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Thanks man, you as well!

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Thank you! This is a great community. One of the best choices I have made.

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Thanks for the tips! Are you working towards September take or just waiting until you are ready?

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work. Congratulations!

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I think you are correct. I will probably take a break till Monday... The test was affecting my life in a negative way. I guess it can do that when it means so much to you.

Just have to remind myself slow and steady, results will come.

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That is awesome man - I am sure with the attitude you have you will definitely achieve your goals! Are you still working through the CC?

@.rizeq

I've been feeling so attached to the test. The stress had been weighing me down for the past week or so. Postponing feels like it's taken a huge weight off my shoulders.

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Thanks for the reply. When you take an old test how do you approach it? If you were in my position would you reccomend going back through the CC and continuing to work through the games of old tests (1-36) as well as the tests I have already completed (37-48)?

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Thanks for all the advice and encouragement! I wish you the best! Are you taking the December test? How long have you been studying for?

You guys are great! Thanks for helping me reaffirm I am doing the right thing!

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Thanks for linking me that webinar! I haven't really watched any of them. Any others you suggest?

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Thanks for the reply. It was a tough decision but I know I won't be ready. This test has a rough way of letting you know. I'm thinking going back through the CC emphasizing areas of weakness that have been illuminated by the analytics system. Anything else you would suggest?

@ Your response is directly contrary to the posts above you. I wouldn't think it would be too difficult to talk about someones achievements based on a resume stating a 4.0 GPA in Finance as well as involvement on campus and volunteering. Not to mention receiving a high A in their upper level class. My classes are huge and I never needed to go talk to a professor to receive help or anything like that. @.rizeq seems to think a great LOR can be drafted by a professor who doesn't know you personally. Obviously, it would be better if I was great friends with the professor writing me a LOR but that is not easy at the University of Florida where class sizes are large.

Not to hijack your thread but is it frowned upon to ask for LOR's from professors that don't know you personally... I attend a big public school (UF) and all my classes have been 500+ students. I will be in some smaller classes this fall but I will need LOR's pretty early to go with my September LSAT score so I am not sure what I should really do... Wait and ask professors who might know me a little better or ask some of my other professors who do not know me but I have received A's in their classes.

I just see LG's as the part of the test that is "easiest" to do well on. LG's are very much learn-able. I started at -18 and am averaging -6 right now. I know that if I can master LG's I have 10-12 questions to work with on the other 3 sections to score where I would like. To me, this is enough motivation!

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After every test I thoroughly review every question I missed, typing out explanations for every wrong answer etc.

So, how are you BRing? It’s great you’re writing out the explanations. Keep doing that! But for your BR, you shouldn’t know which questions you missed yet; so if you’re grading before BR and only going over the ones you missed, this is actually a really bad study strategy.

Let me also be the first of many to suggest that you consider the possibility of withdrawing from September if the time comes and you’re not ready. And you’ve got to be honest with yourself when making this evaluation. That one PT you scored a 170 on isn’t sufficient to mean you’re ready to do it on the real thing. Believe me, I’ve been there! For the vast majority of us, four months is not enough time to maximize our score potential, and wasting a take before you’re ready is a really bad mistake that you don’t want to make. Again, I know. Commit yourself to your score, not your timeline.

I should have been much more clear. I BR all questions before I look at the answers but after I see the questions that I still got wrong after BR I delve deeper into the right and wrong answer choices. I guess me being adamant about taking the September test is due to the fact that I would not be able to ED with the December test and I know there is controversy over whether it is too late in the cycle etc... That being the case I might have to take a year off from school and either find a job with my Finance degree that I will have acquired or work something else out. I haven't really thought about this situation to extensively. I will be applying with a 4.0 LSAC GPA so I just want to make sure I am doing all that I can to maximize my potential score on the test. From everything I've read each point can be thousands of dollars in scholarships. At this point I am doing what I consider to be efficient studying 6 hours a day. I have seen good score increases and if BR is any indicator as to where I can score I think that I have learned a lot going through the curriculum as well as the limited number of PT's I have completed.

As for your suggestion to try to identify problems I am not completing quick enough I definitely think that is an issue with me. I am getting the problem correct but I need to quit second guessing my answers and overthinking things.

Thanks for your response here as well as in other posts. Your insight has been very helpful to me.

Go through the lessons then tackle practice tests with thorough BR and understand why each answer choice is correct/incorrect.

@ First of all, that RC score is golden, so be happy you don't need much improvement in that section. It takes others much longer to get there (including me >:| ).

For LR, are you using the 7Sage analytics? Which question types give you the most trouble? After figuring this out, don't stop there. Dig deeper. Does conditional reasoning trip you up? Abstract answer choices? For arguments, do you have a strong grasp of the flaw before moving onto the answer choices? Are you attempting to do the first 10 Qs in 10 minutes?

For LG, The Fool Proof Method really is your bff. That strategy works. Here's a twist on that method that many 7Sagers have used to master this section: https://classic.7sage.com/discussion/#/discussion/2737

Good luck!!

Hey Micalea,

Thanks for the response. I am happy with my RC! At least I feel I have a solid grasp on 1/3 of the test. For the LR, yes I am using the analytics - it shows that I am pretty bad at NA and Flaw Method of Reasoning questions. My accuracy on NA is 55% over 33 questions (yikes). As for Flaw Method I am 77% over 56 questions. These are my biggest and top rated circles. I feel like I am second guessing myself a little on LR which in turn costs me time. Like I will go through the answer choices and say I am pretty sure B is correct, well I will circle B then continue to go through all the other choices which wastes my time. Do you have any suggestions for skipping questions?

As for LG - I am definitely going to thoroughly go through all the games I have done thus far in PT 36-43. It is definitely a timing issue because without time constraints I can do the games and miss < 2 per section.

Thanks again!

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Thanks JY - your course helps so many people for a fraction of the price. I was at a function for incoming students the other night and almost all of them mentioned that they used Test Masters or Kaplan. I wish more people knew about this website.

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I love these stories good job! Enjoy sunny florida

I will definitely enjoy the weather haha. Thanks!

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Congrats! You put the work in, and you get to reap the rewards now!

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!

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Congrats!!!

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Congratulations!!! That's so well deserved.

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congrats you earned it!!!

Thank you all! Best of luck in your cycles!

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My routine was all over the place due to school, work, internships etc. I studied on and off for over a year - much of that time being light studying here and there.

What made the biggest difference for me was isolating where I could earn points easily. A -0 on LG is very doable for many people... -0 on LR or RC is much more difficult. Also, I developed a good skipping routine on LR. For example, any Parallel method Q's was instantly skipped till the end. Furthermore, I developed a routine for each question type. RC I just tried to engage in the article and make a mental note of the main idea in each paragraph.

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Does anyone know if the poem paraphrase question/section was real?

real

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Was the LR question about raises prices by $0.25 on a real or experimental part?

100% real

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can anyone confirm if LR section with a question about 7pm and 6pm was real?

I had only two LR sections I had this question.

Yeah had this one as well. Maybe I was fried by this point but all I am going to say is WTF about that one

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Anyone have a LR question about increasing rain and less hot days.

I don't remember that one. I only had two LR's

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LR2 had questions about T. rex and vacuum for uncarpeted floor.

T Rex question made me kinda laugh

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Was the LR section with the whistleblower question real or experimental? The one about punishing those who reveal politicians

I only had 2 LR and I don't remember that one. Do you remember any more?

I only had 2 LR. One of the questions was about using someone elses wifi.