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- Thu Dec 17, 2020 11:40 pm
#82517
Hello,
First of all, Dave if you are reading this, thank you so much for all you have done for me and anyone else trying to succeed at the LSAT. The LSAT bibles have been invaluable.
Now to the point. When I first started prepping for the LSAT, I took a practice test, and scored a 160. I then proceeded, over the course of about four months, to take over half a dozen LSAT tests, while studying. My test scores sank fast and hard, I found myself scoring low 150's. Still, I took the August test, and I scored a 155. I continued to study and practice, and halfway between the August and November test, something clicked for me in logic games, and I became able to finish those sections and missing only 3-4 questions, my LR scores also improved, I went from missing 50% of those questions to around 30%. My RC stayed about the same throughout, where I miss about 4-6 per section. On the November test, I hit it out of the park. I scored a 162, my highest ever, including practice tests. That number, I feel, is just on the precipice of being a really good score, but is still pedestrian. I have an itch to take it again, I felt I could have done SLIGHTLY better on the logic games section, but I feel I have hit my ceilings on LR and my lack of consistency in RC has me worried. But all in all, I think if I got the right combination of difficulty with each section, I could break a 162 and maybe...MAYBE, get up to a 165.
All that being said, 162 is the 75th percentile score or one point above it at several law schools, and just below the 50th percentile at several others I am seriously considering, but I am EXTREMELY debt adverse and want to maximize my scholarship opportunity. I do have a GPA higher than 3.9 at the moment, but I am not sure how much that can help me, and I am still a junior, so it could fall before I apply during next fall 2021. I am also very active in student orgs on campus, but again, I don't know if that is something law schools care about when awarding scholarships.
Should I do one last dance with this awful exam in February and try to squeeze two or three more points out of it or let my GPA, present score, and personal accomplishment's speak for itself?
First of all, Dave if you are reading this, thank you so much for all you have done for me and anyone else trying to succeed at the LSAT. The LSAT bibles have been invaluable.
Now to the point. When I first started prepping for the LSAT, I took a practice test, and scored a 160. I then proceeded, over the course of about four months, to take over half a dozen LSAT tests, while studying. My test scores sank fast and hard, I found myself scoring low 150's. Still, I took the August test, and I scored a 155. I continued to study and practice, and halfway between the August and November test, something clicked for me in logic games, and I became able to finish those sections and missing only 3-4 questions, my LR scores also improved, I went from missing 50% of those questions to around 30%. My RC stayed about the same throughout, where I miss about 4-6 per section. On the November test, I hit it out of the park. I scored a 162, my highest ever, including practice tests. That number, I feel, is just on the precipice of being a really good score, but is still pedestrian. I have an itch to take it again, I felt I could have done SLIGHTLY better on the logic games section, but I feel I have hit my ceilings on LR and my lack of consistency in RC has me worried. But all in all, I think if I got the right combination of difficulty with each section, I could break a 162 and maybe...MAYBE, get up to a 165.
All that being said, 162 is the 75th percentile score or one point above it at several law schools, and just below the 50th percentile at several others I am seriously considering, but I am EXTREMELY debt adverse and want to maximize my scholarship opportunity. I do have a GPA higher than 3.9 at the moment, but I am not sure how much that can help me, and I am still a junior, so it could fall before I apply during next fall 2021. I am also very active in student orgs on campus, but again, I don't know if that is something law schools care about when awarding scholarships.
Should I do one last dance with this awful exam in February and try to squeeze two or three more points out of it or let my GPA, present score, and personal accomplishment's speak for itself?
