Aside from wrong answer journal what strategies do you guys use to really learn from mistakes?

Looking for some advice from anyone who may have experienced something similar. I’m currently signed up to take the September (12th) and October LSATs (have taken it twice previously). I took the August LSAT and had been going through a bit of a slump at the time and ended up getting the same score as the first time I took the test. The slump lasted a few weeks, and has only just started to turn around in the last 1.5 weeks. In that timespan, I’ve taken my two highest scoring PTs (8 points higher than August score).

My question: I had resigned myself to most likely not taking the September LSAT as I wasn’t yet at my goal score and wanted to build consistency and confidence to get there before taking it again in October and to break the slump. But now that I’ve had my two highest scoring tests that have been around my goal score in the past five days, I’m reconsidering. Do I ride the momentum this week and hope it continues, or do I stick with the plan to get more consistent with these scores before October to prove it’s not a fluke? Any advice appreciated!

Looking for a study partner/group who wants to work together in-person and/or virtual in Capital area in Michigan.

I have an official 168 looking to bump up to a 99th percentile in October

I have a friend who is currently a 2L, he's helping me out with what to do. He told me to add a paragraph to my personal statement about why I specifically chose this law school to apply to, and to show I researched and actually care about this specific law school. He told me to do this for every law school I'm applying to.

Now my question is, should I heed his advice? Or not?

My own logic says to not include this in my personal statement because I have a very powerful + long story that led me to pursue a law degree. And I just want my statement to have that experience, the ways it affected and changed me, and then end with wanting to become a lawyer to prevent anyone else from going through my experiences (not in a "I wanna save the world" cliche type of way, it's more authentic)

Would love to hear y'alls opinions! Thanks.

After studying to retake the LSAT, I've realized I'm running low on clean preptests and sections. I am thinking of utilizing the bonus preptests. I was wondering if there was anything in particular I should keep in mind when using these? Are they best used for individual drills, or whole preptests, etc.?

Should I drill the questions I am more confident on or drill the one's where my accuracy is very low?

Is anyone else’s webpage force refreshing? It happens when I try to type messages to Sage and literally happened twice when writing this post (I had to copy & paste from my notes app) because the refreshes erase everything you’ve typed. It’s super annoying and is making the website unusable.

I just took my second full PT and scored a 137, up from a 125 on my first PT two weeks ago. My ultimate goal is a 175–178, and I’m currently scheduled to take the LSAT on October 7.

For those who started in a similar score range and eventually reached the 170s, what did your progression realistically look like?

At this stage, what kind of improvement should I ideally be seeing from PT to PT to know that my studying is actually working? How frequently should I be taking full PTs, and what score range should I consistently be reaching before I consider myself ready to sit for the actual exam?

Most importantly, based on your experience, what is a realistic timeframe for going from the high 130s to 170+? I know a 175–178 is a very ambitious goal, and I’m willing to postpone my test date if necessary rather than rush the process.

I’d especially appreciate hearing from anyone who made a significant score jump: how long did it take, what changed in your studying, and at what point did you start seeing the biggest improvements?

This is of course something that is so welcome and I am not trying to second-guess myself AT ALL (especially since I am taking the September exam lol). However, I just feel like this is a fluke since I feel like my PTs have never broken into the 170s before and I very consistently fall into -5 LRs, especially with conditional reasoning mistakes. Any advice on trying to replicate this come test day?

I don't normally do this but I've just been feeling so nervous and stressed out. I hope there's other people who can relate to this. I've been studying for the LSAT for two months. I'm taking the test on Friday and I'm just simply not ready for it.It wasn't my decision to only study for two months, I was pressured by my family into registering for the September LSAT. I spent the entire summer studying full time and I've been so miserable. I don't go outside. Every single day I've been studying and studying. I've made good progress but I need more time. I don't feel comfortable having to take it when I'm not where I want to be right now. I'm a first gen student and with the current political climate, my mom has been pressuring me into applying for law school this year. She just doesn't understand the process and it is really frustrating. I'm under so much pressure it's unbearable. I'm posting this in case anyone else relates and wants to talk about it.

Hello everyone!

My name is João, and I scored a 171 on the June 2026 LSAT. I’m currently offering LSAT tutoring for students who want to improve their scores through a structured, analytical approach rather than simply taking more and more practice tests.

As a non-native English speaker, I’m particularly familiar with the challenges that can come with mastering Logical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension. During my own preparation, I kept detailed records of my mistakes, identified recurring patterns, and created targeted drills to address the underlying weaknesses.

What I offer

1. Free initial consultation — We’ll look at your current performance and identify the areas with the most room for improvement.

2. Detailed PrepTest analysis — I’ll help identify recurring mistake patterns and why they’re happening.

3. Personalized drills — Practice specifically designed around your weaknesses.

4. Customized study plan — A focused plan built around your goals, schedule, and current score.

5. Logical Reasoning strategy — LR is my strongest area, and much of my approach focuses on developing a systematic way to analyze and eliminate answer choices.

My tutoring is especially suited for students currently scoring around 150–160 who are aiming to break into the 160s or 170s and want a more structured approach to their preparation.

Rate: $40/hour

Monthly package: $160 for 8 sessions (2 per week) — $20/hour when booked as a monthly package.

If you’re interested, feel free to message me. I’d be happy to set up a free consultation and see whether I can help.

Best,

João

I was wondering why cant 7sage have a Wrong Answer Joural section in their platform?? Would be a great addition I believe.

Hi everyone. I have been racking my brain for months trying to come up with a topic for my PS and I keep hitting a wall. I don't have a "x happened that changed my mind and thats why I want to go to law school/by a lawyer".

If anyone has any tips for coming up with their PS that would be very helpful. I've used AI for brainstorming, I've written down boatloads of ideas and I don't think any of them are strong enough for a whole essay.

Thanks guys!

Hey guys! Usually my accuracy is really good while drilling & doing sections but these most recent sections and PT's (PT 151 and 152) are really taking it out of me. They feel more taxing and I guess they're exposing an underlying mistake I keep making so is the idea to just review and try to figure out how I can tackle the questions I am missing better? For reference I usually get about -2 per section with a comfortable amount of time left and recovering my misses in BR but these recent sections have been around -5 with me running out of time and my most recent one I only ended up recovering one. Are there any tips on how to recover from a slump? Should I kill volume and only review for the next couple of weeks? My drilling is still very good so should I start only drilling level 4 and 5 questions from more recent prep tests? Taking the November LSAT

Hi!

Every drill, section, prep test etc I do - I always do so well on the blind review, but can't seem to get it right the first time when it counts. Any tips to trust your gut more? Or does anyone know why it just seems to click the second time around?

Hi guys!

Last year when studying for the LSAT I was hitting around 156-158 which I was fine with. I took the LSAT and got a score in the mid 140s, which was incredibly disappointing. I took it remotely, and there were some issues so I am not sure if that was the main reason for the huge drop in my score.

I am taking it again in October, and have been scoring in the high 150s and low 160s with BR in the high 160s low 170s. I am incredibly nervous that my score is going to drop into the 140s again when I take it. I get very nervous and anxious when I am in that kind of setting.

I have been studying at coffee shops and at the library to get used to people getting up and moving around.

Does anyone have any tips on how to manage my stress when taking the official test? Has ayone dealt with this issue before?

Thanks!

does any1 have any tips, i did my BR directly after and the difference is pmo 😭 pls i feel like i do okayish during my drills and stuff but i swear every time i do an actual full test at once i be on some bs.. writing for october and my BRs have been between high 160s-170, i feel like my drills and BRs just arent indicative of my actual performance i feel like i doubt myself a ton when im doing a full test...

Hi there, this is my first time taking the LSAT and I'm a bit nervous about taking it remotely. Could people share their experience on how they prepared their rooms and laptop/PC before their exams? I'm taking it on a macbook.

Thanks!

SA is the question type I fluctuate the most on: 7/7 on the Fast Track drill set and on normal 12 question sets I get anywhere from 6-12/12. There are just so many little nuances in how you approach each different SA question that can affect your reasoning, I'm wondering if anyone has any tips on how to better approach these questions as a whole so I feel less like I'm guessing what the correct answer is.

Also, the stim's for this question type seem to jumble my brain the most: does anyone have any tips for how to better parse them?

I have plateaued around 160, even though I have been studying for 5 months. And I feel like I'm regressing. I have been losing faith in myself and studying less. How do you all keep yourself motivated and on track without burning out? I'm nervous I'm not cut out for law school.

I posted this on the 7Sage subreddit and am posting it here as well.

I am at a point with this exam where I just do not know what I am doing wrong. I have a PrepTest average of 174, have taken PT123+, and have extensively drilled the rest. I thought I had learned from my mistakes and had gotten much better after June. I isolated everything that went wrong, worked on it, drilled extensively, and performed my best ever on PrepTests (consistent high 170s, though some were not completely fresh).

And then I got a statistically indistinguishable score on the real thing in August (168 on the June exam, 169 on the August one).

I am starting to wonder whether I have just hit some sort of cap on what I can achieve.

As a result, I drilled tons and tons of 4* and 5* LR questions, requiring myself to get 25 correct in a row.

What other mountains are left to climb? Or should I just not apply this cycle?

The only thing I can think of is trying to rigorously train the process of elimination on LR, but I can't think of a way to drill it that doesn't just end up with me doing questions the way I normally do.

Update for 7Sage:

I've been going through the older questions and finding that older LR actually helps me with my process of elimination because I have to make a lot of tough calls down to two choices in a way I usually don't in the newer ones. However, the current test still feels like there are "two trap answers" instead of one, and I thought it might be my nerves, but I tried to feel a lot calmer in August, even though I was a bit tired. I basically feel like I know this test too well to walk away with a score like 169 when I think very deeply about its mechanics, found a lot of it intuitive to grasp, and obviously have done nearly 4,000 questions at this point.

I tried going to tutors on here, but I was pretty much just told that they don't know how to help me because I know the content very well and that I just need to execute better because it's infeasible the actual exam's LR is much harder.

If anyone has a similar background and eventually got out of it and now works as a tutor, please let me know. Specifically, someone who felt like they knew the test ridiculously well but for some reason could not hit their PT average.

Is this right? On the old interface we could highlight parts of an answer choice but I'm noticing we no longer can. Is this something that is permanent?

I just took pt 156 and did so awful I feel like throwing up. Literally did worse on it than on my last two actual LSAT attempts. I'm genuinely sobbing at the library right now. I have no idea how I'm gonna reach my target score of 165 when I just got a 153 on this PT. I hate this test so much it literally kills my spirit. Gonna review it tomorrow but I just feel so discouraged right now.

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.