Does anyone use brain supplements? Alpha Brain or Happy Calm Focus

I am trying to prepare and find myself having to go to each individual link for the PDF files. Is there one link for all these documents I can just print? I am doing the starter packet. Thanks!

Was just wondering what some of you thought is an optimum amount of PT's to do in a week or maybe even a day? I just started and feel like I can learn more If I don't take breaks right now. What do you guys think?

Hey 7Sagers, you all have built a caring and all-round awesome community here on the discussion forums. As a small thank you to just a few of the many of you that made this happen, we're giving out awards to the biggest chatterboxes on the discussion boards last month.

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Edit: "Chattles" corrected to "Chattels". The shame o_O

I am looking to do a joint degree program. I would prefer a JD/PhD. I know that Stanford, Harvard, Yale, etc. have great ones but I am not sure those are within my reach. I think NYU and Penn are going to be my best chance at a highly ranked school. Do any of you know of any other good joint degree programs you have heard about? I am open to any and all suggestions.

I'm in Greensboro, NC and looking for a study buddy. I'm shooting for the June test but if you're going for February, I'd be more than happy to study with you as well. My email is [removed]. Shoot me an email. Also, if anyone is shooting for the June test and wants to study via skype then I'd love to hear from you, as well!

Note from Student Services: Don't include emails! PM instead. :)

Hey guys,

Having a problem with the android app. Videos appear fine (when set to the standard, non-flash player). However, I can't click the fullscreen button on my Note 3 with any success. All that happens is the 'shell' of the video (including the time navigation bar) extend beyond the regular frame (which remains the same size) and the video never actually goes fullscreen. It would seem to have something to do with rotation, I can't seem to actually rotate to landscape orientation; no matter what I try.

Any ideas?

Benji

Essentially I am trying to decide whether I should buy the Cambridge books or PDF files. Anyone have a suggestion? Or does it not really matter?

For those of you who just took the December LSAT and are planning on applying this cycle for matriculation next Fall, is it possible to submit applications before we receive our scores?

I'm just wondering because a few of my schools have a financial aid priority deadline of January 1st, but it looks like we aren't going to have our scores before then. I'd really prefer to see my score before I decide to apply, but not at the risk of getting a good enough score but receiving zero financial aid.

Any suggestions from LSAT veterans?

Hey guys,

I can't remember where this was in the course, but what is the proper way to negate a conditional statment? So for example:

~ (X-->Y)

How would we properly negate if X then Y?

Hey guys,

So after going through various timed sections of LR i'm noticing that i'm not getting to every question but even when i do BR i'm only getting like 20/25 alot of the times. I'm wondering besides reviewing explanations for that question, is there a way to increase accuracy on LR? I've read on the forum that doing drills works, i have sets of extra practice problems that are grouped by the question types, so i can use those. I'm just wondering, how much questions should I be doing when drilling? Should I be timing it?

Wouldn't it be wonderful to know the score you received and THEN decide if you want to cancel or not?

I turn to my fellow 7sagers for any sage wisdom...

Background: I took the LSAT on Saturday in London. The testing conditions were fine & the building was actually pretty swank. For the last two weeks, however, I have been very sick. I have either bronchitis or the beginning of pneumonia & was prescribed medication for pneumonia (and an inhaler for breathing during my coughing bouts!). I was a bit paranoid about disturbing other people during the test itself so I held all my coughs and tissue-blowing until the breaks. After the test, someone even said "so you were the person who was dying behind me" haha.

Despite being sick, I had adrenaline on my side & was devoting all my energy to concentration. Section 1 kicked my ass. It was LR, and I am comfortable with LR normally... but I found myself jumping around on questions and in a time panic mode. I kept reading and re-reading.

Sections 2, 3, and 4 were all fine -- I flew through them. After the first section, I was resolved to do better & was hoping that I would have 3 LRs and the first was an experimental. By Section 5, I realized I didn't have an LR experimental and that brought me down a little bit.. but I still pushed forward and this section was fine as well.

So the question is... how much could my illness & my Section 1 performance have affected my score? I think objectively, Section 1 was definitely the hardest section of the test. But I am finding it very difficult to assess how many I might have had wrong for this section. And even though I thought all of the other sections were OK, I could be misconstruing these!

The problem with re-taking is that it would possibly be a long time before I could take the LSAT again.

I also worry about the schools that average scores, rather than taking the highest score.

Thoughts?

Hi to all my fellow retakers and forgive my grammar; Been grindin my whole life.

I was retaking because in sept i scored 7 points below my PT average, and yes i did strictly time my pts. I choked the games pretty hard though. I retook feel like i did better on the games, on the rest of the test? meh. I did take a couple cold(i wasnt studying nearly as much as i did the first time) PTs in the meantime and scored my average or a little above. i may not have scored higher on the retake, but i can live with it. Life's hard.

Howd you guys' retaking process go and how do you feel you did?

Does 7Sage offer the older PTs with explanations? I assume they don't, but can someone please confirm?

Is anyone even going through the older PTs? If so, how are you getting through questions that you are stumped on? Is there a site or book that is similar to 7Sage that goes over the older PTs? I'm trying to figure out if it's worth my time to review them.

I should be done with all of the lessons by mid-January and should be PTing twice a week. Ideally, I'd like to do three tests one week, two the next, three the following, etc... 3-2-3-2. I think that might be too much, but if others have tried this, please let me know if it has worked for you. I want to incorporate older PTs with the newer ones.

I plan to take the exam in June and possibly in September (hopefully not :) ). I know it's going to be a tight schedule but I'm 100% ready.

Thanks!

Hello,

I will (hopefully) write June's LSAT. From the schedule in 7sage and help from other folks in 7sage, I will be doing recent PTs (35+) timed and BR towards the end of my prep. My question is, now, and during reading prep material, what can I prepare with? I learned I should do that with the earlier PTs (35-), but how?

In other words, I will be studying weaken questions, strengthen question, assumptions, cause and effect etc, but how would I practice my understanding?

Many thanks

Hello, everyone! I'm a bit confused. In preparation for the Dec. LSAT I took PTs 68/69/70 and score a raw number of 68, all of which were calculated as a score of 156.

Here: http://www.powerscore.com/lsat/help/correct_targeted.cfm

My preptest 70 (October 2013) I got a 156 with 68 as my raw score, but on that website it says a raw score of 64 is a 155, so is 4 more correct answer really only 1 more point?

Preptest 69 (June 2013) I got a 156 with 68 as my raw score, but on that website a 155 is 63 right.. So getting 5 answers correct only gives me one more point?

Preptest 68 (December 2012) I got a 156 with 68 as my raw score, but on that website a 155 is a raw score of 65, so getting 3 more questions right only gives me one more point?

Maybe I just don't understand the scoring scale... If anyone can resolve, reconcile, and explain it would be awesome!

I am looking to take the test again in Feb. Unfortunately the test center I took it in Dec is not offered as an option for Feb. Wanted to check if there are websites where reliable reviews can be found on the test centers. I have looked at yelp, tls, lsatcenters.wikia. Thanks

Fire Alarm went off during Section 3 (not experimental) in room and all of building. Extremely loud and lasted for over 5 minutes and less than 10 minutes (exam continued normally). This definitely adversely affected me.

Now, I had planned to make a 177+ as I've taken 33 consecutive practice tests (timed with experimental) and am consistently scoring in that range. With the fire drill, I think I still score around and above 170, but perhaps not by much. I don't know whether I should report the issue and/or lobby for a new test, or if the latter is even an option.

Any thoughts / similar experiences? "Be happy with 170+" isn't what I'm looking for, by the way.. It makes a difference.

Hi guys,

I'm planning on filing a complaint against the LSAC and wanted to hear some feedback whether it's a good idea or a bad one. So, I had very incompetent proctor - made several mistakes throughout the day (e.g. forgot to tell us to sign the test, didn't read the instructions thoroughly...just bad, period). But, what stood out the most was that 10 minutes into Section 1, the assistants came to us and started asking us if we could flip the page over to the first page so they can write the test Serial Number. Imagine the level of distraction? What made things even worse for me was that my first section was Logic Games. I had literally, read the rules of the second game and was making inferences based on my set up when this happened and I FREAKIN FORGOT MY INFERENCES. So, I had to go back, re-read, try to remember the inferences and easily lost 3-3:30 minutes. On top of that, the level of noise created so much distraction. HERE'S MY QUESTION: ARE THE PROCTORS WITHIN THEIR POWER TO DISTRACT YOU FROM YOUR TEST IF IT'S SOMETHING NOT PERSONALLY RELATED TO YOU? As in, he F**** up by not writing the test serial numbers when distributing, and I have to suffer.

IDK about other people - but completing 2 RC sections is a BEAST....

After the first one - you're kind of relieved, but then hopes are dashed when the 2nd one pops up (and that section happens to be the REAL section)....

Anyone agree or is it really a pick your poison kind of thing?

Are there only two orders for the test sections or could there be more variations? I had LG-LR-LG-LR-RC, so it's obvious that I had LG as an experimental section, while others had RC, LR, LG, LR, RC. But could someone else with LG as an experimental section have, say, RC, LG, LR, LG, LR? I'm trying to figure out whether section 1 or section 3 was experimental in my case, because I left three or four blank at the end of section 1 so I'm really hoping it didn't count. I had thought we'd get a 1 minute warning during which I would have made sure *something* was bubbled in, but all of the sudden we were told to drop our pencils.

After doing quite a bit of preparatory work and taking about 7 PT's (thus far), I was curious if you guys would think it an improper method of study to ONLY do pts from this point forward with intense blind review and then further review. Is there a point where its time to only take pts? Im a little under 2 months out and am feeling that I might gain more understanding by dealing only with the tests. Ive purchased every available pt, so running out of fresh material from now until test day given the time line isn't an issue.

I guess what the real question is, while I am admittadly a little hazy in some areas, do you think intense study of the PTs would achieve a more applicable understanding rather than taking the time away from that to re-watch/read preparatory curriculum I have already reviewed (as I have reviewed them all at least once)

I want to use 7Sage materials this time around, and essentially have my entire life between now and February to dedicate to studying. Suggestions?

What is the opinion of 7Sagers and taking the FEB LSAT for the fall semester admission. I'm thinking that I didn't do as well as I would have liked and plan on taking the FEB test unless a higher than anticipated score is received. Ive noticed that Law school preparation organizations have completely different advice while surfing the net. BLUF(bottom line up front): Is it really harder to get into schools if they accept later applications? How do two back to back tests look to admission councils? Is it wise to apply to some with DEC scores and others with FEB scores? Whatchy'all think?

After finishing today's test, I am determined to retake it in Feb. I feel I know which questions are hard for me and where the trap is, however, I seldom have time to reread the stimuli/re-check all the choices. I have been in the States for over 4 years, grad school+ work, but I have to admit that my reading speed and accuracy is well below the high LSAT scores...any suggestion how to increase reading speed and accuracy ( I sometimes miss some info in the stimuli and thus get it wrong. Realize how stupid I am when BR them) ??? I am an avid novel reader, maybe if should switch to Economist, forbes recently?

also, any suggestion for study schedule and strategy? I started with a diagnose of 148, after full time for two months, improved to 153 ( PT 63-75); in the recent two weeks, finally increased to 156 ( PT 69-72). My BR is usually 165 ish. so I guess I should be able to get 165 ish ( or at least lower 160s) after two more months' study?