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Weekly Goal-Setting & Accountability Thread

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  • pseudonymouspseudonymous Alum Member Inactive ⭐
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    @msoliviaj You can do it!! Push back if you have to, we're here for you! :-) Not in a creepy way either, but a motivational one. Just keep swimming!
  • JengibreJengibre Member
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    Oops. Did not do what I had set out to accomplish last week. I blame the flu. I did take and BR preptests 54 and 55. Luckily now there's a new week to make progress! This week I must:

    1. Finish fool proofing games from 54 and 55
    2. Watch video explanations from 55
    3. Seriously finish MSS and Weakening drills
    4. BR 4 RC science passages
    5. 1 game a day
    6. Preptest 57 for Monday Group BR
  • mepujalsmepujals Alum Member
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    This thread is amazing- just commenting here so I can find it later! you all are an inspiration! Also good to know that I'm not the only one who has been building fundamentals and not taken *too* many pts at this point (4 including the diagnostic)- planning on going hard with PTs this weekend and forward XD
  • DumbHollywoodActorDumbHollywoodActor Alum Inactive ⭐
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    The Blind Review/Blind Answer explanation (Typing out explanations for all 52 LR questions) of PT 36 took up almost all of my time last week. I improved from my diagnostic (141) to (154) and my BR from 153 to 167.

    This week, I’m spending time obsessing over the 15 questions I got wrong on BR and reading the germane Manhattan LR book sections (Mostly Assumption Family and MSS). My goal is to get as close to a 180 on BR before I start worrying about timing and drilling.
    Also, Reading Chapters 1-5 Manhattan RC
    Foolproof LG for 1 hour/day
    On Sunday, I'll take what ever PT the BR group on Saturday is working on.
  • nicole.hopkinsnicole.hopkins Inactive Sage Inactive ⭐
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    @DumbHollywoodActor PT58 on Saturday, and methinks PT59 on Monday?
  • DumbHollywoodActorDumbHollywoodActor Alum Inactive ⭐
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    Will do 60 next week. I do 1 PT/2weeks
  • pseudonymouspseudonymous Alum Member Inactive ⭐
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    It's May!! Time to get cracking with the PT and review marathons.

    - PT 59 complete review and fool-proof
    - PT 60 and 61
    - drills and exercises for target areas
  • blah170blahblah170blah Alum Inactive ⭐
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    AHHHHH I CANT BELIEVE ITS MAY!

    -- PT
    -- RC timed section (x2)
    -- LR timed section (x1)
    -- review

    x5 all of the above
  • DumbHollywoodActorDumbHollywoodActor Alum Inactive ⭐
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    5 PTs? Plus 5x 3 extra sections!? Whoa! You're an LSAT Monster!
  • nicole.hopkinsnicole.hopkins Inactive Sage Inactive ⭐
    edited May 2015 7965 karma
    All 7sage all the time (with some Manhattan RC mixed in). PT 60 on Saturday BR BR BR

    6am-8am + 6pm-10pm like someone who anticipates working 80 hours a week in about 5 years' time.

    @blah170blah @DumbHollywoodActor psssssst PT60 Saturday BR group 7pm EST ... be there/be square if you dare ...
  • blah170blahblah170blah Alum Inactive ⭐
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    Yes! I've taken a lot of the PTs that have been BR'ed in the group thus far but I have not taken PT 60 yet! WOOHOOOOOO

    @DumbHollywoodActor Perks (I guess?) of having nothing to do but the LSAT.
  • DumbHollywoodActorDumbHollywoodActor Alum Inactive ⭐
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    Sorry. I did PT 38 this weekend. Blame @amanda_kw. Her brilliant explanation in T's Progress Journal scared me off doing a later test until I’ve got my fundamentals down (which I equate with a BR 180). But I plan on hitting the Group BR hard and heavy once June rolls around.
  • DumbHollywoodActorDumbHollywoodActor Alum Inactive ⭐
    edited May 2015 7468 karma
    @blah170blah enjoy it. It’s been a long time since I had only one thing to do, and that time was when I was on my paternity leave from work for 2 weeks, and that one thing to do was staying awake all day and all night to take care of infant twins. In other words, I have no idea what you’re talking about, but hey, if you knock out a 180 because of it, more power to you.
  • nicole.hopkinsnicole.hopkins Inactive Sage Inactive ⭐
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    @blah170blah then you gotta do !!!
  • nicole.hopkinsnicole.hopkins Inactive Sage Inactive ⭐
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    PS — for a lot of us, most of the tests are retakes ...
  • nicole.hopkinsnicole.hopkins Inactive Sage Inactive ⭐
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    @DumbHollywoodActor Well I don't think a BR of 180 is necessarily how you should gauge your readiness for going hard on PT's. I don't want to name any names or numbers but I can tell you for damn sure that almost none of us in the BR group typically (or hardly ever at all) BR at 180. And several of us have 175-180 as a hard-and-fast won't-sit-for-it-til-I'm-there kind of goal. So ... maybe give yourself a little more latitude and when you feel like doin' the group ... you do you ;)

    And I blame @amanda_kw for a lot of things like that so I totally understand ... :D He he he ...
  • JengibreJengibre Member
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    This week I will:

    -take and BR PTs 60 and 61
    -re-do games from 58
    -finish weakening drills
    -1 game and 1 RC science passage per day
  • emli1000emli1000 Alum Member Inactive ⭐
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    This week I'm just trying to survive =/
  • ddakjikingddakjiking Inactive ⭐
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    First time doing this.
    Goals for the week

    -PT 61, 60, 62 on Mon,Wed,Sat
    -Drilling 30 questions from LR Most Difficult Cambridge Packet on Tues, Thurs.
    -Sunday off
  • nicole.hopkinsnicole.hopkins Inactive Sage Inactive ⭐
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    @emli1000 awww girl! Take care ...

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    This week I'm working on SA/PSA in 7sage and we'll see how far I get with that. Want to cycle in more timed sections (and BR them) as I was time pressed on my last PT which tells me I'm out of practice. LSAT time is truncated this week as I am slammed at work and also have a part-time gig as a legal assistant (score!).
  • emli1000emli1000 Alum Member Inactive ⭐
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    @nicole.hopkins aww thanks girl! I'm trying..
  • DumbHollywoodActorDumbHollywoodActor Alum Inactive ⭐
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    Last week, I BRd PT38 with a score of 172. I find typing it out really helps, though it took 3 days. I worked Manhattan LR Assumption Family stuff. And Foolproofed at least 4 games per day (it’s starting to get meditative).


    This week, I’m still working through Manhattan LR: Strengthen/Weaken and Conditional Logic. I plan to drill all the LR questions I got wrong on my previous two tests, mostly to work the process for timing (My average time for most NA, strengthen and weaken questions is around 2:00 per question. Way too long) I’m also considering ways to improve my ability to read abstract material. I picked up “How to Read A Book” by Mortimer Adler (a book I’ve always been meaning to read) and I’m considering practicing some of his techniques with some very difficult texts (Maybe Principia. I’m feeling a little nuts).
  • nicole.hopkinsnicole.hopkins Inactive Sage Inactive ⭐
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    @DumbHollywoodActor I believe you have described a prime example of the phenomenon known as "beast mode"! Way to go :D
  • DumbHollywoodActorDumbHollywoodActor Alum Inactive ⭐
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    @nicole.hopkins Really? I kinda feel like a little kitty with my LR and my RC times, but I’ll take it. :)
  • bSM45LSATbSM45LSAT Member
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    Just discovered this thread, and since it's a Monday, this would be the perfect time to start recording my weekly goals!

    Goals:
    - Read Chapters 1-4 of Trainer (All week)
    - Finish Strengthening Packet Cambridge (Tues)
    - Move onto Validity and Must Be True Questions + do Cambridge packet after (Wed)
    - Watch Some and Most Relationships Videos (Thurs)
    - Invalid Argument Forms (Fri/Sat)
    - Start Sufficient Assumption & Pseudo Sufficient Assumption Questions (Sun)



  • bSM45LSATbSM45LSAT Member
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    It's been a full week, and I got almost everything done, except for the fact that I only read Chapters 1-2 of the Trainer, and didn't get time to Start Sufficient Assumption questions.

    Goals for Week 2:
    - Read Chapters 2-6 of Trainer (All week)
    - Sufficient Assumption & Pseudo Sufficient Assumption Videos + Sufficient Assumption Cambridge Packet (Mon + Tues)
    - Introduction to Reading Comp. Videos (Wed/Thurs)
    - More MBT and Must Be False Questions + Harder SA & PSA & Strengthen Questions (Fri)
    - More Reading Comp. (Sat/Sun)



  • pseudonymouspseudonymous Alum Member Inactive ⭐
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    With the June test date just around the corner, for the next week I will:
    - mostly focus on taking and re-taking PTs continuously to build stamina
    - drilling / reviewing marathons at home, campus, etc.
    - test day checklist of materials
  • JengibreJengibre Member
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    This week I will:

    -Review videos on validity and some/most relationships
    -Fool proof games from PT 62
    -Take and BR PTs 1, 50 and 63
    -Drill one RC science and one older LG each day
  • pseudonymouspseudonymous Alum Member Inactive ⭐
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    Resolutions for this week:

    - all the BRs all the time: 72, 71, 68, 69, 64 -- one a day to Sat.
    - follow Mike Kim's excellent advice... I like the cue cards! Am gonna try for at least my circled questions.
    - sneak in some earlier tests for extra sections to build stamina. Need to make sure I know what it feels like to do 2 RCs back-to-back... never know what will happen on the 8th.
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