Nervous about the December LSAT?

J.Y. Ping

I understand. You're going to take an important test. It's not the most important test though. That one is called the February LSAT.

Just kidding. This is likely the last LSAT you'll ever take.

I'm only trying to remind you that for something this important, there are second chances. That's not true for a lot of other important things in life, so that's something to feel good about.

For most of you, you already know what score you'll get. Take your last three recent properly administered LSAT PrepTests (e.g., 77, 78, 79) and average your scores. You'll get plus or minus 3 points of that average.

There is nothing separating you from that score except the mere passing of a few day's time.

You are as prepared as you can be. You have already seen everything those crafty LSAT writers will throw at you and you've amply demonstrated your ability to respond with craftiness of your own.

Saturday will be just another PT day and the December 2016 LSAT will be just another PT. PrepTest 80, in fact, when the LSAC releases it a month from now. And how different could that be from PT 79 and PT 78 and PT 77 and on and on and on.

You are ready.

Even for those few insanely difficult curve breaker questions. Every LSAT has them. Every student who has ever taken the LSAT before you has encountered them. You have encountered them on your PTs and you will encounter them again on Saturday. Do what you've always done: skip. Keep moving.

Good luck!

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rakinalikhan

fraying i do well enough so i dont have to do the february one. that would be depressing

DEC_LSAT

thanks @"J.Y. Ping" you are my virtual best friend.

nantesorkestar

Thank you @"J.Y. Ping" And thanks again for those awesome BR sessions!

-Ethan

Alex

@"DEC_LSAT" said:
thanks @"J.Y. Ping" you are my virtual best friend.

same haha

Good luck everyone!

Stevie C

Good luck to everyone! Let's aim to do our best. Cheers.

liza.bennett

I'm not ready. But it's to late to get my money back in anyway so I'm sitting the test anyway. But I'm canceling my score. Hopefully I'm ready by February to take it again.

louladybug2

if i sit for December and don't think I've scored above my target score is it better to cancel to score or just leave it and take February? Im already signed up for feb. either way.

inactive

@liza.bennett said:
I'm not ready. But it's to late to get my money back in anyway so I'm sitting the test anyway. But I'm canceling my score. Hopefully I'm ready by February to take it again.

Why bother taking it then? Stay home, study and take PT80 as a PT rather than a test.

Cant Get Right

@"Dillon A. Wright" said:
Why bother taking it then? Stay home, study and take PT80 as a PT rather than a test.

This! The danger is not in having a bad score on your record, it's in wasting the take. Your money is gone anyway, don't lose a take on top of it!

eon_katherine

This is my very first LSAT and I am praying that it will be my last one

jeremybentham

hahaha -- i thought J.Y. was my virtual best friend --- i had a dream where J.Y.'s voice was giving me fashion advice -- and at some point he told me to just pick a suit and move on

Sami

@jeremybentham said:
J.Y.'s voice was giving me fashion advice -- and at some point he told me to just pick a suit and move on

This is way too funny

tamzidamila

Good luck to all of you. I don't have that much preparation, I want to get experience , what it is or how i feel in the exam hall.....
I will sit for February or April .

icecreamparfait

@tamzidamila said:
I want to get experience , what it is or how i feel in the exam hall.....

Kind of one of the reasons that I'm thinking to take Dec. test too...

inactive

@mw393730 said:
@tamzidamila said:
I want to get experience , what it is or how i feel in the exam hall.....

Kind of one of the reasons that I'm thinking to take Dec. test too...

This is a bad idea. Experience will do nothing to help you other than wasting a take and a potential PT. If you want LSAT experience, find a school that's doing mock prep. Don't waste an actual take.

DEC_LSAT

@jeremybentham said:
i had a dream where J.Y.'s voice was giving me fashion advice -- and at some point he told me to just pick a suit and move on

LOL

Cant Get Right

@"Dillon A. Wright" said:
This is a bad idea. Experience will do nothing to help you other than wasting a take and a potential PT. If you want LSAT experience, find a school that's doing mock prep. Don't waste an actual take.

Second this! You only get three and they are all enormously consequential! There is literally no experience that you can't get from an administered mock test or even from taking strictly self administered PTs. I know this because I did this exact same thing and it was a huge mistake that I gained absolutely no benefit from, but that I paid for enormously.

Alex

@"J.Y. Ping" said:
Saturday will be just another PT day and the December 2016 LSAT will be just another PT. PrepTest 80, in fact, when the LSAC releases it a month from now. And how different could that be from PT 79 and PT 78 and PT 77 and on and on and on.

I absolutely love the way JY puts this... So true!

Alex

@"Dillon A. Wright" said:
This is a bad idea. Experience will do nothing to help you other than wasting a take and a potential PT. If you want LSAT experience, find a school that's doing mock prep. Don't waste an actual take.

I'm not going to go as far to say that it will do "nothing" but I will say I think it has more potential to do harm than good. Not to mention you're essentially wasting a take.

Don't waste a take! Go take a PT79 at your university library or somewhere with moderate noise... I can all but guarantee you'd have scored within a 3-5 points of that. Don't actually waste PT79 either though, haha. Save that for when you're better prepared.

nessa.k13.0

All the best to those of you taking the December LSAT! I hope all your hard work pays off this Saturday. Go get em!

LSATShinobi

@jeremybentham said:
hahaha -- i thought J.Y. was my virtual best friend --- i had a dream where J.Y.'s voice was giving me fashion advice -- and at some point he told me to just pick a suit and move on

This was hilarious

chgunns

Is average of your last three +/- 3 a good rule of thumb?

Cant Get Right

@chgunns said:
Is average of your last three +/- 3 a good rule of thumb?

Yep. This is overwhelmingly typical of how most people perform. There are anomalies in both directions, of course, but you can pretty much mark it down.