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Small question, I mostly just dont want to get an infraction. When the Proctor says "turn the page, read the instructions, and start working now" can you turn the page as soon as he starts saying turn the page, or perhaps after he completes that instruction, or do you need to wait until he says now? it's probably only 5 or 10 seconds per section, but hey, 30 seconds overall could amount to an entire mark! When do I turn the page?

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I know that the scholarships, the dream school, and the dream career should be motivation enough itself, and that routine studying should be just that, a routine, a habit. Still, I have off days. Sometimes it feels like the progress I'm making is too incremental, and others I am simply inexplicably unmotivated. Am I alone? What advice do you have?

To ground myself again, sometimes I take an hour or so to work on my essays to remind myself of the why of it all.

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Hi everyone,

I’m so excited to welcome our newest editor, Boris Fishman. We think that the value proposition of any admissions consulting package lies largely in editorial feedback—after all, you apply to law school by sending things you wrote—and Boris is an absolute prodigy of narrative and language. He’s written two widely acclaimed novels with a memoir on the way, published essays in just about every journal of note I can name off the top of my head, and (for heaven’s sake) edited the U.S. Senate Report on Hurricane Katrina. His job application taught me how to do my job better.

I’ve pasted his full bio below.

Boris Fishman holds a BA in Slavic Literatures and Languages from Princeton University (summa cum laude) and an MFA in fiction from New York University. He is the author of the novels A Replacement Life, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and the American Library Association’s Sophie Brody Medal, and Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo, which was also a New York TimesNotable Book of the Year. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the *New York Times Book Review, Travel & Leisure, *the London Review of Books, New York Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, and other publications. In an earlier life, he was on the editorial staff of The New Yorker; co-edited the U. S. Senate Report on Hurricane Katrina -- where he engaged with prose by lawyers for the first time -- and was the recipient of residencies and fellowships from the New York Foundation of the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, among others. HarperCollins will publish his next book, Savage Feast, a family memoir told through recipes, in 2019. He teaches in Princeton University’s Creative Writing Program and lives in New York City. Please see www.borisfishman.com for more information.

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Hi everyone!

I’ve been plateaued in the high 150’s for the past 5/6 PT’s. My goal is to get a 165 in November, but seeing myself plateau has been really discouraging.

I’m pretty solid on logic games, my RC can use some improvement, but what’s really been hurting me is LR. Specifically, flaw questions and level 5 difficulty questions, regardless of question type.

So my question is, what has helped you the most to break into the 160’s? What have you done to consistently stay there?

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you everyone in advance!

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Can you guys share your tips for higher accuracy with BR?

I'm PTing in the low-mid 160's and am only seeing a 6-7 point increase on my BR. I really want to aim for 180 BR in order to see improvements with my actual scores. I spend anywhere from 1-3 days going over my PTs slowly but still do not see that much of a difference. I also admittedly input my PT answers to see how I did before beginning my BR, is this not advised?

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Hello all! Hope your studying is going well. Mine is a perpetual struggle filled with endless disappointment. In spite of that, I am determined to change that soon!

I recently took or "wrote" (Canada shoutout) PT 36 after a few months of CC. My score was a 155 and my BR was a 171. Additionally, I have not finished the ultimate plus CC. I am really striving to make my BR perfect and increase my actual score to a 165+.

I am missing at least 6 questions in my BR for LR type questions, however I am perfect on LG and -1 on RC. Clearly, I am not understanding the fundamentals of LR.

What worked for you? How I should approach this next portion of studying?

I was aiming to take the Nov 17 test, but I am not sure if that is viable at the moment. I took the test last December and scored a 156. I took up studying again this past March, but I have been working full-time until mid-July. I am worried that I am rushing through the CC and PTs in order to meet the Nov 17 deadline.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

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I'm slowly improving my speed with LR and now have more time to go back and check the questions I circled. However, I find that I'm overwhelmed by the possibility of picking a question that will suck up all my remaining time rather than the questions I simply needed to re-read.

Should you tackle the questions you narrowed down to 2 answer choices first, or should you tackle the ones that stumped you the first time around? What I do is circle the ones I was unsure about and I draw a square around the ones where the stimulus confused me. I typically go for the ones with squares first but I'm starting to wonder if that's a mistake.

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So I took PT 52 this past weekend and I knew during the time that I was taking it that things were not good I felt anxious, felt myself getting caught up on questions and instead of reading the stimulus first like I have always done I decided to try and read the question first. I was taking it in the room that I am actually going to be testing in to try and get myself in prime test day conditions but it didn't help that the lights kept going off. To say the least it was a mess. I was feeling really frazzled and stress so I took a break, the next day I did no studying and did my BR yesterday. I literally hadn't done about half of the LR questions so I went back and did those, no stress just tried to do my best. Reviewing over the RC and LG sections I couldn't understand why I hadn't completed them, I could have easily completed the LG section and done more on the RC section. With this being said I think my biggest enemy on this test is myself. After scoring the test My BR score was a 172 and I realized that I was putting the pressure on myself under timed conditions. So what I want to know is:where do I go from here ? Should I focus on drills? Doing timed individual sections ? Increase PTs per week to get my time up? I read in a similar discussions that warm ups help where can I find these?

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Hello. When I was randomly scrolling through the RC, I noticed the drill packs at the bottom. I am currently on the last section of the RC in the CC, so the drill packs are the thing right after. Would it be best for me to do these and then start the PTs or save them for when I find my weak areas when doing the PTs?

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I am about halfway done with this course and have only seen a 1 point increase in my score from my baseline. What works best for you guys with the LSAT just around the corner? Practice tests or following the course material to improve on your PTs? I have been doing well on every quiz thus far, yet, when it comes down to the actual tests I'm not doing very great.

Advice is greatly appreciated

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I am very curious about something, and I can't seem to find any information on it anywhere, on or off of the 7sage forums. It should be something that, I imagine, we would all benefit to know a bit about, and should be curious about, since we're aiming to go into law school to study and eventually practice jurisprudence. It's about the socratic method. I was wondering if any 7sage students or alumni has experience or resources on learning how to approach or use the socratic method. Personally, I find the method fascinating even outside of its applications in law school, and would love to learn more about it. I am especially eager to learn about it before going to law school, because although I'm not afraid to make a fool out of myself, I have always been a terrible public speaker. I simply want to improve, and I feel like many other students would benefit from any resources available on this topic.

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hi all, so i have recently switched over from studying with the full powerscore trilogy books to ONLY studying with the 7sage pack. i started studying with powerscore the middle of may 2018 and when decided to make the switch was already taking 1-2 PT every week (without blind review bc they do not use that method). i am now wondering if it would be beneficial for me to possibly still try and take at least one PT per week along with my 7sage core curriculum (this time around using blind review) - since this is technically not completely new information for me.

i am currently following along with my personalized study guide for the november 2018 test & see that it saves all of the PT for the end of CC, but due to my circumstances would like to get some advice on what could work best for me.

any advice is graciously welcomed :)

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Hey guys,

How do you improve timing, especially with LR and LG? Is it something that just comes naturally with tons of practice? Do you just get faster at answering questions accurately with more and more experience?

I'm greatly frustrated because, for example, on a recent LR section on a preptest, I missed 9 freaking questions under the standard 35 minutes. Re-did the 9 questions afterwards on BR, and got 6 of them correct. Questions I could easily have gotten right but missed because of the pressure of that constantly ticking damn clock.

I feel if I had even an extra 5 minutes per section, or 40 minutes, I could really, really do much better. Obviously, we only get 35 minutes per.

How do you guys do it? So frustrated...

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Has this ever happened to anyone else ? I was tired already, worked, went to the gym, and my contacts were really bothering me lol but I figured it would be good to get some practice under my belt of testing when I'm not feelin 100% but boy was I wrong ... Couldn't even finish my first section in time (which was RC, but usually my strong suit), and then finally just decided not to waste anymore of the PT halfway through the second section, (I'll break it up later to drill I guess :/). Just feeling pretty sucky, but I know I would've felt worse once I calculated what I know would've been one of my worst scores yet.

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Till a couple of days ago, the Register for LSAT section (Asia) showed the next LSAT to be in October, but now it's been changed to September. Yet, the date and time beside the centres still show the October date (10/14/2018, 8:30 AM). 

Is this a glitch or has LSAC actually preponed the exam (is that even possible???) and the test centre dates are yet to be updated?

Freaking out!

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hi all! I have been self studying using the entire powerscore bibles since middle of may & originally planning on taking september test. started feeling unprepared & decided to hold off until november test and put my studying efforts toward something else. had recently used some of the 7sage LG explanation videos & found those very helpful, would like to try switching all of my study time over to 7sage. since i have been studying with powerscore for a solid 3 months and almost halfway through all 3 section’s bibles, was wondering if the 7sage starter pack would be sufficient enough for now? looking for any advice/switchover study tips! thanks a lot!

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