Hey everyone. How different are the Prep Tests in the early 70's from the current LSAT? Thanks!

Hi all,

I just discovered the analytics section of the grader program, and it’s very clear that I can raise my RC score by getting better at the question stems involving inferring the authors perspective.

Yet, there is nothing in the syllabus that is obviously for working on this type of RC question. As my exam is 9/8, I don’t have time to watch all the RC videos. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

Danny

So, I am conflicted on what to do.

I have a 2.93 GPA and my June LSAT was 149. I am retaking in November.

Should I begin applying when the cycle starts in a week?

Should I wait til after scores are posted for the November test?

Even more, should I wait til the grades for the semester are posted and then apply? (mid-December).

I am not trying to get into any T14 or hell even T20 schools, I know my numbers aren't good enough. So I am aiming for realistic schools that I may actually have a chance in.

Hi guys, can someone please help break this argument down. Thanks a lot! :)

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Title says it all! What are you reading to keep your mind sharp for good ol' reading comprehension.

Hi,

For the past five years, I have been working online, teaching English to students oversees, while staying home to take care of my little ones. Before that, I was a middle school ELA teacher.

My passion has always been to attend law school, and I think I am at a point in my life where I am ready. I am 32. I took the June LSAT and scored 161. My undergrad GPA was 3.64. I plan on taking the LSAT again, hoping to pull it up in the 165-172 range. My dream school is Northwestern Law.

I will probably apply for Law School during the 2020 cycle. Until then, I have some time for volunteering/ working on my softs.

What can I do for the next year that would strengthen my application?

Hello all,

So, I've been talking to people about which law schools I'm thinking of applying to this fall. I mentioned Hofstra and New York law school because I live in NY. People were saying my chances of becoming an attorney and practicing law are very slim if I attend the tier 4 schools. I don't want to go into Big law and my ideal career goal is to be an assistant district attorney at a local DA's office. I'm thinking of these schools because with my stats, I feel that the scholarship would be pretty generous. Was anyone told the same thing? Does anyone know people who went to tier 4 law schools and had difficulty finding ADA or any small law firm positions? Thank you!

Hi all!

I have a lot of online articles that I have written and want to include them in some way but also don't want to bog down my resume with hyperlinks. Does anyone have experience with this? Do I include them? Or is there a way that I can get them all in one place with one link?

Thanks :)

Hello 7Sage,

I began my LSAT journey in November of 2017. I had just been raised to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason at my Masonic Lodge, joined the Scottish Rite, and been initiated into Shriner's International. To say these goals were a lifelong dream are an understatement. Riding the high of accomplishing goals that required so much time and effort, I began to ask myself what else I could do now that I had conquered the unconquerable.

Naturally with my Political Science degree in hand and a fire lit from the current state of American Politics, I decided that I wanted to go to law school to be the change I wished to see and make a difference.

I messaged a buddy of mine who is now a 2L at Duke law about what site he used to study and he recommended 7sage (thank goodness). As many others that began their LSAT quest in the midst of the holiday season I found it difficult to stay on task while balancing life and this new found part time job of studying for the beast. Nevertheless, I staggered to the finish line of the CC in April praying that I had learned something from those sleepless nights of watching JY's videos and grinding sets out at work.

In my diagnostic, it was so bad that I questioned if I had even spelled my name correctly. Thus, when my first PT out of the CC was a 151 I was relieved that I was not brain dead and comprehended the basic structure of questions, but also dismayed that I had SO much more work to do. Since then, I have completed 9 other practice tests. Here are my stats:

Average PT score: 150

BR: Consistent 160-166

LR on PT: -12

LG on PT: -10

RC on PT: -10

I have found that my main issues have been medium/ hard LR questions, running out of time in LG, and over analyzing in RC.

My current study schedule is as follows: Saturday or Sunday take a PT, Monday- Friday BR, repeat. I BR a section a day as I am working full time and helping to plan my upcoming wedding.

My goal is T14, thus with my 3.5 GPA from a #231-#300 Ranked University (US News) I know I am going to need a great LSAT score....and a 150 is NOT cutting it.

I have tried to step back and refocus my studying, but nothing has seemed to work. I am turning to the 7sage community now for some #help. If you see anything missing, wrong, or even plain stupid about what I am doing please let me know.

Thank you in advance!

Best,

Jonah

I find that I often circle the correct answer and then erase it and switch to an incorrect error. On my last PT this cost me about three points. Also, if I go back to my circled questions when I still have time remaining in the section, when I change my answers I often change them from the correct answer to an incorrect one. Has anyone had any experience with this/have any ideas to solve it? I think that sometimes I don't really understand why the right answer is right but I can "tell" that it's right, but not knowing for sure makes me hesitate. This is specifically with LR, not really in the other sections.

Okay, I took the Powerscore course which seemed to work pretty well. I end up scoring a 155 on the June LSAT. I was unsatisfied with my score so I asked somebody who took the same class what they did to get in the 170s. He suggested the Powerscore was a good course but that they left out a lot of information the 7 Sage covers. I took some time and have been working games using JY's method. This month, I enrolled in the 7 sage course and I've been working diligently getting through lessons. I took the optional diagnostic test and I scored a 145. I almost died seeing that score so low. I have definitely been internalizing everything I have been learning after seeing that diagnostic. Changing the way I think to conform to how the LSAT expects you to think. My first question is should I be worried that I scored that low? My second question is should I be taking prep test and blind reviewing during the 7 Sage course.

So I started studying for the LSAT in undergrad. I did so by practically living at my university’s library. After deciding to take some time off and retake the LSAT, it’s about time to start studying again. Since graduating in May, I moved to a big city and into a tiny studio apartment. The libraries close around 6 every night and I work from 9-5:30. Studying in my apartment just isn’t cutting it for me. I get very distracted. There’s a Starbucks a few miles down the road, but I don’t want to spend that much money on coffee. Help!! I need a good study spot! And maybe a study buddy!

Hey, I have been thinking about writing my personal statement about athletics. I played Division 1 football in college and have learn many life lessons. As hard as I try to get away from this topic, the hardest challenges I have faced are involved with being on the gridiron. Do you think a paper about being as student athlete would be a good personal statement? Or maybe about challenges faced during games. Please let me know what you all think.

This question is still confusing me after watching the explanation. I thought the question stem was Pseudo Sufficient Assumption.

I thought the best way to approach this was to try to attack the flaw. As an argument by analogy it just seemed highly unreasonable to assume that what works for Biology would work for Physics. I think I'm mostly confused because it didn't strike me as a strengthen question to begin with.

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https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-65-section-4-question-22/

Hey everyone,

I've gotten to the point where I'm quite confident in my abilities about most of the games, but I'm having a lot of trouble with getting the In/Out games to click, especially when it comes to mastering the conditional rules and logic chains. If anyone has good suggestions about good strategies for mastering these in particular or tips about how they've been used on the recent LSATs in particular, that would be very much appreciated.

In particular, the questions where a sufficient in a long logic chain is failed or the necessary is met are particularly vexing for me.

Looking forward to hearing from y'all!

So I’ve been making some bubbling mistakes where I’ll accidentallt bubble in the answers for one section into the wrong bubbling section on the answer sheet. I was thinking of just folding the answer sheet so that I can only view one bubbling section at a time. I don’t see that folding of the answer sheet is prohibited anywhere but does anyone know if that would be ok to do? Or would that perhaps depend on the proctor you get and whether they’re comfortable with letting you do that?

https://classic.7sage.com/admissions/lesson/affects-chances-getting-law-school/

I am talking with reference to this post by @"David.Busis" .

What are some reasons this could happen? I will be applying as an international applicant and I am worried about this.

To begin with, the LSAT itself is a tough nut to crack and now I get the feeling that even if I do do well, I will still be stuck with mediocre outcomes.

While some parts of it could be unavoidable (like I cannot change my GPA), I was wondering what I could do to put myself in the best position possible for the admissions committee.

Hey Sagers,

So I am writing in September and the one area I am struggling with is MISC LGs. I do well on the other game types but when I get an MISC game it totally throws me for a loop ( I think I am at 10% accuracy over 16 Qs). My question is for those of you who have had similar problems did you find fool proofing older MISC LGs to be helpful? I know a lot of the older games of this type are driven by a specific pattern so I'm wondering if fool proofing those games is a good use of time when the test date is right around the corner. Im currently on PT 74 (started at 66) I'm thinking either keep taking PTs and BRing and fool proofing those games, or set aside 2-3 days and fool proof all the MISC games up until 74. I think theres like 25 or so. Thanks!

Does anyone have printable pdf version of all games from 1-35 or more for foolproofing?

A bit tedious to extract just those pages to print.

Thank you

Hi all, I have a weird question.

I’m a 34-year old active duty Marine looking to apply to law school on the GI Bill. I have four classes left to finish my BS, and my GPA is only a 2.94 thanks to a recent statistics class (seriously, F statistics). I have “diversity” up the wazoo and tons of life experiences to draw on for my essays, and I’m aiming for a 170+ LSAT score (sitting in September). I’m finishing up the CC and reviewing/PTing now and my cold diagnostic in June with no formal background in logic was a 150. (Yes, I realize many will think I should move my test date back but I cannot change it without losing the payment for it, and I’m taking a week off work to just do LSAT prep, and I’m also a very good tester).

Based on median LSAT scores on US News, I’m looking at:

Harvard (dream)

UCLA (realistic)

UC Irvine (realistic)

University of San Diego (safety)

So should I apply with the 2.94 GPA when the cycle opens in October/November, hope that all my “diversity” and experience (I litigated my own divorce as a pro per against an ACTUAL attorney and got everything I wanted, and I’m handling my TPR case against said Ex as well as the adoption case myself, parental rights are already terminated woot woot!) sells my application, or should I wait to finish the two classes I’m taking this fall and apply in December with a GPA at or above 3.0? How big of a deal is the GPA in my situation? Thanks for any info you have!

Hi everyone, in my haste to beat the clock during my diagnostic test, I failed to circle a lot of questions that I was unsure of so I could BR later. Would you recommend I BR the entire test?

Hi everyone!

I took the September 2017 LSAT prepping with the Powerscore texts... I wish I had come across this site prior to purchasing those texts based on all the great reviews and after making use of the free content; the methods used and the explanations of the logic games seem like they may have more of an impact than just self-study with the Powerscore texts. I only prepped for 3 months with those texts and got a 144. I realize that 3 months of study was nowhere near enough time for me, so i'm just trying to come up with a new game plan.

My question is, if I were to purchase the starter course, what are your thoughts on if it would be enough content to solidify the strategies on tackling the sections? I have a lot of PrepTests already, as I purchased those separately on the recommendation of the powerscore self-study site. Money is kind of tight, as I am studying in Brazil and earning BRL which is worth less than half the USD, hence why I am looking at the starter course.

Also for anyone who has used powerscore or other study materials before coming across 7sage, what are your thoughts on content overlap?

Thanks guys, good luck in your studies. :)

Hi,

I was wondering if you could buy more explanations to test. I have the practice tests already but wanted to buy the explanations if that is possible.

Thanks!

Can anyone lead me in the right direction for help with diagramming quantifiers? I’m using a company called LSATMAX and for some reason it’s just not clicking for me. I feel as if for both sufficient & necessary conditions and quantifiers that i will have to go back and find better understanding for both. I use it correctly for most must be true questions but not for questions dealing with “most closely parallels”, “flaw questions”, “must not be true questions “ i actually haven’t even gotten to those sections yet to drill any question types from “parallel reasoning” or “flawed”. I also have powerscore and LSAT trainer for after i finish the core curriculum as well, but for now i need help with quantifiers.

Hello all! How difficult do you all think it would be to increase an LSAT score from 162 (official score) to 166 or higher by the November test date? I know it’s only 4 points, but I really need it and am considering quitting my job to study full-time so that I can get it.