I just scored a -1 (172) on a RC section, meanwhile I scored a -6 (151) on the practice RC drill consisting of 2 passages that I did right before that. I don't think I did anything different - the passages were just much easier for me to understand in the full RC section.

How can I address this type of inconsistency? RC is my weakness. I would greatly appreciate any tips or advice from folks who previously struggled on RC and now slay it.

Hi all! I am 28 and graduated from college in 2020. Last year I tried studying for the LSAT and got a 149, took it again a few months later and got a 150. Starting around 19 (freshman year of college) I began to experience intense fatigue and other strange symptoms. I assumed it was just stress. I did horribly my first semester of college and then was able to sort of manage better. I graduated with a 3.58 GPA. Fast forward to now. For the last almost decade these symptoms never went away but I also was not really taken seriously when I brought them up to my doctors. Finally, a few months ago I had a sleep study done. I was diagnosed with Narcolepsy. This explained so much about the past decade. Falling asleep in class, while studying, while working, etc. Now that I have been on medication my average PT is around 160 and I can actually stay awake while studying. I am hoping to score higher though since I am taking the November exam. Is this something I should write an Addendum for? It isn't an "excuse" but it explains so much of why the past decade has been such a struggle.

Recently, I decided to reset my lesson completion progress to redo the curriculum. However, when I went through the lessons, I realized that it only reset the lessons and none of the drills (adaptive or not). I think it would be helpful to have a full reset option including those drills if that's something the 7sage software engineers could be set up.

Thanks so much for everything y'all already do for us!

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Hi everyone!

Quick tip for anyone balancing LSAT prep with work or school: don't measure a productive study day by how many hours you studied or questions you completed. Give each study session a specific purpose, and leave enough time to review what you did thoroughly. Thirty focused minutes with good review can be much more valuable than several hours of drilling just to hit a volume goal.

As most of my current students finish their testing cycles, I'm opening additional availability for others preparing for the fall and winter administrations.

About me: I scored an official 180 on the LSAT while working full-time, so I understand the challenge of preparing seriously for this test around a demanding work schedule. Since then, I have tutored the LSAT full-time and worked with students across a wide range of scores, from students still building their foundations to those trying to break into the high 160s and 170s or make 170+ performance more consistent.

How I approach tutoring:

I don't think tutoring should just consist of someone explaining questions after you miss them. Most students can understand an explanation once they hear it. The harder part is learning how to recognize the issue yourself before choosing an answer.

During sessions, I want to hear how you reason through the question first: what you noticed, what you predicted, where you hesitated, and why certain answers remained attractive. From there, I'll walk you through my own reasoning so we can compare the two and identify exactly where your process is breaking down.

For Logical Reasoning, I focus heavily on argument structure, prediction, flaw recognition, and understanding why tempting wrong answers fail. The goal is not just to understand why the credited answer works after seeing an explanation, but to become increasingly capable of recognizing the reasoning yourself.

For Reading Comprehension, I focus on passage structure, viewpoints, author attitude, and knowing where information lives in the passage. Memorizing every detail is unnecessary. It's far more important to understand how the passage is organized so that you know what matters and where to return for textual support.

Personalized study plans

For private students, I also use your recent PTs, drilling analytics, Blind Review, review habits, wrong-answer journal, and what I observe during our sessions to build a study plan around the patterns actually costing you points.

The study plan is not something I give you once and expect you to follow unchanged until test day.

As your performance changes, the plan changes with it.

If something that was previously a weakness becomes reliable, we can reduce the time you spend there. If your next few PTs reveal a different recurring issue, that can become the next priority. What you're studying several weeks from now shouldn't necessarily still be determined by what your analytics showed today.

Tutoring may be particularly useful if you:

• understand explanations afterward but keep making similar mistakes

• frequently get stuck between two answer choices

• have a meaningful timed vs. Blind Review gap

• struggle with timing, second-guessing, or confidence

• feel inconsistent across practice tests and aren't sure why

• aren't sure what you should actually be prioritizing each week

Ways to work with me:

Private Tutoring (1:1)

Individual sessions built around your reasoning process, recent PTs, analytics, and current areas for improvement. What happens between sessions helps guide what we work on next, rather than treating each tutoring session as an isolated lesson.

Study Buddy Prep

A two-person tutoring option for students who already have a friend or fellow LSAT studier with similar goals and would like an alternative to private tutoring.

You each work through questions independently before we compare reasoning, which gives you the benefit of individualized feedback while also hearing how another student approached the same problem.

Weekly Group Classes

Small, interactive classes capped at 10 students. Each week focuses on a specific LSAT concept, question type, or strategy, with the topic announced in advance so you can choose the classes most relevant to you.

For each question, everyone first answers through an anonymous poll, so you're able to participate without publicly sharing your answer. Speaking is never required.

Students who want to can then explain their reasoning before I break down the question, share my own approach, and go through the structure, prediction, credited answer, and most tempting wrong-answer choices.

Classes currently meet:

• Thursdays at 6:00 p.m. ET

• Sundays at 3:00 p.m. ET

Thursday and Sunday generally cover the same weekly topic, so students can attend whichever works better or come to both for additional practice.

View upcoming group classes

Law School Application Support:

I also work with students once they transition from the LSAT into the application process. This can include personal statements, supplemental essays, résumé review, school-list and application strategy, LOCIs, and reviewing application materials as a whole.

Application support is offered à la carte, so you can get help with a particular part of your application or continue working with me throughout the process as needed.

Book a free consultation for law school application support

Not sure whether tutoring makes sense for you?

I also offer a free 15-minute consultation.

We can talk through your current score range, goal score, testing timeline, recent PT performance, study history, and what has been giving you trouble. I'll also explain how I would approach your preparation and what I would likely prioritize if we worked together.

You can book a free consultation, comment here, or message me with any questions.

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Before I started studying for the LSAT, I used to run marathons and ultramarathons; I've even coached some people on how to get into running them. And for the two years that I've been studying for the LSAT, I found a lot of parallels between the LSAT (and law school process in general) and running a marathon.

• They're both long stretches of a challenge.

• They're both very difficult to do.

• There's moments where you're feeling good and you're riding a high but then there's moments where you're not feeling so good and the momentum starts to die down.

But there's one lesson that I've learned from running marathons that I'd like to think would help anyone in a situation where things start to feel overwhelming: one mile at a time. When I used to run, I didn't think about the end of the run - I really only thought about the next mile. If I thought about the entire marathon, I would think to myself, "this shit is impossible!" But if I thought about just running one more mile, the marathon no longer felt impossible.

Recently I was rejected from my last waitlisted school and I felt very overwhelmed on top of the preparations for the October LSAT as well as managing my life outside of the LSAT. Everything felt impossible and I've felt very hopeless recently. But I know that if I stopped thinking about "the end" of this process (an end that no one can really predict unless I give up) and take it one day at a time, then things start to feel a little more possible - slowly but surely.

And I'm saying all of this because I've felt like absolute shit in this past month and I honestly don't know if I'm going to make it. And if my experiences with the LSAT are like anyone else's, then maybe the way that I try to cope and get through a hard time could work for someone else here also feeling overwhelmed with all of it.

So I pray that everyone who needs the strength to keep going another mile and another day gets that strength.

I am looking for one study buddy who wants to go through all 22 types of Logical Reasoning questions and break each question type down, learning the process so well that we can't get it wrong. Ideally someone writing in October, message me if you're interested! I am on Central Standard Time.

Hi! I am taking Ethan's advice on the Cornell profile page and choosing the Cornell prompts that best fit my personal statement and statement of perspective, but I had a few questions.

1. I think my statement of perspective fits the Ezra Cornell "any person...any study" prompt. But, do I have to touch on the quote at all in my essay? Do I have to reference it explicitly?

2. Is it okay to use the fourth blank-cheque prompt for my personal statement ("anything else you would like the committee to know about you.."), but then put it first in the PDF I submit to Cornell? Will it look low-effort if I'm not addressing a prompt specifically? None of the other prompts really fit my personal statement.

Thank you so much for your help!

Hi all,

I am looking for an accountability partner for an in-person study group in the DC area.

I’m looking for articles that are similar to the more abstract LSAT Reading Comprehension passages—especially ones on topics like feminism, art, literary criticism, or cultural theory.

Does anyone have recommendations for good sources to practice with? I’m mainly looking for material that matches the style and density of those harder LSAT passages.

I've started attending some law school information sessions, and one thing that is exceedingly unclear is requirements around study abroad transcripts. I studied abroad one semester during undergrad, and per LSAC, as long as that experience is included on my undergrad transcript, I do not need to submit my transcript from study abroad (even though my grades are not shown). It seems like some schools may still require me to submit an official study abroad transcript, like BC, GW, and others. I am not really sure where to start if I need to submit it via LSAC, or just to schools directly. Further, will it recalculate my LSAC GPA, even if the grades are on the European standard?

Would love for an admissions consultant to answer this. If anyone has past experience or insight also, please let us all know! I am sure I am not alone in my confusion.

Took the August LSAT then took two weeks to travel and stopped studying ( Also was hoping I was done) got my score back and mmmm could do better I think but I feel like I had reached peak studying right before August test now have lost my momentum and idek how to get back into it for October test

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actually i'm just kidding because i didn't get a 179...

I got a 180!

Thank you 7sage for being such an amazing resource!

And thank you to my study group on discord (https://discord.gg/P4SYFEjZu) for being so supportive and helping me so much!

***Trigger warning: SA***

Hi everyone!!!

Unfortunately... I do need to write an addendum explaining my GPA in undergrad. I don’t want to go too deep into my mental health issues because I know there’s still stigma, even though schools can’t discriminate.

My personal statement is going focus on my experience with Title IX after experiencing sexual assualt at university, followed by my legal compliance internship within an education/school Title IX department. I want to highlight how I faced my trauma head-on and used it as inspiration to pursue law school. Obviously, my traumatic experience and the failures of my university’s Title IX office almost destroyed me, and it significantly impacted my grades for a long period of my college career.

I was sexually assaulted in the “red zone” (the period from the beginning of the fall semester—typically the first year—until Thanksgiving break), so I was struggling from the start. By my senior year, I worked with psychiatrists, counselors, advisors, and others to better myself, ultimately earning my highest GPA in all four years while taking seven classes, being an RA and working 20 hours a week.

So, the question is: Is a personal statement about my sexual assault (SAd), internship, and pursuit of law school, combined with an addendum on mental health and overcoming a traumatic event, okay?

Thanks, y’all!

Hello everyone I’m looking for a study group in Dearborn Michigan. We can meet up at coffee shops/ library and ask each other questions and opinions! and more importantly hold ourselves accountable for studying ! 🤗

Happy (or horrifying) score release day! I've got a message for all of you, especially those of you facing a disappointing result.

Watch the video for more, but here are some core points.

1) You are not your score. Your appeal as an applicant, your promise as a lawyer, and your broader identity as a person are multi-faceted and do not reduce to a single result from a single try.

2) The purpose of practice, including early official takes, is to learn novel, interesting lessons. Regardless of your result, if you thoughtfully pull novel and interesting lessons from this administration, you're set up to be a stronger testtaker than you were before the August test.

3) Heed my advice later in the video about how specifically to address gaps in your blind review, practice test, and official scores.

4) We've got resources for you today. Most notably, we're stacking office hours throughout the day so you can get the emotional and practical support you need. You can find those chat rooms in the left-hand sidebar of this page.

5) See also this special episode of the 7sage podcast where Bailey, Alex, Kevin, and Ethan discuss what you should do today.

Got a 161 last August, then a 163 Last October, to then check my score for August 2026......

178 BABY!

Crazy feeling.

7Sage really has some amazing resources and strategies on here! All of the prep course/materials I used were from here.

To anybody who still has to take it, you got this!

Hi all! I recently took the august LSAT, and I am not too happy with my results. I was consistently doing far far better on my practice tests, so I was super surprised. I want to see if I should change my study approach, and the main piece of advice I am seeing from tutors or well-scorers is to (instead of excessively drill) I should "review." This is probably a stupid question, but what does it really mean to "review"? All I know to do is watch/read the explanations, and wrong answer journal. Is there a process to thoroughly review the question and figure out what I did wrong? What have people found to be a successful tactic? I would appreciate any ideas!

Immediate reaction to the score release is purely frustration... I knew from the moment I walked out of the test center on August 8th that I underperformed. It was my first official test and I'm taking the one in September, and I know that I will do so much better this time around.

But I can't help but to feel disappointed in how it all went. More motivation I guess!

Anyone in a similar boat?

I will keep it short and to the point. Should I apply this cycle with a 151 LSAT score and a 3.0 GPA to a Regional Law School? If I were to retake it in November, should I write an addendum?

Hey all! I have started to notice a rather unfortunate pattern with my studying. When I spend 2-3 days focusing on LR or RC, I find my full timed sections land at around a -6 to -4. HOWEVER, when I take a few days off/focus on the other concept (Ie, I focus on RC for a few days instead of LR), my sections drop significantly to -11 to -9.

Has anyone else struggled with this? If so, how did you get over this?!

Hi all — I’m looking for some advice!

I took the LSAT in June after roughly 8 months of studying, but unfortunately fell approx 10 pts shy of my desired score. RIP

Since then, I’ve taken an almost 3 month hiatus from studying. I’m not in a huge rush to apply, so I’d rather take the time to prepare properly and really push myself toward a score in the high 160s before taking it again.

For some additional context, during those 8 months, I only took about four or five full-length practice tests. Looking back, I think one of my biggest issues on test day was mental endurance. By the time I reached the end of sections, I found myself feeling so mentally fatigued that it was almost like I couldn’t read English anymore — obviously not ideal.

I also didn’t drill full sections nearly as much as I probably should have, particularly in RC. A lot of this came from a fear of “running out” of material, so I spent a significant amount of time on individual questions trying to really dig into and understand them rather than prioritizing volume and timed practice.

I’m starting to get the itch to begin studying again. Ideally, I’d like to retake the LSAT early next year, although I don’t plan to schedule an exam until my PT scores are consistently where I want them to be.

I’d really appreciate hearing your advice on where you think my time would be best spent at this point…Specifically:

• Whether it would be worthwhile to redo the core curriculum from the beginning

• How much emphasis I should place on drilling versus full-length PTs

• How to get past the fear of “running out” of practice material

• Strategies for improving mental endurance and managing fatigue during sections/the full test

• Anything else you think could be particularly valuable given my situation

If you’ve been in a similar position, I’d love to hear what worked for you.

Thanks so much if you’ve read this far!

I just scored a 176. I never tested above 170. 7sage is so amazing