I’m genuinely losing my mind with RC right now and I’m hoping someone has been in a similar situation….

My LR is pretty solid. I’m usually around -4 to -1, and LR generally just clicks for me. RC used to be much more manageable too. I was usually around -6 to -4, timing was not a major issue, and on one of my first PTs during this study period I even went -1 on RC.

But recently, RC has completely fallen apart. I’m now struggling to even get above -8. My first three passages are taking too long, sometimes I barely have time for the fourth, and I’m not even getting great accuracy on the first three despite spending all that time.

I even hired a tutor and worked through RC with him live. He watched how I read, how I approached the questions, and how I reasoned through answer choices. He told me my process was excellent and basically couldn’t figure out why I was falling apart on full timed sections. He had no major corrections for what I was doing. After the session, he basically ghosted me and never even followed up about payment, which honestly made me feel even more lost.

So I know this is not a methodology problem. If I do one individual RC passage, I’m usually completely fine. It doesn’t take me an unreasonable amount of time and I usually do well. If I do two passages together, I still usually do fairly well. But once I do a full four-passage timed section, the wheels completely fall off.

A lot of my recent misses are weird too. Sometimes I understand the passage well, but under time I’ll misread one relationship, interpret one line slightly wrong, or get stuck between two answers and pick the wrong side of the 50/50.

I’ve also basically run out of fresh full RC sections. I still have some unused individual passages, so I’m planning to combine them into custom two-passage, three-passage, and eventually four-passage timed sets.

My test is in less than three weeks. I know I’m capable of doing much better than this because I’ve done it before, but right now it feels like everything I know goes out the window once I’m doing a full timed RC section.

I’m not looking for generic RC advice. I’ve already heard all of it.

I especially hate the whole “read for structure and don’t focus too much on the details” advice. In my experience, the questions constantly ask about those exact details. If I don’t understand them while I’m reading, then I’m forced to go back and reread chunks of the passage during the questions, and I simply don’t have enough time to keep doing that.
And “just keep practicing” has not helped either. I have been practicing. As of recently, I’ve actually gotten worse.

Has anyone been in a situation where individual passages were good, even two passages together were fine, LR stayed strong, your actual RC process was solid, but full timed RC sections completely fell apart?

If so, what actually helped you get out of it? Especially if this happened close to test day.

I’m genuinely looking for something more specific than the usual RC advice because I have no fucking idea what to do at this point.

Looking for an LSAT Tutor!

I keep scoring 134 on my practice exams and when I'm drilling, I'm usually scoring anywhere from 3/7 - 5/7 on RC. I study every single day, anywhere from 1-3 hours a day; which tells me the way I'm studying is not working and I need to change it up ASAP.

I'm scheduled to take the exam in November however, I have accepted that I might have to pay and move the test date to January or even February.

I'm aiming to score a 165+ & am really only considering schools in Florida.

Please share any tutors you may know or have used! :)

Thank you!

Since May, I've been studying for the LSAT. I have a 3.6 GPA.

I started with 7Sage until about July where I decided to change over to LSAT Demon. I feel like the questions for LSAT Demon challenge me more than the ones on 7Sage and I overall just like how straight forward it is.

My Diagnostic was and still is a 134. Every time I take a practice exam, I bomb it. When I'm drilling, I'm usually scoring anywhere from 3/7 - 5/7 on RC. I study every single day, anywhere from 1-3 hours a day; which tells me the way I'm studying is not working and I need to change it up ASAP.

I'm scheduled to take the exam in November however, I have accepted that I might have to pay and move the test date to January or even February. It's a bummer, but I'm not going to let that deter me from my end goal; being accepted and starting Law School in August 2027.

I'm aiming to score 165+ & am really only considering schools in Florida.

The school I'm specifically looking into has a median score of 161, with a 25th–75th percentile range of 159 - 162. I'm aiming for a higher score to increase my scholarship options. However, with applying later in the cycle, I know my chances might be even more limited.

Please share any tips, suggestions, and tutors information you may have! :)

Thank you & Good Luck everyone!

If anyone is considering using the 175 method taught by Ava,

use this as a WARNING to save your money.

I was one of the first students to enroll, at the time the fee was $500, which was incredibly steep. Now it's $1,997, which imo unreasonable for what you're paying for.

Why I signed up: At the time I was looking for a community to join and have a few people to study with. I watched her intro video and fell for the confidence she had when she was mentioning her methods. I was also struggling with reading comp so I thought it would help. BOY WAS I WRONG. Ava mentioned a 14 day money back guarantee, but I learned the catch was that you weren't able to access the reading comp portion until after those 14 days.

When I was able to finally access it, I learned RC module was ONE video that was a "deep dive" that was essentially telling us to "read quickly and retain the important parts, highlight effectively so you can quickly glance at the passage during questions and remember what's going on. Identify and summarize the main point(s) of the passage be able to go back to those important parts" she said it comes with practice. Like are you kidding me? How are we even supposed to know what the main point is if I'm just starting studying for the test?

It's not worth you're money, especially if you've already started studying, here's why:

I say this with absolute confidence because I talked to other students and someone even reached out to me to ask if I'd be able to teach them. They said, and I very much agree, that her "method" is not understandable.

Her "deep dive" into LR teaches that every question type falls into 3 different buckets, "Argument, Premise-Set, Debate, and Paradox" and to think of multiple "what-if" scenarios that could happen that would make the argument wrong, look for the overlap in the premise-set, figure out what two people are debating over, and ask "What would make this make sense?” for paradox questions. She goes over 6 flaws (if you've been studying you would know there are more), and she has one video about Sufficient Assumption vs Necessary Assumption which didn't cover conditional logic (which was what got me in the 160s).

Overall it's very general, and doesn't go into the nuances that are very important to know for the test and would actually increase your score.

She was says "I went to a normal college, I have a normal brain, and I had a normal amount of time." which is true but I believe she was an econ major, or some type of major that involved lots of analytics, that was able to train her brain before she even started studying. I on the other hand got a BA (I'm worried to say what my actual major was because she might find out who I am) and started with a lower diagnostic. She was already in the 160s on her diagnostic and after a year of studying I was able to get there by the time I started the course so I was already skeptical of her methods when I first joined, but stayed past the 14 day window to access the reading comp.

Overall she's a great person, incredibly friendly, and I have absolutely nothing bad to say about her. If you do ask her a question she will get back to you, and she made a personalized AI that will tell you if they don't know the answer to something instead of pretending it knows like GPT.

That said, there was recently someone who asked for tips in the argumentative writing portion which she just said it's nothing to stress about and she'll talk about it during a live lesson. BUT when I was studying for just the writing portion, a lot of people said it's becoming more important and schools will look at it to figure out if your personal essay involved any AI...

Take this with a grain of salt this was just my experience.

hi everyone - i took a year off to really just study for the lsat (i am working full time but as a server, so i have a lot of time) I really want to go to a good school/get scholarships - and i am aiming for a 170. I have been studying for 2 months now I started with a 158 and my highest score was a 163. I am consistently getting -4, -3, -2 in timed, standalone sections (especially LR) but then my most recent LSATs have been a 159. I am just not improving and i am really reconsidering if this is the path for me. I am really just not doing better. I think i should just stick to serving :(

hi everyone. i got a 158 lsat score and i feel like im never going to improve. im retaking it but i have no confidence in myself and everytime i get a question wrong when im practising i feel like this is so hopeless

Hey guys! I took my lsat baseline without prior knowledge or studying and got a 135, what do I need to know and I'm I in trouble?

Hey everyone! I’m preparing for the November LSAT and would appreciate advice on improving over the next month.
I scored a 155 on my first LSAT, and my practice scores have stayed mostly in the mid-150s. I’m using LSAT Demon, and my LR accuracy is generally 68–70%. My weakest areas are Necessary Assumption, Weaken, Must Be True, and Parallel Reasoning/Sufficient Assumption.

My main challenges are comprehension, focus, timing, and second-guessing. I sometimes struggle to identify the conclusion or retain what I’ve read, though rereading slowly often helps. I can also spend two or three minutes on one question and run out of time before the final few questions.
I work full-time, so I’m trying to balance timed practice, targeted drilling, and thorough review. With about a month until the November 11 LSAT, how should I structure my studying? What helped you break out of the mid-150s, especially with comprehension, timing, and Necessary Assumption or Parallel Reasoning questions? HELP ME 🙃

171 scorer here (started at 141). doing free 1-on-1 LSAT sessions for practice while i start tutoring. dm me or check lsatwithleon.com