The Official February 2016 Waiter's Thread Forum

[Li'l Sebastian]

Read minds or fly?
Read Minds
Talk to animals or speak every language?
Talk to animals
Master every instrument or every language?
Every language
Super strength or super speed?
Super speed

[fishpaste1]

Read minds or fly?
Read Minds
Talk to animals or speak every language?
Speak every language
Master every instrument or every language?
Every instrument
Super strength or super speed?
Super speed

Imagine the amount of chicks you'd be able to pick up with the ability to read minds, speak every language AND play every instrument. Sheesh.

[Li'l Sebastian]

[RonnyDiniro]

I wanna see this notorious Game 3 from December...everybody says it was terrible...what was so hard about it?

Everything I'm about to say may be wrong, this is only my impression after seeing the game twice under timed conditions(once in RL dec test)...I never actually sat down to pick it apart un-timed:

I think it is so difficult because it is so different. It didn't seem to even remotely fit into any game cateogory. If there is a diagram to be made for it, I couldn't figure it. It almost seemed like an excersise in ones ability to refer back to a pool of information as quickly as possible. Other than one, maybe two, very very basic inferences, there seemed to be zero inferences that could be drawn.

I have talked to people that said the game is easy if you don't try to approach it in a traditional way. I tried that my 2nd time around, it still wasn't easy. I got only 2 right as opposed to 0 right.

[FreeMaxB]

Sup guys? I am not typically active on these forums, but the wait for this score is kinda killing me, and I have had a multitude of thoughts/emotions circulating through my mind/heart in the past few days. I would like to give my two cents on this test, and see how it aligns with others' feelings:

My sections were arranged as follows: LR, RC, LG (exp), LG, LR. I was happy to see that LR was my first section, and (as seems to be the general consensus) felt that this first LR section wasn't too bad. I believe this was the one with the physics/psych question. I am hopeful that I did not miss more than a couple of questions in this section. For the RC, I felt as if the questions weren't overly difficult. The main difficulty in this test's RC section seems to lie more in the content and length of the passages/questions. Although no one wants to read about shrubs (no offense to any botanists on this thread) the questions that went with that passage were--I thought--relatively straightforward. I'd say the comparative passage was certainly most difficult, but again, nothing out of this world. 27 questions is a lot, though, no doubt. My 3rd section was exp LG and had some tough games. One of them was some weird hybrid game about 8 floors of a building and another was an in-out game about railway stations being open or closed on certain days. This section's difficulty was compounded by the fact that I had to piss like a racehorse during it, literally to the point that I could not concentrate at all on the last two games. I should not have had a large iced red eye prior to the exam. For the real LG, I feel pretty confident, as I did not find any of the four games particularly difficult. However, this confidence is slightly alarming, as I am typically somewhat shaky on LG and not adept at making inferences quickly. From what I hear, though, there were not too many inferences to be made up front with these games, so hopefully my brute force approach was indeed effective? I think the last game was probably most difficult in the section. Finally, the second LR section seemed to contain a number of questions above-average in difficulty. Can anyone confirm that the Fengtian/Jade q, the Absinthe q, the education/ addition vs improvement of channels q and the damming of a river q were all in this section? Not at all sure how to feel about this second LR question.

Ultimately, I think this test was okay. I took the October 2015 test and felt that it was much more difficult, though it did contain a very easy RC section. I am wishing nothing but the best of luck to all of you guys. The best thing to do while waiting is to come up with all of the possible scenarios for how many you missed in each section and then produce a range of all of the possible scores you could have gotten and then spend time coming to terms with each of them, so that way you won't be wholly disappointed with a less than ideal score, if, god forbid, one arrives in your inbox on Saturday. Maybe go on lawschoolnumbers and look up profiles of applicants with less than stellar scores who were admitted to top schools. Idk, been doing both. Still anxious af

[dhwz175]

I wanna see this notorious Game 3 from December...everybody says it was terrible...what was so hard about it?

It wasn't that it was overly challenging, it was just really different from anything that had been seen on recent tests. There were pretty much zero inferences you could draw from the rules, so you really just had to brute force your way through it. Fortunately for me, I recognized it was weird af almost immediately, skipped it, zoomed through G4 and came back to it with like 12 minutes to spare and was able to complete it. But you pretty much had to have time to work through it. I can't imagine trying to finish that game in 8 minutes or less.

Yeah, it just threw me WAY off. And I froze and tried to fit the game into some kind of set up that I was familiar with which obviously didn't work out. I re-did the game afterwards and got through it quite easily, one or two of the questions were straight giveaways

[Li'l Sebastian]

[Li'l Sebastian]

[Li'l Sebastian]

LET'S TURN THIS GRAVEYARD INTO A RAVE YARD

[RonnyDiniro]

So I'm reading a biography about A. Lincoln. I just came across a line I thought y'all might find interesting: "A popular saying in Lincolns day was that the Bible, Shakespeare, and Blackstone's commentaries made up the foundation of any well-stocked legal library."

Paraphrased - "In the 1830's and '40s, spontaneous oratory reigned in the courtroom over careful preparation and presentation."

Pretty neat I thought.

[azaleafire]

Read minds or fly?
Fly
Talk to animals or speak every language?
Talk to animals
Master every instrument or every language?
Every language
Super strength or super speed?
Super speed

Flying. Reading minds seems like it would be unnecessarily terrifying, and I would save so much money on airfare.

Speak every language. Because I am a travel buff and love learning languages so having my own personal All-Speak would be great.

This one is hard. Because I feel like flying and super speed are redundant, but also super strength isn't that useful to me and I would be afraid I would crush someone. So super speed.

[MiamiHeat3]

As weird as this seems, I miss studying for the LSAT and preparing. The LSAT has become an obsession

[AbbeyS]

As weird as this seems, I miss studying for the LSAT and preparing. The LSAT has become an obsession

Yeah I'm still like...what do I do with my life now.......

[dhwz175]

As weird as this seems, I miss studying for the LSAT and preparing. The LSAT has become an obsession

Yeah I'm still like...what do I do with my life now.......

SAME. I felt like the LSAT was just starting to all click in my brain when the Feb test came around. Now I want to see how high I can score if I study a bit more..

[Shib26]

As weird as this seems, I miss studying for the LSAT and preparing. The LSAT has become an obsession

Yeah, I still get this weird urge to do some logic games every once in a while. I threw away all my prep books the other day and actually got a little sentimental.

[LitigatingLiar]

I wanna see this notorious Game 3 from December...everybody says it was terrible...what was so hard about it?

Everything I'm about to say may be wrong, this is only my impression after seeing the game twice under timed conditions(once in RL dec test)...I never actually sat down to pick it apart un-timed:

I think it is so difficult because it is so different. It didn't seem to even remotely fit into any game cateogory. If there is a diagram to be made for it, I couldn't figure it. It almost seemed like an excersise in ones ability to refer back to a pool of information as quickly as possible. Other than one, maybe two, very very basic inferences, there seemed to be zero inferences that could be drawn.

I have talked to people that said the game is easy if you don't try to approach it in a traditional way. I tried that my 2nd time around, it still wasn't easy. I got only 2 right as opposed to 0 right.

I went back and redid it without timing myself and there just aren't any inferences you can make from it. It's like you said, just the ability to refer to a pool of info and brute force through it. The best advice 7sage can give is take some deep breath and go to the next game. That says a lot.

[LitigatingLiar]

As weird as this seems, I miss studying for the LSAT and preparing. The LSAT has become an obsession

the first few days after the test I found myself wondering what I was going to do with myself. I had to get used to watching some tv with the wife in the evenings.

[AbbeyS]

Anyone have any success selling old prep books? I wrote in some of mine, which would obviously be a downside but hey...some people might still buy them if it's cheap. I also have a couple that I didn't end up getting to or didn't like...

[wellitsover]

I wanna see this notorious Game 3 from December...everybody says it was terrible...what was so hard about it?

It wasn't that it was overly challenging, it was just really different from anything that had been seen on recent tests. There were pretty much zero inferences you could draw from the rules, so you really just had to brute force your way through it. Fortunately for me, I recognized it was weird af almost immediately, skipped it, zoomed through G4 and came back to it with like 12 minutes to spare and was able to complete it. But you pretty much had to have time to work through it. I can't imagine trying to finish that game in 8 minutes or less.

Yeah, it just threw me WAY off. And I froze and tried to fit the game into some kind of set up that I was familiar with which obviously didn't work out. I re-did the game afterwards and got through it quite easily, one or two of the questions were straight giveaways

+1

I wasted a whole lot of time trying to diagram it on the actual test, then when I tried it again after hearing that people who got through it brute forced it, was able to get all the q's correct in the given time. Meh but LG wasn't as bad for me as RC in Dec. My big fear for Feb is also RC; I feel ok about the other sections.

[wellitsover]

As weird as this seems, I miss studying for the LSAT and preparing. The LSAT has become an obsession

Yeah I'm still like...what do I do with my life now.......

SAME. I felt like the LSAT was just starting to all click in my brain when the Feb test came around. Now I want to see how high I can score if I study a bit more..

I feel like I could still improve (never got to use LSAT trainer which seems to help a lot of people), and I'd rather end feeling like I maximized my potential but... I am so very glad to be done! The LSAT sure has made me appreciate the camaraderie amongst LSAT takers though, as no other test I've taken (which is just pre-college and GRE) has had me so obsessed.

[lesalexander]

Sup guys? I am not typically active on these forums, but the wait for this score is kinda killing me, and I have had a multitude of thoughts/emotions circulating through my mind/heart in the past few days. I would like to give my two cents on this test, and see how it aligns with others' feelings:

My sections were arranged as follows: LR, RC, LG (exp), LG, LR. I was happy to see that LR was my first section, and (as seems to be the general consensus) felt that this first LR section wasn't too bad. I believe this was the one with the physics/psych question. I am hopeful that I did not miss more than a couple of questions in this section. For the RC, I felt as if the questions weren't overly difficult. The main difficulty in this test's RC section seems to lie more in the content and length of the passages/questions. Although no one wants to read about shrubs (no offense to any botanists on this thread) the questions that went with that passage were--I thought--relatively straightforward. I'd say the comparative passage was certainly most difficult, but again, nothing out of this world. 27 questions is a lot, though, no doubt. My 3rd section was exp LG and had some tough games. One of them was some weird hybrid game about 8 floors of a building and another was an in-out game about railway stations being open or closed on certain days. This section's difficulty was compounded by the fact that I had to piss like a racehorse during it, literally to the point that I could not concentrate at all on the last two games. I should not have had a large iced red eye prior to the exam. For the real LG, I feel pretty confident, as I did not find any of the four games particularly difficult. However, this confidence is slightly alarming, as I am typically somewhat shaky on LG and not adept at making inferences quickly. From what I hear, though, there were not too many inferences to be made up front with these games, so hopefully my brute force approach was indeed effective? I think the last game was probably most difficult in the section. Finally, the second LR section seemed to contain a number of questions above-average in difficulty. Can anyone confirm that the Fengtian/Jade q, the Absinthe q, the education/ addition vs improvement of channels q and the damming of a river q were all in this section? Not at all sure how to feel about this second LR question.

Ultimately, I think this test was okay. I took the October 2015 test and felt that it was much more difficult, though it did contain a very easy RC section. I am wishing nothing but the best of luck to all of you guys. The best thing to do while waiting is to come up with all of the possible scenarios for how many you missed in each section and then produce a range of all of the possible scores you could have gotten and then spend time coming to terms with each of them, so that way you won't be wholly disappointed with a less than ideal score, if, god forbid, one arrives in your inbox on Saturday. Maybe go on lawschoolnumbers and look up profiles of applicants with less than stellar scores who were admitted to top schools. Idk, been doing both. Still anxious af

It's scary how much your experience mirrors mine. For a while there, I thought I had written your post. I took the October LSAT too and my impression of both tests matches yours almost exactly. I had the same order and experimental in February. My bladder really distracted me on LG exp; the last two games killed me.

I guess the only distinction I'd make is that I feel really good about the real LG. LG is usually a clean section for me so I dodged a serious bullet. Those damned 8 floors still give me nightmares.

[lizzielemon]

Sup guys? I am not typically active on these forums, but the wait for this score is kinda killing me, and I have had a multitude of thoughts/emotions circulating through my mind/heart in the past few days. I would like to give my two cents on this test, and see how it aligns with others' feelings:

My sections were arranged as follows: LR, RC, LG (exp), LG, LR. I was happy to see that LR was my first section, and (as seems to be the general consensus) felt that this first LR section wasn't too bad. I believe this was the one with the physics/psych question. I am hopeful that I did not miss more than a couple of questions in this section. For the RC, I felt as if the questions weren't overly difficult. The main difficulty in this test's RC section seems to lie more in the content and length of the passages/questions. Although no one wants to read about shrubs (no offense to any botanists on this thread) the questions that went with that passage were--I thought--relatively straightforward. I'd say the comparative passage was certainly most difficult, but again, nothing out of this world. 27 questions is a lot, though, no doubt. My 3rd section was exp LG and had some tough games. One of them was some weird hybrid game about 8 floors of a building and another was an in-out game about railway stations being open or closed on certain days. This section's difficulty was compounded by the fact that I had to piss like a racehorse during it, literally to the point that I could not concentrate at all on the last two games. I should not have had a large iced red eye prior to the exam. For the real LG, I feel pretty confident, as I did not find any of the four games particularly difficult. However, this confidence is slightly alarming, as I am typically somewhat shaky on LG and not adept at making inferences quickly. From what I hear, though, there were not too many inferences to be made up front with these games, so hopefully my brute force approach was indeed effective? I think the last game was probably most difficult in the section. Finally, the second LR section seemed to contain a number of questions above-average in difficulty. Can anyone confirm that the Fengtian/Jade q, the Absinthe q, the education/ addition vs improvement of channels q and the damming of a river q were all in this section? Not at all sure how to feel about this second LR question.

Ultimately, I think this test was okay. I took the October 2015 test and felt that it was much more difficult, though it did contain a very easy RC section. I am wishing nothing but the best of luck to all of you guys. The best thing to do while waiting is to come up with all of the possible scenarios for how many you missed in each section and then produce a range of all of the possible scores you could have gotten and then spend time coming to terms with each of them, so that way you won't be wholly disappointed with a less than ideal score, if, god forbid, one arrives in your inbox on Saturday. Maybe go on lawschoolnumbers and look up profiles of applicants with less than stellar scores who were admitted to top schools. Idk, been doing both. Still anxious af

I feel all of this!

I had LG LG LR LR RC and one of the two LG sections went amazing for me, the other was decent. I wish I could figure out which one was the real one, but since the minute I stepped out o the test, i remember NOTHING of what i answered. I'm not sure if anyone else feels this? But if you showed me the exact test, I'd be like "what"

RC, first time ever I ran out of time and ended up not answering the last two questions at all. blah.

Let the worrying continue. Just a few days left now!

[Li'l Sebastian]

MOAR POAST

[AbbeyS]

MOAR POAST

Err'body ignores me when I start new topics so I'm silently proAtesting

[MiamiHeat3]

Rumor has it that Barack Obama is vetting a Republican for SCOUTUS. Hopefully if this Republican governor gets successfully appointed that he doesn't turn into a Justice Souter.