Is there a deadline for when you must have it completed (for those taking August flex)?
I have the same issue. PTs in low-mid 160s, and BR average 173. My August-flex was 163. Would also appreciate any advice, especially in regards to closing gap between PT and BR score :D
I received my masters degree in the Netherlands. My school was pretty adamant about not sending anything directly to LSAC. How I got around it... I had my school send all necessary documents inside a sealed/stamped official school envelope addressed to LSAC (with my school in return address)... then, they put that inside another envelope addressed to me. They mailed me that, and then I mailed the inner envelope to LSAC. I called LSAC about this and they said that should work, and indeed it did! Yay!
PS: For all international transcript people, make sure the school sends the transcript in the country's official language, and not just an English one, if it's not from an English-speaking country. My school only sent an English one, since my program was an international program in English and all official transcripts/documents/courses were already in English. However, LSAC had a fit about not having an official Dutch transcript for some annoying reason, so I had to apologize to my school and make them do extra work to translate my official documents into Dutch, and repeat the whole complicated mailing process above. Yes, I'm bitter about this :)
I used the link from the previous August flex scheduling email and was able to schedule October's there.
I used the link from the previous August flex scheduling email and was able to schedule October's there.
I used the link from the previous August flex scheduling email and was able to schedule October's there.
I also saw a drop when I reached the 70s and freaked out the few weeks before the August exam. I took a break after one significant drop in scores (thought I was experiencing burnout, which may have been the case), and then took more of the 70s/80s and saw my score bounce back. Although my problem was a bit different than yours, since I saw my score decline mainly due to LR, I still recommend taking more of the recent tests to familiarize yourself with them, and hopefully you'll see your score rise again to where you were before to regain that confidence back. Also, perhaps think about doing what I did and taking a break (I did like 4 days) if you think it cold be burnout.
Does anyone find any substantial benefit of reading just passage A first and immediately going into the questions before reading passage B? I have adopted that strategy, but I sometimes feel like I'm just wasting more time having to go through the questions twice than I would otherwise. I know it's different for everyone and we all have our preferences, but is there any general consensus on which strategy works best for most people?
I'm scoring timed PT in low-mid 160s and BR in low-mid 170s, with differences averaging anywhere between 6-12 points!
Has anyone else had such a wide gap between the two scores? And if so, know of anything that helped close that gap??
In BR, I get all LG questions correct (normally no more in -4 in timed), which helps, and I know how to improve there.. but..
For RC, it's usually silly mistakes or misreading that I messed up during timed run.
For LR, it's a lot of me choosing the trap answer choice during timed run, and not figuring that out until BR. #HELP
Just finished... started at 11:30
Section order: LR-LG-RC
LR felt medium difficulty, hoping for around -3 (my average)
LG was easy for me (had the one with theaters), hoping for -0
RC felt medium to hard, I had the section with one about universal human rights and one about Locke and value theory, I felt like there weren't any super hard passages, but I didn't think any were super easy either. (hoping for -3 to -6, RC is usually my worst section)
Just finished mine...
Order:
LG: Medium difficult: (had one game on people verifying or p.. something), verifying transactions, piano/violin recital, and another where one of the game pieces was stenciling.. Overall, probably had to guess on 3 questions, and felt confident on the others (which is my typical LG PT average of -1 to -5)
LR: Easier side: (babbling and rare & expensive books), probably 2 really hard questions that just had to guess quick on, and maybe about 4 flagged questions.
RC: hard for me; I had the wolves vs dogs section: I think I spent too much time on the first three passages (perhaps couldn't focus/fatigue issues). I remember the first passage being easier and not many questions, I forget how I felt about the second, the wolves/dogs experiment was my third passage... I had little time left during third passage and still had the comparative passage as the fourth which had the most questions (it was about monopolies), which I really had to rush through, (fortunately, I felt like that was an easier one that I actually could rush through with a bit of confidence), but overall did not feel good about RC, RC is usually hit or miss for me (anywhere from -2 to -6)