anytime goodluck!

what made a huge difference for me with the LG section at least, and if you do this already then ignore this, was when i started drawing out new game boards next to every question instead of working it out on my master board and erasing. not only does the 2nd way make it very messy and harder to keep track of, but its a huge huge time saver to have your past work to look back on for future questions and i usually got to eliminate 3 or sometimes 4 answers just from seeing what has and hasnt happened yet on previous charts. also, dont be afraid to split your board if you see there are 2 or 3 or ever 4 options of how to chart can look, it may seem time consuming but i find that it always pay to do that and you get your time back and more. you should practice making all the inferences you can when making your initial board, if theres an A before B rule, write in that A cant be last and B cant be first, even things that seem obvious are helpful to have visually available, also very important to keep track of if there are peices that dont have any rules or the general distribution of how many peices there are how many fit how many places they can go and just kind of think it through a bit a familiarize yourself with the game rules before you dive into it, always ask when making a chart for a question which peices are left. Past that its really just about doing enough practice that your familiar with all the different riddles they can throw at you, there are only so many variations they can make in these games, so the more comfortable you get with them and the more of them you encounter the better you will be at them.

As for RC, my advice is to really invest the time is reading the passage careful, even if you are a slow reader and think you wont have time, it always pays off to spend the extra time reading the passage and your questions will end up going twice or three times as fast. Underline things, even if you wont ever look back at it, circle different points of view or shifts in attitude, bracet off important areas of the passage, even mark parts that you didnt quite understand so if theres a question about something you dont remember from the passage you can check there, take a second and think about what you just read at the end of ever paragraph. i know all these things take time but it really allows you to fly through the questions once you get to them and ends up saving you time and getting you much more questions right. lastly i think the most important thing to note with reading comp is that although it seems subjective, your not picking the "Best" answer. there is only 1 correct answers, the other 4 are all wrong for one reason or another. so once you eliminate the obvious ones, look back on the other 2 or 3 and see what could potentially be wrong with them, knowing there must be something, it could be a tiny technicallity in the wording, a qualifyer they slipped in, a switch of one word so another familiar word from the passage but not the one that makes sense here, there will always be something wrong with all but one of the answers, you just need to find it.

if your applictions will be okay with a december LSAT i think you should cancel, whether or not you felt confident on the ones you answered, you likely fell short of your goal and forsure fell short from your potential if you missed 5-7 questions per section from having to get up to blow your nose. you will definately do way way better taking it again in december under better conditions so seems best to then not have the bad score on your record also.

done studying hopefully so wont be much help with the flow chart but just wanted to chime in to say that I had almost the same situation 149 diagnostic, 162ish by June, ended up pushing off till September and was able to get a number of 175+ practice tests. So definitely doable by december even if youll have a bit less study time.

goodluck.

i had a similar issue when i was studying for June and thats why i ended up waiting until September. Think the main issue that i really improved on the 2nd time around was just realizing that there really is just one correct answer to each question and the other four each will have something wrong with them. I used to think that it was about picking the "best" answer, and spend such a long time deliberating between two answers once i narrowed it down, but its important to realize that there will always be something wrong with all but one of the choice. might be a slight technicality in the wording, that its worded too strongly, some qualifyer they slipped in, look carefully, there will always be something. Another thing is maybe that once your done studying in the sense of learning rules and methods, put that all asside once you start doing timed practice. You want to get familiar enough with the techniques and practice them enough initially that once you are practicing timed you shouldnt have to think about them at all, it should really feel 2nd nature to just answer the questions to the best of your ability. For me it was almost to the point that I thought i maybe forgot all of the techniques i had learned because i never actively thought about them when i was taking practice tests, and thats when you know you have reached your maximum in terms of being prepared. You'll get to a point when you are so familiar with the techniques and have seen all the underlying "riddle" types that they transform into different questions that it should feel very natural to just know which one is right without deliberating for long. until then, just keep practicing. and i wouldnt worry about running out of practice material, in my experience you go through so so many questions that you really shouldn't remember the specific question and its answer by the time you get to it again.

@ also for the real games: the east west 1 2 3 o'clock theatre one and the GHFI being interviewed.

Real LR questions: (25 question section)

Gnats and wet climate

Peasants religious activity

Pro and Anti development candidates

Parking rates and restarants

Ash clouds and lightning

Factory worker injury belts

If anyone remembers any more real LR questions plz share

@ yes actually helps a lot thank you. Did you feel like the 25 question LR section was about the same difficulty left as the 26 or easier?

@ hmm ya may have just been similar wording as another question. wish i remembered the question since thats the only thing really i remember about that section and would love to find out if it was experimental.

I was on the bottom left of the 2nd page of one of the 25 question LR sections if anyone with a crazy memory happens to know what that was.

seemed to be about the same level of difficulty as the saturday test from what i've gathered, our LR was a bit harder i think but they had one really hard game. just wondering if the much smaller sample size of test takers for that test usually effects the curve at all.

i think i had a main conclusion question somewhere in my experimental so didnt notice it missing elsewhere. Noticed a question in one of my LR sections that ive seen before on a previous test, do you think that means the section was experimental or do they sometimes recycle questions?

pretty sure that is why they asked those questions, i purposely put all my answers as "ive never used a computer before and am not comfortable with them", lets start a movement to get all future LSAT takers to do that so they dont change it?

was this in brooklyn? someone there had a similar issue and ended up canceling her score and is going to file a complaint to LSAC, should consider doing the same if you think it really hurt your score

which testing center was this at??

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someone said the LR with the question about the "meeting" is the real one, any idea what that is?

@ about

yes was confused by the chameleon question, one section with a question about the 30 vs 25 meter deep water for the dolphins found that whole section very hard but pretty sure that one wasn't experimental.

LG were all pretty straightforward I thought, east-west 1 2 3 game and Pizza quesadilla games i thought were suspiciously easy and there wasnt a harder game later to make up for it i dont think unless i missed something.

@ Logic

and yeah Games sectioned was very easy, also thought i maybe missed something but the answers all seemed to work out

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did you also have one easy LR section and 2 harder ones?

Had an LR as an experimental, anyone without an experimental LR know which questions were real?

the RC section with the Frued-Marx passage, rain forrest one, judicial honesty, and native languages on the radio was the real one.

@ i had only 2 LRs, both were 25 questions so if you had a 26 questions one was prob experimental.

do you remember any of games? had 2 LGs trying to find out which was real