Re: I'm taking the LSAT tomorrow! AfterMath: No lawyer here but best of luck. Let us know how it goes.
Re: I'm taking the LSAT tomorrow! tara: [quote author=ISO link=topic=19572.msg178855#msg178855 date=1128111393">
Good luck, take a deep breath, and don't let it freak you out.
When I practice tested, I got a pretty craptastic score each and every time, consistent, but craptastic, and I picked up 10 points with the scaling etc. So just remember to fill in all th blanks if you run out of time (I got all of them done but the stupid logic games and I only had like 3 questions left there...pace yourself).
It will be fine, and years from now, you will be all sworn in with your bar card, and big plaques to hang on the wall....
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Thanks, everyone! (Especially TH and ISO!)
I read abnormally fast, which I know will help. I've never not finished a section of a "live" standardized test, and haven't not finished a practice LSAT section in awhile. I've grown to enjoy the games, actually, and can do them in under 8 minutes (most of 'em, anyway). If I get a "roads connecting the village" or a "two teams, seven people, Anna can't play with Beth" game (it's probably clear I didn't take a review class, since I don't know the correct names for these games), I can do those in three or four minutes. (I'm just hoping against a "if light A is on, light B is off," or "eight people at a table" because I can't diagram those worth a damn and while I can do them eventually through elimination, they suck up time.)
If I don't overthink things on logical reasoning, I'll be OK.
It's quiet here tonight (upstairs neighbors gone, BF and his daughter at his house), so I will watch TIVO'd "Arrested Development" and go to bed at a reasonable hour.
Thanks again!
Re: I'm taking the LSAT tomorrow! in_search_of: How'd it go?!
Re: I'm taking the LSAT tomorrow! sigkapgirl: Yeah yeah!!! How'd it go!?!?!?!?!?
Re: I'm taking the LSAT tomorrow! tara: Thanks for asking!
It went...at least OK. That's about all I can tell. OK should be enough to get me in where I want to go; we'll see if it went better than OK. If it went worse, it's because something weird happened (my No. 2 pencils got swapped with Letter Q's), and I'll retake in December.
The Games section was harder than I was used to (I still finished but had to guess on a couple of questions -- and I got a friggin' light switch problem, literally -- actual light switches...grr...), but the Reasoning sections were easier than I was used to, and there are more of them, so, hey.
One of the Reasonings was the experimental section, and I think I know which one it was, because some of the questions were just weird. It's too bad, too, because I think I did OK on that.
One of the Reading Comp sections was about the merits of mediation vs. adjudication in family court cases, and that was tough, because my BF's going through a very tedious collaborative divorce with a mediator and it was hard to separate what was said in the passage (i.e. what matters on the test) from real-world example.
They neither gave out nor allowed pens for the writing sample -- I wrote two pages in No. 2 pencil. Eek. (Which is a better fundraiser, given that it has to make money and foster community involvment: A raffle or a pancake breakfast? I argued the raffle, even though I think the breakfast is a better choice-- I'm better, oddly, at arguing a position contrary to my own, when I only have 35 minutes to do so. I write for a living, so I know my essay's not going to suck, even if it's unspectacular. Plus, nobody's reading it anyway.)
I was very fried by the end of it -- I went home and took a nap, then went to the playground with J and his daughter. I was still fried Sunday, so I made some bread and some ice cream and that seemed to snap me out of it. I slept for about 9 hours Sunday night.
I should know late October...my fingers are crossed...
Thanks for the well-wishes, everyone...
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