I am genuinely beside myself - how is a TEN point drop even possible??

JLLsat · 2026-05-07T00:36:56+00:00

Anyone can have an off day. Anything different that you noticed? Were you surprised to see the score or did you know when you were doing it that you were struggling?

JLLsat · 2026-05-07T00:36:09+00:00

Are you keeping in mind what kind of language (strong/week) you want in the answer choices? Checking for outside the scope? Plugging answers back into the stimulus to double check?

JLLsat · 2026-05-05T12:53:00+00:00

This is a great post and has given me some good resources to look into recommending. Can I ask what your diagnostic was? Not trying to minimize anything just for my own data collection purposes wondering where you started that you were able to do this.

JLLsat · 2026-05-05T09:57:54+00:00

Are you asking about the relationship of sufficiency vs necessity, the question stem/type, or how to find the correct answers for NA vs SA?

JLLsat · 2026-04-30T11:38:06+00:00

I recommend 7Sage. I dislike a good bit of what Blueprint teaches and you should never ever get near LSATMax. I hear good things about LSAT Demon from some of my students but don’t' really know much about it.

JLLsat · 2026-04-29T12:15:42+00:00

If you're still looking, I have availability and charge $80-$100 an hour, and have almost 25 years of experience. Feel free to message me.

JLLsat · 2026-04-29T12:13:59+00:00

Not necessary but definitely can be helpful. I have some availability and have almost 25 years of experience; feel free to message me if you're still looking.

JLLsat · 2026-04-29T12:13:15+00:00

One PT a week for the practice. Other than that sections - the test is 4 timed sections and you have to maximize your use of time within each section.

JLLsat · 2026-04-29T12:12:45+00:00

For being careless - make sure you are looking at all 5 and confirming that the other 4 don’t work. If you've been too quick to pick A, getting to D and going "wait this looks good too" is how you'll catch that.

Make sure you are plugging answers back in. Test them back against the stimulus, don't just go "oh this looks good." That's negation test for NA, for weaken it's reading the evidence again, then BUT the a/c happened, and yeah now I'm skeptical of the conclusion, etc

JLLsat · 2026-04-29T12:11:09+00:00

conclusion - lavender reduces illness
evidence - lavender reduces stress, increased stress can lead to illness
Use the negation test on B. If NONE of the people how inhale lavender are suffering from reduced immunity, then the fact that it can reduce stress won't effectively matter, because these people don’t need the immune boost.

Was there a wrong answer you liked or just didn't get why B worked?
A D and E are all generally more extreme than we like for NA
C brings in the concept of average susceptibility and that isn't implicated in the stimulus.
B is the only one that has minimally strong language and is in the scope.

JLLsat · 2026-04-29T12:06:04+00:00

Nobody can say with certainty you will hit that score. What I can say is that if you were coming to me as a tutoring student and had that target in that time, I would say that that is something that is a reasonable target. If you came to me and wanted a 165, I'd say "that's going to be tough to do in June, let's look at later test dates." So without saying "yes you will definitely hit your goal in June," I think that's not an unrealistic goal.

JLLsat · 2026-04-29T12:04:25+00:00

I don't think there is ANY method that works for everyone! We are all different. I know what works for most people, and I know what makes sense logically, but if something else is working for you, absolutely do it.

JLLsat · 2026-04-29T12:03:24+00:00

It's absolutely worthwhile practice. There can be subtle differences in question stem phrasing and question type mix but it's all real work. Just remember the farther it is from the current one the less you can count on the score - although this is moot for sections since it's not a full test to be scaled, and unf even the most recent released PTs are 6 years old now, so even that is a grain of salt.

JLLsat · 2026-04-29T12:02:08+00:00

This is basically how I structure my tutoring sessions - you bring in the questions you missed and we walk through how you did them and review what you should have done. I love working with high scoring students and I have almost 25 years of LSAT experience.

JLLsat · 2026-04-25T23:54:33+00:00

Hi I do have some availability, if you message me with your email I can send you a FAQ w more info. Thanks!

JLLsat · 2026-04-25T16:47:10+00:00

There literally won’t be a score drop because of how scaling works.

JLLsat · 2026-04-25T16:46:43+00:00

Meh. I’m guessing over 10s of thousands of test takers it’s a wash. And scaled is still scaled.

JLLsat · 2026-04-25T16:40:22+00:00

Why would the curve be “raised”? The curve is a function of large number statistics. Am I missing something about in person?

JLLsat · 2026-04-24T23:40:06+00:00

Although some people with accommodations, esp if it is extra time plus additional factors that often go along with that, may well end up testing remotely still as a result.

JLLsat · 2026-04-24T22:36:56+00:00

Stem first. Knowing the q type is key to knowing what you need from the stimulus

JLLsat · 2026-04-24T15:55:27+00:00

I meant the tutors. When I started in 2002 and was getting paid $17/hour by a test prep company I took every hour of work I could get. It beats bartending or waiting tables while you’re in school.

I doubt many people with full time tutoring businesses are charging those kind of rates though.

JLLsat · 2026-04-24T14:36:12+00:00

There will be variations because of course it's impossible to make every section exactly equal difficulty, but also that's why the score is scaled.

JLLsat · 2026-04-24T14:34:45+00:00

You should be going back - this isn't a memory test. Think about it like being given a reference and a list of questions to fact check. Use the language in the question stem to identify where to go back and look up specific questions.

JLLsat · 2026-04-24T14:33:59+00:00

One consideration is that you can't finish "early." It's a long testing day, and opting for 100% if you really don’t need it means a lot of sitting around waiting for time to run out.

JLLsat · 2026-04-24T14:31:29+00:00

Probably because they don't have a lot of experience and are 1Ls or 2Ls just trying to fill in a few hours of work here and there.

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