Stewart

In April 2018, over three years ago, I completed my first diagnostic LSAT. I scored a 142. By December 2020 -- over three years and four different test prep platforms later -- I could only achieve a practice test score ranging from 148 to 153. These results were far less than satisfactory.

Three years. Four different prep platforms. And I was still stuck in the low 150s. Most people would have given up, and honestly, there were moments when I almost did. But I found Ellen Cassidy and Elemental Prep, and everything changed.

Ellen's approach was unlike anything I had experienced before. She identified my weaknesses with surgical precision and targeted them relentlessly. The Impulse Check system transformed me from a reactive test-taker to a deliberate one -- whenever I saw words I recognized, words I didn't recognize, or when all other answers looked wrong, I would pause and think: "I'm not going to choose this just because I saw it, I'm going to think about it because I saw it."

The Timing Failsafe protocol started from my 112-minute natural pace baseline and systematically compressed my timing while maintaining accuracy. Ellen introduced the two-phase answer choice interaction model -- separating the understanding of an answer from the evaluation of it -- which eliminated my habit of prematurely eliminating correct answers.

My Logic Games section was transformed through intensive video study and systematic practice. I earned my first perfect LG section during prep, something I never would have believed possible. My LR dropped to -3 consistently with some -2 performances. Even RC, my persistent weakness, improved through Ellen's Switching Protocol and the Meaning Phase vs. Judgment Phase framework.

In five and a half months with Elemental, I went from a plateau in the high 140s to a 168 on the official exam. After three years of spinning my wheels with other companies, Ellen Cassidy accomplished in months what no one else could in years.

-- Stewart, 168