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Sunday, Sep 19 2021
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Wednesday, Aug 18 2021
I just took the August one too. The RC for this test killed me....I felt like I had to reread the passages twice to grasp what was going on. I'm generally weak in RC and LR.
theodora14121
Wednesday, Aug 11 2021
Interested, as well. I'm taking the August one in 5 days and continuing to study for October.
theodora14121
Friday, Sep 03 2021
Same. How do I join?
Hey, everyone.
I never thought I'd be back at square 1 again to redo this exam. I took it in 2021 and got a 154 which was a huge jump from my 137 in 2017. I started my first year at law school from 2022-2023. Unfortunately, since I was not eligible for any loans, I worked full time and overtime throughout my 1L to pay for tuition, and attended school part time. My grades suffered and ultimately my health, too. I was dismissed just at the start of the Fall 2023 semester with no permission for an appeal, though the school was aware of my financial circumstances, and the dismissal letter stated that I was 'facing significant non-academic issues that placed tremendous demands on [your] time'. I tried to apply to a few schools just a few weeks ago after I finally got over the initial shock of being dismissed and having a tarnished record, but none of them allow me to even put in an application for another 2 years after this dismissal. I signed up for the June 2024 exam to see if I can get a higher score, with the intention to try and apply again in Fall 2024 with the hope of returning to law school in 2025 [not my previous law school and ideally a higher ranked one]. Have any of you been in this kind of situation?
For the record, I am not a poor student, but I am financially poor. As an immigrant, I am not allowed to ask for loans. I have paid out of pocket for all my education and even relied on TAP for my undergrad and grad degrees. I graduated from Harvard University with a 3.25 for my Bachelors [took 6 years] and later on with 3.69 for my Masters [took 3 years], and I have 9 years experience as a certified family law paralegal. I'm currently self-employed as an educational consultant and I prepare legal documents for low-income clients with family law cases. My hope was that I would finish law school by my late 30s so I could still commission for JAG and help military personnel going through family law cases, since military and veterans are under-represented in family law courts due to stereo-types associated with their experience, careers, and health.
I'm not saying I'm a great candidate compared to others who already hold multiple degrees and other doctorates, or those with higher LSAT scores, but this dismissal is making me doubt if future law schools would even care to consider these circumstances in conjunction with my experience and note that I am not a bad student.
At this point, is it even worth re-taking this exam and starting from scratch?
I had the same trouble as you at first. Try this approach:
Before you start the game, draft out a few graph possibilities and plug in the various possibilities that come to mind of how the letters can be organized based on the rules they give you.
When you come across a CBT question, look back at the already-made graphs from the beginning. If you don't see the letters plugged in at numbers/sequences of your graphs, create a new one and go down the answer choices and plug in the letters in the order that each answer choice tells you. If plugging in doesn't affect the rules, it's the right answer. If it does, it's the wrong answer.
When you come across a MBT question, again look back at the already-made graphs from the beginning. Your goal is to try to prove each answer choice wrong. For instance, if a game has A, B, C, D and the MBT question asks, "if A is first, what must be true?" Let's say the choices you're given are that B is second, C is third, D is fourth, B is fourth, C is second. Go down each answer choice and plug them into graphs, but avoid putting B in second; try putting it in third instead--does this break a rule or make it difficult to plug in the others? Then that's the right answer choice, because it means that no matter what happens, B must always be second, otherwise the rest of the set-up will be affected and break rules. Then, do the same for the other answer choices: avoid putting C in third; try putting it as fourth--does this break a rule or make it difficult to plug in the others? Then that's the right answer choice, because it means that no matter what happens, C must always be third, otherwise the rest of the set-up will be affected and break rules.
The main difference between CBT and MBT is that MBT will not allow you any other option than to have that letter in that particular sequence/number that it's at. No matter what else happens to the other letters, that letter will ALWAYS be in that spot. It's a trick that I noticed as I was picking this up at first--look for the letter that never moves from the same spot.
I hope this helps. Now, onward for me to figure out how to get more than 50% of RC correct...