179 LSAT, 154 diagnostic, taking questions, giving advice... Forum

[Stanley Otto Swift]

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[redsox]

Why use such a distracting avatar?

[Helmholtz]

How does it feel getting all these poor people's hopes up?

Also, which sections accounted for your errors on your 179 LSAT?

[sayan]

Best way to avoid the test-day drop in score?

[multiprose]

what was you sextion distribution and how did you improve?

[Shaggier1]

OP, I have PM'ed you so as to not hijack the thread.

Congrats on a monster increase!

[Stanley Otto Swift]

Why use such a distracting avatar?

I thought it was funny last Christmas when I changed it.

[Stanley Otto Swift]

How does it feel getting all these poor people's hopes up?

Also, which sections accounted for your errors on your 179 LSAT?

1 LG, 2 RC. A huge increase is possible, I'm nothing special.

[Stanley Otto Swift]

Best way to avoid the test-day drop in score?

tons of recent PTs under actual conditions. Good sleep schedule, adequate preparation (obviously), confidence.

[solotee]

How long did it take you to increase from 154 to 179?

How many times have you sat in for the test?

[Stanley Otto Swift]

what was you sextion distribution and how did you improve?

Tons of hard work, tons of times and untimed practice, took Testmasters, tons of supplementary reading. I basically brute-forced my way to a high score.

Missed 2 on RC and 1 on LG.

[Stanley Otto Swift]

How long did it take you to increase from 154 to 179?

How many times have you sat in for the test?

I studied off and on for about nine months. I retook a 174, which everyone told me was insanity, but I knew I had a 180 or 179 in me. Probably spent 400 or 500 hours on LSAT related studying.

[bkbkbk]

How many months did you study? What was weekly schedule like? And like mentioned before how many times did you actually sit for the LSAT?

[Stanley Otto Swift]

How many months did you study? What was weekly schedule like? And like mentioned before how many times did you actually sit for the LSAT?

sat three times: cancel, 174, 179

studied about 450 hours over the course of 9 months

weekly schedule was anywhere from 15-25 hours/week of PTs and review. I was enrolled in TestMasters, and it is a fine class, but most of my improvement came on my own.

[jchsu]

Did you have gradual improvements or was there a time where a lot of things just clicked all of a sudden?

What was your distribution like when you took your first diagnostic?

[02082010]

Keep in mind it's not possible for everyone to prep themselves into the 99%ile. Some ppl will just max out at a 160 or 165.

I got a 154 on my original diagnostic last June and got a 176 on PT 43 yesterday. Hopefully will make it as high as you on the real thing.

[Batman2]

I am taking the June '10 Lsat; when do you think I should take my diagnostic, and begin intensive studying?

[Stanley Otto Swift]

Did you have gradual improvements or was there a time where a lot of things just clicked all of a sudden?

What was your distribution like when you took your first diagnostic?

I missed about 16 on LG my first time out. Other errors were evenly distributed. Really rapid improvement began when I started to recognize the recurrent patterns in LR and LG.

[Stanley Otto Swift]

I am taking the June '10 Lsat; when do you think I should take my diagnostic, and begin intensive studying?

I wouldn't start studying in earnest until 3 or 4 months before the test. This is plenty of time.

[multiprose]

Did you have gradual improvements or was there a time where a lot of things just clicked all of a sudden?

What was your distribution like when you took your first diagnostic?

I missed about 16 on LG my first time out. Other errors were evenly distributed. Really rapid improvement began when I started to recognize the recurrent patterns in LR and LG.

can you list the current LG patterns?

[solotee]

What did your PT scores look like a month before your first sitting?

[Stanley Otto Swift]

can you list the current LG patterns?

by "recurrent patterns" I mean logical relationships that are re-used again and again. Some games and LR questions are almost identical to one another, and when you answer hundreds and hundreds of questions you begin to speak LSAT instinctively. I didn't mean to indicate that I had done research on the prevalence of certain LG types.

[Stanley Otto Swift]

What did your PT scores look like a month before your first sitting?

I was around 170 at that time. This is before I took the plunge and told myself I would beat the test no matter the cost.

[Olive]

If you could give one piece of advice about improving LR what would it be (aside from seeing the patterns)?

[solotee]

Thanks for looking out for us, very inspiring achievement. Any specific advice that you could offer us test takers that are stuck in the mid 160's?