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

[34iplaw]

I want to start an iced coffee truck. Just iced coffee and syrups / flavorings.

Iced coffee is such a racket. It's unbelievable. Local deli is charging $4 for it already.

[Alexandros]

I want to start an iced coffee truck. Just iced coffee and syrups / flavorings.

Iced coffee is such a racket. It's unbelievable. Local deli is charging $4 for it already.

Do it.

(Yeah, frick, my small plain iced coffee this morning was almost $4, couldn't even believe it?)

[Alexandros]

2 LR sets down, 25 min and just under 30 min. -1 on both. (last question both times)

Now to try to get to this point on RC...

[Mikey]

I want to start an iced coffee truck. Just iced coffee and syrups / flavorings.

Iced coffee is such a racket. It's unbelievable. Local deli is charging $4 for it already.

I'd buy from you

[Alexandros]

-1, 25 min on an RC set. No motivation to do anything today, jfc. Hitting the gym then another RC set and some LG.

[tofuspeedstar]

Going over PT59 after BRing and going over the questions I missed. The RC section on this exam was unusually hard, so I don't feel as bad going -10 after BR. But, it is still unacceptable.

[20170322]

Tour question: would I get anything out of touring during Thanksgiving break? Like, I know classes wouldn't be in session, but would it be worth it if it's one of the few times that works for my schedule?

[34iplaw]

Tour question: would I get anything out of touring during Thanksgiving break? Like, I know classes wouldn't be in session, but would it be worth it if it's one of the few times that works for my schedule?

I mean I don't see why not if you have nothing else to do or it isn't too much of a financial burden. Granted, you're not going to get that much of a feel for a place in a day or two.

[amta]

-1, 25 min on an RC set. No motivation to do anything today, jfc. Hitting the gym then another RC set and some LG.

you must read a million words a second.

[WWhitman]

Hello everyone,

Out of curiosity, are there people getting together and studying as a group in Chicago that I can join? Or if there is anyone even from Chicago?

[Alexandros]

-1, 25 min on an RC set. No motivation to do anything today, jfc. Hitting the gym then another RC set and some LG.

you must read a million words a second.

it seems the RC secret is "read as fast as you possibly can and hope for the best." (I have no idea what's going on with me and this section rn tbh...)

[Alexandros]

Tour question: would I get anything out of touring during Thanksgiving break? Like, I know classes wouldn't be in session, but would it be worth it if it's one of the few times that works for my schedule?

I mean I don't see why not if you have nothing else to do or it isn't too much of a financial burden. Granted, you're not going to get that much of a feel for a place in a day or two.

Agreed. I guess things would be potentially closed, and no classes, but I don't see why not.

Also, totally unrelated, but - how are you doing timing for the Economist passages, SweetTort?

[20170322]

Tour question: would I get anything out of touring during Thanksgiving break? Like, I know classes wouldn't be in session, but would it be worth it if it's one of the few times that works for my schedule?

I mean I don't see why not if you have nothing else to do or it isn't too much of a financial burden. Granted, you're not going to get that much of a feel for a place in a day or two.

Agreed. I guess things would be potentially closed, and no classes, but I don't see why not.

Also, totally unrelated, but - how are you doing timing for the Economist passages, SweetTort?

I don't time anything but the recap part.

[Alexandros]

Tour question: would I get anything out of touring during Thanksgiving break? Like, I know classes wouldn't be in session, but would it be worth it if it's one of the few times that works for my schedule?

I mean I don't see why not if you have nothing else to do or it isn't too much of a financial burden. Granted, you're not going to get that much of a feel for a place in a day or two.

Agreed. I guess things would be potentially closed, and no classes, but I don't see why not.

Also, totally unrelated, but - how are you doing timing for the Economist passages, SweetTort?

I don't time anything but the recap part.

Ah, okay.

[34iplaw]

I'll do one or two RC passages tonight I think. Database of missed and/or uncertain LR questions is slowly growing. I may pop in another 5-10 tonight depending how I'm feeling as I'm a bit wiped from doing any critical thought. Thankfully, I generally have 90%+ accuracy or roughly 85% right with absolute certainty, or this would be impossible.

In the end though, I will be able to make a LR packet of absolute misery. Maybe, if I'm too wiped for LSAT prep tonight or another night, I'll write the code to print out the database to a question packet. That should be easy... I just need to find out a way to check whether something is printed out to one page or not.

[proteinshake]

didn't do anything today. I think I'm gonna take every day after a PT off. it's been keeping working for me so far and it'll prevent burnout.

[Alexandros]

PT A Game 3 is an absolute killer. Have no idea how to approach it other than brute forcing. First 3 questions are easy but the last few are hard as hell. Anyone do this game?

Going to try it later on today. Will report back.

Just finished games for PTA, so reporting back. Yeah, not the funnest game.

[+] Spoiler

I think the biggest rule here is the G/F and V/W, along with the fact that G cannot be beside R and neither F or G can be 1 or 7 (er, like, most of the rules.) imo the best approach for the brute force-ish questions / q 15, 16, and 17 is to ID the variables that stick out / have a lot of restrictions, and try those first. Also one thing I've found - that was v useful for 17 - is to be aware of variables that are equivalent in terms of the rules that apply to them. In 17 Q and S are equivalent, so if Q can't, then S can't, V and W are almost equivalent, and R is not equivalent to any of them.

Lol I went -1 on this set because I didn't realize the numbers in q 12 weren't consecutive. Stared at it afterwards for a good three minutes, totally baffled how my answer was wrong.

Welp, time to buy a bottle of cheap wine and continue binge-watching HTGAWM.

[Shemp]

Okay, I'm throwing my hat in the ring. I hope that everyone else who studied for the February 2015 test has since gone on to bigger and better things and forgotten all about me. I got a 175 then and was really pretty disappointed by it. I'm aware how douchey that seems, but my preptest results really were indicating that I was capable of scoring higher. I haven't systematically studied LSAT since then, but I do logic games pretty frequently for fun. I love tests and the LSAT is definitely my favorite one. I'm going to really try for 180 in September and possibly December also. I still haven't talked myself into law school, but if I can get a 180 then I might not be able to resist.

I see someone a couple posts above this saying that the secret to reading comp is to read as fast as possible. I don't think that's the case at all. When I read something in real life I cruise along at somewhere around 400-500 wpm, but on a reading comp passage I try to imagine either Obama, Bill Clinton, or JFK speaking the words in my head. This slows me down enough to get a much better understanding of what I'm reading. If you're on the other end of the political spectrum maybe try reading it in Reagan's voice or anyone else who has a distinctive oratory style that's easy for you to imagine. It doesn't work for me to read it in my own voice because I trained myself out of that years ago in order to read faster. In the case of reading comp, I think that taking three minutes to read and digest a passage is way better than taking a minute and a half to fly through it with poor comprehension.

[Alexandros]

Okay, I'm throwing my hat in the ring. I hope that everyone else who studied for the February 2015 test has since gone on to bigger and better things and forgotten all about me. I got a 175 then and was really pretty disappointed by it. I'm aware how douchey that seems, but my preptest results really were indicating that I was capable of scoring higher. I haven't systematically studied LSAT since then, but I do logic games pretty frequently for fun. I love tests and the LSAT is definitely my favorite one. I'm going to really try for 180 in September and possibly December also. I still haven't talked myself into law school, but if I can get a 180 then I might not be able to resist.

I see someone a couple posts above this saying that the secret to reading comp is to read as fast as possible. I don't think that's the case at all. When I read something in real life I cruise along at somewhere around 400-500 wpm, but on a reading comp passage I try to imagine either Obama, Bill Clinton, or JFK speaking the words in my head. This slows me down enough to get a much better understanding of what I'm reading. If you're on the other end of the political spectrum maybe try reading it in Reagan's voice or anyone else who has a distinctive oratory style that's easy for you to imagine. It doesn't work for me to read it in my own voice because I trained myself out of that years ago in order to read faster. In the case of reading comp, I think that taking three minutes to read and digest a passage is way better than taking a minute and a half to fly through it with poor comprehension.

Hey and welcome! Just to clarify - I was being the sarcastic about RC in the earlier post. Definitely would advise against reading as fast as possible.

[Shemp]

My apologies, I haven't read the past 188 pages of this thread and just skimmed what was on this page before posting. Clearly I need a little work on my reading comprehension skills.

[Alexandros]

My apologies, I haven't read the past 188 pages of this thread and just skimmed what was on this page before posting. Clearly I need a little work on my reading comprehension skills.

No, I wasn't clear at all! Sorry about that. Congrats on the killer score last time - Hope you get that 180 in September.

[34iplaw]

My apologies, I haven't read the past 188 pages of this thread and just skimmed what was on this page before posting. Clearly I need a little work on my reading comprehension skills.

Best of luck with the 180. I wouldn't get disheartened. Anything above a 176-177 or so has a slight hint of luck to it. You start to get penalized so heavily for a question that you could lose a point just from not reading a "the", a "only", etc.

Anywho... finished most of my macro that automatically writes my questions to a word document. About the only thing I could improve upon is finding a way to check whether the most recently typed question would break columns, and, if so, insert a column break before it so that it fits two or more questions per column when possible. If anyone knows that, hit me up...using a typetext method...it's kind of funny to watch it type really fast. If anyone decides to make a spreadsheet of questions they missed, feel free to use a variant of this to plug it to word... made some note next to where you need to modify it

[+] Spoiler

Public Sub copypasta()

'@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
'@@@@@@@@@@@@@@SETTING UP THE DOCUMENT@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
'@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

'@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@CREATING DOC AND APP@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

Dim newWord As Object
Dim newDoc As Object

Set newWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
Set newDoc = newWord.Documents.Add("C:\###############################.dotx")

'##########Set "C:\ to the location of a word template with 2 columns and narrow margins and font and all...macro should do this....

newWord.Visible = True
newWord.WindowState = 1

Set wordSelection = newWord.Selection

'@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@TEXT AND SUCH@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

With wordSelection
.Font.Bold = False
.Font.Name = "Times New Roman"
.Font.Size = 10
.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = wdAlignParagraphLeft
'.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = wdAlignParagraphJustify #####if you rather it justify to margins like a newspaper
End With

'@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
'@@@@@@@@@@FINISHED SETTING UP THE DOCUMENT@@@@@@@@@@@@@
'@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

Dim mySheet As Worksheet

Set mySheet = Sheet2

Dim myQuestions As Range
Dim myRows As Range
Dim myOffset As Integer

myOffset = 0

Set myQuestions = mySheet.Range("A3:A52")
'############this is the base row... think of each of these as being a row with all info pertaining to a question
For Each myRows In myQuestions

For myOffset = 0 To 15
'########## change 15 to the number of rows in yours....mine is higher because it has a bunch of information from LSAT and TM source...if you just did stimulus, prompt, a, b, c, d, e 15 should be = to 7 ... alternatively you should be able to just have blanks in columns A-I or delete the typetexts and set it to goto skipthecell

'skip the clrf for columns A-G and skip the cell for H-I
'testmasters homework #
If myOffset = 0 Then
wordSelection.TypeText "TM HW#"
wordSelection.TypeText myRows.Offset(0, myOffset).Text
GoTo SkipTheCLRF
End If
'testmasters question#
If myOffset = 1 Then
wordSelection.TypeText " Q#"
wordSelection.TypeText myRows.Offset(0, myOffset).Text
GoTo SkipTheCLRF
End If
'testmasters question type
If myOffset = 2 Then
wordSelection.TypeText " TYPE "
wordSelection.TypeText myRows.Offset(0, myOffset).Text
GoTo SkipTheCLRF
End If
'LSAT month
If myOffset = 3 Then
wordSelection.TypeText " ||| LSAT "
wordSelection.TypeText myRows.Offset(0, myOffset).Text
GoTo SkipTheCLRF
End If
'LSAT year
If myOffset = 4 Then
wordSelection.TypeText " "
wordSelection.TypeText myRows.Offset(0, myOffset).Text
GoTo SkipTheCLRF
End If
'LSAT LR section
If myOffset = 5 Then
wordSelection.TypeText " LR"
wordSelection.TypeText myRows.Offset(0, myOffset).Text
GoTo SkipTheCLRF
End If
'LSAT Question
If myOffset = 6 Then
wordSelection.TypeText " #"
wordSelection.TypeText myRows.Offset(0, myOffset).Text
GoTo SkipTheCLRF
End If
'selected answer
If myOffset = 7 Then GoTo SkipTheCell
'correct answer
If myOffset = 8 Then GoTo SkipTheCell

' newDoc.Content.InsertAfter vbNewLine
wordSelection.TypeText vbNewLine

SkipTheCLRF:

'stimulus
If myOffset = 9 Then
wordSelection.TypeText myRows.Offset(0, myOffset).Value
End If
'prompt
If myOffset = 10 Then
wordSelection.TypeText myRows.Offset(0, myOffset).Value
End If
'answer choice a
If myOffset = 11 Then
wordSelection.TypeText " ( A ) "
wordSelection.TypeText myRows.Offset(0, myOffset).Value
End If
'answer choice b
If myOffset = 12 Then
wordSelection.TypeText " ( B ) "
wordSelection.TypeText myRows.Offset(0, myOffset).Value
End If
'answer choice c
If myOffset = 13 Then
wordSelection.TypeText " ( C ) "
wordSelection.TypeText myRows.Offset(0, myOffset).Value
End If
'answer choice d
If myOffset = 14 Then
wordSelection.TypeText " ( D ) "
wordSelection.TypeText myRows.Offset(0, myOffset).Value
End If
'answer choice e
If myOffset = 15 Then
wordSelection.TypeText " ( E ) "
wordSelection.TypeText myRows.Offset(0, myOffset).Value
End If

SkipTheCell:

Next myOffset

wordSelection.InsertBreak Type:=1

Next

Set newWord = Nothing
Set newDoc = Nothing

End Sub

[Mikey]

L

[Barack O'Drama]

My apologies, I haven't read the past 188 pages of this thread and just skimmed what was on this page before posting. Clearly I need a little work on my reading comprehension skills.

Best of luck with the 180. I wouldn't get disheartened. Anything above a 176-177 or so has a slight hint of luck to it. You start to get penalized so heavily for a question that you could lose a point just from not reading a "the", a "only", etc.

Anywho... finished most of my macro that automatically writes my questions to a word document. About the only thing I could improve upon is finding a way to check whether the most recently typed question would break columns, and, if so, insert a column break before it so that it fits two or more questions per column when possible. If anyone knows that, hit me up...using a typetext method...it's kind of funny to watch it type really fast. If anyone decides to make a spreadsheet of questions they missed, feel free to use a variant of this to plug it to word... made some note next to where you need to modify it

[+] Spoiler

Public Sub copypasta()

'@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
'@@@@@@@@@@@@@@SETTING UP THE DOCUMENT@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
'@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

'@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@CREATING DOC AND APP@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

Dim newWord As Object
Dim newDoc As Object

Set newWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
Set newDoc = newWord.Documents.Add("C:\###############################.dotx")

'##########Set "C:\ to the location of a word template with 2 columns and narrow margins and font and all...macro should do this....

newWord.Visible = True
newWord.WindowState = 1

Set wordSelection = newWord.Selection

'@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@TEXT AND SUCH@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

With wordSelection
.Font.Bold = False
.Font.Name = "Times New Roman"
.Font.Size = 10
.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = wdAlignParagraphLeft
'.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = wdAlignParagraphJustify #####if you rather it justify to margins like a newspaper
End With

'@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
'@@@@@@@@@@FINISHED SETTING UP THE DOCUMENT@@@@@@@@@@@@@
'@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

Dim mySheet As Worksheet

Set mySheet = Sheet2

Dim myQuestions As Range
Dim myRows As Range
Dim myOffset As Integer

myOffset = 0

Set myQuestions = mySheet.Range("A3:A52")
'############this is the base row... think of each of these as being a row with all info pertaining to a question
For Each myRows In myQuestions

For myOffset = 0 To 15
'########## change 15 to the number of rows in yours....mine is higher because it has a bunch of information from LSAT and TM source...if you just did stimulus, prompt, a, b, c, d, e 15 should be = to 7 ... alternatively you should be able to just have blanks in columns A-I or delete the typetexts and set it to goto skipthecell

'skip the clrf for columns A-G and skip the cell for H-I
'testmasters homework #
If myOffset = 0 Then
wordSelection.TypeText "TM HW#"
wordSelection.TypeText myRows.Offset(0, myOffset).Text
GoTo SkipTheCLRF
End If
'testmasters question#
If myOffset = 1 Then
wordSelection.TypeText " Q#"
wordSelection.TypeText myRows.Offset(0, myOffset).Text
GoTo SkipTheCLRF
End If
'testmasters question type
If myOffset = 2 Then
wordSelection.TypeText " TYPE "
wordSelection.TypeText myRows.Offset(0, myOffset).Text
GoTo SkipTheCLRF
End If
'LSAT month
If myOffset = 3 Then
wordSelection.TypeText " ||| LSAT "
wordSelection.TypeText myRows.Offset(0, myOffset).Text
GoTo SkipTheCLRF
End If
'LSAT year
If myOffset = 4 Then
wordSelection.TypeText " "
wordSelection.TypeText myRows.Offset(0, myOffset).Text
GoTo SkipTheCLRF
End If
'LSAT LR section
If myOffset = 5 Then
wordSelection.TypeText " LR"
wordSelection.TypeText myRows.Offset(0, myOffset).Text
GoTo SkipTheCLRF
End If
'LSAT Question
If myOffset = 6 Then
wordSelection.TypeText " #"
wordSelection.TypeText myRows.Offset(0, myOffset).Text
GoTo SkipTheCLRF
End If
'selected answer
If myOffset = 7 Then GoTo SkipTheCell
'correct answer
If myOffset = 8 Then GoTo SkipTheCell

' newDoc.Content.InsertAfter vbNewLine
wordSelection.TypeText vbNewLine

SkipTheCLRF:

'stimulus
If myOffset = 9 Then
wordSelection.TypeText myRows.Offset(0, myOffset).Value
End If
'prompt
If myOffset = 10 Then
wordSelection.TypeText myRows.Offset(0, myOffset).Value
End If
'answer choice a
If myOffset = 11 Then
wordSelection.TypeText " ( A ) "
wordSelection.TypeText myRows.Offset(0, myOffset).Value
End If
'answer choice b
If myOffset = 12 Then
wordSelection.TypeText " ( B ) "
wordSelection.TypeText myRows.Offset(0, myOffset).Value
End If
'answer choice c
If myOffset = 13 Then
wordSelection.TypeText " ( C ) "
wordSelection.TypeText myRows.Offset(0, myOffset).Value
End If
'answer choice d
If myOffset = 14 Then
wordSelection.TypeText " ( D ) "
wordSelection.TypeText myRows.Offset(0, myOffset).Value
End If
'answer choice e
If myOffset = 15 Then
wordSelection.TypeText " ( E ) "
wordSelection.TypeText myRows.Offset(0, myOffset).Value
End If

SkipTheCell:

Next myOffset

wordSelection.InsertBreak Type:=1

Next

Set newWord = Nothing
Set newDoc = Nothing

End Sub

Damn you are the man! You do coding, LSAT, and are an incredible writer!

That is so awesome! Thank you so much for this

[thatlawlkid]

just scored PT 55:

Score 175

LR -0
LG -0 (experimental from PT 15)
RC -4
LR -0
LG -1

just gotta keep drilling with RC I guess!

Good stuff man! i know the feeling on those RC issues.