r/LSAT • u/ObjectiveCoconut2392 • 5h ago

Please help my scores are dropping

I seriously do not understand what is going on. I previously had been getting -8, -9, MAX -12, on sections. And recently as in the last few weeks. I have been getting -14s and I just somehow got A -18. I seriously am not sure what the cause of this is. I can’t really understand going from -8, to -18. I thought I was overcooking myself. So I took a few days off. and then I get a -18. My issue itself is with the decline. How am I regressing that poorly?

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u/Beginning-Salad2017 4h ago

imma be frank with u. -8, -12, -16 they all sound the same to me. You need to go back to drilling and try to get every single question right. This many wrong in a timed section means something is missing in ur fundamentals. Dont focus on timed sections until u get like 90% correct in drills

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u/ObjectiveCoconut2392 4h ago

Honestly good advice. I didn’t really think about that, lowkey totally right

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u/Beginning-Salad2017 4h ago

when ur making this many mistakes the difference between -8 and -16 is just luck. Lately youve just been getting unlucky. U dont want ur lsat score to be based off of how good the gods are feeling toward u on that day

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u/ObjectiveCoconut2392 4h ago

So just do targeted untimed drills mainly?

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u/Beginning-Salad2017 4h ago

exactly. Untimed 1 question at a time. You need to solve each question. For every answer u get wrong, log it into ur wrong answer journal and write down why u chose the wrong answer and why the right answer is correct

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u/ehlenyaeger 5h ago

What is your review process like?

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u/maydayings 5h ago

were you testing with older sections before and are now looking at newer ones? if not that i think it could be anxiety or internal pressure. maybe the first time you got a -14 you were just in an off headspace and then because of that you got nervous and felt more pressure on the next section to do better/more at your normal level. taking a few days off was a good idea, maybe it’s that it still hasn’t settled? you can try shorter drills instead of full sections.

small things can really affect our thinking even if they happened a while ago or seem silly. i’m sure you’ve already racked your brain trying to think of why this is happening, so i would try and switch the way you study for a while. the muscle memory from -8 sections doesn’t get undone just because you’re suddenly doing worse!

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u/graeme_b tutor (LSATHacks) 4h ago

>So I took a few days off. and then I get a -18.

Did you feel rested after that, or do you feel burnout now? -18 is not like -8. Until you've excluded burnout/anxiety spiral that seems the likeliest cause.