LSAT Diagnostic Assessment

How are you going to get where you wanna go if you don’t know where you’re at? A thoughtful diagnostic assessment is the best way to see where you stand, and to decide how to move forward strategically. That’s true for all of y’all, whether you’re just getting started with the LSAT or gearing up for another shot.

During a one-hour live session, I’ll guide you through the assessment. We’ll confirm your baseline and target score, which are the key inputs that tell us how to set up your LSAT plan. We’ll also identify the biggest sources of your mistakes, which tells us what you should be focusing on moving forward. When we wrap up, you’ll have my clear and precise recommendations for how to reach your target score.

If you’re just getting started with the LSAT

The first thing you should do after deciding you’re gonna take the LSAT is…take the LSAT. Pretty much every book or course will tell you to start with a realistic, full-length mock test. There are a bunch of reasons why that’s a good idea:

• You really want to know what you’re up against, and taking a mock test is obviously the best way to get a sense of what the test is really like.
• The first mock test sets your baseline score, which is a critical input in deciding what your ambitious-but-realistic target score should be. Your target score pretty much dictates your whole study plan so this part is a big deal.
• You’ll have a scouting report on yourself, and specifically how big a factor the clock will be for you. Folks who can roughly finish on time will prep in a meaningfully different way from folks who run out of time without even getting to some of the questions.

If you jumped right into a class or a self-study plan without a realistic baseline score, press pause on that today and schedule time for a full-length, timed mock test.

If you’re getting re-started

If your last round of LSAT prep has only just ended, then maybe you already have really recent practice test results you can use for the diagnostic assessment. It’s best if you really remember what the hell you were thinking though, so if it’s been more than a handful of days, I’d recommend scheduling time for another.

In any case, the assessment is like the project kickoff. You want to be full steam ahead afterward. If you’ve plateaued, or hit a wall, or just got a disappointing official score back, I might recommend taking a break for at least a few days first. Give yourself a little space so you can come back to the LSAT legit refreshed and re-energized.

The plan will work if you do.