I had two RCs and just recently learned that muscle memory and lacquer is the real section. I rarely have difficulty with RC and this really killed me, felt unsure for many answers. The computer viruses was also real and I had to guess on most of those questions.

LR was quite reasonable can't remember any that really confused me.

What is hype may never die

See you tomorrow.

The best technique in RC is the one that works for you. RC is the one section that is most heavily tilted towards personal preference. In LG there might be one or two ways to solve a game that I could tell you, but I hesitate to share a note taking method with someone who traditionally doesn't note take.

Don't feel obligated to do it if it wastes your time. If you want to try it just to see if it will help, I suggest circling anything you identify as the Author's Attitude on something and drawing lines when a statement supports (or opposes) another idea in the passages. Keep it minimal lest you waste your time highlighting instead of answer questions.

Real speed only comes with comfort with the material. The only exception to this is the strategic ability to ply yourself away from a question in the form of skipping.

Rather than apply some new framework to how you take the test and potentially decreasing your score, I think the only change you should make is to skip a question if it takes longer than a ~minute and come back when you're done with everything else.

Man, if you've seen it before it's not fresh by definition. What does didn't "review" mean - did you look at which questions you got wrong on the score report? If you didn't lay eyes on it I think it's pretty close to accurate.

I've noticed the recent uptick in posts about disastrous PTs as we get closer to the September date. For my part, I scored a 164 on PT 75 a few days ago, when my average is a 171. I haven't dipped below 167 since 2015, so I was probably as depressed as you are feeling now.

Worst part is, like you, I didn't feel particularly bad while taking the test. Sure, I didn't feel like I was Godzilla in Tokyo, but I felt astoundingly normal during the timed take. That probably is the biggest part of why it hurts so bad to see that nasty surprise after pressing submit.

The one thing about the LSAT that makes it so different as a standardized test is that it's dependent on application of a set of skills rather than a foundation of knowledge. When one is off his game because of anxiety, family concerns, or other distractions it hurts his ability to process and apply each stimulus and question stem, even when one feels he is fine. The result is often a hard blow to your confidence that sends you down a roller coaster ride of progressively worse scores as you keep taking more and more tests in hopes of redemption and self-confirmation of your previous prowess.

In the end, there is only one thing you can do - review it and understand why you made the mistakes you did. Chances are high that most of the mistakes are confidence errors/simple misreads because you are off the ball. Meditate on this for a while and understand that this score isn't a better indication of your skill level than your average is. Then move on with a stronger and more conscious understanding of yourself and your weaknesses which you can take into your next PT.

Fear is the mind killer. Don't let it overwhelm you.

Who writes this crap? It's like the intelligentsia wants to write passages with the most labyrinthian structure they can conjure up, in the hopes of sounding smarter to their other ivory tower colleagues. Proposals like this should prioritize function first and foremost.

Well as Lebowski says, whatever, man.

I got one planned for sat and a few drills for the next week. Gotta keep the wheels spinning, you dig?

LSAC magic, punishing us nerds for any transgression, however small.

Errors aren't unheard of - use the calculator to verify, but it does sound roughly accurate. https://classic.7sage.com/gpa-calculator/

Hardest reading comp I have done in memory.

Pain in the ass question that comes right at the end. Thank god the answer was A. I recognized this as the likely right answer but could not take the time to eliminate the other choices. If you don't have the fundamentals to understand that Sufficient -> Necessary, but Necessary can still be independently achieved in some other way, this question will kill you.

Misread this question as a Sufficient Assumption question. I even correctly identified answer choice D as a necessary assumption, but went with C. Have to remember that an assumption the argument "depends on" is not the same thing as something that would make the conclusion true.

I made this mistake last take, having only done pts in the 50s and 60s. Do all the 70s. Do them asap. Master them. You still have time if you have good stamina.

Look at this beautiful sun-lit room J.Y. is PT'ing in, man.

FML

Deadline to postpone is already past. That being said, all you can do now is BR like a madcunt. Drill until you can do those 70's tests @ 100%. It's fine if you have to straight up to redo them.

As with almost all RC strategies, this is highly dependent on your personal preference. The reason people do not read the questions fully before reading the passage is because it takes your focus away from the unbiased structured reading you should be doing, and replaces it with a treasure hunt for the gold nugget answer choices.

If you find yourself undistracted by pre-knowledge of the questions and can use it effectively, go for it. For RC techniques you gotta try before you buy. Reading reviews doesn't help much.

4 PT's? That's only 2 a week until game day. I'm targeting the same thing (maybe 5). Take Friday and the weekend off. If you're anything like me, you'll be raring to go come Monday. I feel super guilty too when I break, but that makes sense considering the rigorous schedule we've become accustomed to. Just pick up a book, play some pick-up basketball, or hell play League of Legends all day. Whatever occupies your time and stimulates you in a different way.

Can't keep the car running all day man or it'll run out of gas.

Lester works at McDonalds and no raise :(

Took a shot in honor of getting this question right.

Nancy Pelosi, i think

Word.

Fashion is a cultural trend huh.

J.Y. pretty summarily dismisses A, but you'll see from the statistics that A and E are the most popular answers. I think A is actually really difficult to see through (I got it wrong the first time and on BR)

A) Price depends more on fashion than on the manufacturing cost. This seems similar because Furs are more costly and less fashionable / Cotton less costly and more fashionable; it follows the example J.Y. spelled out. However, like with C, we cannot say that price depends more on one or the other. We only know that they both have some loose correlation to price. Choosing this answer means we falsely infer one has more influence than the other, which we have no info to support.

E) Broadest language and the easiest to support - it doesn't get much better than "important determinant". It was difficult for me to accept "cultural trends" the first time around, but it seems like fashion can be a form of cultural trend.

Dyson Sphere hype

1. Native American oral history in the French and Indian war

2. African American new interpretations of jazz

3. Antibacterial products and new resistant bacteria

4. Critical review of Paul Gauguin's painting of "Ice Fissures"

5. Achievements of asian women writers in the middle of the sub-saharan desert

It's all cheese, man.