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

[34iplaw]

170 on preptest 65. I absolutely bombed game 4- the way I diagrammed totally contradicted how questions were worded and threw me off. Nasty surprise because I thought I'd gotten them all too. Stupid mistake. Also is it just me or is that RC section unusually difficult? I'm mostly good for -1 on RC but I went -3 on this one.

Not optimistic I'll hit my 173 goal by September, but we'll see. Trying to decide if I should abandon my LR prep entirely for LG or keep studying both.

IIRC, I didn't care for the 2nd passage and I didn't get to finish the 4th passage.

I will say that I love new questions that are repeats...another benefit of doing *a literal ton* of questions...

[+] Spoiler

PT 70 LR1 #16...
is the same question as one in the past about dreaming and earthquake surveys or something.

LR1 #20 is also a repeat answer from another question

[Instrumental]

By the way, these are my favorite pre-test tracks.

Mornin'
I Feel Good

Don't get much better

[Mikey]

How was your weekend mate?

Pretty good, thanks for asking. Lost a quite a bit of money but had a good time nonetheless. Heading home as I write this.

Shoutout to the house of cards machine for giving me $175 when I had 2 bucks left on the machine. Reminded me of sweet tort when I was on that machine lmao. Shout out to:

[Sean_33]

Did anyone else get absolutely wrecked on PT 67 RC? Passage 4 got the best of me. Ugh.

[Alexandros]

Any of y'all started practicing with the writing sample yet? I haven't even looked at it.

Had a good workout and gonna chill-out and BR 75 this evening. I think part of what threw me off on RC was forgetting to reset my watch, and the 20 or so seconds I lost at the beginning from that set me off my game.

[proteinshake]

Any of y'all started practicing with the writing sample yet? I haven't even looked at it.

Had a good workout and gonna chill-out and BR 75 this evening. I think part of what threw me off on RC was forgetting to reset my timer, and the 20 or so seconds I lost at the beginning from that set me off my game.

nooooooo do not spend any time on it!!!! it does not matter one bit. just don't leave it blank.

[Mikey]

Any of y'all started practicing with the writing sample yet? I haven't even looked at it.

There's really no need bro. I feel like a kid in elementary school can walk into the LSAT and do well on the writing sample.

I mean you can look at 1 sample of you want. I did that the day before June's test and didn't even finish doing it lmao

[Alexandros]

Any of y'all started practicing with the writing sample yet? I haven't even looked at it.

There's really no need bro. I feel like a kid in elementary school can walk into the LSAT and do well on the writing sample.

I mean you can look at 1 sample of you want. I did that the day before June's test and didn't even finish doing it lmao

Thanks!! Kk good to know. I'll probably look at it a bit just to minimize unknowns and stuff.

[34iplaw]

Any of y'all started practicing with the writing sample yet? I haven't even looked at it.

There's really no need bro. I feel like a kid in elementary school can walk into the LSAT and do well on the writing sample.

I mean you can look at 1 sample of you want. I did that the day before June's test and didn't even finish doing it lmao

Thanks!! Kk good to know. I'll probably look at it a bit just to minimize unknowns and stuff.

I think it's best to just read a few to get an idea of what they ask. I don't think there's any great need to actually flesh many out. It may make sense to do one or two, just so you actually finish it.

BR summary so far...

LG; -2 -> -0
LR1; -1 -> -0
LR2; -9 -> -3

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I did like five of the essays at the beginning of my studies and after that I was like... this is a waste of my time. I can crank out a good writing sample with ample time to spare.

[proteinshake]

how to do well on the writing sample: have words on paper

[Mikey]

I did like five of the essays at the beginning of my studies and after that I was like... this is a waste of my time. I can crank out a good writing sample with ample time to spare.

Lol so true. everyone I took it with finished in like 10-15 mins

[Alexandros]

I get irrationally annoyed by poorly argued RC passages.

[34iplaw]

Just finished BRing Oct 2013 (not the exp section though which I am going to go over since I recalled that one being kind of iffy with a lot of questions)...

Initial ; BR
RC: -5 ; - 3
LR1: -1; -0
LR2: -9; -3
LG: -2; -0

Total Lost: -17 ; -6
Raw: 84; 95
Conv: 166; 175

One of the RC I totally get why I got wrong...missed one word in the correct answer choice ['antibacterial' ugh]... another one I picked wrong between two choices...'special magic'... and one I don't get. I'll have to go over it.
I didn't get to like 5 in the second LR section, none of which I guessed correctly. I solved them all fairly quickly. Seems like I wasted too much time on uncertain questions. It was also a trickier section I think...not eight point discrepancy trickier though.
LG one question I missed was actually fairly challenging. The other was dumb.

[34iplaw]

I get irrationally annoyed by poorly argued RC passages.

Honestly, I think the LR I struggle the most with are the *super bad arguments* where I, honestly, can't even really follow it.

[Alexandros]

Just finished BRing Oct 2013 (not the exp section though which I am going to go over since I recalled that one being kind of iffy with a lot of questions)...

Initial ; BR
RC: -5 ; - 3
LR1: -1; -0
LR2: -9; -3
LG: -2; -0

Total Lost: -17 ; -6
Raw: 84; 95
Conv: 166; 175

One of the RC I totally get why I got wrong...missed one word in the correct answer choice ['antibacterial' ugh]... another one I picked wrong between two choices...'special magic'... and one I don't get. I'll have to go over it.
I didn't get to like 5 in the second LR section, none of which I guessed correctly. I solved them all fairly quickly. Seems like I wasted too much time on uncertain questions. It was also a trickier section I think...not eight point discrepancy trickier though.
LG one question I missed was actually fairly challenging. The other was dumb.

Stellar BR! Congrats!

And, shoot, that second LR section must have been brutal. D:

[Mikey]

When I was in AC I had pizza last night. It made me realize how grateful I should be that I get to have NY pizza. It's not that it was bad pizza in jersey, it's just not NY good

[proteinshake]

When I was in AC I had pizza last night. It made me realize how grateful I should be that I get to have NY pizza. It's not that it was bad pizza in jersey, it's just not NY good

I am CRAVING pizza rn

[Alexandros]

Finished BR on LR 1 and RC. Will have to do LR 2 tomorrow.
RC really wasn't that hard. Must've been nerves or something idk.
(also if anyone wants a beautifully chill LG set, hit up PT 75.)'

anyways did someone say pizza.

[34iplaw]

Just finished BRing Oct 2013 (not the exp section though which I am going to go over since I recalled that one being kind of iffy with a lot of questions)...

Initial ; BR
RC: -5 ; - 3
LR1: -1; -0
LR2: -9; -3
LG: -2; -0

Total Lost: -17 ; -6
Raw: 84; 95
Conv: 166; 175

One of the RC I totally get why I got wrong...missed one word in the correct answer choice ['antibacterial' ugh]... another one I picked wrong between two choices...'special magic'... and one I don't get. I'll have to go over it.
I didn't get to like 5 in the second LR section, none of which I guessed correctly. I solved them all fairly quickly. Seems like I wasted too much time on uncertain questions. It was also a trickier section I think...not eight point discrepancy trickier though.
LG one question I missed was actually fairly challenging. The other was dumb.

Stellar BR! Congrats!

And, shoot, that second LR section must have been brutal. D:

TBH - it wasn't that bad. I just didn't keep to the mantra of, if I'm debating between two answers for more than a minute just pick the one that feels right and, if I have time, come back. Generally, my gut is right. I was actually worried about the first LR, as I took it *extremely* passively. At this point, I've scored independent sections to get high 170s while in a 5 section prep test... I think I'm approaching the point where I just really need to focus on doing more timed sections...

The LG was a great experience though in a lesson in never giving up. I blazed through the first game, and, for some reason, the 2nd and 3rd games just did not click... like at all... I did the first question or two in each and just moved on (the first list didn't even click at first). I skipped to the fourth, finished it, came back to the 2nd and 3rd (which I had diagrammed) and managed to finish with 3 or so minutes to spare. I'm really hoping for a rule substitution question on our test. I find them really intuitive/easy for some reason...I rarely diagram those even. The RC and RC exp. section were a bit of a confidence restorer.

[Pozzo]

PT 66

RC: -3
LR: -1
LG: -2
LR: -3

Raw: 91
Scaled: 171

Pretty unforgiving curve on this one. Going to revisit some fundamentals this week to cut down on these sloppy errors and drill RC. Those -3s are killing me. Plus side, though, score's up from last week. Slow and steady, y'all. We'll get there.

[Mikey]

welp, i'm back home from AC. sad af now that i'm back to reality and have no more money and need to get back to studying for the LSAT. rip.

[Rupert Pupkin]

When I was in AC I had pizza last night. It made me realize how grateful I should be that I get to have NY pizza. It's not that it was bad pizza in jersey, it's just not NY good

I am CRAVING pizza rn

Now im distracted...and gonna blow my gym progress

[vodkagoesbadwhenopen]

Took PT 58 today after a 3 week long hiatus from the LSAT.

PT58

LR1: -2
RC: -4
LG: -1
LR2: -1

Raw: 93
Scaled: 172

Pretty happy with the score, all things considered. Clearly rusty on RC after the hiatus though. I also don't know how to not miss 1 on LG for a dumb reason. I rarely ever run out of time on LG but I can't seem to figure out which questions to go back to to make sure I'm not making careless mistakes.

[appind]

anyone take 74 yet?

74 LR2 has a bunch of weird (and tough) LR questions together in one section, which i thought could make it one of the most difficult 70s lr sections.