How to stay motivated. 180 Forum

[ysingh8]

No really. How do I stsy motivated? Do people take any supplements or anything just to improve their focus? I have two months until the LSat and I haven't even finished my first book.

[oil]

If you can't make it through a book then maybe law school ain't for you.

[PoopNpants]

lol

[ysingh8]

If you can't make it through a book then maybe law school ain't for you.

So what you're saying is, if law school is perfect for me, then I must make it through books that force my scores higher? What if my score is naturally high, then there would be no point in me "going through the book".

Your statement is unsound.

[gamerish]

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[PrayFor170]

A decent score can save you thousands of dollars. For example, if you can raise your score from 160 to 175 by studying 300 hrs, a law school may offer you scholarship up to $60k. Just imagine someone is paying you $200 to study every hour.

[Mack.Hambleton]

A decent score can save you thousands of dollars. For example, if you can raise your score from 160 to 175 by studying 300 hrs, a law school may offer you scholarship up to $60k. Just imagine someone is paying you $200 to study every hour.

More like 150-210k

[ihenry]

If you can't make it through a book then maybe law school ain't for you.

So what you're saying is, if law school is perfect for me, then I must make it through books that force my scores higher? What if my score is naturally high, then there would be no point in me "going through the book".

Your statement is unsound.

Lol no. Its contrapositive is "if law school is for you, you must be able to make it through books". If you can score 180 cold, sure you don't have to.

[oil]

If you can't make it through a book then maybe law school ain't for you.

So what you're saying is, if law school is perfect for me, then I must make it through books that force my scores higher? What if my score is naturally high, then there would be no point in me "going through the book".

Your statement is unsound.

Yes, I am saying that. You will have to read a great deal of things you won't want to in law school. If you can't even bother to read something that directly impacts your future in a hugely significant manner then I question your ability to thrive in law school to the degree that is now necessary to obtain satisfactory employment.

FWIW, my diagnostic was >175 and I still managed to finish off some practice books. This test is just that important if you want to attend law school.

[seashell.economy]

I watch "law school" videos on YouTube before I prep. I honestly like even the stupidest of videos, as they can be quite entertaining and put me in the mood to, you know, go voluntary hide away in the corner of a library for 4 hours to take a practice standardized test.

[LitigatingLiar]

Like others have said, if you can't study and it's been two months rethink it. Yeah, studying for this test is annoying and boring, but if you want it you have to do it. Someone told me that this test is really nothing more than a how badly do you want to go to law school test. You go through study guides and you learn certain things, but ultimately you have to study enough to learn to see the patterns that LSAC uses for the questions on their test. You need to have a certain amount of discipline if you want to do this.

[sd1111]

A decent score can save you thousands of dollars. For example, if you can raise your score from 160 to 175 by studying 300 hrs, a law school may offer you scholarship up to $60k. Just imagine someone is paying you $200 to study every hour.

its so damnn true! I am motivated and activated！Thanks. By the way, thanks for your former posts regarding improving RC.

[sd1111]

Generally speaking, to go to the gym is a good way to refresh us everyday. When I work out, I normally think something casual and focus on my body, gving me time to get away from the tedious LSAT pratice. Later than, the hormes stimulated by the activities, which makes me energetic also helps me alot.
Another method regarding staying motivated at RCis treat the RC not a test portion but a way through which we can learn things. For example, after I finished my RC regrading a Jazz musician or a passage regarding how a femal black writer's work has been influencing the academy, I listened the song written by the Jazz musician or read the book written by the female blak writer. This way not only makes me be familiar with the big background of the passages but also makes me feel funny. All in all, just make the RC passages a very briefly introduction of an aspect of some subjects, then wiki or read relevant books regarding the subject. This way can increase the familarity for the RC topics and practice our reading skills.

Hope that helps.

[MrHan]

Honestly you have to think about it in the long run. What you got and did during your undergrad is already done. OVER. End of discussion. No point of regretting or "oh I should've done (X,Y,Z)." Just don't let your past actions stop you from doing what you can do to improve on YOUR FUTURE.

Anyways getting back to the point. The LSAT really weighs into your admission process. For example, if you have a high GPA but a shit LSAT score then your chances of getting into a T14 law school is looking....well, okay I guess? But the better you do, then obviously the better your chances of getting into that dream school AND getting a fat scholarship (because God knows law school isn't expensive enough.......).

Next, it's the quality of education that you receive from the school that you attend which is heavily determined by your LSAT. My friend attends Georgetown Law without even taking the LSAT (I know, I'm fucking pissed about it but good for him) and he told me that it's the professors that really mold the ranking of the school. Better and prestigious lawyers obviously teach at more prestigious schools. So that's that.

Lastly, it's where you graduated from. From the perspective of an employer: Do I want to hire this guy who went to Georgetown Law? Or do I want to hire a guy who graduated from Syracuse Law (not that I have anything against Syracuse but you get the point).

So basically do you want to have an easier life in your career down the road by trying your ass off really hard and giving it your all on the LSAT (including money, fame, prestige, etc). Or do you want to half-ass your way through and go through the bullshit capitalistic system our law school system has come down to. Your choice. Honestly this is how I look at it.

I graduated undergrad with a 3.0. Don't really want to explain myself but a breakup with a long-term ex-girlfriend was definitely one of the factors. So obviously I have to makeup for it somehow. I just graduated last spring semester and I took an internship at a law firm over the summer of my junior to senior year and I haven't worked since because I was just banking on going into law school straight after I graduated.

For me, I was hitting 150-155 on my practice exams and was scheduled to take in October (this month). Obviously this was in the span of 3 months and I was half-assing, I guess you could call it. I'd study 4-5 hours a day and then go party and drink on the weekends. Finally came to the self-realization that my habit was not going to put me into a T14 school. But, I thought about it like that (referential phrasing to what I just wrote up there) and pushed it back to December. Now I'm hitting around the 160-165 range and I'm just hoping I get into George Mason or Georgia State.

If you're not the textbook type of guy and reading through all the bullshit commentary that some prepbooks put out, then I highly suggest paying $500-800 for 7Sage online. I found it to be extremely helpful. It's just videos of logical indicators and etc. etc. and the guy goes over questions on exams question-by-question. The guy who created it is pretty smart. He's Chinese (not that it matters)...but he graduated from Columbia for undergrad and earned his JD at Harvard. Therefore, I do not doubt his credibility or intelligence as I have been using it for almost 5 months now. But this is only if all that reading through that crap commentary is killing you...because it was literally killing me. I had to do something about it and I can assure you that the money is worth it.

One thing for sure is to keep sober. That's including weed and alcohol. I was one of those guys during undergrad that smoked majority of my college career (but I still got by). Anyways, I noticed a significant improvement in my critical thinking and I was able to think everything in a clearer perspective once I hit that 1 month mark (haven't smoked ever since I quit, but for drinking I do it moderately because I guess I just love alcohol too much). Another thing is to keep up some sort of physical activity. Whether it is going to the gym just to lift or going for a simple 15-20 minute jog. You have to do SOMETHING (other than jerking it and drinking alcohol) to get your mind off that because you do not want to run the risk of burning out. And trust me, the burnout is a REAL THING. I've hit that point before and it got the point where I just wanted to take the damn exam and just get it over with. If you EVER hit that stage, take a few days off of studying and go do something that you enjoy. Hang out with friends, go play soccer, go do something that doesn't require you to put your brain into intellectual situations.

Hope this motivate/helped you in someway...sorry for the long ass post too. Just pulled an all nighter and wired up on caffeine, lol.