If I were you, I would make the language a little punchier and more specific. Like for the first one, maybe say some thing like "As a child, I was held back in Kindergarten because I struggled to count. On July 15, 2018, I pass my last CPA accounting exam. Things change."

I think "things change" is take it or leave it, first thing I thought of haha, but I do think in general it's nice to include detailed and to not write in a passive tense.

I'd also be glad to practice but am also taking in November :D

@alenisleon902 good tip! thanks! I am mainly interested in the waiver so I don't have to pay the app fees but super handy for the LSAT as well. I've already taken it with a decent score but was planning for a summer 2019 retake anyway, so maybe I'll go for July.

I was really hoping to pull a 170 but ended with a 168, which is just a point off my average so not too surprised, though of course I wish I had scored on the other side of my score band haha. If anything it does show me the test is quite consistent ! On to October :)

@acsimon699

Wow I'm so sorry, that truly does sound awful and so distracting! It is unfathomable to me how the proctors can be so unaware and just rude...are they not given guidelines for their own behavior by LSAC? I'd imagine they do have a set of rules to follow and likely just disregard them or they think they are following them because they just don't get how distracting all those little sounds and whispers can be.

I've been lucky with both my LSAT experiences, had great proctors who obviously were aware of the gravity of this test. I do think the good proctors likely outweigh the bad, but it sucks that there is even a chance that you could spend all this time and effort preparing only to have your test day kind of ruined by something completely out of your control.

Sorry again and hope your complaint works out :(

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It was about interviewing witnesses.

Oh yeah! Man I wish I could remember which passage I found to be most difficult but I just can't haha.

I think the power plant and wetlands questions were hard for me too...but I have the absolute worst memory for LR questions. I've like blocked them all out haha.What were the RC passages - cooked food/teeth, sulfates/global warming, literature genres...what was the fourth?

yeah real games was the one with WXYZ and the bonds. I had three LR as well...brutal just in the fact that it's so much LR but I didn't find any of the three sections to be crazy difficult. Hard to know how I feel about this test haha. Unfortunately the last game on LG kind of tripped me up so I had to guess on two questions because I ran out of time. Otherwise not too bad. Don't know how to feel about RC.

Don’t freak out (I say, even tho I’ve done exactly the same thing). I’m alsi scoring in the high 160s, sometimes 170s and got a 163 the other day. And I’m taking the test tomorrow. Also if it helps, I found 176 PT to be quite challenging...I missed like 9 on one LR section. Take a short break, don’t freak out, move on. This is just a blip!

I also agree, was about to select C and then was thrown off by "specific prediction" because near future seems quite vague. I feel like I can remember similar questions in the past in which an answer choice such as this was quickly eliminated because of similar wording....not great writing on this one!

I don’t have much advice for you, as I’m kind of in the same boat though your scores are a bit more solid than mine, I’ve had 169s, 170s for the past 7-10 exams and and two mid 160s ...I’m also averaging -0/1 on LG and seem to have gotten RC down to a max -4 but usually -3/2. LR is so frustrating though!! I get 3/4 wrong on one section and 5/7 wrong on the other it seems. Recently as I’ve been analyzing my tests, I’ve noticed that for a significant number of the LR questions I’ve missed, I was stuck between two answers and chose the wrong one. I know these are killing my timing too....need to be more aggressive with the skipping myself.

How exciting!!! Congratulations!!

Thanks for your responses all @codyjfife907 @leahbeuk911 @ohnoeshalpme804 It's just such a bummer to get a 173 last week and then immediately follow it up with a 164.

In terms of identifying what is changing to cause these fluctuations ...I don't feel like it is anything environmental, though I do think I could up my exercise/meditation/diet regime over the next few weeks. It's not in bad shape to begin with but I think I should probably be a bit more intentional of scheduling time in which my brain must focus on things other than the LSAT. I am waitressing and I also tutor, both of which I can do while still thinking about the LSAT and I think it is starting to drive me a little nuts haha.

I feel confident with LG. Even on sections where there is a randomly hard or out there game (like in this PT 72, game 4), I still miss an absolute max of 3, with 0/-1 being much more common. I feel like I've been able to get my RC more stable in the past month. Whenever things go south, like in today's PT (-6), I can pretty much pinpoint it to time management. I got all the questions but 1 right in the first 3 passages and missed the other 5 from the last passage because I was only beginning reading when 5 minutes were called.

LR is the real problem...while the analytics feature has been helpful in identifying my problem areas (SA, NA, Parallel flaw, Weakening), it seems so random as to whether I miss 2 in a section vs. 7. What happens more typically is I do really well in one section (-2) and then not as hot in the second (-4/-5). Like I said earlier, today I missed 7 in both. I am going to really just try to do focused drilling of the questions I've missed over the last 10 or so PTs to see if I can identify commonality.

I would be open to taking it September...it would be my third take, but it is hard for me to imagine cancelling June considering I have broken the 170s several times.

All of you soundtrack lovers, do you ever listen to "The Score" with Edmund Stone ? Comes on public radio stations...it is pretty sweet, he will sometimes interview composers and typically devotes a show to the work of one composer or to the score of one movie. @jchamberlainf946 @welschmeyer300 @sako752

@pcainti665 sounds like it went really well. Wooo for the musical theater connection!!

@sunnytsao313794 yes I just spoke to someone from Spivey a couple days ago and she told me this. I guess if you do sign up, you’d probably want to confirm that with whoever you’ll be working with. But yeah, save that money haha.

On a more general note, it is definitely a tough call deciding to invest in the consult. It definitely is expensive and hard to know for sure if it will make a huge difference. Right now my gut is telling me to splurge a little, so I will probably end up doing some sort of consulting even if I don’t opt for the big package.

@sunnytsao313794 Just so you know, you can buy the cheaper package with Spivey and then upgrade to the full $5,000 package if you do end up needing additional help with scholarships or waitlists. The upgrade is just the difference of price between the two packages, so unless you anticipate needing a lot of help in the post admissions department, I think it makes more sense to save money and just opt for the cheaper package.

I haven't tried rishi teas! I drink yogi teas quite a bit and I like some of stash's caffeinated blends (like breakfast in Paris). I'll have to try!!

Bedtime routine is super important. I think minimizing screen time is huge, I need to be better about that as well.

@lindseyemitchell753 Thanks! That makes complete sense. Can't afford to be missing the meaning of the questions stems at this point ... It was one of three questions I missed in the whole section and when I realized why I felt pretty silly!

So exciting! Did they give you any hints about when you'd hear something back? What was it like ?

@ohnoeshalpme804 I can definitely relate. My original plan was law school right out of college or maximum one year in between. When I begin, I will have been out four full years, so starting at 26. Making that mental transition from thinking I needed to hurry up took some time...that first year out of college, when I came to the realization I would actually be delaying another year, I had a few months of constantly thinking about how old I would be when I finished law school, what that meant for my life, whether it was a bad thing, all of that jazz. And then I just settled into the idea and have really tried to take advantage of the time in-between. I think it has made me a more well-rounded applicant, I feel more committed to wanting to go to law school than ever before, I've narrowed my interests, gained work/life experience, and honestly had a really great time.

Try to view this time off of school as an opportunity for growth, no matter what it is you are doing. I would almost guarantee it will make your law school experience, when you do go, a better one.

This is terrible advice. Law schools definitely don't discriminate against those who "sat out" for a couple of years, especially if you were working or doing something during that time.

The idea of transferring stresses me out. Like having to go through ANOTHER application process in the midst of 1L sounds awful.

You do you, don't listen to these guys.