So I just took the LSAT writing. I think I entered the period of my last sentence right when the time exhausts. And I am not sure whether I put that period on my last sentence.

This starts to haunt me... Should I take the LSAT writing again? Does missing the period of the last sentence affect my application?

Damn.

I started studying for the LSAT in early April of this year, scored a 145 diagnostic. I have gone through the curriculum and now my Practice Test high is a 153. I am planning to sit for the August or September test. Any advice on how to spend the next 3/3 1/2 months? I am studying full time.

I have improved my LG from -17 (April 1)->-11 (today); RC -16 (April 1) ->-10 (today); LR -15 (April 1)->-8 (today)

I am doing the Logic Game repetition and fool-proofing method and am currently taking 2 PTs a week and doing 1-2 individual timed sections in between.

I'm registered for the June 2022 exam but I want to delay it to August/Sept but it doesn't have the option for me to to change dates? Does anyone know why is it that we can't see or choose later dates?

Hello!

I won’t be offering any tips or tricks on the mechanics of the LSAT as that’s been covered ten times over and I don’t think I can add anything of value that hasn’t been said before. I’d love to lend a few words to everyone on here though because you all have helped me immensely in what has been a very long journey. I’ll try to keep it relatively short. First off, THANK YOU to this community, you have been a beacon in some really frustrating and quite frankly hard times. You’ve provided worthwhile advice and some levity to a really intense and drawn out process.

One thing I’ve learned in retrospect (and from my always poignant and thankfully non law school gf), that I think we all should hear…

It’s so easy to get wrapped up in this process of studying and admissions. In fact, I would venture to say that everyone in this community is an over-achiever in some way. You all care immensely about your future and that’s wonderful and what will ultimately make you all successful in your own ways. With that though comes a huge amount of pressure, whether external or self-imposed. So, if I could offer one final piece of advice, it would be this:

Breathe. Find time, as best you can, to live life outside of the LSAT/admissions bubble. It’s a fantastic place with truly amazing people trying to help one another, but you have to find the time to take your dog for a walk, to go on that date, to call your mom, to watch your favorite movie, to smile at the sunset. The moment that I really started living my life again in conjunction with thoughtful, intentional studying, was the moment that I started performing my best on this test (not that that should be the main motivation for doing it).

So hustle, study hard, put in the time, but it’s equally important to exhale, to think about something else, something silly and inconsequential, to put away that prep book, to allow yourself to ignore the newest medians for a day, to close that reddit tab and remember that there’s more to this world than the LSAT and law school.

Don’t let life happen without you while going through this journey because I promise you, nothing is worth losing yourself, even for a moment. This test and process are truly a give and take, and sometimes the harder you force it, the more it will push back against you too.

I hope this helps even a little bit and thank you all again for providing a great space for the past few years!

Oh, and big shout out to Chris Ngyuen and jmarmaduke for being great tutors and guides, as well as EmmaJean Holley for being a fantastic and lovely writing coach.

-Best,

David

Wondering if there are any other paralegals/legal assistants here? I work full time at a law firm so I’m taking my studying slowly. I definitely think it’s an advantage to start out your journey as a paralegal but also it’s hard to find time to study.

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I'm just wondering if anyone has any opinions about how much GPA factors into admissions. If your GPA is significantly higher than the school's median, can that compensate for an LSAT score that is a bit below it?

[I am posting on behalf of a 7Sage user. Please feel free to leave your comments below. Thank you so much for your help!]

I have a question, do you think it would be beneficial to do all four sections on a prep test since the LSAT brought back the experimental section, or do you think I should stick with simulating the modern LSAT?

https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/legal_education_and_admissions_to_the_bar/council_reports_and_resolutions/may22/22-may-memo-revisions-501-503.pdf

Well that’s crazy. What does everyone think?

Going through some problem sets and I've noticed that inference and MBT are labelled distinctly despite that fact that I thought they were identical question types. Am I missing some nuance between the two?

Hi anyone else facing problems in scheduling? Every slot is not available

Hey 7Sagers,

This will hopefully be my last month with this service as I am taking my LSAT in June and hopefully will be a one-and-done taker. I started my LSAT prep last year in May and got a 147 on my Diagnostic, after religiously taking the CC for over 5 months, along with crucial advice that I got from @"Scott Milam" in the past few months, my average PT recently has been above a 170, even though I was only targeting a 163 when I first started. I cannot thank this service enough for the help it has given a student who just a year ago thought I would NEVER be able to go to law school, and now looking to go to even higher ranked schools outside of Canada if I can get a solid score in June.

Thank you to all the people that messaged me with advice, had study groups with me, and most importantly I cannot ever thank Scott and JY enough for the help they have given me over the past year.

Once a 7Sager Always a 7Sager.

I'm currently in a bit of a rut or rather a major one. I'd been at the point where -3 on every sections was fairly normal but now my LR and RC have dropped to -6 on average. I'm wondering why,I took one week off but now even after 2 weeks back I am still no where near where I was before. Honestly don't know whats going on here anyone got any tips of what to do to get myself out of this rut?

Just started the first week in cc of LG and feel like I am an idiot. When I am doing the problem set, I can barely get 50% right answers for 3 star questions within 17:30. Couldnt calm down when I am drawing game board and make inference properly. Misread stem all the time. But during blind review I could easily draw a game board almost the same as JY and may only miss one question eventually. Dont know why that happened. Any advice to improve? Or just practice? My brain's like frozen with time restriction lol

Are you supposed to finish every problem set for each LR question type in the core curriculum before you move on to a new LR question type?

Just opened up Proctor U to check if I could schedule because I remembered hearing that people who were NOT first time test takers were able to schedule earlier on Proctor U ahead of the time that LSAC emails out the link. It worked!!!! I am scheduled now and got the time I wanted!!!! Go check if you are a repeat test taker! Sending good vibes to all testing in June, we got this!

Does anyone have any advice that helped them understand how to solve the logic games? Every time I think I've made progress on certain problems, I get stuck.

Hi everyone! I’m finally done with the LSAT and have to thank this community, but especially my tutor. I started out with a low diagnostic score and slowly worked my way up, till I was PTing an average of +170s, scoring a 169 on the April 2022. Still deciding on whether or not I should retake, but I wanted to say that I could not have done any of this without my tutor, @"Chris Nguyen"

I have struggled immensely with this test and experience extremely intense anxiety, too. Chris could not have been more understanding. He not only recognized my anxiety, but in doing so, it pushed me overcome my fear of the LSAT. He helped me master the substantive content of the test and refine my test taking techniques. What I truly appreciated was that he was never discouraging, extremely patient, clearly cared about my success, and worked really hard to try and answer all of my very incisive questions. He understood exactly where I was coming from, and he worked with me to move forward. Seriously, Chris, THANK YOU!!

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This is not really helping me to diagnose weaknesses: I got 7/7 in one 4-star Law RC and missed 2 on a much easier Law RC on the same Pt.

AND: the harder one was the final section of the RC and the final section of the test so in theory I should have been more tired. So I can rule that out as a possible explanation.

Not really a question; it's just kind of mystifying!

Hi everybody,

I'm considering retaking in June or August (or later, if necessary) after scoring a 168 on the April test. The 168 was lower than my practice test score average, a 172, leading up to the exam.

I had a mental meltdown during the logic games section of the April test and wouldn't be surprised if almost all of my incorrect answers were in that section. Given this, I believe I can increase my score by at least a few more points, as I'm working on shoring up my logic games skills and focusing on developing better mental resilience through meditation, but am concerned about scoring lower on a retake.

I've heard that law schools only care about your highest LSAT score. Is that true? Would scoring a few points lower on a retake look bad to an admissions committee or do they, for the purpose of admissions, truly only care about one's highest score? I've searched online (both on these forums and elsewhere) but have seen conflicting answers to these questions. Any insight is appreciated. Thanks.

I have been studying for a few weeks now, planning to apply this year, but I feel like the more recommendations or experiences I read about in the forum, the more defeated I feel. I feel incredibly behind, while everyone else seems to have their schedule for each thing in their application down to a science. I've seen recommendations for needing to have at least part time work + volunteering 10+ hours a week starting in May as a necessity so that there is not a red flag raised about this blank time on your resume. Which, I am currently not doing. I can start that in June, meaning that I would already be behind from when it was recommended.

Does anyone else feel this way? How are you handling this and how can I start feeling confident in how I am moving through the application process? I am committed to studying and have been consistent in the schedule, but it feels pointless when everything I read says anything under 6 months is not enough time. For context, I took a diagnostic over a year ago prior to studying and got a 155, I have yet to take a new one as I'd like to focus on the curriculum for now.

I started LSAT with 144, then I was stuck at 154-155. I remember drilling LG for 6 months still getting -6/-7, started with -16. Thoughts were coming into my mind. Was this the end of it? Was I mentally limited? Then I came across this book "Genius in all of us"- free downloadable. This book I found out from 7sage users scoring 170s. I read it and learned brain can reshape. So, I said to myself, well maybe I do not have a head start, but if a restructuring in a brain is required then let it be. I started pushing myself more and more in a hope to catch a break. Eventually, I did. I started hitting -0 LG and then eventually -0 in 30 minutes. Next up was LR, Again I stumbled. Stuck at -10, why could not I do it asking myself. One word change in a stimulus is the flaw, darn is that even possible? After 3-4 months of straight drilling along with JY reviews and Manhattan prep review, I went down to -3 consistent, started with -17. In my real LSAT, Term shift showed up and I laughed after catching it. Next was RC. I could not even understand the passages. I said to myself can anyone? Obviously, I learned the hard way, I was the dumb one. Being a science background, I had it easy with those, but Law and Art/humanity remained a challenge. I did 7sage law preview 3 months along with RC and defined most recurrent words. Law passage and science passage became easy. Art did not and I screwed that passage in the real test also, but ultimately, went from 144 to high 160s on practice. I did get in 160s on real also. Ultimately, self learning is probably not the most efficient, however, doable. Tutor may cut the time significantly. Either way, if you are in a position I was, read the book, empower your mind, fall get up, fall get up, do it 500 times if it needs, probably will need if going into 170 (given 99 tests), but change the dam brain if needed and get what you want.

I studied LSAT for about 11 months in span of 13 months.

After studying 15-20 hours a week for the last three and a half months I feel like I am just going through the motions with tests/review and not getting much out of them. What is a good strategy to get back to it!

Hi everyone! This is related to PT55S3Q24, but it is on necessary assumption questions with conditional language in general-- how do you do the negation test with conditional AC's? And what is a good approach for NA Q's with conditional language in the stimulus-- sometimes I feel like I can approaching them too similarly to a SA Q. Thanks!

Wondering because it would make my life easier in RC.