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Thursday, Jun 28 2018

Most helpful lesson: "What to cut" portion of the resume. Thank you.

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Tuesday, Jul 24 2018

@ said:

Btw, when you guys say the curve is -12... what does that mean exactly? Because it’s highly likely that I got -12 on the LG fml hahaha (nervous laughter)

They are referring to the curve for the 170 threshold. Example: You could miss 10 questions on the June exam to get a 170.

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Friday, Jul 20 2018

Something I found helps is to write POV in the margin when you notice someone is speaking their point of view. If there are multiple people you can put POV A, B etc. or use their initials. Circle names so they are easily identifiable on a question if you get stuck. Finally, on comparative passages, if something is in passage B that A discusses, put a star next to it because you know they will probabaly ask a question on that.

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Monday, Apr 16 2018

#help

I clearly need to go back to CC to revisit these lessons. Could anyone point me specifically to where this was? This needs to be crystal clear.

On test day, if time was an issue for you, is this a question most would skip? Do you eventually get fluid enough to conceptualize in your head or is it best practice to always diagram?

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Thursday, Nov 15 2018

Kinda reminds me of PT66 LR1 Q2 about Jocko the gorilla and his bananas.

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Monday, Dec 10 2018

@ I would average around 15-20 hours a week while I was taking classes and ramping it up a little more during the summer. I'll echo the advice I was given: it is not the hours so much as it is the quality of study. Getting closer to the exam I would wake up, do 3 or 4 games and foolproof the if I wasn't fully comfortable. Then would work on timed sections and do breakdown of those to see where I was wasting a lot of time. After implementing a skipping strategy I jumped 5 points right away. I would only take a PT every 2 or 3 weeks, just to measure my progress. Look on the forums of the webinars for more info on the skipping strategy.

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Friday, Aug 10 2018

I would echo the suggestion of Josie Contreras regarding the trend of law school applicants and the effects it has had on 25, 50, 75 percentiles. An explanation more than just data would be great.

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Sunday, Dec 09 2018

lfernandez239752

Another 7sage thank you (141-->162)

Hello All,

I just wanted to say thank you to the community for this journey. My first LSAT diagnostic was a 141 and that was after working on some of the core curriculum. In June, I scored a 153--my PT average. I needed to make some changes to increase my score. Instead of going for volume of practice, I focused on quality and began to work with a tutor (shoutout to @Sami- she'll kick your butt). I also started doing blind review calls with J.Y. which was so helpful. RC was always my weakest section (we're talking -10 average); reading cases in constitutional law for my undergrad class forced me to grapple with difficult text which made LSAT RC manageable; read anything to get well rounded.

In September, I scored a 150. This was after scoring 161, 159, 161 on my last PT's Yeah, it was a terrible feeling but I didn't waste energy feeling bad for myself. From Sep-Nov I did some untimed practice to get back into it and then just really focused on timed sections; like two or three a day with fool proofing-- this was on top of undergraduate courses where I would do a lot of my reading. I only took 1 PT between Sep test and Nov test and scored a 161.

Don't lose your hope or confidence, put in the work, trust the system, and leave it all out there. I'm no LSAT master, but I am happy to answer questions or chat via PM if you need anything. It's the least I can do. Wishing everyone the best.

Lorenzo

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Monday, Oct 08 2018

I was in a similar situation and went from 153 to high 150 low 160 by using the circling method with LR and fool proofing LG. In LR, circle questions that you don't understand at face value or aren't clicking and go for all the low hanging fruit, then come back if you have time.

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Monday, Oct 01 2018

Thanks for the input. My gpa is good: 3.88. I’m in my last semester and purposefully pushed my easier classes this semester so I don’t think my coursework would be effected. Realistically, I could put in about 20 hours a week max with work.

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Monday, Oct 01 2018

lfernandez239752

Nov or Jan?

Hi All,

I took the June test and scored a 153 which was my average at the time. I studied all summer and only had time to take two PT's before September; both were recent tests and I scored a 159 and 161. I took the September test feeling really confident and scored a 150 which I haven't scored that low since my diagnostic. Test conditions were good and I wasn't feeling nervous. (-11 RC, -15 LR, -8LG, -10LR). I have never done so poorly in LR, but RC and LG were relatively consistent.

I was hoping to apply ED but that is out the window. I was wondering if I should sign up for November or just wait it out until January? I graduate in early December so I will have more time then but I can't help but think that I should try to sit for November so I don't pin up my hopes of having one last take in January for this cycle. I'm curious whether it would be advisable to just sign up Nov and withdrawal before if these next weeks don't go well.

My target would be 158-162. My average BR is 165.

Thank you for your input!

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