@ cool, got it. thanks!! @.hopkins WORD!! Your Texan pride is astounding.

haha thanks @.hopkins you're really lighting me up today with all of your energetic messages! Are you a native Texan or did you move to our grand state by choice? Haha glad to see a fellow Texan on board with 7sage.

@ so i actually just now took the time to read your thoughts about reviewing the 70s tests often and going into the 40s later on (sorry i looked straight at the schedule and asked my question before bothering to read your first Note:)... so scratch what i asked unless you have any advice you'd like to add regarding my scheduling of my other PTs. thanks again for setting this up. Really looking forward to it.

@ I just started PTing this week and was planning on just going in order from PT 36-75... but now im seeing your schedule and feel like i should switch it up. do you think there are advantages of taking PTs in order or do you think it would be just as advantageous or more advantageous for me to go in the order of your schedule above so I can BR with people?

@ thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!!

@.hopkins ... im not too keen on aggies for multiple reasons... now, i have one more reason. thanks for letting me know! ;-)

LOL!! Wow. I went to TCU, this hits too close to home for me...

i never thought there would be a day that id be excited to attend a webinar about LSAT

i love you peeps

So just to clarify,

Could A be correct if it were to say: "Any general theory of art that achieves its purpose explains every aesthetic feature of painting and every aesthetic feature of sculpture."

Me too!! Please let me know if i should email you my email!

I am on an interesting schedule that I just started, we will see how it goes. @ @ @ @ @. I am about take PT 37 and I will take PT 38 on Friday.

As of Sunday, I started trying to take 2-3 PTs a week M/W/F and then doing Pacifico's logic games attack strategy T/TH/ST, which leaves me extra time to blind review the day of and day after each timed test I take. This also leaves Sunday for me to review anything that I need to again from the previous week, look over weaknesses, and retake the Logic Games PTs from Saturday for the 2nd time as Pacifico's attack strategy mentions.

I am down to BR anytime for tests after I take them or to BR for logic games for those of you who are also drilling LGs. I just want to add that even if I've already taken a PT and BRed it, I would enjoy sitting on a Skype call to review it again for those of you who take it later bc I know the importance of talking things out, so I am free to float.

Also, I think it's really helpful for everyone if we exclude talking about our test scores when we BR and just focus on going deep into analysis of the stimuluses, questions, and answer choices. I took a Stratus Prep intensive course in NY a couple summers ago (what a joke) and once (literally once), I agreed to attend a test review and ended up feeling worse when I left than I did when I entered. It was mainly because others were more interested in comparing scores and proving each other wrong than actually just working together to review the "why" in what questions were missed. Since then, I've been a bit apprehensive to work with others mainly because I don't need anything else fucking w my head haha this test has given me enough anxiety to last a lifetime. So, if you agree and want to start hitting the BRing, let me know what you're doing and we can try to coordinate either in this discussion forum or in my inbox.

@ @ @ @ and all others considering or taking Feb LSAT - please let me know if yall want to BR together on timed tests - not sure where everyone is in curriculum but if our schedules align - i think it would be great to just go through PTs with each other and keep positive.. also, i look like a crazy person talking to myself at the library, so it'd be nice if i had others to talk to about answer choices sometimes.. haha

Thanks everyone!!! So awesome to get this much support.

Regardless of popular belief, studies show middle-aged people are more fearful of dying than elderly people.

What is the discrepancy? Why are middle-aged people more fearful of dying when elderly ppl are more likely to die considering their age?

Could it be that middle aged people are financially supportive of more people, or that elderly ppl are more comfortable with dying bc they've lived more and gained more wisdom?

Each one of the following if true contributes to an explanation of the phenomenon shown by the studies EXCEPT:

Remember to circle the answers that contribute to explanation and X the answer that does not contribute to make it easier for yourself.

A) Longer a person lives, more likely they have to come to terms with dying. Yes, this contributes to explanation.

B) Middle-aged people have more people dependent upon them - yes also contributes to explain - they don't want to leave people behind or leave people struggling.

C) Many people who suffer from depression first become depressed in middle age. How is this related to elderly people handling death though and does this mean these "many people" are cured later? So middle-aged people get sad first when they are middle-aged... but plenty of people can be depressed without have a fear of dying - some people who are depressed actually want to die. We'd have to make the assumption that because they are depressed, they fear dying, which isn't necessarily connected.This is the answer because it does not contribute to the explanation of the phenomenon.

D) The longer one lives, the more imperturbable one becomes (I had to look up imperturbable on blind review which means "unable to be upset or excited; calm") but basically this means the longer one lives, the more calm and level-headed they are about dying - so yes, this also contributes to explanation of phenomenon.

E) Middle-aged ppl have more acute sense of their mortality than do people of any other age group. This also helps to explain phenomenon - think about it - if you are middle aged and more acutely aware of your own death than any other age group, you are more fearful of dying than young people as well as elderly people. so of course this would help explain the phenomenon since we are only trying to discover why middle aged ppl are more fearful of dying than one particular group, elderly people.

Hi @ just wanted to let you know i searched "clean copy BR" in the search tab of the discussion box and got a lot of great advice from you and others in the past regarding my question. I am interested in doing tutoring with you via Skype or phone, so i'd like to have a consultation with you next week if possible. I've been thinking more about what you said regarding me taking it in December and my "end all be all" attitude.. I am considering taking it in February to be more fully prepared because i don't like the idea of only taking 20 PTs and BRing when I know i need more time to fully master this test the way that i want. I'm not going to decide that until the end of this month though - i dont have a lot of statistics to go off of right now so I want to see how my PTs and BRs are before I decide. How can I schedule a consultation with you?

Same situation here as @ -- i am finishing curriculum today, starting to test tomorrow. Pacifico told me that in order for me to test efficiently i should probably only take 2-3 tests a week and BR extensively. That leaves me with at most 20 tests until December 5. So I am just going to see what i am scoring around the end of this month and decide then if I want to sit out for December and take February instead. It's difficult to know what the right thing is because my question is: will law schools still take my application seriously in february? is that too late to still get accepted into top schools? part of me says yes, they will likely consider me more if i have a higher LSAT and wait it out in December, but also part of me says will i miss out on financial aid or scholarships from lesser-than but still awesome law schools by me waiting until February to give LSAC a score ... What do you guys think?

I've been out of undergrad for 4 years now, and have a masters degree, BUT this test is the only thing holding me back from my goal of applying this year (i also had a goal of applying last year but my job as a paralegal was soul-sucking and time-sucking). I have all my rec letters in, etc. and even moved from NYC back to my parents house in Texas 2.5 months ago, so that my job could be to solely study! Living in NY was a huge reason for why I wasn't able to commit 100% while trying to financially stay afloat (aka have a job) Haha. I am so envious of my brother at times because he is one of these unicorn people who took 5 practice tests, went to take the lsat and scored 172. For us non-unicorns, but still exemplary people who are not natural test-takers but have other amazing characteristics... let's just keep each other feeling positive! Hard work pays off and we are getting our shit done! i am down to study and/or talk about all of this with yall. It's nice to air this out here and not have to listen to my parents tell me my clock is ticking.. both my lsat clock and my fertility clock... lol. im not kidding. my mom is deeply concerned about when/if her grandchildren are coming someday. happy studying!

Hi @ thank you for your advice. It's funny that you were the one who commented because I've always found your comments very helpful particularly in Logic Games and Reading Comp. I understand what I'm going up against, but also financially, I really don't have a choice so I will have to go through with my decision and hope for the best. Will you just reiterate to me what "excellent clean copy BR" looks like to you? I've done a lot of BR when going over sections and curriculum, but what does excellent BRing look like for a test? Just want to make sure I don't miss out on any little thing considering I won't have the opportunity to take all 40 before December. Thank you for your wisdom.

@ just to clarify - so when i start doing BR on Practice tests, should i purchase two sets of these tests? one for the timed practice test and one for BR? sorry got a little confused.