Hey 7Sagers, it was a lot of fun Blind Reviewing PT 79 (September 2016 LSAT) with you. Thank you for that experience.
I'd like to do it again for PT 80 (December 2016 LSAT).
I'm holding 15 sessions total. 5 for each of LR 1, LR 2, and RC. Each session will focus on only one section of PT 80. All sessions will start at 7:30p EST and end at 10:30p. Multiple sessions are meant to accomodate people's various schedules and to reduce class size per session.
What happens in these sessions?
I'll ask students to state which questions were circled for BR. We'll work through the questions the group nominates. I generally try to ask students questions to elicit the right response. Voluntary participation. But please wear headphones and be in a quiet place (without ambient noise).
How should I prepare?
Take PT 80 and have the questions you'd like to BR ready. The first thing I'll ask is for everyone to type which questions they'd like to BR.
Next Session
3/28 Tuesday - Section 2 - RC
7:30p - 10:30p EST
Meeting Link: https://chime.aws/8951446044
Meeting ID: 8951 44 6044
U.S. Toll: +1-929-432-4463
Meeting PIN: 8951 44 6044
International: https://chime.aws/dialinnumbers/
Obtaining PT 80
If you have an Ultimate+ account, you will be able to view and print PT 80 under the Syllabus.
Alternatively, you can purchase the paper copy of LSAT PT 80 on Amazon here.
Past Sessions
3/5 Sunday - Section 1 - LR
3/6 Monday - Section 1 - LR
3/8 Wednesday - Section 1 - LR
3/11 Saturday - Section 1 - LR
3/16 Thursday - Section 4 - LR
3/17 Friday - Section 4 - LR
3/18 Saturday - Section 4 - LR
3/27 Monday - Section 2 - RC
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Hey everyone, looks like I picked a pretty bad time to do PT 80's BR calls. I've reduced the number of remaining sessions for those who had planned to attend.
In addition, I'll do this PT again in early May. I believe this will align better with people's schedules who planned to take the June LSAT.
Sorry for the poor scheduling decisions!
@twssmith644 Thanks for the heads up!
I decided to switched to GTM though since we all know that works very well.
Next Session
3/16 Thursday - Section 4 - LR
7:30p - 10:30p EST
I'm in a similar situation to @twssmith644 regarding the study group schedule. Some of us have taken tests in the 70s and also have enough fresh PTs left. I think this is a great chance for those of us who are working towards building more advanced strategies to substantially strengthen our LSAT performance. Thank you @jy-ping for giving specific advice on this. I'm looking forward to the session next week!
@dml277475 you sure can. You can either purchase PT 80 as an add-on to your Ultimate course or upgrade to Ultimate+. Either way, you'll get the videos when they're ready and the PT can be printed now.
Thanks again for a great session JY! Will definitely try to remember not be so caught up on hunting for the exact words of my anticipation and instead be alright with answer choices that are more abstract (isn't as attractive, but still the right answers).
@twssmith644 Having 5 fresh PTs until June isn't a terrible situation to be in. You rightly should be focused on retakes. Were you planning to take a PT anyway? It sounds like if you were, you would have taken a PT in the 70's. If so, then you might as well take PT 80. Otherwise, I wouldn't do it.
I would absolutely love to hop on these sessions (gotta get all that JY wisdom!!) I'm hoping to take the June 2017 test but I only have about 6-7 fresh PTs left in the 70s. Not sure if I should go ahead and take PT 80 now so I can go and join these sessions? I was hoping to take PT 80 closer to June. On the fence about what to do---is anyone else in this predicament?
Updated and edited to reflect the availability of PT 80 in the curriculum.
For anyone struggling to join - download the chime app - it is a line link underneath the boxes to download app - then it can work:)
Update: I removed the 3/25 Saturday session and replaced it with a session on 3/28 Tuesday.
Sorry about the change - I had a scheduling conflict.
Happy Daylight Savings Weekend everyone!
Thanks for tonight JY. It was great for highlighting that I need to revisit diagraming so I can be more fluid. It shouldnt matter Im using letters or visuals they should both be second nature by now.
Looking forward to LR2
Thank you JY! I am in the June study group and appreciate your flexibility :) Oh and your website is awesome.
Thank you JY for offering to do PT80 again in early May! Always appreciative of your kindness in offering such valuable help to us.
@uion271513 Yeah, join us!
JY, this is an incredible opportunity to work with you on PT80! Most of the above posts requesting advice were ppl on the Wed night BR call with Vanessa and me who are seriously preparing for June. We recognize that it is an individual decision based on current prep whether to take PT80 now or later;)
If following Josh's 3 stages of PT prep, I am working on advanced test taking strategies on re-takes in the 60's learning from those mistakes but still have a significant weakness in RC. Not score chasing and utilizing the re-takes to identify under/over confidence errors, my score bands on re-takes are at or just above my lowest threshold of my target score.
Given that I have 5 fresh PTs (inc 80) in the 70's and PT79 that I wrote and do not remember, lol, to be used as a re-take, would you recommend that I take PT 80 as a "diagnostic" going into the final 3 months before June to evaluate my progress, identify weaknesses and gain insight from your sessions to provide focus for my studies over the next 3 months.
Any feedback appreciated:)
@stepharizona288 and @stepharizona288 Good question. It really depends. If you are already PTing in the 70's range and would have done a new PT anyway, then taking PT 80 as opposed to say PT 71 is fine. I think the trade off is worth it.
However, if you're PTing in the 50's then I don't think you should skip ahead this much.
I am in a similar boat as @stepharizona288. I'd love to attend this BR session but I don't want to burn through such a valuable PT this early in the year. Any advice for those of us in this predicament?
I know the video explanations for PT80 aren't ready yet but is there a way for those of us planning on buying PT80 explanations to make the payment ahead of time so we get to print the DRM protected e-doc first and PT80 video explanations later? I'm currently in Asia and it looks like I might not be able to receive the paper copy in time for the BR session.
Hey guys, looks like we have overlapping meetings on Go To Meeting today.
We're going to meet on Chime instead:
Meeting Link: https://chime.aws/8951446044
Meeting ID: 8951 44 6044
U.S. Toll: +1-929-432-4463
Meeting PIN: 8951 44 6044
International: https://chime.aws/dialinnumbers/
Hey guys, today's session is starting now.
Thanks for re-scheduling this JY! I look forward to going in May :smile:
Thanks JY for the session:)
Is there a BR call tonight?
Welp in that case I'll wait till the end of April to take PT 80 then and I'll work on improving RC this week. Thanks for the heads up about May JY!
Edited - Missed that you still have Wed nite scheduled - whew - thought LR1 was only offered Sat nite:)