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Saturday, Mar 09 2019

Thanks everyone! I will write up some LOCIs, and hope for the best! I was just worried about my chances since I got waitlisted across the spectrum - which was unexpected given my numbers.

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Saturday, Mar 09 2019

ifty2nd443

Help with waitlists

I got waitlisted at UChicago and NYU, but also got waitlisted at UCLA and USC Gould. I have a 167 and 3.89 GPA. I also waitlisted at some other schools in between the ones listed, and rejected by a couple. What does this mean?

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Sunday, May 27 2018

I second all of the wonderful advice in this thread.

One thing that helped me in RC is to remember that the answers will always be supported by the passage, which means that you can easily eliminate everything that goes against it. For those tough questions where you can’t choose between two convincing answers, refer back to the passage for help.

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Wednesday, May 23 2018

You need to find the patterns in what you get wrong. If you are falling for common mistakes, such as misreading or getting the opposite answers, then you need to make note of that. Go over your last 5 PTs and analyze the mistakes you made. Categorize your mistakes. Be conscious of them when you take your next PT. I am taking a guess here, but I feel like you are making the same mistakes over and over again. I am considering your gap between your BR score and actual score as evidence of this.

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Wednesday, Aug 30 2017

@nbanton11495 I am at the same place you are with LR, and while I don't specific question types that get me, I do tend to make the same type of mistakes on harder questions. I think it might be helpful to look at the questions you missed and categorize what kind of mistake you made on them. Did you miss an important detail? Did you get the conditionality wrong? Look at your reasoning for how you got to the wrong answer and compare it to JY's reasoning. Find the difference and record it.

For RC inferences, I think it might be easier to work from wrong to right, if you are not doing that already. If you are doing it, I would suggest categorizing your mistakes again. There's probably a good chance you're making the same kind of mistakes over multiple inference questions. Hope that helps.

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Wednesday, Aug 16 2017

@ifty2nd443 Thank you so much! I will be implementing this system.

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Tuesday, Aug 15 2017

@gregoryalexanderdevine723 I meant what you do in your second go-around. How do you pick which questions to re-do in your extra time (obviously if you haven't skipped any questions)?

@zachweisenbarger992 I am where you are now. I usually do well until I get to 15-20, where I lose the most time.

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Do you answer every question by the 25 minute mark? Or do you skip some?

How do you pick which questions to re-do in your extra time (obviously if you haven't skipped any questions)? How do you know which ones you made mistakes in? Do you gauge importance based on your confidence level?

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Thursday, Jul 13 2017

I have read MLSAT before. I will go through it again before drilling.

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Wednesday, Jul 12 2017

It does. I will look through both. Thanks!

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Wednesday, Jul 12 2017

Recently, I've been missing NA and MSS in half my drills. In the other half it seems to be Flaw and RRE.

I will go over the Trainer soon.

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Wednesday, Jul 12 2017

@gregoryalexanderdevine723 I've read the Manhattan. I will be more careful while doing my review of explanations.

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Tuesday, Jul 11 2017

@gregoryalexanderdevine723 I am missing around -5/-4 per section, and I will only be doing sections I have already taken before. So there is no worry about wasting fresh PTs. I will add this to the main body to avoid confusion.

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7Sage shows that LR from 60s is on average easier than from the 40s - 50s. The 40s to 50s seem to be have 5 star difficulty sections, but I know that the 60s have trickier questions despite their lower difficulty. I am trying to get as close to -0 as possible.

I am missing around -5/-4 per section, and I will only be doing sections I have already taken before. So there is no worry about wasting fresh PTs.

Which should I use for drills?

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Thursday, Jul 06 2017

I am absolutely interested. I am only in high the160's, I hope that's not an issue.

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Wednesday, Jul 05 2017

@ifty2nd443 Yes, I am. My mistakes tend to be spread out among question types. There is a significant number of easy questions that I get wrong, along with a significant number of hard questions.

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Wednesday, Jul 05 2017

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LR - Scoring higher on harder sections

In my drills (20's to 30's), I score -3/-4 for easier sections and -1/-2 for harder sections. What does this mean and has this happened to any of you? How do I overcome this?

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Wednesday, Jun 28 2017

Thank you all for your input! I was just wondering.

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Monday, Jun 26 2017

@gregoryalexanderdevine723 Thanks, Alex. I will look into it!

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Monday, Jun 26 2017

@gregoryalexanderdevine723

I should clarify that I meant "HYS" when I wrote "T3." I did not mean "TTT." My mistake. I am sorry.

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Wednesday, May 31 2017

@tayloremcneeley589 Thank you for your advice!

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