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Paul Caint
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LR: For the first ~10ish questions I'm a bit more lax on my "read every answer choice" policy. Especially for the first 5 questions, if your intuition is developed (WHICH IS A BIG IF, DON'T DO THIS IF YOU ARE MISSING THESE QUESTIONS) then it is sma…
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CONGRATS!!!!! I thought PT65 was a really tough exam too so major kudos
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@plantbaseddiya Nobody is disputing that. The terms were used ambiguously because in one's LSAC profile the relevant section is titled "Race/Ethnicity." Additionally, each racial category has multiple boxes you can check to determine countries of or…
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@GabMikee Ah! Great to hear I'm not alone on this. So many pinoys are mestizo/mestiza, and it never feels right to identify as "Asian" or in fact solely Filipino. Our ancestry is more diverse than that; being from that country does not make you ethn…
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@"Dillon A. Wright" That wiki article supporters my "Filipinos are Hispanic" argument . Thanks all. I will classify my Spanish blood as Hispanic. @"Alex Divine" I don't see a link? Also yeah, the whole thing is very confusing and there seem to be …
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Personally I would say no. Having your mind wrecked by an LSAT section then 10 seconds later having to take another one - the back-to-back nature of the LSAT - affects your score. Even a slightly longer break, like doing BR to reinforce/deconstruct…
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@"Rigid Designator" I think I'm going to. Does anyone know what a good e-mail to use would be? Also just to clarify one more time... Spanish is HISPANIC and NOT Caucasian, even though it is in Europe with white people?!?
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Thanks for your replies @"Alex Divine" and @username. To clarify, that my intention is to fill multiple boxes. I've filled Filipino, Chinese, and as of now Hispanic and Caucasian. The technical minutiae of ethnicity/race categories is what confuse…
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I went through PS LRB too and normally use their method. That being said, 7sage advocates an approach to LR much different than the Bibles - read the question first. While I personally don't do this, many 7sagers do and say it works wonders for the…
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Agree with @AllezAllez21. Great idea to "[not] compare answer choices to one another, compare them to the passage." Just work on timing and your fundamentals. Grind grind grind and don't give up hope!
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I just took PT 64 and I also got -3 on games. I'm usually -0. I can attest that those games felt particularly hard. They had three difficult grouping games, including one with subcategories and one with subcategories and sequencing. Overall difficul…
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I hit a similar plateau three weeks ago and have broken through it for the past week, consistently scoring 175+. I agree with @rene4231, if you want a 175+ you just shouldn't be missing any questions on LG. Of all the sections, LG is the most predi…
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@"Cant Get Right" Great idea!
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Just took my earliest PrepTest ever at 9:00am. Actually went really well! I woke up at 6:00am. I think the earliness really just gets you if you are still groggy from waking up, but if you give yourself enough time to be awake (drink a coffee, watch…
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1) Something that helped me on RC was keeping track of viewpoints. Who believes what? How does that belief conflict or comport with other people's beliefs? RC, like LR and law school, is usually concerned with argumentation. What may seem like an en…
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PT 1 Game 2 - The Printer and Computer game. Threw me for a a loop the first time I did it.
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I can't remember what question, but when J.Y. was analyzing some answer choices he read one and said "Yes. Wow. Thank you for that amazingly useless information." I still think that in my head when I come across atrocious answer choices and get a l…
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@LSATcantwin It's never too late to find one!!! I start school on Wednesday. I purposefully took a light schedule this semester to compensate for the LSAT and working on applications. I have 5 day weekends leading up to the September test day lol.
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Am currently facing the same problem. I usually go to bed around 3am - 4am. This week I'll be forcing myself to get up ~6am and do work by ~7-8am to prep my brain for the LSAT. While I think people like you and me may be genetically coded as night o…
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Experienced the same thing. If you look at my LSAT score graph, there are clear peaks after I take a few days off, and then subsequent valleys as I take back to back PrepTests, then another peak after a rest day. Burnout is real.
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As Mark Cuban says on Shark Tank: GRIND! Also the September LSAT is still a month away. You have some time to relax.
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I agree completely. The earlier PrepTests RC seemed pretty cookie cutter, but now that I'm delving into the more recent PrepTests I'm seeing a lot more unconventional questions. Additionally, it feels as though there are larger gaps you have to fill…
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Thanks all. I guess I've always looked at studying as "more is better," but the LSAT doesn't take kindly to this approach. I've never experienced this kind of mental fatigue from studying before. The LSAT is an unkind beast :'(
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PS - one other thing that helped me was really beating myself up over wrong answers. I know this sounds unhealthy, but if you dwell on a mistake after you make it chances are you won't make it again. AKA - if you get an answer wrong don't just be l…
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@FirstOne said: @pcainti Thanks for sharing your strategy. Question: in each month, did you use Blind Review, Full Proof LG with BRs and RC Memory Method with BRs or some other approach(es)? Thanks. Sure! First i'll preface this by saying …
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So personally I took one diagnostic exam in May and got a 158. Then I spent 1 whole month (May) on Logic Games only. Then I spent the next month on RC only (June). Then I spent the last month on LR only (July). Now in August I've just been takin…
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Feel like I'm in the minority here, but I do the stimulus first. It's generally worked for me - I like to get a big-picture idea of what the stimulus is saying and then figure out what they want.
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LG for sure!
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Starting point at the beginning was a 158 on my first diagnostic.
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CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!