The Official June 2016 Study Group Forum

[Mikey]

174 on PT 77 just now... confidence booster for sure... gonna drill lightly this weekend... ayyyyyy

You're gonna absolutely kill it, I just know you will!

[beenoparte125]

174 on PT 77 just now... confidence booster for sure... gonna drill lightly this weekend... ayyyyyy

You're gonna absolutely kill it, I just know you will!

We gotta be confident!! It makes a huge difference to approach this b with that mindset.

ETA: confident but VIGILANT

[Rupert Pupkin]

I always had a similar issue, but what I started doing, which helps is: Start every passage with the mindset that you are going to learn something new and by reading actively, this newly gained knowledge will benefit you somehow in the future. Maybe I will impress someone by knowing about some painting or artist..etc --> It sounds kinda weird, but it definitely is just a mental game. I try to make it seem as interesting as possible and tell myself that this is teaching me something that will benefit me sometime in the future.

Thanks, I will definitely keep this in mind!

NP- This helped me a bunch when I took the GMAT. And sometimes, you end up learning some pretty cool stuff. Science is my ultimate weakness, so I bought the Scientific American and read everyday (as a warmup before I sit down to study or during free time) with this strategy in mind, and I find myself retaining much more and not zoning out when I approach, what I consider, a boring/unfamiliar question stem.

[dinizdeoliveira]

Lurker checking in as well. Though I am taking it in Argentina, so I guess my test won't be the same as everyone else's.

Anyway, here is to collective good cheers!

[forum_user]

Lurker checking in as well. Though I am taking it in Argentina, so I guess my test won't be the same as everyone else's.

Anyway, here is to collective good cheers!

Welcome, and good luck! Don't you also have to take it on a different day too?

[Mikey]

Lurker checking in as well. Though I am taking it in Argentina, so I guess my test won't be the same as everyone else's.

Anyway, here is to collective good cheers!

Welcome friend!

[carasrook]

I realized today that I had never actually done the infamous 'dinosaurs' game, so I decided to drill with that section for LG. I actually went -0 on the whole section and finished with 30 seconds left, and didn't think it was that hard. Am I alone in that?? I have a much harder time with random weirdo games like Game 3 of 77 than I do with crazy oversaturated 'normal' types of games, like dinosaurs.

I p much despise RC and LR... but I'm gonna miss LG, I think....

[R. Jeeves]

I realized today that I had never actually done the infamous 'dinosaurs' game, so I decided to drill with that section for LG. I actually went -0 on the whole section and finished with 30 seconds left, and didn't think it was that hard. Am I alone in that?? I have a much harder time with random weirdo games like Game 3 of 77 than I do with crazy oversaturated 'normal' types of games, like dinosaurs.

I p much despise RC and LR... but I'm gonna miss LG, I think....

I don't think dinosaurs was as hard as people made it out to be, but I think not expecting it could have made it a time-suck. You anticipating that game probably helped. Also if you went -0 I'm assuming youre pretty good at LG in general.

Eta: I also agree that the workpieces game and the office choosing game were harder than dino.

[Mikey]

Battling with myself on whether I should do 1 timed RC section, 1 timed LG section or nothing at all today. shit.

[rnoodles]

A little birdie told me we have some little liars in this thread!

#TeamAria #TeamTroianiiWithAPersonalityLLC #TeamAliS1-4,S7

Yes! Back to discussing PLL.

Noodles, Pretzeltime's favorite PLL so far is "Ariel." But as you can see there's obviously some potential there. She knows who she likes the most even if she doesn't know her name.

Im bad with names!!!!

PLL has been a godsend during this last pre-LSAT week. Such a good escape

As the leader of #TeamAria and co-leader of other Aria-inspired teams I want you to know that, unlike #TeamSpencerIsAMiddleAgedBritishMan, we are accepting of all! If you like "Ariel," then so be it. You can start #TeamAriel, or the first ship between Aria and Gabriel Holbrook.

Thank you for spreading the PLLove, somethingelse. Undoubtedly an indispensable member of our PLL crew. I stand by my Robert Horry (on the Lakers only) comparison.

Kisses,
-A

[forum_user]

I realized today that I had never actually done the infamous 'dinosaurs' game, so I decided to drill with that section for LG. I actually went -0 on the whole section and finished with 30 seconds left, and didn't think it was that hard. Am I alone in that?? I have a much harder time with random weirdo games like Game 3 of 77 than I do with crazy oversaturated 'normal' types of games, like dinosaurs.

I p much despise RC and LR... but I'm gonna miss LG, I think....

I entirely agree. Plus I don't think the other games in that section were that bad at all. The only thing with dinos is that it's got more complex rules so if you haven't got those down then it'll hurt you. I thought 77 was harder because you have to rely less on your skills and more on your ability to set up a game and brute force.

[dinizdeoliveira]

Lurker checking in as well. Though I am taking it in Argentina, so I guess my test won't be the same as everyone else's.

Anyway, here is to collective good cheers!

Welcome, and good luck! Don't you also have to take it on a different day too?

Thanks, and to you! Same date and time (it's the same time zone as the East Coast, I think). Just a different test.

Welcome friend!

Cheers!

[longpig]

Phew, took a gamble and did my last PT (wasn't sure if I should just skip it to avoid disappointment). 175 on PT76. Let's just hope this doesn't jinx the next one...

[ayylmao]

Re-took the first three sections of PT 73 today. -0, -0, and -0. Good vibes only, release me onto this motherfucker!

[Mikey]

Phew, took a gamble and did my last PT (wasn't sure if I should just skip it to avoid disappointment). 175 on PT76. Let's just hope this doesn't jinx the next one...

Nice!

[longpig]

Re-took the first three sections of PT 73 today. -0, -0, and -0. Good vibes only, release me onto this motherfucker!

Very nice. I was looking over RC on PT73 the other day and some of those questions still fucked me.

[Mikey]

Re-took the first three sections of PT 73 today. -0, -0, and -0. Good vibes only, release me onto this motherfucker!

YOU'RE GONNA WRECK THIS BITCH

[footballlax55]

Does anyone know for sure if it's okay to print the admit. ticket (with picture) in B&W? I can't find anything either way on the lsac site about it. Without a color printer at home, I'd have to go to a library or something. I'm just paranoid, figured maybe someone here knew.

320

If you can't call them and find out for sure, just go to a library or a friend's to print it. The 30 minute or whatever hassle of doing that is much better than getting turned away at the door or having to desperately plead with the proctor to let you take the test.

[Redsfan320]

Does anyone know for sure if it's okay to print the admit. ticket (with picture) in B&W? I can't find anything either way on the lsac site about it. Without a color printer at home, I'd have to go to a library or something. I'm just paranoid, figured maybe someone here knew.

320

If you can't call them and find out for sure, just go to a library or a friend's to print it. The 30 minute or whatever hassle of doing that is much better than getting turned away at the door or having to desperately plead with the proctor to let you take the test.

Thanks for the reply. I dug around more online, found out B/W is cool as long as it's clearly recognizable. Printed it at home, it was grainier than I liked, so went to the library to print it in color. Library color printer did not print in color, but the B/W printout it gave me was much clearer than printing at home, and is very obviously a discernible picture of me, so I'm not worried about it.

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[footballlax55]

Do any of you + - 170ish scorers have a plan if get stuck on a question what do in terms of skipping/guessing? If you are 7 minutes into game 1 and there is a substitution question, do you try to solve it without knowing what the next 3 games are like or is it an effective strategy to skip it?

This is a kinda old post, but here are my 2 cents.

If I get stuck I try to just choose an okay answer choice and mark it and move on. If it just seems like a tough, long question, but I'm making progress on it, I'll finish it up and not rush it. But if it has me stumped it's almost always because I forgot to apply a rule, didn't read that the set up said every piece must be used or that there can be duplicates etc. So I just kinda skip it and return at the end of the game or after game 4 and take a fresh look and usually can see where I made a dumb mistake. The fresh outlook lets me realize "oh, this is a 9 piece ordering game, not a 7 piece game, so I can't look one from the right of the end and think it's spot #6"

For rule substitution questions, most of them aren't that bad. I'd say 1/4 of them are pretty easy, 1/2 are kinda tough and 1/4 are real tough. For the easy ones I definitely just do them. Usually I can skim the ACs, notice that one looks good and then test it quick and move on. For the moderately tough ones I sink in a decent amount of time to make sure i get it right (1:30/2:00 maybe). And for the tough ones that I notice will be a time sink I spend like 30 sec to find what I think is a decent answer choice, pick that and just move on.
I think it's probably best to at least skim the ACs and do it if it seems like it won't be that bad, rather than possibly leave easy points on the table just because seeing a rule sub question scared you away.

Although, if you're already 7 min into game 1 and it's not like a 7 question game that's unusually hard, it's probably best to skim for decent ACs and kinda guess because you're probably behind schedule.

[footballlax55]

I'm just hoping that I'm in the zone on Monday and don't make dumb mistake. Usually about half of my mistakes are because I misread an EXCEPT question, didn't write an LG rule correctly (something as dumb as box out like L/L can't be together when there aren't even Ls in the game and it was J and for some reason I just put L), etc.

And then most of the rest of the wrongs are because I was feeling tired or foggy and didn't move quick enough and either had to keep rereading the same part of an RC passage or didn't realize that I spent like 3 minutes on one RC or LR question (usually because I misread something) so then I'm rushed for the last few questions.

Only a couple question each test are actually tough. So I'm just hoping that I'm alert and thinking clearly on test day. If I am, I should be fine. If not, who knows. This is my 3rd retake, so my last shot. My past 20 PTs have been between 168 and 177, which is quite a range.

[dietcoke1]

I'm just hoping that I'm in the zone on Monday and don't make dumb mistake. Usually about half of my mistakes are because I misread an EXCEPT question, didn't write an LG rule correctly (something as dumb as box out like L/L can't be together when there aren't even Ls in the game and it was J and for some reason I just put L), etc.

And then most of the rest of the wrongs are because I was feeling tired or foggy and didn't move quick enough and either had to keep rereading the same part of an RC passage or didn't realize that I spent like 3 minutes on one RC or LR question (usually because I misread something) so then I'm rushed for the last few questions.

This fogginess is a real thing. Anyone have any advice on how to be 100% alert on test day? Exercising in the morning helps but it doesn't guarantee that by 1:00 pm I'm at my best.

[proteinshake]

stay hydrated.

[Rupert Pupkin]

I'm just hoping that I'm in the zone on Monday and don't make dumb mistake. Usually about half of my mistakes are because I misread an EXCEPT question, didn't write an LG rule correctly (something as dumb as box out like L/L can't be together when there aren't even Ls in the game and it was J and for some reason I just put L), etc.

And then most of the rest of the wrongs are because I was feeling tired or foggy and didn't move quick enough and either had to keep rereading the same part of an RC passage or didn't realize that I spent like 3 minutes on one RC or LR question (usually because I misread something) so then I'm rushed for the last few questions.

This fogginess is a real thing. Anyone have any advice on how to be 100% alert on test day? Exercising in the morning helps but it doesn't guarantee that by 1:00 pm I'm at my best.

Exercise, proper nutrition, hydration, and sleep. I personally live on caffeine- if that works for you adding caffeine does wonders

[ayylmao]

Do any of you + - 170ish scorers have a plan if get stuck on a question what do in terms of skipping/guessing? If you are 7 minutes into game 1 and there is a substitution question, do you try to solve it without knowing what the next 3 games are like or is it an effective strategy to skip it?

There are 3 scenarios in which i skip games questions:

(1) Rule substitution questions. I'll give the answers a once over, pick what seems best to me, and leave it as a luxury question if I have time at the end of the section.

(2) Questions where I find two right answers, or none, and can't immediately identify my mistake.

(3) Games I just don't understand. Some time away usually helps.