Quick Tip

Learn LawHub

As you may know, your actual LSAT will be taken on the LawHub platform, where LSAC has generously included a number of real PrepTests (PTs). While we recommend using 7Sage for the vast majority of your PTs—the analytics features and timing analysis make it well worth it—it’s also important to do at least a couple of PTs on LawHub. Getting used to the typeface, the layout, and even the clunkiness of highlighting will be useful to ensure you’re not caught off guard on the real day. 

Discussion

Properly Integrating an Experimental Section

The LSAT has 3 scored sections: Logic Games (LG), Reading Comprehension (RC), and Logical Reasoning (LR). However, this is not the entire test. There is also a 4th, unscored section (which can be either LG, RC, or LR) known as an “experimental,” which is used by LSAC to test out new questions. 

You may be thinking that you can just skip over (or snooze during) the experimental section. However, LSAC is too smart for that! They don’t tell you which section is the experimental section, so you have no idea which one is real and which one is unscored. As a result, you’ll need to take all of the sections very seriously. 

It’s very important that you practice taking 4-section tests, even though only 3 will be scored. If you only do the 3 scored sections, you run a high risk of feeling much less fatigued in practice than you will on the real day. However, we always urge our students to take tests under “game-day conditions” and to make it as realistic as possible. 

On 7Sage, all of the PTs (up until PT 89) have 4 sections, which is a legacy of pre-COVID PTs having 4 scored sections (there was an extra LR that was scored too!). So, you could take these, but you also run the risk of not practicing PTs with an extra LG or extra RC, which are also important to practice.

Here’s what I tell my students to do: take a 3-section test (the first LR, the RC, and the LG) on 7Sage, using 7Sage’s “Flex Converter.” Then, use a random number generator, where 1 is LG, 2 is LR, 3 is RC. Whatever number comes up, use that to determine what section type you’ll have for your experimental. Then, go to PTs 1–35 and pull whichever section type came up at random, and do that as a separate section type somewhere in the test. While you “know” it’s the experimental, at the very least it forces a 4-section test with the accompanying fatigue, making your test a bit more realistic.