yaas!! congrats!!!

congrats!! best of luck to you!!

i think your current lsat score is far below ut austin's median than your gpa is above their median to make yourself a very competitive reverse-splitter.

(ut austin's gpa-75 is 3.9; with your 3.84, you are above their median, but you are still not hitting their gpa-75. on the other hand, your lsat is far below their lsat-25.)

you can apply early decision, but how much of a boost people get from applying early decision has been debated. according to this blog, university of texas seems to be a school that treats ed applications no differently: https://blog.powerscore.com/lsat/applying-to-law-school-to-ed-or-not-to-ed/

that said, i think your background has a really great potential, given that your major was in engineering and that adcom tend to see this as a difficult major more often than not.

i see that you graduated in 2019 and have a full-time job.

is there a reason why you need to attend law school next fall?

i've seen a lot of patent attorneys who had worked as engineers for much more years.

i would consider extending my timeline a bit so that i could bring my lsat score up (work for 1-2 more years while studying for the lsat.)

if you really want to apply to ut austin right now and see how it goes, maybe ed this cycle, but be prepared for the worst, and continue working on the lsat (even if it's only an hour per day).

just my 2 cents.

good luck!

at this point of your prep (with that many pts taken already and if you are already set on taking the june test) , i would save those two;

i'd use them when you really need to accurately gauge where you're scoring and need to decide whether you'd like to take the august or future exams.

this question reminded me of pt 72, rc passage 1, forest fires...

amazing! congrats!!

it'll depend on the school. most t-14 schools accept the january score; some accept even the feb score. other schools accept april or even june.

but this doesn't mean that you should aim for these later tests if you're planning on applying for that year, because it'd be in your best interest to apply as early as possible.

"the presence in petroleum of biomarkers"

i read this as biomarkers containing petroleum, not the other way around (petroleum containing biomarkers)...

there's a powerscore podcast on this. the issue needs to be catastrophic (from lsac's point of view). if it was only a couple of seconds (or even 1, 2 minutes), you likely won't be granted a retake.

lsac conducts investigations and decides if it warrants a retake.

denying a makeup test because you would have a repeated section seems bizarre to me.

it'd depend on the specific law school. i know that at georgetown, you can apply to both, and they say that:

Applying to "Both" divisions signifies to the Admissions Committee that you are equally willing to attend either the Full-Time or Part-Time program if offered admission to Georgetown Law. If the Admissions Committee approves your application, it will specify in your acceptance letter the division to which you have been admitted.

thank you so much for sharing, and congratulations!

i can feel that you'll also do great in your legal career!

i eat a few chocolate-covered espresso beans for snack, and they've been great alternatives to liquid coffee.

1st sentence: conclusion

2nd sentence: major premise (or sub-conclusion or intermediate conclusion)

3rd sentence: premise

the popular wrong answer choice (d) is basically the 2nd sentence. that's why it's not the correct answer.

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I have a bachelor's degree in engineering and a master's course in the same department. Also, I has been working as a patent attorney in Korea for about two years. Could these be considered one of the good soft?

are you an llm applicant or a jd applicant? for jd-admissions, i've heard many times from the admissions deans and consultants that a stem degree is generally considered a good/relatively unique major – and i think you can really tell a consistent and compelling story if you also have work experience in patent law and write about continuing your professional interests.

i can't comment anything about the llm process. hopefully someone else can jump in and give insights.

good luck!

you can print out the pdfs via 7sage – just go onto "take preptest," then you'll see the button "printable."

when i was foolproofing games, i printed out only 1 copy of each game and put them inside a screen-protector and a binder. i never wrote on the master copy; just did work on a scrap paper. on the actual lsat, you no longer will be able to write on the physical copy of the exam anyway; you'll be working on a scrap paper, reading off the rules/games from your computer screen.

alternatively, you can create problem sets on 7sage each time and work directly from your computer.

just to add: on the actual test day, you'll never know which section (lr/rc/lg) you will get as your experimental.

so if you do take the normal 4-section test every single time, you'll only be practicing with your 2nd lr section as your experimental.

no it will not show as "canceled" if you meet the deadline (the day before your test) to withdraw;

withdrawals are not reported to schools, and they will never know you were even registered for that exam.

https://www.lsac.org/lsat/lsat-dates-deadlines-score-release-dates/what-do-if-youre-unable-take-lsat

https://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/law-admissions-lowdown/articles/2019-04-08/what-to-know-about-lsat-cancellations-withdrawals-and-absences

#21: we need to focus on matching the elements; specifics do not need to match

#22: a lot of wrong answer choices like on here play on erroneously conflating the details in the passage: "no gaining disproportionate amounts of money" does not equal "no more than they deserve" (answer choice b); "damages" do not equal "fees" (answer choice e). moreover, e is wrong because it's talking about contingency fees in general, whereas we mainly talked about uplift fees, a subset of the contingency fees.

no it won't count towards any of the limits (3/5/7).

pretty difficult question with abstract premises, and i initially thought there was a sub-conclusion. but upon oversimplifying the argument to see its skeleton, i think there is none.

premise: truths are common

premise: poetic excellence must be not common

conclusion: truths are not poetic excellence.

i know i super-oversimplified the stimulus to try to see what the author was doing.

i think the author was trying to use argumentation via contrapositives: "truths → common → not poetic excellence”

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for example, the June cycle has three days, so id say it is at least two days guaranteed for August. Also, just take into account that the August test will no longer be three sections, the LSAT will go back to four sections moving forward.

Thank you! Do you know if those dates are typically set close to the "starting date"? I found for June they were not but I'm trying to determine the trend so I can plan my work leave accordingly.

i think it usually is.

june used to be "tbd, week starting june 12." now june is scheduled for 12, 13, and 15.

august is "tbd, week starting august 14." my guess is that august will be scheduled for 14, 15, and 17.

flex tests usually have been tested on saturday/sunday/tuesday (skipping monday).

p.s. i believe international test dates are tested on different days; also, starting august, the "flex" era is over. it's still online, but with 4 sections and they will drop the word "flex" to the tests.

yes you should be fine.

i'd say when you've used up like 10 pencils

https://classic.7sage.com/discussion/#/discussion/28480/how-many-pencils-does-it-take-to-perfect-lg @

...and well, that's enough lsat for today

i think you deserve to feel good about this! it looks like you improved after working on the foundations of rc and lr.

score improvements, drastic/small, and when they happen, all differ from person to person. i've seen some people experience significant score jumps after finishing the cc; some would plateau for a while at a certain point; some would just keep on going.

since you're taking august, there will be plenty of more opportunities to gauge where you are.

keep on pushing, blind review the heck out of these preptests that you took, and be proud of your accomplishments when you see improvements.

good luck!