The Official December 2015 Study Group Forum

lawstudent47 · Post by **lawstudent47** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 10:02 pm

gamerish wrote:Anybody wanna critique the first draft of my PS? I'd like as many eyes on it as possible and I'd rather not submit it in the PS section since it could out my name. Please be ruthless.

I'm willing to read!

bnssweeney · Post by **bnssweeney** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 10:16 pm

Any third-time takers out there? How are you keeping yourselves motivated?

Between my regular classes and working on apps I'm finding it difficult to balance LSAT in there. I guess I could hold off on the apps a little bit considering I'm retaking, but I just want everything done. I think I'm doing too much at once.

Phoenix97 · Post by **Phoenix97** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 10:17 pm

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nerdylsat · Post by **nerdylsat** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 10:23 pm

Just took PT 65.

165/BR 177

LR1 -3/BR -0 (Literally should've gone -1 but I did 2 stupid mistakes in the first 15)
LG -6/ BR-0 (Stopped drilling LG about a month ago to switch for LR and it paid off but now I gotta get back at it.)
RC -6/BR -3 (Usual RC ownage)
LR2 -4/- BR-1 (Got 3 wrong in the first 15 because I'm an idiot.)

Total
-19/BR-4

If I would've gone -1/-0 on LG I would've gotten a 170 so I definitely need to start drilling packets like mad again.

Phoenix97 · Post by **Phoenix97** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 10:24 pm

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Phoenix97 · Post by **Phoenix97** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 10:26 pm

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gamerish · Post by **gamerish** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 10:33 pm

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gamerish · Post by **gamerish** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 10:35 pm

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slizerd · Post by **slizerd** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 10:37 pm

Phoenix97 wrote:Just just pure drilling significantly help anyone? Because sometimes when I drill packets I feel like I'm just answering questions but not absorbing very much.

I have literally never drilled 0_o It completely depends on the person's style of learning, but for me drilling would be like only running crazy fast, short sprints when I should be training for a marathon.
For those of you who do drill and find that it works for you, what all do you get out of it?

edit: it seems gamerish has already answered this haha

somethingElse · Post by **somethingElse** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 10:39 pm

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Phoenix97 · Post by **Phoenix97** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 10:52 pm

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Mint-Berry_Crunch · Post by **Mint-Berry_Crunch** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 10:56 pm

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gamerish · Post by **gamerish** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 11:03 pm

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Phoenix97 · Post by **Phoenix97** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 11:12 pm

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mintme · Post by **mintme** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 11:38 pm

Some LG sections I'm going -1, others -10. Seriously

slizerd · Post by **slizerd** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 11:44 pm

mintme wrote:Some LG sections I'm going -1, others -10. Seriously

This directly depends on my level of tiredness. Seriously gonna try to get 10 hours of sleep the night before the LSAT

flash21 · Post by **flash21** » Tue Nov 10, 2015 12:23 am

Not sure what to do about logic games. I'm probably just going to run through cambridge again, I feel like LG is the section I am most likely to utterly bomb.

roshan07 · Post by **roshan07** » Tue Nov 10, 2015 12:46 am

anyone else feel like Duke will pass Virginia and Berkeley in the rankings? they jumped from 11 to 8 and I think they'll continue to climb a little higher.

Mint-Berry_Crunch · Post by **Mint-Berry_Crunch** » Tue Nov 10, 2015 1:55 am

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gamerish · Post by **gamerish** » Tue Nov 10, 2015 2:18 am

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flash21 · Post by **flash21** » Tue Nov 10, 2015 9:55 am

gamerish wrote:I was very bad at LG until I went through every game in the Cambridge bundle twice. I've done some of the packets as many as five times. You just have to keep going at it.

I'm going to just go as hard as possible drilling with games until December. I think I have this perception of them being easy from tls and since that doesn't align with how crappy I am at them I feel more discouraged than on rc or lr

pterodactyls · Post by **pterodactyls** » Tue Nov 10, 2015 10:02 am

flash21 wrote:
gamerish wrote:I was very bad at LG until I went through every game in the Cambridge bundle twice. I've done some of the packets as many as five times. You just have to keep going at it.
I'm going to just go as hard as possible drilling with games until December. I think I have this perception of them being easy from tls and since that doesn't align with how crappy I am at them I feel more discouraged than on rc or lr

My method is I made copies of all of the one-page games (up to PT ~65?), and I shuffle them like cards and pick a few out to drill. I time myself for each one and any game that takes me longer than 10 minutes to complete I watch the 7Sage explanation for it (free).

Also bought an old copy of Master the LSAT because apparently it has a good section on doing hypotheticals for games. Only going to use it for that section, but the book was like $4 used. I'll let you know if it's any good.

ltowns1 · Post by **ltowns1** » Tue Nov 10, 2015 10:55 am

Man I hate myself right now lol. I did preptest 61, and game 2 should have been easy. I knew what the game was, and how to chain up the rules. I just got unsettled with the weird configuration of the relative ordering sequence. Execution seems to be my biggest hurdle right now. I have to do better with not freaking out when I don't understand something.