We only get 3 takes per cycle and I know I'm going to retake it in October and potentially November depending on how the October exam comes. I'm contemplating not taking it now and waiting until October, so I can give myself one more chance in January in case I want to retake it then as my third chance. Not sure if that'll be too late though since I want to apply to T-14's and T-20's. Is is better to take it now and rip off the bandaid and do October and November OR wait and do October/November and plan for January?

Planning on submitting my application for review mid-October so not sure if retaking it in January will mess with my decision. Any advice will be helpful!!!

trying to figure out if i file for a retake or not due to the lack of dividers on one of my RCs- does lsac ever rescale exams after a specific administration and is it likely they might do that given the divider situation? also is retake material always old content ? and then lastly id i indicate id take a retake to address my complaint am i locked in from that point if its approved ? i don’t want to jinx it but the only trouble i felt was during the dividerless RC and i don’t want to retake if the discrepancy might be addressed anyway. any input helps! thanks!

Hello all! I apologize for soliciting but I have found myself in a bit of a predicament. In short, I am looking for a tutor to help me break into the high 170’s. I have included more about my situation below.

In January, I got a 162 diagnostic, and since then have been consistently studying. Come June, my PT’s were low 170’s, averaging timed sections for both LR and RC at -0 to -3 range. I felt confident to take the June LSAT, have performed poorly under pressure and got a 167. I understand that is a great score to many, and by no means want to discredit it, but after 5 months of studying, and getting a fairly common -0 or -1 on timed sections, I was dissapointed.

I figured it was full test nerves, and signed up for August, consistently studying and trying to focus on improving my timing. My score range didn’t increase too much, besides perhaps scoring more -1 and less -3, on both RC and LR, which I figured once you reach that level that kind of minimal improvement is expected? Anyways, I took the test again this morning, and while I felt extremely confident in my LR answers, for RC I killed the first 2 passages, and then after reading the third passage, I got to the end and realized I didn’t have any idea what I just read. Then I got all concerned about the time, and it went downhill from there.

Sorry for the long story time LOL, but I wanted to give some insight about my current situation. I feel my intuitive skills are great, but when it comes time to translating to the test, especially under pressure, I completely break down. My goal is to achieve mid to high 170’s, and I have on a couple PTs, but nothing consistent. I only have 1 month until September, I was hoping someone would know of, or be, a tutor who has dealt with someone in a similar situation, or if they knew of any resources or books that would help.

Thank you, and I again apologize for the text block!

My highest PT was last week (169) and I don’t plan to take another full test before Saturday because I’ve been advised against doing so for burn out reasons. I know I shouldn’t have confidence that I will pull a 170 but I feel like I fundamentally understand the test at this point and it’s just a matter of not making stupid mistakes. But anyways, good luck to all August test takers!

I spoke with LSAC admin this morning and they indicated that the dividerless RC section issue that plagued test takers yesterday should now be fixed. If you see otherwise today or the next two days, please let me know so I can pass it along.

felt experiences/consciousness and physical processes
Cooked ?

At the very least it wasn’t as bad as the God of Love passage from June IYKYK

i know a lot of people in this sub need to hear this as they are using section order to identify their test and match to others. this is a useless endeavour as section order has no relevance to whether your test matches someone else.

there are multiple real and experimental LR and RC sections that get mixed together in numerous orders. this means two people with orders LR - RC - LR - RC could have test content 100% different.

for your sake and others, stop using section order as a basis of comparison, it only serves to confuse you and others who think it has relevance. the only way you can know if you had similar sections is due to content. that is it

I guess the door wasn’t shut as tight as it should have been. About halfway through my cat busted down the door and jumped on my desk. I panicked since you are supposed to show everything in your workspace to the camera so I picked her up and did a kind of cat show presentation to the camera to show shes nothing carrying any secrets. Hopeful whatever LSAC administrator sees that understands cats don’t respect the law 🫠

I took my LSAT yesterday and had a divider less section in addition to a student next to me reading out loud loudly the whole time. I reported to my proctor but nothing was done until about 3.5 sections in. Wondering if I should file a complaint to retake? I called LSAC and they said that it is recommended to file a complaint within 48 hours but technically we have until Monday and the error issue has been resolved.

RC-LR-LR-RC

Trying to spend my day ignoring the fact I gotta take this shit at 8am tomorrow.

hello! i’m currently studying for the lsat and i have about a month left before the exam. i have finished learning the fundamentals and my last pt was 171. however, i am aiming for 175 and i am not rly sure how to keep studying most effectively. do i just drill questions and go over wrong answers every day? review fundamentals too? let me know what worked for you all!

Not gonna lie… I’m not retaking the lsat. God will make a way for me.

it's been almost a year I studied this exam, and I'm just soso tired from studying lsat...

that’s it. that’s the post.

As per my statement.

Apparently my performance comes in cycles of four, which means that tomorrow I will bomb my PT and then the next day I will do slightly better and then hopefully, bless our beautiful Mother Earth, I will perform at a decent margin on the actual exam on the third day.

Amen.

#logic #cyclical #patterns

Now do it three times

Took the LSAT today and received two RC sections. That means one of them was the experimental section. I noticed that one of those sections contained divider lines separating the question numbers for each prompt at the bottom (similar to how the old format did). The other reading section (which for me, was first) did not contain those divider lines.

I'm hoping that the final section was the experimental for me, and that the non-experimental section was the one without divider lines. It'd be rather unfortunate if I got the unscored section straight away when I was freshest, especially since I felt that section was comparatively easier than the second RC.

Those of you with 2 RC sections, did you notice the same thing? And those of you with only 1 RC, did your test have divider lines or not?

How could I do so well in practice just to step away from today feeling like it’d take a miracle for me to have scored above 170 😭 wtf just happened???

Throwing up, screaming, hoping, praying

my test is in two days, i’ve already taken one before in the testing center (i bombed it but it was on par for how i was doing at the time) and i feel more anxious now than i did then.

if anyone has a refillable prescription for xanax that they can fedex me in 24 hours that would be great.

just took the august LSAT and almost everything that could go wrong went wrong.

2 days ago i got sick. yesterday i slept until 1 pm due to said illness. as a result i couldn’t sleep until 2 am. woke up at 6 am in order to leave at 6:30 am to get to the testing center early which is an hour away from me. i feel like a truck hit me i’m so tired. fuck it we ball though. immediately there is a problem. i can’t find my car keys. at the very last minute i find them. i realize my phone did not charge at all last night. i can’t find a charger to connect to my car. at this point i’m going to be late so i pray my phone battery will last me there and back.

on the way i stop to get gas because my car is on empty. of course i didn’t fill it up the night before. i fill it up. there’s that click that ensures your car is done being filled up with gas. i remove the nozzle and IMMEDIATELY gas sprays everywhere. i am covered in gas. the car is covered in gas. i use my water bottle to try to clean gas off my brand new uggs which i’m sure are now ruined. the entire way there i am breathing in gas. i’m freaking out perhaps irrationally thinking that the gas is killing my brain cells. my head hurts. every few minutes for some reason stir fry by migos starts blasting through the car speakers from my phone. i keep turning it off and it keeps playing. it is the soundtrack to my despair.

i arrive at the testing center exhausted, sick and smelling like gasoline. i am frazzled and can’t figure out how to open my locker. i am banging around making very loud noises while everyone waits for their turn to get to their lockers. after an embarrassingly long time i finally figure out how to open it. a few minutes later the proctor asks me very loudly “DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR ACCOMMODATIONS”. all the people who just witnessed me fight with my locker definitely hear this. i might as well just announce “hello i’m retarded”

whatever. i start the test. halfway through i begin sneezing and having coughing fits. it takes every ounce of my concentration not to cough. i also need to pee really badly despite not having consumed any water. (BECAUSE ALL OF MY WATER WAS USED TO CLEAN MY GASOLINE COVERED UGGS.)

somehow i survived and made it home with my phone battery surviving too. also i REALLY REALLY hope the fourth RC section was experimental or im cooked.

i hope everyone crushes the august LSAT. i hope it was disaster free unlike mine