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[BrianGriffintheDog]

After seeing couple LSAT blogs, I decided to create my own. I'll be writing the October LSAT, and I am aiming for 170 or higher. I took a kaplan classroom course and did really improve much. I'm not going to bother listing my diagnostic scores because I have a feeling that people are just going to tell me my goal is unrealistic. Anyways, after the kaplan course was done, I bought all three powerscore bibles along with a logic games workbook. I've been following the 3-months study plan on http://lsatblog.blogspot.com/. Also, I'll be using the list of different types of games posted by pithypike. Until the 3rd week of September, which is when school starts for me, I will be doing nothing but studying for LSAT & going to the gym. I decided to create a blog 'cause I have a feeling that I'll be able to study more efficiently and be able to see how much work I've gotten done.

I decided to focus July on logic games, first 3.5 weeks of August on logical reasoning and starting last week of August and first week of September on reading comprehension. Starting second week of September, I'll be writing 10-20 most recent tests until the week before October LSAT.

So far, I finished basic linear, advanced linear and pure sequencing games. I think I have a almost full grasp on these types of games. I've done most if not all the questions on basic linear twice and reviewed both right and wrong answers using the kaplan explanations. Based on the number of questions I've gotten right, I seemed to have a full grasp on these types.

For some reason, I did better on advanced linear games than I did on basic linear on first try. Probably because of the repetitions I did.

Pure sequencing games weren't really much of a problem. I actually like them.


Thursday-Friday:

-finished chapters on grouping games
-First impression--> hard as hell + much harder than advanced/basic linear & pure sequencing games, especially the ones where you gotta make 7-10 inferences.

Although I was somewhat down about it, I had the similar reaction when I first came across basic linear games. And now linear games aren't so bad anymore. Hopefully, by next Thursday/Friday-ish, I'd have a better grasp on grouping games.


Saturday:
-did 3 questions on grouping-defined-fixed-balanced games
-got 1,1,2 questions wrong--only 1 of them was a serious mistake, while the other 3 were stupid mistakes
-I'll do 3-7 more questions tomorrow and review them afterward

[two0426]

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[BrianGriffintheDog]

Sunday:

-did grouping games (mix of defined fixed-balanced & overloaded)
-preptest 18 game #1--0
-preptest 15 game #4--1
-preptest 20 game #2--2 --> epic fail
-preptest 22 game #4--0

Comments:
-stop making stupid mistakes
-make further deductions
-I wish grouping games didn't existed...

Probably going to do 5-7 more games today. Hopefully, I don't make the same stupid mistakes.

[Jack Smirks]

Are you asking for comments here or just keeping an online notebook?

[BrianGriffintheDog]

Are you asking for comments here or just keeping an online notebook?

online notebook but don't mind comments/suggestions