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Last comment friday, sep 19 2014

Thoughts

Struggling.

I’m writing the exam in December.

I am getting through the material mostly ahead of schedule, but I’m not grasping some of the concepts. I think that being “less than perfect” the first time doing this is stressing me out.

Is it beneficial to not move ahead to next week’s lesson, print off the problem sets for each section, and re-do them. To give me a review of the past concepts (strengthening, weakening, MSS, ect), and to see if I’ve some-what improved a bit?

Then next week I can start on my lesson plans again.

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When I blind review an LR section, I usually end up getting 3-4 answers more correctly than when I do an LR section timed and this has been the case for the last month lol.. Just wondering if anyone has helpful tips or insight on how to lessen the difference between the two scores?

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Last comment friday, sep 19 2014

LSAT Burnout?

Hi Everyone,

I hope your LSAT studies are going well. I had three or four great tests in a row with time left over at the end of most sections. Now, I just feel tired all the time, have headaches, and always run out of time on each section no matter how fast I feel I am reading...I also have scores ten points below where I was at. Has anyone else been through this? Am I just burned out and need to step away? There's only a little more than a week before the test....HELP!

Thank you!

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Last comment friday, sep 19 2014

Transferring PDF Files

I am trying to transfer course PDF files onto a flash drive so that I may be able use a business size printer at my father's office, rather than print hundreds of pages off of my own printer, or even worse have to pay for them at a public library or something of that nature. However, when I transferred some of the files I wanted to print onto a flash drive for him to take to work, he could not access them once he tried to open any of the PDF's on his own computer. I understand that there may be some copyright restrictions on these files, however by paying for them I thought I would be able to transfer them for the purposes of printing. Can someone please tell me if this is even possible or has been done before?

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Last comment thursday, sep 18 2014

NYC

My diagnostic was 160 and I am aiming to break 170 by December. Would anyone in NYC like to collaborate?

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Hey everyone,

So like some others here on the forums, I am scheduled to write the LSAT September 27th. I had a plan for this week and next to write PT's 67-72. So far this week I have been successful, I have done 5 part PT's at the exact same time I will write the LSAT and using the proctor app. I was planning to get at least 2 PT's in next week (final week). However, I got accepted into the MBA program, so I will now have class next week from 9am-5pm. Thus, I lost the luxury of having a wide open schedule to match the LSAT conditions. Furthermore, I don't know that I will have enough time to hammer out the last 5 tests I have within the next 9 days, at least not while giving each test a thorough review afterwards.

So I am looking for some suggestions, should I peel back the number of tests I take? Should I do as many as I can, including deep review, but rather than go sequentially, maybe work backwards that way I can get the most recent tests in indefinitely? Since I won't have the whole day to study anymore, should I write full tests at night or just do individual sections? Would it be more beneficial to take say PT 70-72 under real conditions, and use PT 68&69 as timed individual sections (which will be more realistic to do given I only have the evenings).

I don't know I got caught off guard with the MBA offer and now my whole plan kind of got messed up and am looking for some advice, any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Christian

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Last comment thursday, sep 18 2014

Double Not Arrow

Do you guys use the double not arrow that the PS LR Bible is talking about? I haven't yet stumbled upon a lesson where JY talks about it so it doesn't look like he's particularly fond of it. I personally find it quite confusing. Is the same as /A (-) /B?

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I've finally managed to get my accuracy down (the score that I'd like to get in each section untimed) but am having a hard time transferring that over to timed sections and was wondering if anyone else has experienced this and how long it took for you to get your time down.

It's really frustrating and it doesn't help that I'm a risk adverse test taker!!!

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I have been prep testing with the newer LSATs (66-72) for the past few weeks. I have used up 66, 71, and 72 so far. I saved the newer ones for the tail end of my prep and was excited to tackle them since I started scoring from 160-163 on prior preptests, which is my target range. Unfortunately, I have scored a 156/157 on all the newer ones.

The difference in the score can be accounted for by my LR section performance alone. On each newer exam I have lost 18 points on both LR sections combined. Where on the older ones I lost anywhere from 8 to 12 points combined.

Any thoughts on how the newer LR sections are different and what is a good last minute approach to take toward improvement?

P.S. both my speed an accuracy seem to have suffered, however, it is more my accuracy.

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Hi 7sage community,

I've been studying for about three months now, but just enrolled in the course this week, and so also just started using Blind Review (fortunately still have plenty of PT left.) I did my first BR yesterday with a single timed LR section and absolutely loved it. This morning I crushed a PT and it's ready for BR. Let's goooo

My question: the process for BR-ing full length PTs. After completing all 4/5 sections, is it best to BR one section, check answers for that section, finish up the BR for that section, then move on to the next section and repeat? Or do people BR all 5 sections (i.e. go through entire test the first time), before inputting answers in Analytics and scoring? Intuitively I can see the benefit of the former, as the reasoning for each question is still completely fresh in my head, but maybe y'all have figured out the best system for this. Thanks in advance fellow LSAT warriors

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Does anyone have experience with or advice for a long wait between check-in and the start time of the test? I'm expecting issues due to a bunch of road closures near my testing center because of a marathon in the same area. I've been practicing getting up at 6:30 and taking a test at 9, but now I'm wondering if I should practice getting up at 6:30, staring at a wall for an hour and taking a test at 10, ha.

I'm mainly concerned with keeping up my intensity for a long period of time without my iPod or total freedom of movement.

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I'm chugging through the lesson plans, and I've completed about 45%. I'm writing in December, and I've almost completed the Reading Comprehension lessons.

At this point, when I get ready in the morning, I read through all of the PDF notes given to us. I do the lesson plans in the morning before work for an hour, at lunch on my lunch break, and from 1-3 hours after work.

Does anyone do anything additional to reading the notes? I know he suggested reading The Economist, but does anyone do anything extra? I did do the Kaplan Method previous to this, so I have exhausted a few LSATs, and I don't want to just keep practicing on LSATs in case I run out before I begin the actual practice portion of this LSAT help.

What are you doing?!?!

Thanks :)

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Last comment wednesday, sep 17 2014

Size of LG printouts

Does anyone have any ideas how to get the logic games to print out in a little larger size...more LSATish? Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks!

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Last comment wednesday, sep 17 2014

Printing Out PDF's

I would like to print out all of the PDF's for this course, however when I click on a specific lesson that is signified to contain a PDF file, the system marks that lesson with a "check mark", indicating that I have completed the lesson, which I clearly have not. Is there a way to download the PDF's from a lesson without having this occur?

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Last comment wednesday, sep 17 2014

Comparative reading

Hi everyone,

I've noticed that on the recent prep tests I've managed to get my hands on (albeit not the MOST recent out there) there is a comparative reading section. I noticed that there aren't really any lessons on this in the curriculum. Is comparative readings still part of reading comprehension on the LSAT or no? Thanks in advance.

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Last comment wednesday, sep 17 2014

Nerves, Any Tips?

Hey everyone! I just took Pt 72 this morning, and I was insanely nervous! I kept thinking that this this test "was it," and I ended up putting so much pressure on myself that I flopped! I missed 17 questions, 14 of them from sections 1 & 2. During my break, I received a text from my boyfriend, who knew I was nervous about this particular morning, reassuring me that it was just another test. After realizing he was right, the rest of the test went fine -- I ended up getting a 166. I've been very consistent between 168 and 172 for months, and I was really hoping to peak this morning.

I think at this point, the only thing standing between me and my best performance is my own anxiety about the test. I know that I will be nervous on the 27th, but I don't want to be paralyzed. I've put so much into this test and it would kill me to lose points to my nerves! Does anyone have any ideas for overcoming nervousness in order to achieve a top score? Any insight would be immensely appreciated! :-)

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Last comment tuesday, sep 16 2014

LR Breakdown

How do you breakdown your time during a LR section? Sometimes I feel like I'm spending too much time on a particular question and am wondering when I should skip it. As of right now I usually have about 15 mins left for about the last 10 questions give or take. On a side note, when you do see a hard question that is mainly just a time consumer how much time do you give it before moving on? Just looking for helpful ideas on how to tighten up my LR score and timing. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks guys!

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Last comment tuesday, sep 16 2014

Last word on swearing

I expected a few f-bomb responses. Yea, I'm well aware that people swear. I've dropped my share. But I don't go into a professional setting and expect to hear it. You don't walk into a Dillards and expect to hear the sales associate say "let me get you some f---ing pants" Its nice to have some places where you don't have to hear it. I can be "light" and "humorous" without swearing. And if everyone does it what's so humorous about it anyway? I have emailed J.Y. My complaints were heard. The end. On to the next lesson. Back to the LSAT.

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I really need some help with RC. I'm consistently scoring where I need to with LG and LR and can pretty much guess my scores at the end of those three sections after a PT but my RC is all over the board. I've gotten anywhere from a -4 all the way to a -13 and I can't really sum it up to anything specific. All of the times it will be something where I've narrowed it down to two wrong MP questions and pick the wrong one, or something like that. As I test I don't feel like I'm guessing and I seem to more or less understand the information/questions. I have tried a variety of different methods to get a better score but nothing seems to stick. More or less I just give it my best shot, roll the dice and hope that it is a good score. What have you guys done to score consistently in the high teens (where I need to get my target score) and not miss more then a -8 or -9 on a section? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Is it really necessary to be dropping f bombs and swearing through out the lessons? This is your product that you as a business are selling to customers. Don't assume that just because your customers are young they don't expect professionalism.

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Hi,

I'm taking the LSAT in December and I have a study schedule mapped out. I'm having a hard time with the sufficient assumption questions. I was doing really well. I understood the reasoning behind all of them, I could anticipate and get the answer when I did the questions before his videos to explain how to do it, but now that I'm on the quizzes I find that I can't even map out the stimulus by myself.

Did anyone else have this problem? What did you do to help yourself start understanding these types of questions?

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