with regards to studying advice, drill, review, repeat. Review is the most important element that most people get wrong. Thoroughly review. And stop studying when you are feeling tired/ unfocused. With regards to how much you should be studying per day: as much time as you can possible without getting tired or drained.

@yogibearboba Depends on the scholarship amount. If the scholarship are likely to cover a substantial amount of the tuition than go ahead. Keep in mind there is LSAT inflation. So aiming low really isn't a good idea. Don't put yourself in more debt than you have to especially for a degree from a institution that has low employment/ and low bar passage outcomes.

Varies with test, literally does not matter.

Tough love: you should not have signed up to the test, especially since you are not practicing around your ideal score. It's unlikely you are going to see your desired results in 8 weeks. Given that you currently are employed, for 150 scorers your issue is likely content and fundamentals, its going to take you more than 8 weeks to fix/ learn the fundamentals while having a full time job. Taking the test is wasting an attempt, withdraw from the test. Don't bank on getting "lucky" on test day. Make the safe and smart choice and withdraw, until you are ready.

I think you should include what the tiers of softs are/ mean, perhaps an example, on the admissions page.

Score preview/ cancelling scores does not ever look good. Thats like the consensus among deans of admissions and admission officers. Just think about it. A person can take 5 tests, you currently took 2, canceled 2, and now you might cancel 3 which means you are going to take 4 or 5 tests in total. 2 cancels already look bad, 3 looks even worse.

Also, it never hurts to take more time off before applying as long as you’re not wasting it. More experience and a higher score can only help your application.

It’s my belief that scorers under 160 typically have a foundational issue. Take a pt, untimed if you are still getting under 160. Review the foundational topics.

Don’t take the test. You are clearly not ready. Not only are you paying for a bad score, you are using up one of your attempts. Don’t take my message the wrong way, im not trying to kick you while your down, but you need to open your eyes to reality. Even if there’s a school out there willing to take a 140-150, you are likely to be paying full tuition for a degree from a school that has low employment outcomes. TLDR: take more time. it’s better to take a extra year to study than to go through with a bad score and accumulating debt for a degree that won’t make finding employment easy.

what’s with the racial-ization and gender-ization of a lsat problem? it’s a simple flaw/ assumption, take for granted that the basis for the conclusion rests upon a representative sample of all degrees/ experience.

if you are doing something because your "mom is pressuring" you to do it, and you aren't seeking it out on your own you probably shouldn't do it. However you should Postpone your test, if you can't because your being pressured, explain to your mom that a shitty score, is worth as much as a blank score, and much worse its wasting money if you don't have a fee waiver.

If you are serious about a 175-178, withdraw from October, save yourself the unnecessary stress. I'd say maybe 4-6 months that if you study properly, and review properly, otherwise maybe upwards of a year or more. I just have a question, is english a second language for you?

Hey, you should take blind review with a grain of salt, or even better shouldn't regard it at all. BR is unreliable measure of your potential, if however when you do untimed sections and you are scoring around the same when you do blind review of timed sections, then your issue might be second guessing. Otherwise I'd say your main issue is with understanding, whether its the stimulus, question, or answer choices.

have not taken the LSAT yet, but I'd say so. LSAT medians are rising everywhere, 172 now is no longer as competitive as it was 5 years ago. I heard somewhere that there might be ~30 schools this year with a median of 170 after this cycle.

If you didn't get in because your "LSAT was low", restart and begin at the beginning.

@uche0905 like 5-6 months

@user4343 It also won't hurt to review or re-review the fundamentals here on 7sage or anywhere else even if you think you have a solid understanding.

@babastein I personally found out the hard way that there's no secret trick to getting better, other than just drilling and practicing. For me I do at least 1 LR section section a day, and deep review all the questions i missed/ questions i cant fully explain. I think how you approach reviewing is the most important part. Make it a habit when reviewing/ blind reviewing to try to find as many things wrong with the wrong answer choices, most of the time there are more than one. And also never move on until you know why the correct answer is correct and why the 4 other choices are incorrect. This way of reviewing got me from a 3-5 misses per section on LR to, 0-2 misses.