Law School Discussion

Quote from: TheDudeMan on February 03, 2009, 11:11:07 AM

Because what I said IS true.  Would you prefer it delivered in a sugar coated fashion?

i personally prefer my bitter pills coated in sugar, so i wouldn't necessarily fault her if she did.

Oh man pretty smart. You are definitely not stuck up. My bad.

Different parts of America all together. Syracuse is T2 ranked 100 and suppose to be going up in the rankings. USF is T3 and was dropped from T2 in recent years. I want to go to the school that offers the stronger reputation.

Between these two choices and without including weather as a factor, which would you pick?

I think we have all been through this, at least I have.

First of all, since you have until June to take the test, your current concentration should be only on accuracy. Don't worry about time AT ALL right now. You should focus on learning and comprehension over simulated timed conditions. The more you master before you start timing, the easier it will be to do the test when you do time it.

Sounds like you are having problems choosing between the real answer and the "trick/almost" answer. Just keep practicing and eventually you will start to see patterns.

In my opinion, going from 12-16 wrong down to 8-9 is very good for just 2 weeks of practice. Imagine how much better you will be doing when the June test rolls around.

Also, you may want to consider studying for all sections right now. It makes studying easier because just doing all LR is killer on my brain. When you take a "break" and do LG or RC instead, coming back to LR seems easier.

Is this really true? How do people know this stuff?

Lets start a thread specifically to discuss distractions while taking or studying for the LSAT. I am positive that all of us had had to put with a roommate, family member, friends, car alarms, street noise, crappy locations, time of day, loud neighbors, work, vices, the internet.... At least one of these things has distracted you... maybe all of them throughout your time spent studying for the LSAT. 

I had a loud roommate who was just a very noisy person. Its like he made noise just to get attention. Talked loudly on the phone, listened to music 24/7, always asked "hows it was going?" every 15 mins, and did countless other little things that were distracting enough to make my apartment a no study zone.

Since I have been out of school for 2 1/2 years I can't use a university library. I had to use the San Francisco main public library. The facility itself is very nice but the place gets flooded with homeless people daily. Every other seat or desk is occupied by a poor soul who can't help from talking to themselves or falling asleep and snoring or organizing their belongs for several hours while making enough noise to wake the dead.

I studied at this library for hours almost every day for several months and started to get use to it. I saw these flaws as strengths. If I could put up with this.... I could put up with any distractions.... I rarely went to a coffee shop or something because I needed either complete white noise or complete silence while studying. If I had neither one, then I could not concentrate. 

The worst day ever was right when I began to click with the logic games. I was on a roll when suddenly the Blue Angels flew over the library. The were looping around the whole city getting ready for their weekend airshow. I was sitting next to a window and spent at least 2-3 hours "studying" how cool the Blue Angles were. The whole day was wasted in the LSAT sense.

The last thing that distracted me was the internet. I am so used to checking my email or some other crap 50 times a day that I would want to read my email or check facebook in the middle of questions. I had to unplug myself when I went to study. No internet, phone away in backpack on SILENT.

What about all of you? What was or is the most distracting stuff that you put up with?