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Longtime 7Sage tutor Julia went from a 145 diagnostic to a 175 and a seat at Harvard Law, and she is not pretending it was easy. She joins Bailey to talk through the six-month plateau that nearly broke her, why she finally ditched solo studying, and how learning to be "a little delusional" changed everything. Plus, Bailey and Alex answer a listener wondering if August is too soon to crack the high 160s, and Ethan from admissions reacts to the most chaotic posts on r/lawschooladmissions, from anime personal statements to waitlists that feel suspiciously like situationships.

You're crushing the drills, then your score falls apart the second you hit a full LR section. Here's what nobody tells you about why that happens. Bailey and Henry break down what changes when the section gets real: you're no longer just answering a question type you were handed, you're spotting the type AND the kind of argument in front of you, all against the clock. They get into why running full sections every day might be slowing you down, how to drill with more intention, and how to start predicting what a right answer will do before you look at the choices. If your accuracy keeps dropping the moment you go full-length, this one's for you.

You just survived the June LSAT and now you want to be ready for September. So how long should you actually rest before diving back in? Bailey and Henry break down why a week off is the smart move, why taking too much time away can quietly set you back, and how to ease in without panic studying. Plus the one thing you should never do the moment your break ends, and why feeling a little rusty is totally normal. Keep up the motion.

You already review the questions you miss, so why isn't your score moving? Bailey and Henry break down what wrong answer journaling actually looks like, starting with the two questions you should ask every single time: what made the wrong answer look attractive, and what made you pass up the right one. You'll learn why writing it by hand beats doing it in your head, how to abstract each mistake into a rule you can use on the next question, and why picking just three things to focus on will get you further than trying to fix everything at once.

How many practice tests should you actually be taking before the LSAT, and how long should you live in PT mode? Bailey and Henry lay out the real sweet spot (hint: it's not a PT every other day), how many total PTs you need to hit your goal score, and the mindset shift that decides whether all that testing moves your number or just burns you out. Plus the one analogy from the 7Sage tutoring manual that reframes how you should think about every practice test you take.

You PT'd a 169 and want a 173. Is four points by August realistic? Henry and Bailey break down why the 160s to 170s jump feels like a magical barrier when it's really just a few more points. They cover how to tighten your weak spots without overhauling what works, setting one or two reachable goals per PT, and using your analytics to grab the points you keep leaving behind. Plus: should you sign up for August now or wait?

You started a wrong answer journal, but it isn't moving your score. Bailey and Henry break down where these usually go wrong: vague notes like "try harder," tracking the wrong things, and skipping the one column that actually matters. You'll hear two approaches you can steal, Bailey's question by question system and Henry's lesson based synthesis, plus why the heuristics you're clinging to (like never picking strong answers) keep tripping you up.

There's one thing test-takers do the night before the LSAT that quietly wrecks their score, and almost everyone is tempted to do it. Bailey and Henry break down the cramming trap, why it stresses you out more than it helps, and what to do instead to walk in sharp and confident. Plus the one light warm-up that actually works, a 24-hour confidence plan, and the great comfort-movie debate.

You were scoring in your target range, then a week out it suddenly drops seven to ten points. Blind review feels easy, but timed questions you "never miss" start slipping, and every miss makes it worse. Bailey and Henry explain why this late drop is almost never real regression, and what to actually do in the final days: ease off, run small untimed sets to rebuild confidence, and stop feeding the doubt loop. If you're spiraling the week before your test, start here.

A 7Sager's LR is solid at minus 2 to minus 5, but RC won't budge from minus 9 to minus 11. The culprit isn't comprehension or timing. It's a mindset: hunting for the "least wrong" answer instead of knowing what a right answer should look like. Bailey and Henry break down how to flip that approach, from going into the answer choices with a loose prediction, to building low resolution paragraph summaries as you read, to resisting the detailed answer that feels thorough but smuggles in unsupported claims. Plus why the right answer often sounds too simple to be right.

Working full time means some study days just aren't happening, and the guilt creeps in anyway. Bailey and Henry dig into where that guilt actually comes from, why a rest day every week is part of a healthy schedule rather than a setback, and how to trade quantity studying for quality. Plus a gut check: if skipping a day feels catastrophic, the real problem might be your test timeline, not your work ethic.

KB went from a 137 to a 121 on back-to-back PTs and wanted to know what went wrong. Bailey and Henry break it down: you're taking too many PTs too close together, chasing a magic number, and treating tests as studying. The fix is spacing out your PTs, blind reviewing before you submit, journaling your wrong answers into a real strategy, and drilling just one or two things at a time. Score swings are normal at this stage. You've got this.

Spending 30 minutes on a single LR question and still not sure you got it right? Bailey and Henry break down why that's happening and what to do about it. Stop watching the clock, stop second-guessing the stimulus, and trust what the words say.

You're in the 170s, you know the rules, and you're still missing questions. Bailey and Henry explain why that mental checklist might actually be working against you, and how to know when to trust your instincts instead of running through the list.

Most test-takers wait too long for certainty that never comes. Bailey and Henry break down when to flag, when to bail, and why 80% confidence is usually enough to keep moving on RC.