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I take my first official LSAT tomorrow, if I get my goal score I'm naming my future first born Kevin Sage.
Goodluck to everyone else who is taking it and to those who are waiting for their score release. I hope everyone gets the score that they want, but, regardless, everyone should be proud of all the time and work they've put in. Undoubtably everyone has learned something from studying. Just remember not to make a single number the biggest thing in your life, it does not define you or your potential!!
Best of luck, and I'm totally open to comments of what to expect on test day!
i would recommend using the search bar at the top of the screen (above the passage). I found that helped me a lot for answering questions. I mainly use it when the question is asking for the authors view on a specific thing, I'll search that specific thing up and read around each of the times the word was used. However it is also helpful for a lot of other questions. Split passages that ask what was mentioned in passage A but not B, for example, you can just search all the words and pick whatever is highlighted in one but not the other. Additionally, you can search specific words in an answer choice to check if the passage talked about that specific thing. I used to be afraid to do this because i thought i would waste a lot of time searching the words, but personally i found i save more time just searching and finding the answer with 10 seconds than i would if i didn't search and just kept rereading the answers trying to remember what i read/didn't read.
Adapting the mentally that you dont have to finish RC also helped me. If you spend longer than recommend on a passage or an answer in order to make sure you are getting all of the answers you encounter right, then it doesn't matter too much if you cant get to the last few questions in the final passage and just have to guess on them.
I also saw a comment asking about highlighting, and personally, i highlight all opinions, author & critics, in yellow and then i highlight everything that i think will be important to the main point or for answer the questions in pink. It makes it useful for when the answers ask for an opinion, i can just glance back at the passage and skim my yellow highlights, and for really hard mp questions, if the answer isnt obvious, you can also go back and skim your pink highlights to get an idea of the most important stuff. Obviously you have to use some intuition for whats most important, but i think that part also helps me focus on whats really going on in the passage and practice active reading.
Best of luck, you got this!
LSAC cooking up ways to deliberately make the interface worse and worse each update
I took E to mean that the students in Granville had left/went to the surrounding regions, which would explain Granville's decline and the other regions increase. Obviously that assumption didn't work in this case, but is that also a dangerous assumption to make for other questions and answers? #help
@businessgoose I would use whatever you plan on using in the exam, if you're going to use smth for noise canceling i would study that way too. Personally I use a normal Bluetooth headset that i just have turned off when I study in public! I havent taken the actual test yet, i take my first in august so i have no clue for test anxiety, but I find doing a timed drill of 5 lvl 1-3 difficulty question before i take my pts helps me get over the stress of the clock and helps to remind myself that I'll be fine during the pt. Hopefully that helps some!
It sounds counterproductive, but i would advise not thinking about it much and acting like its your first test. If you get in your head about it being the last exam and "needing" to do good, you'll most likely be so stressed out when you go to take the test that you wont be able to properly take it. Just trust the fact that you know you're capable of a 170.
I'd also say try to take your practice pts somewhere public, if you're able to. It will help you get comfortable taking pts in a strange place and hopefully that will transfer over to your actual test. Places like cafés or public libraries, etc. If you think it might be an anxiety aspect too you can also try to get testing accommodations or medication to help control the fight or flight.
@BrandonSharif the "un" attached to "un"comfortable implies not or opposite. so rather than graphing the word uncomfortable as : uncomfortable ---> /well designed, you can just graph it as /comfortable ---> /well designed. Then when you go to do the contrapositive it gives you well designed ---> comfortable.
I didn't watch the video so idk if he explains that, and this post was a few days ago so idk if this comment is even necessary, but hopefully this helps some.
@RinHan great mindset lmao im trying to gaslight myself into thinking that too. Goodluck!!