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Tuesday, Jan 05 2016

Well, I recently finished the 7sage course, I'll be done with the Trainer this week, and will start full PTing +BR next week. While I've done roughly 20 PTs all over the place since I first started over a year ago, I plan on starting fresh from PT 35 up to 77 (theoretically will take 5 months at a rough rate of 2-3 PTs a week), going in a linear fashion and squeezing in some chances to take tests over again-------until I figure out some better approach (If anybody's got a better outline, I'd love to hear it).

Do you have an idea of where the cutoff between "old" and "recent" PTs is? Just in the interest of getting a representation of how I would potentially perform on test day.

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Tuesday, Jan 05 2016

Aside from working full-time, I don't have any obligations and even that isn't so taxing on my study time. My main concern with June is that there's a whole awkward 4 months between then and October and I don't want to have to exhaust all the PTs and resources in prep for June and then have to reinvent or pick myself up all over again depending on how I score. I know you could say I could leave some PTs behind but I feel like I'd be holding myself back as opposed to going all in. I don't know where I would go after June unless I got very near to what I'm aiming for. Even though I've been studying for a year and 6 months now (on and off though) taking my time for October seems way better and then December is right afterwards in case test day anxiety or minor hiccups come in the way (which I think very likely will be the case). But I really hate not taking advantage of applying as early as possible.

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Tuesday, Jan 05 2016

asiu725

June v. October

Does it make sense to apply to a school with your June LSAT score, in the interests of taking advantage of submitting your app early, with the expectation of scoring 5-7 points higher in October (big reach, I know, but hypothetically)?

Alternatively, would it be better to take it first in October, with December as the inevitable back-up, and submit apps in January? The benefit would be a stronger first score, since I know I'd perform better if I took it in October rather than June, but the cost is the submission date. If I were to do this, would it be possible to submit my app after my October score, regardless of what I get, and update the school with December (to mitigate the cost of relatively late submission) or should I wait until after?

Thanks in advance

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