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Study Groups · Skype Study Group - Join me in drills and reviews of preptests!

63987

Saturday, Jun 30 2018

please dm me and we can create a skype groupchat or a whatsup group chat. dm me and I'll give you my number and/or skype username. we can set up times. I can take a poll on best times for everyone. again, i want this to be big enough so that if any of us need to group study, we have someone online or meeting up so we can all be more productive and ready for this test!

LSAT · Shamelessly Requesting a Confidence Boost

63987

Thursday, Jun 28 2018

I get it. When I took my first official test, I was working two jobs and I was a full-time student. I didn't do well obviously because that's just crazy. Now I wake up at 5 AM to beat traffic and work from 8-4:30 in an office dealing with clients in child support cases as a case analyst and it's exhausting. I come home at 5:45 and I gotta rush to cook and make coffee in an hour so I can study from 7pm - 10:30 or 11 pm. Then go to sleep for like 5 hours and do it again. Weekends I have all day to study and that's fine, but I needed more. So I did a weird thing and now when I come home I go to sleep immediately. I go to sleep at 6 pm and I wake up at 12 am or 1 am and study until I have to go to work. I first wake up, stretch and yoga for 15 minutes after drinking ice-cold water (to jolt myself awake). I then eat a quick breakfast (oatmeal and eggs) that takes me 15 min to prep. I go and start studying while drinking coffee. I start with either reviews or a logic game drill (it's my best section and requires the least brain power for me, do your best section). After I wake up more and I'm more able to concentrate, I get on it and might even do a practice exam (4 sections only tho, no breaks). Then I do this until 5:20 AM and get ready and leave for work. Because traffic is so awful, I leave earlier than I would like to and get at work an hour early (I get there at 7) and then I do a drill or review.

It's so much better. Because I get you, you feel so depleted and tired once you get home from work that you can't concentrate. Before, I would often fall asleep at my desk and would have to be carried by my bf to bed. He wouldn't set the alarm and I would wake up rushing to work and would get my extra hour of study before work. And I wasted so much time. Now, I feel so much better studying and I give myself a weekday free of studying every week so I don't burn out. I feel so much more rested too. Instead of sleeping late so I can increase study time and sleeping for only 5 hours. I now sleep from 6-7 hours and study at my leisure. Also I live in a house that's kinda hectic, so it's noisy in the evenings (roommates and stuff). So when I study in the middle of the night, it's so quiet and I can concentrate. It's great. You'll fuck up your sleeping schedule for a few months/weeks, but for the LSAT it's worth it.

Study Groups

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Thursday, Jun 28 2018

63987

Skype Study Group - Join me in drills and reviews of preptests!

I love working in a combination of both independent study sessions and group study sessions. That comprehensive experience really helps me understand the material in all perspectives. So please join me in a Skype study group if you would like. Comment below with your score and your weak section type and strong section type. Also comment your availability.

My average score is 160, my highest score being 164. My weak section is LR and my strong section is LG. I'm kinda so-so on RC. My availability includes week days from 6 pm - 10:30 pm. Saturday and Sundays from 10 am - 3:00 pm (sometimes later) and again on weekends from 6 pm - 11 pm. I work so any other time is really not feasible, but don't be afraid to meet up together without me. You don't have to show your face or even expose your voice in Skype if you don't want to. Just really live feedback and discussion would be great.

Once you comment, I will message you individually and we can all study together. If we have enough members, hopefully there will be someone online whenever any of us would like to study.

Hope to hear from you guys :D

LSAT · LR Speed

63987

Thursday, Jun 28 2018

When I first start a section, the first 9-12 questions I generally take about 1-1:30 min for each question. I haven't timed the stimulus specifically, but I guess I can estimate it to 0:30-1 min. I have found that personalizing it has really helped me a lot.

So like if they are talking about dinosaurs, in my head I come up with a name or I imagine the guy from Back to the Future talking to Marty about the problem. If it's about heart disease or health related problems. I imagine a really stupid doctor trying to explain to me my own health condition but with flawed logic, then I imagine that I would want to correct him and try to decide how I would correct him. I was also in debate team, so in debate team, we are trained to find the inconsistencies in arguments. So assume every argument is wrong until proven valid and try to nitpick it and prove it wrong in your head.

Sometimes if it's an obscure fact like there was this one question about cow mattresses, I imagine a rude and pretentious student raising his hand and saying "Actually..." before explaining some weird fact no one cares about and then I would try to prove him wrong in my head.

Personalizing the questions in my head made me focus more instead of being disassociated with the questions and rereading because it was so boring I didn't focus. It also motivated me to undermine the argument. Even in assumption or strengthen questions, I would find the fault of the argument and try to fix it by using one of the answers in the question.

Generally, I do a lot of the questions and skip the parallel and parallel flaw questions (because they take the longest) and I come back to them when I'm finished with the rest of the section. Saves me time and increases my accuracy.

LSAT · how long take you -1/-2 in RC consistently? Wide fluctuations - how to build consistency in RC?

63987

Thursday, Jun 28 2018

@ said:

hey all,

i've been drilling RC for a few weeks, and I've been facing lots of fluctuations in RC. My timed score can range from like -4 to -7. My BR scores range from like -2 to -7.

I get really happy when I see a BR score of -2, but then really sad when I see a BR score of like -7.

How long did it take ppl to get consistent with RC - where they're consistently hitting like -1/-2? It's kinda frustrating to see this kind of fluctuation. And any advice on how to get there? Thanks!

I was able to reduce my average wrong per section from -5/6 to -1/2 by focusing on structure rather than details, taking note of all relevant view points and being aware that in RC, like LR, evidence is being presented and ideas are being expressed for a reason and to understand the function of different parts of the passage enables you to understand the arguments being made and answer the questions with much more confidence.

Oh wow, that's an interesting strategy. I might steal that. When I first started RC, I was notating like crazy. I was using it as a crutch. After I stopped myself from notating, my score shot up to now an average of -5/-8. Lately, my average has been hitting -3/-5 because I have been focusing more on time strategies, but I feel like that structure strategy (where you focus on the structure instead of the details) would save me time and drop my incorrect question total to a competitive score. Thanks for the insight.