Untimed diagnostic test... question Forum

[eigengrau]

I'm a senior in college and recently decided I might want to go to law school. I took one of the official LSAC PrepTests yesterday and scored 176, but I didn't time myself and probably took an hour longer than the actual test permits. I'm wondering if people find timing to be a very limiting factor for their success on the LSAT and if it's reasonable to expect I'll be able to shave off that hour and keep scoring in this range. I don't plan on taking the LSAT for at least a year, if I decide to go to law school, so hopefully I have enough time to make that happen. When should I begin taking timed practice tests?

Thanks for answering my naive questions. I am totally new but I did like the challenge of taking the LSAT so that's a good sign.

[MrBalloons]

I'm a senior in college and recently decided I might want to go to law school. I took one of the official LSAC PrepTests yesterday and scored 176, but I didn't time myself and probably took an hour longer than the actual test permits. I'm wondering if people find timing to be a very limiting factor for their success on the LSAT and if it's reasonable to expect I'll be able to shave off that hour and keep scoring in this range. I don't plan on taking the LSAT for at least a year, if I decide to go to law school, so hopefully I have enough time to make that happen. When should I begin taking timed practice tests?

Thanks for answering my naive questions. I am totally new but I did like the challenge of taking the LSAT so that's a good sign.

I'm sure it's pretty unrepresentative of how you'd actually perform on the test, but an untimed diagnostic score of 176 is still really impressive regardless.

If I were you, I'd take a timed diagnostic test next, decide when you want to apply to school, and then hop on a study schedule with occasional timed PTs and lots of drilling that matches the length of you'll have to study before taking the test.