Hmm, I'm just sort of wondering if it's even worth explaining and getting the documentation. Like my cumulative isn't THAT bad, but there is a huge jump between my first two and last two which is explained by this.

Just don't know if it's even worth explaining or not, regardless of if I'm taken under 'special considerations' or just a general applicant.

I literally did nothing but logic games for 3 weeks, and was able to get up from -10 to an average of -1.

However, you should always keep up with your skills once they're acquired. I made the mistake of not practicing logic games for a bit, and saw myself drifting away from my -1 average and more towards -3.

For me it was just a combination of trying different methods.

The past week i've been doing nothing but drilling RC with different annotation methods. At first, I was writing down 10 word summaries on the side of the paragraph. I'd get -1 or -2 on the whole section, but not have enough time to bubble.

Then I tried a different method, and a different one, and a different one. I settled on 7sages technique, but found that as I kept doing more RC, I was getting sufficiently faster just from the practice.

So my suggestion, perhaps try another method of annotation. If that doesn't work, just keep drilling RC passages. They'll really help your speed.

Honestly though, if you have a bad day with RC don't get too upset. Yesterday I went -12 on a section doing a PT, but then today I did 4 separate RC sections and got an average of -4. Everyone has bad days. Just look at why you made such mistakes, and work on them.

For what it's worth, I scored 5 points under my average on test day because of lack of sleep and burnout.

So you would be doing yourself a huge favour by not doing that many PTs, and taking a break here and there. It's something that I wish I did.

It depends on how you've been studying, really.

My diag was around a 143, and my first PT was a 160 on the dot. I'm mid-160s now.

That being said, starting doing preptests. Doing them has helped me comprehend the material so much. My score may only be 5/6 points above my 2nd PT, but I actually understand the test more.

So if your 2nd PT is low, don't be discouraged. Find out where you went wrong, work on it, and do another. More PTs helps you "lock in" your score, and move away from huge fluctuations (ie getting 165 on one test but 157 on another).

Best of luck! :)

I always put it before my worst section (RC).

You sound exactly like me. It was all sunshine and jager shots for weeks. Would get either 164, 165, or 166 on every preptest.

Then, burnout came. My scores just started getting shrek'd. Like I would either JUST hit 160, or sometimes dip under.

"How could this happen to me, I've made my mistakes, got no where to run.. life goes on as I'm fading away" I thought to myself.

I was studying 8 hours a day every single day for 2 months. Neglected my friends, family, and even myself. "Take a break" they said. But I thought the idea of a break was dumbest thing I've ever heard. "Arnold (aka Schwarz-god) never took a break", I replied.

But then I said yolo. Went out with my friends two nights in a row. Didn't get so obliterated that I couldn't remember my name, but I just had fun.

After those two days, I felt refreshed. Boom, my scores went back up. Last 5 preptests since then have been 164,166,166,165,165.

So yes, it's definitely burn out. It's good that you recognized it now. Go spend some times with your friends and forget the entire LSAT for bare minimum one day. It'll do wonders.

For Ontario based schools, everything is due November 1st.

It's best to tell your LORs that you need them to mail it by the 28th, to give a bit of time to get to OLSAS.

Slow down a bit. I used to get so focused on running out of time, however when I would do sections without looking at my watch, I noticed I always still made time.

Constantly analyzing your watch leads to nothing but anxiety, which can hinder your full thought process. I know this is easier said than done, on test day I had a bad case of constantly looking at my watch during RC, which made me panic, and low and behold the last RC section just pooped on me.

Maybe not postpone until February yet. Wait until the week before the LSAT, and if you haven't hit your goal score at least 5 times, don't take it. However if you do hit your goal score, don't get over confident. I did, and it bit me in the ass hard. 30+ PTs hitting my goal score, missed it on test day.

Focus hard on your mistakes, and keep calm, and you got this :)

This is very informative. Thank you for this.

One thing to mention too is that a lot of the 2nd tier schools focus heavily on your GPA in your last two (L2) years of school. For example, it's become apparent that Queen's has started to look primarily at your L2 GPA when it comes to admitting, especially if it is higher than your cGPA. I know that Western really puts a lot of emphasis on your L2, but looks at your cGPA as well.

3.7L2 seems to be the the sweet spot for these schools particularly.

I did 40 PTs. Got my goal score or over on 37 of those PTs.

Test day, I vastly under preformed. Nervousness is a thing, anxiety is a thing, sleep deprivation is a thing, burnout is a thing.

For example. I just did a fresh and timed RC section. Went -4. On test day I went -12 on RC.

Thus what I'm going to be doing is just zoning in on my weaknesses. Doing timed sections and focusing on my wrong questions. Before when I BR'd LR, if I still got the question wrong I wouldn't bother trying to review it. So long as my BR score was 23/25, I'd forget about it.

I plan on doing only one PT a week from now until the test. Drill your weaknesses, review the lessons on your weaknesses, and keep calm.

I'm pretty sure I got that question, but it took me a while.

People seemed to misread one of the rules, but for me I found the stimulus itself to sort of be convoluted.

Needless to say that question took me a lot of time to do. Any inferences you could make from the rules flew over my head, which caused me to have to spend a loooooooot of time on each individual question. If the questions before it weren't easy(er), I definitely would have bombed it. Just one of those LG games that you need to allocate a lot of time to.

It was a hard question. Less so the game itself, but it was just worded so weird. I find it so strange that so many people from all spectrums of PT averages messed it up. Would that not question not have come up as a problem in a past experimental?

I'm not sure about the deadline, but I know there's a window for requests after the scores are up.

So personally I'm just waiting for my score.

I too changed a bunch of answers, but i'm not too worried. If anything you can pay the LSAC to hand grade it (which I will be doing solely because I had a bad experience with scantrons in undergrad).

So I mean an LSAC rep will be reasonable. Say you erased A and put B, but they look identical, you probably will lose the mark. But say A is grayed out and B is clearly marked in a lot thicker than A, you should be fine.

I would just retake them. Make a note on the questions that you remember the answer to, and adjust your final score based on how you see fit. I usually subtract 2 or 3 points from my retake score, depending on how many questions I remembered

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Same test layout, felt the same about each section, remember the hissing question. I got shrek'd by that LR section. I honestly felt it was harder than normal.

Please LSACgod be the experimental section. My entire score is relying on that being the EXP hahaha. It's the difference between me getting a 165 and sub-160.

I think it was graded though. Let's just hope lady luck was on my side.

EDIT: or maybe my 3rd LR section did have the hissing and not the 2nd. Who knows. I need to stop thinking about it hahaha.

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Feel the exact same. After the 1st section I had two LR's back to back before the break. Both were 26 questions, and the one before the break was, at least in my opinion, very challenging.

I hope that was the EXP, because if not I know for a fact that section killed my score.

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What do you mean by 2 questions on one prompt? Like a single page had only two questions on it? There's been some PTs with 2 questions on one page before (ie. PT02).

All I know is that one of my LR sections had like 4 of the same question types in succession. I'm hoping that was the EXP one.

From looking at other forums, a lot of people who consistently PT well felt that it was fairly difficult in one respect or another.

Hopefully the curve is favorable. I'm predicting a curve just like PT 71, as I felt the test resembled that one fairly well. And judging by most reactions, it seems like it will be scaled in such a way

160: 72 : 165: 79

I feel so weird. Particularly about 1 logical reasoning section.

Needless to say, I just booked my December rewrite. Hoping that it doesn't have to come to that, but I know for a fact I only under-preformed because I got 3 hours of sleep last night. My brain literally went to mush on that LR section.

Honestly there's no 'sure fire' way of doing Reading Comprehension. For me, I just had to drill various methods until I found one that worked consistently.

For me, I look at the questions, write all of the "author/passage suggests" variables on the top of the passage, and then read. Then when I see one of those words, I summarize briefly on the side what is said about it.

This, I find, allows you to make sure you're not zoning in on minute details that won't come up on a question (which was my problem). But again, if your problem is not focusing on little details, this may not work for you.

*goes on Amazon and buys another LSAT watch out of pranoia*

Sorry to come in and hijack this thread, but I have this watch with the colored sections. Can I use that on test day?

http://lsatwatch.webs.com

It says LSAC approved as of 2014, but nothing's changed drastically since then, right?

Ahhhh, I feel like it might be burn out too. I normally study 4 hours in the morning and 4 at night, but two nights ago I took the night off to combat my burn out. It seemed to work... until my recent PT score haha.

I guess I just fear that it's not burn out and that the day I take off to rest could be the day that I would have learned how to do RC better. Before I was going avg -7, took time off to drill, bumped it up to average -5, maintained this -5 average over two days, doing probably 4 passages a day, and now I'm at the like -12 point.

Thank you for the words of encouragement. I got 166,165,165,164 on my last 4 preptest, but today I got a 160 flat. Really discouraging, what do you recommend I do?