Hey all,

I did my writing sample a few months ago, but I found myself thinking about it again these past few weeks. I’m just curious how important it actually is in this process? It just feels like there’s a wide range of opinions, ranging from it essentially being a captcha that makes sure you have basic literacy to it being so significant that a single grammar mistake while ruin your chance of a top law school.

I’m honestly of a more middle ground perspective - that it’s something admissions officers will see, and you certainly don’t want to blow it off, but it’s also a rough piece of writing you produce in 35 minutes, and few people are probably expecting it to be a genuine testament of your full writing ability. But I was curious what other perspectives this board might offer, especially from those who are more versed in the admissions process.

For reference, I don’t think my writing sample was bad. I took a clear position, argued it with the given perspectives and some real world examples, did a counter argument to address any rebuttals, and did so in an organized way - essentially the classic 5 paragraph essay. I just think that my piece was a bit clunky and repetitive, like very bluntly repeating my main idea at the end of each paragraph.

Thanks all.

Stim: Because public officials were unable to clearly communicate the urgency of the situation, the attempt to contain the outbreak failed.

Just joined today! Does anyone have a newly begun study group I can join?

Does anyone else spend the whole day studying just to finish off a Practice Section horribly and then rage quit for the rest of the night 😭 lol

Hi all! I, looking for anyone in the Baltimore/dmv area who would want to meet for study sessions. I’m aiming to take the September LSAT.

Looking to start a group that meets Thursdays midday or morning in Athens, GA. I am in the 150's right now and looking to make the jump to 160 by June. Hoping to have some accountability partners!

Hi all

I'm in NY. Few years out of undergrad, taking lsat in august, just joined 7 sage today. Anyone in similar situation with study group?

Recently I've been looking to practice POE. For some questions, the answer is sufficiently obvious that the POE isn't necessary, so I am on the lookout for questions that really need it or questions where the right AC isn't quite obvious. If anyone has any recs for questions or lessons I may have missed I would appreciate it!

To avoid double posting, if J.Y. sees this, I also think a tag for "except" (e.g. all of the following strength the argument EXCEPT) question as I would love to drill those stems as they require any additional layer of logic to apply.

If anyone else is looking for a great comprehensive LR review before tomorrow's test, I highly recommend looking here! https://7sage.com/lessons/logical-reasoning/introduction-to-logical-reasoning/logical-reasoning-cheat-sheet

I've been running through these drills and it's been very helpful. I am #scared of tmwr but its fine, we're all going to be fine :)

Hi,

So when we go to Drills and select questions manually, we can see "Result - Actual BR" feature. The result has a date when it was taken and percentage score. Currently, the percentage shows only the very first attempt. If you have taken the questions twice, it will not show the most recent attempt score. Hence, it would be great to make it such that the Result percentage reflects the most recent attempt and not the very first result.

Bay.

I've been drilling out mix-drills, and I can manage to get them done under 150% timing.

My current approach to the LR section is to skip 5Qs. But, I've been taking sections and I seem to be taking up a lot of time in the first 10Qs, if not the first 15Qs. Ideally I'd like to strive for the first 10Q in 10min or even the first 15Q in 20 min.

Does anyone have any good tips for this? Any drills that I should do? I do attend the speed drills class, but I end up taking 2min per question even there. Do I need to solidify my foundations or is it more speed-focused drilling?

Thanks!

Hi, does anyone have the link to the daily shortcut for apple podcasts? I haven't been able to find it on the app, and there's no link on the youtube channel. :(

You may have noticed some activities shifting around in your study plan. I know that can be frustrating, especially if a day you'd already completed is now showing incomplete items. I want to explain what's happening so you're not caught off guard.

We removed a few lessons from the Conditional and Set Logic and Logic of Intersecting Sets modules. (They're still available in the Lesson Library (formerly known as the Core Curriculum) if you want them; they're just no longer part of study plans.) This makes your plan a bit shorter, so later activities get pulled forward. That's why a completed day might now show new items. It's picking up activities from the next day.

One more heads-up: we'll be adding some Adaptive Drills to study plans in the coming week, so you may notice another shift then too. I wanted to let you know now so it doesn't feel like your progress keeps changing out from under you.

We really appreciate your patience, and I'm sorry for the disruption.

Once the additional drills come in, your overall schedule should look more like how it did a few days ago.

Unfortunately, in the meantime, it will look like you're behind. You're not actually behind though! I recommend just proceeding 1 day at a time even if the activities you're working on look like they're for a previous day.

I do not recommend taking the LSAT remotely

I want to share my experience so others can be informed before deciding. Even though I have a very stable internet connection, the remote system had multiple issues throughout the entire process.

ProctorU allowed me to log in, but when moving to another section, it would get stuck in waiting mode.

1. I had to log out and back in several times.

2. I had to repeat the initial inspection process four times.

3. I started at 8:30 a.m. and didn’t finish until 1:45 p.m. because of the constant technical problems.

All of this affects your focus, creates anxiety, and completely throws off your rhythm during the exam.

My advice: if possible, take the exam at an authorized test center. The experience is much more stable and avoids interruptions that can negatively impact your performance.

Hello! My name is Alessia, and I'm looking for a study group in the GTA that could meet either in person or on zoom. I'm planning to write the August LSAT and am aiming for a score of 167. This will be my second attempt, but I'm open to studying with both beginners and previous test takers. My study hours would be weekdays before 4:30pm. Let me know if you're interested!

I got this message halfway through my test while was I was doing my security check in with my proctor before the 3rd section. I really don't think my proctor instigated it - it popped up while they were talking and they never had an issues with my security. I think it was an automatic camera detection. I know that I followed all of the rules. I got approved for a retest once before because of tech issues, but I am worried how this will be treated differently since it's security related. Help line rep was not optimistic, she really got me worried I won't be approved "simply because its a security issue"

TLDR- for those who have found success above 165, do you have any tips for how to use a wrong answer journal and how to make it something useful and not just an endless notebook of writing I will never refer back to after working out a problem?

I finished core curriculum a few weeks ago and am starting to get to more consistent practice on PTs and full sections. When I took the LSAT in the fall I had a digital wrong answer journal that I used mostly to track trends (I wasn't using 7Sage at the time). Now that I am using 7Sage and have analytics, I get better data without having to compile all that myself.

The wrong answer journal/recording why and how I got something wrong, is still certainly helpful now as another means of forcing me to walk through my incorrect thought process, but I am still barely going back and looking at answers after doing an initial blind review plus notes.

Does anyone have tips or ideas of how to use a wrong answer journal in an effective way that will help me get better?

I just scored a 154 on PT141.

How cooked am i for tmrw.

For some background. I took the lsat jan 2025 and got a 149, now I am averaging in the 155s. My goal is minimum 160 for the june lsat... I haven't signed up yet as I feel like I wont be able to reach this score.

Any tips to get me to the 160s, it seems impossible.

Thanks!

EDIT: I have been trying some tips i have been given, i have found taking my time on as many questions as possible and the last few questions to focus on less seems to improve score. Hope that helps anyone in same situation

Hi everyone,

I’ve been studying for the LSAT for a few months and keep running into the same issue in LR.

I can usually narrow it down to 2 answers, but during timed sections I often pick the wrong one. During blind review, I get it right much more often.

So it feels like I’m getting trapped by answers that sound right or are possible, but not actually proven.

Any tips on how to improve answer selection between two close choices?

Do you use any specific rules or mental checklists?

Thanks!

I am rewriting the LSAT because the score I got was not high enough. I did the accelerated study plan and then switching over to practice only, with the pre-exam phase study block, last time I wrote the LSAT. This time around I've done the entire core curriculum and now want to officially start practicing. When I go to make my study plan, it says I've already done the practicing phase and even when I add another study block, it's telling me to rest for 3 days of the week. How can I change that? How can I make the study plan recognize my strengths and weaknesses from before and also as I was doing practice during the core curriculum? Is there a way to reset the system so it stops telling me I've done everything already? I did not study properly the last time I wrote it and basically want to start from the top again.

Hello, I am writing my LSAT on August and would love to create a few study buddys for the evening around 6PM MST Monday-Thursday. Preferably, people either in CAN or Edmonton but open to anyone of course!

I am taking the test on Saturday, and I feel like I am being toooooo chill in advance of the test. What should I be doing.. how should I be prepping?

Hi everyone! This may be a silly question, but on testing day, granted the exam is in person at a testing center, is the LSAT administered on paper or on a computer? I am trying to understand if I should start printing PTs to give myself more realistic testing conditions.

Please let me know. Thanks so much!

Study scheduler changes in the middle of studying. I worked so hard to stay on track, and now my study schedule says I am three days behind. Has this happened to anyone? and how did you get it fixed