Wow.

You both had some very insightful advice for me, thank you.

As I reread my post, I noticed one of the sentences didn't make sense and I repeated myself once; that's the kind of unaware state of mind that I enter after taking the LSAT, lol.

As far as doing all those things jwynne2 suggested, I'm not doing any of them, heh. I've been cramming the LSAT really, really hard, and it's been substituting for all of my other normal activities. My LSAT is at 8 AM, and I've just been doing them mid-noon or in the evening.

Today I'll try to fix these things.

Yes, I am. I also have been getting scores in the 158-164 range lately, which is a pretty big jump.

I definitely would LIKE to study in a group--it would keep me even more on task than I already have been. To be fair, I study 8 to 10 hours a day anyways. I'm not sure if you can make that kind of commitment but even if we only got together to go through a practice exam and run through the answers that would be fine, too.

Are you still close to the Tampa Bay Area?

I've been studying in the USF library. However, the Cooper (CPR) building, which is located adjacent to the library, usually has many open classrooms at random points in the day and throughout the evening.

We can use the computer, surround sound system, and pull-down screen to play the proctored tests, watch explanations to answers on the big screen, etc.

Hey Emily; I live in Tampa and am taking the June LSAT. I'm a college senior in USF--my highest practice test thus far is a 155, but if I took it now I think I'd hit 160. So, that's kind of where I'm at.

Space Bar 8)....

More than just liking, I think the one with the most upvotes should be brought to the top of the page, or perhaps all the comments should be filtered in order of the most upvotes.

Then the new comments would be all the way at the bottom though; so there'd have to be a way to sort it by newest posts... sounds like a pain haha.

Anyways, long story short it looks like most people found the game to be the curve breaker of the LSAT.

For those of you that completed it without a problem, I congratulate you, excelling is the purpose of this course.

To the rest of us, I hope we get the scores we set out for ourselves or do better next time. :)

I'll be taking the June LSAT, so I'll see you guys and girls around.

My friend had three LR sections. Her logic game section also had the circular game, confirming that it is real.

Also, I feel like there was no easy logic game in that test... The first 3 were medium to medium-hard, and the circular one was REALLY F*cking hard and time consuming. I thought it was really unfair of them to do that to us in the real LG section.

My experimental LG section was normal, in that the first was easy, the second and fourth were mediums, and the third was pretty hard. However, the third had a serious grammar error so I knew it was an experimental :\...

It sucks that they don't do the LSAT curve per test, and they do it by whole years instead. Otherwise, we might have stood a chance. but I think our scores will suck now.

That LG with the [redacted] really screwed me though. ran out of time...

*edit* sorry for violating TOS, thank you for redacting part of the comment, lol..

Keep in mind you'll have adrenaline either on your side or against you, depending on how hard it hits you.

This seems to make or break people's focus on test day, and you cant really get the same sensation in a PT.

Lol...

I was forced to take 2 days of break because I had an abundance of normal schoolwork i've been neglecting.. I just took a practice test today, and I literally had to stop mid-test because of how many I was missing...

I didn't take section 4. And in section 1, 2 and 3 I got a -35, which is lower than any whole-test grade I've ever done.

I have no idea what's wrong with me. Everything seems so much harder to understand and comprehend now. Every question in this test (PT62) was more or less difficult. I don't know if I'm still suffering from mental fatigue, if I'm temporarily burned out, if this test caught me off guard, or what...

One thing is for certain, my faith in doing well on Saturday is nonexistent.

It seems like some, or many, of you may be older and more experienced than I am.

I am passionate about being an attorney, I do want a job, I would like 70k or more starting.

I don't know anyone. I'm graduating from my undergrad this May. I'm trying to start law school this August.

I was looking at making it into George Washington University, because I read somewhere that they have very high employment rates and a great program on intellectual property law.

Is there something that I might be overlooking? Is there a really good reason to wait a year, or to go into a specific area of law?

The thing I like about the IDEA of being an attorney is that it can allow me to be a source of knowledge to help others, and a functional, respectable member of society that has both security and power.

Am I being duped, though? Is this degree not worth $150k+ to go out of state and attend a top 25 law school? Is there really no need for lawyers, and if that's true, do you think there's room for new firms?

You have to purchase it as an addon.

Yeah... no more adderal.

I'm taking a break today, this is the first LSAT thing I've looked at in the past 24 hours.

Not sure if it's a good idea, but it was one of the most common suggestions...

I'm going to take the February LSAT and apply to schools. My score, however, will determine whether or not I go to Law School right after I graduate, or if I wait a year and find something to do in the meantime...

I refuse to go to a school that isn't Tier 1, but I'm also doing late admission, so I really need a high LSAT score if I plan on getting into those schools (I'm thinking at least 160.)

So.... Yep. I have no questions or anything else to say at this point, lol.

;_; I'll do another PT Wednesday. Or maybe Tuesday.

Thank you for the morale booster.

Lol, I'm sorry you went through the trouble... I recently typed out a long question and a bunch of my reasoning that equated to a thousand words or so, only to discover the flaw in my reasoning at the very last sentence that I wrote..

backspace.

Thanks for the links

@ I answered A, because I was positive that the statement had a Main Conclusion followed by a Premise + Sub Conclusion. While I was compelled to pick B, I didn't understand it because I'd never encountered the words claim and explanation.

@ Name is Al I will review that lesson.

What do you mean by your #1 point? I switched the two sentences around and it still made sense to me. "Because x, then z. In the long run, y." or "In the long run, y. Because x, then z."

Is that the kind of flip you meant?

I see how you can convince me that it's a casual explanation, I just don't understand the relationship between Claim + Premise / Explanation + Conclusion.

How is a casual explanation different from a premise and conclusion?

Do casual explanations not make assumptions or draw connections?

Are casual explanations merely information and facts?

If casual explanations are just showing cause and effect, how do we know that the author is a credible source and that his cause and effect isnt making any assumptions, and do I care if he's credible or not?

What does "casual" explanation mean, and how is it different than a plain explanation?

@ I saw, in this same exam (prep test 56) the word sub conclusion used at least once. I don't understand why they're switching their terminology around so loosely. I understand that it is English, and English has many ways to throw up the same argument, but what I'm really trying to figure out is if the second sentence IS or ISN'T, 100%, a premise and conclusion.

If it's not, and it's just a claim and explanation, then this is some new terminology that I haven't seen on the LSAT thus far and must do research on.

Al, yes I see a pattern, at least for logic games. When there are more than 3 variables, it takes me much longer to complete.

For example: Students ABCDEFGH are assigned to groups I, J and K.

but then the second rule will say something like, if A is on team J, then team J is before team K. Introducing the fact that the order of the teams also matters, hence 3 variables (students, teams, placement.)

I missed every question in a game just like this one today...

As far as reading comprehension and LR goes, I'm just not taking the authors literally enough. I keep taking invitations to make assumptions, or even when I think I'm reading carefully I tend to miss a vital word such as "can" or "except."

This is all that I have learned about myself by taking today's PT and doing awful. Thank you for asking me that question so that I could type it all out and show myself, it helped put things into perspective.

1 day = 7 hours of sleep, 2-3 hours of classes, 2 hours of homework. 10-12 hours of studying LSAT. The remainder goes into showering/eating/travelling.

What Madpanda says.

I think it would be less helpful to rely on the presumption that there may be a difference in formatting. The current format couldn't get much "tighter," so if you practice on that and you get used to little space, the extra space will only be advantageous on the day of the exam.