Hey everyone! I have small ears and was wondering if anyone had a really good recommendation for foam earplugs. The last time I took the exam in the testing center, they gave me these over-ear headphones, but they weren`t enough, particularly when the proctor came to help a student next to me. The closer to noise-cancelling, the better. Thanks!

I’ve been working through The Loophole by Ellen Cassidy, and it’s been extremely helpful so far. I’m hoping to find similar resources, but specifically geared toward Reading Comprehension—would love any recommendations.

Hello! I'm taking the April LSAT & it'll be my second time. When I took it back in January, I opted for In-person testing, but didn't get the score I wanted, and kind of attributed some of it to being in an unfamiliar location (obviously, needed more studying, but beyond that...)

Just wanted to see what everyone's experiences have been like taking it Remotely? I've heard some horror stories so wanted to get a wide variety of stories before I make my decision this week~

Hey all,

Very specific question here. Basically, I’m going to be part of a local research team for a study being done by a large national non profit. I’m just wondering how I would put that in my resume.

To give more detail, I wouldn’t be listed among the primary authors, but my name would be in the appendix listed under my team. I suppose I’m curious how one cites that in a resume, or if I even should.

Thanks!

I just scored a 169 on PT159.

Diagnosed at a 149 in December and now is the time to prove that I can break 160. Hasn't happened yet but I am going to go all out these next 2 weeks and do my best. How are we all feeling? Nervous? Confident? What do y'all think?

SCORE INCLUDED AT END

Hi everyone, if you find this post insightful, please upvote!

I’ve been tutoring the LSAT for about five years and have a few openings, so I’ll be taking on a few new students for the March-August test window. I am very passionate about teaching and learning the LSAT, I’ve worked with 100+ students across a wide range of starting scores, but I especially enjoy helping people who feel stuck in the 150s-160s finally break through with a structured and sustainable study approach.

I scored a 180 while balancing LSAT prep with a heavy course load and a 20+ hour work schedule, so I understand how difficult it is to study for this exam while managing real life. Because of that, I focus heavily on efficient studying, clear weekly structure, and consistent feedback outside of sessions rather than assigning busywork.

THE WAJ-

Before getting into tutoring, I want to share the single biggest study change that helped me improve and that I now teach every student I work with: structured wrong answer journaling.

Most people keep a wrong answer journal that’s basically just a list of questions they missed. That kind of journal feels productive, but it rarely leads to real score increases. What actually moves your score is reconstructing your thought process and understanding why a trap answer made sense to you in the moment.

This was the tool that took me from the 150s into the 170s and eventually to a 180, and I used the same process again while studying for and passing the bar exam last year.

What a wrong answer journal should actually do:

A good journal should answer three questions every time you miss a problem:

1. What did I think the argument/question was asking?

2. Why did the wrong answer look right to me?

3. What specific thinking habit caused that mistake?

If you’re not answering these three questions, then you’re logging mistakes instead of learning from them.

The Wrong Answer Journaling Structure I teach and used myself:

1. Handwrite it Writing by hand slows you down enough that you’re forced to actually process the reasoning rather than just copying explanations. It feels tedious at first, but that friction is what creates retention.

2. Rewrite the argument or passage in your own words Before even looking at the correct answer explanation, summarize the stimulus in plain language. If you can’t restate it simply, you didn’t fully understand it the first time and that’s often the real issue.

3. Watch the 7SAGE explanation videos or read a written explanation Watching the explanation videos or reading a written explanation is crucial so that you are able to see a different approach to a given question and learn something that you can try going forward.

4. Write why your answer looked attractive Most students only write why the correct answer is right. That misses the real lesson. You need to capture what the trap exploited, be it strong language, partial relevance, reversed logic, etc.

5. Diagnose the mistake type Every wrong answer usually falls into one of a few areas:

• misreading a quantifier or conditional

• assuming outside information

• trusting an answer that “sounds reasonable”

• rushing and not evaluating all choices

Over time, patterns emerge. That pattern recognition is where score gains come from.

6. Include near misses and guesses If you guessed correctly or were stuck between two answers, that is just as important to journal as a wrong answer. Those questions show where your understanding is unstable.

7. End with a forward looking rule Every entry should end with a sentence that you can apply on future questions, like:

• “On Necessary Assumption questions, I will negate each contender before choosing.”

• “If an answer introduces a new comparison, I will treat it as suspicious by default.”

This turns the journal from a diary into a training manual for your future self.

The step most students skip

Once a week, go back and reread your previous entries and look for repeated mistakes. If you keep missing questions because of quantifiers, conditional logic, or scope shifts, that’s not a one time error, but instead that’s a reasoning habit that needs to be fixed directly through targeted drilling. Many students never do this step, and while the purpose of the journal is not to reread it constantly or refer to it often, this step is very useful for most.

Why this works

Doing more questions doesn’t automatically make you better at the LSAT, instead what improves your score is changing how you think about arguments and answer choices. A wrong answer journal forces you to slow down and confront your reasoning patterns instead of repeating them.

When I was studying, I filled hundreds of handwritten pages with this process, it sounds excessive, but done gradually it becomes a daily habit that builds self awareness. Over time, your decisions on the test start to feel more automatic because you’ve already trained yourself to recognize the traps. That’s what helped me break out of a long plateau in the 160s and start scoring consistently in the 170s.

If people would find it useful, I’m happy to make a separate post on how I structure wrong answer journaling specifically for Reading Comprehension, since the approach there is a bit different than LR.

Tutoring with me:

In sessions, I teach students how to turn their wrong answer journal into an actual learning system rather than just a notebook. We review practice tests together, break down difficult questions step by step, and I check in between sessions so improvement continues throughout the week. The goal is to make review productive instead of repetitive.

I’m very hands on and stay responsive over email between sessions. I remember how frustrating it was to be stuck on a question with no one to ask, so I try to be available when students are actively studying rather than only during scheduled calls.

Spring 2025 rates (discounted)

Free 20 minute strategy call

• $75/hr single session

• 5 hours - $350 ($70/hr)

• 10 hours - $600 ($60/hr)

• 15 hours $825 ($55/hr)

• 20 hours - $1000 ($50/hr)

I keep my rates in the $50-75/hr range because I want tutoring to stay accessible for students who are serious about improving but can’t justify paying $150+ per hour.

If you’re aiming for more consistency, struggling with LR assumption/flaw questions, or feel like you’re doing a lot of practice without seeing meaningful score movement, feel free to reach out. I’m always happy to look at your PT history, talk through your current approach, or answer questions about study strategy even if you’re not sure about tutoring yet.

Email: 180lsatteacher@gmail.com

Very straight forward from the Post Title. It would be great if you could reorder manually selected questions in your own choosing or with a "randomize" button.

We're holding a free small-group review session on Sunday at 3 p.m. ET in Study Room 2.

Take PrepTest 140 before the session. Then come and review it together with other 7Sagers.

The sessions will be student-led—no 7Sage staff will be in the meeting.

Independent tutors are welcome to participate.

PSA: If you show up first, please stick around. Your fellow 7Sagers will join you.

Hello Everyone,

I have been stuck in the 140s for a few months now, and I want some advice on how to improve. I took the January LSAT and scored a 144. I am going to apply for the September test, and I am aiming for a 170+. Can anyone who has ever had a big score increase please advise on what to do? I am looking to apply to enter the Fall 2027 cycle. For context, I have been taking a course on 7sage and have been reading the loophole as well since the beginning of the month.

When it comes to higher difficulty questions I have a tendency to narrow down to 2 answer choices, one of them being the correct answer. I also tend to second guess myself and change my answer due to lack of confidence. In sum, I just can't stop getting tricked up by these answer choices despite understanding the stimulus.

I love 7Sage’s Smart Drill feature. Mine only feeds me LR questions, though — I’d love to see an option added for RC as well. Maybe so that when you click the Smart Drill button on the home page, the next prompt is to choose which section to work on. If there’s already a way to do this that I’ve missed, let me know!

I've been seeing this glitch for the past couple of weeks now where, when I finish an RC drill, I review it, and hit the "do another drill" button. But the site just takes me back to the drill I just did to answer those questions again. It used to take me back to the page where I can start a new drill. Has this been happening for anyone else?

Listen and subscribe:

Apple Podcasts | Spotify

Scoring in the high 160s but stuck just short of the 170s? This episode breaks down one of the most common frustrations we hear: getting down to two answer choices… and picking the wrong one.

@AlexJacobs and @BaileyLuber explain why that pattern isn’t actually the problem—and what you should be focusing on instead. They walk through how to identify real weaknesses, how to stop talking yourself into wrong answers, and how to make better decisions under pressure on test day.

If you’re aiming to close that final gap into the 170s, this is the mindset shift you need.

Subscribe so you never miss the LSAT “shortcut” you might need!

Get PrepTests, drills, lessons, and an automatic study scheduler at 7sage.com

Help! While taking PTs, my scores tend to be low, but on BR, I tend to do WAY better (15+) on scaled scores. How can I close this gap so that my BR scores are reflected purely during the timed PT. Also, I actually don't spend toooo much time per question doing BR, so I'm not sure if my issue is really timing or just test anxiety. Any advice?!

Help!

I'm consistently scoring in 150s but my BRs easily average in 160s. I've improved at prephrasing and identifying question stems faster now. So I'm guessing the gap lies in interpreting the ACs correctly and also just knowing when to skip and go? When I see really lengthy stimulus (not just parallel reasoning questions), I would assume the target time is 1:20 or something but reading the stimulus itself takes 50s, so idk if I'm supposed to pick an answer in like 30s?? Is that reasonable??

If you struggled similarly and saw improvements in your timing, please help! How did you drill? How do you proceed in a section? Also if you think there is any other issue that I'm overlooking, let me know!

Hi! What is the best way to do a wrong answer journal? How do I turn why an answer is wrong/right into a generalization about what I shouldn’t/should do when answering LSAT qs? (For RC and LR)

Should I make a wrong answer journal for RC? If so, how should it be different than my journal for LR?

Hi everyone! Does anyone have availability for an extra client? My goal score is 155-160, and my last PT was 150. I have been studying for a while... I am just not sure what I am not understanding. I am open to scheduling a meeting to discuss further (pricing, schedule, etc).

I would be grateful for any help.

Hi everyone,

My name is Alex, and I'm writing to offer my services as a tutor. I’ve worked as a professional educator for more than a decade, both in the classroom and in private instruction. I’ve worked with hundreds of students with diverse learning styles, and have (I'd like to think) developed some expertise in the art of teaching.

Over the years I've learned a critical (and humbling) lesson: the brilliance and subject-matter expertise of the teacher is irrelevant if they're misaligned with the learning needs and learning style of the student. This forum and thread is crawling with talented tutors who are likely a perfect fit for many of you. I'd like to provide you with some specific information about who I am as a teacher, my philosophy and approach, etc. in order to help you make an informed decision before you spend your hard-earned money.

Here is my approach (in a nutshell):

My overall goal is to make the test feel much simpler (but don't expect simple). This exam is inevitably hard, and there are questions that require a lot of brainpower. There are also, however, many easy questions masquerading as "hard" through complex language, disorienting syntax, trap answer choices, and other LSAC trickery. As a point of emphasis, I teach students to cut through the noise and distill each individual question type into its simplest form. The time this will save you (not to mention the energy) is invaluable when it comes to improvement.

Within the scope of this larger, overarching aim we will of course focus on the unique set of needs each student has (timing, specific question types, comprehension strategies, little "tricks of the trade", etc.). But the simplification is my central goal and thesis.

I myself earned a 176 primarily through focused self-study. I began with a 152 diagnostic. I know firsthand that this test is learnable, and I'd like to think that my improvement speaks to the efficacy of my approach. If you feel that I might be a fit for you, feel free to reach out here in the comments or via direct message. Over the past few months, I’ve been fully booked with students preparing for the April LSAT. With many of them "graduating" in a few weeks, I have a few spots opening up! (around 3 or 4) I’m looking to fill them with students who want consistent, serious preparation. I take this very seriously, and I wish to work with students who can offer a similar level of commitment.

My rates are below

Meeting once per week: $100/one-hour session, $145 for 90-minute session, or $180 for a two-hour session ($90 per hour).

Meeting twice per week: $170 for two one-hour sessions ($85 per hour), $245 for two 90-minute sessions (~$82.5 per hour, $122.50 per session), and $320 for two two-hour sessions ($80 per hour, $160 per session)

Hello all, I've been studying for the LSAT for a couple of months now and I'm finding myself stuck at that nefarious -2 to -4 mark on both LR and RC, but I can't seem to consistently perform better than that. My primary issue is that I struggle to effectively return to questions and assess them tabula rasa.

When I re-read a stimulus & answer options, I find myself going down the exact same mental pathways I did originally and rarely changing my answer. I only catch about 20% of my errors this way, and I know I could do better than this. It's not a matter of time spent on questions either, I tend to have about 9-12 minutes extra per section. Nor is it a matter of not enough time spent on specific questions, if I'm unsure of a question I will spend 2-4 minutes on it before answering, and these are consistently the ones I get wrong (My time per question is super bimodal).

For those who have dealt with similar challenges in their LSAT journey, what are some tips/tricks/techniques that you found most helpful for effective in-section review?

Hi all,

I’ve been studying since last August, and have taken the official LSAT twice (Nov and Feb). I’m trying to get started again and hoping to be ready for the June exam… but I’m having such a difficult time finding the motivation to study. I can get myself to do a few questions at a time, but I just don’t really have the energy to push myself for hours on end anymore. I’m defeated, and frustrated, and tired!!!

Any tips on how to study under these circumstances? Or how to get out of this rut?

Listen and subscribe:

Apple Podcasts | Spotify

Want your question answered? Comment on this video (we’re drawing from the comments first), email podcast@7sage.com, or tag us (@AlexJacobs and @BaileyLuber) in a post on the 7Sage Discussion forums.

In this episode, @AlexJacobs and @BaileyLuber tackle a question from theBigFatPanda: what actually separates a low 170 scorer from someone consistently hitting 175+?

Spoiler: it’s not luck.

We dig into what really moves the needle at the highest levels—especially the shift from broad understanding to hyper-specific pattern recognition. From spotting recurring argument structures to identifying your personal wrong-answer traps, this is where elite scorers separate themselves. If you’re already scoring high and want those last few points, this episode is your roadmap.

What we cover:

• Why “test day luck” isn’t the answer

• The role of pattern recognition at the 170+ level

• How top scorers anticipate LSAT tricks before they happen

• Why reviewing questions you got right might matter most

• How to identify and eliminate your own recurring mistakes

Bottom line: The difference isn’t talent—it’s training your brain to see what others miss.

Like and subscribe so you never miss the LSAT “shortcut” you might need!

Get PrepTests, drills, lessons, and an automatic study scheduler at 7sage.com

Hello! I live in the Houston area and am aiming for the August LSAT 170's range. UT Law is my dream school and looking for a group of people to help with accountability but more importantly different point of views on the questions. I do have accommodations, but all are welcome! Looking for some laughs as well. I work a 9-5 so studying can be dull, need a little joy to add to this journey.

Does anyone have advice on how to get more comfortable with getting questions wrong while studying?

I know mistakes are part of the process, but I still find myself getting really frustrated or discouraged whenever I miss questions. Maybe it's because I'm a perfectionist, but it derails my focus and makes it difficult to keep moving forward.

How do you mentally reframe wrong answers so you don’t spiral? And how do you balance holding yourself accountable without being overly harsh on yourself during prep?

Any mindset shifts or study strategies that helped you build resilience would be really appreciated.

First off, thank you so much for creating this program.

I was wondering if you guys still take a look at 7Sage users' analytics? If so, could you please please look at mine? I would love to receive some advice from both of you. Just for some background, my highest official LSAT is a 157 (and that was before I started 7Sage. before that, I only studied with loophole).

I am signed up for the exam in April, but am considering moving it to June because I am not where I want to be at the moment.

Thank you very much!