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What NOT to Do While Preparing for Your LSAT Date
Studying for the LSAT is not as straightforward as some would think; there is a right way and a wrong way to go about it. To help ensure that you get as much out of your studying as possible, here are the top 10 mistakes students make while preparing for their LSAT date:
Trying to tackle too much at once: Preparing for the LSAT takes a lot of time; make sure you pick an LSAT date that allows you to put in the time to properly study. If you’re a full time student, working a part-time job, and holding an internship – consider waiting for an LSAT date when your workload won’t be so intense.
Not establishing a solid foundation from the beginning: The later, more advanced concepts build upon the earlier. For example, not learning how to diagram properly will do more than interfere with your ability to answer a few MBT questions – some of the hardest LR questions (sufficient, necessary, parallel) and some of the harder games (grouping and combo) require a solid understanding of conditional statements. Read Entire Article…
Oct 13, 2011 - 6:59 pm - By Nick Rey
Tags: LSAT, LSAT advice, lsat homework, LSAT prep
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How Retakers Should Reapproach Their LSAT Prep
If you cancelled your October LSAT score and you’re retaking in December, this here’s for you. And right away, here’s what needs to happen: change. However you tackled your LSAT prep last time around, it wasn’t enough. So things have to be different this time.
Different how? Well, it depends on what didn’t work last time. You need to look at the months of LSAT prep leading up to October’s test, and find out what went wrong.
For many people, one factor (often the largest) is time. Maybe you just need more time for LSAT prep to get you to your target score. Often people find their score to be going on a great upward trajectory, but it just didn’t get to where they wanted it to be in time. Studying for two more months will no doubt help. But really, really, really make time. Really.
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Oct 10, 2011 - 6:20 pm - By Colin Elzie
Tags: cancelling lsat, LSAT, LSAT advice, LSAT prep, LSAT preparation, most strongly supported, retaking lsat
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What Not to Do the Day Before the LSAT
Alright, you LSATers, it’s the day before game day. You’ve given yourself one last pep talk. You know your route to the testing center. You’ve woken up way earlier than seems appropriate for the last two weeks. You know where you’re eating breakfast before the exam and you’ve got some warm-up questions ready to go for tomorrow morning. It seems as though nothing could go wrong. And yet, some people still manage to screw things up. To prevent you from encountering such a fate, I’ve compiled a brief and handy list of things NOT to do the day before the LSAT.
1. Don’t burn yourself out.
If you haven’t totally mastered a technique at this stage of the game, spending a couple extra hours freaking yourself out the day before the test isn’t going to help. It’s going to hurt. A lot.
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Sep 30, 2011 - 10:12 am - By Alex Davis
Tags: day before the lsat, LSAT advice, lsat eve, LSAT prep, LSAT preparation
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Considering Withdrawing from or Postponing Your LSAT?
While some of you may be going through other withdrawals a few days after the LSAT (both alcohol withdrawal from the bender you’ve been on, and Adderall withdrawal because you just needed that extra boost), today we’re going to address the new withdrawal policy by the LSAC and how it applies to the test Saturday.
First off, the new policy allows you to withdraw up until midnight Friday. That means you better pull the trigger by 11:59:59 P.M. EST if you don’t want the law schools to know that you were registered for October. Withdrawing means that no law school will be any wiser.
Now, onto the meat of the article.
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Sep 28, 2011 - 5:35 pm - By Matt Shinners
Tags: cancelling lsat, LSAT advice, withdrawing from the lsat
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What You Can and Can Not Bring the Day of the LSAT
This Saturday you and thousands of others will roll out of bed, chug a couple shots of espresso, and gather to collectively face the October LSAT. To give yourself the best chance at scoring well (surpassing even your best PEs), it’s essential that you show up informed and properly prepared. This will help you minimize stress on game day, letting you slip into the zone and allow your training to take over.
The most important thing you can do at this point is to make sure you have everything you need already assembled and ready to go. The LSAC has some strange requirements, and if you’re not aware of them, you may not even be able to enter the testing center. Here’s what you absolutely must bring:
• Admission ticket – if you don’t have one, you can reprint it online at LSAC.org’s “Day of the LSAT” page.
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Sep 27, 2011 - 5:00 pm - By Nick Rey
Tags: day of the lsat, LSAT, LSAT advice, LSAT prep, most strongly supported
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Down the Home Stretch of your LSAT Journey
The LSAT is nearly here! We’re just five days away from the most important test of the week! Before you know it this will all be behind you. But how to spend this last week?
The name of the game is moderation. You might feel the need to do all-day marathons of study, but that’s actually not the best idea. Your main goal is maintaining your mental health, and burning yourself out isn’t a good way to do that. You should do a few more tests this week, and take the time to review them, but this week should be less hectic than the last few months have been.
For the tests you do take, try to take them in as realistic settings as possible. If you can, begin them around 9:30 AM, as that’s roughly the time you’ll begin your test on Saturday. Also, try to take them somewhere outside of your comfort zone to get ready for the big day.
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Sep 26, 2011 - 5:17 pm - By Colin Elzie
Tags: LSAT advice, LSAT prep, most strongly supported
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How to Mix Football and Studying for the LSAT
Since the Super Bowl way back in February, most Americans have been eagerly awaiting weekends filled with high-flying, hard-hitting football action.
As you might have discovered, college and pro football have been doing their best to distract you from studying for the LSAT. Whether it’s Thursday and Monday night or all day Saturday and Sunday, it almost seems like the NCAA and NFL are trying to take over your life. Add a looming LSAT date into the mix and you’ve got a recipe for disaster.
With so much riding on this test, it’s of utmost importance that you handle your football consumption with care — especially during this final week of studying for the LSAT. It’s easy to lose an entire day in a daze of football frenzy, much less an entire weekend.
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Sep 23, 2011 - 6:18 pm - By Nick Rey
Tags: LSAT, LSAT advice, LSAT preparation, most strongly supported, studying for the lsat
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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
Tags: LSAT, LSAT advice, LSAT prep, LSAT preparation, take the lsat
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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
Tags: LSAT advice, LSAT prep, most strongly supported, test stress
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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
Tags: LSAT, LSAT advice, LSAT prep, LSAT preparation, lsats, most strongly supported
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