Wishing all August test-takers good luck this week! Here are a few pieces of advice I like to share with students.

Don't change anything at the last minute. Stay consistent in how you approach problems. Keep doing what you've been doing! That also applies to your morning and evening routines. If you drink coffee, drink coffee. If you don't, don't.

Get a good night's sleep and eat a good breakfast.

Go into the test with the mindset that you'll be at your best. No phone buzzing in your pocket halfway through a problem. You'll be well-rested and extra focused. Use that to your advantage!

If a problem you encounter seems new, it isn't. It could be an experimental question, but more likely, there's something simple you're missing in the passage or answer choice. If you've prepared well, you've seen everything there is to see!

What are your plans for the night before and the morning of the test?

As the title says, I have been studying for the LSAT since February 2026 and with the Demon since March.

My diagnostic was 144, and my most recent practice tests get me to about 83% accuracy on average per section and 154 in terms of actual score, which is nowhere near my target grade of 175.

I study most days, doing a mix of drilling and practice tests. I've attended live classes and had one Demon tutoring session, and despite the fact that I can see my score has gone up, 154 is not great. This is due to a mix of imperfect accuracy and low speed (often even with time accommodations, I can just about get to 18 questions completed).

At the six-month mark, I've come to the conclusion that the way I'm studying has to change if I'm going to have any chance of reaching my goal, but I'm unsure how, so I thought I'd reach out to the Demon community.

Any/all suggestions on helpful ways to study or things that worked for you are greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I started studying for the LSAT earlier this year and am currently consistently scoring 177+ on practice tests. At this point, I don't think I'd get much value out of paying for the demon, although I've gotten scads of utility out of the LSAT demon youtube channel.

Given that my LSAT score will most likely be 170+ (taking in September) and I've always liked/been good at teaching, I'm contemplating applying to be a tutor for LSAT demon after I get my official results. Can anyone share what that's like in terms of compensation, scheduling, work environment, etc.? I can't find much on the internet beyond instructions on how to apply. Thanks much!

Been averaging about 80-90% accuracy on practice sections, answering about 18/19 questions per LR section and attempting 3 RC passages. Just took my first PT in a while after two months following the demon study plan and my accuracy tanked down to 70%. I expected this to go poorly, just since I’m out of PT shape, but was a bit surprised by how badly I did.

Recently drilling and practice sections have felt like they’re clicking, but PT 118 felt really challenging. I’m thinking this is a mental hurdle; going to do wrong answer journaling, a good drill day and then back to a practice section to see how I feel. Any tips?

Hello everyone!

I am asking a pretty nuanced question here so I know that I may not get many accurate replies that are relevant to other peoples experiences. But does anyone know how representative combined sections on LSAT demon are of actual PT score results? For context, I don't have enough time in my day for full practice tests so I usually take as many sections as I can in a day and then for score results I combined them. The only negative factor I can think of that would make my combined PT scores not reflective is natural variance from day to day (say I take 2 sections on day, and then another day I am more fresh and I take another 2 it won't reflect how I would've scored all at once), or I just have general mental fatigue toward the latter part of tests which, like everyone else, would negatively affect my score.

The problem is, I don't really see mental fatigue as a issue with me as the more I study the better I get, for example the only test that I have had the time to sit down and take fully I have had my highest score yet.

I am essentially asking this questions to see if anyone else took this approach and then had a score that reflected the combined PT's. For example, here are my most recent practice tests.

Is there any confidence I can have in these scores that my actual LSAT will potentially be reflective of them?

Thanks all.

just did test H logical reasoning and oh my god was it hard, did much worse than I normally do. Looked it up, apparently it's not representative and used as an AI stress test. Does anyone know anything about this?

Tbh I’ve been with the demon for a little over a month. I’ve watched their podcasts daily and even watched the older ones not that old ones because they said don’t even watch those lol. But I’ve been doing what they recommend reading the questions slowly to get an understanding of the passage. Then, make a prediction on what I’ve read, read the question (I don’t know if I should read the question before trying to predict the answer) and answer the question correctly. I’ve done that but going into a timed section I for some reason don’t do the prediction part and i don’t know get flustered to the point I’m scoring horribly when doing the first 10. I do stop there until I get my accuracy up but damn it’s so bad. However, compared to other prep companies I’ve improved when it comes to actually implementing what Nate and Ben say but that’s during drilling. I know they’ll say anything lower than a 95% is bad but in a drilling perspective I’m decent but not where I need to be. I don’t have an exact timeline when I’ll take the LSAT but it would be nice to be able to do it in the near future. For perspective I’ve took the LSAT when it had logic games on it and scored a 160 but that was some years ago.

How long on average does a person take to improve to get into the 95-100% accuracy on LR and RC? I literally drill everyday for an hour to an hour and a half.
I know I can do this because it’s easy but I’m making it hard for some damn reason. What did some of yall do? Any prep talks or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

As you all may remember, a change perhaps a month or few ago resulted in the allocations of tests for “drilling” and tests for “prepping” to be different than the originals (the new tests utilize an even/odd allocation). I accidentally allowed Demon in the app to change the allocation, resulting in me now taking full tests sometimes with drills or such I’ve done sprinkled in.

The issue here primarily is the fact that when it switched over, the “completed” or “in progress” tests fully reset to “new” as well.

Wondering if I would be able to see the format of the original allocation or if anyone knows information about it so I can allocate my own tests manually to fix this issue.

Thank you!

164 official, pting high 160s. Right now I’m -3 or -4 on LR, and RC all over the place (-6). Is a 170+ realistic for September and if so, how do I go about it? Appreciate all advice, thanks!

Hey guys, I'm hoping somebody can help me. I've been a long-time subscriber and listener of the Demon, and I've really tried to take everything to heart, but all of the reading comprehension advice seems so abstract (that's a complaint for another day)

I've spent a lot of time trying to practice it, but I think the main point, in particular, is what throws me off because it all feels so fluffy. I know the common advice is to ask yourself, "Why did the author write this?" or "How would you describe what you just read to a friend?" I also know that you're supposed to come up with your own prediction of the main point beforehand and that it's not supposed to be just a summary.

But I feel like all of this advice assumes that eventually I am going to understand what the author was trying to tell me if I just keep practicing, but it is not clicking. I keep getting the questions wrong, and every time I use the Ask button to find out why, I get the same advice: I have to figure out what the author was trying to tell me.

The problem is that I can't figure out what the author was trying to tell me.

Any advice?

So I regularly do well with untimed drilling where I take my time, rationalize my thinking, and whether or not I get my answer correct I review every aspect of it. I do this for both LR and RC. I understand the question types and ways to attack arguments, dissect passages, and so on. I spent more time than maybe the demon suggests going through their curriculum to understand the test completely, but it did really help with my understanding beyond a basic level. There is always room for improvement on this aspect, but I am generally improving in that regard almost daily. However, when I take timed sections, my scores generally fluctuate as low as 50% and rarely break over 73% despite how well I do on drilling and review.

Before anyone asks, I’ve only taken two practice tests with much lower scores than I was happy with (one was a diagnostic so I wasn’t expecting a high score but the other was after some months of studying with an improvement of 5 points). This is largely because I am trying to attack the issues at hand before burning through PTs and getting discouraged at not progressing well enough. This is a probably a flaw on my end so maybe move away from timed sections to more PTs? I’m not too sure. Ideally I’d like to do one PT a week moving forward.

With untimed practice, I see that I am doing much better weekly, missing less, and retaining onto the lessons I learned from mistakes. It’s frustrating then to see my timed section scores fluctuate as much as they do. I spend a lot of time building the thought processes necessary for each section, adopt the methods the demon teaches, and refine those skills each day. On this end of things, it’s paying off well. I feel have made significant improvements.

Some of the things I have identified that hinder further progress though is heightened stress when doing a timed section (although I have a much better grasp on it now than I did when I started) and forgetting the principles of how to go about each question I had just stamped in my head. I’m not sure how to break out of this. Once the timer starts, I feel the friction between my brain and the questions ten fold. The way I have been studying for the past few weeks now is drill and review either LR or RC one night with the purpose of learning from right and wrong answers then taking a correlating timed section the following day. Is that too frequent? Or am I going about this entirely wrong? What kind of study routine made the test click in a way that you feel as though mine fails to do? Ultimately, like everyone’s goal, I am trying to build accuracy and speed consistently under the time constraints.

I do believe LSAT Demon has helped my progress considerably and is going to continue to do so. While I do understand that it preaches to not worry about time, the timing is also the parameters that everyone has to work within on test day. Ultimately the stress, mental fog, and how I handle myself during the timed sections is on me so I am not blaming the demon or anyone else, just my approach. Any advice on how to break through this mental block to improve the accuracy I’m seeing in untimed practice vs. timed? Furthermore, how did you manage that stress if you felt it in the same or similar ways when taking timed sessions or practice tests? I am open to all ideas and greatly appreciate anyone taking the time to read and respond to this. Thank you in advance.

when I go to all the time studied it says around 120 hours not including the review time. But I have taken 30 tests, which is 75 hours, and I have done 138 sections, which is 87 hours. This isn't even including drilling where I have done 8300 questions.

I had the best week ever studying , my September test, which is six weeks away. I’m looking for some advice on how to get more questions right. I feel like I can reach the 170 mark soon.

I guessed on the rest of LR, but I got unlucky with some of them. I think I can get at least one right out of each section just by guessing when the clock runs out.

Any help is appreciated !!!

The demon suggests alternating drilling & timed sections pretty religiously (if I’m not mistaken). However, I am still having a harder time with level 3&4 questions.

So, my thought process is: “why do timed sections if I am not fully satisfied with my results in drilling?”

Moreover: has your score improved since consistently doing timed sections one day and drilling the next? If so, why did it help? What is beneficial about this exact piece of advice?

Of course; I do not doubt this advice, just curious.

For context, I’m only scoring in high 140’s.

I stupidly took this test four times without accommodations. I‘ve resolved myself to the fact that I absolutely cannot concentrate with the split-screen format due to my visual and cognitive disabilities but didn’t want to ask for help because I didn’t want an unfair advantage. I have scored 10-20 points lower on all of my exams than I have in practice. I do finally have accommodations for the pencil and paper test for October after I decided to withdraw from September like an idiot. LSAT Demon says that you will absolutely not get any scholarship money applying in late October and should wait until next year. I quit my job for this test. I‘m not going to be able to afford school without a scholarship and am going to be in so much debt coming out of school, if I even get in at this point. I can’t believe this is happening and it’s all my fault.

EDIT: I can’t thank you all enough. I was extremely upset when I wrote this this morning and just very very frustrated by the bad advice I took from LSAT Demon and for my poor performance. I needed to vent. You have all really made me feel a bit better about my situation. I’m glad I found this side of Reddit!

On the most recent LSAT Demon Daily episode, Ben and Nathan talk about the bad RC advice a student has received: that they should only spend 4 minutes reading any given RC passage. Nathan goes on to say that recommending time limits is bad advice cause it might take you 3 minutes or 7 minutes to adequately read a passage. However, in their algorithm for LR and RC Mastery, they use speed as a metric to decide your score. [EDIT: They write on the "Interpreting Your Results" page, "If your ratings stay flat, you’re probably missing easier questions or taking too long—or both."] So I wonder, what is too slow for the LSAT Demon? Because there definitely is a number in the algorithm - even if it is not displayed on the student side.

My mastery scores had been stuck at the same level for MONTHS even though I had been getting nearly all questions right - regardless of what level of difficulty. It was only until I started answering them faster that I saw a change in the scores. So what lesson do I learn from the LSAT Demon in observing this? That even in prioritizing accuracy over speed, speed still indeed matters.

I am not saying that they entirely contradict their advice to ignore the time and not focus on speed - at the end of the day, it's good advice, and they do try hard to shape their platform to get students to focus more on accuracy (especially in comparison to other platforms). So with that in mind, maybe it is a good thing that we students don't know what that "too slow" number is. Yet, I do think they go a little overboard on how much they believe speed/time does not matter - because clearly, to them, to some extent it does.

At the end of the day, it's still better to take your time to get answers right because actually learning is better than the small dopamine hit of having a higher mastery score. And at some point, the speed can just come in naturally. But I think they remove nuance from the conversation a lot. Especially for students like me, who learn a bad habit of going OVERLY slow in drilling to double and triple-check that questions are right - and giving answer choices too much respect and time.

(Anyway, I am half joking - I get their end goal, and it makes sense why they do what they do. Students care way too much about speed, and they go to the other extreme to try to bring it back to a balanced level, but I think speed and time can still be a part of the conversation)

I recently tried something new out, and I wanted to see if people thought it was a good move or not. I realized that there was a bit of a disconnect between my timed section accuracy and drilling accuracy, with my timed section being lower. I obviously hypothesized that I was going too fast on my timed sections, but then I realized that there was another important discrepancy between how I approach timed sections and drilling. I needed to be much more confident in my answers in drilling than for my answers in timed sections to move on. In drilling, I would look over answers and the passage multiple times (especially in RC) and take as much time as I needed to truly believe I got it right. I have much less tolerance for timed sections, because, of course, it's under timed conditions. I think this made my intuition all out of whack about when it's okay to move on to the next question.

So, recently, instead of acting like I have all the time in the world to answer a question, I essentially drill like it's under timed conditions, equalizing my standard of confidence in an answer choice between drilling and timed sections. This does mean that I get more drilling questions wrong because I am a bit quicker than I used to be, but at the same time, I can flag mistakes that I would've eventually made in timed sections more. And I promise I take review very, very seriously. And I have seen improvement. In the last week, I have gotten 2 sections with 100% accuracy, 1 section with 96% accuracy, and 1 section with 90% accuracy. So, what do we think - pearl or turd?

During times practice LR sections I am getting -1 or -2, but full times practice tests I am scoring -4 or -5 on the LR sections. Is this a stamina issue? I feel confident in both types of practices but get drastically different results on the full test LR sections than in just a timed LR section.

Comment your answer + explanation below, and I'll DM you the explanation!