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Dr. Yamata

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  • I sincerely hope it will be newer than that.. but I'll take what I can get at this point.
  • My little internal clock usually tells me to move on if I don't know the answer after reading the stim, question, and answers twice and taking a good stab at it. I do not know how much time elapses, but I know I routinely finish the LR sections with…
  • @singerhanna http://www.amazon.com/Actual-Official-Out---Print-PrepTests/dp/1456387049/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1434326750&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=out+of+print+lsat I picked this one up out of curiosity.. the games are real…
  • "susceptible" generally means vulnerable, likely to be influenced by, etc. It has a "weak" connotation in English. Like.. "the boy is susceptible to the drinking and partying his older friends encourage." I think in this question, "susceptible to…
  • I might be an unpopular opinion, and I might get flamed, but it may be advisable to shoot for 3 games on the test. Why? Well.. they usually place the kicker at the end, and it usually only has 5 questions. Why blow through the whole section inaccura…
  • Yes the LSAC hates you. They will not feel bad for you and give the test a huge curve. I already cried during the test. Time to build the bridge and get over it.
  • I remember next to nothing about the questions, actually. I was reminded about several of the topics posthumously by people who were apparently calmer or have better medium-term memories. From what I glean, however, there was more than 1 experimenta…
  • Oh definitely.. things "sink in" subconsciously when you listen to them. I won't go to the gym or for a jog now without doing a few games and then looping the video explanations of them.
  • You might consider some of the books that arrange questions by type. That reaallly helped me pick up on the patterns in LR a lot faster than if I had 25 different questions of each type.
  • Yeah well, you have a point. The test is designed to be cram-proof.. so it would be naive to think that even if you got 100% of the prep materials down cold that you won't be thrown off on test day by something new. Studying the "how" is the key.. n…
  • High five brother.. Philosophy M.A. here. I am becoming more of an advocate of marking the passage. On test day, there's just no way you're going to be as calm as you are during practice, so even if you retain a lot of it by reading a certain way i…
  • Timing is clearly an issue for you.. If you finished all the questions, then the time pressure caused you to be more inaccurate. If you didn't get to all the questions, well, that's what caused the low score. Keep drilling question types and try to …
  • When I say "ready," I mean psychologically ready. You will have to deal with that new twist.. but what is important is to not panic about it. That's what messed me and a lot of people up, it seems.
  • It would lower the amount of possible questions graded, yes. They wouldn't keep the same number of questions and give it to everyone for free, or mark it wrong for everyone. Grade going up depends I guess. If you got it right, you're getting screw…
  • I think you nailed it, bud. Not being under that pressure to hit 170 is probably what let you attack the test calmly and confidently. I was able to achieve my usual aggressive confidence all the way up until.. you know.. THAT section.. that's when I…
  • That's a pretty accurate way of describing my LG experience.. Almost verbatim. But there are a few points to make note of: (And I'm going to keep this very general.. whether it applies to this particular test is really neither here nor there and is …
  • That seems like a really arbitrary difficulty.. kind of like the logic games with no space to write. Lawyers usually have pretty big desks lol
  • @alejoroarios said: I'm on your same boat, but I haven't started PTing yet. Aaaaaaarrrghhhhh!! What I would recommend would be to still take those tests after work. It is good to take them in unideal conditions and/or times where you are not going …
  • That's why I'm probably going to take it at Ut again despite the traffic. The desks were huge. I've been hearing horror stories about tiny desks
  • Same.. I performed pretty much as expected on everything except good old LGs
  • It was an unusually hard lg section. Dont worry you are definitely not alone. It seems that lg was the curvebreaker this time.
  • Unless you're opposite of everyone on reddit, the hard one was real.
  • I don't know how you guys can even remember the questions.how is focused on the structure of the arguments. I really don't remember much content at all
  • Guilty lol I was def a serial sharpener
  • I think you're really splitting hairs here. With an abysmal GPA you're probably not looking at the very top-tier anyway, and any 170 will put you ahead of anyone without a 170, which is already a lot of people. If you think you got 16-anything on th…
  • @zotter.. Just going over the last 10 tests.. the most the 170 curve has been is -14 questions. Most are -10 or -11. But yeah, it's *possible*
  • I think sometimes people get too caught up in the theory. A perfect example is on Monday when I started diagramming the formal logic for this question.. and as it turns out.. it only wanted the conclusion! Also, being formulaic about attacking concl…
  • Well, realistically if you think you got more than 12 wrong you're probably not looking at a 170 It might not be a total blowout though.. the standard acceptable situation questions are always gimmes.. and the amount of questions varies on logic gam…
  • Yeah -20 for me is sounding about right. I really hope my default letter is a winner!