The Official February 2015 Study Group Forum

msp8 · Post by **msp8** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 11:40 am

zacboro wrote:I'm going over difficult RC passages today. Been at it for about 2 hours and I've barely made it through 4 passages...

What are you doing as part of this studying?

nlee10 · Post by **nlee10** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 11:43 am

zacboro wrote:That's not bad for an ass-crack-of-dawn LR section.

Unfortunately saw maybe a third of those questions from drilling though wanted to do better.

I've got one more section to do before I'm gone for the day.

Dr. Nefario · Post by **Dr. Nefario** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 11:45 am

I really wish batman could be my real proctor. Bruce is my kind of people.

on break from 69. That may have been the easiest LG I've ever taken. But I kinda slowed on RC cause I usually have ten extra minutes but I ended up taking twenty on the first two passages by accident.

nlee10 · Post by **nlee10** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 11:48 am

RaiderRed wrote:I really wish batman could be my real proctor. Bruce is my kind of people.

on break from 69. That may have been the easiest LG I've ever taken. But I kinda slowed on RC cause I usually have ten extra minutes but I ended up taking twenty on the first two passages by accident.

Same sentiments. First two passages were def harder for me.

Really wish next week's LG will be easy.

Smallville · Post by **Smallville** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 11:53 am

nlee10 wrote:
RaiderRed wrote:I really wish batman could be my real proctor. Bruce is my kind of people.

on break from 69. That may have been the easiest LG I've ever taken. But I kinda slowed on RC cause I usually have ten extra minutes but I ended up taking twenty on the first two passages by accident.
Same sentiments. First two passages were def harder for me.

Really wish next week's LG will be easy.

me too... and RC.. and LR, both LR

nlee10 wrote:
zacboro wrote:That's not bad for an ass-crack-of-dawn LR section.
Unfortunately saw maybe a third of those questions from drilling though wanted to do better.
I've got one more section to do before I'm gone for the day.

eh you'll 180 in 6 days anyways...
got a lil, then maybe some cardio (if I can convince myself) lunch and then the Library should be ready for me

and then I can relax! (for like a hlf hr b4 more LOLSAT #whyarepeopleobsessedwithabowl #whatisfootball?)

nlee10 · Post by **nlee10** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:10 pm

Smallville wrote: eh you'll 180 in 6 days anyways...
got a lil, then maybe some cardio (if I can convince myself) lunch and then the Library should be ready for me and then I can relax! (for like a hlf hr b4 more LOLSAT #whyarepeopleobsessedwithabowl #whatisfootball?)

Stop making me feel bad for taking the rest of the day off.

NL2424 · Post by **NL2424** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:26 pm

Big Red · Post by **Big Red** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:29 pm

Good luck guys - please try to enjoy the SB tonight

Smallville · Post by **Smallville** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:30 pm

Big Red wrote:Good luck guys - please try to enjoy the SB tonight

if only I cared about football :p then maybe id strive to get stuff done and out of the way nice and early... but alas, I do not

Dr. Nefario · Post by **Dr. Nefario** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:36 pm

Well guys I feel amazing after that PT. I said when I started studying for this retest my goal for game day was 85 questions correct. I don't care about the curve at that point because I'd be happy with 85.

PT 69
LR 1 -4
LG -0
RC -7 (Went back and BRed only the last passage since I took so much time thinking I'd have extra and this brought my BR to -2)
LR 2 -5

84 correct (89 with the one passage BR)

167/170

If this happens on Gameday I'll be pumped and Life will be beautiful.

ETA: marked on BR question wrong that was right so 170 BR. Maybe eating pizza yesterday and having a cheat day leads to success?

Smallville · Post by **Smallville** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:39 pm

so cousins just left... so maybe I'll take my PT at home instead downstairs and hope they don't come back for a few hours lol

Big Red · Post by **Big Red** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:49 pm

Nice Raider! I would be absolutely stoked to go -0 on LG, can't seem to pull it off on the PTs post 68

nlee10 · Post by **nlee10** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:53 pm

24/24 on LG PT 26. And with that...off I go. Good luck studying today people!

20170322 · Post by **20170322** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:57 pm

Gah! I keep going -1 on every logic game due to some lazy oversight.

...drill baby drill...

ETA: Like, every time I go back and review it was something I missed in the question. Like, "Oh, which one of these ISN'T included..."

Dr. Nefario · Post by **Dr. Nefario** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 1:02 pm

SweetTort wrote:Gah! I keep going -1 on every logic game due to some lazy oversight.

...drill baby drill...

This is how I am usually, but today's were unnaturally easy.

NL2424 · Post by **NL2424** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 1:06 pm

nlee10 · Post by **nlee10** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 1:15 pm

zacboro wrote:Okay wait, PT 69 LR section 4 Q 9:

During the test and my BR I noticed this question was weird... I ended up picking up the right answer but I still went to the Manhattan Forums to get some sort of explanation, I was happy to see a post saying "So, I gotta be honest about something strange. I think this question is wrong. I've never written this before about an LSAT question, so I'm nervous about it, but I really really think it. ... I hate to say it, but LSAC really screwed this one up. I'd tell them, if they ever answered my calls."

I don't wanna post the whole thing but did anyone else notice how TCR for this question could be wrong??

Here's the Manhattan link if anyone wants to see the whole thing.

https://www.manhattanprep.com/lsat/foru ... t8133.html

yeah I didn't really like that question either.

JackelJ · Post by **JackelJ** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 1:21 pm

nlee10 wrote:24/24 on LG PT 26. And with that...off I go. Good luck studying today people!

Enjoy the rest of your LSAT-free day!

NL2424 · Post by **NL2424** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 1:30 pm

gamerish · Post by **gamerish** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 1:31 pm

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JackelJ · Post by **JackelJ** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 1:39 pm

gamerish wrote:Was bored so I looked at the score breakdown for LR on my diagnostic and all but two of the questions I missed were Flaw and Strengthen/Weaken. I'm not at LR in my studying yet but are those question types typically learnable? It looks like a lot of people have trouble with strengthen/weaken so I was concerned it's one of those things you either get or you don't.

totally learnable. they are also the most common types of questions that show up, so that could also be why most of the ones you missed were those types

schmelling · Post by **schmelling** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 1:43 pm

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20170322 · Post by **20170322** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 1:54 pm

schmelling wrote:
gamerish wrote:Was bored so I looked at the score breakdown for LR on my diagnostic and all but two of the questions I missed were Flaw and Strengthen/Weaken. I'm not at LR in my studying yet but are those question types typically learnable? It looks like a lot of people have trouble with strengthen/weaken so I was concerned it's one of those things you either get or you don't.
most of the question types on LR are very much related, in that they demand that you be able to recognize a flawed argument and are able to manipulate the flaw in the assigned way. I think every question type on LR is extremely learnable. it may be harder to go consistently -0 on LR than it is on LG, but you can consistently get yourself down to around 4 missed LR questions per test with focused practice.

I love how the consensus is that LG is the easiest, but I've devoted 90% of my studying to it and it's still consistently my worst section.

Dr. Nefario · Post by **Dr. Nefario** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 1:59 pm

nlee10 wrote:
zacboro wrote:Okay wait, PT 69 LR section 4 Q 9:

During the test and my BR I noticed this question was weird... I ended up picking up the right answer but I still went to the Manhattan Forums to get some sort of explanation, I was happy to see a post saying "So, I gotta be honest about something strange. I think this question is wrong. I've never written this before about an LSAT question, so I'm nervous about it, but I really really think it. ... I hate to say it, but LSAC really screwed this one up. I'd tell them, if they ever answered my calls."

I don't wanna post the whole thing but did anyone else notice how TCR for this question could be wrong??

Here's the Manhattan link if anyone wants to see the whole thing.

https://www.manhattanprep.com/lsat/foru ... t8133.html
yeah I didn't really like that question either.

Oddly TCR was the choice I circled orginally and then I changed to D. The logic as to why it may be wrong is what led me astray from my instinctive selection.