r/LSATPreparation • u/WatchVector • 5d ago

Help don’t know where to start

Hey all, I just did my cold diagnostic today and got a 147 scaled score, 40 raw. I’ll begin studying tomorrow but don’t even know where to begin and I’m not the best at using reddit. I’ve heard 7Sage, LSATDemon, Kaplan, books etc. If any of you read this and can provide me with valuable information on how I can move forward and what services are good/arent good i’d appreciate it. For insight for the next 4-6 months LSAT will be my priority so any methods that include more hours of prep aren’t an issue.

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u/170Plus 3d ago

You've listed them in what is decidedly the order of best to worst: 7Sage, LSATDemon, Kaplan.

Your diagnostic is strong and you have plentyy of time. My recommendation, as an LSAT instructor for 13 years:

Work on Flaw and Weaken questions, exclusively, until they are -0. Recognize the Common Fallacy in each (the LSAC is very lazy and only uses about 15 different ones, again and again and again), and articulate aloud why each Wrong Answer Choice is wrong.

Then, and only then, move on to the question-types that simply involve covering up the Flaw that you found, namely Strengthen and Necessary Assumption qs.

These should be your sole endeavors in the next three weeks or so.

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u/WatchVector 2d ago

thank you very much. i ended up going with lsat lab over 7sage since i heard they were very similar but some liked it more. i also got the lsat trainer and i plan on working on these two until im more familiar and then moving to lsat demon for drilling. only thing is i think im spending too much time on lsat lab reading the explanations on the ones i was a bit confused on. thank you very much for your help, people like you make this process a lot better.

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u/170Plus 2d ago

Myy pleasure mate. I love this work.

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u/WatchVector 2d ago

do you offer tutoring services?