- I have noticed, at least on my last two test, that I just have difficulty doing the first couple of questions on my first LR section, between the question # 2-9. This is especially true if that happens to be the first section on the test! I'll end up skipping like 3-4 questions within the first set of questions. And I am too nervous at the end anyways when I have less than 5 minutes to complete those question to do them calmly.

But on my second LR section I usually fly. Finish on time, my skipped questions are not mostly congregated in the first couple of questions, and even though I am still nervous at the end when little time is left, I am a bit more relaxed because I know they are harder and I have got all the easy ones right (at least hopefully). Whereas on the other one, I know those are easy and I just have a block against them. Which probably makes me more nervous!

Or at least I think that is the issue that's going on.

1) What can I do to not have this block?

2) I have noticed this pattern before on the last two test and have thought about a warmup. What length of warmup is appropriate before a test? And how long before a test should I do that warmup?

3) Also, I have only recently started using the skipping strategy. So could it just be nervousness?

What do you guys think? And what do you all do to before a test to help get your brain going :D

Since we had a great discussion on an El Nino question last time, I thought I’d look it up and learn more about it. Really interesting weather phenomenon actually, so thought I’d share what I found:

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I am retaking the LSAT in December, and I realized I really need to start with fundamental training. So, I am starting with logic games. Would any of you suggest Powerscore's logic games bible or should I just stick to 7Sage + the LSAT trainer + fool proof method of the Cambridge bundles for lg?

Thanks,

Kristen

OK I should finish the LR curriculum tonight. I am really feeling much better about my grasp of the concepts, however I am still falling for traps. So my question is, do you feel it would be beneficial for me to use old practice tests and drill each LR section. Here is what I am thinking. I work 40-60 hours a week. I have a very demanding job and I am right at the start of busy season, so my work week will start being closer to the 60 hours a week, so I am trying to cram as much studying as I can into my day. I do typically take a hour for lunch. So I was thinking... that I could take a timed LR section at lunch, then blind review it in the evenings when I get off work 1-2 times a week. Then score, obviously. Do you think this practice would work??? I was thinking about using the earlier tests... as I do have copies of those. Or should I just wait until I am 100% done with the curriculum. I do not plan on using tests 36+ as they are part of the curriculum, but I thought this might work as far as practice during the day, as we are what 10 weeks out, I know every little studying I can do during the day will be beneficial.

I really don't have an option of taking the December test. September is kinda my do or die test... simply because starting in Aug/Sept my work schedule gets frantic. I am actually taking the week off before the test to get zen and calm... because my job is about to get that insane, but that is a whole other topic for another day.

what do you guys think? I am trying to figure out how to get 30-45 minutes of studying in during my lunch break, because I just eat salad and take a walk, and normally that takes 20 mins of the 60 minutes I get.

Any tips or tricks you used would be awesome! thanks guys!

When you get accepted, are the schools going to straight up offer it on the letter or do you need to apply? Can you haggle?

Random thought, but does anyone know what JYs score on the LSAT was? Curious to know

Couldn't find a category to put this thread under (there should be a "random" or something category), but does anyone watch SAO or has heard of it? Great show

Edited: 7/12/16, 2:31pm EST - Updated flowchart

Approximately a month ago I began studying for the December '16 test with with a 149 diagnostic score. After three practice tests, I'm up to 163. I'm still hoping to reach around 175 before the official test. I realized that during the fall semester I won't be able to study as much as I am over the summer, so I wanted to find some sort of map for questions I can look over to aid in practicing and refresh my memory in between any breaks from studying.

I was looking for a flowchart that mapped essentially everything on the LSAT and I couldn't find anything that had quite what I was seeking. I decided to make one on my own on draw.io and in an hour I came up with this...

Would anyone like to collaborate on a project like this?

Draw.io allows you to save the chart to your device in a .xml format, which we could share back and forth each time we make updates.

Please let me know if you're interested or if you have any feedback! I'd like the chart to be exhaustive as well as visually appealing, so any help I can get would be great.

I'm confused because I am in the some and most relationships lessons and the word "ALL" is being brought back from conditional logic. From my understanding "All" is a group 1 sufficient condition indicator in conditional logic. So for example All J are F = (J --> F) and to negate we take the contrapositive (/F --> /J) however in the some and most relationships lessons were being told to take "ALL" and negate it using "some not" which would bring (J --> F) into ( J some /F). So whats the difference between the two, when should we use one over the other I'm just kind of confused.

This is an answer choice:

C) not to be subsidized, it cannot be a profit-making institution

would this be diagrammed as: subsidized --> profit making institution

because of the double negative: not to be, it cannot

Please let me know!! Thanks in advance :D

I am aiming for -1 or -2 on LG and I just finished LG Bundle (30 seconds ago) using @Pacifico attack strategy. I kept track of my timing and score for each game from PT 1-35. What should I do to improve further? I was thinking to put my results in an excel spreadsheet to find those games which took me 10 or more takes to hit the target time and fool proof them again? Or take PT 1-35 LG games in section formats under 35 minutes?

Perhaps someone out there could help me out with this: on the LSAT, what exactly would it look like to "challenge the accuracy of the given evidence"? This phrase is commonly used as a wrong answer choice on Method of Reasoning questions and I've yet to see an instance where it is the correct answer. Many times it appears as a trap answer choice when an author challenges the context/cause/relevance of some evidence but isn't actually challenging the accuracy of the figure cited.

I am recently taking LR from old PTs(1-20) in order to boost my score on this section. My maximum score is 159 but it fluctuates a lot. I sometimes scored 151 and stopped after scoring 156 on PT 46. I realized that my LR section score fluctuates between 60 - 70%. It seems that my LR hasn't improved much from 2007 test - which is 64% per section. I am not sure if my method is right. I've already went through 7sage package. Do I have to use LSAT trainer again? Or Cambridge LR bundle? BTW I've been writing down almost every time I BR my PTs.

For "strengthen EXCEPT" questions, should I be eliminating anything that could possibly strengthen, despite having to make large assumptions to do so? Conversely, will the correct/except choice be fully irrelevant and/or weaken?

For example, in PT37.S2.Q20, I was 50/50 between B and D after I noticed that B was talking about oxygen and not oxygenated blood, but I completely fell for D...

I initially overlooked B after making the assumption that the capacity to store oxygen in some part of the body could possibly strengthen the hypothesis that seals could store oxygenated blood in spleens for long dives.

Granted, D distinguishes some property of seals from other aquatic mammals that don't dive long, but isn't it a bit of a stretch to assume that larger has something to do with storing more oxygenated blood? Heck, having a larger spleen could just be a result of being a big animal.

Thanks.

Background: I used to be super active on 7sage in 2015 as I was gearing up for the June 2015 LSAT. I took a year long hiatus after I dropped 10 points from my PT average on the June 2015 LSAT and have only recently started studying again.

Today, I finally decided to see what exactly went wrong on the June 2015 test and just finished blind reviewing it (an honest blind review, not like, oh I guessed "D" here so I know that one's wrong so of A, B, C and E, which one is right). Omg guys I'm so mad at myself. If I hadn't second guessed my logic and shed all my good habits (like consistently diagramming the argument core and not getting frightened when my pre-phrase didn't match my the answer choices after the first round), I could have scored 9 FREAKING POINTS better -- that's the difference between my actual 162 and a possible 171.

I just wanted to share this to reiterate how important positive psychology and mindset is on game day (coming from someone who clearly could not stay mentally positive during the test).

How do law schools view "unique" UG majors? I'm coming from a science background (materials engineering to be specific) and I'm wondering if my background will give me an advantage, disadvantage, or not really matter when applying for law schools.

Thanks!

Which question types is the some and most relationships lessons important for?

In the last few weeks, I have hit the ground running so to speak.I've read the LGB and LRB religiously and have seen improvements. The linear games have become like second nature for me. The other games are a work in progress. I'm currently posting around 18/23 in the sample LG sections I have (19 on my PT today). Not where I want to be, grouping games are killing me right now. LR is moving a bit slower, I'm averaging a mere 66% on Must Be True questions (I've put most of my efforts into those types of LR questions) The other day, I did about 50 questions in my workbook and got 39 of them correct (not exactly where I want to be but I was feeling okay). Today I did about 70 from my Kaplan book and only answered 46 of them correct. My irritation caused me to rush into a PT where I only scored a 158 (36 on both sections combined). RC went horrid, with a 15, though I haven't studied RC questions at all. Exam day is in 10 weeks. I've put about 30 hours a week into studying for the LSAT and I don't want to burn myself out but I feel kind unaccomplished. Have I hit a wall?

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Hi everyone,

Was hoping to get some advice. I'm planning on writing the LSAT in September. I wanted to register today and starting getting second thoughts. I am currently scoring in the low 160 range. I think if I scored a 160, I could potentially get into the school I wanted here in Canada. That being said, I've seen a lot of mentions of the "test day penalty", and I don't want to risk that 160 going down due to test day nerves. I decided the best way to avoid that would be to try to consistently break the 165 barrier.

I am currently writing about 2-3 prep-tests a week and spending a fair amount of time on blind review. I guess my question is, what are the odds that I'm able to bring my score up by 5+ points by September? And does anyone have any suggestions for what I should be spending my time on?

My best section is logic games where I usually average -2, Reading Comprehension I'm not too worried about, and Logical Reasoning is definitely my worst; specifically necessary & sufficient assumptions according to analytics.

Would really appreciate any personal experience stories and advice.

Hello Everyone!

I took the June LSAT and my score was not high enough for my target schools, so I am gearing up to take the September/December exam ( I have not decided which one I will be taking yet). I am looking for a motivated study partner in Atlanta who is open to meet a couple days out of the week.

Thanks,

Kristen

For those retakers who went from a 160 score into the 170s, how did you define drill? I do feel as though drilling is different depending on the band of scores one is scoring in (e.g., drilling in the 150s typically means still figuring out the lack of fundamentals while drilling in the 170s may look like ________).

- Do you define it as timed sections?

- Do you define it as Cambridge drill packets (for those that are lucky enough to still have those)?

- Do you define it as re-doing questions that you previously missed?

- [insert other option]

I read the definition, and I understand what it is. But is the "score band" information used by law schools for admissions purposes or by anyone for any purposes? paging @"Nicole Hopkins" and @Pacifico

I'm sure I'm not the only one thinking this, but is the length of each silent video (normally 1:24) the target time that you would ideally need to spend on a question?