This time around I'm not playing any games. This will be my third take at the LSAT and I'm not planning on taking any more after this (Please God, PLEASE). I've made my first step in the right direction by undergoing the 7sage curriculum but now I'm understanding the impact of a healthy lifestyle. I believe a sedentary lifestyle along with poor consumption habits will not help you get an amazing score so I'm deviating away from that.

Oh yeah that brings me to my original point: water intake! Check out this article I stumbled upon that shows what water does to you: https://www.thrillist.com/drink/nation/i-drank-a-gallon-of-water-a-day-for-30-days-water-gallon-challenge

I plan on drinking lots more water now that I see how amazing it works for your mental health. Anyone willing to follow suit? Also what do you like eating/drinking/exercising that has helped your LSAT performance?

I have posted about this before, but my struggle is only getting worse. I just hit an all time low on the RC section. -5 below my diagnostic. I am not sure what to do. I know its hard to improve, but I am taking a huge step in the wrong direction. ANY suggestions? Would love to hear from people who improved their RC scores. REALLY need some motivation.

Now that possums everywhere are safe, it's time to BR.

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Hey folks!

I've spent the last couple of months (since February) studying and working full-time. I'm nearing the end of my curriculum. In fact, I've arranged an opportunity to be able to take about 2.5 months off of work to study full-time before the September exam. I'm really looking for some advice on what/how to study + drill over those months. Any success stories with points/knowledge gains over the BR portion of studying? Any advice before I begin will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks:)

Hi there!I took February and June exam but got only 150 in both the exams.I have been studying since February and the June exam went well but it did not reflect in my score.I have completed Powerscore and LSAT trainer for LR,RC and Blueprint for LG.

I missed seven questions in LG this June.I am planning to retake in December. How should I study to increase my score to 170+?

Today I took at Pt from 2002, and did pretty poorly compared to my other recent PTs. Is this PT too out of date to be concerned? It seemed to take me a lot longer than the newer Pts I have previously done.

Is there a way to get Statistics for difficulty comparison of RC or LR sections across PTs? 1-5 star system doesn't differentiate in many cases as most RCs are 5-star.

Just like 7-sage shows the %age of Analytics users who filled out the answer sheet and picked a specific answer for a Question, can one see the average misses for a specific RC section. Like -6 for PT-70 RC or something like that among 10,521 users who filled out the answer sheet in Analytics.

This is specifically useful for RC (and may be LG/LR sections) where the sections are given the same star-rating.

So I just read that it's beneficial to save the more recent preptests for when you're closer to the test date. I'm taking the September test and I already took a few of the more recent ones. Is that bad? Also, is it worth it to just focus on the ones in the 50s and 60s right now and then approach the recent ones later? How far back should I be going? Thanks!!

Hello!

I apologize if this is a repeat discussion - I saw a few similar discussions here but none that specifically answered my questions. I recently took the June LSAT and received a relatively decent score (164) but am looking to improve to a 170. I had completed the PTs from 62-70 while preparing for the June test (as well as using the Powerscore books) and am wondering if retaking them would be beneficial. I'm guessing there are some advantages to retaking, but I'm wondering how to best utilize the old PTs. Should I retake them first, save them for right before the September LSAT, or switch off between the old PTs and new PTs?

Any advice is appreciated.

My friends don't get my LSAT jokes and that makes me sad.

1. Correlation always = Causation

2. The more money you spend on a course the higher the score you will get always.

3. For the games never split into boards.

4. For RC read the questions first, for every passage. Then read all the passages.

5. Read the directions before the section very carefully! They change often!

6. Bring your cell phone to the test center in case they update the center location.

7. Use a different color highlighter for every paragraph on RC to stay organized.

8. The LSAT is a born skill. If you take it the first time and don't score in the 170's you can't ever score that high.

9.For LR let the answers choices guide you. Often times you can have no idea about the stimulus but the right answer choice will just POP out at you.

10. Always read the answer choices first

11. Bring a really loud timer to the testing location to make sure you know when time is up!

12. When you take a PT always look at your score right away. This will provide you vindication that you are actually smart.

13. Use a pen on the scantron so the scoring machine can read the bubbles clearly

14. If you ever do a live BR session and the group is unsure about an answer look it up and tell them. "No guys it's B I looked"

14.5 IF you see 3 A's in a row the next answer can't be A as it is too many.

15. If you get into trouble, panic. It can help you power through questions you normally would miss.

You all have been asking for PT C2 explanations, and they're finally ready. To kick things off, we're discounting it for our early bird sale!

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Can anyone help me out with this one? No idea what the stimulus is saying nor why anything is right or wrong. Utterly confused.

Hi there,

I just stumbled upon the Question Bank. I'm not sure if that's simply a resource if you don't have the actual tests...or if it's meant to be used for something else. How does the QB fit into my studies? My plan was to finish curriculum, do question sets, and then take as many PT as I can and BR of course.

This professor's response exemplifies why I want to go to law school.

http://imgur.com/a/YkDVQ

I just received my June score and while respectable, it isn't high enough for HYS so I'll be retaking in September. My biggest issue with getting back to studying is that I feel I've fully understood the core curriculum and I've now also used up the later PTs. I also worked through the LG Bible and LSAT Trainer. Drilling and BRing was my preferred strategy the first time, but I'm a little lost on how I should go forward from here. Is re-doing PTs even helpful? Any advice would be hugely appreciated!

Hey everybody - just joined 7sage a few weeks ago and have been absolutely loving the curriculum. I took the LSAT last January and prepared by using Mike Kim's LSAT Trainer (great book) and scored a 165 which I'm proud of, but want to really bust into a significantly higher score.

Anyways, I'm just wondering if there are people out there who have done so on the actual test by using 7sage. I know there are, and I thought there might be a thread dedicated to people celebrating their success - I just haven't been able to find it! If so, someone please kindly direct me to the right place. :) I'm just looking for some real-life motivation!

Hey guys,

I just signed up with 7Sage a few weeks ago and am currently going through the curriculum (should be on track to finish early August). Surfing through past BR group discussions, it seems like a good idea to get an early start on organizing a BR group. I'm aiming to take the LSAT in December. Anyone else interested in getting the ball rolling on a December 2016 BR group?

Best,

Michael

Do you always split your game board when there are only two options for a slot? Seems like I see JY doing that most of the time.

https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-june-2007-section-2-question-08/

For this particular question, I'm having trouble understanding why answer choice E is incorrect. Because we know that the batteries that power electric cars come from nuclear or coal plants, and since we know that those power sources causes significant environmental damage, is it logical to state that there may not be a net reduction of environmental degradation? Saying that there won't be a reduction in environmental degradation seemed logical to me because it hints at 2 possibilities: 1. the considerable environmental damage caused by the battery production will produce the damage as would the emissions of an ordinary car. 2. The battery production will produce more damage than the emissions from a ordinary car.

I also had a hard time understanding why answer choice A is correct. The proponents beliefs seemed to talk about the abatement of environmental degradation specifically linked to a decrease in auto-emissions rather than an overall abatement of environmental degradation, while the author seem to not directly touch on the proponents point but rather mention an additionally concern of battery production. Even though battery production creates causes its own environmental damage, isn't it still the case that there is a decrease of environmental degradation that specifically arises from auto-emissions, because of the fact that electric cars don't have its own emissions. If that case is true, wouldn't the proponents stance hold and the environmental consequences aren't as worse as proponents believe them to be.

As advised by JY and other top scorers, one of the main priorities during serious PT phase is to cut out Under-confidence time sinks during a timed PT. Know your strengths, pick your answer and move on; Know your weaknesses and skip as needed to get the easiest points in your wheel-house.

Hmmm, just trying to implement a Skipping strategy caused chaos during my timed PT's. For those of you on the BR calls, I have been very vocal about how it was difficult to make that transition and not completely undermine any confidence I had answering the questions. Thanks to everyone and their advice on different skipping strategies - markings and notations to be able to go back to questions if I had a bank of time left, etc. I highly recommend using re-takes as you are trying to implement any new strategy. I also recommend video tape a section at least once, it can be very painful in post-analysis - or for me it was painful just being aware of my timing issues while I was taping:)

My notation during a timed PT is a slight dash under a question to review under BR b/c I want to revisit the explanation, circle the Question number that I am about 80% or between to AC's, and write a big S at the top of the page with Q# that I completely skipped. Not the best system but ever evolving.

Darn you @"Nicole Hopkins" with all my heart!! Last night on your office hours, I asked you how to eliminate under-confidence issues. Well, thanks a whole heck of a lot:( heehee:)

When you shared your beast of BR process for LR, I "wasted" a few hours today after a timed section writing out breakdowns of Q's that I was 100% confident. I have always tried to stick to a thorough BR of questions understanding why each AC was right or wrong for the Q's I circled or skipped. I never really paid much attention to the Q's I put a hash mark under other than verifying my AC was correct. Implementing your strategy to literally write out an explanation in sentence form of my entire thought process for every question that I was confident but "casually" hash marked was incredibly frustrating.

Honest evaluation: The problem in Under-confidence rears its ugly head when I am marking too many questions for review later providing a safety net keeping me from exposing Over-confidence errors.

I learned an incredible lesson tonight and will try to take this experience and knowledge into my future PTs to balance confidence issues to help my obtain my personal LSAT goals.

I don't know what this means but just for kicks:

Invalid, right?

https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-19-section-4-question-18/

I'm posing this question primarily because of answer choice A on PT19 S4 Q18. Answer choice A is incorrect but I chose it because I thought the economist was simply contradicting the politician's conclusion which I thought was a principle.

Hey, everyone. In my quest to become an LSAT test-taking machine, I made some digital flashcards to help me memorize some key concepts in LR:

-- Valid/Invalid argument forms

-- Logical Fallacies

-- Stimuli Indicators (premise/conclusion, sufficient/necessary, causation, some/most/all)

-- Question Stems

-- Strategies by Question Type

I'm going to flip through these every day from now until the September test date until they can instantly be recalled from memory. And obviously, they're a compliment--not a substitute--for other forms of preparation. I thought I'd pass them along, just in case you find them useful, too.

If you like them, great!

If you don't like them, please tell me how you think they can be improved.

If you spot an error, please let me know.

If you have some great flashcards that help you memorize important LSAT info, please pass it along, too.

Thanks!

The title speaks for itself! Besides the typical movies such as The Paper Chase and To Kill A Mocking Bird, my favorite movie that has a law vibe to it is My Cousin Vinny. Not the typical movie to give you that lawyer feeling but it's funny and thought provoking at the same time. Now post yours :D