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You are definitely not too old. I was 56 when I started law school. Just graduated from NYU this May and enjoyed it very much. You are also not too old to switch careers. As for age discrimination, I do get the feeling that some schools do age discr…
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I am happy to share my LR checklist. Just message me directly.
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Sorry for the typos. Just tired
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I found LSAT studying became more fun when I just did a short bursts of quality studying each day. For example, I wasted over one year doing the typical timed PTs and blind review without much progress. Surprisingly, my real progress came when I jus…
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For RC, I recommend practicing spaced repetition and recapping every 3-5 sentences. LSAT hacks has a good article on space repetition. The next thing that helped me was to read each answer slowly clause by clause and kill any answer choice that is i…
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Focus on quality rather than quantity of practice. For example, do just 5 questions of LR each session but do one question at a time and do immediate feedback loop to spot the patterns for how you could have done the question faster. Also, make a c…
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I agree with all three of the comments above in recommending waiting another cycle and retaking the lsat. I was in the same boat several years ago with a good gpa but lsat stuck at 162 after several attempts. I could have applied and gotten into som…
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When you are down to two, don't dig in as that increases anxiety which leads to errors. I find skipping the question and coming back with a fresh mindset (and rereading the stimulus) often makes it clear which to pick. Also, I found BR to be not ver…
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If you have an iPad with a pencil, you can import the pdf of the games into a free app called Notability and you can then work on the iPad and erase the work on the iPad. Notability is a great app.
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I think I messaged everyone in this thread that asked for the checklist but message me if I missed someone. Just a bit overwhelmed with all the requests. Good luck to those taking the test this weekend.
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I agree with the recommendation by @ledkarly re Ellen Cassidy's Loophole book on LR. The first chapter on how to do translations is very helpful with both LR and RC. I admire your persistence with self study with various books. You may want to consi…
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I think I messaged everyone in that asked for the checklist with my email so that I can email the the checklist but let me know if I missed someone. Another key thing I would recommend is a simple system for skipping questions. I posted about this b…
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The thing that helped me the most was reading Elle Cassidy's book: Loophole in Logical Reasoning. The chapter on translation is especially helpful. Learning to translate the stimulus and pre-phrasing are the main skills that allowed me to go from -5…
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@DontPay4LawSchool said: @Ravinder quick question: does that apply to questions you wouldn’t be able to prephrase? MBT questions, for example. I feel like I can come up with prephrases for those, but it’s unlikely it would be the actual AC. …
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Totally agree with EbethStudent16. I took the test 5 times and eventually got 177 and got into Columbia and NYU. My scores after one year of studying and over 50 PTs of practice were 153,153,158,162. One of my best tutors recommended I wait another …
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I repeatedly had this same problem of a large test day drop and had to take the test 5 times to eventually get 177. There is no single solution that will work for every student but it can be overcome. The main things that eventually helped me were t…
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One thing that helped me go from -5 to -1 on LR was to develop a disciplined skipping strategy. I had a two step process for skipping and typically skipped 7-8 questions per LR section. First, I would translate carefully every stimulus paragraph and…
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I am 57 and just finished my 1L year at NYU. It was tougher than I thought it would be but I am glad I pursued it. Not sure if my advice is totally relevant as I am not going to practice law but am just doing it to learn and to keep my brain sharp. …
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@jmarin5 said: @Ravinder said: I would highly recommend working with a private tutor. I was stuck at 162 after several attempts. Then worked with two of the best tutors and got a 177 after 4 months of additional study after underst…
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I would highly recommend working with a private tutor. I was stuck at 162 after several attempts. Then worked with two of the best tutors and got a 177 after 4 months of additional study after understanding the test much better. The tutors were expe…
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Your big drop on test day versus PTs done at home is most likely due to test day anxiety. I had the same problem. Also, no need to do so many PTs. Quality is more important than quantity. Lastly, developing a systematic approach to each section is k…
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I agree with logician and the others. Do t give up. I had the same problem as you. I had to take the test 5 times over two years before I finally got a 177. I used to be an ER doctor and there is a very safe and effective medicine that can block adr…
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Sorry for delay in reply but there was a death in my family recently and just saw this. My checklist is just a few shorthand letters for each question type which would not make sense to someone else reading it. I have thought about making videos of …
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The thing that helped me the most was reading Elle Cassidy's book: Loophole in Logical Reasoning. The chapter on translation is especially helpful. Learning to translate the stimulus and pre-phrasing are the main skills that allowed me to go from -5…
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Yes, real time on average is 8 min 45 sec. Keep in mind easier passages can be done faster. I would do just do one or two passage per session until you get very skilled at killing the wrong answer choices as early as possible. Spending a lot more ti…
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One very helpful thing that I learned from my best tutor, Ellen Cassidy, is to do a warm up about 30-45 min just before the test. She recommended to do some questions from each of the sections of a PT that I had already done recently so as not to ge…
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I am an ER doctor and also a 1st year law student. If you are open to trying a safe medication that blocks adrenaline you may find that you can manage your test day anxiety. Recently, I have successfully used this medication on two students in the f…
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To answer the original question “After I read the stimulus, am I supposed to just go to the answer choices? I couldn't anticipate what the potential answer could be...I had issues with A and E” In order to prephrase well, I find that using a ‘…
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I have a simple solution that eventually helped me to get 177 (though, admittedly it took me a number of attempts). It is a bit counterintuitive but I found that going a little slower in the passage (even spending 30 sec to 1 min more per passage) t…
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I can hopefully shed some light on Ellen's approach, which helped me tremendously on LG. Before finding Ellen, I had tried the Power Bibles, The LSAT trainer, and 7 Sage. All of these suggested approaches to LG that relied heavily on making inferen…