my practice lsat score - School & Work

Gillian_Angela · 11-06-2009, 04:56 PM

was a joke [153]

I didn't even open up a single book on the test, format, nothing. I was coming in off of a week of hell at school (4 midterms, and an 8 page paper due), and I went in to gauge myself and what I needed to work on. I haven't started my plan of action yet. The only thing I've done is enroll in a 300 level logic course for next semester, and I enrolled in an LSAT Hyperlearning course by Princeton Review. My christmas presents are the LSAT books for dummies. So as I expected..logic was my utter-downfall, and my reading comprehension was my strong point

Hopefully that score will climb 10-11 points by June. Is it possible?

Jumpin Jollyfish · 11-06-2009, 04:59 PM

Aww hun!! Everything is possible! You can do this!! I KNOW you can!!

Evie · 11-06-2009, 05:01 PM

No idea Gillybean since I haven't taken the LSAT. But when I took the GRE I just prepared, studied, took as many practice tests as I could (usually the Kaplan/Princeton Review books have CDs with practice tests) and it helped a ton. Hang in there, don't get discouraged, and I have faith that you'll do well.

Gillian_Angela · 11-06-2009, 05:01 PM

I hope so

now I'm really going to have to kick it into high gear. I'm only taking 15 credit hours next semester so I can have time to devote to it!

Gillian_Angela · 11-06-2009, 05:02 PM

Originally Posted by Evie

No idea Gillybean since I haven't taken the LSAT. But when I took the GRE I just prepared, studied, took as many practice tests as I could (usually the Kaplan/Princeton Review books have CDs with practice tests) and it helped a ton. Hang in there, don't get discouraged, and I have faith that you'll do well.

oh thanks so much Ev. I'm hoping this practice test score isn't the end all tell all. I want to at least make it out of the 150s.

beachk · 11-06-2009, 06:44 PM

you still have a lot of time to improve.
are you 100% sure you want to go to law school? i know that may sound kind of rude to ask, but i just finished law school and really wish i had thought things through more before committing.

Gillian_Angela · 11-07-2009, 10:15 AM

I'm positive, there have been a lot of stepping stones to getting to this position and experiences I've had. The place I worked at over the summer dealt a lot with estate and probate law, and it really interested me. My mom is a paralegal as well who works with IP & Contract law. I've went to seminars on it, I have a pre-law advisor at school, and I just started going to events/meetings with representatives from law schools.

When I got my practice LSAT score back (which I went into this with NO idea about the test at all. I never so much as opened a book pertaining to the format of it and went in completely blind. But I did that so I could gauge my weaknesses), I also got a letter from the University of Notre Dame from the woman I talked with for about an hour. I was really interested in the LL.M JSD program in International Human Rights, so she was giving me insight into that. I'm going to tour some campuses this summer after I take my LSAT. I know it's what I want to do, and a lot of my research papers this semester are doing a lot with legal history.

For example, one of the paper's I'm working on now has to deal with the Reformation, so I picked the English Reformation and the split with Rome. My paper is documenting the Crown's legal justification and Catholic resistance via the legal system. It's looking at the Act of Supremacy first and foremost, documents from the Court of Augmentations, Deed's of Surrender of monastic lands and writs of Attainder of other Monastic lands & convents. So I've got all of these documents to work with, and I actually had to go to Case Western's law library to do research on English common law for my paper.

I'm pretty interested in it, and my major has always worked well with it. My concentration deals with Human Rights to an extent, as I tend to focus on the Holocaust with my concentration.

Jen86 · 11-09-2009, 12:40 PM

Congratulations for taking the practice LSAT. I was in the first group to actually take the "new" LSAT and because I was prepared for certain types of questions and had either 2 or 3 of the "new" section my score was not as good as I had hoped for. I then took the LSAT again and improved by 14 points. I am now in my second year of law school, so if you have any questions about the process in general feel free to PM me.

Viva · 11-09-2009, 02:41 PM

I've been told that the logic games bible is really good. I bought it but I still haven't opened it yet, LOL. It looks pretty good, though.

Gillian_Angela · 11-09-2009, 03:24 PM

Originally Posted by Jen86

Congratulations for taking the practice LSAT. I was in the first group to actually take the "new" LSAT and because I was prepared for certain types of questions and had either 2 or 3 of the "new" section my score was not as good as I had hoped for. I then took the LSAT again and improved by 14 points. I am now in my second year of law school, so if you have any questions about the process in general feel free to PM me.

yes so there is hope!

thank you for the offer

Originally Posted by Viva

I've been told that the logic games bible is really good. I bought it but I still haven't opened it yet, LOL. It looks pretty good, though.

oh sounds good thank you!

11-06-2009, 04:56 PM	#1 (permalink)
Gillian_Angela protestant ethos with vestiges of communitarianism... Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 11,682 Classifieds: (0) Activity: 41% Longevity: 37%	my practice lsat score was a joke [153] I didn't even open up a single book on the test, format, nothing. I was coming in off of a week of hell at school (4 midterms, and an 8 page paper due), and I went in to gauge myself and what I needed to work on. I haven't started my plan of action yet. The only thing I've done is enroll in a 300 level logic course for next semester, and I enrolled in an LSAT Hyperlearning course by Princeton Review. My christmas presents are the LSAT books for dummies. So as I expected..logic was my utter-downfall, and my reading comprehension was my strong point Hopefully that score will climb 10-11 points by June. Is it possible? __________________ She beseeches Him, she will not desist, and when God points to the hands and feet of her Son, nailed to the Cross, and asks, 'How can I forgive His tormentors?' she bids all the saints, all the martyrs, all the angels and archangels to fall down with her and pray for mercy on all without distinction. It ends by her winning from God a respite of suffering every year from Good Friday till Trinity day, and the sinners at once raise a cry of thankfulness from Hell, chanting, 'Thou art just, O Lord, in this judgment.'-The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Jumpin Jollyfish I am a Pielott.. Pylot... Pilote... I FLY PLANES Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Cincinnati, OH Posts: 3,167 Blog Entries: 1 Classifieds: (0) Activity: 59% Longevity: 16%	Aww hun!! Everything is possible! You can do this!! I KNOW you can!! __________________ Proud Wifey to Mushortgurl03!!!

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Evie Rockin' a rock Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Me: Cleveland, OH Him: Sandbox, the Iraqi kind Posts: 5,454 Classifieds: (0) Activity: 76% Longevity: 24%	No idea Gillybean since I haven't taken the LSAT. But when I took the GRE I just prepared, studied, took as many practice tests as I could (usually the Kaplan/Princeton Review books have CDs with practice tests) and it helped a ton. Hang in there, don't get discouraged, and I have faith that you'll do well. __________________ DF: "Everytime I get to see you...in the airport, the last 5 feet, before I have you in my arms and get to touch you...I feel like I'm on fire"

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Gillian_Angela protestant ethos with vestiges of communitarianism... Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 11,682 Classifieds: (0) Activity: 41% Longevity: 37%	I hope so now I'm really going to have to kick it into high gear. I'm only taking 15 credit hours next semester so I can have time to devote to it! __________________ She beseeches Him, she will not desist, and when God points to the hands and feet of her Son, nailed to the Cross, and asks, 'How can I forgive His tormentors?' she bids all the saints, all the martyrs, all the angels and archangels to fall down with her and pray for mercy on all without distinction. It ends by her winning from God a respite of suffering every year from Good Friday till Trinity day, and the sinners at once raise a cry of thankfulness from Hell, chanting, 'Thou art just, O Lord, in this judgment.'-The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky

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beachk i hate iraq Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: him: sandbox, me: virginia Posts: 971 Classifieds: (0) Activity: 75% Longevity: 8%	you still have a lot of time to improve. are you 100% sure you want to go to law school? i know that may sound kind of rude to ask, but i just finished law school and really wish i had thought things through more before committing. __________________ you gotta swim, don't let yourself sink, just find the horizon, i promise you it's not as far as you think... sept 09 deployed buddies

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11-07-2009, 10:15 AM	#7 (permalink)
Gillian_Angela protestant ethos with vestiges of communitarianism... Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 11,682 Classifieds: (0) Activity: 41% Longevity: 37%	I'm positive, there have been a lot of stepping stones to getting to this position and experiences I've had. The place I worked at over the summer dealt a lot with estate and probate law, and it really interested me. My mom is a paralegal as well who works with IP & Contract law. I've went to seminars on it, I have a pre-law advisor at school, and I just started going to events/meetings with representatives from law schools. When I got my practice LSAT score back (which I went into this with NO idea about the test at all. I never so much as opened a book pertaining to the format of it and went in completely blind. But I did that so I could gauge my weaknesses), I also got a letter from the University of Notre Dame from the woman I talked with for about an hour. I was really interested in the LL.M JSD program in International Human Rights, so she was giving me insight into that. I'm going to tour some campuses this summer after I take my LSAT. I know it's what I want to do, and a lot of my research papers this semester are doing a lot with legal history. For example, one of the paper's I'm working on now has to deal with the Reformation, so I picked the English Reformation and the split with Rome. My paper is documenting the Crown's legal justification and Catholic resistance via the legal system. It's looking at the Act of Supremacy first and foremost, documents from the Court of Augmentations, Deed's of Surrender of monastic lands and writs of Attainder of other Monastic lands & convents. So I've got all of these documents to work with, and I actually had to go to Case Western's law library to do research on English common law for my paper. I'm pretty interested in it, and my major has always worked well with it. My concentration deals with Human Rights to an extent, as I tend to focus on the Holocaust with my concentration. __________________ She beseeches Him, she will not desist, and when God points to the hands and feet of her Son, nailed to the Cross, and asks, 'How can I forgive His tormentors?' she bids all the saints, all the martyrs, all the angels and archangels to fall down with her and pray for mercy on all without distinction. It ends by her winning from God a respite of suffering every year from Good Friday till Trinity day, and the sinners at once raise a cry of thankfulness from Hell, chanting, 'Thou art just, O Lord, in this judgment.'-The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky

11-09-2009, 12:40 PM	#8 (permalink)
Jen86 Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 15 Classifieds: (0) Activity: 13% Longevity: 0%	Congratulations for taking the practice LSAT. I was in the first group to actually take the "new" LSAT and because I was prepared for certain types of questions and had either 2 or 3 of the "new" section my score was not as good as I had hoped for. I then took the LSAT again and improved by 14 points. I am now in my second year of law school, so if you have any questions about the process in general feel free to PM me.

11-09-2009, 02:41 PM	#9 (permalink)
Viva ahimsa Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Las Vegas Posts: 2,750 Classifieds: (0) Activity: 18% Longevity: 31%	I've been told that the logic games bible is really good. I bought it but I still haven't opened it yet, LOL. It looks pretty good, though. __________________ It's Halloween so.... you know, BOO!