Soooooo funny.

I have a totally similar experience. I took this past November LSAT in Toronto. I made sure I was super prepared. Like super, super, super prepared. To the point of re-checking my zip lock baggy an absurd amount of times. Morning rolls round and you're girl is UP AND ADAM. After a 35 minute train ride and a 10 minute subway ride, my last leg of the journey was a 10 minute walk to the testing centre. A couple minutes into my walk, from the corner of my eye, I see a Starbucks. My knees fall weak for that Signature Blonde Roast. I check my phone and see that I have about 30 minutes until 8:30am. I like to say that this is the point in my story where things unravel. Perhaps the start of the end.

With coffee in hand, it is 8:10 and I have 20 minutes to get to the testing centre. No problem. Finally, I arrive at the specified George Street location all with 13 minutes to spare. But, to my horror, I am face to face with a small tattoo parlour. Heart rate picks up. Where's my fellow LSAT brethren? Empty street. Weird vibes. Something is not right. With a shanking hand I pull out my ticket, only to read that I am to arrive at a testing centre on St. George Street. I am at George Street. The saints have cursed me. I Google Maps my proximity to St.George Street. A 10 minute drive. My heart rate is blasting through the roof at this point and I engage in squirrel-like thinking. No cabs around. No time to wait for an uber. Look, there is a man with a van! I approach said man in full sprint. I can tell he senses the crazy in my eye but I do not care. Sir, I don't know you but please drive me across town to a testing centre on St. George Street... (eyes fill with tears)...the doors will close in ten minutes and I have been studying for months. He is reluctant; he says that he works for a company that picks-up and drops-off wheelchair users and is on a tight schedule. My eye begins to twitch. For reasons unknown, he agrees and lets me into his unmarked van. It has no seats and no seat belts. With eyes glued to the clock, I stand straight as a pencil. Two minutes into the drive he politely asks me if I could..like...sit down or something. My rigidness is probably creeping him out. I nod empathetically. Our eyes lock in the rear view mirror as I assume a crouched frog-like position on his van floor. I begin to pray to father time. Like the boss I knew he would be, this man drives in street-style race mode. I arrive at the testing centre with legitimately one minute to spare. I thank this stranger, my saving grace. Also, like you, I scored 5 points below my average scoring range and just took the January LSAT.

Tip 1: don't give into Starbucks if time is of the essence.

Tip 2: Read the address of your testing centre with the same criticality as you would a reading comprehension passage.

Tip 3: I highly would not recommend it but, perhaps, there are situations that warrant getting into a stranger's unmarked van.

@ said:

Sleep is a practice just like anything else. I highly recommend "Sleep Smarter: 21 Essential Strategies to Sleep Your Way to a Better Body, Better Health, and Bigger Success" by Shawn Stevenson. This is available in print and audio form (great for those of us commuting back and forth from school and work) and is only 6.5 hours long in that format. It covers everything from how a lack of sunlight affects our sleep, avoiding screens before bedtime, and has a whole chapter on smart supplementation. What an incredible difference this has made in my life and in giving my body what it needs to heal and learn. Even if you have an off night of sleep on the night before the test, you can have banked enough restorative sleep to not let this wreck your performance. Great news for those of us who tend to obsess the night before!

I totally tend to obsess the night before so this is awesome and I'll look into it. Thanks.

Dude I have no idea what to do. I was ready to know my score the moment I put my pencil down. I really think this will be the longest three weeks ever.

To add to this ^ I am in the thick of LG right now. Be prepared that it is very different from LR. The beauty of LG is that when you fully understand a game and it's setup, the correct answers will jump out at you with certainty. Sequencing Games you will catch onto and feel confident with. Grouping games comes after and is the more challenging of both game types. But if you mind your timing and keep at it, you will see yourself getting stronger. All it takes is practice and familiarity with the questions.

After LR, I spent like a day or two summarizing all of it's subheadings/JY's Notes/My notes into a 2-page document. Like JY said - at the end of LR, you should be able to see how all of the different LR question stems grow from the same foundation of reasoning and basically just require you to see the different approaches of analyzing logical relationships. This process of summarizing all of LR helped to see how all of the question stems are different but interrelated. The summary is also a great tool for making quick references, for example, like say in 3 weeks you suddenly feel unclear as to the difference between SA & NA Questions

Thanks guys. @ Negating likelihoods in your herbal medicine example - aside from it being a great mental exercise - helped me to see that the "any chance" was too strong for what was necessary. Thanks

When I was working full-time, no - I only had enough energy and time to write a full PT after work and then take the next day to BR as much material as I could get through. Recently, however, I quit my job. Given that I have more time, I'm currently writing full PTs and BRing on the same day.

That being said, I have been studying for quite some time now. In my earlier days of studying, PTs drained me. I think I could write maximum 2 PTs per week (BR included). Anything more than that felt "too much". Today, however, PTs don't train my mental faculties as much; the more I learned over the course of 7sage, the more I became acquainted with the questions, the quicker I understood them. In short, I perform less mental gymnastics now per test, so less of my energy is required. This has freed up energy to use for BR. But this has come only with time. Your brain is also a muscle - mental endurance is built over time.

My best advice is stay in tune with your body and energy; you know yourself best. Challenge yourself but be weary of burn out. Mastering the LSAT is a marathon, not a sprint.

@ what's the tethering assumption?

@ Thanks for the reminder that the weakly vs. strongly worded distinction shouldn't bog me down, nor should it be used as my main method of identifying the correct AC. So far I have been negating the answer choices to see which one absolutely wrecks the argument, which has been working. I haven't really used the MBT method of approach so I'll give it a try. Thanks for the response!

Thank you so much everyone! It has officially clicked.

@ The banquet pie example really helped.Thank you!

@ Your explanation of proportional vs. absolute change and the public transportation example totally clarified things! Thanks!

@ I'll be sure to use this question prompt the next time I see a a set of ratios/percentages being compared: "Sure I know the size (%) of the slice, but what is the size of the pie?". Thanks!

@ Thanks for bringing to my attention the tricky meaning of deficit increase. Duly noted.

And, yes, @, it is all about the size of the pie ahaha

P1. 1st purpose of GSR is to increase STHH.

MP/SC. If a reform makes somebody happy, then that reform is achieving the 1st purpose of GSR

assumption radar: making someone else happy via the proposed reform would in return not make others unhappy

P2. The proposed reform would make constituents happy.

C: Thus, the proposed reform is a GSR.