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Love opening up the forum and seeing all these workshops scheduled for this week! I'm ready to conquer LR. Thanks the millionth time!
@jhaldy10325 , thanks again for your time tonight, definitely some great pointers on prescriptive language. It seems the audio cut out on my end the last five minutes of your presentation, could it be possible you tell me what your remaining thoughts were? Thanks in advance!
@gregoryalexanderdevine723 - Do you think 20 PTs will be enough? I wanted to ease into PTs, but yet I want to be completely prepared come December.
@71888 - Thanks for the suggestion, I like the idea of using 40s for experimental or drilling. I may incorporate 50s too, so I utilize the most current ones, 60s and up, to do full PTs.
Would you prefer a one-page, two-page, or three-page?
Hi Everyone!
I'll be wrapping up my CC this week and plan on taking my first PT next week- tentatively on Wednesday, I'm giving myself three days before to brush up on certain topics. My schedule will be, one PT a week for the month of September and come October until the test in December, take two a week. I'm currently studying full-time (6-8 hours a day-weekends off). Any suggestions which PTs I should start with? Thanks in advance!
With the amount of studying I've been doing at this point, I'm focused on getting a good score to obtain some sort of scholarship and the rest student loans. I'm fortunate enough to have my significant other support me while I study full-time for the LSAT, and then turn around go to school full-time. Student loans will be dreadful, but sometimes it's the sacrifice you have to make in order to make your dreams come true, one way or another. I've waited 10 years to finally make this giant leap and I've always known student loans would be in the books. Luckily for me, I have no debt (i.e. undergrad loans or even a car loan), so it makes it more tolerable.
Thanks @michaeltheodore140 on asking this specific question. I'm in a similar situation where I'm wrapping up the CC and want to spend at least 3 months taking PT with BR and hopefully hit my target score when December comes around. This is all good advice! Thanks everyone.
This one got me. I had the correct argument form, but made too many assumptions with answer choice B about not making mistakes equates to being easier. Ugh, be sure to pay attention to the referential phases.
I'm in the same boat as you. I spent 5 wonderful days in Costa Rica for a friend's wedding and two days since my return, I'm struggling to adult. As @tristandesinor505 mentioned, you gotta start running to chase your dreams. I have today and Saturday to accomplish my tiny goal, which is to complete one subject, and with this goal, I can ease back into it and go full force next week. Good luck to you!
Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I used the BR method mentioned above when doing strengthening questions and it definitely helped, which made me hopefully I can complete my weakening question sets correctly, but that wasn't the case. I did great on one set, and the next two just wrecked me. I have noticed while going through JY's explanations, I'm having difficulty imaging the alternative explanations and denying the assumption. Now that I've pinpointed my problem with this question type, should I write out JY's explanations like mnr suggested and review them over and over again to strengthen my ability to see the alternative explanation? It seems my ability to be skeptical when doing these questions doesn't exist.
Got this question wrong, and its a good lesson to remember: do not make huge assumptions. I was stuck with deciding ACs D and E, and ended up going with D because I felt the idea of distance to interfere had no relevance to the argument. And with AC- E, I made the huge assumption the low-powered circuitry didn't have time to test out the kinks of items that would interfere with it, i.e. timing of when electronic devices became popular. Don't make huge assumptions, people!
I got this question right, but for other reasons than what JY used. Minor artists had to make a living, so with AC D, it states art dealers paid more for these minor artists to leave it unsigned to add phony signatures and pass it off as valuable paintings. So this adds support to the idea that minor artists need money to survive and adding phony signatures it supported the idea paintings from major artists was not accurate. Is this thought process okay?
I'm in the middle of going through the CC and I'm on weakening questions at this point. I'm working on my problem sets, but the last five sets I've done, I've been getting three or more of the questions wrong- the last two I just did, I got all the questions wrong. I understand for weakening questions, I'm looking for AC that reduces the support between the premise and conclusion, and I'm able to identify the premise, conclusion, referential phases, etc. in each argument. But when it comes down to select my AC, this is where I trip up. I'm going through JY's explanations for each question, and I see where his argument came from in selecting the AC, but the next set I do, I miss the point again and get too many questions wrong. Help! Any tips of how to conquer the tough weakening questions? Should I review the whole lesson plan again? Should I look at another way of attacking these questions via other study guides? I'm getting frustrated and discouraged because I've been handling all other topics fine, but I'm at a road block with these questions. Thanks in advance!
I got this question correctly, but for the wrong reasons than what JY explained. I reasoned A was correct, because I saw the first sentence as the sub-conclusion and the statement following "However" was the main point/main conclusion, but using "its" as a referential phase to the first statement. Is this bad thinking, seeing how JY used the first sentence as the conclusion?
I'm curious about this, as well. Some guidance would be greatly appreciated!
@allisongillsanford643.gill.sanford and @stepharizona288 - There are 2 dream schools, one local and one in another city- which after US News 2017 rankings, they're both in the Top 50, yay! The other local schools are back-ups, in case I can't get into either 2 choices. My options are limited since my significant other will be supporting me while I'm in school, so location of these schools are job base for him too.
That is a great idea @mjpina451, thanks!
Thanks everyone for your thoughts, you all made some valid points, some I figured would be the case. My only reason to start visiting now is to motivate myself and keep trucking along in studying the LSAT, but I do need to be realistic about the whole process. No sense in wasting admissions officer's time, if I'm not applying in the upcoming cycle.
I'm plan to take the LSAT later this year (September/December-worst case), would it be too soon to visit some schools I plan on applying to? Or is best to wait until I've taken the LSAT? Some of the schools I plan on applying are local, so it wouldn't be a problem to schedule a visit and drive to them. Thoughts?
Congrats! You deserve it!
Hi everyone! I apologize for getting back so late, but David didn't respond to my email until late yesterday evening. As a recap, I asked him how to translate my work experience (6+ years of work experience or in my case almost 10 years) into my personal statement or what my theme should be, this is what he said...
Great question. If you've been in the work force for a while, you'll probably want to explain to the adcom why you're applying to law school now, so the "Why I want to be a lawyer" option is more attractive. That said, you don't HAVE to write about why you want to be a lawyer; if you have a better topic, you should write that.
I hope this helps for some of you, who wondered about this question. Back to the drawing board for me.
Congrats! This is absolutely inspiring. I'm in the same boat as you were, my LSAT score is under the 25th at all the schools I plan on applying to, but I'm taking a gamble to apply anyways. I'm curious if you had to re-write your resume and personal statement and request new LORs when you reapplied?