@ But with three colors I could see how I could disregard the pencil all together and end up with a notation that popped more than boxes and circles and underlines.

@ Quick question - do you know if the LSAC actually allows more than one highlighter? I've been hearing that they were super strict on a lot of what we can and can't bring, and although I checked out their Do and Don't brings list and highlighter is specifically allowed, I think I remember hearing from somewhere that we were only allowed to bring one yellow highlighter (or I might be remembering wrong I'm not sure, I just don't want to devise a method just to find out I can't apply it during test day)

Unfortunately I was planning for this meeting to be earlier, and I won't be able to stay for too long :/ if someone could post a recap I would really appreciate it! Really looking forward to reviewing as a group!

@ Thanks! I missed that post going through the forums. I appreciate it!

LOL I never fail to laugh at that Billy Madison clip. Looking forward to the BR session this Wednesday! Thanks for setting this up

Yeah I'm pretty curious about that too, I've heard mixed reviews about whether it's good to prepare before 1L or not, ranging from go take a pre law course to nah, just relax over the summer. Hoping someone could give their input!

1 I’m from New York, currently a rising senior undergraduate studying Psychology and double minor in Web Design and Mandarin. I got pretty involved in some of the student organizations at my school; I was on the executive board of a international co-ed fraternity that specialized in community service, and also on the executive board of a cultural club. A lot of my past internships were relevant to law or government, and I kind of just got more and more into it so I think this is the next right step for me.

2 My personal statement and LSAT score. I have no idea what to write and my dad doesn’t want me to take a gap year so I’m signed up for the September LSAT but I’m not scoring where I want to be.

3 My internship at a intellectual property law firm last summer and this summer. One of my recommendation letters will be from this law firm and I did various things as an intern so I’m not sure which aspect to focus on. One of the big things I did was a presentation and a paper on genetically modified foods and organisms, where I discussed the impacts of genetic modification on the foods that we eat, any potential risks and harms, the goods and the bads, etc. - but I feel like this is not enough to talk about in my personal statement, since the only things I think I can highlight is that I had to practice and learn to get over my fear of public speaking, and learn how to parse reliable information and sources from biased ones. I guess I could also talk about the other paper I did about the DTSA, or the legal research I did for one of the attorneys but there’s not too much depth I can get into.

3.5 I think this topic might be better in an addendum than an actual topic. My grandma, who brought me up, was diagnosed with some destructive diseases during my sophomore year. Since I live with her, my academic life was thrown into a bit of chaos and I didn’t know how to cope for a while, resulting in a W on my transcript and a slight dip in my GPA.

4 I attended last webinar, but we ran out of time.

@ I'm definitely interested! PMed you

Hi! Could you add me please, if I'm not too late?

Thank you so much for planning this! Count me in :)

Definitely glad to hear I'm not the only one who struggled on this and ultimately decided on pushing back as well. Let me know if you (or anyone else deciding to take Sept one instead) is interested in forming a study group or becoming study buddies!

I've actually been pretty anxious to get started preparing and studying for the Sept 2017 exam and I don't want to wait until after June to start, either.

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The only thing I think having a separate call/meeting could be useful is to just kind of go over things at a higher level. Go over study plans, what you want to accomplish this week, etc and run questions off of one another. This tends to lead to greater accountability which diminishes the ease of flaking/backing out of certain things.

I really like this idea and would love to know if any of you would be interested in setting something up prior to the official study group for the Sept LSAT so we can get an early start.

Thank you for the responses everyone! I'm definitely going to be withdrawing from the September LSAT and reconsidering the next year of my life haha :)

Unfortunately I don't think I could afford to just study full time and not work or do an internship as well. Do you guys think it's risky to take the February LSATs? I've heard a bunch of mixed stuff about it - some say don't because it's undisclosed and might not be as similar to the released PTs - but I'm not sure how accurate that is?

I'm interested! Thanks for hosting this!

@ If the "upcoming test" will only allow you to apply for next cycle, than so be it.

Haha thanks for making it easier. My worries about applying for the next cycle is what to do in the gap year. Do you think it would be better to get a job and study on the side, or study full time LSATs?

@ Thanks for responding! I seem to be stuck in the mid-160s as well, do you have any tips that you found helpful that have helped you gain points? I can feel myself inching closer to 170, but only on the older tests, and sometimes my test scores fluctuate wildly :(

@ First thank you (and everyone else) for replying. Yeah, studying LSATs with a full time job is harder than studying LSATs as a student - at least as a student I can choose to wake up extra early to take a preptest before classes, which isn't something I can do if I work a regular 9-5 job. Do you maybe have any suggestions as to if I should work at a job that may be of use in the legal field (like paralegal or something) that may have a lot of hours, or maybe focus on a job that is easy with flexible hours but won't necessarily look good on my resume?

Definitely interested! Thanks for setting this up :)

Sadly I won't be able to join in this Sunday :( some things came up, but good luck and I hope to join you guys next weekend!

"If I'm a rice lord... like a drug lord but instead I'm dealing in illicit rice" LOL

JY, you make reviewing the LSAT actually enjoyable for moments like these

Will it be recorded? I really want to attend but I don't think I can make it :(

My reasoning for B being a weakening answer choice (and therefore wrong) during the exam was that the stimulus specifically says "interest among recent NA college and university graduates in choosing...has declined" and B is saying that the average age has increased, so I thought it was saying that the applicants are older, therefore it's not recent graduates.

Maybe I read way too much into that part of the stimulus...

I actually stayed from the beginning to the end for yesterday's session from 7PM EST to around 11PM and I think we can actually fit the entire BR into one session if we streamlined the process a little bit.

For starters, I noticed that there were a lot of pauses during the session where we weren't sure what questions people had, or who wanted to go over what. I propose that before each session, we have a shared poll or Google docs/sheet and people can list or vote on which questions they wanted to go over per session. That way, we have a general idea of how much material we need to cover before the session even starts. And of course, if anyone during the session suddenly realizes that they have a question they forgot to put in, they can just list it in the chat. I think it might also be helpful perhaps to prioritize which questions to go over based on which questions people seem to be struggling with on most from the Google docs/sheet.

Yesterday, we managed to cover both LR session and RC. Someone said that LG used to be covered, but because of the nature of LG, it would be better to just watch the videos provided by 7Sage. And even if people did want to go over strategies, (correct me if I'm wrong) someone said that it would take a max of like 5 minutes just to go over strategies and such.

I'm all for splitting the BR into two different sessions if that's what the majority of people want, but I think it might end up alienating people who have tighter schedules. I used to study for the LSAT while having an internship/job and being a full time student so I understand putting aside two giant blocks of time could be really difficult for some people. Thankfully I'm fortunate enough to have just graduated and be allowed to just study for the LSATs until September without a full time job, but I understand the struggles of people who are unable to do so, and I think streamlining the process would be better than splitting the BR session into two. Just my two cents.

Interested!

@ Thanks man! I'll see if I can find out, I mean the worst thing that can happen is they take it away and I'll go back to the old simple pencil method