The Official February 2015 Study Group Forum

[peppermint]

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[nlee10]

You febbers better be drilling. Your uploads expire at midnight and turn into pumpkins.

Shaq, I be drilling like there's no tomorrow.

[jrdavila09]

All this food talk is making me really hungry someone feed me! All I had to eat today was some chia pudding for breakfast. I think I'll make some rosemary chicken for dinner, yummy

yesss. another chicken lover.

I love chicken as well but I'm heading to Ruth Chris steak house in a few. Getting the 26 oz bone in rib eye today. Well deserved after yesterday's hell!

What, no chicken fried steak?! What kind of Texan are you

The kind that doesn't want to kill his arteries to much. Lol.

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[jrdavila09]

The kind that doesn't want to kill his arteries to much. Lol.

True if I get a 180, I'm hopping straight onto a plane to fly to TX to eat some good chicken fried streak. I've been so deprived, ppl up North give me weird looks when I talk about CFS & gravy. Gravy's like ketchup to us TXNs

Oh! Your right. My grandfather eats gravy every morning. My cousin Jimmy from Chicago does to. He says all his friends who are all Italian eat gravy to.

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[nlee10]

Just had to take a lunch break. Got too hungry.

[20170322]

So, a little under a week ago I took my first diagnostic and got a 159. After working through the Logic Games Bible and most of Manhattan LR, I took Practice Test 39 under timed conditions in a noisy library. My scores were:

LG: -10
LR: -5
RC: -6
LR2: -2

Raw: 78
Scaled: 164

Is this good improvement? Should I be a little worried I got worse in RC and stayed roughly the same in LR? I employed a different strategy for RC and it messed up my timing.

[nlee10]

So, a little under a week ago I took my first diagnostic and got a 159. After working through the Logic Games Bible and most of Manhattan LR, I took Practice Test 39 under timed conditions in a noisy library. My scores were:

LG: -10
LR: -5
RC: -6
LR2: -2

Raw: 78
Scaled: 164

Is this good improvement? Should I be a little worried I got worse in RC and stayed roughly the same in LR? I employed a different strategy for RC and it messed up my timing.

You're fine. RC can be inconsistent. LG takes a little bit to get used to. but a 5 point improvement in a week is really good.

[DivineJustice]

More than likely checking in. I don't even know if a retake is worth it considering my weak section is RC and that seems impossible to improve no matter how hard I tried. My scores ranged from -3 to -10 in prep and I didn't feel on the better side of that range yesterday

Many people on here have trouble with RC, including me. And many people have also been able to improve it. What have you done so far to practice RC?

I've done almost all of the most recent RC's. I try to read complex articles time to time. I think if I just isolate RC this month and just solely work on that, then a month to review LG/LR will be plenty and sufficient. The problem is that I think for me to improve RC expands beyond any LSAT-specific passages/questions. I almost felt like I didn't have a full grasp of any of the passages yesterday.

I highly recommend the PT 1-38 Cambridge packets for RC. Although these are older PT's, it's really good practicing for timing and just doing dense passages.

I did a bunch of those, but for the sheer fact that I was scoring between -0 and -6 on them didn't give me the insight that these were reliable. It's just pretty much 60+ which absolutely get me. It's not the passages that I can't read correctly rather it being the kind of questions you're asked on the newer tests. More convoluted answers that really make you need to have complete mastery of the passage and all opinions. Any tips to improve techniques on that? I will most likely sit for the February test because LG/LR is still fresh in my head so if I just spend a good month improving this, then a few weeks brushing up on LR/LG will suffice.

[Smallville]

I despise this test... Just saying

[ms9]

Please tell your tutor to call me. I'm not kidding, I would like to get a call from some stranger who says "hi, I am WorldsCollide's tutor and I stand by my statement that "the numbers are going back up" so I can explain malpractice to him. Thank you!

Spivey, your tar! it's awesome

I hate it.

[nlee10]

I despise this test... Just saying

Which PT?

[peppermint]

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[JackelJ]

I highly recommend the PT 1-38 Cambridge packets for RC. Although these are older PT's, it's really good practicing for timing and just doing dense passages.

I did a bunch of those, but for the sheer fact that I was scoring between -0 and -6 on them didn't give me the insight that these were reliable. It's just pretty much 60+ which absolutely get me. It's not the passages that I can't read correctly rather it being the kind of questions you're asked on the newer tests. More convoluted answers that really make you need to have complete mastery of the passage and all opinions. Any tips to improve techniques on that? I will most likely sit for the February test because LG/LR is still fresh in my head so if I just spend a good month improving this, then a few weeks brushing up on LR/LG will suffice.

Maybe you would benefit from some untimed drilling. Re-do the passages you have already done and really try to understand the passage (structure, ways the author supports various points, if there are critics and what they think, etc.) then before you go on to the questions, try to anticipate what they might ask, like main point, the purpose of writing it, what the author thinks, what any other sides (like critics) think, and what kind of information supports the main point. Again, do this untimed. I have done this and spent 30-40 minutes on one passage just trying to understand how the structure of the passage relates to the questions and you eventually start seeing patterns. Most of the questions are also very similar to the questions they ask in LR.

[nlee10]

I highly recommend the PT 1-38 Cambridge packets for RC. Although these are older PT's, it's really good practicing for timing and just doing dense passages.

I did a bunch of those, but for the sheer fact that I was scoring between -0 and -6 on them didn't give me the insight that these were reliable. It's just pretty much 60+ which absolutely get me. It's not the passages that I can't read correctly rather it being the kind of questions you're asked on the newer tests. More convoluted answers that really make you need to have complete mastery of the passage and all opinions. Any tips to improve techniques on that? I will most likely sit for the February test because LG/LR is still fresh in my head so if I just spend a good month improving this, then a few weeks brushing up on LR/LG will suffice.

Maybe you would benefit from some untimed drilling. Re-do the passages you have already done and really try to understand the passage (structure, ways the author supports various points, if there are critics and what they think, etc.) then before you go on to the questions, try to anticipate what they might ask, like main point, the purpose of writing it, what the author thinks, what any other sides (like critics) think, and what kind of information supports the main point. Again, do this untimed. I have done this and spent 30-40 minutes on one passage just trying to understand how the structure of the passage relates to the questions and you eventually start seeing patterns. Most of the questions are also very similar to the questions they ask in LR.

I agree. I used to really suck at RC as I would range from -11 to -15. After a couple months of drilling, I've narrowed my range from -5 to -10. Of course I'd like to do better than -5 on game day.

[Porkypots]

Are any of you considering applying this cycle with the February score? I already took the test in September and December. I feel like I didn't do well yesterday and now I don't know what to do. I don't want to postpone to next cycle. But I don't now I studying two more moths will be worth it. I'm mentally exhausted. Thanks for any advice

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[I<3ScholarlySweets!]

I will also apply next cycle.

Are u still in UG peppermint? (Lol I love ur moniker)

[j907]

All this food talk is making me really hungry someone feed me! All I had to eat today was some chia pudding for breakfast. I think I'll make some rosemary chicken for dinner, yummy

yesss. another chicken lover.

Love chicken, I eat it practically everyday (esp when I did paleo). I made chicken tikka masala the other day in the crockpot, was amazinggggg

I came here for some motivation and now I find myself craving some chicken tikka masala.

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