The Short Cut by 7Sage LSAT

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...

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 ful...

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 to...

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 in...

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...

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 u...

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 n...

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...

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 summ...

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 wor...

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 a...

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.

Description: You're on pace to finish the section, so why would you slow down? Because skimming is quietly killing your score. Bailey and Henry break down why skimming feels like a time-saver but actually costs you more time in the answer choices, and what to do instead: invest upfront in the read, and fly through the answers.

Down to two answer choices and always picking wrong? Bailey and Henry diagnose the blind-review illusion, share a flagging routine for the questions you got right, and walk through the red-flag method for picking the "less wrong" answer on hard LR.

A high-scorer keeps missing easy LR questions while nailing the hard ones. Bailey and Henry break down the two most likely culprits: strategy drift on easier questions, or over-scrutinizing answer choices that don't need that level of scrutiny. Plus a confidence drill to fix it.

Anastasia asks: she goes -2 to -0 on individual sections, but -5 to -2 per section on full PTs. What's going on? Henry and Bailey break down the gap. First, check whether you're really leaning -0 or -2 on those single sections, because that changes the diagnosis. Then reframe the PT itself: it's not a high-stakes test, it's just four individual sections that happen to be back to back. Bailey close...

Ahsley has three weeks until June and has been taking a full PT every other day. She's running low on fresh tests and trying to save the 140s and 150s for an August retake. Henry's verdict: PTs every other day are like taking your temperature every five minutes. Shift to one a week. Bailey makes the case for redoing old questions, with the critical caveat that you can't just remember it's B becaus...

Abigail is taking the June test, second-guessing herself in timed conditions, and worried she isn't studying hard enough. Henry argues most people study too hard. The real question is whether you're moving in the right direction. Bailey's diagnostic: cover the timer so you stop doing mental math about the clock, then run two tests on every main point answer (descriptively accurate, and actually th...

Ariana is taking the June LSAT and wants near-perfect RC. Bailey lays out the three things she checks on every paragraph (structure, author's position, other people's positions) and refuses to move on until she can label what the paragraph is doing. Henry brings the hard-vs-easy-to-prove framework — why "John walked today" is a fundamentally different answer choice than "Mary ate a bacon, egg and...

Bev has been sitting in the mid-150s since March. She goes 17 for 19 when she works for accuracy, but runs out of time and has to guess the rest. Bailey and Henry break down why slowing down on flaw and weaken questions is the wrong move, which question types you should actually be milking for time (must be true, sufficient assumption), and the snowball drill that helps you carry accuracy into tim...

You've been PT'ing in the 173s for months. Wrong answer journal, tapered study, slept well. You did everything right. Then test day hits and you walk out with a 166. What happened? Bailey and Henry break down how to actually hit your PT score when it counts. What a 7-point gap really means (spoiler: it's fewer questions than it feels), why four PTs over three months might be hiding your weak spots...

A listener scored 170 on their April LSAT but needs a higher score to land a scholarship at their dream school. Should they retake and risk it? Bailey and Henry break down why this doesn't have to be a gamble at all. They cover how to think strategically about question types instead of letting questions happen to you, why getting LR as close to minus zero as possible should be the priority, how to...