Well, now I see that someone else just posted something very similar, but I can't see how to delete my post. The answers on that post are helpful, but they do seem a little related to OP's specific issues.

I guess a more general question I have is this: is a GPA addendum able to be written by anyone, or will the school request it, or what? How does that work?

@ that was super helpful, thank you!!!

@ I think comments like this go too far. It's great that you're trying to help, but there's no need to tell someone that their score is not good.

It might be true that an untimed 165 is unlikely to lead to OP's goal score when timed, but this doesn't mean that it's not a good score, especially when we know that "good" and "bad" often shift in meaning depending on the test-taker.

^This is what I was thinking as well! Thank you!!

I would really love this!

I do super detailed test corrections for them (which I'd be happy to share with you if you want). Basically, I make sure I understand what method I need to use for the type of question, and then I go through the wrong ACs that I chose/tempted me and write out why it's wrong. Then, I move to the correct AC and essentially locate the criteria that made it "right". I used to get -8 to -10 wrong, and I'm pretty consistent now at -2 to -4.

In the end, for RC, it's almost never that the right AC sticks out at me (though this is sometimes true for the easier questions). I've just gotten much better at quickly identifying an AC as wrong. Like I said earlier, I do look at what makes a right answer right, but it kind of turns into "it's right because it's not wrong," like... it didn't go beyond the scope of the passage, or it answered the Q being asked instead of some other Q, or the language isn't too strong/weak. Stuff like that.

It's a ton of practice - I've been doing a lot of problem sets with really hard RC passages to get better, but most of my learning came from the test corrections.

I have lots of philosophy papers that I can offer, but no books come to mind.

Interested!

Hey! Starting with the August LSAT, there will no longer be a FLEX because they are going to re-introduce an unscored section. That said, there will be four sections total, so, similar to the FLEX, only three sections (one of each) will be scored.

So, simulating FLEX may give you a more accurate idea of the score, but doing all four sections may give you a more accurate idea of the duration. Hope this helps!

Hi Scott! S1 is not an LR section. Did you just mean to take the first LR section?