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Hal Incandenza
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I think Matt is spot on! In my experience, 40-50% of brute force questions actually have a really Obvious answer choice if you think about them briefly. For the others, you have to work quickly and accurately, which is difficult but not at all an i…
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This is great! I had a similar journey, and I also heavily relied on meditation to get me where I was going (I meditated for a full 60 min before my final LSAT). I completely agree with your conclusions about what helped! Congrats!
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Are you rushing the earlier questions? Do you understand your mistake when you review? It seems like maybe you’re overthinking the easier questions?
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I’m no expert, but I’d try to think of a meaningful experience that changed you and demonstrates why you want to be a lawyer! The 7S examples are very helpful
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I did something similar in undergrad; I didn’t include it in my resume, but I did in the “employment” sections that many apps have. Otherwise, maybe you can list “misc part time student jobs” as have them as bullet points on the resume?
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I think you’re right on the money at the end - hypotheticals aren’t much help here. A more usefully discussion would be a comparison between specific schools after you’ve been accepted and can see their financial aid pancakes.
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Eh, I think that’s more or less a personal preference. Perhaps think about it less in terms of concrete time and more like … drill until you really understand what that question type does / is asking. But again, not to hammer the point home, but I w…
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I’d always suggest not taking the test until you’re consistently getting your goal score.
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Howdy! So - obviously, I’m only working with the information I see above, so take this with a grain of salt, but: Those are very decent scores for 2 months of studying! Don’t be discouraged. Having said that, if you think you’ve hit a plateau, con…
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If the school invites you to write it as an optional essay, then it’s in your best interest to write it
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I got fairly close to perfecting - -0 about half the time, and -1/-2 at worst, generally - and I completely agree with the above answers. Spot on. Even if you love JY’s explanations, hearing info from a different source can really help you ingrain i…
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@"Burt Reynolds" Phew!! I’d be really bummed if I got Burt Reynolds disagreeing with me!
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I would recommend delaying your test and covering the entire CC. It covers some very important information. Loophole is helpful not so much because of its information but because of the drills and mindset. Nowhere else (that I know of) emphasizes t…
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I got really obsessive about the LR questions that I missed. Like … I’d spend twenty minutes reviewing each one, first making sure I understood it perfectly, then sorta berating myself for my mistakes, then really internalizing what I should have do…
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Hurt your brain. Seriously - do deep dives into the questions that you miss and just be relentless about it. Examine every word until you give yourself a headache - master the ones that you miss perfectly. Then save em, and every few weeks retake al…
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Congrats to you!!
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Edit: hahah I just copied his tweet. Good luck! “ If you run into problems on the June LSAT this week, there are two special phone numbers: • 1-215-966-6640 • 1-855-296-7479 These special numbers will be staffed from: • Tue: 7 AM-7 PM ET • Thu…
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Repot this for sure!! The PowerScore guy tweets out the helpline numbers to call - find Dave Killoran (lol maybe double check that spelling), but there’s a specific hotline to call. It’s okay!! Be sure to advocate for yourself, and you may be able t…
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I think it also depends on the sections which give you the most trouble - maybe people, myself included, find that LG is easier to improve than, say, RC.
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PowerScore has a very useful podcast on RC drills to help you determine your specific RC weakness (comprehension, timing, etc) and ways to improve there. Highly suggested! As for LG, I’d check out the 7Sage “foolproof logic games” video - just goog…
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I’ve also found that it helps to make yourself enjoy the process. That may seem impossible, but try to focus on the pure enjoyment of learning something new. Allow your brain to feel the enthusiasm of discovery - that helped me tremendously.
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I’d switch it up! Go to LG, enjoy that section, and engage a different type of reasoning.
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Oh that was just the era I happened to neglect the most, haha. Lots of good debate and discussion going on here - I like it!
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@nocalaw1 I’d seriously consider taking a break. You haven’t somehow become less intelligent or more ignorant, so if your score is decreasing that rapidly, I’d suspect the culprit is stress or exhaustion. A nice break can help with both. I’d take 7 …
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That’s an excellent idea. Maybe even setting goals / rewards / punishments for myself as “stakes” so the PTs also feel like they have some consequences … hmm, I like that a lot
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@"Learned Astronomer" Indeed! I could be wrong, but the way I think my test broke down, I missed 4 to get the 174, and if I got even one more answer correct, it would have been a 176. Some luck there for sure, I suppose, but I try to keep the mindse…
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It was a Spivey consultant for a free consultation, and not quite - they only mentioned that there’s “a chance” HLS will have a 175 median this year. (Sorry for confusing prose on my part there in the previous post.) They seemed to think Duke, for i…
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@"Learned Astronomer" so I’m somewhat eating crow - the consultant was pretty against my retaking. I was hoping / praying for T3, but my GPA is sub-median, and the consultant thinks their median for this cycle might be 175. Insane. Tbh, I mostly wan…
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I find myself in a very similar boat. I got a 172 twice last year, studied like crazy, had a PT average of 178 this time around, and just got a 174. I have a call with an admissions consultant tomorrow, but I’m feeling 80% like retaking. My 172 got …
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Man I love this website. Very cool