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Same story here! PT average 169, actual score 165. May not seem huge but that's the diff between 89th and 95th percentile! Sobbed on the floor from 9-9:30, then had to log on for a meeting at my day job. This test can be so demoralizing, especially when you know (as well as anyone can) you otherwise have the skills for this career. Blergh!
@qs2159431 said:
@maecyarthur733 yep I had one about outkast/rap and mali,evolution,paternalism for the other RC section. It seems the mali one may be the real one (internal screaming)
Yeah, the Mali/evolution/Alice Munro/paternalism must have been real. I also had an RC section with a compare passage A/B on whether Frederick Douglass was a closet libertarian (as someone with a PhD in 19thc history, that was lolz). The Alice Munro one fucked me on time... super hard, tons of questions, so had to rush through the paternalist law passage at the end.
@laurennhaumesser783 said:
Had RC - LG - RC - LR
LR was fair. LG was pretty straightforward until the last game which I pretty much guessed. My first RC had one passage about paternalistic law & working hours and was in general okay. The second RC was BRUTAL. The first two passages with about 8 questions each, and the comparative passage was about a female author (I believe) and I was totally destroyed by it. Read it twice but still couldn't answer most of the questions and ended up just guessing random answers.
I had the same sections as you. Same impression about RC: for one (the easy one, imo), the comparative passage was on Frederick Douglass. Pretty cruise. The other one, the comparative passage was on Alice Munro. I have read Alice Munro. I LIKE Alice Munro. But this passage my WORD just let me go softly, LSAT.
Connectivity issues sound brutal! Sorry everyone that you had to deal w that— talk about a flow killer
I don't have an answer, but coming in with some solidarity-- had been consistently scoring 168-9 and then dropped to a 165 on my two most recent PTs (a week before the October exam date!).
Here's hoping we can achieve to our fullest PT potential on the day of!
Me here just like flipping mirror images around in my head with only 6 mins left on the clock. WHAT A JOY.
One way to reason this out is to pretend the defendant is building on national parkland in San Francisco. It's safe to assume the local California building codes would go beyond the level of the national codes.
If the defendant said "Oh, but I was confused about which laws applied!" you'd be like... okay but you are charged with not even meeting the bare f*cking minimum required by federal law. We're not accusing you of not meeting the strict California standard. We're saying this thing was made out of straw, and the federal government says it has to be made out of wood-- let alone make it earthquake-proof or whatever.
It'd be different if the defendant were charged with not meeting the more stringent California codes.
wtf questions like these-- absolute time sinks and I still get them wrong at least half the time.
Same vibe. Usually go -2 or -3 on LR, went -6 here (and got my lowest score yet on a PT). Better to have an off day on an off day, as they say...
Wow good for you LSAC, killing people's dreams w some rulll stupid shit right here.
Hi you legends,
Backstory: Cold diagnostic 161 in April. Then my dad almost died of a heart attack. Fortunately he made it through, but I spent May-Aug caring for him/my mom, working full-time, and studying on the side.
Did CC. Got down to -1/3 on LR, -1/2 on RC. Good enough there. Taken 6 PTs so far, have been scoring 168/9.
Sat the Aug LSAT bc in the haze of everything w my dad I forgot to cancel; scored a 165-- low for me.
LG is the problem. I started at like -11, did some of the early problem sets and then sets from PTs 40-63. Got it down to a pretty regular -4. But now things are trending in the wrong direction. For the past 5-10 sets, have been missing more questions... like back up to -7, not finishing sets on time, etc.
A few questions:
What timing strategies do you all use for Logic Games? Unlike RC and LR, I never finish sets early, and rarely even finish with enough time not to have to guess on the last (or, more recently, last 3-4) questions.
Are the LG in the 60s harder, and that's why I'm battling?
Is my regression burnout? (Caring for a sick parent + working more than full time + finishing a book with an academic press + studying for the LSAT has obviously made for quite the year.)
Did anyone have any experience with excellent LG tutoring? I am in my 30s/unmarried so obviously paying for this ~jOuRnEy~ myself, but at this point, I'd be willing to shell out maybe $200 for some excellent private tutoring that really brings my LG score consistently into the -3 range.
Thanks for all your feedback. 7sagers are the sole positive thing about this whole LSAT trash!
Any architecture/design nerds read this and think of the Eichlers in Palo Alto? Definitely don't need AC, definitely still cool houses.
I am not an early early bird and don't commute (thanks, Covid), but I typically do 6:30-8:30 on weekdays, then run with my dog 8:30-9:30, then start work. If I can squeeze in another hour at lunch or after work I do! And then I try to get in two good 4-hour chunks on Sat Sun.
Tell me how to LG tho. I'm at -1/2 on RC and -2/3 per section on LR, but f*cking LG just kill me-- can't get below -4.
I chose B and didn't even look at E, but now that I'm looking at it I'm more confused.
If "overcoming negative emotions" counts as negating negative emotions, then that negates stress. That, in turn, would be failing the sufficient condition, which is insufficient to draw the conclusion that health would improve.
#help I'm struggling to see why that isn't the flaw.
God bless u, truly. I'm studying while working full time, taking care of a sick parent, and prepping a book for publication (final draft due to the academic press 2 weeks post-LSAT). It's encouraging to hear of other people in similar situations!
For me, this was easier to think of as an NA question:
P: 40k seals remain
P: most seals recycled after opening
C: # docs sealed > 40k
NA: for the # of docs originally sealed > 40k remaining seals, heaps of those seals have to have been recycled from opened letters.
You can use the test of P + NA + C to see if this is right.
If opened seals got recycled,
most seals went on letters that got opened (and were therefore recycled)
and 40k seals remain,
then more than 40k documents must have been sealed.
But still, brutal question.
@yasmeenchahade653 said:
Has anyone been able to register?
Yeah finally just got in. Had to refresh every page like 10 times. Back to my day job, lol.
@hsara486689 said:
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@ashleytien240 said:
Did anyone else also have LR-LG-LR-RC? I have seen like no one with that order!
I had that!
Omg finally someone! Did you have marie antoinette in either of your sections?
I honestly cannot remember, was it the last RC. I recall the LG was brutal thou lol. I usually only miss one point in LG.
I had that Marie Antoinette/Maire-Thérèse question in my one and only LR section!
I did work in the French National Archives for a while, on the French Revolution. The irony of this situation does not escape me.