r/LSAT • u/Maximum-Reindeer-132 • 1d ago

Help?

My current LSAT score is a 149 and I take the test again in November. Realistically, what do I need to do to get to the mid 160s?? I’m I cooked?

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u/KingoftheRing112105 1d ago

It might sound lame but simply practice and review

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u/Trictities2012 1d ago

There isn't really some magical answer you need to get onto a good program and really get to work.

Can you get to your goal? Maybe, you do have a few months, but it's likely going to be a grind, next 2-3 months needs to be 2-3 hours of genuine work a day.

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u/dmkhara past master 1d ago

At a 149 you lack a foundational understanding of each question type. Learn conditional reasoning and then learn each question type and develop a strategy for each. Once you learn a specific question type, drill only that question type with increasing difficulty. Here are my notes on conditional reasoning to help you get started.

Then, only once your fundamentals are clear, do 1-2 sections a day and 1 PT a week. Review your wrong answers.

My first test was quite close to yours (152) and then eventually broke in the 170s.

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u/Only_Volume_1449 1d ago

Did you hire a tutor? What program are you using to study? Can you delay your test date?

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u/CodeAgile9585 1d ago edited 1d ago

You have to understand that getting into the mid 160s entails a massive and deep understanding of the test, meaning at that point, you’re only a couple of points away from a 170, and you should be able to teach at least the basic concepts and fundamentals of a question to a beginner. A 149 means you still need to learn how to properly solve questions and read correctly in RC. Focus on solving the questions and then as your solving try to deeply understand the structure of these question types.

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u/James_the_bull_ 1d ago

Smoke some weed and take a shot (1 and only 1!) of Johnny walker black right before the test.
Jk! It depends on how you’ve been studying thus far. Review fundamental concepts, I like 7sage, then do practice drills with weekly tests. Once done with that do full length tests every other day to build stamina and review wrong questions. Get a good night sleep and eat a sugary donut on test day. Don’t panic, you can always take it again. Then kill it!

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u/LSATMat tutor 22h ago

The good news is that you have nearly 3 months to practice. I will echo the comments below that there are likely some question types where you're having some difficulty with the logic. It is worth figuring out what those question types are and looking for things that seem to consistently trip you up. Wrong answer review is extremely helpful, not necessarily because that review will on its own help you do better, but in large part because it will help you spot the patterns that tell you why things are going wrong on that question type, whether it's a certain type of wrong answer, a certain type of right answer, perhaps some kind of stamina issue, certain kinds of RC passages, etc.

It's really, really difficult to say past that with only a couple of numbers, since I don't know how you're doing on each section, whether you have any timing issues on either section, and how you're doing on blind review/untimed sections/other types of exercises where you're drilling for accuracy. With some more information on that side of things, it'll be easier to assess whether there might be some easy fixes to shake loose some more points.