FEBRUARY 2015 WAITERS' CIRCUS GREY CONFIRMED!!!! Forum

[TetrisBlock]

Guys please stop quoting the comment where I'm WRONG

Napoleon never existed. He was just an experimental character in Bill and Ted. All of the other characters were real.

[sfoglia]

Okay guys, help me fill in the blanks here. If we can get in order, too, that would be great.

LG: September/October/November; North and South; Cars; ______?
RC: African-American female comic; Banking for low-income in developing countries; Universe expanding, dark matter, gravity; Law and theories on ownership
LR: Platypuses sleeping; Periwinkle sea monsters
LR: Elephants and mirrors; Bats and blabbing

[Big Red]

Also I went FULL ASPIE and didn't talk to, or really look at, anyone - also pretty sure a dude behind me was TLS due to the black tics and his general calmness.

shoulda hit him up... and yeah people by me on break were talking about how awkward it is because no1 can look at their phones so they have to just keep looking around... so true

I noticed myself feeling for my phone ~20 times...before the test started

[Iwanttolawschool]

S/O/N was just the gameboard for the 1st game. September October November. Cars was the last game?

[TetrisBlock]

A few more general thoughts:

Overall, although the test definitely seem like one of the easier ones I've taken, I don't think I did great which is really dissapointing. My bugaboo all along has been speed on LG. I had been recently still scoring in the 169-173 range on PTs, even with 3-4 wrong in games...this was usually with getting at least half way through the last game at worst.

Anyway, I really screwed myself on this one by wasting a good 4-5 minutes on game 2 or 3 knowing I made an obvious mistake somewhere but couldn't find it. Panic set in and though I EVENTUALLY realized I had misread "first" as "fifth" (or vice versa) in one of the rules, by then it was too late and I was out of time for the last game, which was of course a 7 question one. Only had time to do the easy first question and then had to guess bubble for the last 6 questions. And finally to top everything off I saw someones answer sheet as we were walking out at the end of the exam and their shortest section had no A choices filled in for the last several questions...which is of course the letter I guessed.

I know me making stupid misreading/miswriting errors like this are greatly exacerbated by fatigue/grogginess. I'm def not a morning person and if circumstances weren't what they were for me currently I definitely would've waited to take the June test so I could avoid the morning...I'm be willing to wager my scores would be consistently 3-4 points higher in the afternoon/evening.

All and all still crossing my fingers for high 160s but I'm going to need to have been damn near 100% on all the questions I felt confident about. Would take a minor miracle to break 170 which was really the goal, but I at least I don't think I did any worse than the 164 I got taking the test nearly 4 years ago sorta on a whim with little prep. Hard to compare exactly though because that 164 was artifically high...looking back at my old answer sheet it appears I blind guessed on 16 questions across the sections that counted, but somehow managed to get 6 of those right (definitely way above expected value).

High-five on reading first as fifth! I actually diagrammed 4 templates with that assumption and had to redo 2 once I realized the mistake.

[Kezaron]

Also I went FULL ASPIE and didn't talk to, or really look at, anyone - also pretty sure a dude behind me was TLS due to the black tics and his general calmness.

Lol...I did that last time and since it's against my social nature I felt like I was walking into a funeral...this time I actually talked to a few people and felt fine about it, but it was my 3RD TIME taking it, so really nothing short of a bulldozer crashing into the building probably could have made it more stressful or nerve wrecking.

I totally agree. Third time taker, first time talker.

[justabitunusual]

I heard this particular waiter's thread was gonna be full of gymbros and fitness talk so I'll get the ball rolling

starts monday... for me anyways but 180 post

I was doing a few yoga poses during the break in the bathroom...some girl walked in, it wasn't awkward at all

[adil91]

I think I fucked up the parallel reasoning question on the last LR section, I really needed to pee and I couldn't think straight

[Shemp]

There were a couple of snazzy looking older dudes at my TC who looked like they knew what they were doing. I wonder if one of them was Shemp ...?

I was at Zac's TC, room 1501.

[TheProdigal]

Finally here. Looks like I missed all the fun on figuring out the experimentals.

LR/LG/LR/LR/RC for me.

Felt easy across the board, maybe 3-4 on each section I had to come back to. Not feeling too sanguine about the curve.

[yk28]

I had 3 LRs and am trying to figure out which one was experimental...
I don't remember the question (it was one of the last questions in the section)...
but I think it asked, which one of the following resembles the flaw shown in the argument?
And one of the answer choices included, ducks can't fly because .....
I was hoping that this section was experimental.
please help!

[sfoglia]

I think I fucked up the parallel reasoning question on the last LR section, I really needed to pee and I couldn't think straight

It always seems to take FOREVER to start the test. I peed before we were checked in, but then it seems to take everyone an entire hour just to copy and sign the statement and bubble their damn names. I had to pee before we even started the first section. Ridiculous.

[luvmusl]

A few more general thoughts:

Anyway, I really screwed myself on this one by wasting a good 4-5 minutes on game 2 or 3 knowing I made an obvious mistake somewhere but couldn't find it. Panic set in and though I EVENTUALLY realized I had misread "first" as "fifth" (or vice versa) in one of the rules, by then it was too late and I was out of time for the last game, which was of course a 7 question one. Only had time to do the easy first question and then had to guess bubble for the last 6 questions.

I remember nothing about first or fifth...

Well now you're making me super paranoid, but I'm 99% sure there was a rule for one of the sequencing games that stated something had to be 1st or 4th but I read it as 4th or 5th ( or some combination of those numbers, I really don't remember the exact details...the games have completely blurred in my mind due to frustration at this point).

[justabitunusual]

I think I fucked up the parallel reasoning question on the last LR section, I really needed to pee and I couldn't think straight

Those are traditionally the questions I score the worst on, so when I was running out of time, I saw that and guessed on it and moved on. I had to pee too, but that had nothing to do with my capabilities to get that question right, so there's that

[Shemp]

that one was real, yk

[sfoglia]

Okay guys, help me fill in the blanks here. If we can get in order, too, that would be great.

LG: September/October/November; North and South; Cars; ______?
RC: African-American female comic; Banking for low-income in developing countries; Universe expanding, dark matter, gravity; Law and theories on ownership
LR: Platypuses sleeping; Periwinkle sea monsters
LR: Elephants and mirrors; Bats and blabbing

[justabitunusual]

I think I fucked up the parallel reasoning question on the last LR section, I really needed to pee and I couldn't think straight

It always seems to take FOREVER to start the test. I peed before we were checked in, but then it seems to take everyone an entire hour just to copy and sign the statement and bubble their damn names. I had to pee before we even started the first section. Ridiculous.

Me too!! I started to mildly regret my decision not to wear an adult diaper early on

[m27]

No way it's -8. I got money on -10

[WhiteHouse]

For all you neurotic kids out there. Here are the previous curves for disclosed tests of 100 questions

Test 180 170
Oct 05 -1 -10
June 06 -1 -10
Sep 06 -2 -10
Dec 06 -2 -11
June 07 -1 -8
Dec 07 -2 -11
Sep 08 -1 -9
Dec 08 -2 -11
June 12 -1 -10
Oct 12 -1 -10
June 13 -2 -11

Average: ~1.45 ~10.09

[justabitunusual]

No way it's -8. I got money on -10

I wouldn't be surprised with -7 honestly

eta: or less

[PeanutsNJam]

You should poll how many days it takes before 1/3 of the posts/page are "omg why can't scores be out yet"

[justabitunusual]

You should poll how many days it takes before 1/3 of the posts/page are "omg why can't scores be out yet"

-1

[adil91]

I think I fucked up the parallel reasoning question on the last LR section, I really needed to pee and I couldn't think straight

Those are traditionally the questions I score the worst on, so when I was running out of time, I saw that and guessed on it and moved on. I had to pee too, but that had nothing to do with my capabilities to get that question right, so there's that

The worst thing about it it is that I had 8 minutes left, plenty of time to do the question and finish, I still couldn't do it because I couldn't think straight. Oh well at least the questions after that were easy.

[luvmusl]

I had 3 LRs and am trying to figure out which one was experimental...
I don't remember the question (it was one of the last questions in the section)...
but I think it asked, which one of the following resembles the flaw shown in the argument?
And one of the answer choices included, ducks can't fly because .....
I was hoping that this section was experimental.
please help!

I had this question, but I think that was the experimental. I had 3 LR, this was near the end of the last section, but that last section was 26 questions which is apparently the experimental one.

[Smallville]

No way it's -8. I got money on -10

I'm thinking -10 too... I was right with Dec so obvi Ill be right this time