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Hi!

I had my first official test on June and got 172.

I'm looking for group of people in EMEA timezone who are willing to join daily online 1-hour study sessions to motivate themselves on drilling and avoiding "just one day off".

I'm currently living in UTC+4 timezone, and I'm thinking about 9 PM to 10 PM in my local time every day to practice and teach each other. You don't really need to be in timezone as long as you can join the study session.

Let me know if you are interested.

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Edited Tuesday, Jun 30

😖 Frustrated

RC score plateau only

Hi everyone! Anyone else struggling to improve their score for RC or have dealt with this before? Im seeing steady improvement in LR but RC is dragging down my scores, even though I have always been a strong reader ( or so I thought). Hoping someone can share some tips that are not just do more reading. TIA! :)

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Intro

I have been using the AI tutor since it came out to study for the August LSAT exam, and here are some of my main thoughts on it.

Usage Limits

I wish there was a warning or something when you're close to reaching the AI tutor usage limit. I never used it for images or anything extremely intensive, but I think a monthly limit as opposed to a daily one like other AI tools is a lot more unpredictable. Given that the subscription is $69/month at a minimum and the tutor isn't really useful for reasoning about the actual questions, I think the usage limit should either be more generous or reset more regularly.

If you still want a way to sell it as a feature for higher tiers, I think stuff like image access would be a better selling point, since people who are paying for that tier likely are more willing to pay for tutoring anyway.

Good Features

1) It is helpful that it can do things like make drills featuring questions you have not seen in X amount of days, but it does make me wonder why exactly users of the normal drill builder don't already have that feature.

2) It has a good memory. I have given it a list of mistakes I tend to make and asked it to categorize my mistakes based on my WAJ write ups for each given question, and it does a pretty good job of categorizing what exactly went wrong. This can also be a problem, because sometimes it feels obsessed with trying to show you that it remembered what you said, like it read a book on how to get people to like it or something.

3) It's a good motivator

Major Flaws

1) It has no concept of time, but it keeps trying to assure me that it knows what time and day it is.

2) It can be quite the sycophant, but I appreciate that there is a "coach" voice where sometimes it senses you are making a compromise or doing a drill that is below your skill level. Who else would notice I have done 4 sessions in a row without touching RC?

3) I have no idea how to tell why it believes anything it does. A personal issue I was having was that I was not diagramming difficult parallel flaw questions because I was following the wisdom that one should not diagram unless it is absolutely necessary. The AI tutor said something like the following: "Oh yeah, classic 170+ scorer thing, they burn tons of time refusing to diagram because of their pride and actually use up more time than if they had just diagrammed."

Do people ever do that? Maybe? It sounds plausible? But like, I have no idea if that's true.

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Hi everyone! My name is Zoë and I am writing the LSAT in October. I’ve been studying for about two months now and my diagnostic was a 143 and im trying to crack the 160s.

I am from Whitehorse, Yukon, but im back and forth to Vancouver, BC. I’m going into my last year of undergrad & im majoring in psychology. I’m also a ncaa student athlete so time management is something I am trying to aim to be better at… planning to take advantage of the summer before season starts.

feel free to reach out if you want to connect and we can track our hours, talk LSAT, or help out each other. if you have any group recommendations please lmk!

My instagram is also @zoejjjade

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Monday, Jun 29

🙃 Worried

Retakes

Are there any other people who are taking this test one and done or with a significant gap in between? As someone who is lower income, spending $600 back-to-back is not feasible for me. Is this going to put me at a significant disadvantage? I am planning to take my first attempt at this test in August and have been studying since January. Should I push back my original test date? Would a huge gap between LSATs look bad on me? Needing advice!

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I noticed that you can only choose the amount of times that you can study for the lessons, but not when you started after lessons, drills and tests, it’s not letting you customize how much you can study weekly. You can only generate a block and then it gives you three options which is not suitable for most us. I want to customize my study blocks.

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Hi all! I'm hoping to find a tutor who can help me get from 162 to the high 160s/low 170s range. Particular areas of focus I'd love to improve upon are conditional reasoning, SA and NA questions, and RC. I'm a non-traditional future law school applicant who works full-time and has been out of school for six years, so even just talking through study tips for these areas would be helpful. Budget-wise, I'd ideally like to keep the session cost to ~$100 per session and would love someone who can accommodate either mornings before my workday (~7am) or after the workday (5pm ET), or weekends. Would love to hear from you if you think you could be a fit to help me with my goals - thanks in advance :)

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Hey I've started to noticed that after I do untimed sections or blind review my accuracy is either 80%-100%. From the analytics its also shown me that I often choose the right answer, than talk myself out of the right answeer and end up choosing the wrong one. It seems like I do this fairly frequently. How do you become sure of yourself because this mental block is keeping me in the 155. I know the answer, but than their comes a question that distorts my understanding of what I. believed the flaw initally was. I struggle w/ the Phenomenon-hypothesis (LR) (which seems to be commmon). Do I just need to keep hammering basic principles, or do more questions so I can learn to recongize the pattern in whats being asked?

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I’m taking the LSAT in October and looking to meet virtually about once a week. I’m open to meeting in person if you’re in Houston, and we can increase frequency as the test gets closer if the fit is good.

What I’m looking for:

  • Someone who is actively studying for the LSAT

  • No minimum score required

  • Preferably someone who has taken the LSAT at least once or has completed some timed sections/PTs

  • Someone open to verbally working through questions out loud

  • Someone willing to explain their reasoning, hear other people’s reasoning, and teach concepts back

  • Someone collaborative, humble, and consistent

  • Bonus if you’re already scoring in the 160s+ and are open to teaching/explaining concepts, especially if you’re stuck and want to use teach-back as a way to break through your plateau. 

The learning style I’m looking for is very discussion-based. I do not want a silent study room where we just sit there independently. I’m looking for people who want to talk through Logical Reasoning, Reading Comprehension, blind review, wrong answers, traps, question stems, and why certain answers work or fail.

The goal is not ego, competition, or hierarchy. The goal is to build a serious, collaborative study space where we can sharpen each other.

My general availability:

  • Weekdays after work. I work 8:00–5:00 CST and am realistically home around 7:00 p.m.

  • Saturdays after 1:00 p.m.

  • Sundays are flexible

If interested, please comment or message me with:

  1. When you’re taking the LSAT

  2. Whether you’ve taken it before or completed any PTs

  3. Your current score range, if you’re comfortable sharing

  4. Your strongest and weakest LSAT areas

  5. Your field of legal interest

  6. Your general availability

  7. Whether you’re open to verbally explaining questions and teaching concepts back

No games, no ego. If you’re not humble, collaborative, or willing to talk through reasoning, this probably is not the group for you.

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Hi all! I took the June test and got a 174. I had taken 10 PTs across the 3 months before ranging from 171-180, with a 176 average. I decided to take a crack at retaking it in August aiming for a score on the higher end of my range. I'm looking for a tutor with particular experience in decreasing variability on the high end to help my chances at locking in a higher score. Thank you!

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Hello,

I was wondering if anyone had any advice or helpful pointers for systematically navigating difficult Science passages, like riddled basins of attraction and the science passage regarding corn, maize, and C-4 Photosynthesis? I generally feel confident in RC sections, but when I run into passages like this, it is really difficult for me to comprehend what is being said beyond the main point. I end up wasting time trying to comprehend what is being said, and consequently running out of time to thoughtfully answer the questions.

I'm wondering if I should just skim the difficult parts of tough RC Science passages and then go back to the passage when I know what to look for after reading the question. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you so much in advance!

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Edited Monday, Jun 29

💪 Motivated

Study Group for July

Hey guys! I’m prepping to study for the entire month of July to prepare for my August retake. I am devoted to giving at least giving 3 hours of true study time.

If you would like to get in a study group for August test takers, let’s do this! 👍🏽😎

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I was curious if it was a smart idea to ask schools where my application could be improved. I got denied from the schools I wanted to attend, and wanted to know if it would be a bad look to ask those schools what I could do to improve. Obvious one for me is my LSAT, but more to find out what was good and bad about my application.

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Hi everyone, I am looking for guidance after receiving my score from the June LSAT. I got a 168 on the real test but I had been scoring in the 170s on every PT I've taken for the past 2 months. I had not gotten below a 171 since April, and I scored a 175 on both PT 158 and PT 159 (the last ones I took before the real test). I had also been practicing in environments similar to test day conditions to make sure that the testing center didn't throw me off since I took it in-person. This in combination with hitting my goal scores repeatedly on PTs made me feel relatively confident going into the real thing, but I ended up scoring around 5-7 points below what I had been scoring on PTS. This was the first time I had ever taken the real thing, so I'm wondering if it could have been test day nerves due to having never experienced the real environment before or if there is some kind of disconnect in my understanding/thought processes. Another issue is that I have been studying since late January and do not have any fully fresh PTs or sections left. Any advice on what I can do in the meantime between now and my retake in August to perform at the level I had been performing at on my PTs would be greatly appreciated!

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Hello!! Still in foundations and wanted to know whether people were taking notes or not? i am trying to tae some quick ones on lawgic and stuff but know i wont go back and read them and it seems to be taking up so much of my study time. Let me know any thoughts/what you guys do! Thank you!!!

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Hi. I wasted my first two LSAT attempts in 2024. was pting high 170s before my 3rd attempt, and got a 172. I decided to retake to see if I could hit the median of my dream school. I took 3 more pts before the next exam, and once again saw 170s, maybe just a bit lower than it had been before attempt #3 (but still above 172). when I retook for a 4th time I got the exact same score (172). I'm getting some conflicting information about whether to retake, if it's worth it admissions-wise. My GPA is at the median of the school. I havent been studying since I sat for the most recent exam, June 5th. Thank you for your thoughts!

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i've never scored this high before and i just restarted studying for the LSAT after a 161 in November so i am SUPER excited for a four point increase in the last two months of studying and a 180 blind review!!!

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You know how every PT question has a comments/discussion thread attached to it? It'd be nice to have that same functionality for the daily Logic Links game. It'd be nice to have daily versions of the other games as well (makes me more likely to play when I know I won't get repeat content, makes each day's puzzle/game a shared event, etc).

I made a post about this June 28th Logic Links puzzle and realized it would've been easier to just leave a comment the way I normally would if this were a challenging PT question!

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I think it could be useful to add space repetition drills for some things. The two I can think of off the top of my head are:

  • the "indicator words" (sufficient, necessary, negate-sufficient, negate-necessary)

  • identifying question types

I did some SR myself with flashcards, but the word set is limited as I just picked from the most common ones, and the ID question types is hard to do physically without a lot of work. Being able to easily and effortlessly id indicator words and id question types is such a hack to speeding up and removing analysis exhaustion on the small things.

I recently did https://7sage.com/lessons/logical-reasoning/sufficient-assumption-questions/skill-builder-logical-reasoning-question-stems-first-half and wish I could just hit 20-30 of these a every other day or so until its second nature.

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Quick question: are LOR required to be connected to your undergrad instructors? I am able to get LOR, but from attorneys and managing partners in my Law Firm. If I need to get these from my previous instructors however, this may prove slightly challenging.

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Monday, Jun 29

😖 Frustrated

Need a tutor

Hello I'm looking for a tutor to get me to a 155. My last LSAT was a 146. Im looking to retake it in November. Im not looking for a miracle. Minimum I need to make a 150.

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