Nothing much to say here except that after a grueling month and a half of study, I finally broke the 170 barrier! Here's hoping it wasn't a freak accident and I can keep it up. I'm taking the February LSAT and I'm starting to feel pretty confident!!

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  • Wednesday, Dec 14 2016

    @lawschoolstuff16866

    @kacantolina79

    so you think it was just focusing on weaker areas that you were struggling in that really helped push you over a couple of points? This is helpful advice thank you!

    Absolutely! I think there are some sections I might not even get around to studying, because I don't miss many questions in them. Now that I've improved my logic games significantly, my weakest area is actually logical reasoning, so I'll start studying mostly those sections as well and see if I can see greater improvement there.

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  • Wednesday, Dec 14 2016

    @tams2018903 What do you mean you redid the sections? Untimed?

    No--every time I re-did a section, I timed it again. And I made sure to do the whole section of all 4 games for 35 minutes, instead of splitting it into shorter segments of time to work on individual games. That way I forced my brain to move rapidly between logic games and I started getting better at managing time for the whole section.

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  • Wednesday, Dec 14 2016

    What do you mean you redid the sections? Untimed?

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  • Tuesday, Dec 13 2016

    @kacantolina79 so you think it was just focusing on weaker areas that you were struggling in that really helped push you over a couple of points? This is helpful advice thank you!

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  • Tuesday, Dec 13 2016

    @lawschoolstuff16866 If you don't mind me asking, what do you think helped you the most to break a 170?

    Hey! I think 1. pressure from the December test letting out really helped me break 170, but my biggest problem was the logic games. I spent maybe 2 weeks doing nothing but complete timed logic game sections with no pauses or interruptions, and then redid all of the sections until I got all of the answers right. I think that pushed me over the edge, because I really never struggled with RC. Next up, I need to start working on my logical reasoning sections, because I seem to miss between 2-5 for every single one and I feel like I have the most area to improve there. But mostly, I think it was just relaxing a little and cutting myself some slack after all that hard work. I had a big jump in score after I took a few days off. So far I've taken another test and got a 169--it's not 170, but it definitely tells me that the first score wasn't a fluke!

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  • Saturday, Dec 10 2016

    @lawschoolstuff16866 I had the same question!

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  • Saturday, Dec 10 2016

    That rocks! Congratulations on all of your hard work! That is something to be so proud of!!! Keep it up!

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  • Saturday, Dec 10 2016

    A month and a half? Im jealous.. Been going at it for almost a year and no 170 except during BR, lmao.

    Nice though, that's great!!

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  • Saturday, Dec 10 2016

    get it in!!!

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  • Saturday, Dec 10 2016

    Nice! That's a huge milestone! Take a moment to bask in the glory, then back to work. Now that you've proven you can do it, time to really up your game to. Definitely not a fluke (assuming proper testing conditions), so just don't let up!

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  • Friday, Dec 09 2016

    If you don't mind me asking, what do you think helped you the most to break a 170?

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  • Friday, Dec 09 2016

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  • Friday, Dec 09 2016

    Wow! Nice!

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  • Friday, Dec 09 2016

    Congratulations!!! Breaking 170 is such a great feeling!

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  • Friday, Dec 09 2016

    CONGRATULATIONS! Keep up the excellent momentum!!

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  • Friday, Dec 09 2016

    @lawschoolstuff16866

    @tams2018903

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    As long as you took the PT under "real" conditions, that 170+ score was no freak accident! Good job, keep it up.

    Exactly! Glad to hear this. It's making me excited about breaking this barrier myself.

    Congratulations to you as well! It feels so good, especially when I was starting to think the best I'd ever do was a 167!

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  • Friday, Dec 09 2016

    @tams2018903 As long as you took the PT under "real" conditions, that 170+ score was no freak accident! Good job, keep it up.

    Exactly! Glad to hear this. It's making me excited about breaking this barrier myself.

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  • Friday, Dec 09 2016

    @tams2018903 As long as you took the PT under "real" conditions, that 170+ score was no freak accident! Good job, keep it up.

    My sentiment exactly! no one gets a 170 by accident. You earned it!

    Congrats! Here's to many more!

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  • Friday, Dec 09 2016

    Congrats! Best of luck on the rest of your studies, and I hope it keeps up :D

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  • Friday, Dec 09 2016

    As long as you took the PT under "real" conditions, that 170+ score was no freak accident! Good job, keep it up.

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  • Friday, Dec 09 2016

    Awesome job! Keep up the work day by day.

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