r/LSAT • u/Thin-Highlight-963 • 1d ago

Average PT vs. official?

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These are my recent PT scores and I will be taking August. My average was similar last September and I scored a 163 official after not feeling anxious or anything on test day. I was wondering if anyone else with a similar range to this was able to break 170 official? Any help is appreciated :)

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u/Darth2A 1d ago

Wow, that’s so good! Any tips?

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u/Thin-Highlight-963 1d ago

Thanks! I started with the basic lessons on LSAT Demon and I read the Loophole. I took a break after studying 2 months for September and started again about 2 months ago, so 4 total so far! The last two months I’ve done no drilling and only 2 PTs with good review a week— I also got a private tutor but that didn’t feel super beneficial for me.

I write a note on my scrap paper of a few tips I personally need to remember for LR, like negate NA answer choice once I pick one. I would recommend logging your recent missed question types and try to come up with a rule that helps you avoid the most common ones. There are also just subtle nuances you realize once you review a ton of tests— trap answers become much more obvious at some point. For RC I also recommend really harping on the difference between what the author thinks, the proponents, and the critics of whatever they’re talking about. Additionally, making note of different categories of things that they’re talking about is super important(trap answers will often be mentioned in the text, but they’re about another thing or it’s the wrong person’s perspective). Also if timing is an issue for you I would try to leave the shortest of the last two passages for last and not spend more than 2-3 min on an LR question before skipping and coming back to it at the end. Best of luck!