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• natemanwell1 Core Member

  March 1 314 karma

  not sure what you mean "needs to prepare for June" but going from that to performing well on the lsat in 3 months is a pretty tough challenge. lsat prep is kind of a dual thing where you want to build the fundamental skills outside the test basically reading a lot, and then taking and going over practice tests. 3 months is not really enough time to do both. but if you have no clue how to approach, I would say those fundamental skills are a lot more important and would focus on reading a lot and then getting into prep a month later.
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  bobby68 Live Member

  March 1 edited March 1 85 karma

  Because I was in your shoes I want to give a bit of a lengthy response.

  Literally was in your shoes in September, not sure what non-traditional is considered but I didn't know anything about Law school path and was not sure where to start, I consider myself an underdog in all this. A friend recommended me 7Sage and was happy they did. I was supposed to take the LSAT in January but found myself possible taking it in June (kept pushing it back as I saw I wasn't happy with my practice test scores). I got the 7Sage Live with the fee waiver (through LawHub), so I'm taking advantage of all the resources on this plan.

  Took me about 3 months to get through all the 7Sage syllabus/curriculum (spent like 3-5 hours a day studying, with the holidays off and slower days/days off when I got burnt out). I still found myself behind, but maybe that's because I wasn't really locked in when watching videos and thought I could get by on surface level understanding. Not quite sure but it gave me more confidence in answering questions when I first came in thinking each question was asking too similar things and all looked the same 😵‍💫.

  But I found the fundamentals section which talked about grammar and common LSAT verbatim/words used (like what the heck "some", "most", "few" means or what does "infer" means) SUPER helpful. It's just those little things I missed out on when I was using free resources like Khan Academy LSAT prep (which now moved onto the LawHub website).

  As a person who is also kinda grinding towards doing a test this year but wants to do REALLY well...I'd say that the 7Sage curriculum is helpful and didn't regret those 3 months I did.

  I can't say much about live sessions, I tried some and still felt lost since I still felt that I'm not that advanced to even know where I'm lacking so I couldn't really ask those deeper questions. So as for now, I am not joining much of those sessions until I see that I am "plateauing" or getting stuck as a practice score that's sooo close to where I want to be.

  For tutoring? I can't say I can afford it at the moment, and don't have any 7Sage feedback about the service but I feel that having someone guide you on where you are at is always helpful. Hopefully someone adds on to their experience with the tutoring...

  In the end it depends how high you wish to go. I know some people who just graduated college and just took the test with whatever time they had between homework time to study and got the 150 range and went to a decent law school, but I wish to do better, even if I think I starting at a lower level. I'm trying to break against those odds on how far you can go with a short time, and I'd honestly say it's hard, especially when you are doing this on your own and don't have the resources other students and LSAT takers have. So if no one has said this to you, I wish you luck on your studies and you should be proud on even tasking yourself on studying for this test 🙌 The difficulty did change many of my fellow classmate's minds on law school so...

  hope this helps.