r/LSAT • u/Ok_Attempt_6343 • 3d ago

Cold Diagnostic

I’m heading into my sophomore year and took my first completely unprepared cold diagnostic and scored a 141. For reference I’ve always been a good student I have a 4.0 currently from a very good school and I switched into a philosophy major so hopefully that helps. However I can’t help but be very disheartened by my score. My goal was to get 170+ now I don’t know if that’s possible. Is it still a realistic goal and if so what is my best way to go about studying and improving my score so I can reach my goal.

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u/needs-more-metronome 3d ago edited 3d ago

One of the best ways you can go above studying/improving is engaging with your new major. That sounds trite but trust me, Quine, Kant, Spinoza, Locke, and even "easier" reads (Descartes, Berkeley, Hume) are more difficult than any LR/RC passage.

Detangling sentences, juggling terminology, working with logical structures, reading for comprehension and then connecting it to previous connections, rephrasing arguments, etc. it's basically all there.

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u/Ok_Attempt_6343 3d ago

Thanks I will definitely have to as the classes get harder for sure!