To Vent...

Hey everyone I just wanted to vent and see if anyone else has been in the same boat as me. My LSAT journey has been a pretty tumultuous ride and I'm feeling quite defeated as my November 2024 results have came in.

For a little background, I first took the LSAT in January 2021 and scored a 141. I graduated in May 2022 and decided to take a gap year to study and improve my score. After having a pretty tumultuous year in 2022, I decided to take another year off to study and in October 2023 I got a 147, nothing year what I wanted to be at. I struggled a lot with logic games, and my brain just did not click where it needed to. Being anxious, I decided to register for the November and January tests, for which I saw jumps at 151 -> 154. I chose to apply in January with my 154, even though I was anxious about applying with this score. I got accepted into some wonderful schools, but my anxiety about loans (from what I have read on these various law school-related subreddits) and the low pay for the work I want to do after graduation prevented me from starting law school in Fall 2024.

Fast forward to the November test. I have been studying my butt off for the last 6 months and have been PTing around the 160-165 range. I have been doing excellent on my practice tests and felt extremely confident going into the test. It seemed like everything would work out, and I just had to push past the finish line. This would be my 5th time taking the LSAT in the current reporting period, and this was the do-or-die because I would be locked out of the test otherwise.

Getting my scores back today.... a 155. I am absolutely crushed, to say the least. I was at least expecting a fairly bigger jump than that. What was all of the studying for? The hours spent on practice tests and blind review, countless practice problems, the stress, anxiety, three gap years.... to get to this. It stings a little more because It's not like I have January to look forward to either, I'm completely locked out of this test (unless I want to wait until 2026 to take it again but that is not plausible for me now).

I just wanted to vent a little bit; I know it's a weird situation, but I just wanted to share my story with all of you. I don't know if anyone is having a similar experience with this test, but it's so hard not to get down on myself about this. This has been my dream since I was 17 years old, and I've worked so hard to get to this point, just always seemingly to come up short of my goal.

Thanks for reading.