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  • @david.busis Hi David, I hope you are still answering questions. I didn't see an answer to this in the PS course, but I haven't finished it yet, so please link info if it's relevant. I want to write about when, as a disaster volunteer, I broke the…
  • @"Dr. Yamata" Yeah, I think I will consider my options, turn in my applications in September, see what comes around and then decide whether to retake. I definitely have some decisions to make - but you're right it could work out. That or I study h…
  • @alejoroarios said: apply to law school but forget about the LSAT for a while. Focus on other things that make your life complete and make you happy. I think this is good advice. I haven't been able to forget the LSAT at all - even after the test …
  • @blah170blah Solidarity fellow comrade. I read your post and definitely agree all LSAT all the time might not be the best plan - I'm sorry to hear that the real LSAT didn't go as planned for you either. Mental health is definitely essential to LSAT …
  • woohoo! good job. Different is a good way to put it - the LSAT is still very consistent, despite it's changes. I feel that 65+ have more content changes, some unfamiliar question stems, etc. It's similar to what happens in the 50s, but maybe a bit m…
  • As both @Pacifico and @taehyung stated, it shouldn't be a problem as long as you complete undergrad before the day law school starts. The only issue I see would be with your GPA, because that won't be available until very soon before school starts. …
  • Yes - as both @blah170blah and @nicole.hopkins stated, there are differences. From 50+ and then starting from 65+, there is another shift. For the 65+ shift - there are more strengthen questions that you have to approach as basically necessary assum…
  • lol. TOTALLY. I was so comforted to see your and J.Y. posts. It helped me calm down a bit. But yes, despite the intense feelings life does go on. Which is a good thing. Otherwise I could be mad at myself forever for running out of time on RC and 1…
  • Thanks for this. How do you get inside our heads J.Y.?
  • I feel the exact same way. Nice to know I'm not the only one - but I also feel bad that other people feel like that too, because it's a sucky feeling. I totally felt like I bombed. RC and LR hit me hard. I ran out of time on both which doesn't happe…
  • You probably did about average your past three test scores plus/minus three points. That is especially true if you don't feel like you F'd up majorly. Now onto the waiting.... * A good method that I found while searching around the web asking this…
  • @pseudonymous Yes. I totally meant Wednesday for 71.
  • @pseudonymous PERFECT! yay. OK see you tues**. I may be joining you for Thurs and Fri review of 68 and 69 as well. **JK. Wednesday for 71.
  • @pseudonymous oops replied to your post a week late. I see that you are doing PT 72 review this Tuesday.
  • @pseudonymous Hi, I can take 71 on Monday as well. Can you review that Wednesday? Do you want to do 4pm PST?
  • The best strategy for me - is when you are reading the passage - mark (underline, circle, whatever) words or phrases that indicate author opinion. E.G. "This innovative and remarkable hypothesis" "These thick-headed critics" "This surprising but u…
  • *meow* That wasn't my cat.
  • @7sagelsatstudent180 Please use this as a learning experience!! It's a great one. It hasn't happened to me so extremely but I think those tests - we are just unlucky enough that they expose all of our weaknesses. SO save this test, go through questi…
  • Hrmm...what do you mean when you say you think the correct answer is the alt cause one? A more general (and hopefully more helpful) approach is 2-step. 1. Recognize that the argument is using causation. a and b (a correlation), therefore a causes…
    in Causation Comment by amanda_kw May 2015
  • @nicole.hopkins LOL. Yes we were talking about indicators. But more so how you want to use the same scrutiny you have with LG indicators as you do for LR. As for RC - I don't know how much is applicable. In general, it's useful to search for indic…
  • @tristanschmoor Sound good! Except when you say: >It seems that you both think it would be beneficial to just take 1-35 as PT's rather than buy >the grouped question packets from these tests. It's beneficial to do both. You can take the tes…
  • @nicole.hopkins You've got new competition now! lol. But congrats! Glad to have your advice and such on the forums.
  • @tristanschmoor Hey - I have been doing this for almost a year now - but that's not what I expected. Good on you to take your time with the test. DO NOT take a PT every two weeks at first. Despite how much you might want to/ are impatient to see h…
  • @LoraxMan alright that makes sense. Yes, C is definitely too strong - not something that is actually talked about in the argument either. For me - the main issue I saw was the difference between context and manner. But I see now how the context woul…
  • @brna0714 Thanks for the advice. I'm wondering if you had a moment of going from missing -3 to missing -0/-1. I was missing 7 and am now missing about 3, but I'm really trying to get to that -0/-1. I'll try your strategies. Getting the purpose of th…
  • @ddakjiking Yes and no. When this has happened I notice I spend too much time upfront - so by sticking with the time constraints, I force myself to answer or skip. That way I can come back to it at the end with the 5 or so minutes I have left. Oth…
  • @LoraxMan I'm a lot more confused than I was before - but I will go over this question a few more times to figure it out. Thanks for bringing that up!
  • Yeah that sounds like a bad idea. You will never have 40 minutes. What works for me is to finish 5 questions at the 5 minute mark, 10 at the 10 minute mark, 15 at the 15 minute mark - and then 20 at the 23-24 minute mark (Q 15-20 are always diffic…
  • @ddakjiking Yup - 58 is Saturday the 2nd/ 59 will be Monday the 4th
  • @Jengibre Oh no! Will you be there Monday for 57? I'm going to be MIA for a week starting next Saturday. So if that's the case...until May then.