Yes, the trainer is a phenomenal tool--it helped me improve 11 points before I found 7sage.

I've been hitting a wall, as well. It dangerous to go entirely cold on the studying (your habits get off and it's *haaaarrd* to get them back on track--at least for me) so I'd say to just go light for a day or two and do something that you love/don't get to do often. I'm a community organizer and we often talk about how self-care is so incredibly important. So if it's burnout--do something nice for yourself (get a massage, read a book, do absolutely nothing and binge watch Netflix instead) or if it's just a spot when you don't feel like you're moving forward--take a day or two to go through your notes and find your weaknesses. Drill them. Go light and take really good notes. That's what I do anyway. Godspeed!

It's been my experience that you have to give something up. Contrary, to popular belief you cannot have it all. I'll just second and third (and forth) a lot of what has already been said. You'll be finished with the LSAT in June--just go ahead and make it a priority until then. For me that means getting my sleep schedule back under control so that I can wake up early to study (I can't study after work either). Necessairly, that means that I have to go to bed earlier now. I look to be in bed by 11 so that I can be up by 7 (I don't go in until 11am). That gives me time to get 2-3 study hrs, get ready for work and then come home and unwind/cook before bed. One day out of the week I schedule in an hour to work out (usually Tuesday) and do a light study day. Saturday and Friday are my heavy study days and then I catch up on housework for Sunday. If you'd still like to have a social life, I'd try having meals with friends/families and just learning how to say no. It sucks for a little while but it's going to feel so damn good to kill the LSAT that I just keep telling myself that it'll be worth it. I've been slacking off lately, but while I was sticking to this schedule (for about 3-4 months last year) my score jumped 11 points over my first diagnostic. Gotta put in work to see results--but thank sweet, baby jesus (in his little baby manger) that the result do come!

If you think that it's burnout than it probably is. Get some sleep and go do something fun. I really mean that. Get into the habit of getting 6-8 hours of sleep every night and then listen to your body when it's telling you that you need a break. I work a full time job and it's difficult to find the time but you've got to do it. If you're not getting anything out of your study session because you can't concentrate--you're basically throwing time down the drain.

Nope, no need to worry. That is my story, too. I started testing at 150, and then after 6 months of study (without 7sage and without any really intensive review) I'd only moved to a 158. It's discouraging. Keep at it. The test is meant to be difficult, and I suspect that it's also meant to break your spirit a little. You've got it.

P: Mothers that received adequate prenatal care were less likely to have low birth weight babies than mothers who did not receive adequate prenatal care.

C: Adequate prenatal care significantly reduces the risk of low birth weight babies.

Assumption: There could be something else that causes babies to have low birth weights when the prenatal care that the mother received is factored out. What is another possible cause?

A: I picked A, and I think that I just guessed. This doesn't accurately reflect my premise/conclusion support relationship. It doesn't help me to prove or disprove anything without making assumptions to connect those dots. (Easily fooled under time pressure though)

B: Yes, this answer gives us another reason that could be linking the low birth weights with the type of prenatal care, and that reason is that the hospitals conflate the numbers by assuming that anyone without records received inadequate care.

C: Okay, but that doesn't get at the relationship of the type of care and the low birth weight. You have to assume a relationship between that premature births and prenatal care.

D: I'm not sure about this one-I think that it's doing the same things that A is. Some non-premie babies, whose mothers received adequate prenatal care have low birth weights. I dislike the soft language of "some" where the stimulus uses things like "significantly decrease".

E: Cool. Does this strengthen the argument? Yes, I think.

P: The fore it is that nonaddictive drugs shouldn't be used because they are unnatural. The author says that there are plenty of unnatural things in sports and none of them are banned simply because they are unnatural--therefore, we cannot ban nonaddictive drugs simply because they are unnatural.

C: The use of nonaddictive drugs by athletes should not be prohibited.

Assumption: Leaves open the possibility that we should ban nonaddictive drugs because of something else? Maybe there is another cause that causes nonaddictive drugs to need to be prohibited. Such as them being dangerous.

A: Not helpful about why they shouldn't be banned.

B: That doesn't help me at all.

C: True but not really relevant to this argument.

D: I picked this one originally. The support relationship between the premise and the conclusion isn't about unnecessary deaths or injuries and because of this it cannot weaken this particular support/conclusion relationship.

E: Correct. It introduces another reason why nonaddictive drugs could/should be prohibited.

P: Lobsters and other crustations are more likely to contract gill disease when sewage contaminates their water. (P2) The proposal to reroute the water further offshore will reduce the amount of sewage in the harbor where lobsters are caught.

C: The proposal is pointless because hardly any lobsters in the harbor live long enough to be harmed by the disease.

Assumption: No fucking clue. The relationship is that the proposal is pointless because the lobsters won't live long enough to get gill disease, so it won't matter if the sewage was dumped in the harbor or further off shore. What weakens this relationship? The only thing that I can think of is it's relationship to humans.....? Who knows.

A: I feel like that's a smoke screen. The fact that other contaminates are harmful doesn't really address our concern with this particular situation/proposal.

B: That has nothing to do with anything as far as I can tell.

C: Ew.

D: Okay?

E: Ah. Well that would be a good reason to eliminate as much possibility as possible to dump the sewage further off shore--it lessens the chance of humans getting sick, and thus, makes the proposal of real relevance. (guess we can't just be for animal rights unless it directly effects/harms our health. ugh)

P: Subjects of the study held on to their newly acquired beliefs even after they'd been told that the original statements were false.

C: Humans continue to hold on to their developed beliefs even in the absense of any credible evidence to support them.

Assumption: Not quite sure. We want to weaken the relationship between the ideas that people hold on to aquired beliefs even though they've been told that the things that they based their ideas on were incorrect.

A: I mean....how do they know that? What? I don't understand.

B: I don't know if it's unrealistic or even if that's a relevant thought to the matter at hand.

C: Nope. The fact that it's misleading tell me nothing at all.

D: Suggests that there is a new basis for the people's beliefs--they found independent validation and who is to speak to the validity of the new information. It casts doubt on the assumption of the argument.

E: So?

Like others have said, it's really all about discipline and setting a schedule that's conducive to getting to bed around 10. It's mostly a head game, in my opinion. Set a schedule and stick to it and in about a week, you'll find that the routine gets easier to stick to. The key for me was to start getting ready for bed/winding down about 40 minutes beforehand. I also stopped taking my laptop and cell phone to bed with me. I have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, so I charge my cell phone in my bathroom at night and it forces me to get up to turn the alarm off in the morning. It sucks but it works.

This is an amazing, little gem. It really helps to drive the point home.

Excellent question, @.andonie. I'm also planning to take a gap year (two, actually) in Berlin. This has been super helpful.

There's been a lot of talk about exercise and, while that is super important, I also wanted to mention that you should make a point to blow off studying every once in a while. What I mean by that is that you should make time to have fun. This is a personal tip that I learned through trail and error. I get obsessive about goals sometimes, and I can go full-tilt into something for weeks/months at a time. However, that type of intense focus on something will, occasionally, break my will to live. I'll hit a wall, and spend the next week recovering and getting back on the bandwagon.

Few things have helped me more then setting aside one or two days per month where I went out with some friends. Do it the day before your break day (Sunday in my world) and don't worry about the hangover. Talk to some people. Eat some food. Dance on a bar.

One thing about studying for this test is that it's so easy to get trapped inside your own head. Please don't misinterpret what I'm saying. Don't feel as though you have to go and rage twice a month (or however often works for you), but Dear God!--please--do something fun. I would make a point to go people watch and read at a coffee shop because that feels relaxing to me. Other times I'd go dance my face off. Pencil it in on your calendar if you need to (I do). Just do it. Leave your flashcards at home and go be a real person.

And then go back home and drill your ass off until next time.

Well, this is epic. It's really inspiring to see the incredibly important work that people like Bryan Stevenson do lifted up on a platform like TED. Black men like Mr. Stevenson aren't very visible in our society--it often feels like you have to search for them. To see him up there means a lot.

Thanks for the reminder to go do great shit.

Thanks y'all. Good luck to everyone still studying--be encouraged! There's a light at the end of the tunnel!

I completely agree with Drackedary--the key is going to bed early. It's one of the toughest parts.

Marleybaby, I reccommend exercise. I'll also reccommed that you do what works for you. That means something that you'll enjoy and that you'll stick to. These are your criteria for selection. Do something that works for you--I used to run three miles everyday (hated it but I was a varsity athlete in college and it was required). I totally could have jumped back into running, but it's not where I find my zen. So I picked up yoga and it has been awesome. It can be done in 15mins or an hour, and that really helped with my schedule when I needed the release but just didn't have the time for anything more intense then a 20-mintue session before I grabbed a cup of coffee on my way out the door.

Swim, play tennis, bike--it truly doesn't matter. Just have fun and blow off some steam.