Retake with a 170? Forum

[betterLawyerUP]

Hey gamer how much time did you give yourself for december? I didnt study while waiting and I feel like less than a month is not enough time to get back into the lsat groove. I honestly felt prepared for december but now it feels like the lsat language is not second nature as it was before, but I'm hoping that rust will wear off.

I didn't study while waiting either. I started again with some drilling after a few days of wavering with whether or not I would retake. Then I went back to taking and BR'ing 2 PTs a week and taking timed sections between them for the next 5ish weeks until test day.

If it's any consolation, the first PT I took when I started studying again was like a 164 or something when I had been testing between 170 and 173 for the most part for Oct.

Thanks man I am going to give a shot. I got buried pretty hard and its not like I could do worse. Back to the grind I guess, I can't even read a stim atm I am so disgusted lol

[appind]

it all depends on whether you are in the zone that day. Hehe.

[gamerish]

it all depends on whether you are in the zone that day. Hehe.

It's just an anecdote, but I was quite sick while taking Dec, thought I did horribly and came very close to cancelling. So how you're feeling going into the test doesn't necessarily mean your fate is decided. In my case, I think knowing that I was off my game made me focus and pay that much more attention during the test to offset how shit I felt.

This obviously isn't going to be the case for everyone but I do think it's important to not psyche yourself out.

[Duggiiee]

I'm in a similar boat. 170, 3.6 GPA currently have an app out to a bunch of schools. But not planning to attend until 2017 (applied early to get in a recommendation from a professor that I'm not in constant contact with).

Worth it to try and retake the LSAT for a few more points until 2017? More scholly, or a chance at better schools?

[spammingrobot]

I retook a 172 (from the June '15 test) and got a 176 (in October). I think a retake is generally worth it if you've been getting PT scores several points higher than your actual score, on average. In my case, although I studied by redoing old PTs, I found that to be really helpful - if there were questions that I was getting wrong both times, I made sure to spend a lot of time understanding why I was getting them wrong.