The Official February 2015 Study Group Forum

[MagillaCutty]

Pretty sure February has it's first troll. Let the games begin!

Troll, or possibly a robot. I don't think human beings can control their emotions enough to be absolutely sure they'll do exactly as well on test day as they do in practice. Even consistent 180ers.

Also the LG question (s)he's referring to is just a matter of reading the question stem and counting on your fingers. Like, why would misreading happen on those questions but never anywhere else on the test?

I LITERALLY DO NOT KNOW.

And yeah, not sure what's up with my utter lack of test anxiety, but to add more background, I also got a 2320 SAT (and that had math-- 790 and 800 on writing). I actually scored higher on my first LSAT than I had in any practice tests.

I find the LSAT really really fun and there are virtually no consequences to my actions after my first score, so there's just not a lot of anxiety involved. And a history/political science double major gave me crazy reading speed, so timing isn't and hasn't even been a problem. Definitely very lucky.

Edit: also, most of the tutors I've spoken to also feel similarly. I guess I've only spoken with a half-dozen, but they all said they had the same performance in the test as on their practice tests.

[mist4bison]

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[MagillaCutty]

Haha I'm envisioning me dancing in a coffee shop with my knees tightly closed.

"Uh maam, we have a restroom over there...."

"IT'S OKAY I'M PRACTICING."

[mist4bison]

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[peppermint]

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[jrdavila09]

Why am I not surprised that your a germaphobe P?

[nlee10]

Haha I'm envisioning me dancing in a coffee shop with my knees tightly closed.

"Uh maam, we have a restroom over there...."

"IT'S OKAY I'M PRACTICING."

perfect. Go to like a Walmart with a super gross bathroom and chug some water. If you can't hold it, you're punished by the gross Walmart bathroom (I can't think of any other places with grosser bathrooms besides gas stations, but you wouldn't want to just hang around there...)

Eww. I'm a germaphobe & just reading this is making me cringe

Me too...I hate public bathrooms.

[peppermint]

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[peppermint]

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[mist4bison]

Eww. I'm a germaphobe & just reading this is making me cringe

Me too...I hate public bathrooms.

I refuse to go into one. If I really have to use the bathroom, I just force myself to wait till I can go home. Once when I was flying home from Europe, I held it for about 23 hours. Looking back, Idk how I did it.

Look at how much you two have in common

[peppermint]

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[jrdavila09]

I'm not a germaphobe.. I mean I workout at gym that's in a warehouse with no air conditioning, which means sweat everywhere 24/7. I used to box as a teenager in a gym that i don't even remember being cleaned while I was there. I mean my life has consisted around being around germs. lol! I used to have to wait for my grandfather at his job after school, he was a butcher, and they would let me sit and watch them gut, skin, and cut deer. So public restrooms are nothing.

[nlee10]

Me too...I hate public bathrooms.

I refuse to go into one. If I really have to use the bathroom, I just force myself to wait till I can go home. Once when I was flying home from Europe, I held it for about 23 hours. Looking back, Idk how I did it.

Look at how much you two have in common

We really are a match made in heaven TLS

TLS: The Ultimate Matchmaker.

[peppermint]

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[jrdavila09]

I'm not a germaphobe.. I mean I workout at gym that's in a warehouse with no air conditioning, which means sweat everywhere 24/7. I used to box as a teenager in a gym that i don't even remember being cleaned while I was there. I mean my life has consisted around being around germs. lol! I used to have to wait for my grandfather at his job after school, he was a butcher, and they would let me sit and watch them gut, skin, and cut deer. So public restrooms are nothing.

I've figured out your superhero identity!! Wildcat on Arrow, it all makes sense now!

LMAO! I'm also Hispanic as well. Not as skinny though. I was a chubby teenager and lost my baby fat in college and bulked up considerably. Now, I like to consider myself stocky.

[peppermint]

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[20170322]

Reviewing wrong answers is literally just me going "OOOOOOOOOH, yeah. How did I not see that?" fifty times.

[Big Red]

Reviewing wrong answers is literally just me going "OOOOOOOOOH, yeah. How did I not see that?" fifty times.

Haha sometimes I just figure I must have never read the right answer in the first place, cause it's so obvious in retrospect.

It's way worse when you can't figure out why a question is wrong, and start getting frustrated

[20170322]

Reviewing wrong answers is literally just me going "OOOOOOOOOH, yeah. How did I not see that?" fifty times.

Haha sometimes I just figure I must have never read the right answer in the first place, cause it's so obvious in retrospect.

It's way worse when you can't figure out why a question is wrong, and start getting frustrated

For a lot of these, especially LR and RC, I just didn't read the question correctly. I missed super important modifiers like "any" or "least" in the questions themselves. I guess the way to combat this is to just be super deliberate when reading questions?

[Big Red]

Reviewing wrong answers is literally just me going "OOOOOOOOOH, yeah. How did I not see that?" fifty times.

Haha sometimes I just figure I must have never read the right answer in the first place, cause it's so obvious in retrospect.

It's way worse when you can't figure out why a question is wrong, and start getting frustrated

For a lot of these, especially LR and RC, I just didn't read the question correctly. I missed super important modifiers like "any" or "least" in the questions themselves. I guess the way to combat this is to just be super deliberate when reading questions?

I'm not the person to give advice in LR right now, but I feel like on the tough questions in RC the difference between right answer and the trickiest wrong answer ends up being a subtle word that changes the scope.

[20170322]

Reviewing wrong answers is literally just me going "OOOOOOOOOH, yeah. How did I not see that?" fifty times.

Haha sometimes I just figure I must have never read the right answer in the first place, cause it's so obvious in retrospect.

It's way worse when you can't figure out why a question is wrong, and start getting frustrated

For a lot of these, especially LR and RC, I just didn't read the question correctly. I missed super important modifiers like "any" or "least" in the questions themselves. I guess the way to combat this is to just be super deliberate when reading questions?

I'm not the person to give advice in LR right now, but I feel like on the tough questions in RC the difference between right answer and the trickiest wrong answer ends up being a subtle word that changes the scope.

YES. So true. Like, things that you gloss over due to time constraints. So, I think I need to spend less time obsessing over the passage and more time carefully reading questions.

[Big Red]

It definitely depends on the person, but it doesn't matter how much time you spend in the passage if you aren't understanding the what the questions are looking for

[20170322]

It definitely depends on the person, but it doesn't matter how much time you spend in the passage if you aren't understanding the what the questions are looking for

Very true. Also, side note: 7sage makes my life 10x better.

[peppermint]

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[20170322]

It definitely depends on the person, but it doesn't matter how much time you spend in the passage if you aren't understanding the what the questions are looking for

Very true. Also, side note: 7sage makes my life 10x better.

I seriously would not have gotten this far in my LSAT prep if it wasn't for JY. He's a life saver.

It's like Khan Academy for the LSAT.