This has been going on since 9/5 where the timer gets stuck in an interval of 30-65 seconds and goes back to the same time. At first it would get fixed when I refreshed the page and update my chrome. But now it just keeps looping after a few more minutes goes by.

Just curious if its a me problem or if others are experiencing it too, if so what did you do to fix it?

Good evening everyone!

Hope y'all are having a good start to the week! I need some advice on how to format my resume & what to include.

Here is how it is currently formatted:

1. Education

2. Work Experience

3. Skills

4. Achievements & Awards

I have been looking at all possible examples online and they are all so different its hard to pinpoint what I shouldn't and should add. I haven't seen many with the skills section and the achievements & awards are apart of the education. Any help with this is greatly appreciated!

I just started test prep with 7Sage, but I had previously been studying on my own for about 1-2 months. I was wondering if I should study for 4 months and take the January LSAT. That would leave me with three months to fix problem areas before I take the April LSAT. My other option would be taking an extra month to study before I take the LSAT for the first time in February and having two months before I take the LSAT in April. If I take the February LSAT I will not get my score back until a week after the deadline for the April LSAT registration. I am currently doing 3 hours of studying per day Monday-Saturday and taking Sunday off.

Anyone interested in forming an online study group? Took the Aug LSAT and scored a 156 aiming for a 165. Looking for anyone interested in learning/drilling LR and RC.

Taking my Last (3rd) attempt in October. Pray for me.

Recently, I hit a plateau where my PT scores were in the lower 150s. Thinking that my studying wasn't really getting me anywhere, I started to second-guess how serious I was about the LSAT. After taking todays pt and seeing my score 5 points higher than the last I am still in shock. So glad to see that all of this hard work is finally paying off!!!! 😊

I’m so happy to get a higher score during BR. I’m really trying to figure out how I can get my timed score closer to my blind review score/ how long it typically takes for the gap. I’m set to take my exam in October. I know it’s just about 4 weeks away but any tips on getting closer to the 170+ range is truly appreciated. Thank you!!

Best of luck to everyone!

ETA: It was not nearly as scary as I built it up to be. I was well prepared. Shout out to 7Sage generally and special credit to Chapin and Henry's live classes and Kevin's Conditional Logic in 30 Minutes video!

Hi everyone, I'm Hana! I'm a 7Sage tutor and 178 scorer. I'm doing an LSAT AMA on Reddit until 6pm ET. Feel free to drop in a question on this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/7SageLSAT/s/bs1ymrJRkC

On the drive alone to the center I cried my ahh off and later on finished the test feeling like I did so much better than expected. Not sure if the test was easier than the PTs I took, but I went through it with barely any mental exhaustion and my timing was so much more precise. I'm definitely still taking the October test since I realized I still have plenty of room for improvements.

Imma list out things I should keep in mind for the upcoming tests:

1. Never again attempt to take a timed PT the few days before test day. There's no benefit to it, and even if there is, the consequences to your mental health outweigh all of it. Just no. An untimed one might be fine, but you are definitely better off just doing casual drills.

2. Never again look at Crystal Ball. They predicted that PT 148 (the most disgusting thing ever written) is one of the PTs that resemble the September test. I barely got 150 on that PT and was so depressed. Unless you are sure predictions can help you in some way, just pretend it doesn't exist and give yourself the peace of mind. I, in fact, would have had better sleep the night before if I didn't check Crystal Ball.

3. The best thing to do just before test days is preparing yourself mentally well so that you can comfortably breeze through the stupid arguments. That means random drills and 7sage games. Not learning new things, but reinforcing your reading habits.

I know most schools accept 2-3 letters of recommendation. I've asked 4 contacts (2 academic and 2 professional) for letters and all have said yes.

Obviously I won't submit more than the maximum/recommended numbers of letters to each school, but I'm wondering how, in LSAC, you can assign specific letters to specific schools. Would that be through the "description" for each LOR?

Edited to Add:

Hi!! The response to this post has blown me away!! I am working on responding to everyone who reached out - and I definitely do not have the capacity to have this many amazing study buddies, so if anyone out there is considering making a post like this, but feeling shy - here is your sign to do it!! There is definitely an interest in this.

Good luck everyone!!

Hi! I've seen a couple of other people post with a similar idea, so I thought I would give this a shot!

My most recent PTs have been in the upper 160s with BR scores of 180, 179, 179. I am registered for the October and November LSAT and aiming for the mid 170s.

Is there anybody out there who is currently scoring lower than this that would like to meet over Zoom a few times for an hour (or so) to study? I can share what I understand and vice versa.

I've heard that teaching is the best way to make sure you really understand something - and my non-LSAT studying friends have been very patient with my 10 minute voice notes about how dinosaurs glided out of trees -- but I would love for this to be mutually beneficial.

I'm a non-traditional law school applicant in my 40s, in the central time zone, and I have a fairly flexible schedule. I've been studying all summer and working with a 7Sage tutor and I am happy to share any tips that might be helpful for someone!

Perhaps we could each work on a section or some drills before we meet, then we could go over anything that was tricky together.

If you are interested please DM me. Good luck everyone!!

Hey would anyone be interested in peer revieiwing some of my essays. I have my personal and diversity statement. I've been playing around with the ai but I'd l some human eyes that aren't from reddit or family. I'm hapy to return the favor

How did you fix an LR execution gap where your Blind Review is much stronger than your first pass — even when untimed?

I’m early in my LSAT prep and currently drilling LR untimed. I’ve noticed that my Blind Review/re-review reasoning is consistently better than my initial answers, even though my initial drills are already unlimited time.

The issue doesn’t seem to be that I don’t understand the question types. When I review a miss without seeing the correct answer or explanation, I usually identify what went wrong and change to the correct answer. My recurring mistakes are things like:

• compressing language in the stimulus too early and losing an important relationship

• reading two similar but meaningfully different concepts as the same (how long something formed v. when it formed or attempt v. success)

• overlooking a word/phrase in an answer choice that changes what it means

• understanding an argument better on the second read and then realizing my original AC was based on a slightly different representation of it (making the wrong AC sound right basically)

I’m intentionally not working on speed yet. I want to make the reasoning I’m capable of during BR happen reliably on the first encounter.

If you had this problem, what specifically helped? Did you use a checklist, change how you read/translate stimuli, force yourself to verify answer choices against the stimulus, do smaller drill sets, keep a particular kind of wrong-answer journal, etc.?

I’m more interested in concrete habits that eventually became automatic rather than just “slow down/read carefully.” You can still say the latter though.

I've been scoring in the high 160s low 170s recently, but I would be suprised if I broke 160 on that. IDK what the hell happened it just felt like such a struggle

In the past few weeks, I'm having issues with turning the response masking feature on and off without it lagging while the clock continues running normally on timed sections. This has made it on my most recent section that I missed the last question because the clock ran out of time while I was trying to get the response masking to cooperate.

To get a bit more specific, I tried to turn on the feature, strike out an AC, and then turn it off, and select the answer choice I thought was correct. The feature lagged and didn't read all of my inputs correctly and highlighted the answer that I was trying to cross out instead. While I was trying to fix this error on the system's part, I ran out of time on the section and the answer was marked as wrong, which messes with my analytics.

Is anyone else having similar issues with the system, or is my computer just lagging? I thought at first it was just my computer being slow, but the timer doesn't seem to pause when the rest of the platform is lagging like this.

My relationship with the LSAT might be more complicated than my relationship with my estranged dad.

I've been taking this test off and on for three years. I completely underestimated my first attempt. The tutor I hired had the audacity to look me dead in the face and say, "Oh girl, you're fine. You've got this." What she neglected to mention was that having "this" and having 300 spare hours to study for "this" are two very different things.

I'm a trial paralegal in Big Law. In 2023, every COVID-delayed trial got rescheduled at once like judges collectively said: "can't settle by now? parties didn't die? here's a docket that might change that." Every one of them collided with my LSAT date and I spent like $600 moving the things because no trial attorney is approving their paralegal's time off the week before trial. Take away their paralegal and they'll start wandering the courthouse lobby like a Roomba with low battery.

I was working 200 to 250-hour months. My sleep schedule became a whisper in the wind. At one point I genuinely thought to myself, "Just do it, pull off the stupid band-aid. You can take the LSAT immediately after a three-week federal trial. You are a MOM who was literally in labor with a soccer ball sized baby head about tear you in half during senior finals and still aced a few of them."

Reader, I could not. I knew I was bombing it while I was taking it. Scored in the high 140s. Somehow way lower than my first cold practice test. Half my blood volume was energy drink. I still smelled like airplane and redwells.

Then my grandma died four days before my second attempt. "But she was in hospice, right? Didn't you know it was coming?" Yes, Jan. She was in hospice. She had also spent roughly thirteen years refusing to die out of what I can only assume was pure spite and some weird elixir of life consisting of pork rinds, Pepsi, and cigarettes.

I pulled her off life support as her POA in 2014. She survived. Seven respiratory failures. Cardiac arrest. Every time I thought, "Surely that's it." Nope. At a certain point she became less of a grandmother and more of a Gollum (I know how that sounds, promise I loved her). But I genuinely started to believe she might outlive me, my son, and his future children. So no, despite all available evidence, I did not think she was actually going to die. I kind of thought it was more likely she was already dead and I was hallucinating her existence. Didn't sleep before the exam. Had recurring nightmares they were cremating her alive. Somehow scored six points higher, but still lower than my first cold practice exam. A win is a win. Law schools disagreed.

After that, I gave the LSAT a break and got a master's in legal studies instead because AI is coming for all of us and I'd at least like to be automated last. Loved it. Crushed my classes. Took courses alongside practicing attorneys working on their LLMs and set the curve more than a few times. Increased my earnings by like 40%. Professors kept telling me, "You belong in my JD class." I was like, "Cool, could you put that in writing and mail it directly to LSAC?" (they did). They also suggested one of the expensive prep courses. I took one that "guaranteed a 165." Logic Games got removed, which was my worst section. Trial season cooled off. I had successfully run out of grandmothers.

So I walked into my next exam feeling fantastic. Then scored exactly the same as I did the time I took it while grief-stricken, resembling a schizophrenic raccoon after a night of no sleep because I was sitting on my living room floor listening to the Bee Gees, burning a cigarette like sage, and trying to summon Grandma with a Ouija board to make sure she wasn't rising for a comeback tour before I greenlit the cremation and filed for the death certificate.

Yet somehow the score was identical.

The frustrating part is that I consistently scored in the 160s on practice tests. That's literally all I need. I'm not trying to get into Harvard. I have a kid who's going to college in the time it will take me to blink twice and even entertain the thought of having another baby. I'm barely in my 30s still recovering from a daycare bill that already harvested one of my kidneys.

So I studied another 200 hours and took the LSAT again. One point higher. Rejected again. Apparently letters from law professors, equity partners, and nearly 10 years of legal experience are no match for getting five more questions right about evolutionary biology and a guy named Trevor's commute to work. You can manage a SCOTUS appeal (that I can't name drop or half the readers will hate me) but if you confuse the answer choice that flipped the names of the two feminist authors you had 3 minutes to read about you might subsequently kill 14 years of hopes and dreams in a matter of a few hours.

The annoying thing is that I'm not even a bad test taker. JD-Next? Great. Professional certification exams? Nearly perfect. The LSAT, however... I have theories. One is that I do not think in process of elimination. Get asked a question? Answer it. I am far better at free response style testing in general when the writers aren't given the opportunity to insert a few negatives into what could otherwise be a positively framed answer choice. The other is that legal work trains you to challenge plenty of assumptions presented to you. The LSAT says: "For purposes of this question, assume the author is telling the truth."

And somewhere deep in my litigation-trained brain a tiny voice immediately responds: "Objection. Foundation" & then I dwell and time escapes me. Trap answers start to look like the IG clickbait that convinced me to buy a shower harness for my German Shepherd. Then I review it, much like the shower harness, and feel like a moron.

But honestly, I've met phenomenal attorneys with mediocre LSAT scores and brilliant LSAT takers who failed the bar multiple times. So, if you're like me and have the working-memory capacity of a half-eaten baby carrot, I see you. We do the dance. We appease the gatekeepers. Nobody asks for our LSAT score ever again. Or maybe I bomb it one last time, quit law forever after 10 years building a non-attorney dream career in litigation, move to the woods, and become an oil painter with suspiciously strong opinions about John Roberts.

Either way, I'm taking it tomorrow. My husband already removed everything from the bathroom I could plug into the wall, so I'm not tempted to bathe with it in the meantime. My highest practice score so far is a 171. If I hit my modest goal of 164, I might actually call my dad after twelve years and ask him to lunch if he answers. Which means, in a very real way, the LSAT may finally do what years of therapy could not. If you check back in with me and my score is under a 160, I will definitely be in a white padded room (where I probably belong by now).

Think like a robot. May the force be with you.

I just took PT 150, and after scoring -5 to -2 for my timed LR sections for the past 2 weeks and improving slightly in my score for my RC sections I ended up getting around 10 questions wrong on both LR sections and was having trouble even finishing 3 LR passages in the time alloted. I had some trouble during the test, having to pause to move testing locations 3 times, so I assumed that was the problem. However, even on BR I find most of all the questions extrodinarily hard, almost like the writing style for the questions have completely changed from the earlier PTs. Is this an issue anyone else has been dealing with, and is it something I should expect on the upcoming LSATs?

Hi all,

I have been having this problem where my BR score is usually 10 points or more higher than my actual score. Does anyone have any advice on how to close the gap? Thanks!

How long did it take you guys to get through all the question types and start actually understand them atleast on a level 3/4 basis. I want to get through them thoroughly in 6 Weeks so far I got down MC, MSS, POI. I am aiming for Low to Mid 16os. and after I feel I mastered the Qtypes where would you suggest I go from there? I am aiming to take the test in November.

Good morning everyone,

I am taking the LSAT Saturday morning and this is my second attempt, I am not so nervous like before and have been scoring in the high 160s on practice tests. Helpful to know…..study the question types, find the premise and conclusion and eliminate the incorrect answer choices, do not burn yourself out overthinking and if frustrated take a break think positive and get back to it. Read slow pay attention to the wording, start picking your pace up and don’t waste too much time and keep it moving to the next. Everyone learning process is different but you got this.

Good luck to all that are taking the September test and stay positive!

So I've been working on my personal statement, and part of the story I'm telling in that statement is something that I wrote about in an article for my college newspaper/magazine, which is published online. I'm not worried about the general topic being similar since here it has a different purpose (explaining why this experience motivated me to go to law school) but there is one particular scene/vignette that I'd really like to include in the essay, which I wrote about in the article that's online.

I'm obviously not going to copy any exact phrases or sentences, but I'm a little worried about it somehow coming up as plagiarism or something? How should I avoid this/should I just take the vignette out?

On this note, should I avoid using any dialogue, or would a sentence or two be okay? If you can't tell, I was an English major, so trying to figure out where the line between creativity and professionalism lies!

Another thing I was thinking about is that I want to reference the general idea behind this one monologue in this one (old, like 1940s era) movie. It's not like an incredibly unique idea, but I've really connected with the movie and I feel like mentioning it briefly would be helpful in the essay. Would that be a no-go, or would it be okay?

Thanks!!! Any advice is very appreciated