The Official September 2016 Study Group - WAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS Forum

[Mikey]

let me rephrase: he PROBABLY isn't a drug dealer since he's a cop. better?

Nah, he's definitely a drug dealer. For sure no doubt about it.

[Alexandros]

Finished first part...off to grab lunch and delve into games. I think the latter half of my schedule may have been ambitious, but, as of now, I'm 78/80 on this HW's MBT [20 to go] and -1 on the first 15 passages. These were focused on accuracy rather than speed.

I was a little hesitant on posting this and getting trucked by the last 3 passages and last 20 MBT.

That's fantastic. Sounds like you're killing those drills. Great job!! Downright inspiring.

[proteinshake]

let me rephrase: he PROBABLY isn't a drug dealer since he's a cop. better?

Nah, he's definitely a drug dealer. For sure no doubt about it.

I hope yall get this reference

[Deardevil]

Screw it. aside from continuing to do regular RC drilling, I'm going to worry about that section later. Getting LR and LG to zeros, because I know I can. RC will hopefully come. not going to freak out about RC at the expense of the other 3/4 of the test, not worth it.

Yup! As long as you get the others perfect, especially LR, it's only 25+ questions you really have to worry about.
Unless the testers are cruel and decide to make RC the fifth section... Ugh; praying that's not the case. PLEASE BE LG.

[Mikey]

Screw it. aside from continuing to do regular RC drilling, I'm going to worry about that section later. Getting LR and LG to zeros, because I know I can. RC will hopefully come. not going to freak out about RC at the expense of the other 3/4 of the test, not worth it.

Yup! As long as you get the others perfect, especially LR, it's only 25+ questions you really have to worry about.
Unless the testers are cruel and decide to make RC the fifth section... Ugh; praying that's not the case. PLEASE BE LG.

I had an RC experimental the section before real RC. Sucked major ass lol

[Alexandros]

Screw it. aside from continuing to do regular RC drilling, I'm going to worry about that section later. Getting LR and LG to zeros, because I know I can. RC will hopefully come. not going to freak out about RC at the expense of the other 3/4 of the test, not worth it.

Yup! As long as you get the others perfect, especially LR, it's only 25+ questions you really have to worry about.
Unless the testers are cruel and decide to make RC the fifth section... Ugh; praying that's not the case. PLEASE BE LG.

I had an RC experimental the section before real RC. Sucked major ass lol

Man Mikey that really sucks D: praying that won't be the case too; although I think my biggest fear is 3 lr sections in a row.

Glad you agree, Deardevil! I mean I'm not planning on *winging* RC and I'll be doing plenty of drilling, but my RC avg is currently the same as my lr avg (-2/-3) - lr is worth more and , from my understanding, much more systematic / easy improve than RC; and I bombed RC on the last two PTs for the same very obvious reason - running out of time, because I was in a shit mental state. And tbh I know if I do no RC at all now until September (which is def NOT the plan) I'll still do okay, because I won't forget how to read. Ignoring lg would be a very, very different story LR and LG it is, at least for now.

[Mikey]

Man Mikey that really sucks D: praying that won't be the case too; although I think my biggest fear is 3 lr sections in a row.

Yeah, 2 RC sections back to back was really mind draining for me. I felt like my experimental was really hard too. On top of being nervous, it was a terrible time lol.

[34iplaw]

Finished first part...off to grab lunch and delve into games. I think the latter half of my schedule may have been ambitious, but, as of now, I'm 78/80 on this HW's MBT [20 to go] and -1 on the first 15 passages. These were focused on accuracy rather than speed.

I was a little hesitant on posting this and getting trucked by the last 3 passages and last 20 MBT.

That's fantastic. Sounds like you're killing those drills. Great job!! Downright inspiring.

Thanks. Well, the last twenty most certainly went worse. All questions missed were in the 22-25 range of questions.

Need to go over in particular a question on milk bottlers (eliminated right answer), bacteria and hydrogen sulfide (picked between right and a wrong answer - picked wrong), why scientists have an astounding success rate (eliminated right answer), scientific laws (picked right answer but wasn't sure as to how strong my reasoning was to eliminate), and one on feudalism.

Out of the 100 MBT, I got 94/100 correct. All six missed I wasn't certain about, and four were questions in that end of section area. I had 12 questions (including the six wrong) that I had *some* question about. Mostly for word definitions to double check and verify my reasoning for picking one of two choices being solid. Overall, fairly happy. I do wish the last 20 went better.

Going to do some games and maybe RC later, but I think my mind is a bit fatigued from that last section of 20 challenging LR questions.

[34iplaw]

Screw it. aside from continuing to do regular RC drilling, I'm going to worry about that section later. Getting LR and LG to zeros, because I know I can. RC will hopefully come. not going to freak out about RC at the expense of the other 3/4 of the test, not worth it.

Yup! As long as you get the others perfect, especially LR, it's only 25+ questions you really have to worry about.
Unless the testers are cruel and decide to make RC the fifth section... Ugh; praying that's not the case. PLEASE BE LG.

I had an RC experimental the section before real RC. Sucked major ass lol

That sounds terrible. On my diagnostic, I had a RC I was pretty happy with and got a second one. It was actually demoralizing for some reason. Luckily, the first was the one that counts. I'm still fairly convinced that the experimental section had answer choices reordered from when it was actually administered. I really can't imagine that I did that poorly

[Mikey]

Screw it. aside from continuing to do regular RC drilling, I'm going to worry about that section later. Getting LR and LG to zeros, because I know I can. RC will hopefully come. not going to freak out about RC at the expense of the other 3/4 of the test, not worth it.

Yup! As long as you get the others perfect, especially LR, it's only 25+ questions you really have to worry about.
Unless the testers are cruel and decide to make RC the fifth section... Ugh; praying that's not the case. PLEASE BE LG.

I had an RC experimental the section before real RC. Sucked major ass lol

That sounds terrible. On my diagnostic, I had a RC I was pretty happy with and got a second one. It was actually demoralizing for some reason. Luckily, the first was the one that counts. I'm still fairly convinced that the experimental section had answer choices reordered from when it was actually administered. I really can't imagine that I did that poorly

Yeah RC sucks so much, I hate it. I'd honestly trade the RC section for an LR section that contains all tough questions. Im probably exaggerating but I truly despise RC, like seriously when I saw that my following section was another RC, I smiled not because I was happy, but because I was like "oh yeah? Ok LSAC, fuck you fuckers fuck".

[34iplaw]

Screw it. aside from continuing to do regular RC drilling, I'm going to worry about that section later. Getting LR and LG to zeros, because I know I can. RC will hopefully come. not going to freak out about RC at the expense of the other 3/4 of the test, not worth it.

Yup! As long as you get the others perfect, especially LR, it's only 25+ questions you really have to worry about.
Unless the testers are cruel and decide to make RC the fifth section... Ugh; praying that's not the case. PLEASE BE LG.

I had an RC experimental the section before real RC. Sucked major ass lol

That sounds terrible. On my diagnostic, I had a RC I was pretty happy with and got a second one. It was actually demoralizing for some reason. Luckily, the first was the one that counts. I'm still fairly convinced that the experimental section had answer choices reordered from when it was actually administered. I really can't imagine that I did that poorly

Yeah RC sucks so much, I hate it. I'd honestly trade the RC section for an LR section that contains all tough questions. Im probably exaggerating but I truly despise RC, like seriously when I saw that my following section was another RC, I smiled not because I was happy, but because I was like "oh yeah? Ok LSAC, fuck you fuckers fuck".

I dunno. I feel like LR is like 25 short RC passages without continuity. Saying this makes me realize I may have a problem in how I approach LR.

[Mikey]

Screw it. aside from continuing to do regular RC drilling, I'm going to worry about that section later. Getting LR and LG to zeros, because I know I can. RC will hopefully come. not going to freak out about RC at the expense of the other 3/4 of the test, not worth it.

Yup! As long as you get the others perfect, especially LR, it's only 25+ questions you really have to worry about.
Unless the testers are cruel and decide to make RC the fifth section... Ugh; praying that's not the case. PLEASE BE LG.

I had an RC experimental the section before real RC. Sucked major ass lol

That sounds terrible. On my diagnostic, I had a RC I was pretty happy with and got a second one. It was actually demoralizing for some reason. Luckily, the first was the one that counts. I'm still fairly convinced that the experimental section had answer choices reordered from when it was actually administered. I really can't imagine that I did that poorly

Yeah RC sucks so much, I hate it. I'd honestly trade the RC section for an LR section that contains all tough questions. Im probably exaggerating but I truly despise RC, like seriously when I saw that my following section was another RC, I smiled not because I was happy, but because I was like "oh yeah? Ok LSAC, fuck you fuckers fuck".

I dunno. I feel like LR is like 25 short RC passages without continuity. Saying this makes me realize I may have a problem in how I approach LR.

Well yeah, they're just a bunch of small passages I guess. I still prefer LR over RC, lol.

[tsf]

Checking in!

I took the June exam and got a score well below my average, let's see what ~3 more months of studying can do!
Love the posts from this thread, please keep them coming

P.S. Do any of you know if there's a way to get access to the june test booklet? I took it in another country, so I have no idea what my raw score was or which questions I got wrong... I was hoping to do it again to see if I could notice some of my mistakes. Would I be able to buy it as a PT anytime soon?

Under your score, you don't see your scantron, response report, PDFs of the sections, etc? If not then I have no clue.

I can only see my score and percentile, which sucks, because I can't be certain about my weaknesses I took the same test as everyone else in the US, but for some reason LSAC doesn't grant access to the booklet when you take the test in a foreign country

[tsf]

Checking in!

I took the June exam and got a score well below my average, let's see what ~3 more months of studying can do!
Love the posts from this thread, please keep them coming

P.S. Do any of you know if there's a way to get access to the june test booklet? I took it in another country, so I have no idea what my raw score was or which questions I got wrong... I was hoping to do it again to see if I could notice some of my mistakes. Would I be able to buy it as a PT anytime soon?

Howdy tsf!

Glad to see you are not settling and achieving what you know you are capable of!

I'm not sure how to access the test or when it will be released (or if it is already somewhere on the depths of the internet?) I'm sure someone on here will know...

Anyways, I'm confident with a few more months you'll come back hard and kill it in September!

Thanks for the motivation, Barack O'Drama (awesome username btw hahaha)!
I hope so too

[proteinshake]

I can never drill right after reading a chapter out of a prep book. My brain is too tired afterward so I usually save the drills for the next day or later on.

[Mikey]

I can never drill right after reading a chapter out of a prep book. My brain is too tired afterward so I usually save the drills for the next day or later on.

Really? What I do with the 7sage lessons is go through them and then maybe like an hour later I drill. But it's probably more draining to read through lessons compared to seeing them.

[proteinshake]

I can never drill right after reading a chapter out of a prep book. My brain is too tired afterward so I usually save the drills for the next day or later on.

Really? What I do with the 7sage lessons is go through them and then maybe like an hour later I drill. But it's probably more draining to read through lessons compared to seeing them.

hm it might be cause it's later in the day. usually when I start in the morning I can go for 3 hours straight so I guess this applies if I'm studying in the afternoon/evening.

[Barack O'Drama]

I can never drill right after reading a chapter out of a prep book. My brain is too tired afterward so I usually save the drills for the next day or later on.

Same. Just read the first 2 chapters of Manhattan LR and was going to drill some assumption type questions, did about 10, then I realized my brain just wasn't working properly. I guess it is going to have to wait until later...

[34iplaw]

Finished RC. Not as strongly as I'd like but I attribute that slightly to mental fatigue from the day and some general sloppiness.

Summary for RC HW

7/7 Oct '94 #14-20
6/6 June '93 #1-6
7/8 Dec '04 #7-14
6/6 Oct '10 #1-6
5/5 June '04 #1-5
8/8 Sep '95 #1-8
5/5 Dec '91 #16-20
8/8 Feb '92 #21-27
6/6 Dec '97 #1-6
7/7 Feb '00 #21-27
7/7 Dec '92 #1-7
8/8 June '96 #1-8
7/7 June '93 #7-13
8/8 Dec '02 #9-16
6/6 Dec '95 #16-21
7/8 Dec '06 #21-28 (felt this passage was hard. Missed 22 because of assertion vs observation. Didn't really feel there was that much difference between three cited statements where if one wasn't an assertion that the other two weren't)
4/7 Feb '95 #7-13 (really not sure what happened here. I think there was one line in the passage that really screwed me over. #8, #11, and #12. #12 was a bad mistake that was a carry over from #8. #8 and #11 bother me a little. I think I need to have certain definitional things more clear in my head.)
6/6 Oct '03 #21-26

Overall, 118/123 if I added that up right across 18 passages. Not really happy from that one Feb '95 passage but am otherwise pleased.

[proteinshake]

I can never drill right after reading a chapter out of a prep book. My brain is too tired afterward so I usually save the drills for the next day or later on.

Same. Just read the first 2 chapters of Manhattan LR and was going to drill some assumption type questions, did about 10, then I realized my brain just wasn't working properly. I guess it is going to have to wait until later...

yeah and the fact that the end of the chapter is basically a drill makes me less-inclined to drill more right after.

[Alexandros]

Man Mikey that really sucks D: praying that won't be the case too; although I think my biggest fear is 3 lr sections in a row.

Yeah, 2 RC sections back to back was really mind draining for me. I felt like my experimental was really hard too. On top of being nervous, it was a terrible time lol.

That sounds absolutely nightmarish D: I feel like RC is, more than the other two, the section rendered the most difficult by nervousness/ distraction / crap mental state. You're not 100% or your mind wanders for a couple seconds, and bam you're reading half the passage over again.

[Alexandros]

Screw it. aside from continuing to do regular RC drilling, I'm going to worry about that section later. Getting LR and LG to zeros, because I know I can. RC will hopefully come. not going to freak out about RC at the expense of the other 3/4 of the test, not worth it.

Yup! As long as you get the others perfect, especially LR, it's only 25+ questions you really have to worry about.
Unless the testers are cruel and decide to make RC the fifth section... Ugh; praying that's not the case. PLEASE BE LG.

I had an RC experimental the section before real RC. Sucked major ass lol

That sounds terrible. On my diagnostic, I had a RC I was pretty happy with and got a second one. It was actually demoralizing for some reason. Luckily, the first was the one that counts. I'm still fairly convinced that the experimental section had answer choices reordered from when it was actually administered. I really can't imagine that I did that poorly

Yeah RC sucks so much, I hate it. I'd honestly trade the RC section for an LR section that contains all tough questions. Im probably exaggerating but I truly despise RC, like seriously when I saw that my following section was another RC, I smiled not because I was happy, but because I was like "oh yeah? Ok LSAC, fuck you fuckers fuck".

I dunno. I feel like LR is like 25 short RC passages without continuity. Saying this makes me realize I may have a problem in how I approach LR.

Well yeah, they're just a bunch of small passages I guess. I still prefer LR over RC, lol.

I did get to the point where I actually kind of liked LR once (aside from diagnostic, where everything's a relief compared to logic games.) I'm afraid our relationship's fallen apart though :/

LR - this isn't over. I will appreciate you yet, damn it.

[Alexandros]

Finished first part...off to grab lunch and delve into games. I think the latter half of my schedule may have been ambitious, but, as of now, I'm 78/80 on this HW's MBT [20 to go] and -1 on the first 15 passages. These were focused on accuracy rather than speed.

I was a little hesitant on posting this and getting trucked by the last 3 passages and last 20 MBT.

That's fantastic. Sounds like you're killing those drills. Great job!! Downright inspiring.

Thanks. Well, the last twenty most certainly went worse. All questions missed were in the 22-25 range of questions.

Need to go over in particular a question on milk bottlers (eliminated right answer), bacteria and hydrogen sulfide (picked between right and a wrong answer - picked wrong), why scientists have an astounding success rate (eliminated right answer), scientific laws (picked right answer but wasn't sure as to how strong my reasoning was to eliminate), and one on feudalism.

Out of the 100 MBT, I got 94/100 correct. All six missed I wasn't certain about, and four were questions in that end of section area. I had 12 questions (including the six wrong) that I had *some* question about. Mostly for word definitions to double check and verify my reasoning for picking one of two choices being solid. Overall, fairly happy. I do wish the last 20 went better.

Going to do some games and maybe RC later, but I think my mind is a bit fatigued from that last section of 20 challenging LR questions.

Those are some killer scores! Are you doing them timed?
Realizing MBT/inference/supported by is a weak area for me - always feel a bit unfamiliar and show up surprisingly frequently. I've only done type training to the scale of ~20 qs/type. You're motivating me to get some serious by type drilling in when my books arrive.

[YupSports]

Did the 7Sage principle and Method of Reasoning sections today.

Did fairly well.

Now, off to the bar!

[Deardevil]

Yup! As long as you get the others perfect, especially LR, it's only 25+ questions you really have to worry about.
Unless the testers are cruel and decide to make RC the fifth section... Ugh; praying that's not the case. PLEASE BE LG.

I had an RC experimental the section before real RC. Sucked major ass lol

That sounds terrible. On my diagnostic, I had a RC I was pretty happy with and got a second one. It was actually demoralizing for some reason. Luckily, the first was the one that counts. I'm still fairly convinced that the experimental section had answer choices reordered from when it was actually administered. I really can't imagine that I did that poorly

Yeah RC sucks so much, I hate it. I'd honestly trade the RC section for an LR section that contains all tough questions. Im probably exaggerating but I truly despise RC, like seriously when I saw that my following section was another RC, I smiled not because I was happy, but because I was like "oh yeah? Ok LSAC, fuck you fuckers fuck".

I dunno. I feel like LR is like 25 short RC passages without continuity. Saying this makes me realize I may have a problem in how I approach LR.

Well yeah, they're just a bunch of small passages I guess. I still prefer LR over RC, lol.

I did get to the point where I actually kind of liked LR once (aside from diagnostic, where everything's a relief compared to logic games.) I'm our relationship's fallen apart though :/

LR - this isn't over. I will appreciate you yet, damn it.

Aside from the ridiculously worded stimuli and occasionally tricky ACs, LR isn't so bad (certainly much better than RC).
I've come to see the section as a fusion of analytical reasoning and reading comprehension, as someone had mentioned;
questions can be either fun/easy or dense/frustrating like their respective LG and RC counterparts.
Got through PrepTest B's LR today for the second time;
ecstatic I got everything right, though a timed first-time tomorrow will really determine things at this point.
*breathes heavy sigh of relief and anxiousness*

Also, quote pyramid ftw.

ETA: Oh, you can only quote a maximum of seven? BORING.