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On top of the syllabus created for us in this course, should we be doing our own outside work? Should we be aiming to take 1-2 (or more) practice tests on our own a week?
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alessandrinicara48
Sunday, Nov 17 2013
No, that sounds pretty fair. Because my fear was utilizing all the practice tests before actually KNOWING what I was doing. Thanks :)
alessandrinicara48
Saturday, May 17 2014
this is a dumb question, i know, but can you use it on the actual test day? the website IMPLIES that, but doesn't necessarily SAY it.
alessandrinicara48
Saturday, Mar 15 2014
it's little gems like these that make me (almost) ok about spending a saturday night in studying haha
alessandrinicara48
Monday, Nov 11 2013
Not going to lie, just hearing other people stress how difficult and challenging the LSAT is makes it easier to swallow the lower scores that come at the beginning of prepping.
alessandrinicara48
Sunday, Mar 09 2014
honestly, i started off using those books and regret it more than anything. i feel like i now have to do far more leg work to rewire my brain in hopes of unlearning what they taught me. they are so convoluted with their details that you get lost and bogged down trying to interpret what's going on instead of spending time developing actual skills. for me, i think this became the most telling when i started tackling logic games their way. i would get to a practice test and FREEZE in panic as i tried to go through their list of TYPES of logic games (ie: pure sequencing, grouping/linear hybrid etc.) i could be looking at. even the way they tried explaining "the double not-arrow"... i just can't.
JY on the other hand, tells you from the get-go that there are two types of games: linear and grouping. and that's the truth. that one revelation is so priceless it helped undo the damage those books did to me and garner me so many of those coveted points.
Those books are expensive and confusing. They're not worth it. But if you think it's a good way to get acclimated and familiar with this beast of a test, go for it. Just do not use it as the definitive how-to.
alessandrinicara48
Tuesday, Jun 09 2015
I. Got. Spanked. Bad.
The silver lining in this was that I realized I was canceling my score before I finished so I used the experience as a (very expensive) PT. But I left there feeling pretty defeated. As a result, today's a stay-in pajamas- while-eating- Ben-and-Jerry's-and-sulking-in-my-own-self-pity kind of day. But after hitting up 7Sage and reading everyone's comments, I feel a hell of a lot better. It def voids out the self-loathing part of my day. We all did
alessandrinicara48
Tuesday, Jun 09 2015
I. Got. Spanked. Bad.
The silver lining in this was that I realized I was canceling my score before I finished so I used the experience as a (very expensive) PT. But I left there feeling pretty defeated. As a result, today's a stay-in pajamas- while-eating- Ben-and-Jerry's-and-sulking-in-my-own-self-pity kind of day. But after hitting up 7Sage and reading everyone's comments, I feel a hell of a lot better. It def voids out the self-loathing part of my day. We all did
alessandrinicara48
Tuesday, Jun 09 2015
I. Got. Spanked. Bad.
The silver lining in this was that I realized I was canceling my score before I finished so I used the experience as a (very expensive) PT. But I left there feeling pretty defeated. As a result, today's a stay-in pajamas- while-eating- Ben-and-Jerry's-and-sulking-in-my-own-self-pity kind of day. But after hitting up 7Sage and reading everyone's comments, I feel a hell of a lot better. It def voids out the need for a self-loathing part of my day. We all did good. We all tried. We gave it our best shot. And in the end... that's all you can really do. So just seeing that other people felt like this served as a stark reminder of that.
Guys, half the battle is having the balls to even take this beast of a test. We need to give ourselves credit for that. In no way, shape, or form did we fail. We experienced; we learned; we grew. Tomorrow's a new day and the battle will rage on and we will get up, brush ourselves off and take up our pencils and bubble sheets in arms.
alessandrinicara48
Sunday, Jun 07 2015
I took one at a center that was literally HALF the size of a piece of paper/the test itself. The administrators made each of us test takers sit so there was a seat between us... and we had to use that to place the test booklet upon, and the bubble sheet was directly in front of us at the one we were seated at. The amount of time it wasted trying to reach over to flip through the test was insane. Plus the noise it made every time each of us students moved and the wicked neck and shoulder cramps doing that gave us... it was not worth the aggravation.
Honestly, if you can push it... push it. It's not worth battling the stress and uncomfortableness on game day.
If that's not an option: you can try circling the answers in the test booklet itself. Once you fill up an entire page, then fill in the corresponding bubbles. That will save you TONS of time. HOWEVER, you have to be VERY VERY VERY VERY careful not to mess up the bubbles/mis-fill and that is very tricky under time constraints if you haven't been practicing like that.
alessandrinicara48
Thursday, Dec 05 2013
i had a friend that applied to law school twice. they did this (used Feb LSAT scores) the first time around and were not happy with the results. the second time around they were accepted into higher ranked schools with more scholarship opportunities. so it really depends on what your end goal is.
alessandrinicara48
Friday, Oct 03 2014
I had an issue with my testing center because of tiny desk seating - at a college I did my undergrad at and knew for a fact it was terrible in comparison to what the school had. I informed LSAC and got a pretty snarky suck-it-up-esque response. They don't care.
alessandrinicara48
Wednesday, Apr 02 2014
so i majored in english - that involved a ton of dry and convoluted reading that went on for paaaaaages. a lot of the times, if i'm being honest, i would come out of it wondering wtf i had just read. there is no shame in that, everyone does it. your brain begins to space out when something doesn't immediately catch your interest and captivate you. that means you have to make it fun. or, in this case, as fun as possible. start making a movie in your head about the things you are reading. if it talks about scientists manipulating genes to make crops insect resistant, start picturing kevin spacey in his full-on Outbreak (the movie) hazmat suit standing over a bunch of beakers and petri dishes yelling that he HAS to find the gene. it might seem dumb at first, but give it a shot, you'll be surprised how much more you retain.
another trick is reading it out loud. no, you can't do this test day so eventually you'll have to make it work in your head. but you can tweak the tactic a bit. pretend you have kids, and you're reading them a bed time story. kids seem to always want you to do different voices while really getting into character and acting out the words/delivering them with fervor. do that, IN your head. just pretend you're reading to your baby cousins and are trying to make this gene splicing sound super interesting. get excited, use different voices and read it with emotion - just, again, in your head.
the last thing i can say is after reading a really complicated/confusing paragraph, or maybe even sentence, stop. pause. reiterate into easier and more straight forward words what you just read. summarize it. because most of the time, these readings are just seeing if you get the jist of what's going on. you don't have to worry about focusing on memorizing each and every fact and figure, because the test will direct you to those exact lines "in lines 34-42 the scientist says 58.6 percent of..." focus instead on the overall purpose. ask yourself why they would be telling you all this.
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