does anyone have any tips for reading comprehension?

I feel like I don’t know what I’m reading at times and get confused on the questions.

hooray! but also not hooray bc i talked myself out of at least half of these right answers! PLZZZ I REALLY NEED THIS CHAT gulp..my october fam lets go

Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone had any advice or feedback on how to break into the 160s?? I have been studying for the LSAT since February of this year and took the June LSAT scoring a 157. I hope to take the November LSAT and my ultimate goal is to score a 165. However I am feeling very discouraged as it's been a few months and I still can't seem to get my score higher than a 159.

I do study about 15-20 hours a week. I have switched to heavily reviewing my mistakes, going back to foundationals for questions types I struggle with, and drilling those specific questions. I have also switched up my RC passage strategy by doing the harder passages first which has helped my score slightly.

I honestly am feeling really discouraged with my progress and was hoping to have reached my target score by now. At this point if I unable to reach the 160s I might wait till next cycle to apply for school. If anyone has any advice I would love to hear it!!!!

I've always read the Q stem first.

It was to my dismay that, recently, I saw JY reading the stimulus first in a live attempt video. I didn't know such an approach was commonly used.

It's true that occasionaly, reading the Q stem first felt like it might not have been the fastest approach. But those occasions were rare.

Help me fight my approach crisis please:

What's your approach and why? And I'm hoping the answer isn't "whatever feels best" xD

I wrote my personal statement, but I have gotten feedback from my teachers that it is too descriptive about my heritage/the story and not so much why I want to go to law school. It is roughly 50% story and then only 50% why law. My teachers recommend I cut back on the story/narrative part. Is that correct? I was reading some PS examples and they sounded pretty narrative.

Can we get the clarification under each schools scholarship information whether or not those are numbers on a per year or total basis?

It took me a few tries, but I was able to defeat Risen Sage Ping, lol. I'm enjoying the games.

I know a few people have asked versions of these question, but I was looking for some more insight into optional essays.

I know “it depends” on the school, but I’m having trouble distinguishing when optional essays would be useful for my application vs when it’s not worth it to include one vs. when it would be a bad look not to submit it. Would someone who submits a (good) optional statement be at an advantage compared to my application if I didn’t submit one?

And how do we format these essays if the schools don’t specify?

Some specific examples:

• BU has a diversity statement that would be a mediocre essay from me at best. If I don’t submit a response, would they interpret that as “I’m not diverse”?

• GW has an open-ended optional statement. I have some other essays I could recycle, but is that even necessary? They’re not bad, but it’s nothing overly convincing.

Thanks everyone!

Exactly a week before our score releases… how are we feeling? What have you guys been doing to calm down after the exam? Personally I’m just excited to see my score now.

I love stem stash its a great warm up

I was in the process of taking another daily PT, when I noticed that the dark mode while testing was changed from the normally darker shade of blue, to a fully black interface. My eyes are pretty accustomed to the former while using a blue light filter, but they generally became strained fairly quickly from reading white text from a fully black background, which is what I experienced while testing.

Could we have the option of using the previous dark mode restored, or made available again through a toggle if this black interface is to be the new standard?

I'm currently planning to take the Nov LSAT and was wondering if i still have another opportunity to applying for law school should the Nov score not turn out great. I'm currently averaging a mid to high 150s on my PTs and have a CAS GPA of 3.51 (as well has 6+ years of paralegal experience). While I'm trying to get to the mid 160s by the Nov test, I wanted to know if it's still viable to take the Jan 2027 LSAT if I score very high on it. All the schools I'm considering accept the Jan test (score release 02/03). Thanks!

Hey Y’al! I’ve noticed that whenever I am rigid or methodical with defining my sufficient or necessary conditions and there are several conditional statements in a stimulus, I often miss opportunities to chain them together due to the rigidity I apply of whether it’s the same condition/concept being referred to. For example— will add Q example later

How to be more flexible in wording concepts or conditionals in order better chain them? What is too flexible? I don’t want to chain the unchainable

Hi! Like the title says, I've been struggling to navigate deciding on separate personal statement, diversity statement, and why law essay topics without them feeling too repetitive. Most of the schools I'm applying to require a PS and have "optional" diversity/perspective statements and why law statements, and some, like Harvard, forgo the traditional PS to require both perspective and why law statements.

I had planned to write my PS about where I'm from (very specific area and culture that's traditionally very underrepresented in higher education) and how that's shaped who I am, brought me to my current career, and led me to want to pursue law--and I have some PS drafts that feel successful! My dilemma is that, putting the PS aside, if you asked me how my lived experiences have shaped who I am and how I'd contribute to the school's environment or if you asked what motivates me to pursue law, my answers would also be where I'm from/my background. Obviously I'm simplifying a bit here--there are a lot of layers to my topic and many experiences and anecdotes I could pull from--but I'm not sure how to approach writing a diversity statement or why law statement without it feeling like it's largely echoing my PS.

Is it okay to have a general overarching theme across multiple essays if the specific anecdotes and internal challenges I focus on are different in each, or should I be trying to figure out a completely separate topic for one of the essays (even if that runs the risk of becoming a little less sincere)?

I hope this generally made sense--any advice is welcome!!!

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Anyone have any updated info on this? I get chilly easily so I would be sad if they told me to take my sweatshirt off 🥶

I'm not sure if this has been addressed or not, or if it's feasible. I am a pencil paper test taker and I would find it very helpful to print out drills after it's been created. Again, I'm not sure if this is possible, but a feature like that would be wonderful.

Thank you!!

I had to share this!

I will preface, I do think this was a bit of an easier section and I did recognize a couple questions from drilling that probably let me do them faster.

I have had trouble not finishing my sections, so I started adding extra time on sections and seeing where to find ways to shave off maybe 30 seconds and then giving myself less time on the next section I try.

I set my time to 42 minutes here and not only is this my best LR score yet, but I realized at the end I had 6:40 remaining!

This is the confidence boost I needed as I knew for so long that I could get to this level! I know that I still have a long way to go and this is definitely a biased attempt. But I remember when I first started studying, I tried doing sections with no timer and taking almost an hour to do it and still getting a bunch of questions wrong.

Small wins like this really make me confident and Im beyond thrilled!

I hope you step on Lego, THIS WAS THE HARDEST TIMED PT I EVER TOOK IN MY LIFE I GOT A -15??? (44.44% accuracy.) After doing some extensive research, I was informed that this is one of the most notoriously structurally complex section in history combined with my amazing luck I hapoened to encounter it. My primary goal/accuracy per timed section is a 60% - 70% so scoring a 44.4% on a section THAT difficult I’m not too dissuaded and will continue to study harder, but my God I hope the test maker’s phone charger breaks 😭

I'm debating about taking the Nov LSAT (I've already taken Aug and got a 160, and am taking Oct...I'm still pt-ing in the low 160s and want 167-170). I don't think I'll get to my goal range by October, maybe just mid 160s at best. The most important factor to me for law schools is receiving financial aid. I'm just applying to regional state schools (Chapman, Pepperdine, USD, etc.) nothing too fancy, but it's pretty competitive in California. Is getting my score back in early December then submitting right away too late to receive substantial scholarships? Or should I submit after I get my October score and take Nov (you can wait right?)? Is there any other option around these? 🙏

Hi everyone! I was considering applying to George Mason's early decision scholarship program, but it looks like it's gone from their website. It is also not on the LSAC application preview.

Is anyone else able to find it? Or is it not an option now?

I figured I should reach out to this community before I email the admissions office, just in case I'm missing something or not looking in the right place.

Trying not to make this too long winded...

I'm applying to Boston College soon, and I was wondering if I should write their optional essay. The directions are as follows:

"You are not required to submit an optional statement. However, you may upload an optional statement regarding your salient experiences; economic, cultural, or social background; impactful connections to Boston and BC Law; or other factors that you wish for us to consider when reviewing your application. Your optional statement should not exceed two pages (double-spaced) with one-inch margins and 11-point font size."

Obviously, I want to write it if I should. I understand that many "optional" essays really aren't optional. However, I'm having trouble figuring out if this is a diversity statement or a general optional essay. If I write a essay for diversity, it would harm my chances, but if I don't write an optional essay that will harm my chances as well. Any advise would be awesome!

BR gaps like this make studying for this test extremely annoying...

Hi!

Just wanted to ask, do/did any of you struggle with two answer choices and chose the wrong one. If so, did you over come it? How?

and

Is that supposed to be a good sign of improvement?

Thanks 😊

guys everyone drop ur master tips for the lsat to help us all out plzz!! rlly struggling, need to see things from other ppls pov, and pls make explainations super simple like ur explaining it to a 5 year old, or using real world examples, thank u sm