The Official February 2015 Study Group Forum

[Smallville]

Is everyone taking Sunday off?

nah, don't care about football and would be too tempted to drink if I wentout

[MadwomanintheAttic]

Question: I tend to go between -4 and -5 for LR sections, so btw. -9 and -10 combined. However, I did a few LR sections from early PTs (26-29) and I've been doing terribly. The minute I hit PT 30 though things went back to normal. Have any of you guys noticed this? Did something chance with LSAC from PT 30 onward. I was panicking for a minute and then just decided to stick with the more modern exams.

[nlee10]

Question: I tend to go between -4 and -5 for LR sections, so btw. -9 and -10 combined. However, I did a few LR sections from early PTs (26-29) and I've been doing terribly. The minute I hit PT 30 though things went back to normal. Have any of you guys noticed this? Did something chance with LSAC from PT 30 onward. I was panicking for a minute and then just decided to stick with the more modern exams.

I haven't really noticed what you experienced.
I know that the 2 Question per stimulus thing went away around PT 40 or so...
And LR has gotten "trickier" in the last 10 PT's or so...

[ilikebaseball]

Question: I tend to go between -4 and -5 for LR sections, so btw. -9 and -10 combined. However, I did a few LR sections from early PTs (26-29) and I've been doing terribly. The minute I hit PT 30 though things went back to normal. Have any of you guys noticed this? Did something chance with LSAC from PT 30 onward. I was panicking for a minute and then just decided to stick with the more modern exams.

We may be the same person (your username describes me perfectly). I get about the same, but I've ONLY been drilling old questions because they are more old styled. I try to challenge myself with upper level questions so it makes the regular ones look easy. Rest easy, because we have the same sentiments

[Dr. Nefario]

Not taking Sunday off. I'm gonna study my butt off now.

[brusselsprouts]

My RC scores have been varying a lotttt this week. I went -8 the other night which hasn't happened since November. I then went -1 and -0 and drilled some most difficult passages and did well on those. Got a -6 tn on a PT, which was a bummer. Did an experimental RC tn as well and went -2. Ugh.

In other news my LR is improving. I realized tn that most of my incorrect answers are on on level 2 questions... which is concerning. I feel like that tells me to review my basics asap, but I'm getting nearly all the challenging questions right? Anyone else experience this?

Anyway PT 66, 167.
RC: -6
LR1: -5
LR2: -4
LG: -0

[leslieknope]

Is everyone taking Sunday off?

I took today off, so no. tbh I don't even know how to football so it's not that great a loss. Going straight through until Thursday, then taking Friday off.

[ilikebaseball]

My RC scores have been varying a lotttt this week. I went -8 the other night which hasn't happened since November. I then went -1 and -0 and drilled some most difficult passages and did well on those. Got a -6 tn on a PT, which was a bummer. Did an experimental RC tn as well and went -2. Ugh.

In other news my LR is improving. I realized tn that most of my incorrect answers are on on level 2 questions... which is concerning. I feel like that tells me to review my basics asap, but I'm getting nearly all the challenging questions right? Anyone else experience this?

Anyway PT 66, 167.
RC: -6
LR1: -5
LR2: -4
LG: -0

lol. fuckin brutal curve

[brusselsprouts]

My RC scores have been varying a lotttt this week. I went -8 the other night which hasn't happened since November. I then went -1 and -0 and drilled some most difficult passages and did well on those. Got a -6 tn on a PT, which was a bummer. Did an experimental RC tn as well and went -2. Ugh.

In other news my LR is improving. I realized tn that most of my incorrect answers are on on level 2 questions... which is concerning. I feel like that tells me to review my basics asap, but I'm getting nearly all the challenging questions right? Anyone else experience this?

Anyway PT 66, 167.
RC: -6
LR1: -5
LR2: -4
LG: -0

lol. fuckin brutal curve

yaaaaa! I try not to think about curves too much but wtf.

[CambrianExplosives]

Is everyone taking Sunday off?

Yep. After today's test I only have 3 more PTs I can do so I'm doing them Saturday, Monday and Wednesday. Also I'm in Seattle so it would be blasphemy not to.

[Rigo]

[Shakawkaw]

Is everyone taking Sunday off?

I took today off, so no. tbh I don't even know how to football so it's not that great a loss. Going straight through until Thursday, then taking Friday off.

I don't know how to football either but I know how to food and beer.

I'm sure you're plenty experienced in catching balls, kicking balls, getting tackled, taking balls to the face, etc. Don't be modest, Rigo.

[gamerish]

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[ilikebaseball]

I encourage you all to not worry about curves and more worry about what you can control:how many you miss. Cuz at least that goal is measurable. He missed freakin 15 and got a 167. You cant control that.

BUT if we ARE speculating curves, I gotta think it'll be -12. Not based on patterns or anything, but I feel like the LSAT is shooting for precedence, as they have with a more structured, predictable exam. The past 2 have been -12, despite them probably warranting higher curves.

[Rigo]

[msp8]

My RC scores have been varying a lotttt this week. I went -8 the other night which hasn't happened since November. I then went -1 and -0 and drilled some most difficult passages and did well on those. Got a -6 tn on a PT, which was a bummer. Did an experimental RC tn as well and went -2. Ugh.

In other news my LR is improving. I realized tn that most of my incorrect answers are on on level 2 questions... which is concerning. I feel like that tells me to review my basics asap, but I'm getting nearly all the challenging questions right? Anyone else experience this?

Anyway PT 66, 167.
RC: -6
LR1: -5
LR2: -4
LG: -0

Good job on the LG. What do you mean these incorrect answers are on lvl 2 though?

[nlee10]

My RC scores have been varying a lotttt this week. I went -8 the other night which hasn't happened since November. I then went -1 and -0 and drilled some most difficult passages and did well on those. Got a -6 tn on a PT, which was a bummer. Did an experimental RC tn as well and went -2. Ugh.

In other news my LR is improving. I realized tn that most of my incorrect answers are on on level 2 questions... which is concerning. I feel like that tells me to review my basics asap, but I'm getting nearly all the challenging questions right? Anyone else experience this?

Anyway PT 66, 167.
RC: -6
LR1: -5
LR2: -4
LG: -0

Good job on the LG. What do you mean these incorrect answers are on lvl 2 though?

My guess would be the difficulty rankings off from 7Sage or some other analytic site out there?

[Sherlock1122]

PT 71 DEC 2013
Took this today, didn't include an experimental.

RC: -1
LR: -1
LR: -1
LG: -4

174


Happy with the score, but can't count on doing that well in LR and definitely not in RC on test day. Ran out of time on the last game b/c I didn't recognize I could use templates (I'm pretty bad at that). Any ideas you guys have on what tips you off you can template a challenging game? Hope all your studying is going well.

[ilikebaseball]

PT 71 DEC 2013
Took this today, didn't include an experimental.

RC: -1
LR: -1
LR: -1
LG: -4

174


Happy with the score, but can't count on doing that well in LR and definitely not in RC on test day. Ran out of time on the last game b/c I didn't recognize I could use templates (I'm pretty bad at that). Any ideas you guys have on what tips you off you can template a challenging game? Hope all your studying is going well.

The first step I even go through in any game is figuring out what type of game it is. Once you do that, the diagrams kinda make themselves

[brusselsprouts]

I encourage you all to not worry about curves and more worry about what you can control:how many you miss. Cuz at least that goal is measurable. He missed freakin 15 and got a 167. You cant control that.

Yeah I don't think that curve is crazy or anything..a question was taken out so I couldn't figure out how it added up at first. -15 is pretty average for me, so obviously that's what I'm worried about. Also I'm a girl

Congrats on the 174 Sherlock.. I have a habit of trying to do templates too often and sometimes find myself wasting time going through scenarios that are just one of many instead of one of 4 or something. I just do the usual tips trying to figure it out looking for blocks or rules that really limit one variable and go from there so I don't think I have any helpful hints

[TheProdigal]

PT 68 DEC 2012

RC: -3
LR: -2
LR: -4
LG: -6

168.

Botched timing and left four LG blank (even had 2 right. Had 15 minutes going into G4 and couldn't wrap my head around it.

LG for me is either -0/-1 or -5/-6. Odd games just seem to roll me.

[nlee10]

Botched timing and left four LG blank (even had 2 right. Had 15 minutes going into G4 and couldn't wrap my head around it.

LG for me is either -0/-1 or -5/-6. Odd games just seem to roll me.

Story of my life. That last game of PT 68 was extremely time-consuming and I ran out of time and had to guess on like 4 questions.

[msp8]

My guess would be the difficulty rankings off from 7Sage or some other analytic site out there?

Makes sense. I was wondering if there was a Cambridge packet on more recent PTs that I was unaware of.

[msp8]

PT 68 DEC 2012

RC: -3
LR: -2
LR: -4
LG: -6

168.

Botched timing and left four LG blank (even had 2 right. Had 15 minutes going into G4 and couldn't wrap my head around it.

LG for me is either -0/-1 or -5/-6. Odd games just seem to roll me.

Too bad, because other than LG that's really solid.

[m27]

PT67 donezo. Very happy about my RC score but bummed about LR. I definitely need to emphasize more LR before game day.

RC: -2
LR1: -6
LG: -0
LR2: -6

Raw: 87
167 [Rigo'd]