The Official February 2015 Study Group Forum

[Rigo]

[GreenTee]

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[Rigo]

[PeanutsNJam]

Just did a question from PT1...I had NO idea that pit bulls aren't a dog breed. So now I've spent a solid half hour reading about pit bulls. Anyway someone was talking about not taking a Brooklyn College should I take at Pace or Eleanor Roosevelt???

Sfogs had a terrible experience at Brooklyn, so I'd avoid it. It couldn't hurt to visit first, both to plot your route and scope out the testing room. Then go for whichever one floats your boat.

[Smallville]

Tbh, jgoody, you partake in a lot of random convos too.
I don't have a problem with you though (shockingly).

refer back to my old post (or maybe it was one I wrote and didnt post) I agree it shouldnt be strictly for studying and some side shitpoasting is okay (was fine with weather convo) its speed at posts come in partly, impossible to keep up while being semi-productive and then theres the stangers, people who dont know yall think they have a good thing going and a bunch of random poasters pop in and blow the place up (obvi speculative since I have been around a bit)
nor do I have a problem with you anymore

[Rigo]

[Smallville]

I think all these seasoned poasters should just PW... I think it would put every1 at ease

[Rigo]

[JackelJ]

So for those of you who are retaking in June instead of February, what made you decide to wait until June? Or I guess for those not waiting, what made you decide to not wait and take in February? I'm around the upper 160's now and I'm not sure if I should drop everything and study for the next month (hopefully hit 170) or if I should just suck it up and postpone (and hopefully get 173+). Curious as to pros/cons you guys came up with. (99th percentilers are also welcome to answer)

How long have you been studying? It's tough to pass from the upper 160s to lower 170s, but it happens very suddenly, like it just clicks. Once I started scoring in the 170s, I never dipped below 171. I think I had studied from June to the beginning of September before that happened. (FYI, diagnostic was 164).

This happened after I had started re-reading the Trainer, BRing PTs, and drilling Cambridge packets by question type. (Before then, I drilled whole sections and was very lax about reviewing incorrect answers on PTs.

I ended up getting a 167 in September, which was infuriating. I would say that you really need to take your PT average and subtract at least five points, and expect that score. That actually seems to be about the average for all of us who underperformed in September.

I've been studying since around June also
Pretty low diagnostic (152 - they don't teach engineers much logic haha). I took a BP course over the summer and improved to 160 pretty quickly but then I plateaued around 162 for awhile. I studied as much as I could while working full time. I was drilling a ton and burning through PTs by the end of August and early September (rather stupidly since I didn't know about BR or good ways of reviewing questions I got wrong) I was going to take the test in September but after discovering TLS and much better study methods I decided to postpone to February. Had a very challenging fall term and did not get to study as much as I planned to. Went up to 165 plus or minus a couple points in the beginning of December after very lax drilling the previous 3 months. Then went on a 3 week roadtrip and did drilling in my downtime. Maybe 2 hours a day. And now I'm in the upper 160s.

I do have to admit that I have not been studying as much or as hard as I should have been or planned to. I expect much easier winter and spring terms for UG. I am willing to put more studying in, but June seems so far away after studying for this long and I'm worried about losing motivation. Sorry about the novel haha

[PeanutsNJam]

We should all just hug it out. I don't want to have to make ALL the T14 c/o 2019 applicant threads, after all.
I'll be busy enough with median thread, Harvard, Penn, and Cornell.

I'm sure you'll get a xylo and a grey come Sept

[PeanutsNJam]

So for those of you who are retaking in June instead of February, what made you decide to wait until June? Or I guess for those not waiting, what made you decide to not wait and take in February? I'm around the upper 160's now and I'm not sure if I should drop everything and study for the next month (hopefully hit 170) or if I should just suck it up and postpone (and hopefully get 173+). Curious as to pros/cons you guys came up with. (99th percentilers are also welcome to answer)

How long have you been studying? It's tough to pass from the upper 160s to lower 170s, but it happens very suddenly, like it just clicks. Once I started scoring in the 170s, I never dipped below 171. I think I had studied from June to the beginning of September before that happened. (FYI, diagnostic was 164).

This happened after I had started re-reading the Trainer, BRing PTs, and drilling Cambridge packets by question type. (Before then, I drilled whole sections and was very lax about reviewing incorrect answers on PTs.

I ended up getting a 167 in September, which was infuriating. I would say that you really need to take your PT average and subtract at least five points, and expect that score. That actually seems to be about the average for all of us who underperformed in September.

I've been studying since around June also
Pretty low diagnostic (152 - they don't teach engineers much logic haha). I took a BP course over the summer and improved to 160 pretty quickly but then I plateaued around 162 for awhile. I studied as much as I could while working full time. I was drilling a ton and burning through PTs by the end of August and early September (rather stupidly since I didn't know about BR or good ways of reviewing questions I got wrong) I was going to take the test in September but after discovering TLS and much better study methods I decided to postpone to February. Had a very challenging fall term and did not get to study as much as I planned to. Went up to 165 plus or minus a couple points in the beginning of December after very lax drilling the previous 3 months. Then went on a 3 week roadtrip and did drilling in my downtime. Maybe 2 hours a day. And now I'm in the upper 160s.

I do have to admit that I have not been studying as much or as hard as I should have been or planned to. I expect much easier winter and spring terms for UG. I am willing to put more studying in, but June seems so far away after studying for this long and I'm worried about losing motivation. Sorry about the novel haha

What is your thought process during review for each section? Review is where your score increases. It's where you learn, so it's the most important part.

[nlee10]

What is your though process during review for each section? Review is where your score increases. It's where you learn, so it's the most important part.

+1

[Rigo]

[Smallville]

I think all these seasoned poasters should just PW... I think it would put every1 at ease

But we both have a self-tar.

obvi talking about the people that not every1 is used to (pnj,schmelling, grey, sfog...)

[Gray]

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[NL2424]

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[Shakawkaw]

Just did a question from PT1...I had NO idea that pit bulls aren't a dog breed. So now I've spent a solid half hour reading about pit bulls. Anyway someone was talking about not taking a Brooklyn College should I take at Pace or Eleanor Roosevelt???

Sfogs had a terrible experience at Brooklyn, so I'd avoid it. It couldn't hurt to visit first, both to plot your route and scope out the testing room. Then go for whichever one floats your boat.

Regrettably, I took it there twice now.

[Rigo]

[Smallville]

I think all these seasoned poasters should just PW... I think it would put every1 at ease

But we both have a self-tar.

obvi talking about the people that not every1 is used to (pnj,schmelling, grey, sfog...)

lol what a thread killer.

almost excluded you from it but didnt wanna leave ya out

[Rigo]

[Gray]

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[Smallville]

Just finished BR and scoring. Went 169 / 170 BR. My first LR section was shit, -5. I haven't gone that low in about two weeks. Which is disheartening. Oh whale. I used the strategy of doing the RC passage with more questions first and it totally screwed me over because it took me way too much time to figure it out. Since my score went down from yesterday I'm retaking my vow that if I do more than 3 sections one day I'm resting the next day. I know some people think that this will lead to me not studying intensely enough but I just can't. I'd rather do a full PT every other day, or break it up over 2 days then suffer through having a lower score the second day. If I don't want to take a PT the Friday before I don't have to, so there's no reason for me to condition myself to be able to take a full PT two days in a row.

yeah I have tried that b4 (RC w/ more q's) and didnt work for me and felt weird, I prefer to just tackle things as they come

[PeanutsNJam]

Just finished BR and scoring. Went 169 / 170 BR. My first LR section was shit, -5. I haven't gone that low in about two weeks. Which is disheartening. Oh whale. I used the strategy of doing the RC passage with more questions first and it totally screwed me over because it took me way too much time to figure it out. Since my score went down from yesterday I'm retaking my vow that if I do more than 3 sections one day I'm resting the next day. I know some people think that this will lead to me not studying intensely enough but I just can't. I'd rather do a full PT every other day, or break it up over 2 days then suffer through having a lower score the second day. If I don't want to take a PT the Friday before I don't have to, so there's no reason for me to condition myself to be able to take a full PT two days in a row.

Try this. After a PT day, take the exact same PT again the next day. If you don't 180, you know:

a.) your PT review was lackluster
b.) your repeat-mistakes are your absolute problems, fix those

[Rigo]

[nlee10]

almost excluded you from it but didnt wanna leave ya out

Anyone who hasn't seen me PW hasn't been lurking hard enough.

I must be a hard working lurker then.