In my BR review, I've discovered a few patterns and I'd like some input as to how I should go about fixing them.

In LR, I noticed that I make a lot of mistakes because I misunderstood something or didn't fully grasp a key term.

In RC, I have problems understanding what the question is asking me to do. On several occasions, I've found myself fully understanding a passage, only to spend more than half the time trying to figure out what the questions are referring to/asking of me.

In LG, I'm having timing issues. I can usually complete the game with a perfect score untimed, but almost never complete it under time constraints. Any suggestions on improving?

Okay, this may sound random. In group one it goes

Ex: "All Jedi use the force"

J -> F

/F -> /J

Group 2 goes:

Ex: "Only the good die young"

D -> G

/G -> /D

Why in group two does it go right to left on top versus left to right like group one?

Did i miss something in the videos?

Hey Everyone,

A couple of weeks ago I posted how I was down and having trouble getting back to studying. I was out for almost 3 weeks. Well, I started back this week, baby steps, and it feels good. I was behind before my downtime and now I'm really behind. According to the study schedule and @emli1000 :-) I should be finishing up the course by now. But I'm ashamed to admit I'm only about 15% through it. I'm glad I'm prepping for a retake in October instead of June I know I wouldn't be able to do it. Or at least wouldn't reach my full potential. Regardless, I was originally planning on starting PTs by now and thought about taking one this weekend. But looking at my course schedule, I think it may be more beneficial to spend that time reviewing material, getting through the course, and drilling. I don't want to cram but I do want to get through the basics. I think it may be better than wasting a PT. Any thoughts on moving forward? Thanks.

I have had an "Ultimate" subscription for two months but am only 30% through the core curriculum as I run a business that requires about 12-14 hours of work, seven days a week.

I am selling part of the business and will now only be required to work around 4 hours a day, 5 days a week. This now gives me way more opportunity for LSAT prep.

I am aiming for October's test. I know there are loads of variables at stake, but is six months generally considered sensible/enough prep time, if I go all guns blazing?

Cold diagnostic was 148, so there is a long way to go!

Am I the only one that feels guilty whenever I take a day or 2 off during the week?

I feel as if I could be getting so much done but instead I'm not. lol

Hey People, when you end up at law school... and that pretty girl or handsome guy catches your eye... Do your self a favor and try not to be like this!!!:

I am looking for someone that I can study the LSAT with. I'm thinking of taking October or December lsat so it would be idealistic if my potential study buddy can share this similar time line. But it's still cool if you are thinking of taking June one since we can still motivate and help each other!

Please PM me or leave a comment if you are interested in being my study buddy!

Hi all!

I am crunching through the logic game bundle, and wondering if it is worth mastering a few of the strange/old questions that JY mentions we will no longer find on the new LSAT? I understand that I can sit, and probably reason / learn my way to the right answer, but I figure I'd rather spend 20-30 minutes on trying to cover ground (deeply) and gather more experience on different inferences / game setups.

I am thinking that it is more worth my time to crunch through and master the ones that are representative of the logic games we will find on the new LSAT.

Thoughts?

Do law schools accept less students if their ranking goes up because they want to show exclusivity?

Hi,

I am having trouble with the vocabulary especially for the RC section where questions ask for how the author feels about something, author's tone etc. I find that the answer choices contain words that I am don't know so I am not able to eliminate a lot of the choices.

Do you know of a resource I could use or a list of such words somewhere that I can study from? Or if someone has made a list of these words and would be willing to share :)

Thanks!

Here's what NYU Law students think what being on law review is like(not really)(well maybe) the rendition is based on the Disney movie Mulan's "I'll make a man out of you":

So, the rankings for 2015-2016 came out today. California schools seem to be doing much better probably given the improving employment prospects, a huge consideration for US News Ranking. Also, kudos to UC Irvine for ranking so high given that this was their first time being ranked. Here's how Cali schools ranked.

Stanford 2(tie (+1))

Berkeley 8(tie (+1)) - Applied

UCLA 16 (-)

USC 20(-) - Applied

Irvine 30 (NR) - Applied

Davis 31(+5)

Pepperdine 52 (+2) - Applied

Hastings 59 (-5) - Applied

Loyola 75 (+12) - Applied.

Has anybody had an even harder time reading comments on the internet? Every time I read an article and scroll through the comments, I go through this mental process of picking apart the argument, identifying logical fallacies, facepalming really hard, and then thinking, "Omg what has the LSAT done to me?!"

Should I plan on taking the most recent PT available right before the exam (the week of the exam) or is it better to take it earlier? Any ideas for a strategy on how to best utilize the last 3 weeks before the test date?

http://abovethelaw.com/2012/03/the-practice-setting-earning-and-keeping-fees-in-small-law-firms/

I read that some of you were looking for schools that offered prep courses/PTs and today I received an email from Faulkner Law. Not sure if anyone would be interested but it's on 3/21/15 at 9:30 AM.

"Maximize your test score by attending this free preparation course!

RSVP TODAY

If you can't attend this event in person, you can participate via webcast. Just RSVP accordingly.

Questions?

Call 334-386-7210"

Sometimes I eliminate the wrong answer choice for the wrong reasons (I look at the Manhatten Explanations online and sometimes it's different reasons than why I eliminated)

Is that okay as long as I'm getting to the answer?

This is for logical reasoning.

Hi everybody,

I recently found a few courses on Coursera that might be a good supplement to LSAT prep. If you're not familiar with it, Coursera offers online courses taught by university professors about a wide range of topics. The courses have video lectures and some accompanying assignments, and you can watch many of them for free.

I just found a course called "Think Again: How to Reason and Argue," which examines arguments and reasoning. I haven't taken any lessons yet, but the topics in the course description are very relevant to the LR section. There are also various classes on logic, which may help with the LR and LG sections.

I'm just wondering if anyone else on here is ESL and struggling with the intensity of the LSAT in regards to the grammar, style, vocab, etc. If so, do you have tips, tools, or materials that you'd recommend?

I'm looking for an accountability study partner who wants to study along with me! I hope this doesn't come off as completely obnoxious but bulleted lists help me more than one giant block of text so here goes:

About Me: I've been studying for the LSAT for about a year now. I took February and scored a 166, which was 5/6 points below my PT average of 171/172 (high of 177, low of 168) and well below my BR score of 175+.

My Major Weakness:

(1) Review: I think I have a fairly solid understanding of the fundamentals. I did not review as thoroughly as I should have and paid the price on test day.

(2) Beating the brain fog: Still trying to up my mental endurance so my "off" day is no lower than my average.

My Plan: I'm going to have a cycle of (1) PT (2) review (3) drill. I'm going to actually force myself to do a very thorough review where I write out my thought process for EVERY question along with explanations for why an answer is right or wrong. The review and write-up part is super time-consuming (sample/incomplete write-up: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ivGS3XS6FSydAmNLouyewDIO9f_LmPHVEbofnuHZHJw/edit?usp=sharing), especially because I try super hard not to let myself use the words "irrelevant" or "just completely wrong." This practice forces me to really think about WHY an answer is right/wrong.

Current Schedule: Starting all the way back at PT1 and trying to make my way towards PT74 by June. Finished PT1, scored 176 (RC: -2, LG: -1, LR: -4) and reviewing every single question. Going to take a 1/2 days to complete my review and drill some games, passages, and timed LR sections and then take PT2 on Thursday/Friday.

Where You Can Come In: What I think would be most helpful for me (and hopefully you if you're up for it) is to have somebody else also do a write-up so we can see the overlap between our analyses. Typically, when we take PTs and drill, we eliminate questions because certain "triggers" in the stimulus tip us off. However, once we see 1 trigger, we tend to move on and say, "Aha! That's the reason why this answer choice is wrong." The reality that I've come to realize is that the LSAT has multiple triggers in a given stimulus. Seeing what triggers other people to identifying the correct response would broaden our understanding of not just a specific question but question types and hone our logical reasoning as a whole.

So, any takers? :)

BONUS: If you're based in Orange County, it'd be so great to study in person! I'm looking at you @ddakjiking

Here it is future lawyers - how life a 1L will be - @emli1000 you REALLY might want to take a look at this...

Hi everyone,

I'm taking somewhat of an LSAT hiatus for March (school, it happens) but I'm going to start a goal-setting/accountability thread here. Even if my goals will be pretty lean for the next three weeks, it'll be nice to have a solid motivation system in place for April, when I'm hoping to come back to LSAT with a VENGEANCE haha.

So the idea is that every week (let's say window from Sunday night to Tuesday morning), we post our tasks that we want to accomplish for the week -- and then the following week we check back and see if everyone managed to cross off the study items on their to-do list. :-) I'm hoping this will help us all stay motivated and accountable!

I was wondering if we could upload our study guides in this post for those taking the June and upcoming LSATs can always come back to this.

Hi people... today's dose of humor for the over worked: the LSAT will be GREAT... and you WILL go to law school... but don't turn into this person;) :

http://spiveyconsulting.com/blog/2015-usnwr-top-20-rankings-with-i-changes/

1. Yale

2. Harvard

2. Stanford (+1)

4. Columbia

4. Chicago

6. NYU

7. Penn

8. UVa

8. Berkeley (+1)

8. Duke (+2)

11. Michigan (-1)

12. Northwestern

13. Cornell

14. GULC (-1)

15. Texas

16. UCLA

17. Vanderbilt (-1)

18. Wash U

19. Emory

20. USC

20. Minnesota

Honorable mentions include UCI at #30, UC Davis at #31, BC at #34, GW at #23