Stop
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Take a break, review some stuff lightly if anything, do a couple of logic games here and there and just relax.
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It's Tuesday. I took PT 73 last night. How should I go about taking my last PT? Should I just do sections over the course of the week?
Some of the guys here suggested to take your last PT as untimed BR. This will settle your nerves and expose you to the material. It also won't adversely effect your confidence ahead of Saturday like a full time PT would (if you were to let anxiety kick in and not do as well as you'd like).
Pt 75 on Wednesday, then blind review it Wed/Thur and take Friday off.
The man and the legend himself appearing, wow.
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My insane plan for now was to sign for the Dec or Feb test, see how I feel closer to the date, if I feel bad: postpone. If I feel good: take it. Then once I take the test, If I feel bad: cancel it. If I feel good: get my score and hope I wasn't dead wrong.
This really depends on your goal of when you want to apply to law school and which schools you want to apply to.
Getting a 158 diagnostic is pretty good, and scoring 162 on your next test is even better (since you've studied with PS material). You just got a new job so I'm sure you'll be dedicating most of your life to it, but maybe still leave some room open during the weekends and take one PT a week with careful review (after you've finished the curriculum).
Be patient with the process and it'll reward you. With a 158 and a 162 on your first two tests, you seem like you have the potential to score in the 170s in my opinion.
As someone that been in your position before, let me give you one clear advice: withdraw from October 3rd's LSAT. There's really no point if you want to score in the high 160s to take the October exam, you'll probably end up cancelling it anyway.
Trust me, I know how crappy it is to be consistently scoring in the high 150s. It took me literally a year to get out of that range and score in the low to high 160s. You said you get perfect in the drills, but it seems like its not transitioning over to your PT's. One advice I can give for this is to drill entire sections instead of drilling only a single question type. This is because drilling an entire section exposes you to a wide variety of question types and lets your brain switch from one question stem to another.
I would say reschedule your exam to a later date, whether it's December or February is up to you, or even later, depending on how you feel from this point forward. Don't stress too much over your score and your lack of gain since this will lead you to score lower and stress you even more (anxiety when the clock starts ticking).
Take one PT a week and review it very, very carefully. Drill LG's everyday, whether it's on your lunch break or a quick one before you step out the door to go to work. Trust me, when you score perfect in this section it will boost your overall score.
Yes, my diagnostic was 131, highest PT i hit a 166. I'm in the 160s now.
From my understanding, it is because we are trying to reach the conclusion from the premises.
In the curriculum, j.y teaches the formula, P->C, if premise, then conclusion. Our task for SA and PSA assumption is to guarantee the argument, and we do that by showing that the premises lead to the conclusion.
I usually just set it for the first section to warm my brain up for the next sections. I've heard that the experimental section is usually within the first 3 sections rather than the last 2.
Just keep grinding it out, studying, and reviewing (absolutely necessary if you want to get over your predicament). My diagnostic score was a 133, now I'm scoring in the 160s and still improving. Don't let a diagnostic score determine how you will score on this exam. The diagnostic score only shows you where you currently are, not what score you will achieve.
@ Follow up question, can we use the bathroom during the break
No, you're required to bring a bed pan with you.
JK, yeah you're allowed. I try and avoid it though, since a billion and a half people clog up the bathrooms during the break.
From what I know (and read a long time ago), they usually switch up the exams if you take it on a later date. So you'll most likely be getting a brand new test, but I could be wrong though.
I know most law schools require only two letters, one academic and one non-academic. But should I include my letter of recommendation from my employer as supplementary material? It provides some good input on my time management skills and organizational skills and I was with the employer for 3 and a half years.
I seriously love you guys and the efforts you go to helping students, props to the entire 7sage team.
From LSAC:
All candidates must bring to the LSAT test center the following:
(1) your unsigned LSAT Admission Ticket that includes the photo that
you uploaded through your LSAC.org account (you will provide your
signature at the check-in table), (2) a valid government-issued ID that is
current (or has expired within 90 days of your test date) and contains a
recent and recognizable photo, (3) three or four sharpened No. 2 or HB
pencils, with good erasers.
When I took the test, basically it was all the above. A recent passport sized photo to attach to my LSAT Admissions Ticket, my driver's license, a large zip-lock bag that included a couple of pencils, eraser, sharpener, water and some snacks.
I'm completely in a slump. I have done around 10 Pt's so far, and my highest score is a 153....but my blind review score keeps increasing, even to the point of 173 on my last PT. I'm set for the December LSAT, can I expect to break into the 160's? Or am I forever stuck in the 150s.. My goal is at least a 163 from now to the December LSAT which will allow me to get into the law schools of my choice.
@ And if you had the LOL question you would remember because it was hilarious. It's a shame it didn't make it to the masses.
I had that question haha. I had a nice laugh to myself reading the stimulus.
@ did you second LR section have an unusually large amount of disagreement questions?
I honestly can't remember. After the RC section and the lsat LR section my brain was pretty much fried lol.
@ questions and the third LR section had a lot of necessary assumption questions.
I'm pretty sure the third one (25 questions) was part of the actual exam and one of the first two was the experimental.
@ the Big Bang passage
Nope. I had only one RC section and didn't have a passage about the big bang.
@ I had the 3 lr, 26 26 25, rc 27, and lg 23. Based on this one of my experimental was a 26, because if not that would be 102 questions. Luckily the two 26s were my worst sections.
Haha same, I'm pretty sure I bombed on one of the 26 lr sections, so hopefully that's the experimental.
@ the 2 shift game.... Very frustrating....
Man that game gave me trouble. I sunk so much time in that game that I went into the last game with 8 minutes left and was very lucky to just finish the entire section on time.
@ econd LR section I feel MIGHT be the experimental because 1. it came before the break and 2. it was kind of....... off from the rest of the exam
I read that the experimental can be any section now since lsac changed their rules in 2011. It used to be before the break, now it can be even the 4th or 5th section.
So weird that I had exp LR but have no recollection of the 2 question stimulus. Other ppl with experimental can't remember either. I'm pretty sure one of the 25 question sections was the real one and the exp had 26 questions. (I had two 26 LR sections).
I'm wondering if lsac changed their style and had two different sents of LR experimental
I had 3 LR sections.
LR 26, LR 26, RC, LR 25 LG
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Yes! Best of luck this Saturday.