The Official September 2016 Study Group - WAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS Forum

[34iplaw]

This speech is the scariest thing I've ever seen.

I agree. The 'I'm with you' bit is a pretty good contortion of her slogan though.

edit: second scariest...


gremlins scared the hell out of me when I was a kid

[appind]

This speech is the scariest thing I've ever seen.

I agree. The 'I'm with you' bit is a pretty good contortion of her slogan though.

the speech is def going to energize his followers. scary it looks like trump may win

[Alexandros]

So, how are y'all adjusting your prep as we move closer to the test date?

Also, for those of you with real people jobs, any advice on how to manage prep with work starting in August?

Aside from trying not to freak out, because holy shit 2 months,I'm not entirely sure to be honest. Definitely more preptests and more repetition, out of necessity. My RC and LG drilling has been consistently just 4-5 games/passages at a time, timed. Once I finish MLR, LR drilling will look fairly similar, with a bit more variation.

I hoping to be consistently -1 on the drills, and I should almost be there (knock on wood) Once I'm at that point, what's left, aside from trying to move that value to 0 as much as possible, is ensuring I have the endurance to get through full PTs with the necessary speed and accuracy, and being able to respond as well to new games, passages, questions as well as I am with ones I've seen before.

My supervisor is gone for the next few weeks and my office is almost empty right now. I'm hoping, provided I'm able to efficiently get work done, that will mean more flexible hours and being able to work from home sometimes, which should help with prep and having the time for PTs.

With work + prep - use your time as wisely and efficiently as you can, try to get things done early, and make sure to give yourself off-time occasionally or burn-out and resentment will ensue.

i work full time in a real job that can get stressful at times. the workload has lately not been much but i know it'll get heavy near aug/sept.

so i try to get some study done, may be half hour average, in the morning before work. during work i can't really do much lsat related. during evening, i try to review or blind review questions from a recent pt.

weekends i fully devote to lsat, but during the last 4 months went through a distraction that didn't allow for much focused study. i usually would take sections of one of rc, lr, or lg, whichever one i am working on at the moment, but never more than 1 pt per week.

how do you guys find time to post all day during work? you're able to study lsat at work?

My job is basically sending emails, so I tend to uh engage in other forms of social media on occasion (read: TLS, very frequently.) Actually studying, rarely if ever.

[Alexandros]

We Will Make Cooley Strong Again.

We Will Make Cooley Proud Again.

We Will Make Cooley Safe Again.

AND WE WILL MAKE COOLEY GREAT AGAIN.

GOD BLESS YOU, AND GOOD NIGHT.

[appind]

So, how are y'all adjusting your prep as we move closer to the test date?

Also, for those of you with real people jobs, any advice on how to manage prep with work starting in August?

Aside from trying not to freak out, because holy shit 2 months,I'm not entirely sure to be honest. Definitely more preptests and more repetition, out of necessity. My RC and LG drilling has been consistently just 4-5 games/passages at a time, timed. Once I finish MLR, LR drilling will look fairly similar, with a bit more variation.

I hoping to be consistently -1 on the drills, and I should almost be there (knock on wood) Once I'm at that point, what's left, aside from trying to move that value to 0 as much as possible, is ensuring I have the endurance to get through full PTs with the necessary speed and accuracy, and being able to respond as well to new games, passages, questions as well as I am with ones I've seen before.

My supervisor is gone for the next few weeks and my office is almost empty right now. I'm hoping, provided I'm able to efficiently get work done, that will mean more flexible hours and being able to work from home sometimes, which should help with prep and having the time for PTs.

With work + prep - use your time as wisely and efficiently as you can, try to get things done early, and make sure to give yourself off-time occasionally or burn-out and resentment will ensue.

i work full time in a real job that can get stressful at times. the workload has lately not been much but i know it'll get heavy near aug/sept.

so i try to get some study done, may be half hour average, in the morning before work. during work i can't really do much lsat related. during evening, i try to review or blind review questions from a recent pt.

weekends i fully devote to lsat, but during the last 4 months went through a distraction that didn't allow for much focused study. i usually would take sections of one of rc, lr, or lg, whichever one i am working on at the moment, but never more than 1 pt per week.

how do you guys find time to post all day during work? you're able to study lsat at work?

My job is basically sending emails, so I tend to uh engage in other forms of social media on occasion (read: TLS, very frequently.) Actually studying, rarely if ever.

that sounds like a good job if one's prepping for lsat. is it like an assistant at a business or something else?

what kind of job others here do?

[Alexandros]

So, how are y'all adjusting your prep as we move closer to the test date?

Also, for those of you with real people jobs, any advice on how to manage prep with work starting in August?

Aside from trying not to freak out, because holy shit 2 months,I'm not entirely sure to be honest. Definitely more preptests and more repetition, out of necessity. My RC and LG drilling has been consistently just 4-5 games/passages at a time, timed. Once I finish MLR, LR drilling will look fairly similar, with a bit more variation.

I hoping to be consistently -1 on the drills, and I should almost be there (knock on wood) Once I'm at that point, what's left, aside from trying to move that value to 0 as much as possible, is ensuring I have the endurance to get through full PTs with the necessary speed and accuracy, and being able to respond as well to new games, passages, questions as well as I am with ones I've seen before.

My supervisor is gone for the next few weeks and my office is almost empty right now. I'm hoping, provided I'm able to efficiently get work done, that will mean more flexible hours and being able to work from home sometimes, which should help with prep and having the time for PTs.

With work + prep - use your time as wisely and efficiently as you can, try to get things done early, and make sure to give yourself off-time occasionally or burn-out and resentment will ensue.

i work full time in a real job that can get stressful at times. the workload has lately not been much but i know it'll get heavy near aug/sept.

so i try to get some study done, may be half hour average, in the morning before work. during work i can't really do much lsat related. during evening, i try to review or blind review questions from a recent pt.

weekends i fully devote to lsat, but during the last 4 months went through a distraction that didn't allow for much focused study. i usually would take sections of one of rc, lr, or lg, whichever one i am working on at the moment, but never more than 1 pt per week.

how do you guys find time to post all day during work? you're able to study lsat at work?

My job is basically sending emails, so I tend to uh engage in other forms of social media on occasion (read: TLS, very frequently.) Actually studying, rarely if ever.

that sounds like a good job if one's prepping for lsat. is it like an assistant at a business or something else?

what kind of job others here do?

Yeah, def. Research assistant. Yeah, I had to do a job involving a fairly small amount of childcare (and, worse, their parents) last summer - always ended work way too exhausted to do anything else.

[ngogirl12]

Overall I had a productive day until I hit RC.

1) I drilled the hell out of those flashcards for the question type indicators and got them all down
2) Sufficient questions I got -2 out of 32 questions
3) RC--> beyond depressing

I feel so depressed now. I don't know what to do. I guess I'll review the passages and then maybe hit the Trainer for RC? The last two passages destroyed me. Maybe I'll wallow in self pity, but I feel at this stage I will be wasting precious time.

I. Just. Don't. Know. What. To. Do.

Stupid science passages!

the Trainer was a game changer for me!

This makes me feel better. I was really upset earlier. I think I'm going to hit the Trainer for RC tomorrow, and I picked up some dense books to start reading every day. Hopefully it will help!

here's this as well! https://youtu.be/Q0nHBdkK0rw

Oh wow. Thanks for this! You're awesome!!! I'm doing LG right now, but will DEFINITELY check this out tomorrow.

[ngogirl12]

So, how are y'all adjusting your prep as we move closer to the test date?

Also, for those of you with real people jobs, any advice on how to manage prep with work starting in August?

Aside from trying not to freak out, because holy shit 2 months,I'm not entirely sure to be honest. Definitely more preptests and more repetition, out of necessity. My RC and LG drilling has been consistently just 4-5 games/passages at a time, timed. Once I finish MLR, LR drilling will look fairly similar, with a bit more variation.

I hoping to be consistently -1 on the drills, and I should almost be there (knock on wood) Once I'm at that point, what's left, aside from trying to move that value to 0 as much as possible, is ensuring I have the endurance to get through full PTs with the necessary speed and accuracy, and being able to respond as well to new games, passages, questions as well as I am with ones I've seen before.

My supervisor is gone for the next few weeks and my office is almost empty right now. I'm hoping, provided I'm able to efficiently get work done, that will mean more flexible hours and being able to work from home sometimes, which should help with prep and having the time for PTs.

With work + prep - use your time as wisely and efficiently as you can, try to get things done early, and make sure to give yourself off-time occasionally or burn-out and resentment will ensue.

i work full time in a real job that can get stressful at times. the workload has lately not been much but i know it'll get heavy near aug/sept.

so i try to get some study done, may be half hour average, in the morning before work. during work i can't really do much lsat related. during evening, i try to review or blind review questions from a recent pt.

weekends i fully devote to lsat, but during the last 4 months went through a distraction that didn't allow for much focused study. i usually would take sections of one of rc, lr, or lg, whichever one i am working on at the moment, but never more than 1 pt per week.

how do you guys find time to post all day during work? you're able to study lsat at work?

My job is basically sending emails, so I tend to uh engage in other forms of social media on occasion (read: TLS, very frequently.) Actually studying, rarely if ever.

that sounds like a good job if one's prepping for lsat. is it like an assistant at a business or something else?

what kind of job others here do?

I was working as a TA to a Professor at the local community college, it wasn't too bad grading quizzes, exams, helping students understand concepts etc. I quit though a month ago to do LSAT full time because I realized a few hours every day was not cutting it for me.

[ngogirl12]

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[ngogirl12]

Sorry guys for the multiple posts, AGAIN.

But, this showed up on my phone, basically NPR fact checked Trump's speech:

http://www.npr.org/2016/07/21/486883610 ... -annotated

[appind]

i work full time in a real job that can get stressful at times. the workload has lately not been much but i know it'll get heavy near aug/sept.

so i try to get some study done, may be half hour average, in the morning before work. during work i can't really do much lsat related. during evening, i try to review or blind review questions from a recent pt.

weekends i fully devote to lsat, but during the last 4 months went through a distraction that didn't allow for much focused study. i usually would take sections of one of rc, lr, or lg, whichever one i am working on at the moment, but never more than 1 pt per week.

how do you guys find time to post all day during work? you're able to study lsat at work?

My job is basically sending emails, so I tend to uh engage in other forms of social media on occasion (read: TLS, very frequently.) Actually studying, rarely if ever.

that sounds like a good job if one's prepping for lsat. is it like an assistant at a business or something else?

what kind of job others here do?[/quote]
Yeah, def. Research assistant. Yeah, I had to do a job involving a fairly small amount of childcare (and, worse, their parents) last summer - always ended work way too exhausted to do anything else.[/quote]

Job in which you have to work with people get exhausting. RA is actually pretty good for prepping

also, paralegals probably have the job most well suited to prep for lsat

[appind]

So, how are y'all adjusting your prep as we move closer to the test date?

Also, for those of you with real people jobs, any advice on how to manage prep with work starting in August?

Aside from trying not to freak out, because holy shit 2 months,I'm not entirely sure to be honest. Definitely more preptests and more repetition, out of necessity. My RC and LG drilling has been consistently just 4-5 games/passages at a time, timed. Once I finish MLR, LR drilling will look fairly similar, with a bit more variation.

I hoping to be consistently -1 on the drills, and I should almost be there (knock on wood) Once I'm at that point, what's left, aside from trying to move that value to 0 as much as possible, is ensuring I have the endurance to get through full PTs with the necessary speed and accuracy, and being able to respond as well to new games, passages, questions as well as I am with ones I've seen before.

My supervisor is gone for the next few weeks and my office is almost empty right now. I'm hoping, provided I'm able to efficiently get work done, that will mean more flexible hours and being able to work from home sometimes, which should help with prep and having the time for PTs.

With work + prep - use your time as wisely and efficiently as you can, try to get things done early, and make sure to give yourself off-time occasionally or burn-out and resentment will ensue.

i work full time in a real job that can get stressful at times. the workload has lately not been much but i know it'll get heavy near aug/sept.

so i try to get some study done, may be half hour average, in the morning before work. during work i can't really do much lsat related. during evening, i try to review or blind review questions from a recent pt.

weekends i fully devote to lsat, but during the last 4 months went through a distraction that didn't allow for much focused study. i usually would take sections of one of rc, lr, or lg, whichever one i am working on at the moment, but never more than 1 pt per week.

how do you guys find time to post all day during work? you're able to study lsat at work?

My job is basically sending emails, so I tend to uh engage in other forms of social media on occasion (read: TLS, very frequently.) Actually studying, rarely if ever.

that sounds like a good job if one's prepping for lsat. is it like an assistant at a business or something else?

what kind of job others here do?

I was working as a TA to a Professor at the local community college, it wasn't too bad grading quizzes, exams, helping students understand concepts etc. I quit though a month ago to do LSAT full time because I realized a few hours every day was not cutting it for me.

TA work wouldn't take more than 20 hrs a week

would you have the opportunity to go back to TA after the test or like you fully quit?

[ngogirl12]

So, how are y'all adjusting your prep as we move closer to the test date?

Also, for those of you with real people jobs, any advice on how to manage prep with work starting in August?

Aside from trying not to freak out, because holy shit 2 months,I'm not entirely sure to be honest. Definitely more preptests and more repetition, out of necessity. My RC and LG drilling has been consistently just 4-5 games/passages at a time, timed. Once I finish MLR, LR drilling will look fairly similar, with a bit more variation.

I hoping to be consistently -1 on the drills, and I should almost be there (knock on wood) Once I'm at that point, what's left, aside from trying to move that value to 0 as much as possible, is ensuring I have the endurance to get through full PTs with the necessary speed and accuracy, and being able to respond as well to new games, passages, questions as well as I am with ones I've seen before.

My supervisor is gone for the next few weeks and my office is almost empty right now. I'm hoping, provided I'm able to efficiently get work done, that will mean more flexible hours and being able to work from home sometimes, which should help with prep and having the time for PTs.

With work + prep - use your time as wisely and efficiently as you can, try to get things done early, and make sure to give yourself off-time occasionally or burn-out and resentment will ensue.

i work full time in a real job that can get stressful at times. the workload has lately not been much but i know it'll get heavy near aug/sept.

so i try to get some study done, may be half hour average, in the morning before work. during work i can't really do much lsat related. during evening, i try to review or blind review questions from a recent pt.

weekends i fully devote to lsat, but during the last 4 months went through a distraction that didn't allow for much focused study. i usually would take sections of one of rc, lr, or lg, whichever one i am working on at the moment, but never more than 1 pt per week.

how do you guys find time to post all day during work? you're able to study lsat at work?

My job is basically sending emails, so I tend to uh engage in other forms of social media on occasion (read: TLS, very frequently.) Actually studying, rarely if ever.

that sounds like a good job if one's prepping for lsat. is it like an assistant at a business or something else?

what kind of job others here do?

I was working as a TA to a Professor at the local community college, it wasn't too bad grading quizzes, exams, helping students understand concepts etc. I quit though a month ago to do LSAT full time because I realized a few hours every day was not cutting it for me.

TA work wouldn't take more than 20 hrs a week

would you have the opportunity to go back to TA after the test or like you fully quit?

It was full time, and the Professor wanted me to do a lot of curriculum development. Yeah, I think I could go back, I'm actually friends with the Professor now (we don't hang out or anything), but we text a lot like you would with your friends.

[ngogirl12]

Neglecting LG was NOT a good idea. It took me 2-3 minutes longer doing these games than it normally would. Accuracy was 100%, but still I'm going to foolproof these tomorrow. I cannot afford to be slow on test day.

Gah getting all three in everyday is SO hard. Back to my plan with hitting all 3 every 2 days.

[34iplaw]

Finished making most of my spreadsheet application as well as populating it with questions that I missed from this week's homework.



[answer] shows/hides answer

other buttons cycle through question types... once it's populated with other types, I'll add a filter by question type. I was going to type the questions up anyways to make packets anyways, so this was just a way to sink a half hour.

I guess I can easily access the questions I have missed this way.

[Mikey]

Finished making most of my spreadsheet application as well as populating it with questions that I missed from this week's homework.



[answer] shows/hides answer

other buttons cycle through question types... once it's populated with other types, I'll add a filter by question type. I was going to type the questions up anyways to make packets anyways, so this was just a way to sink a half hour.

I guess I can easily access the questions I have missed this way.

Damn, the dedication is real. But that's madddddd work lol

[ngogirl12]

Finished making most of my spreadsheet application as well as populating it with questions that I missed from this week's homework.



[answer] shows/hides answer

other buttons cycle through question types... once it's populated with other types, I'll add a filter by question type. I was going to type the questions up anyways to make packets anyways, so this was just a way to sink a half hour.

I guess I can easily access the questions I have missed this way.

Impressive.

[34iplaw]

The only part that takes time is typing up the questions!...and that's still only a 2-3 minutes a question. I'll just do the ones that I missed at the end of the day which isn't too many to worry about!

I'll also have to write something to print it but that should be easy and quick.

[Alexandros]

Smart me formatted the RC passages so a passage was on one side and most of the questions on the other. (an accident, not a masochistic RC drill.)
whyyy.

I take all my PTs like this, good for the memory hehe!

Whaaaat
Granted, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but I'm finding referring back to the text is big part of performing well, and being able to do so easily is nice.

[Alexandros]

Finished making most of my spreadsheet application as well as populating it with questions that I missed from this week's homework.



[answer] shows/hides answer

other buttons cycle through question types... once it's populated with other types, I'll add a filter by question type. I was going to type the questions up anyways to make packets anyways, so this was just a way to sink a half hour.

I guess I can easily access the questions I have missed this way.

Damn, impressive. That's some skill.

[Mikey]

RC and LG today. Feeling confident about RC because of last night, let's see if I can wreck some passages again!

[Mikey]

RC and LG today. Feeling confident about RC because of last night, let's see if I can wreck some passages again!

[TexasENG]

Starting over on RC today. Got Manhattan Prep and going to town. Love that its a quarter of the bible which felt way too long.

[appind]

Smart me formatted the RC passages so a passage was on one side and most of the questions on the other. (an accident, not a masochistic RC drill.)
whyyy.

I take all my PTs like this, good for the memory hehe!

Whaaaat
Granted, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but I'm finding referring back to the text is big part of performing well, and being able to do so easily is nice.

i can see that it may help develop better memory of the passage. do you find it really useful though?

i think before the new-style LSAT was created (before 1991), the reading comprehension required people to memorize the passage, and they weren't allowed to refer back to it for questions.

[proteinshake]

Smart me formatted the RC passages so a passage was on one side and most of the questions on the other. (an accident, not a masochistic RC drill.)
whyyy.

I take all my PTs like this, good for the memory hehe!

Whaaaat
Granted, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but I'm finding referring back to the text is big part of performing well, and being able to do so easily is nice.

i can see that it may help develop better memory of the passage. do you find it really useful though?

i think before the new-style LSAT was created (before 1991), the reading comprehension required people to memorize the passage, and they weren't allowed to refer back to it for questions.

honestly I just didn't know how to fix it so I just keep printing them like that lol