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| Posted: 23 May 2009 11:09 PM PDT  Obla dee obla duh
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| 30-Day LSAT Blog - Day 14 pt 2 Posted: 23 May 2009 10:55 PM PDT Day 14 is the Midway Point because the test day is Day 30.Well, here’s the solution to the crisis in Part 1. When I transcribed the answers, I transposed them over slightly. The test wasn’t the best, but it was better than I made it out to be because of the scoring error. I’m going to do a quick breakdown:
The real disappointment here isn’t RC, and it isn’t Games (I’m amazed I scored over half, I only did 2.5 games). It’s that second LR. Just look at the difference in performance: one error on the first section versus seven errors on the second. That one section was the difference between a 79% and an 85%. For the June LSAT, I’m willing to write-off losses. The five errors on Reading were sloppy but unfortunate. The Games . . . I’m not pinning any hopes of a dramatic score increase on the games (although my highest in a Games section is 80%, so I’m not giving up). Let’s do a strictly hypothetical test, where I entered in the purest possible form. The best test I could possibly hope to achieve, if the stars all aligned:
That would have scaled up to a 170. Wow. So, it is possible. And right after I score 89% on the June LSAT I shall fly up and away on my wingéd pony Hyperion and have dinner with the Old King Cole in his sherbet palace. {Remember! If you plan on taking the June LSAT in a Canadian testing center, and you are an American, you will need either a passport or a passport card to cross the border! If you are traveling by land, either will work, but if you are flying on a pony named Hyperion the passport card is not valid!} My main concern now is fatigue, or as my fellow testers in Montreal call it, fatty-gə. I love schwas. Although that second LR test had a very crafty question that set a trap I fell into perfectly, I have to assume that the biggest difference between my score on the first section and the score on the second section is the fact that they were separated by a middle section, and on the test will likely be separated by two or three sections. This is an Analytical Reasoning problem if I’ve ever heard one. So, this is an issue, since I have a crapton of shifts at the grocery store. I was lucky enough to give one away, giving me three days off before test day. However, this means I will need find unbroken 3 hour long blocks of time to bang out full-length tests. It isn’t happening tomorrow because of a monster 8 hour shift. As I mentioned below, I really need to trust that I will get better at keeping my sharp during this test as I go along, as long as I practice staying sharp now. But no one is looking forward to June 8 more than me, even if the only reason is that I can push the LSATs out of my mind until June 29. However, I need to pay extra TLC to the games, because I am clearly inefficient in that area. I’m not expecting a dramatic increase, as I mentioned above, but a minor increase would be delightful. |
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