The Official June 2015 Study Group Forum

ChoboPie · Post by **ChoboPie** » Sat Dec 20, 2014 12:07 am

Jgoods wrote:
ChoboPie wrote:Hiyo!

I've only been lurking on this site, but I just registered for June and figured I'd check in. I'm working full-time and taking a non-LSAT class, but hopefully between now and June I'll be able to get in good shape. Haven't really done much in the way of prep yet, but I'm looking to start soon! Gogo, fighting~~! \o/~
classic procrastination line

T_T Didn't expect to be found out so quickly (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞

RZ5646 · Post by **RZ5646** » Sat Dec 20, 2014 1:05 am

Yeah I feel like this is crunch time for someone trying to go from the 160s to mid 170s, which probably describes many of us. I did extremely little for the last 6 months but I need to hit the books now.

Drilled the 5 linear games in the Bible today and yesterday for a total of 3 or 4 times each. I can now do each game in about the correct time (most under) and get all the questions right, though I'm sure that's partly because I've seen them so many times. I actually haven't read most of the explanations yet so I'm going to do that before bed and see if there are any tricks I missed. Then I'm going to retire these games for awhile and drill ~5 other linear games tomorrow afternoon before moving on to the advanced linear chapter tomorrow night. I feel like I've learned quite a bit already, but now I need to make sure I can remember everything and apply that knowledge to unfamiliar games.

I think doing games in a notebook instead of on the game itself slows one down quite a bit, so I might have to borrow a friend's printer or something. I really should have planned this better and printed out dozens of games in triplicate when I was still at school, but too late for that.

Cavetold · Post by **Cavetold** » Sat Dec 20, 2014 5:36 pm

Just shotgunned questions 8-14 in a PT and got them all right. Haven't done any LR in about two weeks. So in other words, read the stimulus and answer choices once only to select the correct answer. Hoping this helps me build a little confidence instead of wasting time rereading stuff. Going to try it again but 14-20...

Cavetold · Post by **Cavetold** » Sat Dec 20, 2014 5:40 pm

ChoboPie wrote:
Jgoods wrote:
ChoboPie wrote:Hiyo!

I've only been lurking on this site, but I just registered for June and figured I'd check in. I'm working full-time and taking a non-LSAT class, but hopefully between now and June I'll be able to get in good shape. Haven't really done much in the way of prep yet, but I'm looking to start soon! Gogo, fighting~~! \o/~
classic procrastination line
T_T Didn't expect to be found out so quickly (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞

Geez, already registered and an avatar after 1 post...gunner!

Stylnator · Post by **Stylnator** » Sat Dec 20, 2014 8:00 pm

Just registered the other day! I really need to buckle down now...am about to finish superprep and am going to start the trainer following Mike Kim's 16 week study schedule using PTs 29-71 while targeting my areas of weakness w/other resource books that I've bought (LG bible, and all 3 manhattan books). Has anyone invested in cambridge bundles? I want to get the $280 one but I'm worried about printing..my school unfortunately charges .10 per page

How is everyone else getting their hands on drill materials?

ChoboPie · Post by **ChoboPie** » Sat Dec 20, 2014 8:12 pm

Cavetold wrote:
ChoboPie wrote:
Jgoods wrote:
ChoboPie wrote:Hiyo!

I've only been lurking on this site, but I just registered for June and figured I'd check in. I'm working full-time and taking a non-LSAT class, but hopefully between now and June I'll be able to get in good shape. Haven't really done much in the way of prep yet, but I'm looking to start soon! Gogo, fighting~~! \o/~
classic procrastination line
T_T Didn't expect to be found out so quickly (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
Geez, already registered and an avatar after 1 post...gunner!

I wish I could say I was intense enough to have registered so early on purpose ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ... But I literally just opened registration to see what day June LSAT was gonna be on, and at that point I didn't feel like doing the steps over again later and just registered.

Also, holy shit, pls give me some of your mad guessing skills ☉_☉

gamerish · Post by **gamerish** » Sat Dec 20, 2014 8:22 pm

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ChoboPie · Post by **ChoboPie** » Sat Dec 20, 2014 8:26 pm

Stylnator wrote:Just registered the other day! I really need to buckle down now...am about to finish superprep and am going to start the trainer following Mike Kim's 16 week study schedule using PTs 29-71 while targeting my areas of weakness w/other resource books that I've bought (LG bible, and all 3 manhattan books). Has anyone invested in cambridge bundles? I want to get the $280 one but I'm worried about printing..my school unfortunately charges .10 per page

How is everyone else getting their hands on drill materials?

I ordered the 1-38 bundles for LG and LR the other day, and it looks GOOD, though it's a SHIT TON of pages to print out. I did consider buying the Kaplan mastery book (which also separates by Q type and is super duper cheap), but Cambridge seems nicer. If you're worried about printing, maybe get the $305 package, since I'm pretty sure it's pretty much the same stuff, except all physical books.

If you're still in school though, you might want to consider investing in a $50-70 laser printer and using that to print your LSAT and school stuff. Or, if you know a friend who has her own printer then maybe ask to use it and offer to pay for paper+ink?

Stylnator · Post by **Stylnator** » Sat Dec 20, 2014 8:28 pm

gamerish wrote: Once I get to drilling I'm gonna buy it. My school has free unlimited printing though so ill just print it all there.

It'd probably be cheaper to just print them yourself if you don't have access to unlimited printing. I buy some knock off ink on Amazon for like $20 lol.

Ah! You're a lucky one! Looks like I'll be investing in ink this semester

Stylnator · Post by **Stylnator** » Sat Dec 20, 2014 8:34 pm

ChoboPie wrote:
I ordered the 1-38 bundles for LG and LR the other day, and it looks GOOD, though it's a SHIT TON of pages to print out. I did consider buying the Kaplan mastery book (which also separates by Q type and is super duper cheap), but Cambridge seems nicer. If you're worried about printing, maybe get the $305 package, since I'm pretty sure it's pretty much the same stuff, except all physical books.

If you're still in school though, you might want to consider investing in a $50-70 laser printer and using that to print your LSAT and school stuff. Or, if you know a friend who has her own printer then maybe ask to use it and offer to pay for paper+ink?

The $305 is a bit on the pricey side for me, and I think there is a benefit to printing things out multiple times if I want to do a specific problem over again. Will definitely be bringing the printer up to school!

Smallville · Post by **Smallville** » Sat Dec 20, 2014 8:36 pm

RZ5646 wrote:How do you guys feel about test centers? I don't have any summer plans yet so I'm not sure what to do.

Option 1 - School City
Pro: Test center is at my own college, so I'd be more familiar with it. Also, it and the surrounding schools are fairly reputable, so maybe the test-takers would be more "serious" and less likely to cause distractions.
Con: Would either need to drive for over an hour to the location or find summer housing and a job to pay for it = stress

Option 2 - Home City
Pro: Could live with parents so food and housing would be free. No stress.
Con: Test site would be at a smaller and less reputable college.

I could find at least one job, internship, or volunteer opportunity at either location, so that isn't too important, though Option 1 demands that I get a well-paying job so I can afford to live there.

RZ5646 relates reputability with quality of testing center without justification

(could be written better but too lazy)

Stylnator wrote: How is everyone else getting their hands on drill materials?

http://www.cambridgelsat.com/problem-sets/

RZ5646 · Post by **RZ5646** » Sat Dec 20, 2014 10:49 pm

Idk what else you can go on when choosing a test site. There's this website but it doesn't have enough reviews to be useful: http://www.simugator.com/lsat-test-site-rater.php

I spent a couple hours today making poor man's Cambridge packets: I found a list of games by type online and printed out or copied the corresponding parts from my PT collection. I now have 40ish games of the linear and advanced linear type, four copies each. I also did some linear games from used PTs and went -0 and within time, so that's encouraging. Hopefully when I start drilling fresh games tomorrow I'll maintain those results.

You guys might want to look into laser printers. They usually require a larger initial investment but the cost per page is generally lower.

a_parm · Post by **a_parm** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 1:26 am

Stylnator wrote:Just registered the other day! I really need to buckle down now...am about to finish superprep and am going to start the trainer following Mike Kim's 16 week study schedule using PTs 29-71 while targeting my areas of weakness w/other resource books that I've bought (LG bible, and all 3 manhattan books). Has anyone invested in cambridge bundles? I want to get the $280 one but I'm worried about printing..my school unfortunately charges .10 per page

How is everyone else getting their hands on drill materials?

I would buy a laser printer and couple of reams of paper. I highly recommend a brother laser printer:
http://www.amazon.com/Brother-HLL2300D- ... er+printer

Once, the toner that comes with the printer finishes, you can buy generic toner(ink) for about $20 bucks from amazon which easily gets me through 2-3 reams of paper easily.

Cavetold · Post by **Cavetold** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 11:08 am

ChoboPie wrote:
Cavetold wrote:
Geez, already registered and an avatar after 1 post...gunner!
I wish I could say I was intense enough to have registered so early on purpose ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ... But I literally just opened registration to see what day June LSAT was gonna be on, and at that point I didn't feel like doing the steps over again later and just registered.

Also, holy shit, pls give me some of your mad guessing skills ☉_☉

I wasn't able to replicate the -0 because of a formal logic question in the next set. Still working on ways to budget time and I do waste probably minutes lingering on questions that i'm either going to get wrong anyways, or making myself feel better about answers I've already selected.

edit: still have technical issues /quoting properly

Flourite628 · Post by **Flourite628** » Mon Dec 22, 2014 4:36 am

RZ5646 wrote:Any thoughts on PTing regularly throughout the year? There are 70-something PTs so even if I started right now I could do one per week until test day without running out of material.

Yeah. There are a so many that it wouldn't hurt to use the earlier ones for practice. Also, June is far enough that me personally I would forget questions done in Jan/Feb by April/May.

My dream is to get through all the tests three times. Ha.

Flourite628 · Post by **Flourite628** » Mon Dec 22, 2014 4:37 am

Hazel · Post by **Hazel** » Mon Dec 22, 2014 12:55 pm

Flourite628 wrote:
RZ5646 wrote:Any thoughts on PTing regularly throughout the year? There are 70-something PTs so even if I started right now I could do one per week until test day without running out of material.
Yeah. There are a so many that it wouldn't hurt to use the earlier ones for practice. Also, June is far enough that me personally I would forget questions done in Jan/Feb by April/May.

My dream is to get through all the tests three times. Ha.

Make sure you go over the test after taking it to analyze each of the questions you got wrong and also those you guessed (even if you got the correct answer). And if you do this, I doubt you will forget the PTs you've done (in which case it'd be quite a waste of time to go through all the tests three times).

RZ5646 · Post by **RZ5646** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 1:21 am

I seem to be making good progress with LG. Of the 50ish questions I did today, I only missed one due to actually not understanding something. Unfortunately, I missed two other questions because of stupid mistakes (reading the question wrong, counting wrong and finding who must be in space 5 instead of 6). I'm also rather slow. However, I've improved a lot, and if I did a PT right now I'm confident I could tackle any linear games more or less successfully, whereas before I would have gotten only a couple questions right on each.

RZ5646 · Post by **RZ5646** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 7:16 pm

Apparently I have a problem with counting: "M must go in the last space of this 7 space game, obviously the answer is A: M must be 6th."

I've done something like that twice now.

gamerish · Post by **gamerish** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 8:49 pm

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RZ5646 · Post by **RZ5646** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 9:52 pm

That's basically my issue. I have no problem with getting the answers right, but that usually involves scribbling hypotheticals all over the page or staring at the paper and feeling stupid for several minutes, taking up way more time than I should.

gamerish · Post by **gamerish** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 11:03 pm

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RZ5646 · Post by **RZ5646** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 11:21 pm

I noticed the same thing. The guy on 7sage can skip the rest of the answers once he finds one that seems to work because he's confident that his inferences are complete and accurate. I on the other hand am always afraid that I might be missing something, so I'm tempted to try every answer choice before moving on to the next question.

RZ5646 · Post by **RZ5646** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 11:58 pm

I may have set a new record. It took me 24 minutes to do a single game.

20170322 · Post by **20170322** » Wed Dec 24, 2014 12:09 am

After some unadulterated optimism, I am re-checking in to the June test!

Just broke 170 on a PT, so I'm hoping to be PTing 175 or up by May.