I'm confused. Some people are saying they had an LR section as experimental. I had a game section that was experimental. Could someone please clarify?

Really felt like I blew it on games. I expected this to be my worst section, but I don't think anything could have prepared me for how tough that was gonna be. I'm leaning toward canceling my score. I was testing in the mid 170's, and I'd be very surprised if I broke 170 with this test.

Coming up with a rough outline of my work for the next 3 months. I have literally every PT including the old rare ones, and TBH I've blown thru most of them. Yeah yeah, you told me so. BUT I don't know if that will be an issue.

If I've seen them already, I should get perfect 180's on them all, right? Right. So since that probably won't actually happen, they will still give me hints and clues as to what I need to work on. Unfortunately I have a job.. so what I'm probably going to do is blow thru as many logic games as possible during the day (I get to sit around a lot) starting with the old ones and working up. The logic games seem to be the most conducive to being able to stop and come back to them. At nights/in free time, I will do 1-2 sections of LR or RC per day and will keep track of the ones I miss in a centralized location. I'm going to treat it like JY's method for games.. doing the section 10 times until I get it perfect. I think this will help me see the patterns of the arguments and passages more clearly through rote memorization. I think I went too fast last time. Taking the tests, but not reviewing my mistakes thoroughly enough

The fact that I drilled literally thousands of LR questions was the only thing that kept me going on Monday. I felt like a machine that had to separate logical answers from BS. Although my machine "did run out of gas" at the end, I can say I knocked over 3 sections b2b no problem. Now I just have to sharpen this axe even further.

Timing is not a concern I have. I was able to get to the end of every section with minutes to spare (besides "that" section) My main concerns are accuracy on the LR, and I have to start making notes on my reading comp. From my experience on test day, my brain will just be too hyped up to concentrate well on the passage enough to answer the Q's from memory. I'm going to have to create a useful system of markings that I will use from passage to passage to describe its contents quickly and be able to go back.

Not waiting for my score.. who cares.. the score will be: NOT GOOD Oct prep starts today.

Everyone seems pretty negative about the June LSAT so I figure I'll bring some positivity as we wait. To be honest I have no idea how I did but I don't feel like I bombed it, then again I'm not looking at a 170-180 so I have more leeway in terms of "bombing".

I went in feeling a little pressure but not much since even if I can't get in to school I already have a job lined up and a pretty good software engineer career to fall back on. I studied for a few months and my PT's ranged from 152 (initial) to 169 (PT 69, before the damn 70's..). I figure I have a good chance of at least getting a high 150 which is fine to get in where I want to go. Of course you're thinking thats super low and yes it is but I have to say I wasn't stressed during the test. I finished every section except the games section before the 5 minute warning. The games I finished a few minutes early. I don't think I got everything correct but I didn't just guess so I feel like my timing definitely was good, I might have thought the wrong things or made bad inferences but I definitely felt like if I had practiced a bit more I had more than enough time to do it right. So thats a win.

I'd also like to thank the kid who kept muttering "The tension in the air" before the test. That made me bust out laughing and I couldn't stop thinking about it during the test which just put me at ease. The proctors kept looking at me because I was smiling and silently chuckling to myself the whole test, especially when I noticed someone frustrated. No matter how bad I did I feel like I handled the pressure well so thats another win.

Anyway, as I await the score I can't help but to feel good about how well I did yesterday, regardless of score.

So we are 6 months away and I am registered for the December LSAT. I am about 3 weeks into the 7Sage curriculum and feeling great so far. How is everyone else doing? have you started preparing for December?

For The Logic Games Bundle, I think it would be beneficial if we had one set that kept them in their original order and another that grouped them based on type. Primarily we use them for practice and it could be beneficial to learn each of them by type. The practice sets do a good job of accomplishing this on a smaller scale, but they may assist the vets for enhancing inference making ability.

I had LR-RC-LR-LR-LG. For those with the same set-up, have we been able to guess which LR was experimental? Was the one about mate/paraguay in the first section?

So I have now canceled 2 lsats. I would have kept my last test if I didn't have to guess on a full game plus a couple of questions. I have not had to do that one time during my entire prep. How do you think law schools will look at this?

Hello!

I've been reading around to see if there's a reliable way to see which section of the exam is the experimental. Apparently in today's times it is incredibly unreliable to tell which section it is. It could be any of the 5 sections, because they no longer default to keeping it in the first 3 sections. I feel like my test score is going to be made or broke (overall I think I still did better than last time) by which LG section was the experimental (If I am disclosing too much info then I'll quickly delete/edit this post.) One of the sections felt no different than any other LG section I had done, then the next one felt extremely foreign. I was able to figure out the games, but my confidence in some of the answer choices wasn't very high. Also, the formatting is extremely shitty when it comes to reading the answers in some LGs. I mean, we are already pressed for time, and having to take even a couple of extra seconds to decipher what is being read can throw people off. I kind of get it in the sense that it can weed people out (i.e. not let any average Joe who didn't study much easily read it) but still.

Yay it's over! For now...

Everything that could have gone wrong, did go wrong.

On RC I just could NOT get in the zone. It's easy to practice getting in the zone where you understand what you read easily and spit it back out, and it's easy to get good RCs on your own time. On test day, COMPLETELY different ballgame. It was nearly IMPOSSIBLE to get in that zone. For me anyway.

The only thing preventing me from cancelling right now is that my backup school only requires like a 163. I'm also holding out on the remote shot that my "guess" answers were right.

At any rate, the answer to the question I've been asking for the last 3 months: Will I have to re-take the LSAT in October? Is a resounding: You better.

So you'll be seeing more of me, 7sage :-)

http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/08/22/intense-prep-for-law-school-admissions-test-alters-brain-structure/

As someone who feels like they are "stuck in test prep limbo" and can't manage to raise their score through additional study, it was reassuring to read this article. There is a science to LSAT study and at least some researchers have found evidence it improves brain activity in lasting ways for the better.

I'd be interested to know other peoples' experience, have you plateaued or even gone backwards in your scores, and how have you gotten your scores back up and/or reached your target?

If a question is removed from scoring, does that help ALL of the test takers grades go up? Does anyone know for sure?

Dear friends,

Let's kick off our LSAT Summer Jams with full gusto. Three BR groups for your enjoyment and edification this week.

Note on all groups

Wednesday, June 10th at 8pm EST: PT45

We'll start this BR cycle off right, hitting the ground running with PT45.

(s)I won't be on this call, but many others will.(/s) Just kidding, I will be there after all.

Friday, June 12th at 8pm EST: PT66

For those of us who want to be able to retake and/or drill from tests up to PT71, we will have Friday sessions to BR those later tests. This is likely to be a smaller group but open to anyone.

Note on the Friday group: Please PM me and specifically ask to be added to this one; as it's a smaller group, I won't call everyone from the bigger groups unless you specifically let me know you're up for some crazy PT66+ action.

LSATurday, June 13th at 8pm EST: PT46

Rollin' rollin' rollin'...we'll affectionately beat the snot out of PT46 on Saturday night.

On my LSAC account it says July 7, 2015 but I consistently keep hearing it take 3 weeks... but I'm wondering, from the people who have already taken it... does it possibly come back even earlier than that? And will it come in an email or do we need to be continually checking our LSAC account?

Do you feel that it can be helpful to sometimes view strengthen questions as weakening the opposite of the conclusion, and vice-versa? And when I say opposite, I mean the logical opposite.

welllllllllll people June is over and time to partay.... woot woot

I just got home after taking the lsat. After 4 months of preparation, the test is finally over. Thank God:) But i can't can't really tell if I did well. For some reason I am feeling very insecure. Is anyone having the same feeling?

I've noticed in recent preptests that there have been some difficult logic game curveballs. I'm currently only practicing sequencing games with the earlier tests where a lot of them are curveballs. is there any reason to be concerned about this new trend?

I have been studying for the LSAT with 7sage since March.

Today, I finished the core curriculum. Now, with less than 4 months left, should I bother going through all the questions from PTs 1-36 (got them as part of Cambridge's LSAT bundle) for drilling, before taking full PTs? Do I have enough time?

Please share your thoughts!

I'm prepping for the October test....started 7Sage in January and so far have:

- Been through core curriculum twice

- Been through Trainer once

- Done half of logic games bundle (but I'm very slow on building my LG understanding. It's not going too well)

I'm away right now but return on June 21st. Between then and October I need to:

- Complete LG bundle and any associated "re-runs"

- Read Trainer one more time

- Start and exhaust Cambridge drilling packets for LR

- Complete & BR every prep test

- Dive back into core curriculum/trainer as needed

I'm slightly privileged in the fact that I run a business where I can wrap up most days by 1pm and devote the rest of the time to LSAT prep.

Do I appear to be on track, and should there be enough time to cover the remainder?

I'm in a slow-burning freak out mode over the amount of time I have left and all that is left to accomplish. I'd like to do the LSAT in October to get into my desired school's scholarship pool (closes Nov 25th). If I have to push to December I will...but I'd like to avoid delaying to 2017 entry, as I'm getting on in life and it's now or never!

Hello, I am a junior in college and I want to know more information about taking the LSAT test. I want to know what are the best study tools and also if some could explain to me in good detail about the lsat? And how many questions and how much time do you have? Please help me.

Hey Sagers,

I am taking my test in CA and my ticket says report no later than 12:30pm. I am under the impression that that is east coast time? please help clarify :-D

I understand that the test is of course not actually 7 hours, but my admission ticket says that it can take up to 7 hours... what does this mean? Is there an additional 3 or so hours of rules to be read to all the test-takers? My concern is if there is some long process at the beginning, before the test starts, then I want to know the optimal minute to ingest my caffeine.

First of all, good luck to all of those writing tomorrow!! You WILL kill it!!!

I started taking prep tests again after my dismal December 14 LSAT score. I studied from December to May lightly, about 2-3 hours a day, and, I have to say...... today..... I got a 168!!!!!!!!! Which is my highest score to date :D

Last weekend my score was a 164 with a crappy BR score of a 167. I haven't BR today, but I just wanted to express my happiness. Consistency really really really pays off. My score in December was a 155!

:D

Imagine the LSAT would materialize into a physical entity that you could deck clean in the nose. It would run toward you screaming various arguments and asking you "what must be true," what would strengthen the argument," et cetera. You're sporting a pair of boxing gloves that say Sufficient and Necessary, bedecked in shorts displaying the 7sage logo in a shade of royal blue. Your appearance? Regal. Your demeanor? Hungry. As soon as the bell rings, you come out swinging. Down goes LSAT. Knockout in the 4th. J.Y. is your bookie, he's collecting bets. Ok, I'm done.