Is anyone else’s webpage force refreshing? It happens when I try to type messages to Sage and literally happened twice when writing this post (I had to copy & paste from my notes app) because the refreshes erase everything you’ve typed. It’s super annoying and is making the website unusable.

I just took my second full PT and scored a 137, up from a 125 on my first PT two weeks ago. My ultimate goal is a 175–178, and I’m currently scheduled to take the LSAT on October 7.

For those who started in a similar score range and eventually reached the 170s, what did your progression realistically look like?

At this stage, what kind of improvement should I ideally be seeing from PT to PT to know that my studying is actually working? How frequently should I be taking full PTs, and what score range should I consistently be reaching before I consider myself ready to sit for the actual exam?

Most importantly, based on your experience, what is a realistic timeframe for going from the high 130s to 170+? I know a 175–178 is a very ambitious goal, and I’m willing to postpone my test date if necessary rather than rush the process.

I’d especially appreciate hearing from anyone who made a significant score jump: how long did it take, what changed in your studying, and at what point did you start seeing the biggest improvements?

This is of course something that is so welcome and I am not trying to second-guess myself AT ALL (especially since I am taking the September exam lol). However, I just feel like this is a fluke since I feel like my PTs have never broken into the 170s before and I very consistently fall into -5 LRs, especially with conditional reasoning mistakes. Any advice on trying to replicate this come test day?

I don't normally do this but I've just been feeling so nervous and stressed out. I hope there's other people who can relate to this. I've been studying for the LSAT for two months. I'm taking the test on Friday and I'm just simply not ready for it.It wasn't my decision to only study for two months, I was pressured by my family into registering for the September LSAT. I spent the entire summer studying full time and I've been so miserable. I don't go outside. Every single day I've been studying and studying. I've made good progress but I need more time. I don't feel comfortable having to take it when I'm not where I want to be right now. I'm a first gen student and with the current political climate, my mom has been pressuring me into applying for law school this year. She just doesn't understand the process and it is really frustrating. I'm under so much pressure it's unbearable. I'm posting this in case anyone else relates and wants to talk about it.

I was wondering why cant 7sage have a Wrong Answer Joural section in their platform?? Would be a great addition I believe.

Hi everyone. I have been racking my brain for months trying to come up with a topic for my PS and I keep hitting a wall. I don't have a "x happened that changed my mind and thats why I want to go to law school/by a lawyer".

If anyone has any tips for coming up with their PS that would be very helpful. I've used AI for brainstorming, I've written down boatloads of ideas and I don't think any of them are strong enough for a whole essay.

Thanks guys!

Hey guys! Usually my accuracy is really good while drilling & doing sections but these most recent sections and PT's (PT 151 and 152) are really taking it out of me. They feel more taxing and I guess they're exposing an underlying mistake I keep making so is the idea to just review and try to figure out how I can tackle the questions I am missing better? For reference I usually get about -2 per section with a comfortable amount of time left and recovering my misses in BR but these recent sections have been around -5 with me running out of time and my most recent one I only ended up recovering one. Are there any tips on how to recover from a slump? Should I kill volume and only review for the next couple of weeks? My drilling is still very good so should I start only drilling level 4 and 5 questions from more recent prep tests? Taking the November LSAT

Hi!

Every drill, section, prep test etc I do - I always do so well on the blind review, but can't seem to get it right the first time when it counts. Any tips to trust your gut more? Or does anyone know why it just seems to click the second time around?

Hi guys!

Last year when studying for the LSAT I was hitting around 156-158 which I was fine with. I took the LSAT and got a score in the mid 140s, which was incredibly disappointing. I took it remotely, and there were some issues so I am not sure if that was the main reason for the huge drop in my score.

I am taking it again in October, and have been scoring in the high 150s and low 160s with BR in the high 160s low 170s. I am incredibly nervous that my score is going to drop into the 140s again when I take it. I get very nervous and anxious when I am in that kind of setting.

I have been studying at coffee shops and at the library to get used to people getting up and moving around.

Does anyone have any tips on how to manage my stress when taking the official test? Has ayone dealt with this issue before?

Thanks!

does any1 have any tips, i did my BR directly after and the difference is pmo 😭 pls i feel like i do okayish during my drills and stuff but i swear every time i do an actual full test at once i be on some bs.. writing for october and my BRs have been between high 160s-170, i feel like my drills and BRs just arent indicative of my actual performance i feel like i doubt myself a ton when im doing a full test...

Hi there, this is my first time taking the LSAT and I'm a bit nervous about taking it remotely. Could people share their experience on how they prepared their rooms and laptop/PC before their exams? I'm taking it on a macbook.

Thanks!

SA is the question type I fluctuate the most on: 7/7 on the Fast Track drill set and on normal 12 question sets I get anywhere from 6-12/12. There are just so many little nuances in how you approach each different SA question that can affect your reasoning, I'm wondering if anyone has any tips on how to better approach these questions as a whole so I feel less like I'm guessing what the correct answer is.

Also, the stim's for this question type seem to jumble my brain the most: does anyone have any tips for how to better parse them?

I have plateaued around 160, even though I have been studying for 5 months. And I feel like I'm regressing. I have been losing faith in myself and studying less. How do you all keep yourself motivated and on track without burning out? I'm nervous I'm not cut out for law school.

I posted this on the 7Sage subreddit and am posting it here as well.

I am at a point with this exam where I just do not know what I am doing wrong. I have a PrepTest average of 174, have taken PT123+, and have extensively drilled the rest. I thought I had learned from my mistakes and had gotten much better after June. I isolated everything that went wrong, worked on it, drilled extensively, and performed my best ever on PrepTests (consistent high 170s, though some were not completely fresh).

And then I got a statistically indistinguishable score on the real thing in August (168 on the June exam, 169 on the August one).

I am starting to wonder whether I have just hit some sort of cap on what I can achieve.

As a result, I drilled tons and tons of 4* and 5* LR questions, requiring myself to get 25 correct in a row.

What other mountains are left to climb? Or should I just not apply this cycle?

The only thing I can think of is trying to rigorously train the process of elimination on LR, but I can't think of a way to drill it that doesn't just end up with me doing questions the way I normally do.

Update for 7Sage:

I've been going through the older questions and finding that older LR actually helps me with my process of elimination because I have to make a lot of tough calls down to two choices in a way I usually don't in the newer ones. However, the current test still feels like there are "two trap answers" instead of one, and I thought it might be my nerves, but I tried to feel a lot calmer in August, even though I was a bit tired. I basically feel like I know this test too well to walk away with a score like 169 when I think very deeply about its mechanics, found a lot of it intuitive to grasp, and obviously have done nearly 4,000 questions at this point.

I tried going to tutors on here, but I was pretty much just told that they don't know how to help me because I know the content very well and that I just need to execute better because it's infeasible the actual exam's LR is much harder.

If anyone has a similar background and eventually got out of it and now works as a tutor, please let me know. Specifically, someone who felt like they knew the test ridiculously well but for some reason could not hit their PT average.

Is this right? On the old interface we could highlight parts of an answer choice but I'm noticing we no longer can. Is this something that is permanent?

I just took pt 156 and did so awful I feel like throwing up. Literally did worse on it than on my last two actual LSAT attempts. I'm genuinely sobbing at the library right now. I have no idea how I'm gonna reach my target score of 165 when I just got a 153 on this PT. I hate this test so much it literally kills my spirit. Gonna review it tomorrow but I just feel so discouraged right now.

I decided to take a night off of studying for my birthday. That turned into a week off, due to my youngest catching the back to school bug and then passing it to me. This morning was when I was supposed to jump back into the swing of things (I work overnights). I’m sitting there procrastinating the night away and finally just do the dang thing and start a drill. Immediately get an itchy and irritated throat and an overall ‘I don’t want to do this’ sense. Pause my drill and pull out a cough drop and the first thing I see is it telling me to “buckle down and push forth”. Then I read the rest and just laugh at the irony and get back to studying. May my halls wrapper motivate you all as well.

Can anyone explain the difference between assumption and inference? I'm having a difficult time distinguishing the difference on LR questions!

October LSAT First-Timers: 30 Days to LOCK IN 🔒📚

30 DAYS. That’s it. We’re officially in the home stretch!

I’m starting this study group for anyone taking their first LSAT in October 2026 who wants to lock in, stay accountable, and make these next 30 days count.

Whether you’re starting from a 140s diagnostic and chasing a major score increase, already in the 150s/160s and pushing toward your goal score, or simply trying to make sure you’re fully prepared for test day — you’re welcome here.

The goal isn’t to compete with each other. It’s to lock in together. 🔒

🎯 What We Can Use This Group For

• Daily/weekly study check-ins

• Sharing practice test scores and progress

• Discussing difficult LR and RC questions

• Sharing strategies that are actually working

• Accountability when motivation starts slipping

• Setting weekly goals and reporting back

• Celebrating score increases — big or small

• Talking through test anxiety, timing, and confidence

• Keeping each other focused during the final stretch

⏰ THE 30-DAY CHALLENGE

For the next 30 days, let’s treat LSAT prep like a commitment.

You don’t have to study for 8 hours every day. You don’t have to get every question right. And you definitely don’t have to have everything figured out right now.

But we DO have to show up.

Let’s use these next 30 days to identify our weaknesses, attack them, review our mistakes, take our practice tests seriously, and walk into October knowing we gave this everything we had.

30 days of consistency > 30 days of panic.

Drop an introduction when you join:

📍 First LSAT: October 2026

🎯 Goal score:

📊 Current PT/diagnostic:

📚 Prep program:

⏰ Hours you plan to study per week:

🔥 One thing you’re determined to improve before test day:

Let’s lock in. 🔒

October 2026 — WE’RE COMING FOR YOU. 📝

On September 1st, over a hundred law schools announced updated application requirements. No need to rush to LSAC -- we have them all for you here!

https://7sage.com/admissions/application-requirements

Some initial takes:

• Lots of schools are adding Why X essays

• Lots of schools are adding what we're calling the "agreeable disagreement" essay that Stanford, Yale, and Columbia were trying out in the last few cycles.

Check them out! If something still looks like it's from last year, that's because that school is waiting until either September 15th, 30th, or October 1st or 15th to announce their new requirements.

Happy applying! And if you want to dive deeper on any of this, come visit us at 7Sage Admissions.

Hey Peeps! If anyone is in the ATL area and would like to meet up to study for the November LSAT please let me know!

I've been drafting personal statement after personal statement (not always to completion) over the past month or so, and once my LSAT take next Saturday is over I am 100% in "admissions mode," but I still haven't found a PS topic that feels convincing. I have quite a few good anecdotes, and those read well, but when it comes to drawing connections to law, and almost giving it that "juice" that many of the examples I read have, I find my attempts lacking. Does anyone have any advice or resources they've used thad has helped them with this sort of issue? I want to have all my applications in by November (hoping that is early enough) so need to make a bit of a breakthrough soon so I can start working on Perspective and optional essays.

Hi! I started at a 155 diagnostic, self-studied my way to an official 166, and then worked my way to an official 177. My LR was consistently -1 to -3 by the 166 test, but RC could swing anywhere down to -7 depending on the day. I told myself for a while it was just an off section, bad luck, whatever. It wasn't. I was avoiding it because it was the section I was worst at, which meant I wasn't putting in the reps that would have actually fixed it. And that avoidance makes sense. LR is more fun to sit down and do. RC is slower, drier, and less satisfying question to question, even when you're doing everything right. Neither section is a blast, but RC loses the fun contest every time, and that's exactly why people under-practice it.

Once I stopped letting my LR strength cover for my RC weakness and started treating RC like the section that actually needed the work, my score went from 166 to 177. Getting from the 160s into the mid-to-high 170s is where a lot of people stall out. It's where I struggled the most too. That's the part I want to help other students with: figuring out where they're actually losing points, being honest about the sections they're avoiding, and turning those weaknesses into something predictable and manageable.

This isn't just for people already in the 160s, though. If you're just starting out, or you're still in the 140s or 150s and the test feels like a foreign language, that's fine too. A lot of the habits that get someone from 166 to 177 are the same habits that should be built from day one, so you don't spend your first year of studying picking up things you'll have to unlearn later.

Two things I'll drill into every student, whatever your level:

• Blind review and wrong answer journal everything you miss. If it's a single section, do it that day or the next. If it's a full PT, wait until the next day so you're not just running on adrenaline and you don't exhaust yourself that day.

• Learn what to do when you're down to two answer choices. Everyone goes through this. You've read the stimulus or passage, read the question, eliminated three, and you're staring at two that both feel defensible. This is where people burn way too much time and sometimes still end up guessing wrong, and then run out of time on the questions after it. What I recommend is to read both one more time, figure out which one is more wrong, pick the other, and move on. The LSAT itself tells you this is going to happen; the instructions say: "For some questions, more than one of the choices could conceivably answer the question. However, you are to choose the best answer; that is, choose the response that most accurately and completely answers the question." Tutoring won't make this scenario disappear completely, but it should make it rare, and it should make you fast when it does happen.

My actual goal is to get the test to feel second nature, no matter where you're starting from. Not just accurate, but familiar, to the point where you can feel how a section is going while you're still in it. You should know you're having a good LR section as you're going through it, not find out three weeks later when the score comes back.

Sessions are meant to be a conversation, not a lecture. I want to work through problems with you, figure out where the actual gaps are, and build a plan from there. I don't want to just talk at you for an hour. I also genuinely believe this test is learnable. A lot of people feel like they've hit a ceiling, like their score is just who they are at this point. I don't buy that, and I want to convince you of it too.

I'm charging $40/hour right now. Comment below or message me and I'll set up a free intro call.

After plateauing in the mid 160s for weeks before the September LSAT, finally got into the elusive 170 club. Keep grinding y'all. Best of luck next week!

Does anyone have any advice for not psyching yourself out on harder RC passages? I find myself freaking out and having to re-read over and over again because I convince myself I can't understand the passage. I've tried focusing on finding the structure/opinions/etc., slowing down, taking deep breaths, and even powering through, but then I finish and I have no idea what I just read. Any advice?