I decided to take a night off of studying for my birthday. That turned into a week off, due to my youngest catching the back to school bug and then passing it to me. This morning was when I was supposed to jump back into the swing of things (I work overnights). I’m sitting there procrastinating the night away and finally just do the dang thing and start a drill. Immediately get an itchy and irritated throat and an overall ‘I don’t want to do this’ sense. Pause my drill and pull out a cough drop and the first thing I see is it telling me to “buckle down and push forth”. Then I read the rest and just laugh at the irony and get back to studying. May my halls wrapper motivate you all as well.

Can anyone explain the difference between assumption and inference? I'm having a difficult time distinguishing the difference on LR questions!

Hey Peeps! If anyone is in the ATL area and would like to meet up to study for the November LSAT please let me know!

I've been drafting personal statement after personal statement (not always to completion) over the past month or so, and once my LSAT take next Saturday is over I am 100% in "admissions mode," but I still haven't found a PS topic that feels convincing. I have quite a few good anecdotes, and those read well, but when it comes to drawing connections to law, and almost giving it that "juice" that many of the examples I read have, I find my attempts lacking. Does anyone have any advice or resources they've used thad has helped them with this sort of issue? I want to have all my applications in by November (hoping that is early enough) so need to make a bit of a breakthrough soon so I can start working on Perspective and optional essays.

Hi! I started at a 155 diagnostic, self-studied my way to an official 166, and then worked my way to an official 177. My LR was consistently -1 to -3 by the 166 test, but RC could swing anywhere down to -7 depending on the day. I told myself for a while it was just an off section, bad luck, whatever. It wasn't. I was avoiding it because it was the section I was worst at, which meant I wasn't putting in the reps that would have actually fixed it. And that avoidance makes sense. LR is more fun to sit down and do. RC is slower, drier, and less satisfying question to question, even when you're doing everything right. Neither section is a blast, but RC loses the fun contest every time, and that's exactly why people under-practice it.

Once I stopped letting my LR strength cover for my RC weakness and started treating RC like the section that actually needed the work, my score went from 166 to 177. Getting from the 160s into the mid-to-high 170s is where a lot of people stall out. It's where I struggled the most too. That's the part I want to help other students with: figuring out where they're actually losing points, being honest about the sections they're avoiding, and turning those weaknesses into something predictable and manageable.

This isn't just for people already in the 160s, though. If you're just starting out, or you're still in the 140s or 150s and the test feels like a foreign language, that's fine too. A lot of the habits that get someone from 166 to 177 are the same habits that should be built from day one, so you don't spend your first year of studying picking up things you'll have to unlearn later.

Two things I'll drill into every student, whatever your level:

• Blind review and wrong answer journal everything you miss. If it's a single section, do it that day or the next. If it's a full PT, wait until the next day so you're not just running on adrenaline and you don't exhaust yourself that day.

• Learn what to do when you're down to two answer choices. Everyone goes through this. You've read the stimulus or passage, read the question, eliminated three, and you're staring at two that both feel defensible. This is where people burn way too much time and sometimes still end up guessing wrong, and then run out of time on the questions after it. What I recommend is to read both one more time, figure out which one is more wrong, pick the other, and move on. The LSAT itself tells you this is going to happen; the instructions say: "For some questions, more than one of the choices could conceivably answer the question. However, you are to choose the best answer; that is, choose the response that most accurately and completely answers the question." Tutoring won't make this scenario disappear completely, but it should make it rare, and it should make you fast when it does happen.

My actual goal is to get the test to feel second nature, no matter where you're starting from. Not just accurate, but familiar, to the point where you can feel how a section is going while you're still in it. You should know you're having a good LR section as you're going through it, not find out three weeks later when the score comes back.

Sessions are meant to be a conversation, not a lecture. I want to work through problems with you, figure out where the actual gaps are, and build a plan from there. I don't want to just talk at you for an hour. I also genuinely believe this test is learnable. A lot of people feel like they've hit a ceiling, like their score is just who they are at this point. I don't buy that, and I want to convince you of it too.

I'm charging $40/hour right now. Comment below or message me and I'll set up a free intro call.

After plateauing in the mid 160s for weeks before the September LSAT, finally got into the elusive 170 club. Keep grinding y'all. Best of luck next week!

October LSAT First-Timers: 30 Days to LOCK IN 🔒📚

30 DAYS. That’s it. We’re officially in the home stretch!

I’m starting this study group for anyone taking their first LSAT in October 2026 who wants to lock in, stay accountable, and make these next 30 days count.

Whether you’re starting from a 140s diagnostic and chasing a major score increase, already in the 150s/160s and pushing toward your goal score, or simply trying to make sure you’re fully prepared for test day — you’re welcome here.

The goal isn’t to compete with each other. It’s to lock in together. 🔒

🎯 What We Can Use This Group For

• Daily/weekly study check-ins

• Sharing practice test scores and progress

• Discussing difficult LR and RC questions

• Sharing strategies that are actually working

• Accountability when motivation starts slipping

• Setting weekly goals and reporting back

• Celebrating score increases — big or small

• Talking through test anxiety, timing, and confidence

• Keeping each other focused during the final stretch

⏰ THE 30-DAY CHALLENGE

For the next 30 days, let’s treat LSAT prep like a commitment.

You don’t have to study for 8 hours every day. You don’t have to get every question right. And you definitely don’t have to have everything figured out right now.

But we DO have to show up.

Let’s use these next 30 days to identify our weaknesses, attack them, review our mistakes, take our practice tests seriously, and walk into October knowing we gave this everything we had.

30 days of consistency > 30 days of panic.

Drop an introduction when you join:

📍 First LSAT: October 2026

🎯 Goal score:

📊 Current PT/diagnostic:

📚 Prep program:

⏰ Hours you plan to study per week:

🔥 One thing you’re determined to improve before test day:

Let’s lock in. 🔒

October 2026 — WE’RE COMING FOR YOU. 📝

Does anyone have any advice for not psyching yourself out on harder RC passages? I find myself freaking out and having to re-read over and over again because I convince myself I can't understand the passage. I've tried focusing on finding the structure/opinions/etc., slowing down, taking deep breaths, and even powering through, but then I finish and I have no idea what I just read. Any advice?

It's been a few weeks since our last forum post on games. Since then, we've added:

• Tone Tasting 🍷 (detect author's attitude)

• If-Then Blitz 👾 (identify sufficient and necessary conditions in conditional statements)

• The Monster Files 🫈 (practice strengthening/weakening causal arguments)

Check them out and let us know what you think!

We're also rolling out various other updates each week to other games (adding additional content, adding pause functionality for games that involve timing).

(Download the standalone LSAT Games app for iPhone or Android to keep playing when you're offline.)

I wanted to share this as a PSA for anyone participating in or organizing study groups on 7Sage — and, hopefully, as constructive feedback for 7Sage itself.

I recently created a free study group for the November LSAT. The goal was simple: get people together consistently, review PTs, work through difficult questions, and help each other improve. Around 20 people joined.

Then someone joined and immediately began soliciting members for a paid course.

I’m going to link their profile below. Please do your own due diligence before giving anyone money or personal information. I’m not interested in making accusations beyond what I can personally document.

https://7sage.com/discussion/profile/Ethan%E2%80%8C

What really frustrated me, however, was trying to figure out how to deal with the situation.

As the person who created the group — and therefore has some responsibility for the environment and the people I invited into it — I expected to have some basic ability to moderate it.

Instead, I couldn't find a way to remove the person from the group, and I couldn't find a straightforward way to report the behavior.

I also tried to communicate with 7Sage about it, only to discover that there doesn't appear to be an actual human being available to talk to. You're essentially left dealing with an AI/bot support system.

That was really disappointing.

There is a tremendous amount of money involved in LSAT preparation. Students are spending hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars on courses, tutoring, and prep materials. If you're going to provide a community environment where students organize study groups, I think there should be some basic safeguards:

• The ability for group organizers to remove disruptive or inappropriate members

• A straightforward way to report suspicious behavior

• A way to contact a human when there's a legitimate moderation issue

• Most importantly, some protection against unsolicited commercial solicitation

I won't go into the full extent of the gray market surrounding LSAT preparation — and the ecosystem that LSAC inadvertently props up — at this time. But please, be extremely careful before spending money on a third party. Do your research, verify who you're dealing with, and don't assume that someone offering a product or service through an LSAT community is automatically legitimate.

I also found that the platform lacks some of the collaborative tools I was hoping to use, particularly around screen sharing, marking things up together, and whiteboard functionality.

https://7sage.com/discussion/62242/question-for-people-who-use-discord-for-study-groups

I genuinely wanted to keep the group on 7Sage. I don't particularly like moving people onto third-party platforms (not even to mention all the drama with discord), which is why I tried to make this work here in the first place.

Unfortunately, I don't feel comfortable organizing a group when I can't adequately moderate it.

So I'm dissolving the original group and moving the new one to Discord.

But I don't want the takeaway from this to simply be “7Sage bad, use Discord.”

I actually like what 7Sage provides. I have personally paid real money for this resource, I still will continue to pay money for this resource and the reason I created the group here in the first place is because I believe there is tremendous value in students being able to help each other.

That's exactly why I hope someone at 7Sage sees this as an opportunity for improvement rather than simply a complaint.

If students are going to use the platform to build communities, they should have the tools to keep those communities safe, useful, and focused on studying.

I learned something from this process, even if I wish I hadn't had to learn it this way.

I'm still going to try to build the community I originally set out to build. I just have to do it somewhere else for now.

Hopefully, something positive ultimately comes from the experience.

Hi! I graduated undergrad in December 2021. I have some professors I've spoken to about law school, but only one that really remembers me / can speak to my work. There are others that I had classes with, but I assume I would get rather cookie cutter letters from them, because it's been so long since I was their student. I have positive work relationships with my manager, director, and the CEO of the nonprofit I work at. If I am submitting three letters of recommendation for a school, how many should be professional vs academic?

Bonus question: for my professional letters what do you think would hold more weight for a school: letter from a manager who knows me very well or letter from a CEO who knows me but can't speak to the exact day-to-day of my work?

Apologies for the long post! Thanks for your thoughts.

I have been taking LR sections, as well as drills consistently over the past couple of weeks. Not sure what it was but suddenly it has begun to feel like the clock is playing a big role in my answers. I am scoring well during Blind Review, and often I can recover all of the questions I missed during Blind Review very quickly, but when doing the sections or drills live I make simple mistakes. Any advice on how to get Blind Review and Live Scores to reconcile?

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Alright, round two.

I’m putting together a new study group for the November LSAT, and this time we’ll be using Discord.

The idea is pretty simple: I want a group of people who are actually willing to show up consistently and work.

One thing I’ve noticed with a lot of study groups is that they start strong. Everyone is excited, deadlines get set, and then, over time, they can fade.

My theory is that there needs to be an anchor.

So I’m volunteering to be that guy.

I’m committing to being on every single day from September 9th until the LSAT, at a consistent time. You absolutely do not have to attend every day. The point is that there will always be someone there to study with.

What we'll do

The format will be pretty straightforward:

• Review practice tests

• Go through questions people struggled with

• Discuss wrong answers and why we missed them

• Work through difficult LR/RC questions together

• Screen share and mark things up

• Talk through approaches and strategies

• Generally figure out how to get more questions right

The only real requirements are that you have a microphone, Discord, and a willingness to participate in good faith.

You don't need to be there every day.

Why Discord?

Honestly, I wasn't sold on Discord either. I’m personally not a huge fan of third-party apps, and I don’t love the tradeoff of moving off this platform. I also had never personally set anything up on Discord before.

I originally wanted to keep everything inside 7Sage, which is why I started the group here. But after actually trying to organize everything, I think Discord makes more sense for what we’re trying to accomplish.

Being able to screen share, talk through questions in real time, have some basic moderation, and use collaborative tools should make the actual study process much easier.

This is also important to clarify: this is a different tool with a different purpose than the 7Sage Class feature. I’m not trying to recreate the class feature on another platform. The goal here is to have a consistent, review group where we can actually work through questions together.

Start date: September 9th.

My goal was and is to get a 170 or greater. I started studying with a free class in fall 2025. In this class, we learned the basics and walked through questions. We were supposed to do two PTs a week, but I just did one PT a week and sort of fell behind. I locked in in December 2025 and studied every day for about 3 hours (I read the RC bible and did two sections a day then reviewed that night in my wrong answer journal). Before the test, I got a 170/173 once and was averaging mid to high 160s. I got a 160 on the February LSAT of this year and haven't studied since.

I really struggled with reading comprehension timing. Some passages I just wouldn't understand and I would get entire passages wrong. Reading has always been my strength but the timing, even with the tools given to my by the free class and the RC powerscore bible, I could not increase my score. I did a lot of practice and outside reading with the strategy of reading for structure, arguments, etc. and was never really able to master the timing of it all and the challenging questions would just often seem to extrapolate more than I was comfortable doing.

I got pretty good at LR after a lot of practice, still struggled a little bit with timing but was mostly got 1-4 wrong one every section.

I am restarting my studying with the goal of taking the February 2027 test. I'm a week into 7sage core concepts and have watched most videos on 2x speed, there have been a few tools that could be helpful in helping me perfect/refresh my LR but I feel like I know a lot of what these videos are explaining. Any advice on how to go about preparing for the Feb 2027 test? and improving at RC beyond external reading for structure/POV/arguments and a ton of practice?

Does anyone know when the Tutor Office Hours are or where I can find a schedule for them?

Just wanted to say - love the way that Sage AI was incorporated into the platform. It's been really helpful and almost like I'm speaking to an actual tutor :) For example, I've found its really helpful when pressure testing things like... if the answer choice said this instead, would it be more correct. Or, just having it explain something more in-depth than what is currently provided from the written or video explanations (which are still great by the way). Or the best use case, I'll talk it through my reasoning that made me get to the wrong answer choice (or correct answer choice) and poke holes in it, etc...

I'm four days out from writing the LSAT, and I completed two timed sections today as light review and made so many careless mistakes (more mistakes than I would usually commit on an LR and RC section). Could I be experiencing fatigue? How do I work around this to feel ready on test day?

Even as many of my other question types have solidified, this question type in particular seems to be the hold out. I never seem to feel confident in my answer choice. What strategies work on these?

Why did I go from getting some of the sufficient vs necessary questions right to getting none of them correct?

Right now, if I complete and blind-review a test section on its own, there's no way to have that score count toward a full prep test later. I'd have to manually re-enter my answers into the full test, or retake the whole test and re-answer everything, which distorts the data (since it'd be like having multiple copies of the same score on the same exam).

It would be really helpful to have a feature that lets me combine separately-completed sections into one full-length test score. This would let me properly blind review each section individually while still getting accurate full-test data, without manual re-entry or retaking sections I've already done. I think this would be especially helpful for people who have multi-day testing accommodations or might not have the time to do a full prep test everyday but can do 1-2 sections a day.

I have been averaging -2 to -4 on RC and then at the end of August beginning of September I am now averaging -8 to -9. I really don't know what to do and I am not feeling good. Any advice would be appreciated!

I've been stuck in the mid-160s for like a whole week after breaking my plateau of a month in the late 150s. I want to go to a good law school. So I will likely have to retake the exam. I feel stupid as shit, and this exam just seems to confirm that.

Hi,

I started with a diagnostic of 140 and now I am in mid-160s zone (BR 170+).

I have around 5 weeks from now and was curious if I can get some feedback on how to close that gap. I did read a lot of posts about bridging the gap between actual score and BR but was wondering how I can improve on specific weaknesses I have which are as follows:

1. I think my biggest weakness is time management. I get anxious of the time and tend to panic while looking at the questions. I don't have any accommodations since it is not super serious but was wondering how I can fight this time management issue.

2. I am a bit of a perfectionist and tend to take a lot of time in the passage for RC. When I read for the details, I miss the structure and when I read for the structure, I miss the details. What are some good RC techniques I can implement?

3. With regards to LR, when I panic with time, I tend to misread things and make mistakes:( How can I prevent this from happening?

Thank you all of you in advance for your response! Really appreciate your time!

Hi guys! I have a genuine question/concern! the only organization/club that i’ve been involved in since starting college is ydsa(young democratic. socialists of america)… which I know isn’t the most fancied among the public 🌚 but I also don’t want to discredit the only org that i’ve been apart of on campus! my question is, should I include it in my extracurriculars, or is there a way I can include it that maybe doesn’t state the specific org ? I’ve been involved through tabling,canvassing, helping with poli ed, helping w a clothing drive etc and i don’t want to NOT include it, as it’s my only club involvement! Any advice/thoughts is greatly appreciated!