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andyabuitron785
Thursday, Oct 08 2015

I thank each and everyone for your honesty and constructive criticism

So much to think about it such little time. I am contemplating canceling my score, but the what ifs eat at me. The school that I would love to get into told me that they would choose the highest score and not the average. I literally have less than 24 hrs to decide whether to cancel or not.

The advantage I have is that time to study is on my side. I am not working, so I truly have all day to devote to studying.

As for a new study approach, would you all recommend starting from page 1 of the LSAT trainer and reading word for word? How should I incorporate 7sage? Obviously I can take a play out of each and everyone of your play books, you all are scoring high for a reason. What study method do you all follow (if I may ask)?

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andyabuitron785
Wednesday, Oct 07 2015

I purchased the LSAT Trainer and should be receiving it on Friday October 9th. As for my BR score believe it or not was 158 at its highest and 154 at the lowest. The most frustrating part was the amount that I actually spent studying for the Oct 3rd exam, however, I was just "reinforcing habits/thoughts/techniques that have proven to not be beneficial " as tanes256 pointed out.

Honestly the reason I am so eager to get this down and get into law school is that I'm about to be 36 years old in January, I have a wife who supports us our household and we have 2 kids (4yr old and 7month old) and I feel like my clock is running faster than I can keep up. In addition it was my first time taking it and I wanted to get a complete understanding of what I was up against in a real "game" situation.

I certainly hate settling and my competitive side is getting the best of me, my goal has always been 163, but as I got closer to test date and saw that number further and further away I began to settle for 146, which was the median for the school of my choice.

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Wednesday, Oct 07 2015

andyabuitron785

Mind Map & My prep update

On some of the videos you use the mind map note strategy, I was wondering if you have that available for purchase?

I took the Kaplan program in July and after 3 weeks I was completely lost and virtually clueless as to how LGs were being done and LR was not any easier. After looking online for other resources I found 7sage and it was a huge help especially in LG. It seemed like no matter what I did though I could not seem to determine the game type immediately and timing was/is killing. For RC and LR the biggest flaw I found about myself is the inability to read strategically, I keeping finding myself having to re-read over and over resulting in wasted time and repeating the same mistakes.

This has to be the most stressful exam I have ever taken in my life. When I would see some of the anticipated answers that people would come up with it was a WTF moment for sure. Overall I must say that I enjoyed the challenge and whatever my score is I am ok with. The score is certainly not a result of lack of effort that's for sure.

My lowest prep test score was 136 and highest was 140, I know that Saturday's test was no better. Time to prepare for the December test though.

Any advice, comments or criticism??

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