@kacantolina79 I woke up this morning feeling a little off also, don't worry like everyone else said you're not alone! If you haven't already tried anything else one thing that always helps me is oil of oregano. It's really disgusting but you just have to take 5 drops every few hours as per the instructions and it doesn't make you feel drowsy or anything at all, but it helps with a sore throat/sniffles.

@staciaglee275 Hi! Ok thats great to hear, I wasn't sure if it would be the same test all across the board or different one's for those of us writing at a different time/date. I will probably be on here creeping the boards because I feel like it would be way too challenging not to!

@jhaldy10325 It's definitely a good thing! I'm taking more this time around myself, I just stopped myself because I wasn't sure the first time. Just watching her made me a little nervous that's all ;)

LOL I took 4 but I saw a girl with like 20 sitting across from me, no one said anything to her, but just looked at her funny

I felt like a huge gap in her argument was the jump from public unwillingness or inability to "lead to foreign policy disaster". Really Lorraine...a disaster? I mean maybe the public would not really care, but how could we just make such a bold statement. So I was looking for something that made it more apparent that the referenda would really just lead to super shitty implications for France overall, and I think C really nails it. C shows us how, in addition to the lack of public interest, holding a referenda on foreign policy issues would complicate everything by influencing the opinions of other countries. This answer choice really just tells us more negative implications associated with a referenda of this type, thus proving why it would be a "disaster".

@sareentakhar685 I just applied for the February cycle a few months ago and was approved! Based on what you have written you should be good. Just make sure you submit all the documents you can, I got my family doctor to write a written statement about my disorder, my psychiatrist's original diagnostic report, and a letter from my university regarding accommodations that I had received in the past.

LR!!! In December I nearly died with RC first followed by an experimental RC. Just a wonderful combination :)

When I was doing this question during the test and BR I chose D because I figured that "mere existence of blahblah" means that there's only this existence and no critical thinking needed, contraposing back our chain and thus must be false. Is that an accurate way to think of this question?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but during BR I saw this argument as a causation/correlation argument

Our argument is suggesting that snow and ice cause allow more light to be reflected back into the and the effect of this is lower atmospheric temperatures

Using this relationship I wanted to find something that showed that when the cause (snow and ice) was removed, the effect (low temperatures) was also removed. Alternatively, I wanted to find an answer choice that eliminates some alternative phenomenon that could be contributing to lower atmospheric temperatures in the presence of snow and ice.

A. This to me suggested a reverse causal relationship, as it is showing that the correlation we tend to find between snow/ice and low temperatures actually is the result of low temps causing snow/ice to form. This would at best weaken our argument.

B. Other factors - okay but what are these other factors? Are you trying to convince me that snow/ice are not causing this lower temperature or trying to convince me that the argument is weak by pointing to another source? At best this weakens.

C. Perfect. This answer shows us that in the absence of the absence of the cause we do not find the same effect. When we take away snow/ice and replace this "cause" with oceans and land we will find higher atmospheric temperatures (do not find the same effect).

For causation/correlation arguments, showing that in the absence of the cause there is no effect, will strengthen our argument.

D. As mentioned by JY when I read this argument and drew a little picture illustrating the reflection process with ice/snow I too questioned whether this process would, according to this answer, actually cause higher temperatures and weaken the argument. Thus I eliminated it.

E. Okay? Why are you talking about soil, are you trying to relate light coloured soil to ice and say that the reflection process with light soil is similar to that with ice? This does nothing for the argument, if anything it reaffirms the fact that light coloured surfaces like snow and ice are highly reflective and if we take the causal relationship as given this would imply that these surfaces do in fact lower temperatures. At best this answer choice weakens.

Ahhhh they totally try to bait you into thinking that the demand did not increase, did not see that and I have a degree in economics :O

Okay so the largest gap here was when I read the stimulus right away I said WTF how can you say something is immoral just because it may be inefficient....that is a huge assumption that the argument is making. Usually these flaw questions will say something like the argument takes for granted that .... when the author is assuming something insane, so here I was looking for "the argument takes for granted that if something is inefficient then it must also be immoral". A was really similar, as it says that something that may not be as desirable as an alternative course of action can still be moral, challenging the huge assumption that the author is making here. Hopefully my thoughts were correct!

Totally missed the gap during the test but during BR it literally dawned on me through the "his or her" in answer choice C. It's so subtle and easy to miss, but it makes total sense because we should be comparing students on an individual level in order to prove or disprove our hypothesis.

Hey! So I haven't come across anything exactly like it but try preptest 10 game 3, it's another unconventional game that kinda does like a trade off type thing. Preptest 11 game 4 is another one thats similar. I'll keep an eye out for more!

Omg it was the weirdest section. I did it a few days ago, but once you drill it, it's not too bad!

@twssmith644 - (take the one's you hated the most and show them no mercy, heehee:)

Great advice! I will definitely do that this week! I'm definitely going to focus more on LG after December's horrible real estate game :)

@sareentakhar685

Nice to see a post about Feb.

@sareentakhar685

What do you mean by 90s? And do you use 50s(or later) to drill on LG?

I meant the early 1990s! So prep tests like 7-18, there were some tough/super weird games. I feel like the trend has been to throw us off with the second last, or last game...something really odd and so I found looking at those helpful because they had some really weird games back then. I was focusing on the earlier games the last few weeks, but this weekend and from then until the test I'm going to drill the recent games and focus on the earlier ones that I found the hardest!

Also for anyone else taking in Feb I started looking at logic games from the 90s and they really force you to think outside of the box so I would highly encourage you guys to look at those. The last games on the last few tests have been pretty wonky so it's refreshing to attempt some really weird games and actually get them right before the big day.

@cmckelve2264 hey! tons of great advice above, I just wrote my PS about something similar so I thought I'd chime in.

First of all congrats, your journey is incredible and I think you should share it if you feel comfortable doing so. I have OCD and it definitely has impacted my gpa, it was undiagnosed for most of my life and I suffered the brunt of it during the last few years of my undergrad. I was unsure about including it in my PS but honestly it's a part of who I am so I think it's necessary. I wrote a lot about when I first started suffering from the anxiety, the toll it took on me, my personal life, and my academics. But right after writing about how challenging it was, I shifted towards how much I've learned from it. I'm honestly such a happier, healthier, and stronger person now (as I'm sure you are :)). I wrote about how my OCD has challenged me in so many ways, and how proud I am for seeking treatment and feeling better.

People are often scared to talk about these things because, well it's scary, but this is reality. I think your journey is what sets you apart from everyone else, so I would encourage writing about it and about everything you've learned from it. Talk about how it motivates you.

Hope this helps!

@rakmalbek186

How do you know it's time for Vancouver? Asking because I'm also waiting here!

@rnmarion546

STILL WAITING THIS IS AGONIZING

ugh same. WHEN WILL IT END

I feel like puking. Goddamn mercury

@dx369703 I received an email from a law school promoting their program just now. The email said that their record shows that I have taken the December LSAT. Does that mean that the December score has already been released to law schools?

I just received the same thing what the hell is happening!

@lehmanbr746 @tutordavidlevine115 looked it up and the following came up:

Do Not Have Plastic Surgery or Other Elective Surgery When Mercury, Venus, and Mars Are Retrograde

Shit I was gonna go get plastic surgery today...probably not a good idea

I didn't choose B on the basis that when we contrapose the relationship back all we can say is that some of those species of plants and animals will not be maintained in the forest, but who's to say it's the endangered species that suffer the brunt of this? Maybe only all the plants die off and some random other species, but not the MOST endangered animals. We cannot make such a specific claim from such a broad conditional statement. A is much more subtle and much safer, at least some could mean one plant dies or one animal dies in the forest because of this failure to intervene and based on our conditional that is all we can really say (one plant/animal dying would definitely imply that the forest is not able to maintain it's full component of plant and animal species, thus failing the sufficient condition).