Hello,
I just finished the first draft of my PS and DS and am hoping to find somebody to swap with as my next step in the editing process. Please only message me if you're willing to review mine as well and not just take my feedback and run.
Thanks in advance!
I thought the Mali and the Frederick Douglass sections were similar in difficulty. That said, I really hoped Mali would be experimental because my dumb ass panicked and changed a right answer to a wrong one with like 5 seconds left on the clock because I got way too in my head about things. Whoops. A bit pissed off I cost myself the point, but ultimately felt confident about the RC section. Short stories had a couple hard questions, but ultimately I found it to be pretty moderate.
LR felt easy to me too, with the exception of one question that I kept changing my AC on. First three LGs were super easy and I got to the duet game with 13 minutes left on the clock and still had to guess on some questions.
Still, feeling pretty good about things. Probably got around a 170, although I'm holding out hope my guesses on the last LG were good ones and I got a 173 or higher!
Hey everyone,
I have just taken the October LSAT (hoping for the best!) and have been starting work on my law school applications. When deciding what to write about for my personal statement, I felt compelled to write about my experience going through school as somebody with a learning disability. I intend to talk about the challenges I faced due to my neurodiversity and the ways I overcame those obstacles.
I am a little concerned that because this is my topic of choice, law schools will assume I took the LSAT with accommodations. I did not, in part because I did not have documentation of my disability within the past five years and in part because I honestly felt I didn't need them to succeed. I know that law schools should not and probably do not judge test takers with accommodations any differently, however I have in the past experienced discrimination in academia due to my learning disabilities and am nervous about law schools somehow looking at my test score differently due to any possible assumptions.
My instinct tells me I'm being ridiculous and should let go of that fallacious assumption and have faith that the admission deans aren't biased and take comfort in the fact that if they were, that's not a school I'd want to go to anyways. However, another part of me feels that I should add an addendum specifying that I didn't have accommodations on the LSAT, maybe adding that it's in part because I didn't qualify for them due to a lack of recent documentation.
If anybody has advice, please share it. That said, the a central theme of my PS is getting past the shame and stigma associated with neurodiversity, so it does admittedly feel disingenuous to even be writing this post and I feel more inclined to simply not write this addendum and let things unfold naturally. Just curious to see if anybody else has a different perspective.
Had 13 minutes left when I got to that section and still bombed it haha. Should've spent more time prepping for misc games.
And fuck folk, gospel, and jazz while we're at it.
It was pianos. Fuck the pianos. Fuck the violins too.
It'll probably be between -6 and -9 depending on the curve. Hard to say. I personally think the curve will be somewhere in the middle for my test. It had some pretty challenging curve breakers (imo) but overall didn't seem to be a particularly difficult test.
I didn’t even type in the chat that I was leaving. I just left. Probably wouldn’t hurt to send a quick message though.
Just general lamenting here. Took the LSAT today and I did not realize quite how uncomfortable it is to take a test and not immediately know your score. I realize everybody is probably in the same boat but holy crap I wanna know my score haha. It like hurts. Anybody have any advice for getting my mind off it in the 2.5 week wait?
I had LG-RC-RC-LR. Fortunate to have had no proctor or connection issues.
I'd attempt to. I just now am noticing that lawhub is back up. My advice Victoria would be to just stay the course and try not to worry about this shitstorm that's going on right now.
As a fellow Sunday taker, my advice would be to just try not to worry about it as much as you can. You can't control what will or won't happen, you can just control your attitude and response. Best thing to do is just not stress. Still, absolutely bullshit this is happening and I'm super sorry for all the test-takers dealing with this rn.
I took my last PT yesterday (I take it on 10/10) and I took PT91+ on lawhub. It was helpful for me to take my last one on lawhub to get familiar with that platform over 7sage.
Thanks for the advice everyone!
Thank you! Taking Sunday too. I've been following your posts for awhile and very much appreciate all the charts and motivation you've been sharing. Best of luck to you. I'm sure you're gonna dominate this test!
Also, UCLA is a top choice for me. I dunno if you currently go there or are hoping to but feel free to hit me up either way if you wanna talk UCLA.
Good advice! Thanks!!
Hey everyone,
I'm taking the LSAT for the first (and hopefully last) time this Sunday. My goal is to score at least a 171, which I've done on 6 of the last 7 PTs I took. I took my last PT today and am planning to only do some light drilling tomorrow and the day after. I'm curious if anybody who's taken the test before can give some advice about how to ensure you do as well on game day as you have been in your PTs. I think it's important I stay confident and don't put too much pressure on things, but I'd be happy to hear any advice y'all have for ensuring you score to the best of your ability.
Thanks in advance for any insights and good luck to everyone taking October!
Hey everyone,
I just wanted to share that I got my first 180 on a PT! It wasn't a fresh PT, it was the same one I used for my diagnostic many months back, and even though I remembered very few of the questions I'm sure that inflated my score to some extent. I was given the advice to retake old PTs during my last week before my test and I'm mainly sharing this to let you all know that it's good advice I'd recommend. It helps boost confidence which is essential going into game day and still lets you practice pacing and the like without burning yourself out in the last week. Definitely found it worthwhile for myself and would encourage others to try as well. It's particularly fun retaking your diagnostic to remind yourself how much you've grown over the course of your studies.
Good luck to all my October brethren. Rooting for y'all!
I think you should do what works best for you. I'll do this if I know it's a NA or SA question, but otherwise I tend not to consciously break up the stim into its component parts (although I often do this unconsciously while reading). The trick is just finding whatever method helps you answer the questions as quickly and accurately as possible.
I don't even think it was particularly hard, I just kept falling into time sinks I knew the answer to for whatever reason.
The LR section on 92 absolutely demolished me. I've been consistently going -0 to -2 on LR on my last four prep tests and this one murdered me to the point where I just trashed the test and redid it without scoring. I know that was probably bad form, but I was a week away from test day and didn't want to totally demolish my self-esteem that close to the test.
I'm going to score above a 173 on the October LSAT
I think it's beneficial. Even if you don't end up having a game that resembles any of them, it helps train your brain to stay calm when you see something novel on the test and teaches you to keep thinking critically instead of just falling into memory mode. So even if that particular game would not be seen, it still helps you train your brain in a manner that's very beneficial for the test.
I would often wake up early to take practice tests before work so just due to a lack of time I wouldn't add in an experimental. I made sure to do a few tests with an added section before game day just to get the feel of it. I struggled a little bit with stamina while practicing, but in the actual test my adrenaline was going and I never felt any fatigue.