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zaney930276
Monday, Feb 24 2020

@ said:

I'm on the same boat as you, I finished my undergrad in 2017 and have worked since then. I work full-time and have roughly the same study schedule as you. I'm writing the LSAT for the first time in April and I'm worried part-time studying isn't enough. Everyone keeps saying that if I want this that bad I need to sacrifice something for it... For now, I am choosing to have my cake and eat it too. But I might regret this decision when I get my score :)

Glad to see someone else is taking the LSAT in April, best of luck!

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Monday, Feb 24 2020

@ said:

@ Do you mind if I ask what industry you work in?

I work in Human Resources

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Tuesday, Jun 23 2020

My employer was very kind to allow me to work part-time while I was studying! @

My only skipping strategy in RC was just to skip it if I had no idea about the answer or I could target it as a question that I knew I was really struggling with. My study strategy for the RC was (while studying, to spot my weaknesses) to read the passage to myself and then read allowed before answering the questions to spot if it was a comprehension problem or a question difficulty problem. I started missing significantly less questions when I was able to spot that I fully understood the passage but was hurrying through the questions and not actively battling through the answers. I found that forcing myself to take time to get better at the RC really paid off for when I would do a practice test. My reading became much faster and smoother, as well as I became much more comfortable with the questions because all the work I put in made them all start to seem similar and I could find the patterns. @

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Thursday, Feb 20 2020

I am taking the LSAT in April for the first time. I got approved today to go part time for the next 2 months. My question would be do you think the scholarship money you would receive would be more than you would make in those months that you would be unemployed? That was my deciding factor and I was willing to have to quit if my company wouldn't let me go part time. Remember that no company wants to train someone new so that could be leverage.

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Tuesday, May 19 2020

Was able to connect after 5 minutes but my proctor has problems with their camera and I had to wait an hour while they tried to trouble shoot their situation! I thought LG was incredibly easy but dang I sweated through the RC! The first passage questions were hard!

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Saturday, Apr 18 2020

What worked for me was using Khan (its free through the LSAC website). They have you work on all 3 sections every day so that you don't decline in the other sections while working on one. Also it sounds like you may have been rushing through the CC and grasping all of the core concepts. You may want to start from the beginning in the sections that you have not mastered.

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Monday, Mar 16 2020

May I ask how you plan on drilling Monday-Friday? I'm in the same boat

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Tuesday, Jun 16 2020

zaney930276

143 - 163 in 4 months!!!

Thank you so much to 7 sage and the 7 sage community! I could not have done it without you!

My approach:

I studied 6 hours a day while going through the CC (with a April LSAT date in mind). Once the LSAT was moved to May, I spent my last 5 weeks studying 4 hours a day 6 days a week. I was not moving through the practice tests fast enough with only doing 1-2 tests a week so I skipped the remainder of practice tests and went straight to the 2017-2019 LSAT tests. I found that I had a pretty good grasp on the knowledge and was very comfortable skipping questions. (I used the Powerscore skipping method for LG and the 7sage skipping method for LR). I then examined the analytics of which questions I was missing and found that it was usually when I was looking at the clock (Q5, Q13, Q15, Q20). I then worked on focusing strategies and being aware of when I was actively answering a question and or just passively answering a question. I knew that I wasn't being active if I didn't look at the question stem and use the 7 sage techniques to find the answer (ex: looking for the beam in weakening). That increased my score to the 160 mark. The last 3 weeks I went through an LSAT section each day answering the questions out-loud with a friend. That helped a TON with processing what each answer choice was actually saying and having to defend my answer.

Note: I never mastered the harder questions as the end of the LR but I was able to identify if I knew the question or not. I was scoring -0,-2 on LG and -6 on RC.

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zaney930276
Wednesday, Apr 15 2020

Thank you JY! Last night was a great help!

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Sunday, Mar 08 2020

how do you go about negotiating scholarship money? any suggestions?

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zaney930276
Monday, May 04 2020

First start with creating an LSAC account. That is your portal for the whole Law School Admissions process. Next, you will want to get your base score so take an LSAT test, you can even buy one on amazon though LSAC (I recommend 2007-2013 range) if you're study materials don't already include one. Then start at page one of your materials and start reading and studying with the plan they have given you. Google LSAT timelines to figure out your ideal time to take the LSAT in your timeline.

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