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I'm taking the test from France and once I changed the time zone in my profile on ProctorU the slots were all reasonable times from France!! Maybe you are seeing the US times and those times are actually reasonable for you in Asia?

@ I made this improvement starting in mid July when I started taking PTs, and I'm scoring -4ish now. So about a month!

@ Yes, translation is where you train yourself to be able to understand the stimulus quickly by reading each stimulus, covering it and saying what it said in your own words. You can write it down or say it out loud! Basically I would do this until I got faster and faster and until I could even do the super long stimuli.

Hey bestie!!! I took the exam from France today and homie we deserve an extra generous curve for having to deal with the obstacles of taking this exam from abroad. I'm so sorry to hear that this happened to you and I agree that the pressure to do well today was unbearable bc of the lack of November international exam date. I remember feeling a huge sense of dread when I hopelessly watched the November registration deadline come and go. You have worked so hard and positive energy will come back to you! I'm going to take a ~break~ from thinking about this exam for a while and just soak up where I am. The positive thing about being abroad is that I think it's easier to distract yourself with all the new and interesting stuff around you. You deserve to take a break from all of this and if you end up having to come back to it, I think a break could really help you get back in the headspace! That being said I have a very strong feeling that you'll be able to retake it next week and if not, like was said above, it's never too late! You can always take a break and regroup. I've noticed from being here at least that life is not as fast paced and career-driven as American society tells you it is. You have years and years ahead of you. You deserve to go to law school and you will make it! Don't give up!

Hey!! I also struggled a ton with LR and used Loophole. Keep doing the Translation Drills, they reeeeeally helped me. Retaining and understanding the stimulus quickly enough was the hardest part for me. I know the book really emphasizes finding the Loophole in every question, but I find thinking of a fully fleshed out loophole in my head too time consuming. Instead, I think generally about the gap in the argument/why it doesn't work exactly, and I don't worry about the exact way to fill it yet. I just notice it. Sometimes I can't even put into words exactly what the gap is, I just have a feeling that something is missing between a premise and the conclusion, or feel like there's a flaw with conditional reasoning or sampling strategy, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Then I go into the answer choices, and use the Bad Answer Choice strategies she talks about in the last chapter of the book to eliminate ACs quickly. My biggest timesink before was giving wrong ACs the time of day and thinking that they could possibly be right if I stretched my mind to accomodate them. But there's no time for that. Instead, if I'm spending more than 10 seconds considering an answer choice, I just move onto the next one and usually a later one fits so perfectly into that gap in the argument that I can clearly eliminate the crazy one that was giving me trouble. I've noticed that wrong ACs are mostly just "Crazy Nonsense" there to take up your time.

This is my general approach to LR and it has really helped me. Also, just taking PTs over and over has helped me get familiar with the patterns, so most of the time now for SA or Inference questions I can already anticipate the right answer choices because they very often formulaically connect a premise to a dangling variable in the conclusion. I started at -11 and I'm at -4 and below consistently for the last several PTs I've taken. My biggest piece of advice still is to keep working on translation because that's what helped me the most to have enough time to approach each question without panicking. Then I worked on my approach to each individual question type. Good luck!!!

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