Hi everyone,
I was wondering if it's necessary to write an addendum for explaining why I worked at a job for less than 6 months. I was also wondering if it's okey to include such jobs on resume or it's best to leave them out.
I would greatly appreciate your response. Thanks!
Just as a general question, for those who don't have a full-time job and are scoring 165+, how many hours do you study per day? I have less than a month left for my exam and would like to know how many hours I should be devoting to the LSAT in this last month.
Thanks in advance!
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Hi I was stuck in 159 for a while too and I found the easiest way to break in the 160s is to nail the LG. Foolproof all games from 1-35, and aim to get 0/-1 on PTs , then ultimately on test day. Good luck!
Thanks for the advice. If I may ask, have you taken the LSAT and what was your score? Also, if you had any difficulties with RC or LR, what methods/study routines did you find most helpful? I currently have less than a month to increase my score and hoping to find the most efficient way to do so.
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If there's one section that you really want to work on and improve, I think it's more than fine to devote a bigger chunk of your time to it, but still brush up on the other sections every day. So let's say you really want to focus on RC for a bit. I would start my study day with say an hour of RC. You could take a section and BR it, or you could really dive into a couple of passages. Then, after that hour, I would do a practice set of maybe ten-fifteen LR questions, and then maybe two logic games. That would probably take about forty five minutes. At that point I would take a break for about fifteen minutes. Then you could go back to RC for an hour. At this point, you've done three hours of studying, two dedicated to RC, but you've still kept sharp on LG and LR and you've practiced switching between the sections. It also helps you improve your stamina. I have found that if I'm given one section and I know I'm only doing that one section, I'll do better (by a couple of questions) than if I'm doing a full PT.
When you BR a full PT, you should be reviewing every single section/every problem that you got wrong. Otherwise, you're wasting the fresh PTs and not getting the most out of your time. If your PT reveals that you need to spend more time on one section compared to the other, you can do so when you drill/study before your next PT. But every PT needs to be about the test as a whole.
Thank you so much! This is super helpful for me and I will start using this method from now on. Good luck on the applications process.
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Just wanted to comment that I have the exact same problem! I've plateaued on my PT's at 156-159 and would love to get a 160 on September LSAT! Been doing 2-3 PT's per week, with blind review in between, and still not improving. RC is also my worst section. It's very make or break for me, on my best days I can manage a -7, on my worst days I've gotten as bad as -14! So I need all the advice I can get as well. Anyway good luck on your studying!
That is exactly me with RC. It's all over the place. Thanks, wishing the same for you!
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First of all, you've improved by twenty points already!! That's no small feat. It sounds like if you put together your best performances in each section on one PT, you'd be at your goal score. When you study, do you prioritize one section over the other for a day or a week? If so, I would try to get used to switching between the sections rapidly. On a test you don't have much time to reset your mentality. Even when you're doing drills, I would recommend spending a half an hour on RC, then LG, or whatever.
Thank you! So, I recently started devoting 3-4 days to RC to get a hang of what I should be doing/ my strategy and that's when my LR score started decreasing. But then again, I also started using more recent PT's, which felt a bit strange and foreign, comparing to the older exams I had focused on previously.
So, when you are reviewing after a PT or trying to increase your score in a certain section without ignoring the other sections, would you mind sharing how you divide your time?
Also, have you found it helpful to review the mistakes made on LR before bed or even before taking a PT?
Thanks in advance!
Hi all,
So I've been studying for the LSAT for the past 9 months. I started with a 138 and now PTing around 157-159. I struggled to balance studying with a full-time job until I decided to quit in April and focus mainly on the LSAT. Unfortunately, it feels like days are passing by and I'm not improving. I was usually pretty good at LR with -3 to -6 wrong on each section. I would get -5 wrong on the LG and would totally screw up the RC (my worst section). I began focusing on the RC and managed to get -8, but currently miserably messing up the LR. I've registered for the Sept. LSAT and really hoping to gtet at least a 163-165. please give me advice on what I should be focusing my time and energy on. Any tips or suggestions would be useful.
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I chose B, though I could understand how this was also overgeneralizing. Gov. Sponsorship is definitely not essential to flourishing art, my mistake was thinking it was referring to Mexican Muralist art. #help #help #help
Thank you all for your comments! Found each and every one of them helpful.
I barely read discussions on how people balance their time with their significant other and doing house chores while studying for the exam. Especially when you’re planning to study for 3+ months. My partner and I been together for 2+ years and for the past 1.5 months we’re both been studying for our exams (mcat/lsat) but we find it hard to coordinate and balance our time with each other/ cooking/cleaning/ shopping/ taking care of bills. Side note, I also work full time (8-5:30).
I was wondering if anyone has any advice on how to go about dividing tasks that will definitely not go away on their own. Especially cooking is a big issue for us.
I have the same issue with my LR score.
I would like that as well!
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Hi I was stuck in 159 for a while too and I found the easiest way to break in the 160s is to nail the LG. Foolproof all games from 1-35, and aim to get 0/-1 on PTs , then ultimately on test day. Good luck!
Thanks for the advice. If I may ask, have you taken the LSAT and what was your score? Also, if you had any difficulties with RC or LR, what methods/study routines did you find most helpful? I currently have less than a month to increase my score and hoping to find the most efficient way to do so.
Yes I took the real thing many times. Last cycle I got two identical scores in the high 150s, it was painful to see no improvement. For July I made a big jump to 164. I was happy with my score but also decided to retake in October for scholarship reasons. What I did differently before July was to foolproof+BR LG meticulously, also BR thoroughly for LR and RC. I did less PTs but spent more time BRing and I also tried to talk about the stimulus and why each wrong answer choices are wrong (no study partner so I talked to myself). I also made sure to use PTs from 70-80s because the LR and RC are much harder for me than those from the old tests. I was also able to fall asleep the night before the test for the first time and that definitely helped too (the key for me to overcome the anxiety is to realize that this test and what school I get into is NOT the most important things in my life).
You have only one month left so I'd prioritize LG since it's the easiest to improve. For LR my best advice is to BR. Check out Manhattan prep's LR explanations (free) and supplementing it with JY's. RC is my worst section too and I have no idea how I scored in that section in July but I found LSAT trainer and Manhattan prep's RC advice to be very helpful. Also keeping up with time markers (ex. finish two passages by 16 mins or so) helped me finish the section, too.
Hope this helps!
Thank you so much for the Advice!!