Taking the LSAT today...Need Ledgie luck and prayers!

[Sorcerer386]

The LSATs...the most evil, DEMONIC test in the world. I took it once, got a measley 148, took it again, and cancelled the score and walked out on the test halfway through (I knew my score wouldn't be much of an improvement, if one at all). Everything sucks about this test, but some special specifics: 1) sections are 35 minutes long, which seems like a long time, until you see how much there is in each section. Logic games has FOUR games that must be set up and have questions answer, Arguments has 24-26 usually, all containing a paragraph to read and a question or two to answer, and Reading Comprehension, four LONG, BORING articles to read and questions to answer on them. 2) There are five sections, but only FOUR are scored, meaning you do an entire section of work for no reason, and you don't know which section is "experimental." You can figure it out by section five, because you know the test is 101 questions, so whichever section won't allow you to get 101 questions is the experimental one, but by then it is too late because it is usually the second or third section, which you've already labored over. 3) You have to do a writing sample that is also not included in your score, which definitely should be considering how long the jackasses at the testing center take to score the tests.

The logic section is just brutal too. I bought a book explaining how to diagram them, and there are like, 10 different types, and some include such elaborate diagramming that I don't understand how anyone can diagram them in enough time to answer the questions. They are a little different from Jason's example. More like, there are five types of music, A B C D and E, and four music stores, W, X, Y, and Z. Then clues like, "W does not sell A," "If X sells D, then it doesn't sell B," "Z sells more than one type of music but no more than 3," etc. Then questions like, "What types of music does Y sell?" This is one of the more elaborate ones, but these kind can still appear on there.

I hope everything went well Alex.