I'm not sure if I'm taking June or July so this is perfect! CierraMJ@.com

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Edit: figured out how to switch to simple. It was on part of the CC where it was defaulting to the regular player. (I saw on some of the videos I'm on now there's a button to switch back to regular) Its working fine now though.

Count me in too! June is my plan, I might bump to April or July depending on how I’m feeling as it gets closer

I've always thought of myself as "first gen" since neither of my parents graduated college. But one of my grandparents did. Does that make me not a first gen? I've never thought about it too hard but this thread has me wondering...

Having this problem today.

ASUS, Windows 10

in US

nothing interesting happening. Its only do it to every other video though. Usually refreshing will fix it but not today.

Thanks!

I'm about 30% through and I haven't started timing myself yet. I'm focusing more on really understanding the concepts, taking as much time to answer questions as I need to be 100% confident. I have seen the advice given of using a "counting up" timer vs setting a time limit. So sometimes on the 5 questions quizzes I'll start a stopwatch just to see how long it takes me. I'm definitely eating up more time than I can afford on test day but I'm getting the questions right which for me right now is all I'm focusing on.

I don't think I'll start actually timing myself until I get into PT every week.

Missed this question cause I thought Oolong was a type of black tea. Ugh. Haha.

@ That’s what they did for me! I had huge problems with ProctorU on Sunday and I did my re-take Friday. Much better experience the 2nd time around. Now I just have to worry about them reporting the wrong score haha.

Is it the case that "If" overpowers "not", and "not" is merely a negation and not a logical indicator?

This is correct, "not" isn't an indicator, merely a negation. "Not both" is one but "not" on its own isn't.

To answer your other question, if there's more than one logical indicator just pick one and ignore the other. I've translated sentences both ways just to test it and never had them come out as different translations before. When I was at that part in the curriculum I always ended up picking the one not picked in the videos but my translation was still correct using the other indicator.

Another idea would be to attempt only 3 of the passages, completely leaving the 4th passage alone. Leave the one with the least amount of questions, and complete the other 3. If you can get your accuracy to 100% on the passages you do attempt this alone with help your score. Once you're in a good rhythm and hopefully getting faster, you can try adding back in the last passage. You've got time!

I think the goal of highlighting should be to give yourself markers to refer back to. For example, if the passage gives a list, I will highlight the words indicating 1st 2nd 3rd, etc. You can't remember every detail of the passage but its an absolute must to remember where everything IS in the passage. For these type questions I eliminate the ones I know are outright wrong, and then go back to the part of the passage where I know the information is and double check the rest. Usually takes about a minute.

I would also consider picking between highlighting and lo-res and see if you can keep your accuracy only doing one. If you plan on completing all 4 passages, 5 mins is a lot of time to spend up front unless you're absolutely flying through the questions. I use the +2 method for timing, (# of questions plus 2 mins) and this would mean for a passage with 6 questions you'd only have about 3-4 mins to answer all the questions, which seems like your accuracy would suffer.

Just play around with it and see what works. It took me a lot of trial and error to figure out what worked for me for RC!

RC is also my worst section and I've been working really hard on it and beginning to see improvement. My last PT I only missed 4 and was -0 on BR which has never happened. What I did was read A LOT of passages and I actually took a week off of PT-ing and just studied. When I'm actually taking a test I find the science passage and do that one first, I'm a STEM major and these are usually easy for me so I do that one first to warm up my brain. Then I tackle the two with the most questions next, leaving the shortest one for last so if I end up close on time at least I have less questions to answer.

While I'm reading I ask myself, why is the author telling me this and why should I care? This was a natural result of me thinking "oh my god who cares?!" for weeks since the material is so foreign to me. I think this is what has helped me the most. I also highlight the main point of each paragraph and words that point to the authors opinion.

It was a lot of trial and error to see what worked best for me.

@ I had one about bankruptcy and a science one about fossils. I can’t remember the other two.

I had a MAJOR problem with ProctorU though. I noticed at the beginning of RC that none of my highlight/underline tools were working and I immediately asked the proctor to pause my test while we investigated. She made me prove to her it wasn’t working, and didn’t end up actually pausing my test until 15 mins has gone by (the whole time asking me questions via the chat so I wasn’t able to work on any passages). After 1.5hrs of waiting she came back and said my choices were cancelling on the spot and LSAC would reschedule me for July/August or finishing. They couldn’t add back all my time that they had wasted. I chose to finish but did an entire RC section in 20 mins. Good times.

@ I'd start with the childcare situation and go from there. That is really going to determine the path forward more than anything else. We were in a situation where we couldn't afford childcare for 2 kids even if I was working, so we decided I would stay home until they were older and the cost of childcare dropped. The day to day functioning will work itself out as you go, who gets the kid up and ready in the morning, who does bath while the other cooks, etc.

If you can't secure affordable, reliable childcare then you guys have some serious talks ahead. The only reason my husband has been successful at his career, and he has told me this so its not exaggeration, is because I put my career on hold to take care of things at home and the kids.

One your baby is born you guys will find a new rhythm and you'll get a taste of that "making it work" and it won't feel so daunting!

I don't keep them. I take them all digitally so there's nothing to keep except my scratch paper anyway.

I have yet to remember every answer. There are SO MANY games to use, that even going through them all multiple times I've only gotten to maybe 3 times each. And some I haven't taken in a month, there's no way I remember the answers haha. Once I can get -- 0 on a game within the time suggested I usually don't do it again.

Keep a spreadsheet! I made one to track suggested completion time, how long it actually took me, and how many I got right for each attempt. Really hard ones I mark in red to remind me to do those ones more frequently. This helped me see what types of games were tripping me up more than others and focus my studying on those types more.

Not law school specific yet (I don't plan on starting until Fall 2021) but I've got 2 kids and had them while my husband was in medical school. Similar amount of work, crappier hours. We did it with no family or friends around to help as we moved for med school and at 30 & 32 didn't have a lot in common with his classmates.

Realistic expectations. My first was 9 months when my husband started and our 2nd was born at the end of his 1st year. So they were babies most of the time. I stayed home the first 2 years and then went back to work when the youngest was 1. With two busy parents some things are just going to fall by the wayside and you have to be ok with that. Find quick and healthy meals and eat them on repeat, don't cook anything that takes more than 30 mins. Your house might get messier than you like, it'll be ok. For the next three years your main goal is survival, that's it.

When my husband was home he was helping. 95% of the childcare and home was my responsibility but he would come home if he could and then work from home once they went to bed. Yes he had to study, and in the later years he had to work 80+hrs a week, but he was never "too tired" to help out when he was home.

He's even busier now that he's in residency, hence why I'm waiting until he's finished for law school, but we still follow all the same rules.

I'll be 36 next month and applying next cycle, planning on the June test but may push it up to April if I'm PTing close to my target. Trying to work part-time, study, and take care of 2 kids while my husband works 80+ hours a week is....challenging haha. Started CC in June and just starting PTing end of Oct. I have a lower GPA since I went to community college and skipped a bunch of classes for 2 years haha, the last 2 years I have a strong GPA in a STEM degree but those LSAC calculations are not my friend haha. Also hoping to do well enough to get some scholarship $$$ since my husband's grad school loans are $$$$$$$ and we can't really afford to add to them. Excited that its finally 2020 and I'm applying THIS YEAR!!!

I agree with @. For me personally, I've been out of school 7 years now, and it'll be 8 years when I apply next cycle. There's zero chance of me getting any academic letters. I was a transfer student to my university, did gen ed at a community college 10 years before I graduated, and only had my professors for one upper level class and that's it. So for better or worse, all my letters are going to be from employers. I think the key with professional LORs is that you let the person writing them know it needs to speak towards how you would be in an academic setting. So instead of "@ Kane is a team player" it would say "@ Kane has shown great attention to detail, which I think would serve her well in an academic setting because...."

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Seems redundant to say but...same!