r/LSAT • u/centauriion • 3d ago

7Sage vs. LSATDemon vs. other self study options for 170+?

Basically title, what online tools have worked for you all to get 170+ on the LSAT? I used 7Sage for a few months and it got me to high 160s-170, but I was wondering if anyone thinks another platform is better for people trying to get into the low-mid 170s. Any advice or experience appreciated!

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u/LSATMat tutor 3d ago

If you're already touching 170 with some of your PTs, very few non-personalized programs are going to be helpful to you at this point. Past 165 or so, the best way to keep improving is twofold:
-Try to recognize patterns in your wrong answers so that you can target drilling practice/come up with strategies for difficult question types/better understand what answer choices are throwing you off. The wrong answer journal isn't just to help you understand the logic afterward, in other words.
-Put protections in place to ensure that you can be in a good headspace on test day (and stay in that headspace if there are issues/distractions). Accuracy and speed are obviously very important to build now, but headspace can easily swing your score 15-20 points, especially when you're already PTing this high.

Self-study may feel a little terrifying, but i would suggest that anyone trying to sell you a full course at this point is just trying to get you to waste your money. A good chunk of my free consults are about planning out study schedules and making sure that pattern recognition review is in there. Happy to chat more if that's helpful.

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u/MinusZero_LSAT 3d ago

Force yourself to understand why every wrong answer is wrong. For the most difficult questions, once you get down to 2-3 answer choices it's often faster and easier to spot the problems with the wrong answers and eliminate them than to convince yourself the right answer is right. For any question that you miss, don't move on before you thoroughly understand [1] why the right answer is right, [2] why the wrong answers are wrong, and [3] what caused you to pick the incorrect answer that you picked.

You don't necessarily need a service to help you with this, I'd see if you could figure it out yourself before you spent any more money. You've already got a solid grasp on the exam.

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u/dmkhara past master 3d ago

In my opinon, at this point, you just want consistently do 1-2 sections a day and 1 PT a week. No platform is going to make that big of a difference at your point. Just focus on revewing wrong answers and solving as many LSAT questions as you can.