@.hopkins Great plan on all counts! Feel free to PM me if you need help or just post in the forums :D

Thank you so much!

@ That said, being risk averse, I would get one... and that being the case, 7 sage is a really good course to get... better than many in the market and it will likely help you develop and get comfortable with the tools you need to do well on the LSAT.

Thanks for that. I have decided that I will start with the Trainer and if I don't feel I'm making the progress I need, I'll go with a 7Sage course.

Wow, the Cambridge downloads are expensive. I feel pretty strongly about taking 5 section exams, and those plus the sets of drilling problems will set me back more than $400. I guess it's probably worth it.

@.hopkins Please do this ... they still have them!

On it. Wow, they even warn of the impending unavailability of their downloads. Don't think I'm going to spring for the complete 1-70 set, but will go for something close. This is a no-brainer because regardless of whether I take a course, I'll need the preptests. Do people usually take 5 section preptests? Cambridge offers both 4 section and 5 section options (and 6, it seems).

@.hopkins No ! Just retake retake retake ... you will be a LG ninja.

Ok, so running out is not a concern. But to practice LGs the only way is to buy the PTs in their entirety right? Or am I missing something?

@ Since you're on the train you can pretty easily do logic games to kill time. Just fool proof them on the train and you'll be killing it pretty quickly.

Wow, thank you for your advice thus far. This is very helpful. Not to get too specific, but say I buy the Trainer (I'm ordering it today), I start a close read to really learn the material, then I start fool-proofing LGs on the train. Do I need to worry about running out of logic games by June, and is the best way to get them just to order a bunch of PTs and "extract" their logic games?

I don't mind lugging the Trainer with me if it is really that good of a book. I'm very intrigued by the possibility of this $50 book really having the ability to teach me what I need to know so that I can actually start doing PTs.

@.hopkins Go get

The LSAT Trainer

. Use one of the study schedules on

@

's site (

http://www.lsattrainer.com

). Take a few PT's at the end and see if you still need more. At that point you can purchase 7sage if you still need more help/fine-tuning.

Not to doubt you at all, but what is better about The LSAT Trainer than the PowerScore Bible? I've just seen so many testimonials around the various LSAT forums that commend the PS Bible. Also, I've heard that the Trainer doesn't use real old LSAT questions. Is that really a problem?

Thanks for that. I'm looking at the Starter or the Premium (although Premium would expire before June). I see what you mean about the tutors and agree it's probably better to wait. Also, I want to try to find a way to use this long commute to my advantage and actually study while I sit on the train. The videos might use too much data but bringing some practice LGs with me would be a good use of that time.

Nope, no Halloween-themed university. Where I went it's not actually called a "thesis" but it's close enough.

@ If you don't get your score you won't know what you need to work on and it will have been totally pointless.

@ You can learn far too much from your score.

Makes sense, but isn't a PT just as useful (maybe the real test is slightly more useful)?

Edit: My real objective is a 170, but to keep things realistic with the time remaining, I'm saying 165. I'm guessing this doesn't change anything unless a score disparity of 10 points would raise eyebrows among AdComs.

@.busis

I'm going to weigh in on the other side. If you think you can do better in September, you should cancel. You don't have to write an addendum to explain a cancellation, and an admissions officer won't look askance at it. I just don't see much upside to letting the score become official, and the downside is obvious.

This exactly what I was thinking, so I wanted to see if there were any convincing reasons not to cancel.

@

Don't cancel. It's not remotely worth it to cancel and getting a mediocre score might help focus you so you don't take it unprepared again. You're likely writing an addendum either way so you may as well see the score.

Do you mean that I will need to write an addendum about the cancellation or about the low score, depending on what I choose to do?

Anyone who had two LR sections: do you remember a question about bed mites?