Thank you, everyone! I learned a lot from this webinar.

They release them all on the same day - it's a rollout of a few hours. The date on the LSAC site is a guaranteed date - can be earlier, however.

Some inferences are harder than others. Sometimes it's reading a rule in a different way than it is written.

For example: If your game pieces are Pete, Randy, and Simon, and it's a sequencing game of who does the dishes Monday-Friday, and rule 1 says "Simon has didgeridoo practice on Thursdays and does not eat dinner," the inference would be that for the Thursday slot, you write in P/R instead of S to signify that it's either Pete or Randy that does the dishes. It's not explicitly stated, but that's the inference you want to make. Usually those easy references are enough to knock out an answer choice for the "Acceptable Situation" question that typically starts out a game (you would just look for the answer that has Simon on a Thursday and cross it out - obvious wrong choice.)

Other inferences require you to mesh two rules together. Going back to this theoretical game, if another rule stated that nobody does the dishes on consecutive days, you would know then that whomever does the dishes on Thursday does not do them on Friday nor Wednesday. From there, it would be easy to split your game board up into 2 sub-game boards where you use rule 1 so that in one Pete does them on Thursday and in one Randy does the dishes on Thursday. From there, you'd apply the rest of the rules.

Hope this helps!

Schools won't care about traffic violations, but you do have to be truthful in your application - disclose in a short paragraph (http://lawschooladvice.com/how-to-write-a-law-school-addendum/) and be done with it. No big deal.

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Yup I did this, took off about 6 months to study full time. I don't think it matters much, you just have to be able to account for what you were doing with your time - and deciding to study full time is not some kind of indicator that you are an inferior applicant! I think, to the contrary, it demonstrates to elite schools that you are a hard worker and can handle law school.

I would say taking the LSAT 3 times reflects more poorly on your study habits than taking time off from work and studying full time to reach your goal score.

If you had a year or two with nothing on your resume, you might get questions about what you were doing. I believe that is a screening process to make sure you are a motivated individual.

Did you write an addendum to address the time off? I've been studying full time and was wondering whether addressing the gap is worth an addendum or it's assumed.

I plan on winning the lottery/all of my gambling picks being perfect. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

@ Haha I have no idea - maybe it's just Oklahoma shenanigans. But $50 is $50 and it's a safety school of mine so it's more of a set-and-forget application. Plus, I have nothing else going on!

It's the only one I've seen that expires though. Certainly a bit curious.

I'm in the same boat, but it is always better to disclose than not to. The bar also does a character/fitness check and if there's a discrepancy between your LS app and their check... well, that's no bueno.

The C&F addendum is like 2 paragraphs and doesn't matter much in the sense of impacting your application for having a "strike" for conduct. If law schools penalized for people being dumb their freshman year, I'd bet that half of all applicants would be disqualified.

This link shows how simple the addendum can be - just state the 5 W's, how you atoned for your massive sin of underage drinking, and what you learned from it: http://lawschooladvice.com/how-to-write-a-law-school-addendum/

It's always better to over-disclose than to under-disclose. It could even look good in a way in that while your official transcript says nothing about any conduct discipline, your going above and beyond by disclosing shows a positive about your character in being forthright and honest.

As long as your disclosures don't show a pattern of questionable behavior (getting written up every weekend, etc.), the admissions team won't care. Everyone slips up. But being honest about it goes a long way to demonstrate that you're an honest person.

Luckily for me, some schools are sending emails about application fee waivers.

Unluckily (is that a word?), some expire on October 1 so I have to crank out some applications quickly. This is definitely keeping me motivated post-LSAT.

See if you've got any of those emails, the savings certainly add up quickly.

At best, the scores will be released only a few days before the projected date. They've been getting released closer and closer to the projected date as of late.

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Addies

The PEDs of lawyers.

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Okay last time I'll post this but anyone who had only two LR sections:

Do you remember a question about Lemurs? It said it was useful to study primates like chimpanzees/gorillas or something. Only Lemurs were in Madagascar? Stated that some lemur species are diurnal (sleep during the night, basically opposite of nocturnal) and that high primates all evolved from this species of low primates.

Once again, I had LR LG LR LR RC, and this question was in the 2nd LR (3rd section overall). I think i bombed that 3rd section but did alright elsewhere so that's why i'm desperate haha. Thanks!!!

2 LR's and did not have that question.

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ANYONE WITHOUT 3 LR SECTIONS: Do you recall a question about school implementing new rules to curve drinking on campus?

Please if anyone can answer this so I might be able to sleep tonight!!

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Really hoping the first section of LR was the experimental because I found it much harder than the other two, not entirely sure but I think the first section began with a question about drinking on campus. Can anyone confirm if this was the experimental section?

Can anyone confirm this, if the question about reducing drinking on campus was real or experm?

Only had 2 LR sections - I had the drinking question as well (I think it was the 1st question in the section.)

Had 2 RC sections - one contained the passage on Judges, and the other had a section on forest conservation. Seems the judge section was the real one.

Found the logic games to be pretty difficult as well, but the LR wasn't that difficult.

All in all, glad to be finally done. My watch is finally over.

URI

@ is completely correct here. There are a few strategies for doing RC depending on whether you are a skimmer/fast reader or go more in-depth with the reading at first glance. Since all the QS can be answered from within the passage, some decide to get a brief overview of what the passage is about and refer back during each question, others dedicate more time to reading the Passage first so referring back is kept to a minimum.

It all depends on what you are comfortable with/what gives you the best results. I personally like reading the passage as a whole but the skimming strategy is just as effective, and I'd say skimming can actually help for passages that are incredibly difficult or deal with very mundane topics. Sometimes diving in too deep gets you bogged down and you won't see the Passage as a whole and can miss key details that having the questions themselves drive your understanding can do.

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After 7 months of studying, my LSAT watch will have ended around 2:30 on Saturday. Can't wait.

On Saturday, "and now his watch has ended."

Until the Red Priestess decides I haven't had enough torture and resurrects me for a December writing as well. ;)

5 months is generally a good amount of time to study for an LSAT. You can never start too early, however. The best day to start was yesterday!

I'd also suggest maybe doing a few RC sections that you have JY's explanations to untimed, reviewing, and then seeing JY's explanations. His charting for RC's is pretty good to show how to focus on the key material in each section. I'd also suggest in doing this, to start with lower-numbered PTs as some of the material is out-dated so it can be confusing in its own right. I remember doing a section about the Internet/technology written on an exam from the late 90s which had me very confused. JY's explanation made it much more clear.

After 7 months of studying, my LSAT watch will have ended around 2:30 on Saturday. Can't wait.

Welp, 159. Same score as last time. Blah. Might sign up for February for LOCI purposes. Don't feel like grinding for December right now.

Ironically, judicial candor didn't kill me! The English speakers/Navajo (I think?) RC killed me. Such is life.

If I ever become a judge, I will be the most anti-candor judge ever. What is my true opinion on a ruling - who knows! All just to spite LSAC. :smile:

I'm contemplating on whether judicial candor is efficacious to pass the time.

Great job! It's very rewarding looking back at how much progress one has made throughout their studies. I laugh at my first ever diagnostic score now!

I had the same fears going into June's LSAT - I just reminded myself that I had already done a ton of preptests already, and that's all the one I was taking: just another preptest. Obviously, this one counts, but if you've done it dozens of times before, this one really isn't different. It's all a mental game and you just have to persevere through it.

As you've already taken it once before, you know what to expect come actual test day. Just stay focused, breathe, and remind yourself that you've got this!

I'm taking the LSAT in a week too so I'll be suffering in just over a week with you. Best of luck!