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I just want to know peoples opinion on this and what schools think about it. Lets say you register but you get side tracked when it comes to studying last minute and it throws you off abit. Is it better to just sit it out or do the Test and just cancel score after? I am just curious what people think about this.

You almost never want to cancel the score since it wastes a take and often the only score that really matters is your highest. I mean if you fell asleep for a section which wasn't the experimental I'd cancel, but anything short of something extreme I don't really recommend it.

KMart wrote:You almost never want to cancel the score since it wastes a take and often the only score that really matters is your highest. I mean if you fell asleep for a section which wasn't the experimental I'd cancel, but anything short of something extreme I don't really recommend it.

Wait if you take it and cancel it counts as a take? I thought it was just a straight cancel

pacha_mas wrote:

KMart wrote:You almost never want to cancel the score since it wastes a take and often the only score that really matters is your highest. I mean if you fell asleep for a section which wasn't the experimental I'd cancel, but anything short of something extreme I don't really recommend it.

Wait if you take it and cancel it counts as a take? I thought it was just a straight cancel

If you cancel your score, it will be notated on your LSAT report, and it will count as a take.

If you decide not to take the test at all, then it will not count as a take.

HYPSM wrote:

pacha_mas wrote:

KMart wrote:You almost never want to cancel the score since it wastes a take and often the only score that really matters is your highest. I mean if you fell asleep for a section which wasn't the experimental I'd cancel, but anything short of something extreme I don't really recommend it.

Wait if you take it and cancel it counts as a take? I thought it was just a straight cancel

If you cancel your score, it will be notated on your LSAT report, and it will count as a take.

If you decide not to take the test at all, then it will not count as a take.

Yes. It's probably too late to withdraw and get a refund, but you can always not show up and it will not count as a take.

I don't think that's true. You can withdraw until midnight EST the night before and it will not count as a take, but if you don't show up I'm pretty sure it does use up one of your attempts. If you show up and take the test and then cancel, it definitely counts as an attempt.

If you show up, take, cancel, that's a take. If you withdraw up to the night before, that's not a take. I'm honestly unsure about not showing up without notifying them.

Only time I'd consider cancelling to be a good idea is if it's gone catastrophically wrong - you had two LG sections, one of them you simply didn't get the games, one of them a pneumatric drill started in the road outside, so neither one did you answer more than half the questions. There, you know you're holed below the waterline. Anything else, you're not normally in a good headspace to make judgements on how you did right afterwards.

Pretty sure not showing up on test day without withdrawing beforehand will earn you an "A=Absent/Delay", which counts as a take.

not showing up doesn't count as a take. It'll show up to adcoms when you apply, though.

You can address it via an addendum but, idk what you'll say if you just panicked

https://blueprintlsat.com/lsatblog/lsat ... n-absence/

To go off of this, do scores mind one cancellation? 8 took the LSAT the first time, got my score, and it's a score I'm happy to apply with. Wanted to see if I could get a couple more points, so I retook it--I'm 99% sure I did worse since I had such a bad cough I had to leave the room for a bit...will schools look negatively on me cancelling the second score?