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Don’t Be a Negative Nancy When You Take the LSAT
There’s a pernicious myth (not to be confused with a vermicious knid) that there will be a huge score difference between the times when you practice the LSAT and the time when you take the LSAT. Some folks are happy with their practice test scores, but they manage to convince themselves that everything is going to change when they actually sit down and take the LSAT.
Poppycock! You will be nervous when you actually take the LSAT, but that’s no matter. It’s to be expected. What you don’t want to be is a Negative Nancy (or a Debbie Downer). As has been repeated by many a high school football coach, “If you think you can, you will. If you think can’t, you’re right.” Same thing goes for when you take the LSAT. You don’t want to run headlong into a self-fulfilling prophecy that takes the form of poor LSAT score.
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Sep 22, 2011 - 10:29 am - By Alex Davis
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Battle LSAT Anxiety with Your Brain (and Butt)
For today’s post we brought in recently licensed marriage and family therapist Megan Riley to share her thoughts on controlling test day anxiety.
Adrenaline
When you’re anxious, your body secretes adrenaline. It’s a super basic human response that you’ve probably heard about as the fight-or-flight response. It’s only really helpful though if you are, say, getting ready to fight off a predator. The problem is, there aren’t a whole lot of pouncing mountain lions in LSAT study.
In fact, adrenaline, while wonderful for various physically demanding or life-threatening situations, isn’t so great for taking a test of standardized logic.
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Sep 20, 2011 - 6:00 pm - By Contributing writer
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Retakers Should Not Worry About Past LSATs
For most of you planning for your LSATs a week from Saturday, it’ll be your first and last time taking the test. But some of you out there are dealing with multiple LSATs. If you’ve taken the LSAT before and are now taking it again in October, you’re in a slightly different situation.
You should have been taking multiple practice LSATs to help you prepare. Hopefully you went over the original real test that you took to figure out what your weak spots on LSATs are. Now that those have been addressed, you should be seeing higher scores on your practice LSATs. You want to ride those into test day. Continue to review your tests for errors and weaknesses. Stay vigilant in discovering your problem areas on practice LSATs, and you’ll continue to improve.
To make sure that October yields the higher score of your multiple LSATs, there are a few things you should do.
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Sep 19, 2011 - 5:42 pm - By Colin Elzie
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Breaking Down Your Day-of-the-LSAT Schedule
We’re a little less than three weeks from the October LSAT, but there’s one area of the exam you might not be prepared for yet: What will your actual LSAT schedule look like on this wonderful day? Well, to start, you need to…
Get there by 8:00. That’s the first thing on your LSAT schedule. We know more sleep is tempting, but arrive early. Why? You should be doing some warm up before the test — a handful of LR problems and a game to get the gears grinding. Second, it’s good to have a buffer; you don’t want to take chances with your LSAT schedule.
Also, use the bathroom before checking in. Once you’re in, they don’t let you out until the test actually starts. So make some lemonade. It’s going to be a couple hours until your LSAT schedule allows for a restroom break.
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Sep 12, 2011 - 4:30 pm - By Colin Elzie
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Wake Up Early and Follow These Best LSAT Practices
As you anxious LSATers eventually make your way to law school and you consider such matters as fiduciary duty and compliance, you’ll run into the phrase “best practices” on at least a semi-frequent basis. It’s a phrase that describes the actions one should take to avoid liability.
Well, if you want to avoid a score in the 150s, then you should follow these LSAT best practices.
LSAT Best Practice #1: Study Early
In this case, “early” has two meanings. The first has to do with how many prep days you give yourself before the actual date of the LSAT. Up to a point, the more days you have, the better. You don’t want to give yourself so much time that you run out of things to practice, but with the catalogue of questions ever expanding, that hardly seems likely.
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Aug 31, 2011 - 4:39 pm - By Alex Davis
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It’s October LSAT Deadline Day. What Should You Do?
Today is the last day to register (on time, at least) for the October LSAT, which means that if you’ve been waiting for the deadline, get to it. It also means that, if you’ve been waiting for the deadline, you might want to book your travel arrangments to the testing center that you’d least enjoy. All of the good ones will be taken, and you could end up in, say, West Chester, Pa., like yours truly. I had an aunt in the area who knew where to get good Cajun food, though, so it worked out okay for me.
After today, the next important deadline for the October LSAT is the postponement date: September 11. While you can still withdraw on Sept. 30 without facing any penalties, you’ll lose your registration fee, and who wants to just toss $100?
The first question some will ask is, “Should I postpone from the October LSAT to the December LSAT?”
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Aug 30, 2011 - 4:55 pm - By Matt Shinners
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The Other Thing the LSAT Tests: Your Patience
The LSAT is coming around the bend, and by now you should have logged hours upon hours of study. In less than five weeks, you’ll be taking this most monumental of LSAT tests. But what to do if things just aren’t clicking?
One of the first things you can do is review your LSAT practice exam misses. Many people feel like they understand the concepts but have a hard time translating that into a high accuracy rate. Going over the questions you got wrong can help immensely with this. As you do this, you’ll learn from your mistakes, and becoming aware of those mistakes will make it less likely that you’ll make them on future LSAT tests.
Another thing you can do is review entire lessons. Sometimes people want to just blaze through the lessons and get right to the LSAT homework, but you should never do that.
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Aug 29, 2011 - 4:00 pm - By Colin Elzie
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Redo Questions When You Study for the LSAT
At this point, you’re hopefully well on your way to crushing the October LSAT. If you’re like most people, the 6000 or so questions released by LSAC will be more than enough to get you to an awesome LSAT score. But sometimes people end up doing all 6000 LSAT questions and still need more. If this has happened to you, maybe you just studied a lot harder and faster than you thought, and ran out prematurely. Or maybe you took the LSAT, bombed it, and are now retaking it, but are quickly running out of unseen questions. For whatever reason, this is a pretty common thing that happens to people, but isn’t as much of an actual problem as you might think.
First of all, think about that number – 6000.
Aug 19, 2011 - 4:20 pm - By Colin Elzie
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LSAT Studying: The Need for Speed
It’s around now (about two months from the LSAT) that people in class start worrying about speed (if they haven’t been already). Almost everyone does this in some way or other, but allow me to just say that this concern is nearly always premature at this point.
Yes, the LSAT is all about time. Most people would answer the vast majority of problems correctly if they had an unlimited amount of time in which to do so. Unfortunately, this isn’t the way the test works. You’re given what seems like (and at first is) an extremely limited amount of time to do some pretty sophisticated stuff.
Aug 13, 2011 - 9:04 am - By Colin Elzie
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Diagramming Difficult Words on the LSAT
The sun is out, the birds are chirping, and people across the land are missing all of it because they’re staying indoors, studying for hours on end. The season of the LSAT is upon us. You might not get to experience much of this spring, but there’ll be time enough for leisure in the park when you’re a handsomely-paid lawyer. Now is the time for LSAT study.
As you probably know by now, conditional statements are one of the most common things you’ll run across on the LSAT. At first, these can be terribly difficult to understand. One of the reasons for this is that there are so many different ways to express a conditional statement.