Even I’m thinking it’s not that great…honestly, this sub might have skewed my perspective. Anyway, to my fellow 160s congrats! I know you worked hard and good things are in your future!

No matter how fucked you think you might be, it's never over.

Experienced a lot of technical difficulties during the test, just recived word back that my retake is not eligible?!???!?!? I this was supposed to be my fourth take but it appears like I might have to use my fifth?

For context, Prometric completely died on me during a stop/start break and skipped an entire section of the test. I was sitting there for 8 hours. I never finished the test.

I made a chrome extension for people to use that guides you through the review process I used to score a 180 last April. I’m working on getting it published in the Chrome store (it’s gonna be free this is not an ad) but I’d love to receive feedback — if you’d like the extension PM me and I’ll send you the zip you just have to load the extension unpacked in Chrome.

Feel free to throw the file in any LLM to check for anything sus before using it cause I know it’s scary to use stuff you’ve just been sent over the internet!

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My drilling accuracy has fallen tremendously after I took the test on Saturday. I haven’t taken a break and I’m over doing questions. I need to stop. I can’t focus…

Hello, I was hoping to get some advice or insight into going to law school as a second career.

My undergrad was in Marketing and I currently work in consulting (specifically fin tech consulting) and am 26 F so I've only been out of school for a few years. I really do not love the work I do and frankly took the job because I needed one. I was 18 when I chose my major and didn't have a good enough appreciation of what career would actually make me happy in the long run. I've always felt much more interested about pursing a career that can make a greater impact on others and would feel more meaningful in my day-to-day.

Law school (specifically a specialization in family law) caught my attention because of the opportunity to do just that. Some of my greatest strengths are my organization, attention to detail, love of reading/writing, and ability to think through information logically. I feel these, along with my passion to work in a field where I have an opportunity to make such a direct impact, are what has drawn me towards the possibility of law school. I would be curious to hear other's reasons for pursuing law (or even better, family law) as well as what traits you feel make a good potential lawyer.

I've begun doing my research on the process of taking the LSAT / applying to law school as a second career (aka not directly out of undergrad) and feel I have somewhat of a grasp on steps. But I would really appreciate any additional insight or advice you have given my background. I know this path would take a great deal of time, effort, and money. I am not married nor do I have children, but I do acknowledge that if I were to pursue this, I would be finishing up and actually getting started in the field in my early 30s. I have this gut feeling that this could be the right path for me, but it's feeling understandably daunting at this moment in time. So any advice or words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated :)

Looking for a study partner I’m registered to take the November lsat. I really need the help😭 I’m free anytime currently in PST time zone(California). I want to do a pt or section everyday then review it after, I switched from lsat demon to 7Sage but I still have the remaining month for demon. Msg me

This is a pretty lame question, and I’m not very surprised I got it wrong because all of the answer choices are pretty shit. I can accept that I got it wrong, but what strategy do I even take away from this question?

It seems to me like if you don’t know an archaic definition for the word “divert”, then you are absolutely screwed on this question with no hope of getting it right. There’s no textual evidence that a boring novel is inherently demanding either. Questions like this make me hate RC.

A lot of my students note that this helps them when they’re going through our website. Necessary assumption is not what proves the conclusion. That is a sufficient assumption, a different question type. A necessary assumption is the minimum the argument needs to survive. If it is false, the argument is dead, even if everything else in the stimulus is true.

Here is the process I teach.

1. Split the argument, then stare at the conclusion Find the evidence and the conclusion. Then look for the thing that pops up in the conclusion that was never in the evidence. Necessary assumption questions almost always do this. The conclusion introduces something new: a new term, a new claim, a new scope. That new thing is where the assumption lives, because the argument never connected it to anything.

2.Predict the minimum bridge.
The correct answer connects the evidence to that new thing in the conclusion, and does it with the least possible claim. Before reading the choices, say the bridge out loud in plain words. Not what would settle the argument. The least it needs.

3. Check the strength of every answer.
Necessary answers are quiet. If a choice says more than the bridge needs, with words like all, only, always, or most, it is selling you a sufficient assumption in the wrong question. Cross it out.

Example (not a real question)

"A study found that employees who took a short walk after lunch reported higher afternoon productivity than those who did not. So our company should encourage employees to walk after lunch if we want to raise productivity."

Which one is a necessary assumption?

A) All employees who walk after lunch will become more productive.
B) The employees' reports of their own productivity in the study were accurate.
C) Walking after lunch is the most effective way to raise productivity.
D) Some employees in the study disliked walking.
E) Afternoon productivity is the company's main concern.

Find the new thing. The evidence is about productivity employees *reported*. The conclusion is about raising *actual* productivity. Reported productivity shows up in the evidence. Real productivity appears for the first time in the conclusion, and the argument never connects the two.

The bridge has to connect them, and B is exactly that bridge and nothing more: the reports were accurate, so reported productivity is real productivity.

A fails on strength. "All" claims far more than the bridge needs. C is wrong for the exact same reason. D is trivia the argument never touches. E sounds managerial and means nothing; the argument works even if productivity is the company's second concern.

Find the new thing. Everything else will fall into place :)

Does anyone have tips on how to break out of averaging -6 on LR sections? I have completed 7Sage's foundational, LR, and RC courses and I improved greatly from them (used to average -12). Been studying for about two and a half months.

According to 7Sage, my main priorities should be

• For question stems: flaw/descriptive weakening, RRE,
• For stimuli: pheno-hypo, conditional reasoning, causal reasoning, link assumption

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks!!

Erm. LR question about two different bird species and their calls? Can’t remember the rest really - but did anyone else have this? I think this section was experimental but not sure.

I'm currently doing running start and I'm on my way to graduate with my associates, but I honestly don't know what to do after high school, it feels so unreal to me. Obviously id go farther and get my bachelors 2 years after graduating but my main problem is Law school, should I take a gap year before Law school? I was thinking about it but the thought of taking the Lsat during a gap year I don't know if I could do that, but I also don't really know how anything works I feel like ill be a confused student all my life. please give advice lol.

Ok so I have been getting -6/-5 on timed sections for LR, but -1/-0 on blind review. I’m scheduled to take november. For RC I get -4 on blind review. I especially got these scores on PT 145, which I’ve heard is hard(?). Please help, I feel like I don’t know what to do anymore. Does this mean I’m capable of -1 for November? Any advice is appreciated.

I think I am losing my mind? so basically I have taken the lsat four times now, and each time I completely bombed it. So after my most recent slap in the face in January, I completely changed my studying methods. I was able to reach the 170s in my practice tests when my official test scores were in the mid 150s. Now, I am spiraling because I keep replaying all those times when I did not get the score I wanted it in my head, and it’s not registering to me that the work I put in the last 10 months might actually have done something. I feel really good about October, and there were less than eight questions I was unsure about, and even then, I am more likely right then not. But I still feel like I got every single question wrong, and that in two weeks, I’m going right back to square one :( has anyone experienced something similar? how did it turn out for you?

I’m writing the November 2026 LSAT for the first time and just got an email about PowerScore’s November LSAT Homestretch Course. It’s $99 and includes 4 live lessons, November-specific guidance, recent test trends, and a 2-week study plan.
Has anyone taken the Homestretch Course for a previous LSAT? Did you actually find it useful, especially this close to test day?
Would really appreciate honest feedback before I spend the money on it!

Hi everyone,

I really hope to take the LSAT next year. but, if i’m honest, I’ve been aiming to take the lsat for over 6yrs and never did. And really.. It’s because I have a terrible time studying the material and understanding anything. I’ve spent over 1k in books, have tried youtube, you name it.

I’ve learned along the way that the way I need to study isn’t at all the “standard”, or maybe common. And while my way of learning, finding someone that specializes in special education tutoring will cost me money I don’t have.

So, I’ve shamefully put off the LSAT for over six years of my life because of my crippling fear. I know that the LSAT offers accommodations. But I feel like it’s much more than the fear of failing. It’s starting the exam, and maybe if I did study for 6mo, everything goes out the window. I don’t know. I have ex-partners who even had no interest in law school or a legal career and changed their mind, took the LSAT “for fun” got in and are now an attorney. I have always felt this immense shame, guilt, and frustration with myself for not at the very least take the test EVEN if I fail.

I’ve taken practice exams (and even those were a lot to take) and the highest I scored was maybe 149?

Anyway I’m not here to keep selling you a sob story. I was hoping if anyone with intellectual or learning difficulties have any tips or tricks with studying? I really do want to take this exam.

It’s better to have tried than fail, to not have tried at all, they say.

I’m sorry for the vent, and thank you in advance.

Hi everyone! I’m taking the LSAT for the first time in November 2026 and was hoping for some advice.
I recently came across the LSAT Crystal Ball predictions, and I’m a little confused about how to actually use them. They list potential RC passage topics, but since the actual passages aren’t publicly available, what are we supposed to do with those predictions?

Are you supposed to research the predicted topics on your own so you’re familiar with the background and terminology if something similar appears on the test?
For anyone who has used the Crystal Ball before, I’d really appreciate any advice on how to make the best use of the predictions when preparing for LR & RC. Thank you!

Finally broke into the 170s after 4 months of practice from my June 159 LSAT. Just ignore the fact that I definitely did not lock in on the last section. My greatest practicing sin is speedrunning the last section. Here's hoping this progress sticks when I retake the actual thing in November. Definitely recommend 7 sage. The variety of PTs, sections, and drills helps a lot.

Has anyone who submitted a formal complaint for the Oct test heard back regarding a retake next week?

About to get started on it. Any advice before I start?

TL;DR

• I put together a record of every Reading Comp passage people have reported from real LSATs over the past few years (385 and counting) and a simple points rule (5 facts about each passage) for which ones could come back.
• Tested on past LSATs using only what I knew before each one, it beats a random pick by 3-4x. On October, the first test it hadn't seen, it put 3 real repeats in its top 12. Picking 12 at random would get 0.4 on average.
• It also misses a lot. Most of any list misses, mine included, and about half of October's reported passages matched nothing in the record.
• Evidence first, then the November list (12 top picks, all tied, plus 30 old experimental passages and 6 long shots). How it's built is in the first comment. If you only want the topics, skip to "The November list."

People here post about RC passages coming back all the time. I wanted to know if that's predictable.

Past-test history comes from Jon Denning and Dave Killoran's public recaps (u/jondenninglsat and /u/davekilloran) and r/LSAT, including topic threads compiled by /u/graeme_b. The rule and the calls are mine, so any mistakes are mine too.

The evidence

Tested on past LSATs, using only what I knew at the time

A rule that fits the past is easy to write. So I pretended it was the week before an old test and used only what was on record before that date. I built the list, then checked what actually came back.

The past tests above use a top 20. October and November use a top 12, since that's how many passages tie for the top score.

10 of 46 is 3 to 4 times random. Real, but modest. A simpler idea, picking from the newest tests first, caught 1.

With 300+ passages and 20 slots, most of the list misses every time. (For each test, the rule could only pick from passages already on record before it. That's 306 to 337 passages for these 3 tests, about 360 for October, and 385 in the whole record today.)

And the big caveat. I picked the age cutoffs (the month ranges in the points table, first comment) while looking at those same 3 tests, so that table flatters the rule. October was the first test the rule hadn't seen.

October 2026

11 October passages were, for sure, already in the record. The rule put 3 of them in its top 12:

Picking 12 at random from the 360 passages then on record would get 0.4 on average.

That's a single test, though.

October also exposed a blind spot. 7 of those 11 had only ever run as experimental before, and the rule scored them near zero (ranks 37 to 151).

So I tried giving experimental passages a bonus inside the rule, across all 4 tests. A 2-point bonus cut the hits in the top 12 by more than half, from about 11 to about 4. A 1-point bonus cost about a quarter of them, and the only gains showed up around rank 40, too deep to matter.

The bonus made the rule worse, so old experimental passages get their own group instead (tier 2 below).

The rates, with the counts under them

Across the last 4 tests together (June, August, September, October 2026), grouped by months since last seen:

How loosely to hold each one. The 1 in 8 rests on 6 cases. The 1 in 12 is an estimate from all 4 tests together, not a clean count. And 12 of 479 is why passages that have already counted more than once sit low.

Reasons not to trust it

• Of the passages that came back between April and September 2026, about 1 in 6 (10 of 56) weren't in anyone's notes beforehand that I could find.
• The holes aren't random. Paper-only test forms barely show up on Reddit, and the record gets thinner before mid-2024. Some older passages sit low for that reason alone.
• Small samples. 4 tests, 57 hits in the record. October is the only test so far that the rule hadn't already seen.
• I match topics, not passage IDs. A match means test takers described the same topic. Close calls are flagged below.
• "Came back" means it ran, not that it counted. In October, the same RC section was scored for some people and experimental for others. And my way of telling which section counted breaks down when 2 sections always ran together (more in the first comment).

The November list

Realistically, expect 2 to 3 from tier 1 and 2 to 4 from tier 2 to show up. Could be 0.

Tier 1: scored once, could come back (12, tied)

All 12 score 7 on my rule, the top score. The data can't rank them, so I won't pretend it can. Alternative archaeology and aliens is my top pick.

The group these come from returned about 1 in 5 times (24 of 116). Any single one is still more likely to stay away than to show up.

Tier 2: old experimental passages, never scored, last seen 13 to 18 months ago (all 30)

Science: Baby spiders that balloon (match uncertain) · Floodplains and flood control · Rising Star cave hominids · Biorobotics vs computer models · Animal size and lifespan · Autumn leaf color · Antibiotic incentives · Automatic behavior in animals and people

Social science: India's influence on Southeast Asia · Maya decline and Aztec water control · Middle Eastern buildings and climate · Counterfactual history (what if the Nazis had won) · Replication in psychology · Developing nations and capitalism · Egocentrism · How kids tell what things are from how they look · Road noise vs safety · Natural human rights (comparative)

Law: Environmental law meets business law · Statistics and eyewitnesses in court · Eyewitness lineups · Double jeopardy's history · Legitimate state authority · Artist resale royalties (match uncertain)

Humanities: Elizabeth Catlett · Hysterical realism in novels · Francis Bacon, romantic outlaw · Disability in horror · Guatemala's El Presidente in art · The Turing test and AI's goals

October's blind spot is why this tier exists, and it's the weakest evidence on the page. About 1 in 8, resting on 6 cases. Don't count on any single one.

Tier 3: long shots (6)

Same profile as tier 1, just older. Past 18 months the rate drops to about 1 in 12.

3 of them show the pattern well:

• Scott Joplin. Experimental in November 2021. Gone for over 3 years. Counted for the first time in January 2025, but only on the paper version, so most people that month never saw it. It stays on my list because shopping malls, which ran in the same section that January, came back in September 2026 on a scored section for 2 test takers with no experimental section. So that January section is still in use.
• Kitchen remodeling after WW2. Experimental November 2022, counted September 2024, nothing reported since. 26 months by November.
• Juries with internet access. Experimental October 2022, counted November 2024, nothing since.

All 3 sat as experimental passages for around 2 years (some longer), counted once, and went quiet. Alternative archaeology and aliens took that same path before it counted in October 2025.

If you recognize a passage on test day

Treat that section as scored and read the passage fresh, like it's new.

LR questions come back too, and there's still no LR list

My record so far has 1,693 LR reports (684 from recaps, 1,009 from Reddit). About 45 questions clearly ran on 2 different tests. A few that counted both times:

The gaps between the first run and the second cluster in 2 ranges, 2 to 7 months and 15 to 19 months. LR comes back sooner than RC does.

I built an LR list with the same logic (scored once, 9 to 18 months back, no later run, named by 2+ reporters) and tested it on past LSATs the same way:

It lost to random both times. The record has 1,300 to 1,400 LR questions to pick from, and nothing I tried picks out which ones return.

So I'm not putting out an LR list. LR is 2 of your 3 scored sections, so put your time into drilling it.

One ask

November is the next test of the rule and I'll update my record based on reports here on r/LSAT.

And if you think the rule's wrong, let me know. I'd rather find out now than in November.

Sources: past-test history is from public recaps by /u/jondenninglsat, /u/davekilloran, and r/LSAT, including topic threads compiled by /u/graeme_b, plus comments on my videos and my students. The rule and the calls, along with any errors, are mine.