The Official September 2017 Study Group Forum

[Mikey]

back home from vacation, FML. LSAT prep again starting tmrw yay......

[chargers21]

Retook PT 79. I never really reviewed it after we got our scores back last Sept. Just checked my score on 7sage without looking at how many wrong per section and scored a 170 - if only I had gotten that score the real test day . LR had a couple tricky questions. Viruses is still not hard for me. RC with Eileen Gray was still hard, but I think I better attacked the RC than the real test day. Ok time to BR.

Edit: Whoops I accidentally looked at the breakdown

PT 79
LR - 5 (Test day REDACTED combined LR)
RC - 1 (Test day REDACTED)
LG - 2 (Test day REDACTED)
LR - 4

170/(Test day REDACTED)

Ugh still need to review..............and continue drilling................5 weeks..............

I think I went like -5 in LG and RC on this test in september, missing 0 on Eileen and Viruses. An impressive feat, for sure. My biggest issue with this test was second guessing (and probably with all of my real takes, as opposed to my PTs), where I missed 4 questions by changing answers from the right to the wrong after going back through with extra time. Literally will probably be kicking myself for that for awhile because it kept me out of HYS and named scholarship territory. Alright, I'm done complaining, have a good day everyone

[Gluteus]

Last exam of the summer semester is over.

For the next 26 days I have no class, and my only time commitment outside of the LSAT is working 20~ hours a week.

Time to make some LSAT gains

[GnarMarBinx]

Retook PT 79. I never really reviewed it after we got our scores back last Sept. Just checked my score on 7sage without looking at how many wrong per section and scored a 170 - if only I had gotten that score the real test day . LR had a couple tricky questions. Viruses is still not hard for me. RC with Eileen Gray was still hard, but I think I better attacked the RC than the real test day. Ok time to BR.

Edit: Whoops I accidentally looked at the breakdown

PT 79
LR - 5 (Test day -8 combined LR)
RC - 1 (Test day -11)
LG - 2 (Test day -0)
LR - 4

170/(Test day 164)

Ugh still need to review..............and continue drilling................5 weeks..............

When you wrote the Sept 2016 exam were you consistently getting lower scores on RC, or was this an outlier? If you did considerably improve on RC, are you willing to give some advice on how you did it? RC is my weak section right now and it would be amazing to receive a few pointers on what I could do to gain some consistency. Good luck with the review!

[littlewing67]

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[AvatarMeelo]

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Fun fact for everyone on this forum: Lilwing and I met when she sat in front of me for a polisci class and we've been friends ever since <3.

[Mikey]

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Fun fact for everyone on this forum: Lilwing and I met when she sat in front of me for a polisci class and we've been friends ever since <3.

wish I knew lilwing :/

[Barry grandpapy]

I'm not looking forward to ending my bender on Monday

Edit: we should brainstorm poll ideas. I'll start.

What's the greatest Horror Movie of all time?
A. Alien
B. Aliens
C. The Thing
D. Office Space

[littlewing67]

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[Mikey]

wish I knew lilwing :/

Watch us go to the same law school lol

word

[GnarMarBinx]

Retook PT 79. I never really reviewed it after we got our scores back last Sept. Just checked my score on 7sage without looking at how many wrong per section and scored a 170 - if only I had gotten that score the real test day . LR had a couple tricky questions. Viruses is still not hard for me. RC with Eileen Gray was still hard, but I think I better attacked the RC than the real test day. Ok time to BR.

Edit: Whoops I accidentally looked at the breakdown

PT 79
LR - 5 (Test day -8 combined LR)
RC - 1 (Test day -11)
LG - 2 (Test day -0)
LR - 4

170/(Test day 164)

Ugh still need to review..............and continue drilling................5 weeks..............

When you wrote the Sept 2016 exam were you consistently getting lower scores on RC, or was this an outlier? If you did considerably improve on RC, are you willing to give some advice on how you did it? RC is my weak section right now and it would be amazing to receive a few pointers on what I could do to gain some consistency. Good luck with the review!

Lord knows I am not one to take advice from, that is usually why I typically don't give advice on this site lol But before last sept. I was averaging maybe ~8 wrong in RC. I never really drilled RC in my prep before, mostly LG and LR. I thought those two were the most learnable, because hey everyone knows how to read right? But I *think* my RC is improving this time around especially since I have been doing one day of drills then the next a PT. I do at least 3 sections and BR them. I have been finding that for RC small stupid details matter like the description of something and the author says the person uses a "simple style". I write it in the margin so I remember. I am a very HEAVY notator. I write a lot in the margins and circle/underline. And for the complex subject matter I write things in the margins so for example if it's like the "Mitochondria is the Powerhouse of the Cell" and then technical terminology about it I break it down more in the margin so I can remember and understand better.

But take my advice with a grain of salt, I am not as good as these other guys in this thread. Haha anyone else feel free to input on RC.

Thanks a lot - There are many people here who are crazily good at RC, but I feel like a lot of them started off with better scores than I did, so it's great to hear some advice from someone who didn't start super high! I have a few questions about what you noted:

1) When you said you do three sections (on your off day in between tests), do you mean three RC sections or three sections in general?
2) How long do you generally take to do the first read-through of a passage with your heavy notation strategy?
3) How do you know when things like "simple style" are important? Is it just intuitive?

Again, THANKS SO MUCH for the help - It's greatly appreciated!

[AvatarMeelo]

Fun fact for everyone on this forum: Lilwing and I met when she sat in front of me for a polisci class and we've been friends ever since <3.

clueless801 thinks we're friends..........................................#awks go back to studying and stop scrolling TLS

I THINK I should probably leave the library since it's approaching 10 hours and I kinda miss my bed just a lil bit.

[mmart207]

Random question, do you think ad coms will look at a 3.69 as a 3.7? Or just as every other 3.6?

[Mikey]

Random question, do you think ad coms will look at a 3.69 as a 3.7? Or just as every other 3.6?

they will look at it as what it is, a 3.69

[Mikey]

new poll

lsat related but couldn't think of shit so oh whale

[jcl]

Hi all,
I am new to this forum, I am not sure I am posting in the right way/place, but will respond if prompted.
I took the june lsat test. My specialty is reading, and reading quickly, with only 4 wrong on the reading section. I received 5 wrong on each logical reasoning. However, the games section for me was abysmal. If I could find an lsat practice partner and we could meet via skype, ideally for me one weaker in reading, so that I can be of assistance, and stronger in games, so that the partner can assist me.

Thank you
jcl

[Mikey]

can sept 16th just get here already. I want to get this shit over with

[AvatarMeelo]

can sept 16th just get here already. I want to get this shit over with

nononononononononononononono.

[sabraph]

can sept 16th just get here already. I want to get this shit over with

nononononononononononononono.

I constantly bounce between these two emotions

[CottonHarvest]

After a downward trend in my scores, I finally bounced back with a 176 on PT 70 today.
LR1 -1
RC -2
LG -0
LR2 -2

[Barry grandpapy]

can sept 16th just get here already. I want to get this shit over with

Ditto

[creed]

rick and morty tonight... can they top pickle rick???

[Impressionist]

33days left to study! Finally moved into my new place so i can get back to full LSAT studying. Never give up! Never surrender!

[Mikey]

thinking of doing PT C2 today.

printer isn't working for some reason so can't do any other PT besides this one since I already have it from super prep 2

[presidentspivey]

Plan today is to grind LG to increase speed. Boy can this stuff be boring.