Hi everyone, I'm a bit confused as to why for PT May 2020, 7sage does not list the level of difficulty for each of the questions. Yet, JY has posted explanations for every question for the test. Anyone have an idea why the difficulty levels are missing?

Hey, if you've gone through all of the CC i'd really appreciate some advice:

How long did it take you to go through it all? Would you change that if you could go back in time.

Did you go through it in the order as it is listed?

Did you go through all the CC before you started taking prep tests and timed sections?

Did you solve all the practice sets at the end of each sections as soon as you were done with the section or did you leave some for later?

Also, to anyone: what do you think of the way I've been studying.

First go through the lessons and watch the videos (while taking notes). If there is no video I'd just read through the article provided. But if there is a video I do not read ( i found they usually cover the same thing. Should I be reading everything? )

Then, I try solving the practice examples alone and follow that by watching JY's explanation to all of the examples as I solve them to build the thought process and logic.

Finally, I solve all the problems sets. I try to take them all timed but if I find myself struggling then I will take a few untimed. I BR the ones I am doubtful off but I am not sure if I should be BR every single question. I then watch JY's explanation on the questions I got wrong. Should I watch all the videos?

Am I being thorough enough or an I skipping certain important things?

Thank you in advance.

Hey all!

I am taking the Jan Flex next Tuesday and, as a nervous test taker, I often feel like I won't reach my potential because I don't believe that I can. So, I wanted to share an article that helped me reduce my own negative energy and anxiety over the weekend, in the hopes of helping someone else who is feeling similarly with test day approaching.

I truly believe your mindset is your greatest asset. The only thing stopping you from achieving that 180, 170, 160 (or whatever else it may be on test day!) are the limits you set on yourself...so, don't set limits on your capabilities!

The article is below and it's a really great read for anyone working on a goal.

Happy studying!

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-to-overcome-selfsabot_b_10641530

Hi! I took the LSAT in November and got a 166, so this isn't one of those "I got 170+" stories.

Some background about me; a year and a half ago (July 2019) I had the brilliant idea that with my incredibly low gpa I couldn't get into any grad program I wanted but law school was much more "splitter-friendly" so I'll just take the LSAT and become a lawyer! I argue...sometimes. That's what lawyers do right? I was super lazy, unhealthy, played video games all day, and watch tv shows when I was too lazy to press buttons.

So I bought an LSAT test booklet (62-71) and was like ok Diagnostic time! I tried the first question (I think it was LR?) then the next. Couldn't even finish the section or the rest of the LSAT for that matter since I was so mentally exhausted and tired. And I missed half of the few that I got right when I later checked. Idk what diagnostic score that counted for, but somewhere in the 130s maybe. That was my starting point.

After revamping a lot of my life I ended up consistently getting a 162, then retaking and getting a 166 while scoring mostly in the 170s. After having gone through that, I look back and realize how fortunate (financially and time-wise) I was to have been able to make the steps to get that far. Which leads me to the point of the post.

Skipped background, here's the point; I've received a lot of free information on this and other websites, and having finished the past year and received essentially free tutoring from u/lsat_is_samsara (thanks a lot to that guy for his patience), I decided I'd like to offer tutoring like he did as well. Granted he's a genius, but whatever I can offer through zoom or discord I'd be happy to offer it to anyone who might need/want it.

I also have an ulterior motive; I actually enjoyed the process of trying to master the LSAT. And then finally accepting my test score rather than vehemently obsessing over a 170. Which I'm still somewhat sore over. I think the LSAT made me a better person and a better thinker. I swear the LSAC doesn't pay me to say these things; forcing myself to assess how I think and reason was very helpful in other aspects of my life (emotional health, decision making, investing etc.) So if I can help instill some of that in some of the prospective students who are maybe railing against the frustrations they feel about the test, I'd like to do that.

Some information/ideas off the bat from me; (this will be for people who maybe just started the LSAT, though feel free to read if you wish)

Logical reasoning; relationship between the premise/conclusion is paramount. Attack it with everything you've got, try to destroy the opposition for ever considering making such a fallacious argument.

Ex: If we hire more employees, we'll make more profits! You: What about the costs of scaling up? What if the market is already saturated with our product and our increasing production will drive prices down? What if tomorrow an earthquake happens, the employees die and they all had earthquake insurance?

Reading comprehension; my most difficult to improve, yet imo the most valuable to work on from the beginning. Read everything critically? Reading a novel? Why is the author saying this? How does relate to previous chapters? Reading a news article? What is the point of the piece? How does the author express their main point and whose view points are being used here? Question everything. And practice whenever you can. You will be reading a lot! Best fall in love with it.

A lot of people who strive to become lawyers come from non-stem backgrounds with low doses of math. I think this hurts people, especially for this test. Every answer is 100% correct. There is no "well let's agree to disagree". This is, basically, a math test. Instead of variables like x, y, z you have words that have values. And instead of asking you to solve for x, it asks you to find the flaw (or how to correct it). Some questions recently have definitely become much less clear cut, but the education of math has also become a lot more complicated as time goes on. This may appear like bad news, but the good aspect of this is, you can figure it out. It's understandable and reliable. Once you start getting a question type, you can rely on that experience to master other like questions.

LG; this is one which a lot of test takers complain that it's unrelated to law. To me, it's the most apt testing of one's "lawyering" skills. Granted my lack of experience in law may bias me, but LG is testing your ability to understand the rules of a system, and how to play the game. Imagine a client asking you about tax law. You have to know the laws/statutes (rules of the system) and what options your client has to optimizing their situation (playing the game). It becomes more complicated than that, but this is a pretty simple start to that mentality. Plus, this is the section you can practice and get 100% nearly every time!

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out! Otherwise if this was uninteresting to you, or if it didn't help, then I wish you well this new year and hope you get the score you deserve (if you're still taking it)!

And if you disagree with anything I say, please let others know in the comments; I might not think I'm wrong by saying the above, but someone else may read what I wrote and take it at face value. Unless they're practiced in reading LSAT stimuli lol.

EDIT: So a lot of people have been contacting me or writing here on how to contact me. You can message me personally here and if you're comfortable with a call, leave either an email or a number for me to zoom/call you along with a comfortable time/date so that we can schedule something this week! I am PST, and free generally after 3 pm! I do have other obligations so that is not set in stone, but I will do my best to circumvent it and respond to all questions/requests for tutoring.

Please hedge your expectations as I am not a professional tutor and will most likely deviate in some areas regarding their assistance! Good luck to all!

Hi I completely bombed one of the tests on 7sage and would like to retest. Does 7sage allow you to take a test again and re-score? I can't seem to figure out how.

Thanks!

How is D the answer? Why could genetics not be a possible way to determine schizophrenia in the future? - I selected C, but now see why that wasn't right, but not why D is the correct AC... #Help

Hi everyone,

Episode 36 of our podcast is here! I interviewed 7Sage Consultant Tajira McCoy, the former Director of Admissions and Scholarship Programs at Berkeley Law.

https://soundcloud.com/user-737824810/36-getting-into-law-school-berkeley-law-with-tajira-mccoy

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I applied to Berkeley ED and got dropped into their regular applicant pool.

Is this a situation where I should write a LOCI or is that only for waitlisted candidates?

Thank you!

I can never get below -3 on both LR and RC :( for the past 5 tests my scores in lr and rc have been more or less -3 each and -0 lg usually saves my ass. Can someone give me some advice on how to not miss easy questions :( my main problem is with missing easy questions that i should not be missing

I feel as though I am going crazy. I had done a number of prep tests before using 7sage but I kept track of which ones I had taken. I am doing tests I have not done before now and most the questions feel familiar. I know they use the same stem multiple times but I feel as though my good scores are coming from the fact I have done these questions before although I may not have done them before. Is this happening to anyone else?

Hello,

So I received an email today because I accidentally selected yes for one of my character and fitness questions on one of my applications when I meant to mark no for all. I immediately responded and told them it was a careless mistake and the person followed-up by saying that they appreciated my prompt response, that they made a note in my file, and are now preparing my application for review.

I think this is a positive response, but I am still embarrassed and worried. Does anyone know if this happens more often than I think it does and if it will be okay? I am just worried this mistake will negatively affect my application.

Is it possible to schedule the LSAT flex in the middle of the night? Taking the test in the middle of the night would be the most safe option for minimizing disturbances for my environment, but I was wondering if it was even possible.

Are available test times on a 24-7 basis for your region? In previous proctorU registrations I only looked at the specific time I wanted so I didn’t really look at how wide-ranging the times that they had were.

For instance, if I was in the region (Europe, Africa, and the Middle East), would the time slot “3 am” in the UK even be an option for me haha, or are all the time slots limited to just early morning to reasonable nighttime hours. If anyone remembers that would be helpful!

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Side note:

IF ProctorU has 24-7 availabilities, I am also of course curious to hear about any health/scientific comments on health impacts/performance of switching to a nocturnal life. (I used to wake up at 9 AM, sleep at midnight). It would be a major change, but there are 16 days to go until Jan 19 so I think it's possible to adjust to being nocturnal. Just not sure if there might be unknown consequences.

I am currently fool-proofing PT1-35. Although I am seeing the repetitive nature of the games, I still feel like I am not being as efficient as I could be. I do about 4 games a day and space out it out depending on how I do on each trial. What are your foolproof strategies? Do you breakdown the games in sets, by types, or any other strategies. Although my LR is not the best (-10), my real problem right now is the games and would like to have them down. I have faith in the foolproof method and understand that it might take a while, but I want to do it in an affective manner. All advice is welcomed, thanks!

I came to post this question and noticed that someone just posted a very similar question a few minutes ago. That said, I feel my question is sufficiently (y'all see that LSAT language creeping in) different to still go ahead and post it up.

For background, I have never completed an LG section under timed conditions.

I wonder, for those of you who have overcome the same dilemma, do you have any tips that seemed to bridge the gap between Finishing and Not Finishing the LG section. I often get through only 11-12 questions, so needless to say my score is a disaster.

I write this partially because I had the same issue with RC and LR sections until very, very recently. What helped me was to realize there is almost no possibility to take the foot off the gas on this test, and instead to just go all out flooring it at blazing speed (probably 2-3x beyond my max "comprehensible" reading speed). Which actually gave me a lot of confidence and seems to have helped my score at least in the short term. My analogy is like getting on a fast-moving highway: there's no room at all to slow down.

For LG I can't use the same approach, because there is literally no way to go faster without first at least trying to figure out what's going on. Put differently, in LG the questions are more "symbolic" in nature, vs just purely dense linguistically. So like without being able to formulate and organize the symbols properly, there's no way to speed up. Meanwhile, I find myself taking too long to diagram, too long to analyze each question, and often, just getting totally lost in there. The analogy is, I need to get onto the highway, but halfway up the on-ramp, I realize one tire is totally flat.... Meanwhile there is a car speeding by!!! (I guess that would be the car that y'all are in!!!) So my confidence is pretty deflated on this front. But I am trying to keep it positive!!! Especially since the January LSAT is the last possible test for this application cycle for my target school. And I cannot get the necessary (LSAT language again) score while leaving half the LG section with pure guesses. Please help if you find it in your heart to do so!!!!!!!!! God bless!!!!!!!!!!

Hi I am trying to sign up for the ultimate+ course and I'm seeing that it requires an LSAT prep plus for another 100 bucks. Can I not access the material unless I have the prep plus thing?

Where can I get PT 90/ the May 2020 LSAT Flex? Is it on 7sage? Have explanations been written for it yet? I can't seem to find it in my course syllabus.

If time is no issue, I get 80-100% of the questions correct. On an actual LSAT or a PT, I tend to run out of time with approx. 3-5 questions remaining, causing me to guess them.

When doing Problem Sets ("PS"): The first time I do a given PS, I do poorly. The second and thereafter, I get 80-100% of the questions correct - even if I don't come back to the same problems for a considerable amount of time. The problem is on an actual LSAT, I obviously won't have experienced the questions before.

What is the best method to improve my performance in LG at this point? To grind new PTs (which are a limited resource), or to re-do old Problem Sets?

Hi 7Sagers!

I am looking for advice regarding the best way to boost my score for a retake.

I was planning to apply for the 2021 cycle but have decided to wait, partially so I can apply ASAP for the next cycle to increase chances at admission/scholarships and partially because my LSAT score isn't quite where I want it to be/believe it can be.

Some background:

Since making the decision to wait a cycle, I have pushed my Jan test to April (would be open to pushing it to May if that's an option & is flex) with a goal of 165+ and am now wondering what is the best way for me to prepare during these next few months - focus on whole PTs? Do the core curriculum? Do a combination of the two at the same time? I'm worried that if I focus too much time on the curriculum, I am just delaying practicing my skills & will have less time ultimately to do PTs; on the other hand, it seems that the curriculum might be important in strengthening my foundation.

I want to feel as confident as possible going into the next LSAT and would love any suggestions you all have for how to best approach studying this time around!

P.S. I do work full-time in case that changes anything.

Thank you!

I just don't feel like taking it. I want to lie to myself that I have no limit by not taking cold diagnostic test.

Any opinions?

How is "homelessness as a social problem" compatible to accepting/denying the conclusion?

Hi what would you guys recommend for reading faster ?

Hi everyone! I am looking for people interested in studying together/holding each other accountable, etc. specifically for the 2021 Summer LSAT dates. My goal is 165+. Here is the link for a group me I created if you are interested!

https://groupme.com/join_group/65317666/xGC44pw3

Is anyone else finding the LR sections of the 80s PTs drastically harder? I cannot figure out what is happening here.. Is this indicative of the January 2021 test, if so this might be highly problematic for me.

I am unsure what to do, and if you guys can give me advice I would really appreciate it!

So I am registered to write the January LSAT, which is in a few days. I wasn’t able to study enough because I work two jobs and other family responsibilities! I am scoring in the 140s and I have already applied to two good law schools in Canada (UofT and Queens) and plan to apply in the states. Should I defer the exam and write it in April and withdrawal the applications for Canada? Or should I write it and if I score that bad the day of the exam I can rewrite it again ?

Also, I am unfamiliar with the American applications but is it possible to apply in February 2021 and write the exam in March 2021 and still get in for fall 2021? I really want to start this year!

I got accepted to UConn today, and it's Sunday. Who knew that was possible?