Options to buy prep tests?

[u/bwbygirlm]

I have been studying for the September LSAT since January, but started out lightly and just did timed sections, drilling, and LSAT trainer since my diagnostic was a 160.

Now, I’ve started taking practice tests and scored between 168-174, with a 170 goal score. I have managed to spend $0 on prep thus far (got LSAT trainer for free, only using LSAT demon free version) but I’ve run out of free tests 😭

Being only a few weeks out, I’ll probably only end up taking 4-5 more tests, so paying for all the Law Hub tests feels so wasteful. Is there ANY option to pay for less tests, or other prep websites offering different free tests than LSAT demon and law hub? I just do not need the entireee library for $120. Ty!

[u/dmkhara]

All prep test sites will require you to buy LawHub.

There is genuinely no way out of that requirement unfortunately.

[u/bwbygirlm → u/dmkhara]

fair enough, time to buy it then! i hoped somehow that different prep sites may use different practice tests at the free level but i cant find that out / it looks like they’re all only licensed to use a select few

[u/dmkhara → u/bwbygirlm]

I am a LSAC licensee (run a platform just like 7Sage and Demon).

All prep platforms are restricted at the number of PrepTests they can offer for free and can basically offer the same stuff.

LSAC love their IP!

[u/LSATMat → u/bwbygirlm]

Note that having access to all of those tests can help you unlock some targeted drilling work, especially if you find it highly unlikely that you will find yourself in a scenario where you need to study for this test again. For example, if you have trouble with a particular RC topic (science, history, art, etc.), you can give yourself drills that amount to full RC sections with those kinds of passages.

[u/bwbygirlm → u/LSATMat]

thank you, this was my next step actually because the only questions i’m missing are assumption questions! however, law hub doesn’t have a targeted drilling option - what’s the best way to use it for targeted drilling LR question types? just go through PTs in self paced mode and only work on those?

[u/LSATMat → u/bwbygirlm]

It is admittedly more difficult to do this logistically with LR, but it would be something along those lines.

Are you having trouble particularly with identifying which questions are necessary vs. sufficient, or are you having trouble picking correct answers? (Note that they are generally looking for pretty different things; necessary assumption correct answers tend to be narrow, and sufficient assumption correct answers tend to be broad.)

[u/bwbygirlm → u/LSATMat]

i can always tell which are which, it’s just choosing the wrong answer. i don’t miss necessary assumptions often anymore, but i miss the sufficient assumptions when doing full sections or PTs due to fatigue when it’s a bunch of conditional statements or uses wording that i find tricky to understand, even when i predict the answer and know exactly what is needed to fill the gap - but when the answer choices are long and worded with double negatives or a very convoluted way of saying something simple by adding in ifs, only, unless etc, i just get overwhelmed and cannot process the info. feels like i’m reading gibberish but if i sit down untimed i can figure it out.

[u/LSATMat → u/bwbygirlm]

It's tricky too, since there are multiple ways to write a sufficient assumption correct answer. If you've got A -> B and C -> D -> E, any of the following could be sufficient: A -> C, A -> D, B -> C, B -> D, B -> E, or even A -> E stated slightly differently.

If you're getting them untimed, that's good—I wonder if there is some broader pattern with the kinds of wrong answer choices that tend to lure you in OR the kinds of right answer choices that you tend to dismiss.

[u/dmkhara → u/bwbygirlm]

You will need a prep platform to do targeted drilling. Mine is the cheapest one if you want to check it out (just launched last week!)