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I've been studying for about 3 months using the powerscore bibles and recently decided to join 7sage. I've gone through what feels like many of the fundamentals for the LSAT. My question is when should I take a full time test again? I haven't taken one since May - only timed sections and questions. I've been following the 7sage curriculum but I feel I'm running out of time to take more PT's. Should I I just try one this week and see how I do before getting down more curriculum from 7sage?

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hey everyone, I have one month left and I am scoring between 146-155 which is extremely low. I have high GPA a (3.8) and good references and it is so frustrating that this one stupid test is getting in the way of my dream of law school. Do you have any tips on how I can improve. I have been studying for 2 months (10 hrs per week) I have now been studying 4-5 hrs per day.

If I could at least bump my score to 158 I know I would have a fighting chance with a good GPA. Right now RC is like 14-16 Arguments are :15 correct and Logic Games are my worst with about 14-16.

Any tips, I feel like I review my answers but when new test comes maybe its anxiety but its like I make the same mistakes.

Its starting to make me really depressed but I keep trying not to loose hope. Any suggestions will help.

Thanks,

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I have recently completed the core curriculum and the first PT out, I have scored a raw/timed score of 165. Now, I also BR-ed at 170. I want to know how I should be thinking through my scores, if that question makes sense? So, from B.R. I definitely know that timing is an issue (I lost the bulk of my points due to my inability to complete sections) (how do I improve timing? More timed PT's? Because I am a re-taker, I only have ~13 fresh PT's left)...I want to score at 170+, particularly because I am a nervous test taker. I don't know if this is answerable, but what do you guys think about my progress? How should I be studying now, as I'm entering the next stage of PT-ing?

Thank you.

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Hi Everyone! I was hoping to get some advice on my situation,

I am currently PT around 150, an upwards trend from the start of my PT's from 145 (timing issues) and have hit 150/152 consistently on my past 5 tests. However, I have been blind reviewing around 165. Is it possible to get my score at least up to a 155 or so by the September date?

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Hey guys,

This is going to sound a little strange but bear with me. So I was doing Pt's in the 50's and 60's and was getting around 160 - 165 generally. As soon as I hit the late 60's and early 70's my score suddenly jumped to 170 - 172.

Just wondering if this has happened to anyone else! And is it because of becoming better through practice*hopes very hard* or because the Pt's became slightly different.

It is rather strange to worried over a score increase but... O.o

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I plan on taking the LSAT in September. My target score is 162 or over.

Here's a breakdown of what I've been PTing:

159

160

154

161

163

Should I postpone? Or is it likely for me to hit my target by Sept?

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I apologize that I'm posting on here even though I've already seen several people post about the same thing. I read through those articles and realized I need a bit more knowledge from experienced LSATers.

My dilemma, as you may have noticed, is that today (August 30th), is the last day to change my LSAT test date. My score on the last 3 timed PTs I took were all 161. I tend to score LG: 13/23, LR: 20/25, LR 20/25, RC 23/27. Obviously, I'm focusing on Logic Games. I will admit, I enjoy LR and RC far too much and thus spent most of the last 2 1/2 months on those.

I'm going into third year, so really, I'm not worried about being late for the admissions process. Even if I do postpone and still don't reach my target score (which would be hella shitty) I can retake it next September/October. My only concern is balancing school with the LSAT. 1. From your experience do you think that one can make significant improvements (aiming for a 170) whilst in school? 2. Do you think it is possible to put a sufficient amount of work to see improvements DURING exam season (as the December LSAT and my exam season coincide)?. 3. Overall, should I postpone in the hopes of a higher score at the risk of being able to put in less work per day than I have been these past 2ish months? 4. If yes to the last question, any tips on how to efficiently and strategically study while in school?

Thanks for the help ya'll!

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I am signed up to take the September and December LSATs and only about half way through the core curriculum. I'm pretty comfortable with understanding the lessons and more so have timing issues in so far as getting through the sections. On average I'm scoring just over 150 and I don't think the next month is going to get me to my goal of a 165 or higher so I'm most likely going to take the December exam as well, short of a miracle. I'm wondering if anybody has an opinion about whether it's better to complete the core curriculum or work on timing with the prep tests first? Cheers!

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Hey 7sagers :)

We're now under four weeks before the September test and the anxiety is creeping in. While I've seen a drastic improvement from starting just three months ago (a 9 point bump) I'm still slightly below my bare-minimum goal to where I wouldn't feel the need to commit seppuku. In the last four weeks (nearly 6-7 PTs) I have not scored below a 162 and I've completely turned around my LG ability thanks to some fantastic advice from @"Cant Get Right" and others by using @Pacifico 's method. I've gone from getting at least -7 to getting -2 or -3 consistently on LG sections. However, I'm not quite where I need to be. While I've hit a 165 twice in the last three weeks (my bare minimum score to prevent seppuku), my most recent score went back down to a 163. Here are the section breakdowns from my most recent test:

Logic Games: 87%: 20 correct of 23

Logical Reasoning: 80%: 20 correct of 25

Logical Reasoning: 76%: 19 correct of 25

Reading Comp. 74%: 20 correct of 27

If you were me, where would you try and focus? I've gone through some reviewing up to this point and I've noticed quite a few stupid mistakes made trying to account for time -- i.e., not reading all of the answer choices, selecting answers based off of keywords, etc. If I were to have minimized those slight mental errors and mistakes and correct timing issues I should have reached a 165 easily but I'm still below my ACTUAL goal of 168. My reading comp score is weak and it feels like I'm consistently getting -6/-7 on those sections but I could also stand to improve LR. I've looked at my analytics and I've tried drilling up to this point but I haven't seen any significant improvement yet. Should I stay the course or switch to RC? Any help would be greatly appreciated -- thank you to everyone who has helped so far.

Good luck September LSATers!

-James

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Recently I have been scoring in the low-to-mid 160's. However I just scored a 159 on practice test 53 and it was mainly to the fact that I had - 11 on the logic games (usually my best section). Granted, I just finished the practice test about 5 minutes ago and it is pretty late but I'm pretty panicked

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    So I am hitting 3-5 points below where I want to be. I have registered for September, and I am not opposed to retaking in December. Is it bad to retake? I just don't really see the point of postponing, seeing as the refund won't be worth it. Am I hurting anything by taking it now, if I am okay with a retake?

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    After intensive LG drilling of PT1-35, I was hoping to enter my answers to provide insight on my strengths/weaknesses in Game types.

    The option for clicking to only score 1 section is no longer available but JY shares in the tutorial that analytic tool as an option - a powerful tool during drilling sections.

    Is there another way to access this type of analytics or work-around?

    Thanks:)

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    Props to the BR Group on this, I really kinda just stole this observation from those guys!

    So there are two questions in PT 78 where it really feels like the LSAT is screwing with us and potentially introducing a new tendency on the level of strength of right answer choices: Section 1 Question 6 and Section 3 Question 7. On both of these, the correct answers are really awful and require significant logical leaps and assumptions. I've been confidently and correctly eliminating answers like these for a long time now: It's the exact type of argument that the LSAT has really trained me to not be okay with, so they really threw me off. Before, it always seemed like the relative "most strongly" phrasing was more a caution for if anyone challenged a question or something. But on the current test, it seems they are actually playing around with the idea of relative strength among answer choices. So if you go through answer choices and eliminate all of them with absolute confidence like I did on these, don't panic. Pick the least bad answer, and don't let it throw you off your game.

    Anyone run into any other examples of these or notice any other developing trends?

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