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Please put your pencil down and stop working in Section 4. Insert your answer sheet inside of your test booklet, and marry me.
What could be better?
@"Cant Get Right" I was just taking a sip of seltzer as I read that. A bit of it literally came out of my noise and it burned so bad. That is the first time I laughed so hard
milkseltzer came out of my noise.And thank you, remember I am just the male version of you
Hey lover, we've been together way longer than I've been on the 7sage curriculum, and I think you're flawless. Our love strengthens everyday. My heart weakens with the thought of losing you. You're a necessary part of my life, and these facts most strongly support the conclusion that want to spend the rest of it (life) with you.
If you love me back ---->let's get married.
"I've identified the role you play in my life. The point at issue is that your beauty has blinded me. The principle of our love must be true..."
I'm afraid that because of the LSAT I no longer know how to talk to girls... Well, I guess I never did, but the LSAT hasn't helped much
You spend at the very minimum months planning it, some people spend years. There are some people who are just naturally a tad bit better at the start (more romantic/higher diagnostic) but we can all learn tips and tricks to get better (through dating that person/going through 7sage), there are ups and downs, and at times becomes extremely difficult to understand, you even fail pretty badly sometimes and get exhausted and want to quit (after a fight, after you do poorly on a PT), but in the end you take the test, and the day before the test you're really anxious and nervous because this may very well be one of the most important things you do in your life.
.... today is a slow day at work..
The LSAT and proposal do have a lot in common now that I think about it. Especially how strenuous the whole process is for both things. Hahaha! Yeah, same for me. Usually Wednesday's are my busy days... lol
Lsat and gardening however... same thing.
@"Cant Get Right" @montaha.rizeq @"Alex Divine"
I spent a whole 5min on this, enjoy.
@nanchito you need an icon so I can add you to the pic.
I'm down for what's going down in that last one by the way. As long as Harvards not going to get all jealous and want to get back together with JY and JW.
I also feel way more hopeful and optimistic. Because now I really know when I go to take the real deal, I will be ready.... Not hoping I will be ready.
Lastly, my entire mindset has changed and with that my goal has gone up. When I was planning on taking in Sept/Dec my goal was a 168. My mindset was "OK, I can miss 4 questions per section. If I can get LR down to 3 then I'm aloud to miss an extra RC and LG question....."
I was essentially calculating and accepting failure! I was condoning myself to do less than my best and that was making me really.... blah feeling.
Postponing was the best decision I have made in a while!
And boy are you right! It is so crazy how this exam messes with our minds. Mindset is so critical for doing well on this test. I can't believe I ever fell into the mindset of thinking all I needed was 3-4 months to reach my potential.... I must have been drinking the TLS kool aid, lol.
Good luck and good job making the right decision!
So I think there are two main schools of thought on this question. And I see it quite often and have thought pretty long and hard, weighed the pros and cons, and come to a few conclusions:
First, I always think it is better to wait until you are confident to go into the testing center and write a test that reflects your potential; not just what your average is at that time.
Second, and sort of tying into the first, people rarely score higher on the real test than the PTs. On average, I think people usually score their last 3-5 test score's average. And it is quite often for takers to score 3 points or so lower than that... Being the prudent person I am, I would recommend waiting until at least your last 5 PTs are averaging where your ultimate goal lies. For example, if your goal is a 173. You may want to wait until your last 5 tests were a 175, 174, 171, 173, 175. Something like that anyways....
Lastly, I think you are potentially wasting a take. And you can't get takes back. I have a close friend to me who sort of used 1 of her takes as a sort of glorified PT to see how she would fair under the pressure and so she would know what to expect... She then bombed her next take and then had to desperately rely on her 3rd take to be the one that did it. The stress it caused her was awful.
The point is that you might need all of your takes just to get you to the goal once you're already consistently scoring your average. So don't waste one a second before then. In short, I think you are wasting a take, at least for the most part.
The second school of thought will argue that a trial run can be a useful thing. Now you'll know what to expect and possibly learn from any errors made under the gun. Heck, you might even get lucky and score 5 points higher than your average....
My rebuttal to that is I think it makes more sense to just go to a library (with moderate noise and paper shuffling) take a timed PT with the 7Sage proctor and see how you do. My guess is that score won't be much different than if you had just taken it, but this way you save a take. I don't deny that this won't simulate ALL of the real test day experience. For one, you'll never be able to replicate the feeling of "Jiminy Crickets, this is the real deal!!!" Even so, I don't think it is worth giving up one of your sacred 3 takes.
Also, 5-7 points is a lot to achieve in 6-7 weeks. I think it is much more reasonable to wait until December and be ready to walk in there are kill it! And perhaps most importantly, your confidence will be there because you'll have consistently been scoring 5-7 points higher than now.
Good luck!
Duh! How could I forget.... $200 bucks saved
It's basically our 7Sage theme song of being kind and helpful to each other !
Exponential.