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LSAT · reading comp practice sets?

sb306

Tuesday, Feb 11 2014

@torahisland910 - http://www.shmoop.com/lycidas/

General · Plan B - Just in case

sb306

Monday, Feb 10 2014

@rastu5, good point, but working at those agencies does not necessarily require a J.D. it mostly entails having a clean record, as well as possessing some agency specific "desired" qualities.

Hypothetically- let's say the FBI is hiring a secret agent and they have to choose between person A) who has a J.D and speaks only one language, versus person B) who has only has a bachelors degree but speaks 4 languages and has "Diversified Experience" (I don't know what that exactly is but I got it from their career site) ... both have clean records. I postulate that they will go for person B, because they need someone with those language skills, since it says on their site that they need an agent, which has a variety of skills that can address their "increasingly complex responsibilities."

Just my opinion on the matter.

LSAT · reading comp practice sets?

sb306

Sunday, Feb 09 2014

What really helped me with the RC was training my brain to understand context that is written in a language which is almost alien. Okay.. Yes I know it is English, but even JY in the some the videos says that they the RC sections are very "poorly written."

What did I do to train my brain for the RC? Well as an English Major, I was required to take poetry and medieval reading/writing classes, so when I had to write an essay I had to really read poems slowly and carefully to be able to make an argument. Reading stuff like Milton's Lycidas, http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/lycidas/, really helped because if I zipped though it I did not understand a thing.. only when I paused, reflected, and used my imagination to play out the poem is when it started to make sense. For me it was good practice to use those poems, but I would use them only as a supplement to the reading comp sections in practice tests.

Hope this helps...

General · February LSAT outcomes, thoughts, etc.

sb306

Saturday, Feb 08 2014

I think I did okay... I am praying and hoping I score around the 150-160 range.

What surprised me the most was that the proctors were so cool... I always read (online somwhere) that the proctors are like TSA agents, but mines were cool, cracked jokes, and gave a genuinely supportive vibe, they even told a guy to go put his phone in his car when he had it (before the test started, of course)... But yeah... Super cool people. (Maybe it is because I took in the Miami, fl Area, but yea..)

One thing, was that the Reading Comp section seemed pretty easy, I am not sure this is because of where it was placed (I don't wanna give it away), but I really found the readings interesting and think I got almost all of it right. Another thing was that I did review the reading comp videos of JY before the test, which I guessed help, because I heard his voice narrating the passage lol.

Anyway... I hope else everyone did well too.

General · Negating Conditional Statements

sb306

Saturday, Feb 08 2014

Could it be...

http://classic.7sage.com/lesson/the-contrapositive/

http://classic.7sage.com/lesson/the-negation/

http://classic.7sage.com/lesson/how-to-negate-statements-in-english/

General · Plan B - Just in case

sb306

Thursday, Feb 06 2014

Thank you for the responses everyone, honestly I have been randomly coming across articles where everyone is saying that going to law school is a mistake, since the market is saturated. Granted, I always wanted to be a lawyer because I have seen things that I wanted to change. So basically I am weighing in the debt, I may get into, against the opportunities which may lie ahead.

I wonder what J.Y thinks of the economic situation of perspective attorneys.

General

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Thursday, Feb 06 2014

sb306

Plan B - Just in case

Hello everyone,

this is my first post, so go easy on me.

I am assuming that everyone here wants to become an attorney, so I just wanted to pose a question, which has been on my mind for the last couple of days.

Question: If you were to not make it as an attorney, for whatever reason (e.g difficulty in job placement), what would your back up "dream career" be?

I will go first, personally I have two dream careers tied for first place, which are 1) Cyber Crime Detective 2) Becoming an entrepreneur in a tech related field (Sort of like J.Y)

@ J.Y Don't worry I don't plan on making a site for the lsat.