The Official June 2015 Study Group Forum

[Blueprint Ben]

I've been drilling 20-30 questions after learning the methods for a particular question type for LR and 8-10 games for LG. Now that I'm nearly finished with bookwork, I'll be moving on to drilling everything in the Cambridge bundle with one PT a week to direct my focus. Then in April and May I plan on ratcheting up the PTing to 2-3 test a week, with some lighter drilling to supplement and strengthen my weaknesses.

Does this seem like a solid plan for the next 3.5 months?

Yup, that sounds like the right amount of drilling, but it depends on your needs. One thing I'd like to throw out there: I don't think you should necessarily lighten the load on drilling when you move into the PT phase. In fact, you might find that you need to increase your drilling volume to address whatever weaknesses your PTs may expose. So play it by ear. My advice would be to plan on at least staying consistent with your drilling throughout the PT phase, and adjusting the intensity as you go, depending on your level of fatigue, score averages, etc.

[RZ5646]

I expected a lot more tech and engineering people

[Shakawkaw]

I expected a lot more tech and engineering people

Not philosophy majors? Puzzling.

[TheWalkingDebt]

Us english majors holding it down.

[RZ5646]

I expected a lot more tech and engineering people

Not philosophy majors? Puzzling.

Yeah who's the other philosophy major? I expected there to be more of us as well. Polk sic people are dominating.

ETA: that was autocorrected but I'm leaving it because it's slightly amusing

[periwinkle3000]

I wonder how many of the polisci majors are double majors.

[The Abyss]

I've got my BS in Political Science.

ETA: Basically I have no good career options other than law school.

[Gluteus]

Just bought the Manhattan LR/RC books off Amazon for Kindle for $8.02 each. Already have PS LG (Physical copy).

Off to the library to spend 3 hours reading/taking notes on the Manhattan LR.

Spent 5.5 hours instead and got through 170/634 of the pages of Kindles Manhattan LR book. (27% through the book)

From the drills I've done I can tell most of my mistakes up to this point come from failing to read the answers correctly. Seems fairly easy to fix and if I manage to do so I'd be at well above 90% correct.

[betterLawyerUP]

Just bought the Manhattan LR/RC books off Amazon for Kindle for $8.02 each. Already have PS LG (Physical copy).

Off to the library to spend 3 hours reading/taking notes on the Manhattan LR.

Spent 5.5 hours instead and got through 170/634 of the pages of Kindles Manhattan LR book. (27% through the book)

From the drills I've done I can tell most of my mistakes up to this point come from failing to read the answers correctly. Seems fairly easy to fix and if I manage to do so I'd be at well above 90% correct.

dam i studied for 3 hours way earlier and been watching netflix ever since, even after I stayed home to study. Tomorrow

[RZ5646]

Remember guys, there's always October.

[thingone]

I expected a lot more tech and engineering people

Not philosophy majors? Puzzling.

Yeah who's the other philosophy major? I expected there to be more of us as well. Polk sic people are dominating.

ETA: that was autocorrected but I'm leaving it because it's slightly amusing

That would be me

[peppermint]

Woke up super early this morning & took a PT, think it went well. Gonna eat lunch now & then BR it, let's see what happens

[rksm1337]

Hi everyone! First time LSAT taker here.

My cold diagnostic was a 163, and I've cobbled together a 16 week study plan using the Trainer and the powerscore bibes. Add me to the list of folks working FT while studying!

[cheesy145]

Just took my first full length PT after studying for a few weeks...got a 168 so feeling pretty confident about my goal of 170 for the June LSAT!

[Rigo]

Just took my first full length PT after studying for a few weeks...got a 168 so feeling pretty confident about my goal of 170 for the June LSAT!

Congrats! But your goal should be 180. Don't sell yourself short or get complacent!

[RZ5646]

In my opinion studying for a 180 is a waste of time. The marginal benefit over ~175 isn't worth the time investment.

[The Abyss]

Just took my first full length PT after studying for a few weeks...got a 168 so feeling pretty confident about my goal of 170 for the June LSAT!

Congrats!

[Rigo]

In my opinion studying for a 180 is a waste of time. The marginal benefit over ~175 isn't worth the time investment.

You're missing the point. Don't be thick.

[RZ5646]

Anyone want to make a group PT schedule? Do like two per week?

[msp8]

I'd be up for it.

[RZ5646]

The hard part would be finding PTs that nobody has done yet. I want to start with the 3 Superprep tests and then start working up from PT 30 or 40, but some people have probably already done those.

But the basic idea would be that we assign 2 PTs each week and you have to complete them by a certain day. That would hopefully keep people motivated and disciplined, plus then we could discuss difficult questions with each other. There isn't much actual group studying going on in this study group so far lol.

[The Abyss]

I'd be up for a group PT schedule too. Starting with the 3 Superprep PTs works for me, as those are fresh PTs for me.

[RZ5646]

Proposal: We start a group PT schedule at a rate of 2 PTs per week. The first ones would be Superprep A and B. They are "due" next Sunday, and discussion of any specific questions should be left until after that date (no spoilers!). After those we will work our way up from PT 40 (I think Cambridge packets cover all PTs older than that). Participants don't have to post their scores or anything if they don't want to, but it would be helpful if they at least noted that they were participating to pull other people along by making them feel guilty if they don't follow through.

Thoughts?

[The Abyss]

Proposal: We start a group PT schedule at a rate of 2 PTs per week. The first ones would be Superprep A and B. They are "due" next Sunday, and discussion of any specific questions should be left until after that date (no spoilers!). After those we will work our way up from PT 40 (I think Cambridge packets cover all PTs older than that). Participants don't have to post their scores or anything if they don't want to, but it would be helpful if they at least noted that they were participating to pull other people along by making them feel guilty if they don't follow through.

Thoughts?

This works for me. That comes out to ~30 PTs before June 8th.

[The Abyss]

I've been drilling 20-30 questions after learning the methods for a particular question type for LR and 8-10 games for LG. Now that I'm nearly finished with bookwork, I'll be moving on to drilling everything in the Cambridge bundle with one PT a week to direct my focus. Then in April and May I plan on ratcheting up the PTing to 2-3 test a week, with some lighter drilling to supplement and strengthen my weaknesses.

Does this seem like a solid plan for the next 3.5 months?

Yup, that sounds like the right amount of drilling, but it depends on your needs. One thing I'd like to throw out there: I don't think you should necessarily lighten the load on drilling when you move into the PT phase. In fact, you might find that you need to increase your drilling volume to address whatever weaknesses your PTs may expose. So play it by ear. My advice would be to plan on at least staying consistent with your drilling throughout the PT phase, and adjusting the intensity as you go, depending on your level of fatigue, score averages, etc.

Thank you for the response. I'm going to do a little readjusting to my study plan now.