January LSAT · 160 → mid/high 170s

Road to 175

A day-by-day plan built around your real problem: the clock. Check things off, get confetti, get told Koen loves you. Repeat until January.

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On track

Sync is off. Turn it on in Setup so progress follows you to any device.

Setup

Your name (for the greeting) Test date (confirm on LSAC.org, the January 2027 window is mid-January)

Changing the test date only changes the countdown. The schedule itself runs Oct 7, 2026 to Jan 14, 2027.

Sync across devices

Pick a passphrase (a few words you will remember). Progress is saved to the cloud under that passphrase, so a cleared browser or a new phone never loses anything. Type the same passphrase on another device and it all shows up there too. Only you know the passphrase; the app never sends it anywhere, just a scrambled fingerprint of it.

Passphrase

Phone notifications

Three a day, Arizona time: a morning kick-off with today's list, a midday progress check, and an evening check-in with tomorrow's preview. They come through the Pushover app. Install it, sign up, copy your user key from its home screen, paste it here. Sync has to be on first (that's where the messages get their facts).

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Backup your progress

Put it on your home screen: on iPhone open this in Safari, tap Share, then “Add to Home Screen”. On Android, Chrome menu → “Add to Home screen”. It then opens like an app and works offline.

A manual backup, in case you would rather not use sync. Copy this code every week or so and paste it into Notes. If the browser forgets, paste it back here and tap Restore.

The plan in one paragraph

You leave 5 to 7 questions blank per section. On the current LSAT (two scored Logical Reasoning sections and one Reading Comprehension, 35 minutes each) that is roughly 15 to 20 points of raw score you never touch. Finishing sections, even with a few guesses, is the single biggest lever you have. So October builds the method (The Loophole, the RC Bible, untimed accuracy on LSAT Demon). November is a timing ladder: section budgets shrink from 40 minutes to 35, with a hard skip rule. December is test mode: two full practice tests a week with proper review. January is a taper. Fifteen practice tests in total.

The pacing rules (memorize these)

Skip rule. 75 seconds with no answer: pick a letter, flag it, move on. Come back only if time remains. Never leave a bubble empty.
LR checkpoints. Question 10 by 12 min, question 18 by 23 min, done by 33 min, last 2 min for flags.
RC checkpoints. About 8.5 minutes per passage. Passage 2 starts by 9 min, passage 3 by 18, passage 4 by 26.
Hard questions are worth one point. Same as easy ones. Spending 3 minutes to earn 1 point while 5 points sit unanswered is the trade you are currently making.
Blind review. After every timed set, re-answer every flagged or uncertain question untimed before seeing answers. The gap between timed and untimed is your timing problem, measured.
Review beats volume. One section reviewed properly teaches more than three sections rushed.

Glossary (the words this plan uses)

LR / RC. Logical Reasoning (short arguments, one question each) and Reading Comprehension (four passages). The test is two scored LR sections, one scored RC, and one unscored “experimental” section you cannot identify.
Section. 35 minutes, 24 to 28 questions. All tasks that say “1 LR section” mean one of these, timed.
Practice test (PT). Four sections back to back with one 10-minute break. Always a fresh Demon test, always timed strictly.
Blind review. Re-answering flagged or uncertain questions untimed before seeing any answers.
Skip rule. 75 seconds with no answer: pick a letter, flag, move on.
Checkpoints. Clock targets inside a section (LR: Q10 by 12 min, Q18 by 23; RC: 8.5 min per passage).
Blanks. Questions left unanswered when time ran out. The number this whole plan exists to make zero.
Trap list. Your running list of the specific ways you get fooled. Becomes your five-item index card in January.
Weakest type. The question type with your highest miss rate in Demon’s stats.
The Loophole / RC Bible. Your two books: Ellen Cassidy’s The Loophole in LSAT Logical Reasoning, and PowerScore’s Reading Comprehension Bible.