I feel great pressure and can't even sleep well at night. My aim is above 170 and now I am around actual 155, BR 165. Can I really reach my goal on the test day? I really doubt about that and feel hopeless. I spend all day long to study LSAT alone but efficiency is really low. OMG.

How do you guys time yourself while drilling LR? just do 24 questions in 35 mins ? 10 in 15 mins? not timed at all?

Hi all!

I'm looking for someone/some people to write preptests with Toronto. I think that the social pressure will make me take it more seriously and give me a bit more discipline. And then after we can do blind review together. Let me know if you're interested. I will most likely write the tests at Robarts library at U of T as I can't think of anywhere better to go haha.

Caitlin

I feel kind of hopeless on LG. I've improved since I've been studying, but I figured after a few months I'd have them down, but its not the case. I still get trouble with some double layered sequencing games, and I havent really done much grouping yet. I do the games - watch the 7 sage video - memorize the inferences through printing a bunch of copies out. I duno what to do now. I practice them for hours a day and I feel like I am not gaining much progress on them. (I have both the LGB and MLG)

I recently just took a proctored practice test and on my first try I only scored a 140. This was without any studying except for about an hr looking at 1D games (which I got correct on the exam). Is there any way I would be able to achieve over a 160 then? I hear so many people saying that they have gotten 160s on their first practice test, but if that was with studying, Idk? Anyways... I think fear of failure is setting in for some reason. What do you guys think about the first PT marks? I am writing in October.

Hi! I took the June 2013 LSAT and got a decent score but I know I can do better. I did the Kaplan online class, which didn't really help me all that much. I was wondering if this is different enough from Kaplan to help raise my score? I don't live close to any in-class options so I can only do online anyways. Any suggestions on other study material would be great! thanks!

I really appreciate the LG videos. They have been very helpful. Thank you! I am feeling very confident about setting up a game and making inferences. My issue right now is that it takes me FOREVER to go through the questions, especially the first question on each game, those where there is tons of language. The dinosaur game comes to mind (Test 57,game 3). I was able to set it up correctly & got all questions right but it was "painful" to go through each question and answer which contained so much convoluted language. I would like to know if you have tips, general information, or tutorials on how to approach LG questions/ question types with the goal of moving through them quickly without losing accuracy?

Many thanks in advance!

October is 3 months away from now. While we can take as many prep-tests as possible to keep our mind sharp, we cannot do one set every day. What do you guys do on days that you are not practicing Prep-tests? Doing problem sets? Or reviewing?

I practiced 20 random weaken questions using the cambridge bundles and I got 4 wrong out of 20. 2 were from the most difficult group, while the other 2 I got wrong were easier...

Is there hope for me to get everything down for a high score by Oct? I'm trying to finish the 7Sage course by mid-July so I can start doing full length PTs.

Is this a good strategy?

We just got an email from LSAC telling us that scores are coming out in batches today.

Has anyone got them yet?

Hi,

I have been reading through some of the past writing section topics, and it seems like the general pattern is they give you a dilemma type of situation or two choices, and then based on some requirements/considerations you need to choose and argue for what is best.

My question is, how much outside knowledge can we bring into this? I'm sure we can put in principles we believe work best or knowledge on other subjects (math, economics, etc), but what about adding onto the considerations that are already stated? For example, if the client in the question values x and y and I must consider them in making the argument for my choice, can I say something like "I believe this option is best because it creates some x and y but also adds the value of z (that I think is also important in making the choice)"?

Any input will be greatly appreciated.

Do you guys thing it will hurt if I skip around on the syllabus? By skipping around I just mean working on LG while working on one of the other sections. Right now I'm working on Logical Reasoning questions, but I'm also working on the pure sequencing games. Once I'm done with the sequencing games I'll move on to the next while also working on whatever other section of the test. Thoughts?

I'm wondering how is everybody preparing for the writing section? Any sharing will be appreciated.

Hello,

So I just recently (i.e. last night) registered officially with 7sage. I had been working with the Powerscore Logic Games bible, got uberly confused with some games, and turned to some of the 7sage videos online. Much easier to digest.

I wrote the June LSAT last year after just studing for a month and a half (some stuff came up) and managed to score in the 150s. I've been browsing through these blogs, and it seems like everyone's been on 7sage since April. I'm beginning to freak out. Is it too late to be studying for the October, wanting to own the LSAT?

Anila

I took a PT last Saturday and based from the question stem analysis of the test grader (extremely helpful guys), flaw questions gave me the most trouble. What is the best way to approach them?

goodluck

when making multiple hypotheticals like he often does in the videos, when I am using pencil and paper do I make these two "Main" diagrams with the 2 hypothetical situations (IE: P must go in either spot 3 or spot 1), then erase when I am done with a certain hypo for a question? I hope I am clear, I think i worded this terribly

We woke up today to find that our old name server host was having intermittent problems. Luckily, we already selected a new name server host and were ready to move. We pushed forward the migration to the new name server host immediately. Thankfully this shifted most of the internet traffic to our new host before the old one failed completely.

But, there are still occasionally problems in some areas, and this will gradually get better while everything stabilizes. Access may be intermittent for a couple of days for a few students, particularly in NY USA, Turkey, China, and New Zealand. The situation was worst about 4 hours ago. It's much better now, and should be completely better in a couple of days.

There is still one more phase to the migration - changing the domain registrar - that we won't be able to do for a few days. Theoretically there should be no downtime for this, and I will do everything I can to prevent/minimize downtime.

tldr: Some of you may experience intermittent trouble accessing 7sage.com over the next couple of days, particularly in NY, Turkey, China and New Zealand.

Sorry for the trouble and thank you for your patience!

I'm signing up now for the October LSAT and I'm trying to see if any of the test center in New York (Manhattan) is better than others. Supposedly there are three test centers in New York: CUNY, Fordham Law School and Pace University (http://www.lsac.org/jd/pdfs/testcentercodes.pdf). But on LSAC's registration page only Pace University is available to sign up for so I don't know if I will have any choice anyway.

Hey guys, I am posting this to share my experience on answer choice A.

After doing about 20 PTs or so, I have reached a level where I can sort of see what the LSAT writers are intending to do with our minds.

I must say that these guys truly are the masters of their domain.

They have all sorts of tricks up their sleeves, and they UNDERSTAND how our fragile minds work.

Specifically, I have had this weird feeling that they not only employ mind tricks with us with answer choice E, but also with A.

On early parts of LR sections, most answer choice As look very attractive, IF you do not have a full grasp of the stimulus.

The writers usually give you some useless information that disguises the true core of the argument and include specific words from that part of the stimulus in the answer choice.

On the other hand, for some really crazy convoluted questions, there is a surprisingly high frequency of A being the right answer.

I think the psychology behind this is that when people face a really confusing stimulus, most of them panic and try to rely on POE without really knowing what they are looking for.

But the problem with POE without a good understanding of the stimulus is that the writer can throw in even more confusing answer choices and virtually pull you apart in all directions, ultimately leaving you more confused, and precious time ticking away.

So my takeaway from this is to be suspicious of As for easier questions as they are likely to be wrong, and for the really hard ones later on, give more attention to A being a contender.

By the way, my experience is definitely not conclusive.

Try it out for yourselves :)

Hello! I would love to hear any advice or recommendations you have for someone that has already sat for the LSAT. I took the LSAT in February after studying with Kaplan for a number of months. I was scoring in the upper 160's and my goal was/is to hit 174. I have no doubt about my ability to take the test but when I sat for the test, the anxiety was overwhelming and I completely blanked on the first section. I debated canceling my score but had spent so much time preparing that I decided to hope for the best. Needless to say, I was completely underwhelmed by my score of 160 and have decided to sit for the October exam so that I can apply to enter law school in the upcoming cycle.

In conclusion, what advice do you have for someone that is a returning student to the LSAT, especially someone that learned strategies from a different course? My biggest concern is stress and burning myself out because my score and mental health absolutely suffered in February from the pressure I put on myself. Additionally, I am now working full time and I was not previously. I would love to hear any recommendations on how to not burn out/overload/freak out this time around and/or any pointers in how to approach the LSAT with a renewed sense of vigor.

Thanks!

Laura

Was wondering because I am doing the course and also using LRB and LGB, but I want to make things simpler. What is your opinon J.Y., and others as well?

First of all, I'd like to apologize if this isn't the correct place to ask this, but in the lesson J.Y. said to ask someone who knows more than you, or your instructor so here I am.

I did the first LR section (section 1) of PT 7.

Actual timed go: 14/25

Blind Review: 20/25 (very happy! )

However, I got 5 where I spent a ton of time trying to figure it out, and got the wrong answer still. Some were I picked the wrong answer initially, and also picked a wrong answer to switch to.

They are: 3, 4 , 7 , 10 , 23.

Would be extremely happy if someone could help me through these questions - and how you figured them out.

Thanks everyone in advance!

Take care. KY

writing in october and i feel like i've made no real progress. i've just started doing LR fairly recently, mainly have been doing LG. hopefully blind review method along with memorizing the general rules for LR will help. can anyone give some words of advice?

I have been frustrating all day to get on 7sage today. Finally after redirected 7sage to new IP address, I succeed!!!

Today I learn a big lesson that 7sage is so precious and We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

Love 7sage!