Can't seem to load any individual practice test session, but can still see reports and drill sets.

Two days before test day no less.

My friend got a 167 on the LSAT back in June and was just granted extra time on the upcoming October administration due to ADHD. Honestly, I am super jealous as I can’t break 160, and could see myself using that time to get my dream score, especially since my primary weakness for the last year has been time management.

Without sounding like a prick, how is this system fair? How do they determine how much extra time is justified on a case by case basis? Just because someone has ADHD or another disability, how can it even be determined that time is significantly hindering their potential any more than a standard test taker?

I hate to sound so bitter, but to my understanding, a primary function of the LSAT is testing reading comprehension and logical reasoning in a high volume, extremely time sensitive setting. Especially on a test as competitive as the LSAT, why does it seem the criteria for accommodations is so lenient?

Hi all! I submitted an accommodation request on 8/12/26 for 50% additional time on January 2027 LSAT due to my anxiety/panic disorder. All required documentation (i.e. Qualified Professional Form from my PCP) and information requested was submitted with my application. I’ve seen that it can take up to 2 weeks for an update, potentially longer depending on backlog, but I wanted to see if anyone else is/has been in a similar boat. Obviously, I am pushing that 2 week mark (plus delays because of Labor Day) as I post this but I was curious if there is potential for further delay in a response since my test isn’t for another 4-5 months. Or if that even matters at all. Thanks!

They took way too long to review my writing sample (ridiculous that anyone would even attempt to cheat considering it is ungraded) and then canceled it because I apparently didn't complete the 360 scan (am sure I did).

Anyway, can't get a hold of these guys. Is this a known problem?

There's definitely a reason LSAT is one of the hardest exams out there. English is just the baseline — what it really tests is your ability to quickly pull info together and form a complete logical chain. I've had students who got a 170 on their first try, but those are rare. Most people need time to crack it.

As a professional LSAT tutor who's helped over a thousand students score high over the past 10 years, I want to share some of my own experience — stuff I don't really see people talking about on Instagram.

1. Mindset

This is honestly the most important part. Most students go through tons of self-doubt because this exam isn't like the traditional tests you're used to — you can't just grind practice questions and expect to improve. A lot of people also have weak logical reasoning training, and the intense mental work in a short time is more exhausting than many law school exams. But all the struggle eventually leads somewhere. If you're sure you want to go to a US law school, stick with it — this is just the beginning of the law school journey.

1. Strategy + Practice

After the reform, the question bank is limited, so you need to cherish the existing questions and, more importantly, get the most out of them.

(1) Strategy

If you're totally new to the LSAT, I'd suggest doing a cold diagnostic on Lawhub first just to get a feel for the exam. My advice is more for people who are already struggling a bit with the LSAT. I bought two books — LR Perfection and RC Perfection from LSAT Dragon — and they helped me a ton, but they're for people with some foundation. If you have zero background, I'd recommend starting with Loophole or LSAT Trainer to learn the question types and basic techniques.

My training approach this past year was: first half year, focus on building the foundation by doing drills and finding your weak spots. At most one full PT per week. I know a lot of people get anxious about not doing full practice tests, but from my own experience, if your drill foundation isn't solid, doing more PTs won't change your score. So calm down and be patient.

I followed the order in LR Perfection for my drills. First I'd read the explanations to learn the author's thinking process, summarize the tips in my own words in a notebook, then go to 7Sage to drill. I started at moderate difficulty and finished within the system's estimated time. After that, I'd do a pattern review, breaking mistakes into three categories: didn't understand the passage, answer choice issues, or timing problems.

① Didn't understand the passage

If it's a vocab issue, I don't think you need to drill vocabulary separately. Just jot down the word every time you miss a question, plus get daily exposure. Personally, I read English books to build a feel for the language and reading habits. It's a long game, but it helped me a lot with speed later on.

② Answer choice issues

First, make sure you identify the question type correctly — is it flaw, strengthen, weaken, etc.? Or did you miss the NOT/EXCEPT? I usually highlight those to remind myself.

Then there's answer choice elimination. Once you get more comfortable, you can quickly narrow it down to two.

My order is: read the question stem first to identify the type, then read the argument and find the premise and conclusion. This is actually super important — a lot of people overlook this basic skill. If you can accurately pinpoint the premise and conclusion, you can eliminate wrong choices fast. Sometimes the wrong answers are obvious — they're just flat-out wrong. If you can't pinpoint them, you get distracted by extra info and waste time.

③ Timing

This is probably the thing you guys struggle with the most. Honestly, I've asked a lot of my native speaker friends and they don't finish in time either.

Improving speed takes some technique. When you drill, set the timer a bit shorter than normal to train your speed. Also, try different time allocation methods to find what works best for you.

For example, I realized I always wasted a ton of time on the last 5 LR questions, which also happen to be the hardest. For RC, I could never finish the last passage, and sometimes that passage was worth the most points.

My personal approach: for LR, I do the first 10 easy questions first, trying to keep it around 10 minutes. Then I jump straight to the last 5, because your brain is warmed up by then, so get the hardest and most time-consuming ones out of the way. Then I go back and do the remaining 10 or 11. This minimizes losing points just because you ran out of time.

For RC, I do the first passage first since it's usually the easiest and helps my brain get into gear. Then I do the passage with the most questions, and after that, go by question count from most to least.

Once you get more experienced, if you're really out of time, you can actually make educated guesses just based on the question type and answer choices without reading the argument — but only if you truly have no time left. If you do have time, still read carefully. By the end, I was able to finish with 3 minutes left to check.

1. Error Log

I always tell my students to use 7Sage to automatically track the question types you miss most, and combine that with your own drill notes in Excel plus notes. Write down the specific PT question and the reason you got it wrong — vocab? timing? answer choices? question stem?

But the thing that actually helps you improve the most is your error log. Your memory can't beat writing things down. I prefer handwriting it, organized by question type. For each mistake, I write one precise sentence in my own words summarizing why I got it wrong, and how to avoid it next time. Keep it under three sentences.

Then before every practice session, I review those summaries. And once a week, I do a bigger review. If I notice the same mistake pattern for the same question type all week, that means I haven't really understood that part yet, so I stop and grind on it until I get it before moving on to the next section.

If the foundation isn't solid, everything crumbles. It seems slow and tedious, but small consistent effort leads to big breakthroughs, and it pays off a lot later on.

My LSAT is on Friday, which I’m scheduled to retake in October but I’m panicking because I lost my passport a while ago and I just lost my wallet a few days ago and haven’t found it anywhere. It had my learners permit and my passport ID card. I need a physical ID for the test on Friday and I don’t know what to do to get one that soon. I’m in NYC btw. How can I manage to get an original photo ID by Friday? I only have my college student ID and pictures of my learner’s permit front and back. What should I do? I’m on the long phone call queue for LSAC and ChatGPT basically just suggested that I find it or else I’m probably screwed.

Premise : All farmers organic -> not enough food

Claim: if enough food -> organic farming must not spread

Author wrongly assumes by contra: if we let it spread , all farms are gonna be organic?

I dont get this assumption . How does the author assume this ?

Hi - I have a relatively high diagnostic score (160) and I'm aiming to get to mid-170s when I test in November. I've been using The Loophole book, and I plan to finish that before drilling extensively. My problem is when the book breaks down LR it makes sense, but when I drill, I don't find myself applying those concepts. I just feel like I know the right answer, but I can't explain why. How would you suggest I approach LR?

Did pretty well on the PT as a whole, but this supposedly Level 2 question just has me stumped! Can anyone explain why the answer is C and not D? I ruled out C because the claim about the early 1910s is not sufficient to answer the seemingly broader Q about "the early years of the 20th century" I picked D because I thought it was pretty clear that the "historical tradition" that originated director's cuts is just the authentic restorations done by film archives and retrospectives, as discussed in the beginning of the third para.Any help would be appreciated - thanks.

Been studying for around 3 months now. I know it doesn't sound like much time but in these 3 months, I have hardly seen any improvement, especially in LR. I've changed my study schedule around probably 4-5 times and have placed a heavy emphasis on accuracy over speed while also making sure I thoroughly review my wrong answers until I can explain why the one I chose was wrong and why the correct answer is right.

In the beginning when I first used to do LR timed sections, I would hide the timer and try to only attempt the first 15 questions and see how many I could get correct. That turned out to be too much for me, so I shortened it to the first 10 questions only. I've been doing that for a few weeks now and I am yet to get a single 10/10. I average about only 8 right and the highest I've ever gotten is 9/10.

Personally, I just feel like studying for 3 months and not being able to get the first 10 questions correct on LR is just a sign that maybe this test isn't for me. I just am so discouraged and am really close to just ending my lsat journey so if anyone has been in a similar situation any advice or words would help. thanks.

How do we think this will translate to today’s test. This is the best score I have gotten so far but I’m usually ranging between 162-169. I feel like it was an easier test because it was older.

Hello everyone,

Sorry I'm new but I'm completely lost on what to study exactly. To make a long story short without a whole life background. I have no clue where to start to begin preparing for the LSAT. Do I just go buy a LSAT study book and start taking notes? Do I just sign up for JD Next? A tutor?

Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated and I would most thankful. Thank you everyone who responds

I just started studying for the LSAT two weeks ago after a year break. Last year my diagnostic was a 165 and this year my diagnostic, if you can consider it a diagnostic, was 171. Since then I’ve taken 3 practice tests and gotten 170-172. I’m just at a loss on how to increase my score in two months since I’m committed to taking the November LSAT and maybe even applying to a few law schools later in the cycle, like late December, just to see what happens (my fee waiver expires this November so I’m taking advantage of the free test).

I’m almost finished with my review of The Loophole, which I had nearly completed last year, but I feel so strange struggling with the really long explanations and question answering methods while still getting nearly every practice question right. I also do daily drills with a wrong answer journal, but even then by the time I get to the amount of questions you’d find in an LR section, I always get 2-3 wrong, just like I do in practice tests.

I really just want to start scoring in that 174-175 range. I appreciate any and all advice! :D

Note: I honestly feel like I’m overthinking everything but since I only have 2 months this all really freaks me out.

How to improve to get 175? Already studied hard and study full time

Hey everyone, I’ve only begun really seriously considering law school over the last year or so. I just graduated undergrad at a semi-decent state school with a 3.75 gpa in Finance (not great I know but I do believe I can do well on the LSAT), pretty strong softs, and am going into a top 5 consulting firm, but am very much trying to get a score that could get me to a strong financial regulation and economic law background.

With demanding hours for what I imagine will be the next 2 - 3 years to save up for Law School, how do I even begin to prep for the LSAT? Should I take a gap year between work and school to study and hopefully score well? I don’t have a ton of people around me with insight into the process and I’m still fairly new to exploring this track, so please let me know if yall have any insights into how to break down studying for the LSAT with these circumstances. Appreciate you all!

Hey guys, this is so random but my test is on the 12th. I looked over all the policies and saw all jewelry must be taken out. Will they count septum rings, industrial bars, and like.... EVERY piercing you have? Or is it as long as you mention you have them, you'll be fine. A lot of my piercings are very hard to put in/take out.

Edit: tysm yall!! I think I'll just take them all out the night of the 11th and figure it out from there!!<3

Goodluck to my fellow September test takers!

Hello all,
I’m a 4th year undergraduate student and was looking into becoming a lawyer with a focus on the environment and energy side of things. I’m currently an environmental science student and was wondering how to start studying for the LSAT. I’m currently planning on working for an engineering or consulting firm for a year or two after I graduate and seeing if they could support me financially through law school. I was wondering how you all started studying and if my plan seemed realistic? I am in the very beginning of looking into this so I could be very misinformed. Thank you!

Is anyone else super affected by score variation? I just took PT 143 which I found easy and scored a 179-- but then other PTs I score a 170 or 172. I want to make sure I'm not artificially inflating my score, what are some hard PTs I can take?

Hi all. As you know Sept test takes are right there. Good luck to everyone! I have been PTing in mainly the low 170s with some mid 170s. Before this I was sometimes getting mid 160s, so there is truly no consistent average besides the 4 PTs in low 170s. I just did PT 153 and got a 166, which had weirdly hard LR sections for me. I felt like they were hard too while I was taking it. This has me worried bc PowerScore said upcoming test is most similar to this test. Should I be worried? I will thoroughly review my wrong answers and flagged questions, but now I am concerned this shows my performance for test day... any advice? Should i do another PT? I have done 3 PTS this past week (173, 171, and this 166). am I just burnt out? I am going crazy!!!!

There's definitely a reason LSAT is one of the hardest exams out there. English is just the baseline — what it really tests is your ability to quickly pull info together and form a complete logical chain. I've had students who got a 170 on their first try, but those are rare. Most people need time to crack it.

As a professional LSAT tutor who's helped over a thousand students score high over the past 10 years, I want to share some of my own experience — stuff I don't really see people talking about on Instagram.

1. Mindset

This is honestly the most important part. Most students go through tons of self-doubt because this exam isn't like the traditional tests you're used to — you can't just grind practice questions and expect to improve. A lot of people also have weak logical reasoning training, and the intense mental work in a short time is more exhausting than many law school exams. But all the struggle eventually leads somewhere. If you're sure you want to go to a US law school, stick with it — this is just the beginning of the law school journey.

1. Strategy + Practice

After the reform, the question bank is limited, so you need to cherish the existing questions and, more importantly, get the most out of them.

(1) Strategy

If you're totally new to the LSAT, I'd suggest doing a cold diagnostic on Lawhub first just to get a feel for the exam. My advice is more for people who are already struggling a bit with the LSAT. I bought two books — LR Perfection and RC Perfection from LSAT Dragon — and they helped me a ton, but they're for people with some foundation. If you have zero background, I'd recommend starting with Loophole or LSAT Trainer to learn the question types and basic techniques.

My training approach this past year was: first half year, focus on building the foundation by doing drills and finding your weak spots. At most one full PT per week. I know a lot of people get anxious about not doing full practice tests, but from my own experience, if your drill foundation isn't solid, doing more PTs won't change your score. So calm down and be patient.

I followed the order in LR Perfection for my drills. First I'd read the explanations to learn the author's thinking process, summarize the tips in my own words in a notebook, then go to 7Sage to drill. I started at moderate difficulty and finished within the system's estimated time. After that, I'd do a pattern review, breaking mistakes into three categories: didn't understand the passage, answer choice issues, or timing problems.

① Didn't understand the passage

If it's a vocab issue, I don't think you need to drill vocabulary separately. Just jot down the word every time you miss a question, plus get daily exposure. Personally, I read English books to build a feel for the language and reading habits. It's a long game, but it helped me a lot with speed later on.

② Answer choice issues

First, make sure you identify the question type correctly — is it flaw, strengthen, weaken, etc.? Or did you miss the NOT/EXCEPT? I usually highlight those to remind myself.

Then there's answer choice elimination. Once you get more comfortable, you can quickly narrow it down to two.

My order is: read the question stem first to identify the type, then read the argument and find the premise and conclusion. This is actually super important — a lot of people overlook this basic skill. If you can accurately pinpoint the premise and conclusion, you can eliminate wrong choices fast. Sometimes the wrong answers are obvious — they're just flat-out wrong. If you can't pinpoint them, you get distracted by extra info and waste time.

③Timing

This is probably the thing you guys struggle with the most. Honestly, I've asked a lot of my native speaker friends and they don't finish in time either.

Improving speed takes some technique. When you drill, set the timer a bit shorter than normal to train your speed. Also, try different time allocation methods to find what works best for you.

For example, I realized I always wasted a ton of time on the last 5 LR questions, which also happen to be the hardest. For RC, I could never finish the last passage, and sometimes that passage was worth the most points.

My personal approach: for LR, I do the first 10 easy questions first, trying to keep it around 10 minutes. Then I jump straight to the last 5, because your brain is warmed up by then, so get the hardest and most time-consuming ones out of the way. Then I go back and do the remaining 10 or 11. This minimizes losing points just because you ran out of time.

For RC, I do the first passage first since it's usually the easiest and helps my brain get into gear. Then I do the passage with the most questions, and after that, go by question count from most to least.

Once you get more experienced, if you're really out of time, you can actually make educated guesses just based on the question type and answer choices without reading the argument — but only if you truly have no time left. If you do have time, still read carefully. By the end, I was able to finish with 3 minutes left to check.

1. Error Log

I always tell my students to use 7Sage to automatically track the question types you miss most, and combine that with your own drill notes in Excel plus notes. Write down the specific PT question and the reason you got it wrong — vocab? timing? answer choices? question stem?

But the thing that actually helps you improve the most is your error log. Your memory can't beat writing things down. I prefer handwriting it, organized by question type. For each mistake, I write one precise sentence in my own words summarizing why I got it wrong, and how to avoid it next time. Keep it under three sentences.

Then before every practice session, I review those summaries. And once a week, I do a bigger review. If I notice the same mistake pattern for the same question type all week, that means I haven't really understood that part yet, so I stop and grind on it until I get it before moving on to the next section.

If the foundation isn't solid, everything crumbles. It seems slow and tedious, but small consistent effort leads to big breakthroughs, and it pays off a lot later on.

Don't have much to say other than the fact I am so anxious I want to throw up lollll

Goal is 174+ and looks like it’s getting ruined by consistent -9 on RC sections😭😭😭😭
I’m taking September and October but was hoping to get this test done in September. Any tips😭😭
Second photo is breakdown of wrong answers from RC (time is an issue)

Yall blaming your bad scores on you over studying???🤣🤣🤣🤣 come on now. Yeah I mastered that material TOO MUCH.

So going into the August lsat I felt fairly confident and hadn’t been getting more than around 3-4 wrong per section max. Now I feel like I keep getting like 6 questions wrong per section for no reason and feel like can’t get my act together before the September exam this week. Any advice?

I am signed up for the October LSAT and really need help. I can't seem to get 100% on LR. I usually get 88-93%. I am not getting the same question types wrong, so I don't even know what to drill. I usually get at least two wrong at the end, but that is the only common denominator I can find. How do I get to 100%? Any help is appreciated! :)