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vosskirby498
Wednesday, Jun 30 2021

Hurt your brain. Seriously - do deep dives into the questions that you miss and just be relentless about it. Examine every word until you give yourself a headache - master the ones that you miss perfectly. Then save em, and every few weeks retake all of your old misses in a new practice set.

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vosskirby498
Wednesday, Jun 30 2021

Congrats to you!!

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vosskirby498
Friday, Aug 27 2021

If the school invites you to write it as an optional essay, then it’s in your best interest to write it

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vosskirby498
Wednesday, Aug 18 2021

I got fairly close to perfecting - -0 about half the time, and -1/-2 at worst, generally - and I completely agree with the above answers. Spot on. Even if you love JY’s explanations, hearing info from a different source can really help you ingrain it into your mind. Master the fundamentals. And dig deep to review the ones you get wrong. Don’t just be like “oh, got it.” Go deeper. Understand it like you understand 4+4. Master em.

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vosskirby498
Tuesday, May 18 2021

PowerScore has a very useful podcast on RC drills to help you determine your specific RC weakness (comprehension, timing, etc) and ways to improve there. Highly suggested!

As for LG, I’d check out the 7Sage “foolproof logic games” video - just google it, and it’ll pop right up.

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vosskirby498
Tuesday, Nov 15 2022

I think Matt is spot on! In my experience, 40-50% of brute force questions actually have a really

Obvious answer choice if you think about them briefly. For the others, you have to work quickly and accurately, which is difficult but not at all an indication that you’re doing anything wrong.

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vosskirby498
Tuesday, Nov 15 2022

This is great! I had a similar journey, and I also heavily relied on meditation to get me where I was going (I meditated for a full 60 min before my final LSAT). I completely agree with your conclusions about what helped! Congrats!

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vosskirby498
Tuesday, Nov 15 2022

Are you rushing the earlier questions? Do you understand your mistake when you review? It seems like maybe you’re overthinking the easier questions?

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vosskirby498
Tuesday, Nov 15 2022

I’m no expert, but I’d try to think of a meaningful experience that changed you and demonstrates why you want to be a lawyer! The 7S examples are very helpful

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vosskirby498
Tuesday, Nov 15 2022

I did something similar in undergrad; I didn’t include it in my resume, but I did in the “employment” sections that many apps have. Otherwise, maybe you can list “misc part time student jobs” as have them as bullet points on the resume?

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vosskirby498
Tuesday, Jun 15 2021

Edit: hahah I just copied his tweet. Good luck!

“ If you run into problems on the June LSAT this week, there are two special phone numbers:

• 1-215-966-6640

• 1-855-296-7479

These special numbers will be staffed from:

• Tue: 7 AM-7 PM ET

• Thur: 4 AM-7 PM ET

For other issues, use the submission form in your LSAC account!”

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vosskirby498
Tuesday, Jun 15 2021

Repot this for sure!! The PowerScore guy tweets out the helpline numbers to call - find Dave Killoran (lol maybe double check that spelling), but there’s a specific hotline to call. It’s okay!! Be sure to advocate for yourself, and you may be able to request a retake. Good luck!!

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Tuesday, Jun 15 2021

vosskirby498

Cheap trick or fair game?

(If this post violates rules on test disclosure, sorry and delete it!)

So - took the LSAT in April, and one of my games was grouping with binary sub groups - U or V. Now, my handwriting is atrocious, and I took like an extra minute just to make sure my Us didn’t looks like my Vs. I more or less had to re-do like 1/2 of the questions because I couldn’t tell if my mostly-angled curves were a U or a V.

From my recollection, earlier PTs did this fairly regularly, but more recent ones have generally gone for more visually distinct variables. Anyway, I wasn’t really prepared for it, and I should have been. (Assuming my LSAT used older LGs, but I could be totally wrong on that one). Does anyone else have this problem??

I’m also curious about everyone else’s thoughts … the argument could be made that being able to write clearly is important enough that it’s a legit part of the test, or we could argue that they could have tested logic without testing penmanship by going with U and P, for instance.

… okay I’ll be honest, I’m mostly just annoyed and slightly bored, so I figured I’d complain, hahah. Good luck to everyone taking the June test!

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vosskirby498
Monday, Nov 14 2022

I think you’re right on the money at the end - hypotheticals aren’t much help here. A more usefully discussion would be a comparison between specific schools after you’ve been accepted and can see their financial aid pancakes.

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vosskirby498
Friday, Aug 13 2021

@

Phew!! I’d be really bummed if I got Burt Reynolds disagreeing with me!

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vosskirby498
Thursday, Aug 12 2021

I would recommend delaying your test and covering the entire CC. It covers some very important information.

Loophole is helpful not so much because of its information but because of the drills and mindset. Nowhere else (that I know of) emphasizes the importance of “translation” on the test. Simply Reading loophole will do you little good. Working through Loophole and really doing the translation drills will help tremendously, IMO.

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vosskirby498
Saturday, May 08 2021

I’ve also found that it helps to make yourself enjoy the process. That may seem impossible, but try to focus on the pure enjoyment of learning something new. Allow your brain to feel the enthusiasm of discovery - that helped me tremendously.

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vosskirby498
Wednesday, May 05 2021

I’d switch it up! Go to LG, enjoy that section, and engage a different type of reasoning.

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vosskirby498
Wednesday, May 05 2021

Oh that was just the era I happened to neglect the most, haha. Lots of good debate and discussion going on here - I like it!

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vosskirby498
Sunday, Sep 05 2021

Eh, I think that’s more or less a personal preference. Perhaps think about it less in terms of concrete time and more like … drill until you really understand what that question type does / is asking. But again, not to hammer the point home, but I wouldn’t drill at all until you’ve spent hours on each of those PTs reviewing your wrong answers and guesses. Review is much more helpful than drills … heck, I tell my students only to drill in order to get more wrong answers for them to review!! That’s where the real growth is.

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vosskirby498
Sunday, Sep 05 2021

I’d always suggest not taking the test until you’re consistently getting your goal score.

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vosskirby498
Sunday, Sep 05 2021

Howdy! So - obviously, I’m only working with the information I see above, so take this with a grain of salt, but:

Those are very decent scores for 2 months of studying! Don’t be discouraged.

Having said that, if you think you’ve hit a plateau, consider switching up how you study. Remember that review is the most important part of studying - you should be spending more time reviewing your wrong answers, really understanding them, then you did taking the test in the first place. Redo the games as often as it takes for you to truly master em. Don’t just understand em - master the process of doing them, step by step. Break down the RC sentence by sentence, and evaluate LR clause by clause, word by word. Dig in deep. Good luck!

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vosskirby498
Wednesday, Aug 04 2021

I got really obsessive about the LR questions that I missed. Like … I’d spend twenty minutes reviewing each one, first making sure I understood it perfectly, then sorta berating myself for my mistakes, then really internalizing what I should have done correctly. So it’s more than just “reviewing what I got wrong” - it’s a deep dive into what I got wrong.

The other thing that I don’t see frequently mentioned is the importance of high level reading for fun. If you can manage it, aside from formal study time, try and read for 30-60 minutes a day. Not The Economist or even The New Yorker, but a dense novel or philosophy or something on economics. Something you really have to chew on. Then - and this is key - make sure to really process every sentence. Many readers - including myself - have the flaw of sorta reading “paragraph by paragraph” and skipping poorly written sentences, instead relying on context clues. This is fine for day to day reading, and it might even work on the test, but as a matter of practice and habit, I tried hard to avoid it and retrain myself to read every word, not sentences or paragraphs holistically. Hope that makes sense / helps!

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vosskirby498
Monday, May 03 2021

@ I’d seriously consider taking a break. You haven’t somehow become less intelligent or more ignorant, so if your score is decreasing that rapidly, I’d suspect the culprit is stress or exhaustion. A nice break can help with both. I’d take 7 days off, then maybe do a PT, see how ya feel, and then don’t be afraid to take another week off. (Assuming you take the August test. For the June test, I’d still take a week off, but maybe not 2).

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vosskirby498
Monday, May 03 2021

That’s an excellent idea. Maybe even setting goals / rewards / punishments for myself as “stakes” so the PTs also feel like they have some consequences … hmm, I like that a lot

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vosskirby498
Tuesday, Jun 01 2021

I think it also depends on the sections which give you the most trouble - maybe people, myself included, find that LG is easier to improve than, say, RC.

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