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Monday, Jan 18 2016

I take it your test is being taken at 8 o clock in the morning? Any idea how many people are likely to be sitting in on it? If you live in a major city then you will likely have at least 100 people in the room with you. The biggest piece of advice I can offer is to train your bladder properly. I took the LSAT just this past December thinking that I had to be signed in at 8:30 and that the test would start at around 9:30ish which seemed reasonable at the time. Naturally I took prep tests at 9 in the morning with a ten question warm up beforehand to get my brain going. Imagine my surprise when I got in the room at 8:45 after showing the proctors my ID and everything only to find out that I had to sit at my desk for 2 hours. By the time everyone had signed in we didn't start the test until 10:50. So the warm up before the exam was absolutely useless. Keep in mind that you cannot leave the room until section 1 starts. So I sat there for two hours watching people walk through the door while my bladder was filling up. I elected not to go to the bathroom because I wasn't about to lose any time for any of the sections. So I wrote the first half of the test with a full bladder until finally the break came. Also, if you like your caffeine then train yourself to write the test without it. I finished my coffee before I got into the room since I wasn't allowed to bring it in with me. By the time the test started the caffeine had worn off so I ended up writing the test as the caffeine was wearing off. (Not a good thing) On top of that, after the 15 minute break a girl across the room just started sobbing, then crying, then walked out of the room in the middle of the exam. (Something I think that 7sage should add into the distraction sounds on their proctor app.) I didn't look away from my test I just heard it all happen because losing focus on test day is for pussies. I ended up scoring a 157 which I was very unhappy with considering how much effort I put into trying to simulate test conditions and scoring between 160 and 165 on several PTs. I'm probably going to retake it in June now and spent all of December avoiding caffeine. I am now studying and training myself not to use caffeine at all and haven't touched a coffee or energy drink in over a month.

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patbrodacki966
Friday, Apr 08 2016

I have the unfortunate luck of having never had a passion. I simply have the ability to work like those you would call workaholics. With that being said, I wouldn't consider myself one because I hate working hard and my favorite part of the week is when I can just sit on the couch and do nothing every Saturday and Sunday night. Over the course of University and several jobs that I had during and after; from working at a liquor store, to a golf course, to accounts payable I have found that I am equally miserable doing all kinds of work. I just kinda figured I might as well be miserable doing something that involves a lot of reading and writing since I'm slightly less miserable doing that than math oriented stuff. One of my friends is a lawyer and his life is what most people would consider horrible. He's only 31 and already been divorced once and since then no girl wants to be in a relationship with him because he works 60-80 hours a week and never has time for anything. I haven't even talked to him in like 3 months because he works so much. The only reason I'm still going the lawyer route is because I'm a big believer in the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer. So the best advice I can give you is if you feel something else would make you "happy" or be slightly more bearable than being a lawyer then go do that.

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patbrodacki966
Saturday, Feb 06 2016

How confident are you that you will get the score you need tomorrow? If you feel you can get a "good enough" score for whatever school you want to get into then I say take it. If you feel that it's more of a coin toss then i would say hold off. Why waste your time on something that's not a sure thing? The LSAT is not like other tests where you can guess your way through and do well. You either have it down or you don't. Given the fact that you even have to ask whether you should take it tomorrow I would say you probably don't have it down. Then again I've been wrong before... once or twice. You could end up being a ridiculously lucky person.

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