Failed LSAT? Here's Your Recovery Plan

Pro tip: If you already have an approved LSAT Writing or LSAT Argumentative Writing sample from the current reportable period, you do not repeat it for a retake. To exceed a testing limit, email [email protected] at least five business days before the registration deadline with your account number and documentation of an extenuating circumstance; decisions arrive within five business days and are final, and an approved appeal must be registered by phone with an LSAC representative.

• Preparing with materials that still teach Analytical Reasoning
  Logic Games were removed with the August 2024 LSAT and replaced by a second scored Logical Reasoning section. Any book, course, or PrepTest section drilling sequencing and grouping games is teaching a section that no longer appears. Check the publication date before you buy.
• Leaving questions blank at the end of a section
  LSAC deducts nothing for a wrong answer and weights every question identically. With two minutes left, fill in an answer for every remaining question. A blank has exactly one chance in infinity of scoring; a guess has one in five.
• Delaying LSAT Argumentative Writing until after the multiple-choice test
  Your score is not released without an approved writing sample, and LSAC warns processing can take up to three weeks. The writing opens in your account eight days before your administration. Complete it then, not after, or your score release date will pass without a score.
• Assuming you can identify and coast through the unscored section
  The variable section is either Logical Reasoning or Reading Comprehension, is not labelled, and can appear anywhere in the four. Candidates who decide mid-test that a section is experimental and stop trying frequently guess wrong and throw away a scored section.
• Treating a cancelled score as though it never happened
  Cancelled scores, including those cancelled under Score Preview, count against the five-in-period and seven-lifetime testing limits. Absences and withdrawals do not. Cancellation protects your reported record, not your remaining attempts.
• Taking the test repeatedly instead of changing how you study
  LSAC reports that test takers sitting a second test in the same testing year gain 2 to 3 points on average. Some scores do not move and some fall. If your preparation has not changed materially since the last sitting, a retake is likely to reproduce it.
• Scoring practice tests without a blind review
  Redo every question you flagged or guessed, untimed and before looking at the answer key. The gap between your timed score and your blind review score is the part of your score that timing is costing you, and it is the only diagnostic that separates a knowledge problem from a pacing problem.
• Arriving with identification that does not match your LSAC account
  The first and last name on your physical identification must exactly match the legal name on your LSAC account, which you change on the Profile page. LSAC accepts a physical passport or a physical government-issued photo identification from the United States, its territories, or Canada, and no digital image under any circumstances.
• Bringing your own scratch paper to a test centre
  Candidates testing at a centre are supplied three blank unlined colour booklets of two pages each plus two pencils, and are not permitted to bring their own paper or writing instruments. Remote test takers with an approved exception may have six blank 8.5 by 11 inch sheets, lined, unlined, or graphed.
• Missing the recheck-in after the 10-minute intermission
  You must check back in with the proctor before resuming. LSAC states that failing to complete the recheck-in terminates the session, forces registration for a new administration, and yields no refund. Set the intermission plan in advance: no phone, no test material, back in the chair early.

• Logic Games can be mastered with practice
• Use PowerScore Bibles for each section
• Take many timed practice tests
• Target 170+ for T14 law schools
• Reading Comprehension: active reading strategies
• Khan Academy has free LSAT prep