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Dang I just took the June 2012 LSAT and bombed it. I scored 7 points under my average... With the LSAT just a few days away, this is kinda unsettling... On games, I messed up because I read 1 rule wrong, and doing so messed up everything on that game and sucked up a lot of time. on RC, I spent too much time in the passages, and ran out of time before I even hit the last passage! I only missed 2 during the first LR section, but then games messed my mojo up so much on the last LR, that i went -6 :(
Hopefully I can learn from this and get back to my average before June 10th! As for everyone else, now is the time to persevere! I once lost a wrestling match because I eased up in the last period when I had a comfortable 10 point lead, lets not let that happen to us!
What helped me was thinking "Every stimulus that contains an argument is going to be flawed--- it is just up to me to find that flaw" I practiced by reading the stim and not moving on to the answer choices until I had an idea of what the flaw was.
Obviously, this wont work on many must be true/ main point questions, but those answers have always came naturally to me.
This happens to me sometimes too. What helped me was realizing that each section can vary significantly in difficulty level, and I was letting myself get stuck on those 1-2 curve breaker questions that. That would destroy my score for that section, even if I did better on the other sections.
Use J.Y's lowest hanging coconut analogy!
Yes to all of your questions except one LG occupies 2 pages nowadays, with the stimulus and 1 question on 1 page, the other 4-6 questions on the next page, and an ocean of white space underneath
Yeah for June 2013 my exp. was RC. I found it a whole lot easier than a normal RC section and finished the section thinking: "Wow if that was the only RC, then I absolutely killed it!" Alas, there was another RC, and that turned out to be of normal difficulty. I also have hear other people describe their exp. section as either abnormally hard or easy.
As far as when the test starts, at 9am, the proctor starts discussing all the rules ans such. By the time everything is passed out and stuff, you are going to start around 9:30am
Honestly, I don't think it is too important to focus on trying to read the stimulus only once. Doing so will only put unnecessary pressure on you. I feel what is more substantial is being able to weed through background information vs. premise vs. conclusion.
If re-reading parts of the stimulus will allow me to gain a concrete understanding of whats going on, the answer choices will pop off.
This is what made me go from -10 to -2,-1 on logic games in a month: Every day, make a commitment to do 4 logic games. Time them, and treat each game like you would a real PT. When you are done, watch the 7sage explanation for the game you just completed. If you missed more than 2, redo the game on the spot.
After doing this for a while, games will be second nature. However, you have to make that commitment. There were some nights I went to bed at 3am because I still had to get through a game!
I honestly don't see that much of a difference. Some of the newer games have a few confusing conditional rules (such as A arrives before B or after C but not both), but that is all. If anything, I feel games from PTs 19-28 are harder than current ones
For the June LSAT, say that we come across a killer game (mauve dinos for example). We quickly realize that this is going to be a time suck and the questions are going to be hard. At this point, I would skip this game and try and solve some of the more easier games first. However, now that I am back to the killer game, how should I approach it? Should I try and cut my losses and solve for 3 questions until certainty, or should I attempt all of them as to not put my eggs in one basket. I would love to hear peoples thoughts on this!
I have a question about nerves. A month out, I am scoring where I want to score, but I have heard many horror stories of test takers scoring 5-10 points worse than their PT average. What are some tips in overcoming test day jitters/ being fixated on questions because "this is the one that counts". How did you and other high scorers deal with this? I have spent a year preparing for the LSAT full time and I reaaaally don't want to go to October!
Yeah I just fold a piece of paper in half. That way I get to do 4 logic games using both sides of the paper. When I took the LSAT in June I remember thinking "So much space-- Captain Picard would be proud"