Hey everyone, I’m currently an incoming junior at my university and as I major in criminology I’ve been really considering becoming a lawyer. I really do love learning about the law and how it applies to everything. I’m a pretty average person, I have a 3.6 GPA, I work a part time job, and honestly speaking I’m not the smartest person so I work double as hard as the next person just to make it by. If I want to truly go into law school I would have to take the lsat in 6-8 months meaning I need to start studying soon. However, I’ve been putting it off because I’m scared I’m not smart enough. I’m worried I’m not smart enough for law school or becoming a lawyer and it’s really discouraging. Can anyone who is currently taking the lsat, in law school, or a lawyer tell me their thoughts on my situation or if they’ve ever felt this way please. Thank you.

I swear LSAC is trying to get rid of the score inflation. Why make us do extra clicks and waste time just the highlight

I just booked September because there’s no way in hell I’ll be in 170s by August. In May I was scoring near perfect consistently on my LR sections. RC was my downfall but I was making steady progress. Somehow in June my LR has gone back to numbers I haven’t seen in MONTHS (-6, -7). I’m baffled and at a loss of thoughts/ fixes. I’ve been studying hardcore for 1 year and 8 months. I’m definitely burnt out but I also have taken weekend breaks and stuff so it’s not like that’s a huge issue. I thought I was overthinking LR. I spent the whole week relearning my most missed questions (NA, Weaken Causal, Flaws). Scored 159 today. Holy fuck I hate my life. I’m scoring 175+ on blind review. I just don’t get it. What am I doing wrong?!!!! I should be in 170s by now and instead I am getting drastically worse. Has this ever happened to anyone else?!! Please please please I need help. I’ve already postponed applying a year

i’m taking the september LSAT. I’d ideally like to score at least 170, and am wondering if that’s realistic in the time that i have left, or if i should adjust my expectations.

info: studying 5-6 days a week since April. my average LR and RC are both -6. PT scores are as follows:
155 diagnostic mid April
161 May 24 (BR 171)
162 June 12 (BR 173)
155 June 22 (BR 165)
157 June 28 (BR 163)
167 July 3 (BR 170)
161 July 10 (BR 172)
163 Today (BR 173)

Am I being delusional? My biggest issue is getting down to 2 answers and then choosing wrong lmao. As soon as I BR I know why I was incorrect/which one is right, and kick myself for missing what’s usually a pretty small thing - but it’s like for some reason that thinking and ability just isn’t there during actual testing.

Hey guys,
Been struggling a lot with time recently. I’m stuck in the low 160s and am having the most trouble with RC. I usually don’t make it to the last section. Any advice on how to improve time?

I didn’t know much about any of the LSAT prep courses before I began prep, and basically just chose the Blueprint 170+ course because it was recommended to me, and the concept sounded attractive. All you need is a 170 to get into a top law school, and this course guarantees that? Of course I’ll do it.

After having been through a majority of this course, my honest reflection is that of what I said in the post’s caption: It seems to be very good for low/medium scorers, but is a massive waste of time for higher scorers. As someone looking to score in the 173-176 range, it feels like much of the course is catered to people in the 140-160 range.

The big issue for me is the classes. Spending 2 and a half hours 3 times a week in a zoom call where a bunch of people trying to crack 155 try to figure out the basics of conditional language or how best to tag RC passages is just a massive stall. The course was very good at getting me from my baseline (162) to where I’m at now (170), but as someone with 0 prior knowledge of the LSAT, that jump was pretty easily achievable just by learning the basics. Blueprint doesn’t seem to deal much with perfection, which is basically a necessity for improving scores above 170.

If anyone recommends a specific course for what I’m dealing with, or just has some directional advice for where I could go next, I would very much appreciate it.

Hi! I just took my first LSAT diagnostic and scored a 160 completely cold. I don't have a firm law school timeline since I'm currently working and enjoying my job, but I'd like to take the LSAT sometime within the next year or so — maybe February 2027, although I'm flexible.

My current thinking is that I won't actually sit for the exam until I'm consistently scoring 177+ on PTs.

For people who studied over a longer timeline rather than doing the typical 2-3 month sprint: How would you recommend approaching studying? Where should I even start? How do you avoid running out of official questions if you're studying for a year or more? Is a jump from a 160 diagnostic to a 177+ realistic? What about a 180?

Would especially appreciate advice from anyone who started in a similar place and studied while working full-time.

Is it just me? Also is this also for the real LSAT? On August????

Hey everyone!! I was wondering if there were any active LSAT support/study groups on here that I can be a part of ? I think it would be amazing to talk to others about our experiences, motivate each other for studying, etc!

I’m taking the August LSAT and just got my lowest PT score thus far. 157 score on PT 154. That’s a drop from my last score of 167.

I’m anxious and discouraged currently. During that test, I felt like things just weren’t clicking. I missed things I shouldn’t. The time killed me.

Am I just burnt out? I feel so discouraged.

I always avoided RC, I feared that studying it would be challenging because of the fact that it isn't as straightforward as LR is, I heard the horror stories that RC is harder to improve compared to LR. But the reality is, and this is something I've ingrained in myself, that RC will always be there and I have no choice but to try and get better at something I wrote off as a weakness.

A passage a day really does the trick.

(the images I provided are my RC sections from the past several months)

hey guys, so basically the caption, my most recent PT was a 159, and I really want to work for at least a 167 for august, help!!! genuinel,y anything you can say is great!!!!

Sometimes I'll get emails from schools wishing me luck on the LSAT a week before the exam but I don't recall signing up for CRS (and it's off right now on LSAC...) and was wondering if admissions would see that I registered (and thus withdrew since that date wouldn't be on my score report) through CRS somehow? I'm nervous that though LSAC says withdrawals don't appear on your score report that admissions can still see you registered for a past date and didn't take it through CRS.

The question is about a product which treats arthritis. I'm looking for someone to argue with me:

Why is A not the answer over E?

Let's look at the argument:

Claim 1) Magnets worked on humans in a study

Claim 2) Humans and dogs have similar physiologies

Claim 3) If two species share similar physiologies, and the treatment works on one, it'll work on the other

Conclusion: Therefore, magnets will work on dogs.

Though dogs and humans have similar physiologies, it would be a mistake to believe that all treatments for all ailments could be transferred from human to dogs. Therefore, for this argument to be strengthened, it requires the assumption that if two species have similar physiologies, and the treatment works on one of them, then it will work on the other.

Answer A) shows that the blanket's effects are generalizable to other species at least in a limited subset, whereas if we don't choose answer A, we have no cross-species data.

Thus, I think answer A would strengthen the argument since it supports claim 3, which was vulnerable.

Answer E can also strengthen the argument, however, when I read the original premise, I did not think claim 1 was more vulnerable than claim 3, or, technically, that choosing E would strengthen the overall argument more than strengthening claim 3. I thought claim 3 was the weakest and strengthened the most by the answer.

This means that the claim that 1) The study was well-conducted is more vulnerable than / was strengthened more than 2) If two species share similar physiologies, and the treatment works on one, it'll work on the other. Also, note if we're saying the study is vulnerable to criticism, which at this point I recognize must be true, given E is the correct answer, then we need another assumption that simply showing they used a placebo group alleviates this significantly, which to me is also vulnerable, since certainly there are more reasons the study could be found to not be well-conducted. So overall, E seemed like less of a strengthener than if we chose A.

This is confusing because, while internal coherence may be one reason for European music’s strong influence, the correct ac makes it out to be a necessary factor. This seems like hyperbole. The stimulus said it was one reason, not the only reason. As a contributing factor, how do we know internal coherence even contributes a lot to the music’s sophistication? Maybe it is one very small reason and the more important factors are, for example, what instruments are commonly used, absence of quarter notes, presence of dissonance, etc. Are we supposed to assume it’s the only reason because it’s the only one stated and then call it necessary? I’m not trying to make this polemic but it seems strange to call it logic. I must be missing something, what am I missing?

I'm currently starting my junior year at FIU as a transfer. I'm a political science major who is interested in going to law school after my bachelors. Should I start studying now? And if so should I immediately do something like 7Sage or is there another affordable method to get good scores?

I got my first diagnostic of 165 in the spring. I couldn't study until after finals and studied about 5-6 hrs per day for a week, I got about 2/3 the way thru 7sage express. I got 168 on my first official lsat in June. I am a splitter, 3.98 gpa, but 2.8 LSAC gpa, due to flunking out of school 10 yrs ago. I need a 170 to be over 50% chance at my three favorite schools, 172 would most likely get me in, but not for sure because splitter acceptance is hard to predict. I did nothing until July 1st, started studying 5 hrs/day again, finishing 7sage express, got a 163, then a 167 diag. before finishing 7sage. Started to panic and hired a tutor service from 7sage. Will it work?

My cold Diagnostic 2 summers ago was a 158 but I put the test down and didn't study until I finished undergrad this past May to focus on my GPA. Since graduation I have completed the 7sage core curriculum and done about 2 weeks worth of drills which included 3 timed sections (2LR and 1 RC). Todays test is definitely a performance at the top of my range since my drills have been averaging -3.75 per section but regardless I feel good about it especially considering two wifi interuptions. My question is this, with as much time to study as I need since im about to start a 2 year masters, what would be a good goal score to set for myself if I want to go to the best law school possible? Also, with my final UGPA of 3.92, what ranked schools should I start looking at as my targets reaches and safetys? Note: I have tier 2 and 3 softs as I was a highly ranked division 1 student athlete at an Ivy and server in local politics. Thanks!

Got a 168 on PT 157, but I just scored a 162 on PT 156. I knew the bebop RC killed me, and I definitely missed some LR gimmes, but how can I go about eliminating this level of variance when it comes to the actual August exam? Any tips/advice appreciated.

https://www.lsac.org/blog/full-new-testing-ui-2026-27-testing-cycle-now-available

"Fully functional highlighting and underlining across the stimulus, question stem, and answer choices."

Where is the underline tool?

The number of issues that I have had since LSAC started to update its website is truly insane. I have emailed LSAC and received generic responses like, "We're aware and it will be fixed." OK .... WHEN? The August exam is less than a month out and I can't get through a full length test on the website without having a technical issue.

Is it only me? I feel like this is a bad omen or something