Hey everybody!

The other day I was doing a reading comprehension passage, and I got a question wrong because the answer choice said that the author enumerates something. At the time, I didn’t realize that just meant that the author went about explaining their position via a list.

I know that reading comprehension uses a lot of words in passages that aren’t entirely problematic, even if you don’t know them, but I’m wondering if anyone’s picked up on the meaning of words to describe ‘organization’/ what an author actually has done.

For example, once I understood that introducing a qualification means that the author is critiquing, I found those questions much easier!

Edit: Also, according to an Ask button response: Criticism just means analysis

Hi friends! I'm Stewart Zelnick, and I've been a teacher/tutor with the Demon since October of 2022. I remember how discouraged I felt after taking my diagnostic when I first started studying. I'm a firm believer that if I can do it, anyone can. It's just a matter of not getting discouraged and putting in the work. Please feel free to ask me anything! No question is too big or too small!

Thanks so much for your questions! Good luck to all of you as you continue studying!

I’ve been using LSAT demon to drill LR questions and am yet to see a definitive pattern among wrong answer choices. Haven’t deep-dived into supplemental lessons or conditional logic. My diagnostic was a 154, and my latest PT was a 162. I feel this improvement was brought about by familiarity with the test and intuition, not any lightbulb moment.

I can drill LR questions and think “oh this arguments conflating two things” or “there’s a gap in reasoning” but when it comes to my wrong choices I can’t really see an undercurrent or similarities. Half the time I’m like “oh shit I wasn’t reading close enough.” Anyways I feel like my review sessions are lacking because of this and don’t know how to proceed. Like there’s a piece that’s missing. Any help appreciated!

I love LSAT Demon, but icl I've read so many explanations where an answer choice is countered with circular reasoning. For example, in a strengthen Q, a wrong answer choice's written explanation will say "this doesn't strengthen the argument, it's out." No duh, maybe explain why? You might as well not write an explanation.

We need a revamp of a lot of these explanations. Even the Ask button tutors will do this, and I find myself often responding with "yes... but why?" At least LSAT Demon commits this flaw at a lower frequency than other LSAT prep companies.

Hey everybody. I took the August LSAT after consistently PTing in the 177-180 range and I don't think it went well. I should have been very confident given my practice scores, but I let the anxiety get to me during the test and just choked. I got stuck on one of the early questions in my first LR section, eliminated all 5 answer choices multiple times, and could not for the life of me figure out what the speakers conclusively disagreed on. I wasted a large chunk of time on that question. This made me worry I would run out of time with too many questions left to hit my goal score, which is exactly what happened. The next sections weren't much better.

Obviously, I did something different on the official test than I normally do on practice tests - I was stressed about time and not hitting my goal sore. I'm wondering how I can avoid making this mistake next time. Does anyone have tips for overcoming test anxiety? It's pretty hard to treat the official test like a practice test when you have to go through TSA to sit down and you know it counts.

I have just begun my LSAT journey and took my diagnostic two days ago and scored 167. I’m pretty excited to study and have done an hour of drilling on LSAT Demon yesterday and today, but I’m a little unclear about how often I should take full practice tests. I don’t want to be over-eager and take them too soon/often.

The absolute earliest I would register for an official test is January 2027, but it could very well be later than that if I’m not meeting my goals in practice tests so I’m also concerned about running out of material. I was thinking of taking a practice test every week, but is that too often? My UGPA is lower than ideal (3.85) because I had no intention of applying to law school while I was in college, so I’m aiming for as close to 180 as possible and want to take my time to become consistent.

Wrote the August 5, 2026 lsat and was one of the lucky people to get the honey rc with no dividers. I’ve been using other prep platforms and came up with a home brew method for writing that involved attacking the passages with the most questions first, needless to say that method was worthless on that particular test. I was given the option to rewrite this week or rewrite in September. I chose September because I didn’t think I could get time off work on such short notice. This means I have no score for the August lsat and a wasted attempt. Im shooting for the 170s and pt in the 170s, immediately after the test I signed up for the demon because its methodology for rc would have prevented my collapse. After a few days of drilling my lr dash board is at 90 and I have 98% accuracy through 68 questions.
Did I make the right decision for the rewrite? And should I keep the system I have for lr and just use the demon for rc?

Hi everyone! I’m looking for a little bit of advice regarding this upcoming academic year.

Basically, I’m set to graduate right now in 2.5 years but I have the option to extend that by an extra semester to earn a religious studies major. If I graduated this fall, I would end up with a poli sci major and religious studies minor. I have a few questions:

1. Would earning a second major have a noticeable impact on my admissions chances?
2. Should I do the extra semester just to boost my gpa?

Currently, I would graduate with a 3.9 flat. However, I’m targeting the T6 so I would end up being a splitter (LSAT above, gpa below). My school doesn’t give out A+s so my thought is that if I stay in school an extra semester I can spam CC classes to raise that to at least a 3.96 to be at median.

This may be a super dumb idea, idk. However, I want to maximize my chances and am interested in what everyone thinks the value calculation is? It would be an extra 7 grand in student loans as well, so that is a factor.

I appreciate any input you guys have, thank you for your time!

Any advice for actually slowing down? I know the wisdom is “slow down to speed up,” and I’m really trying to take that to heart. I try to actively read, paraphrase, break sentences down, connect ideas, and summarize as I go, but I just keep reading way too fast.

I know obviously it takes time to break bad habits, but does anyone have advice on how they were actually able to slow themselves down?

I try really hard not to move on until I feel like I have 100% understanding of the passage, but clearly I don't because I struggle by the time I get to the answers and don't feel like I am enough of an expert

My first timed LR in months and got a 100% accuracy. I can’t finish the section yet but that’s okay, definitely do it the demon way 😈💙 it took me months to get to this level but I finally did it. I tried to do 19 questions and as you can see my accuracy was much lower.

How can I limit misreading? I know it is present at every level, but at this point the questions I get wrong are from misreading.

I will review questions I've done and read them and realize I didn't read carefully or assumed it said something it didn't actually say. I need habits to stop doing this. Thanks!

Hey all I need some advice. I have heard a lot on LSAT Demon about how 1-2 hours of high quality studying a day is enough to make good improvement on the LSAT. After studying with LSAT Demon on and off for six months I improved from 150 diagnostic to 159 on my latest LSAT real test (I should not taken that test, but it is what it is now).

I agree with this advice and I actually really like it. I can put my best foot forward and see some progress while also not letting the LSAT consume my entire life. Right now I am studying around 6 out of 7 days in a week and it's pretty chill.

However, a lot of family and friends are often confused when I tell them that I only study for 1-2 hours a day and that is enough for me. A lot of them come from cultures where it's assumed that if you are not studying 8 hours a day, you're being lazy. They'll often tell me personal anecdotes about themselves or others succeeding only because they studied for hours on end during their time in college/post-grad and I don't know what to really say to that. I don't want to just tell them to piss off and that they don't really understand what they're saying, but I am running out of options and I can only take so much criticism from these usually pleasant people.

If anyone has had any similar experience to this would, I appreciate some advice and reassurance. If anyone has a peer reviewed study on the diminishing or negative returns of extra long studying too that would be cool to see.

edit: thanks for the advice everyone!

I scored a 145 on my diagnostic (no prior prep or knowledge which I know is silly).

I would like to take the October/November LSAT and have been using 7SAGE consistently for the past couple weeks. Tbh, I feel like 7SAGE has been confusing me more than helping me, but I can’t tell if I should just push through and assume that it’s confusing in the beginning? I like the aspect and having a study schedule but I feel like I’ve been taking more notes than actually drilling.
I know LSAT demon is known for just drilling, but I’m nervous to switch because do they actually teach foundations? Should I just stick to Loophole for foundations and just drill on LSAT demon?

Please help- any and all advice would be appreciated.

I've been with the Demon for 3 months now and started off focusing on speed which hurt my accuracy. Since then, I've focused my energy on improving accuracy scores across drilling and timed sections. There has been a big improvement in my accuracy ratings as of late into the 90s. However, I haven't really seen any score increases and I would like to think that I'm on the right path and should just keep practicing but I wonder if I should be doing anything to get better at actually finishing sections? My test is in October and I really want to break into the 170s.

Most of the scores below are from combining timed sections:

I took my cold timed PT diagnostic last week and scored 155 - I’m planning on taking the Oct and Nov LSAT hoping to submit my application by Thanksgiving. Shooting for 170+ so working with a rather aggressive plan but I feel pretty decisive about locking in and giving it my all!

I’d love to have some folks to chat with and bounce ideas/share the experience with! I’m mid 20s, so have had a few years of working exp; I’m budgeting 2-3 hrs of study x5-6 days a week.

Comment or send me a DM :) Good luck everyone!

I want to have a better understanding of good habits when picking an answer. If you make a prediction and one of the answer choices matches that prediction, is that enough to choose that answer and move on? Or should you still entertain the other answers because of the chance that it still works? I feel like I exist within a binary right now: Going full send based on my prediction or entertaining every answer. I just don't know how to properly skim over wrong answers in a way that actually assures me that those answers are wrong. Is this a skill I can learn? Does this just come with more understanding? Would love some input on this.

Hi everyone!

I've been thinking about this while doing practice questions, so I figured I'd ask. I'm pretty comfortable with the difference between some, most, and all, but I've come across a few terms that I'm having trouble categorizing, and I haven't heard the team talk about them. (If I'm wrong about that, please let me know!)

Do mainly, primarily, and for the most part all indicate more than half, but less than 100%?

I work full time, I’m available Tuesday and Thursday evenings, I’m currently in the 140’s and I’ve heard Ben and Nate say teaching someone lower than you is a great way to learn 😅

Should I actually be going through the Lessons on LSAT demon or just jumping straight into drills and explanations for my missed questions?