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you wanna go to law school? yeah, well you’ll need to take the lsat. this is the standard acceptance exam for law school entrance.  the basics are these: it’s scored between 120 and 180 (similar to other standardized test like the SAT; just drop the 1 and add a zero).  if you are wondering a handful of people score a 180 every year, so it is possible, but usually these folks have problems in the head . four sections + one extra for the psychomatricians (one reading comprehension, one logic games and two reasoning sections). 101 total questions and you don’t loose any points for guessing. w00t!

i’m embarrassed to say i scored dead average but the following week i increased my correct answers by 9. i’ll take my third practice test on saturday and hope to increase my correct answers by another 10; this will get me into the 80th percentile (160+). my ultimate goal is a 173 (yeah, i know i have a crap load to do to get there). i’ve already put 70+ hours in studying which is scary b/c “some experts” claim you need 300 hours to reach your peak for the LSAT. i’m a little scared b/c school starts next week and i’m taking a nasty load of classes (21/24 credits) and i’m going to have to be ready by Dec 6 for the actual test. ulsar?

so where i am at and where i need to be is pretty interestin; i’m answering about 65+/- question correct. i need to be +90. i’ve been looking at my two practice tests and analyzing problem area’s where i can have the most impact over the next couple of practice tests. since logical reasoning is two sections and i’m leaving about 24 points on the table that has naturally been where i’ve been working. ironically, many students spend much of their time on the games section, i’m not even finishing the game section in the practice tests, but that’s not where most the points are. i’ll keep working on the game section each week, but make the big push closer to the test. this is b/c doing the games correct hasn’t been my problem; it’s been doing them fast enough. this will just take practice.

well i better get back to studying …