The Official February 2015 Study Group Forum

[ilikebaseball]

On break from PT 65.
Almost called off the PT since I didn't get to sleep much...but figured this would be good practice for testing in various conditions.

Prepare for the worst is the motto baby yolo

Seriously though. I feel like if you prepare for the worst (rough curves, 32 minute sections, rough conditions, tiredness, etc) then that's really the best way to simulate the LSAT conditions. There's just so much anxiety that you could take 300 PTs and still not have the same feeling you get when you get to a tricky question on game day.

[NL2424]

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[Dr. Nefario]

My semester starts Tuesday. I'm really hopin none of my teachers want me to get too involved with the course in the first three weeks so I can keep my LOLSAT horse blinders on w/o getting off to a bad start.

I wish this was my case. Sadly all my professors hit the ground running on day one today.

[JackelJ]

My semester starts Tuesday. I'm really hopin none of my teachers want me to get too involved with the course in the first three weeks so I can keep my LOLSAT horse blinders on w/o getting off to a bad start.

I wish this was my case. Sadly all my professors hit the ground running on day one today.

I wish this happened for me too. If it did I probably would've been okay for February

[NL2424]

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[nlee10]

I absolutely got murdered on RC PT 65...maybe that's why the curve was -14.

[ilikebaseball]

My semester starts Tuesday. I'm really hopin none of my teachers want me to get too involved with the course in the first three weeks so I can keep my LOLSAT horse blinders on w/o getting off to a bad start.

dang. They usually thrust our work on us. I already have 3 papers and a case brief due and class started yesterday. I need to transfer.

[brusselsprouts]

I'm horrible at navigating the LSAC website, so..does anyone know if it is possible to change the date you expect to enroll? Or something like that? I keep getting annoying emails tell me to apply there's still time but I don't want those yet.

[kang]

I'm horrible at navigating the LSAC website, so..does anyone know if it is possible to change the date you expect to enroll? Or something like that? I keep getting annoying emails tell me to apply there's still time but I don't want those yet.

Lol sorry I don't know how but I've been getting those and my expected enrollment is for 2016. So I doubt changing that will help you...

[Rigo]

[brusselsprouts]

I'm horrible at navigating the LSAC website, so..does anyone know if it is possible to change the date you expect to enroll? Or something like that? I keep getting annoying emails tell me to apply there's still time but I don't want those yet.

Left hand side.
Profile CRS edit CRS preferences (halfway down) edit expected enrollment year.

Eta: saw Kang's response. Hmmm....

Thanks! That was kind of easy. Why is the LSAC website so disjointed?

[kang]

So just took pt 66. I haven't BR-ed yet, but I plugged in my AC

Score: 168

RC:-4
LR: -5
LG: -1
LR: -3

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I'm pretty happy about my RC score - I think my improvement there is due to my increased ability of letting go. Just skipping those hard questions can be helpful with my overall level of anxiety as I the time ticks on...

I didn't include a warmup section today and so I've decided to blame that for my rather low LR score for section 2. I haven't BRed yet so, if I got more questions towards the front are incorrect I will use that as evidence for my claim.

For that freaking lg substitute question, ugh!!! I have nothing to say. I ended with about 5 minutes to spare, but decided to use that time to double check all the other answers. While I didn't change any AC, I think that was a better way to use my time.

[leslieknope]

I was planning on PTing at the library today but woke up with a cold Drilling at home instead. If I don't feel better by tomorrow I'll just force myself to slug through it- might as well know the worst case scenario.

[NL2424]

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[nlee10]

PT 65
First "modern" PT in prep for this Feb. Standing my ground on LR and LG thus far but it looks like RC needs some work....brb drilling RC for a couple days

[ilikebaseball]

How do you guys feel about mixing PT sections up? Not worrying about the curve (I'm more worried about how many questions I get wrong, not the curve), one could mix the tougher LG's from earlier with the tougher RC's from later to form a difficult PT

[NL2424]

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[m27]

Going through some game and RC sections for the rest of the night. Just did the games from PT 56 and flew through it in ~26 minutes, dropping only 1 question on the first game from a stupid mistake

Underestimating the easy games and checking over the harder two are going to be the death of me. Noted.

[Dr. Nefario]

PT 74

LR 1 (-8)/(-7)
LG (-2)/(-0)
RC (-5)/(-5)
LR 2 (-7)/(-7)
PT BR
163/165

My BR did not help at all on this test. I managed a few correct answers, but my BR gave me wrong ones too. Once again I missed a section on my second LR with four questions in a row and then I missed 3/4 a few questions later. MY LR seems to be what is holding me back the most. In addition, my PTs seem to be worsening. I'm okay with where my RC and LG are, but I am lost as to how to increase my LR score at the moment. If I could get even half the LR questions right that I'd miss, my PTs would be at or near 170. I'm just frustrated with LR at this point. Would I be better off just reading over the LR bible and focusing on it and the skills or should I actually go purchase the trainer? Or both? What do I do?

[NL2424]

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[Dr. Nefario]

Red- are you using the Manhattan forums?

I didn't take manhattan prep so no. I didn't even know about Manhattan till after my second take.

[Rigo]

[Dr. Nefario]

Red- are you using the Manhattan forums?

I didn't take manhattan prep so no. I didn't even know about Manhattan till after my second take.

The forums are free.

Will they help with general study help and material or just specific questions? At this point I'm just generally lost and confused on what I'm even doing wrong on LR.

[leslieknope]

Will they help with general study help and material or just specific questions? At this point I'm just generally lost and confused on what I'm even doing wrong on LR.

The forums are great for both imo. They walk you through the thought process behind each stimulus and why TCR is right and the the other answers are wrong, so you can get a feel for where you're going wrong in your thinking process. I find it helpful to do LR drilling by type after reviewing the relevant chapter, then using the forums to tweak my approach to each question type.

[Rigo]