Arguments welcome. You can simply say yes or no. I think the "yes" case is harder to make.

I am a mother of two, and it's just us three; I work forty hours a week, and about 1.5 yr away from completing my undergrad. I'm taking the LSAT this June. Obviously my study time is limited, but I am using any free time I can manage to get to study, and so far for a couple of months I have just been reading the LSAC guide to the LSAT and Superprep book. I've taken two PTs, and am not happy with my score, I definitely want a boost of at least 10 points. What exactly am I to be studying? Surely it's more than the guides to the LSATs, what can I be studying and practicing? Do I just take PTs over and over for the practice? I have two more PTs left on me that I have not taken, where can I get more? Considering my situation it is a little difficult to get a solid "schedule" in, I spend a vast amount of time studying/reading, but this also includes my undergrad school work, while my kids sleep, so that is a few hours each night. I think I should start waking up an hour early in the mornings to study, but that's just one extra hour a day, I guess some is better than none. Any advice please? Most importantly, I need to know what exactly I should be looking at to study or practice...thanks in advance.

@emli1000 now THIS is what I was talking about!!!

Forgive me if this has been addressed previously, but I am looking for guidance in regards to a GPA Addendum. During undergrad, I had a couple things happen that had a part in my low GPA. The two most pronounced were a family tragedy and working many many hours in a family business to help overcome that loss of my father. I also have several instances that I can mention where my true ability as a student was evident when my life finally settled down towards the end of college. Right now, my rough draft is 2 pages double spaced. This feels odd because my personal statement is going to be required to be the same length. Can an addendum be too long? Any other advice would be greatly appreciated.

Hi all 7sagers.

I will take my first LSAT in June and just finished all the course today. Finishing the course, I have few simple questions that who took any tests find very small, but fairly important for the first test takers. It would be very nice of you to share your test knowledge with me :) Thanks!

1. They said only a zip bag is allowed in the test center. So will there be some place to put my cell phones, bags, and other personal belongings in the test center outside of the actual test room? or should I leave everything in my car?

2. I bought a LSAT watch last week, thinking wow this is such a good tool for timing. Then today I saw the post JY saying that it is not kosher. Does it still hold? I quickly searched on this issue on the Internet, and people seem to agree on that it is okay to use LSAT watch on the test day. Does anyone know for sure?

There will be a study group to BR PT 41 tomorrow at 7 pm eastern time. If you would like to join please let me know so that I can add you to our Skype study group.

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?

Currently I am drilling LR questions and games questions after classifying them into categories and questions types.

For the purpose of perfecting my logic, i review my LR questions with my blind review method, yet from time to time during the process of reviewing i am not exactly sure if i am memorizing the content of questions or getting to get familarized with logic present in those questions. In other words while i am jotting down the analysis of stimulus and the reasons why other answer choices are wrong, I keep thinking if this review is dissecting the logic or dissecting the specific content of stimulus which seem like basically the same thing during the review process.

Have you ever got the feeling of just memorizing questions when you do the review?

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?

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.

I have the Cambridge sets and I wanted to know where I could find the written explanations for these questions? Thanks.

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?

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.

Its not all that painful... Life in law school gets easier ;)

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

Do anyone in the NYC area care to meet up and study, exchange thoughts or anything? Also is there any places that are giving Practice LSAT exams that I can start taking right now for the June LSAT. I take exams by myself but I would like to take them in a different setting, more like test day.

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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!

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!!!:

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!

Some A's are not B's

A's -----> not B 's

(some)

What if I want to negate some A's are not B's?

would the negation be ....

B's ---> not A's some B's are not A's?

(some)

or would it be

no A's are not B's?

A->B?

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?

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?!"

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