louierodriguez wrote:Summertime sadness
Just working on one of the hardest logic games ever! PT 60 Game 4
Awwww Louie working hard

louierodriguez wrote:Summertime sadness
Just working on one of the hardest logic games ever! PT 60 Game 4
louierodriguez wrote:My memory serves me so well that when redoing LR sections I don't even have to read the question.
I can scan answers and easily choose the correct one.
This will not be good if I end up having to retake, but I probably won't have to. I can feel a 180 coming.
DaRascal wrote:Just exhausted my last RC section. Out of prep materials. Could re-do the December 2013 RC section I suppose. I don't feel great when I'm getting anywhere from -3 to -7 on RC, but, I notice that generally my # wrong tends to fall into the 4-5 range.
Anyway, let's do this!! Let's just try to take it one question at a time, try to get everything right using the abilities we've honed through these tough months of LSAT prep, and then we'll see where the chips fall. I think if we worry about what our PT averages are and how we've never had a -0 on a certain section, we'll psychologically take ourselves out of the best score we can achieve before the exam even starts.
YeezusPiece wrote:I'm in a similar situation in terms of RC. Don't really know what else I could be doing to improve on it in the week before the test. And I really wish I could stop psyching myself out. I'm strongly considering doing nothing for the last week seeing as how my past few scores lately have been below my average and it's starting to snowball.
CocoSunshine wrote:WorldsCollide wrote:dd235 wrote:WorldsCollide wrote:On that note, I was wondering what everyone thought about possibly postponing for September? I'm definitely not scoring where I want to be scoring and the exam is just so close. I currently have a 4.0 GPA and don't want my GPA to basically become meaningless when coupled with a low LSAT score ;(.
What have your last few PTs been and what score are you hoping to get in June?
This is kind of embarrassing but my last three: 155, 156 and 157 (in that order). My "peak" was 163 and I am aiming for (kind of unrealistic at this point) above a 170.Honestly, RC is what's killing me at this point. I've never been a very fast reader so I think that trying to read fast to get to all the passages and questions is not really helping. (And now with the comparative reading... it's just not helping. I was doing much better on the 30s preptests).
Master two of the sections then you should score above 170. Try to get LG & LR down first (LG for -0/1 and LR for -1/3). RC is my weak point as well, but a solid performance on LG & LR makes me safely land on 170s.
At this point, I recommend you to postpone. With a sub-170s, You can get into HLS:)
Cambridge LSAT wrote:WorldsCollide wrote:Louis1127 wrote:Now I ma going to go back and drill LR assumption family type questions from 1-39 (not all of them, just some hard ones).
Is there anywhere online that states what type is each LR question?
You can filter for LR on (link removed).
WorldsCollide wrote:[
Also a problem specific question... Preptest55 Section 4 Game 4:
Why is this a biconditional? Honestly, the first time I read the rule it just sounds like it's saying "if F is before (or equal to) J, then S can be anywhere in relation to G":
"If Jasmine is still on board when the van reaches Fundy, then Greg is still on board when the van reaches Simcoe; otherwise, Greg is not still on board when the van reaches Simcoe."
DaRascal wrote:WorldsCollide wrote:[
Also a problem specific question... Preptest55 Section 4 Game 4:
Why is this a biconditional? Honestly, the first time I read the rule it just sounds like it's saying "if F is before (or equal to) J, then S can be anywhere in relation to G":
"If Jasmine is still on board when the van reaches Fundy, then Greg is still on board when the van reaches Simcoe; otherwise, Greg is not still on board when the van reaches Simcoe."
I was doing that game not too long ago. I had to check it up because I didn't get it at first either.
There are two distinct scenarios- The first being that either Jasmine is on board when the van reaches Fundy (or at any point afterward) in which case it triggers Greg being on board when the van reaches Simcoe (or at any point afterward).
The second scenario is that Jasmine gets off before Fundy which triggers Greg getting off before Simcoe.
One or the other must occur and, as such, the two separate scenarios are biconditionals because the occurrence of Greg getting off at or after Simcoe means the first scenario must have been triggered and if Greg gets off before then, the second scenario was triggered.
DaRascal wrote:Yeah because it's the only other possible placement of J if she doesn't get off at Fundy or afterwards so I read the otherwise as implicitly expressing the 2nd conditional statement in your post. But it's easier to diagram it like the guy in the YouTube video for that game did where he diagrammed the two biconditionals as:
J ------- G
|\ <---> |\
F--------S
or else
J---------G
/ <----> /
F-----------S
DaRascal wrote:Great news, guys, I invested all of yesterday into studying Reading Comprehension and I finally experienced a breakthrough this morning after going through the 1st 100 pages of the MLSAT RC book for the fifth or so time.
Anyway, I have a newfound confidence in my abilities in the section, but the problem I'm running into is that it takes me 3:30 to 4 minutes to read any passage with my new system of annotating although it leads to a high level of accuracy when I get to the questions.
Should I speed up my reading and underlining/bracketing or will that compromise my understanding of the passage? What's the right balance so that an average reader like myself can finish all 26-28 questions IN TIME without getting more than say 2 or 3 wrong?
DaRascal wrote:papercut, I actually see what you mean! Ok cool cool. Thanks for that advice! With that approach, as long as a person doesn't lose focus, they can finish RC with about 4 or 5 minutes to spare and go back and check any tough questions with two attractive answer choices they might have circled.
Now I'm unsure about whether I should spend the rest of my week continuing to work at RC or if I should brush up on LR (haven't touched it in two weeks).
WorldsCollide wrote:Thanks for the RC advice! I think I found a strategy, too. But even though I'm accurate, I spend too much time on the first three passages and don't get to the fourth.
How often does everyone diagram LR?
WorldsCollide wrote:Thanks for the RC advice! I think I found a strategy, too. But even though I'm accurate, I spend too much time on the first three passages and don't get to the fourth.
How often does everyone diagram LR?
WorldsCollide wrote:Thanks!
^ RC is so damn time-consuming.
I really want to postpone to September... but I'm starting my semester at the beginning of September so that sucks. Besides, I have family pressure to at least finish up this week of studying before making a decision =,(.
WaltGrace83 wrote:WorldsCollide wrote:Thanks!
^ RC is so damn time-consuming.
I really want to postpone to September... but I'm starting my semester at the beginning of September so that sucks. Besides, I have family pressure to at least finish up this week of studying before making a decision =,(.
One thing I would warn you about is to not have your decision influenced by anyone else but yourself. My whole entire family completely fails to understand why I postponed to September. It sucks that they don't and their support for me is basically next to nothing now but it doesn't matter. This is YOUR career and, unless your parents are willing to give you $250k in cash right now to pay for schooling, this is YOUR money. You - and only you - should decide what you should do with it.
That is why I postponed. I could have done well in June but "well" is not going to cut it to get into the schools I want to go to for a price I can justify paying.
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