The Official October Waiter's Oasis Forum

sanibella · Post by **sanibella** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:47 pm

appind wrote:
mornincounselor wrote:
ChillTomG wrote:One of the LR questions (25 section) is going to be removed from scoring.

That's a big claim. Have any details?
may be because op has sent a challenge. if people really made a strong challenge case right after the exam then many questions that otherwise stood in the last 20-30 PTs could have been removed. it doesn't happen more frequently only because there are very few people capable of putting a credible challenge right after the test based on memory.

I disagree.

The Abyss · Post by **The Abyss** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:47 pm

RZ5646 wrote:The big question: How long do scores usually take?

I'm guessing October 26th is the day we get them.

RZ5646 · Post by **RZ5646** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:48 pm

Judgeasaurus_Rex wrote:LR (26) Rats in a maze,
LG (23) This was the easy one, can't remember any of the games standing out.
RC (27) Comparative reading with Newton, Einstein, planets, etc.
LR (25) Vladimir is fired, dogs in Peru and Mexico, etc.
LG (23) the one everyone has been discussing with the grocery store shifts. Had to guess on 3 for this one.

Overall, not such a bad exam aside from the 3rd game in the LG and perhaps the comparative reading. So many of the questions on my first LR seemed familiar - almost as if I had answered them before. Not sure if that was because I am accustomed to the argument types, flaw types & such or if I had written that very same section during a previous administration as an experimental.

Is this possible?

We had the same sequence and I thought for sure that first LR was the experimental because it seemed so easy and kinda weird. But I guess not.

gatesome · Post by **gatesome** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:48 pm

chalky wrote:Did everyone have an LR section about LOL and the library?

I had 3x LR and no idea what you're taking about. Laughing in the library? Def. no question about that here.

mcleemz · Post by **mcleemz** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:48 pm

I had 2 LG sections. Nailed the 1st one, but the second section with cookbooks, I got hung up on the 3rd game & couldn't finish on time. I'm gathering that was the real one. My 1st test got a 167 & I predict no worse than that but likely will not pick up the 3-5 points I was hoping for if that LG section was real. Everything else went really well though, which is a shame

rmye87 · Post by **rmye87** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:48 pm

RZ5646 wrote:
rmye87 wrote:in retrospect, the 3rd game i think was meant to be visually difficult but actually an easy game

... there's like 4 scenarios

which means the entire games section was supposed to be crazy easy
Actually there are 6 scenarios, unless the other rules restricted it further. Can't remember. But I think it was definitely a hard game and meant to be hard. Historically, the third game usually is the hardest one.

yeah i meant like 4 scenarios to where only those two could go

QuentonCassidy · Post by **QuentonCassidy** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:50 pm

rmye87 wrote:in retrospect, the ....,

Hey man you are gonna want to delete most of that post, that information is definitely not allowed. Look at the mods' post on what can be said about questions.

Sera Numquam · Post by **Sera Numquam** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:50 pm

Rgura1 wrote:
The Abyss wrote:
Sera Numquam wrote:RC
LR
LR
LG
LR

I feel good about this test. How are other people feeling?
I had the same setup. Feel good and I feel they gave away our expirimental section.
What do you mean? With this setup, which was experimental?

Either the 2nd or the third section was experimental, I think it was the 2nd section

jleon25 · Post by **jleon25** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:51 pm

Okay guys, this is my first post on the forum. I read over the last few posts and still am a little confused on which RC was the real one.

I had LR-RC-RC-LR-LG

The first RC seemed like it came from hell honestly, one passage dealt with dowser practicing and another dealt with some psychological infallibility information on illusions.

The second RC I had felt much better. It had Karl Popper and astronomy as the last passage, and it also had a passage about some group with string beads and revealing their constitution. lol

PLEASE HELP. If the first RC (dowser and psychological infallibility) was the real deal, I am going to have to cancel.

THANKS SO MUCH

Judgeasaurus_Rex · Post by **Judgeasaurus_Rex** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:51 pm

rmye87 wrote:in retrospect, the 3rd game i think was meant to be visually difficult but actually an easy game

which means the entire games section was supposed to be crazy easy

i really think...

RC was meant to be easy
LR easy
LG easy
and one LR brings scores back down to earth.

i'm pretty much a 155-165 testtaker after tons of diagnostics depending on focus mood and concentration. normally do decent on LR, kill games, and RC is the Xfactor

today i thought i killed section 1 RC. section 2 and 3 LR i made it to qeustion 20 on 5 minute warning and was doing well. in retrospect games seemed like it was supposed to be very easy. But i think i'm in for a rude awakening on section 5 LR. i think that will bring my score down to earth,

You should be careful and delete that post, friend. Probably breaking some rules!

Also, the characters were different, like GHJ, but B and U.

Tycho · Post by **Tycho** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:52 pm

jleon25 wrote:Okay guys, this is my first post on the forum. I read over the last few posts and still am a little confused on which RC was the real one.

I had LR-RC-RC-LR-LG

The first RC seemed like it came from hell honestly, one passage dealt with dowser practicing and another dealt with some psychological infallibility information on illusions.

The second RC I had felt much better. It had Karl Popper and astronomy as the last passage, and it also had a passage about some group with string beads and revealing their constitution. lol

PLEASE HELP. If the first RC (dowser and psychological infallibility) was the real deal, I am going to have to cancel.

THANKS SO MUCH

Karl Popper is real.

gatesome · Post by **gatesome** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:52 pm

Sera Numquam wrote:
Rgura1 wrote:
The Abyss wrote:
Sera Numquam wrote:RC
LR
LR
LG
LR

I feel good about this test. How are other people feeling?
I had the same setup. Feel good and I feel they gave away our expirimental section.
What do you mean? With this setup, which was experimental?
Either the 2nd or the third section was experimental, I think it was the 2nd section

seconded (kek) and seemingly confirmed by someone else NOT having a question with 2 questions based on 1 'passage'

mornincounselor · Post by **mornincounselor** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:53 pm

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rmye87 · Post by **rmye87** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:54 pm

k i deleted it.

what happens if you break the rules?

meep.xy · Post by **meep.xy** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:54 pm

jleon25 wrote:Okay guys, this is my first post on the forum. I read over the last few posts and still am a little confused on which RC was the real one.

I had LR-RC-RC-LR-LG

The first RC seemed like it came from hell honestly, one passage dealt with dowser practicing and another dealt with some psychological infallibility information on illusions.

The second RC I had felt much better. It had Karl Popper and astronomy as the last passage, and it also had a passage about some group with string beads and revealing their constitution. lol

PLEASE HELP. If the first RC (dowser and psychological infallibility) was the real deal, I am going to have to cancel.

THANKS SO MUCH

the second one about beads is real

mcleemz · Post by **mcleemz** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:54 pm

MrBalloons wrote:Well, I'm more than a little depressed that I managed to botch the real LG.

Here's to going -0 on the rest of the test to make up for it?

I did the same thing but I'm sure we'll have a great time at Yale together

rmye87 · Post by **rmye87** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:55 pm

i remember game 3 started on question 14

i think it went 14-18

Judgeasaurus_Rex · Post by **Judgeasaurus_Rex** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:56 pm

mornincounselor wrote:Does anyone remember how many questions game 3 had? I think game had 5 and I remember game four having quite a few.

I think game 3 ended with q17?

P.S. if you quote someone who broke the rules then you broke the rules

5 questions and it ended with 18 I believe.

PatriotP74 · Post by **PatriotP74** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:56 pm

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wpdnd15 · Post by **wpdnd15** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:57 pm

Judgeasaurus_Rex · Post by **Judgeasaurus_Rex** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:57 pm

rmye87 wrote:k i deleted it.

what happens if you break the rules?

The LSAC will sue you for copyright infringement since the LSAT questions are their intellectual property!

Probably nothing if you deleted it...LOL!

Judgeasaurus_Rex · Post by **Judgeasaurus_Rex** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:57 pm

mornincounselor · Post by **mornincounselor** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:58 pm

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SirArthurDayne · Post by **SirArthurDayne** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:59 pm

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PrnicuslyProcrustean · Post by **PrnicuslyProcrustean** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:59 pm

mcleemz wrote:I had 2 LG sections. Nailed the 1st one, but the second section with cookbooks, I got hung up on the 3rd game & couldn't finish on time. I'm gathering that was the real one. My 1st test got a 167 & I predict no worse than that but likely will not pick up the 3-5 points I was hoping for if that LG section was real. Everything else went really well though, which is a shame

First time poster here and I'm feeling similarly. Also got a 167 last go around (PTs before averaged mid-170s) and bombed game 3 too but managed to breeze through game four before coming back to at least narrow the 3-4 I had to guess on that one.

I felt OK about it other than screwing up game 3 and getting rushed on the negative evidence RC. But seeing how many people have posted about how easy it was and predicting an 8 point curve is making me start to panic.