You will bring a ziplock bag with your admissions ticket, pencils, erasers, and analog stock watch, a granola bar and 20 oz juice or water for the break. They will read an set up of instructions to you and have you write i certify that I won't transmit any part of the test. Also, when you sign the and certify the statement you have to hold to an promise that you won't tell what the content of the test or the questions types, or any part of the test. You are tell any words of items that are on the test. Otherwise, you can lose your chance to attend law school and kiss your legal career good bye.

There many people go around Reddit and other place, tell what items are on the test and the words and parts of content of the test. It is big red flag saying that they are not capable holding the promise they signed onto nor are they trustworthy. The promise is like the mini attorney -client privilege. They are showing how lousy they are going to be as future attorneys.

On the RC, there are no line numbers, they will highlight word and ask you want it means. You can click on the passage and see only the passage or click on passage with the questions.

You get a stylus pen that may work or not work. Mines did work, but i use my finger a majority of the time to underline on the tablet. The tablet was very responsible, I actually found the tablet was a better experience for me over paper. I was able to see the print better and felt like it was not scrunched together like it was on paper.

You get a book of 12 pages of scratch paper and the booklet will have your name.

The font size can be changed on the tablet, I was a.ble to change the font size that I can see it better on test You want to use a notation strategy and breakdown the conclusion for each paragraph in the passage. Piece together main conclusion after you piece together each of the paragraphs.

I would start with just LR 10 questions instead of doing full LR section. When you see sufficient condition words and necessary condition words, diagram the arguments. The types of arguments are those arguments such role, method of reasoning,point of issue, descrepancy,main point do not use negation. Commas are your friends and help separate context. You want to watch out for main premise indicators and conclusion. You want to ignore context because it is design entrap you and lead you down the wrong path.

The question that you want to start with:

Main Point

Point at Issue

Before you build the house, you start with one brick

@ Let me ask this. What was your battle plan for LR,RC and LG? If you did that, you are in the good. Did you work all the questions in order without any skipping and they are hard? If so, that is one of the most destructive ways writing an exam. Did you use any time management in your exam plan? Did you use any skipping? With RC, did you use a notation strategy. If not, did you just read straight without thinking about each paragraph,which makes the reading harder.

Here are the most common mistake that seem to I ran across at start my prep before I was able straighten it out and took the actual LSAT:

Answering the questions in order when you encounter a hard question without any skipping.

Not making use of time management with regard to the each section.

Not using any kind of diagramming for the arguments and using hunches instead.

eliminating every answer choice that eats up clock time and not stopping when you found the right answer choice or not eliminating answer and guess at the right answer.

not reviewing the section while the clock was still running.

not paying attention to the commas and getting wrap up in the context parts of the argument since the context is design to trap you.

After 7sage and taken the November 2019 LSAT.

Here is what I changed.

Use skipping hard questions and come back to them later.

Get to the easier questions first.

For LR, I skipped the Principle conform, Parallel reasoning and Except/Least questions they are designed eat your clock times and prevent from scoring well. I saved them for last.

They force you go through every answer choice right off the bat and know that they clock time destroyers.

On LG, I worked the local questions/constrainted conditional question first. I save the global and substitution questions last. Also, I save the combo/hybrid games last.

On RC, if I saw the comparative reading any place in the RC, I would save it for last. I worked the global question: Main Point,Author's viewpoint, purpose of the paragraph or organization. I would used the strengthen.weaking/parallel and inference questions last. This helped. I used notation strategy that was broken down by paragraph.

P1 conclusion

P2 conclusion

p3 conclusion

Proponent viewpoint

Opponent viewpoint

Main Idea:

Comparative RC

Passage A

P1 conclusion

P2 conclusion

p3 conclusion

A's viewpoint/conclusion

Passage B

P1 conclusion

P2 conclusion

p3 conclusion

b's viewpoint/conclusion

I used a time management strategy that works.

smart elimination meaning we use a negation for question types: NA/SA,strengthening and weakening, mBT,mbf,parallel and principle questions. The smart elimination works for the RC and elimination works for LG and RC, we keep eliminating to match until we find the right answer. We stop once we have the right answer and move on. This ensures that we don't waste valuable clock and can use it on our next pass for the blind review.

I can say this help me with the exam. I used it during my PTs. Also, having strong positive attitude makes a big difference. I didn't allow any questions intimidate me at all. I went the attitude "Do your best on the exam to pass or die trying".

The only reasons in my humble opinion to cancel are if person was feeling ill or they went into labor during the test before the due date of the baby. Simply put, a score be cause you are not feeling confident or feel the score may not be good enough to the dream school is not the right reason to cancel. What you lose is the ability on finding those weak points that live exam can give you. Also, you rob an opportunity to learn what mistakes are made by canceling on a feeling.It gives you a baseline on what is needed to improve upon. You should not take as the end of the world or your life. Nor should you allow the exam to define as a person. Because you are more than that. You should take 3 month break and come back to it and use the current exam when it is release as your baseline. Don't jump into immediately study for the test mode. Just relax for now and comeback to it later.

I am planning to apply and attend Fall 2020. I am applying to the law schools in Texas. I don't plan on plan practicing law outside of Texas.

I did see a lot of improvement in my reading comp over the last 6 months and used tweak 7sage reading method to be more lawerlike. I changed tactics. Instead of reading the whole passage at once. I decided to break it down into smaller paragraphs and mark c for conclusion I would stop and write out in a few words the conclusion after each paragraph. For the opinions, I would track each view point. Let me should what I did.

I did my notation like this on a passage that was not comparative reading.

P1 conclusion

P2 conclusion

P3 conclusion

Proponent 1 opinion:

Opponent 1 opinion:

Main Idea.:

For a comparative reading passage, it would look like this

Passage A

P1 conclusion

P2 conclusion

P3 conclusion

Passage A viewpoint/conclusion

Passage B

P1 conclusion

P2 conclusion

P3 concluion

Passage B viewpoint/conclusion

The idea is break it down where the passage is manageable and in smaller pieces. Because reading straight through can be difficult to remember what you read. I came to the realization that I make less mistake doing the way I do it now versus reading straight through without any kind of notation.

I will advise holding the score 171. 171 will get you into a lot of schools. A good LSAT score is very precious and should be appreciated like gold. Don't limit yourself just to Harvard, Yale, and the Ivy League schools. Expand your horizons and grow as a law student. Work on becoming a good attorney. Ask yourself where do you want live and practice law. Next, ask yourself what type of law do you want to practice?. Because in the end after passing the bar exam, your clients won't care where you went law school or nor will the judge if you are on a case in litigation care about that. Just be realistic. You could go to a school where you live and graduate and be lead counsel on a case that made it to the SCOTUS or the federal appellate level. Remember, don't chase the herd and chase the journey of becoming a great lawyer.

I am sitting for November 2019 LSAT. I will be spending time with my 9 year old niece and 6 year old nephew as a reminder of why I am doing the LSAT and going to law school tomorrow at 3 pm.. I will get up at 8 am and review until 12 PM. I did intensive review over the last 5 days already 45 hrs this week. I spent today as my last day of intensive review. Tomorrow will be lite review. I have my gallon ziplock bag with my pencils with my admissions ticket ready to go.

172 is a great score. You don't need go further. It will get you in a lot of schools. Chase your dream of being a good lawyer You can go to any good school that you want on 172.

I am a night owl that works out for me. I am more alert in the afternoon and evening than I am in the morning. Taking it at 12:30 PM is perfect for me. I will bring a granola bar and a small 20 oz orange juice with me to the testing center. I will eat a bowl of Honey Bunches Of Oats before go the testing center. I will stick to my LSAT strategy that I have built for months.

The thing is not worry about the people around you because they are stressed out already. Try a little classical music or smooth instrumental jazz. Works great to stay relaxed. You can take the Uber or Lyft there to alleviate the driving stress to the test center. If you are a person of faith, you can pray that you do well on the exam. Also, you can meditate if you are not person of faith. The people do the best on the exam are the ones who are relaxed.

@, I give you a good example. I was blind reviewing the law passage in Test 87 yesterday. It didn't sink immediately and felt was getting lost. After reading the second paragraph, I decided to skip because it was not clear and was not liking it. I felt I was saying to the author "Get to the point and stop wasting my time by beating around the bush". I did fine on the other passages. I decided to read it again a couple more times. After I got to third paragraph I had put low res summary to it. It started to click. If you don't understand what is being said after the 2nd paragraph, you should skip it and come back to it later.

The harder LR questions are the ones like parallel flaw questions and questions where the stimulus shows a bunch of premises and a conclusion where it is buried. I skip those and save them for later. I like main point, MSS, MBT, Point at Issue,strengthening,weakening, discrepancy, necessary assumption, flaw, sufficient assumptions, psuedo sufficient assumption and principle questions because they are my stronger questions.

The others I have think about them to figure them out especially if they appear longer than 4 sentences. Harder questions are designed to one thing that is eat up your clock time, and the writers at LSAC know this. For any question that doesn't click right away, you skip it and come back to it.

@-1 You should not feel bad. My diagnostic test was in the toilette. My toilette score was 131. It took me a long time to get in the low 170s on my PTs where I am now. It took me a 1 1/2 year. You should look at this as a learning opportunity. You should not pressure yourself. When you are in the testing center, the only person that you are racing against is you. Read carefully and slowly. If take you a few seconds relieve the pressure, take those few moments.

If you don't understand the passage or a game or LR question, skip it for now and come back to it later. Just be realistic what you can accomplish. I know what you are feeling. I am getting ready for the November 2019 LSAT and feel the pressure. I am not worry neither.

I know that this going to sound cliche. If you are a person of faith, then pray about it or if you prefer to mediate, do that then as well. No pressure, will alleviate that feeling of being anxious and nervous. The only thing that you can is drill the lessons and practice exams from JY and 7sage has gracious put out there for you. Also, don't stress out about it. You really don't have anything to worry about. Stay calm that is the key.

Good Luck to everyone on the LSAT. :smiley:

Here is food for thought. I see this with a lot people they just negate the premise or the conclusion. When you negate half an argument, it will be wrong. Meaning if you negate just either conclusion or the premise, it won't make it right in any universe. You have to negate both with the argument for the answer to jump out.What you have to do is negate the major premise and the conclusion together.

These two statements need to be negated to get the false answer.

Necessary condition:

but since it was the taxi that caused the damage this difference was not due to any difference in the blameworthiness of their behavior

Sufficient condition:

Therefore, Alicia should also have been charged with automobile theft.

Alicia should not be charged with automobile theft---> but since it was the taxi that caused the damage this difference was due to any difference in the blameworthiness of their behavior.

Diagramming the argument.

differenceInBehavior->!AliciaChargewithautotheft

The only thing I did was flip both statements to negate both to get the argument to be false.

The problem with answer choice A that is supports the argument and says both should receive the same punishment and get charge. Meaning she should be charged with auto theft and doesn't make it false. It has not impact on the argument also.

Answer choice B is wrong it doesn't address the issue.

C does address the issue her not being charged and cause the argument to be false. It is difference in behavior that causes the argument to be false.

D is out of scope and is not mentioned.

E is much like D

@, where you do want to go to school first off?

There are plenty of good law schools out. I don't think that you should give up that easily. Don't limit yourself. The right law school is not what US news and World Report says. It is the one that you feel that you will fit in and do well at. Ask yourself what type of law do you want to practice and where do you want to work. Once you figure that part out, you are on your way there.

@ , It looks good and you are on the right track. Keep at it.

@ For PT 31 game 2, the cd game is my favorite game of all time. I remember new jazz, used jazz, used soul,new soul,used pop, new pop, new rap, used rap, new opera and used opera. I can do it less than in about 4 minutes with the hypos drawn out. I can see it how looks in head and able to put on the paper quickly. I don't answer the general questions first and prefer to save them after the local questions are done. I practice a lot and it is like breathing for me. I do what works for me and works well for me.

I do go for 0 on the LG. I do my hypos according to the rules, and I started with the constrained/conditional questions first. I work on the questions that are global next and save the substitution questions for last. This what locks up the game for me. It saves me time. I don't go through every answer choice once I look at my game board and see what matches. I will look to find which answer choice matches my hypos off my game board. I move on afterwards. Also, I was very organized from the start.

On sequencing game for me, it goes so fast after I verify my hypos off the game board.

The fastest I have recorded it was less than 3 minutes and was on straight sequencing game. I never had a logic game go over 5 minutes. With the extra time, I would go back after finishing the games and verify all the work is correct. The key is to save time and not go warp speed. Being organized is critical and learning save time by not rushing.

I performed really well during the whole exam. I was not stressed nor phased. After the 2nd second section, I knew that I had nailed the exam and was able to finish and did it with great confidence. I had no technical issues and had prepared for experience for year. I upgrated my web cam so it can focus really to capture my driver's license details very accurate and the camera is over $150. I upgraded keyboard and mouse to wireless. I upgraded Networking card to handle a higher bandwidth. I made certain my room for testing had to match the exact conditions that LSAC require and ProctureU required. I practiced every aspect including the equipment check and show id. I used exams as 76-92 as for the LSAT and 58-75 as experimentals. Once did 76-92 for the first four months and review them. I did 2 more passes with exams spaced out at least 4-5 months from the time I took the original practice exam and did it with 6 sections to manage the added stress. I put in an extra logic game and extra reading section. I drank green tea and 1 mug of coffee before the exam and 1 at the break to calm my hands. I did breathing exercises and mediation from my weekly Kung Fu class to help. Also, I watched Disney movies, Little House on the Prairie and the Minions to keep my mind clear of any negative influence. I didn't watch anything scary nor did watch intense dramas. Nor did I watch anything that would psyche me up. I did not want to tense up. I treated the experienal section just like regular task when you have in the real world and didn't work which section is experimental. Because it is futile worry about the experimental. Preparring with extra section is much better way to manage the stress rather than worry which section is experimental. I had my food brought in on Friday from Carraba's Italian Grill. I watch Minions 2 at 11:00 am sharp and at lunch at the same time. I called up Uber Eats to bring me 2 pumpkin spice lattes and were brought to me at 2 PM. I drank my first latte and listen classical music before the exam. Then, I did my breathing exercises and meditated and prayed at 3 pm. I knew the LSAT material really well and was able to remember every detail with great accuracy. I took my LSAT at exactly 4:40 PM CST. I drank my 2nd latte at the break and went to the bathroom. I got finished slight before 8:30 PM. After I felt a surge like I was fire and felt had won the whole thing. I had my Canolli cake from Carraba's to celebrate. I sat down ate and watch Little House on the Prairie. The next day I went to see Black Adam with the Rock at the movie theater. It is a great experience for me overall. I feel very confident and not worried about the result because I know my LSAT skills are very good that is what matters to get me to the schools I will apply to. I am not aiming for t-14. Just schools to be near friends and family.

The way you can approach the writing sample is that you start off with an issue statement. It would go like this

The issue is whether Sam Smith should decide between the SuperBowl Tickets or Cotton Bowl tickets. Here is the criteria 1) Wants VIP Seating and 2) he want the tickets at reasonable prices. Then, we can prove that one of these options meets both criteria.

Option 1 spell outs. It is able to meet the criteria of VIP by his friend was able to secure the VIP establishes the criteria of wants VIP seatting. It can be establish that he was about secure ticket at a reasonable price through his friend meets the criteria of he want the tickets at reasonable price. Then, tell a conclusion.

Option2 spells that he may able able to meet one of the criter. You do this with a matchable fact. Then, you maybe you state the fact where it doesn't meet the second criteria. then, states that option two was not able to meet both criteria.

You can state that first option was able meet both criteria.

By writing the writing piece of the LSAT this way, show you are able to see issue from both sides.

Because a majority are going write one sided. This one way to differentiate your writing sample. It is gives sort of lawyer like analysis to it. Hopefully, this helps.

Let me help you and will go through the answer choices together.

It is weakening question. The conclusion is stating that a similar fate likely to happen if they rely heavily rely on irrigation. Let's start with the main premise where it starts with the word But, says that toxic levels build up after the water evaporates. We can destroy this argument fairly easily.I focus on the conclusion and the main premise that has the word "But"

Let's diagram:

Premise with But: Water Evaporates--> Soil becomes toxic.

Conclusion : Similar fate with Modern society--> dependent on irrigation

We want to negate the main premise and flip it around.

We negated the Not Soil becomes toxic ---> Not Water Evaporates.

Watch out for context traps. The LSAT writers will get on you on the context and love nailing people that get wrapped up in context.

Let's look at the answer choices:

Answer choice A strengthens the argument and does the opposite. It is out.

Answer choice B is context and doesn't tell how modern civil would collapse by relying on heavy irrigation. It is wrong

Answer choice C does weaken the argument because it states that modern society has techniques that protect the soil from becoming toxic when the water evaporates. This is the winner.

Answer choice D it is out of scope because Modern society does rely on irrigation.

Answer choice E is just like b and doesn't tell how modern society would collapse relying irrigation. It is wrong

Hopefully, this sheds light on why answer choice C is the right answer.

For LG, I would recommend doing the localized questions first. Meaning do the questions that constrainted first. Then, focus on the more general questions and substitution questions later.

For the RC, you want to focus on the general questions first such as main idea, function of the paragraph or organization, role questions next. Then, you want to focus on the strengthen,weakening and viewpoint next because they take a bit more time to figure than the global questions.

For LR, I would focus on the easier questions such as main point and POI b/c they are easiest questions to figure out and the ones that you want to put points on the board first. Skip the harder questions later and come back to them.

Okay, If you look at the question a bit closer. You will notice that the question has a flaw. The question has a part to whole flaw quality to it. Second, we want to parallel the structure.

Diagramming the argument:

Contemporary Advertising-->Persuade

Morally Apprehensive--S-->Contemporary Advertising

Persuasion--S-->Morally Apprehensive

Let's look at C:. Here is where C gets it wrong speaking about a manager and not all managers. It is not saying ALL just a manager. The first premise gets it wrong. The last two premise negate each one meaning the some with all.

Premise 2 - Managers-->Not Fail

Premise 3 - Managers ---> Good Manager

C will not work because second premise is what kills it.

Now, let's look at E. It is flipped around and let's untangle it.

Sonnets--> Short Poems

Sonnets---S--->Pluralism

Short Poems--S--> Pluralistic

It matches the argument's structure, and E is the right answer.

I do use mediation before I practice taking any kind of exam. I find it helps. The purpose is shut out the world for a time. It is easy to allow the world and including social media meaning Twitter,Facebook,Reddit and Snapchat and people from other forums distract us. Test anxiety regardless what test it is can be managed. I remember Bruce Lee's famous saying "Be like Water my friend. Here is what he says.

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

― Bruce Lee

This is where we discover our true inner warrior and strength come from.

I would rather face 100,000 LSAT exams blindfolded read to me and solve all the questions than a man or woman that can that kick me 100,000 times with the front leg that is free for 10 years. Yet, I fear neither.