological laws but I originally interpreted "discover" to mean "confirm" or "substantiate with repeated trials and hard evidence" which I thought the first paragraph had said this to be the case.

Thy name is Al, thanks seems easy(ish) enough then!

LSATIsland, how long did it take you to read the passage twice? Did you speed through the first time and then go back to collect any information you might have missed the second time around? I often read a sentence and have to re-read it because I just can't absorb what it's saying the first time through. I'm trying to learn how to comprehend the material fully the first time around because I feel like this is where I'm wasting time.

This is what I learned about RC: banish any and all assumptions. You're asked to make inferences but they MUST be supported by the passage. If you can't prove it, you're wrong. Other than the inference questions, everything else must derive straight from the passage.

What @ says is really really important. The crazy thing about the LSAT is that it's nearly 1/2 of your application. The even crazier thing is that you can spend 4 years slaving away for your GPA but if you only spend 2 months studying for the LSAT and get a poor score - that poor score dampens your amazing GPA. The pressure of applying this cycle may be real and you may not have a choice but to take the LSAT as soon as you can. BUT if you have ANY room at all don't take the LSAT and settle for that score unless you've been acing your preptests with flying colors.

I like to imagine myself (and every LSAT student) as the karate kid and weirdly I actually see the LSAT as Mr. Miyagi...or maybe 7sage is Mr. Miyagi...or maybe it's a combination of both. Let's say I only give myself one month to learn karate/Mr. Miyagi. I think one month is enough but all I know is that I hate Mr. Miyagi. Why is he so strict? Why is he so weird? Why does he make me do such weird shit? One month goes by and really I'm still not very good at Karate and I know nothing about Miyagi. I extend it to three months and I learn all about Miyagi's sad past and his outlook of the world. I begin to open up and understand him and why he thinks about certain things. Month four comes around and I realize Miyagi is actually teaching me life lessons and I'm getting down the foundations of karate!

Several more months go by and karate/Mr. Miyagi becomes my life (we're still talking about the LSAT). Mr. Miyagi teaches me the crane move which is super duper hard and I struggle with it but I have time to practice. Come tournament day I walk in to the karate center knowing that if I do well, it's because I EARNED it. I'm not gambling on a good outcome, because of the time and effort I put into it the odds are in my favor. Therefore, I am confident.

So let's say you only give yourself a few months to study, you still haven't learned the LSAT through and through yet (you don't even know that there is a crane move!). I think everyone can get an amazing score if they just give themselves enough time and are motivated.

Ah okay, good luck!! You got this :)

Are we to assume that "testing gamma interferon" means administering gamma interferon? I guess so because they're trying to fight the chronic viral infections but I got tripped up on this.

I think you should tell yourself that its absolutely okay not to get to every question. I'm not sure if you feel this way but when I get the deer-in-headlights feeling, it's because I just checked my watch and I'm freaking out about little time I have left and my mind is then trying to calculate how many questions I have. You have to step out of your own head and be as objective as possible. So what if you run out of time? What if you spent your time wisely to get the majority of questions correctly? That's still better than getting 8 questions wrong. When you panic don't suddenly fly through the questions with wild abandon hoping that you'll make up for time. Accept the fact that you'll get to what you can get to and focus on nurturing the questions in front of you. I think in time, you'll do better and then feel more confident. Confidence = better timing. I hope this helps and also, don't bum yourself out over this. Seriously, it will be okay!

When are you applying, right after you get your Feb. score back?

Hey there!

Hmm, I originally was planning on taking the Feb. exam too but I decided to postpone it because I knew my timing wasn't perfect and I was weak on several important areas. You probably have the test down better than I do but for this one section where you're freezing up, how many wrong are you getting? Is this due to a lack of confidence or do you just get a deer-in-headlights feeling when the clock is ticking? (or both)?

In my case, I felt the same way for Logic Games. I knew I could make the relevant inferences if only I had a little more time for each game but I would just get so nervous on a timed prep test that it would ruin my mojo. So I told myself I probably just need more time to learn how to be confident. Confidence is also an important skill to learn for the LSAT.