URM 3.9 but 156 Forum

[Thomas Hagan, ESQ.]

With regards to your PT Scores, take a break for a while (a few weeks or even months) and then start again. Reaching a plateau is a thing, and your brain needs some time to rewire itself to become great at this test. I started at around 155 and couldnt get higher than 165-167, then let it go for a few months and resumed. Plateaud and rested again before scoring 174 on the real thing. So don't sweat it, if you really want a high score it's doable. Just take your time.

Just got waitlisted from UCLA and no word yet from UT Austin (I'm assuming my softs haven't gotten me denied yet).

I think I'm going to try again (mostly out of sheer frustration at making the LSAT a part-time job when it turns out I could have done something else and gotten my first diagnostic test score). Maybe the June 2017 LSAT will work out better.

Honestly think a 165 LSAT would be enough to get me into t-20 but I'm obviously not an admissions expert.

165 could make you competitive for even YHS haha good luck!

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[renc56]

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[cgra1916]

With regards to your PT Scores, take a break for a while (a few weeks or even months) and then start again. Reaching a plateau is a thing, and your brain needs some time to rewire itself to become great at this test. I started at around 155 and couldnt get higher than 165-167, then let it go for a few months and resumed. Plateaud and rested again before scoring 174 on the real thing. So don't sweat it, if you really want a high score it's doable. Just take your time.

Do you mind me asking how long you had been studying? I've been studying for over a year, and I've been pushing the test back way too many times. I think a huge part of it is cause of work (full-time teacher) and just not studying right. My highest score has been a 151, and I'm blind reviewing at 157-160, however after finally breaking through the 150's, my next PT was an abysmal 140 :/ I'm thinking about taking next week off, then get back to it until September, but I'm dead set on applying for Fall 2018, so I am definitely taking September.

Do you think taking next week off, with possible light reviewing, would be ok?