u/Octodab

A brief summary of my journey. I'm 33 and have taken the LSAT twice now. My most recent attempt (September) was a 162, which was just a point below my recent PT average. I've hit 166 and 168 twice. For this last attempt I studied from February to April, then from June to August.

In that time I was purely self studying. I used the Powerscore LSAT Bibles as my primary resource along with the official PTs of course. In August I paid for 7Sage and did some live classes but didn't find it super helpful with so many questions getting asked.

I am leaning towards not applying this cycle. Am I crazy? My plan is to pay for a tutor next year and truly put everything I have into this. For this year, I only signed up for September (which I sort of regret). My thinking is next year I am willing to take it three times if I have to and then come September 1st I'm done no matter what. I truly believe I can break into the 170s, but I don't want to try and rush at the end of this cycle to try to do it, only to have a worse chance at a scholarship by applying late.

Wondering if anyone else is in a similar spot. This represents a career change for me and being an older student, it makes me nervous to push this off. But if I focus purely on the academic context, I feel like my plan makes sense. Wondering if any other slightly older students can relate. Thanks yall.

I like many others am hoping to break into the 170s. I've hit 168 twice and my last two PTs were each 166. I'm doing better on RC where I am typically at -2 or -3.

But for the life of me I cannot reach that level of accuracy on LR. It feels like no matter what I do I end up with -5. I always review my wrong answers. For a while I was almost always getting the first 15 right and doing badly at the end of sections. I've resolved to give myself more time at the end, and lately I'm nailing Qs 20-25 and getting a lot of questions wrong in the 8-14 range.

I know it's hard to give general advice without knowing exactly what I'm getting wrong, but does anybody have any words of wisdom?

Guys I can't take it anymore. I feel like brain damage from covid is causing narcissism in people. I am seeing it everywhere in my life. I am watching people I've known to be decent for many years turn so nasty and self involved. Am I the only one experiencing this

Took a practice test on Wednesday in the new layout. Going back today to try and review. I can review a previous attempt I had on this same practice LSAT perfectly fine (from last year, the OG layout), but when I try to review my performance from this week, I get stuck in a doom loop and can't review my work.

Anyone else experiencing this issue? So fucking ridiculous that LSAC is implementing this horrible update to the layout and has subsequently ruined the performance of their website. It's not like I was planning to do anything important on their site or anything.

I'm so beyond dejected over this fucking test. I PT'd a personal-best 168 back in late March/early April. Since then, my PT scores have literally gone straight down. 168 >163 > 161 > 160 and now a fucking 159 this morning.

I'm so sad and confused because since scoring the 168, I literally went back and reread the Powerscore LR book to try and refresh my strategies. And I definitely don't think I burned myself out the past few months since I had a major (positive) life event that caused me to take a break from PTing and even doing practice sections during May (I was still reading my Powerscore LR book in this time and making myself a new outline, though).

Does anybody have any recommendations? I was planning to take the LSAT again in August but I'm now feeling like that would be a huge mistake. But I'm feeling the pressure of the upcoming application cycle weighing on me heavily. I guess it's time to pay for a course or something? Fuck this fucking test.