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I've scored 174 on 10 of the 12 practice tests I've done so far (170/175 for the other two), but for whatever reason I'm convinced that I'll barely score over 160 when it comes to the actual test. I figure practice tests don't mean too much, since you're not facing the pressure of writing an actual test.
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Low Ping Gentleman posted:I've scored 174 on 10 of the 12 practice tests I've done so far (170/175 for the other two), but for whatever reason I'm convinced that I'll barely score over 160 when it comes to the actual test. I figure practice tests don't mean too much, since you're not facing the pressure of writing an actual test.
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Enigma89 posted:Just coming in here to tell everyone that I am excited for the law school exam this week. I first posted in here when I was worried about my initial 141 practice LSAT score. In true Goon legal fashion, everyone told me to kill myself or change professions, I kept at it and now am scoring a constant 170-173 in my practice LSATs. Then you must be the snowflake the prophecy foretold. I see a bright future ahead of you...For you are the quisatz hadrach
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Enigma89 posted:Just coming in here to tell everyone that I am excited for the law school exam this week. I first posted in here when I was worried about my initial 141 practice LSAT score. In true Goon legal fashion, everyone told me to kill myself or change professions, I kept at it and now am scoring a constant 170-173 in my practice LSATs. Godspeed goon. Best of luck, honestly. As much as we badmouth people who want to go to law school, there's really nothing wrong with studying hard and taking the LSAT. You still have plenty of time to decide not to pursue law school.
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Omerta fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Aug 17, 2011 |
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Omerta posted:My rule that I told people who told me their practice scores is, if they are actually obeying test conditions (no longer break, no peeking at answers in the back, no courtesy 1 minute extra because this is a weird game) then you should get whatever you're getting on practice tests -4 to -6 points. The highest score I got was a 176 a week before the LSAT and I got exactly five points lower. I consider myself a pretty good test taker too so I guess if you have severe test anxiety knock a few more points off. This is about right. My 173 average on my practice tests turned into a 168. (NOTE: I did not study for the 3 months before my test. I stayed up all night the night before watching Battlestar Galactica. I really only have myself to blame but I choose to blame others).
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JudicialRestraints posted:This is about right. My 173 average on my practice tests turned into a 168. (NOTE: I did not study for the 3 months before my test. I stayed up all night the night before watching Battlestar Galactica. I really only have myself to blame but I choose to blame others). I'm going to law school to practice space law. That is to say, I want to get genocidal and morally ambiguous yet incredibly charismatic and well dressed men off the hook for wrongful conduct... in space!
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I tested 168-172, got a 169, was happy until I found out that I got a perfect score on 3 of the 4 sections, and like 15 logic game questions wrong. Took it again, got 5 points higher than my highest practice score (177).Linguica posted:If you're diligently taking practice exams in the proper manner (obeying strict time limits in an unfamiliar environment) then your real LSAT score ought to be in the same range.
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Linguica posted:If you're diligently taking practice exams in the proper manner (obeying strict time limits in an unfamiliar environment) then your real LSAT score ought to be in the same range.
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nm posted:Except for the pressure and all the annoying want to be lawyers around you. I was a mid-low 170 who became a 168 (which then was good enough for top 20, now wouldn't be) It was good enough last year for the "top 20" that's about to lose the axe to Wisconsin yet again.
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JudicialRestraints posted:It was good enough last year for the "top 20" that's about to lose the axe to Wisconsin yet again.
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nm posted:Top 20 and large scholarships You may have our jobs, but Bucky has your Axe (pretty sure that Bucky has your Axe is our homecoming motto).
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Omerta posted:My rule that I told people who told me their practice scores is, if they are actually obeying test conditions (no longer break, no peeking at answers in the back, no courtesy 1 minute extra because this is a weird game) then you should get whatever you're getting on practice tests -4 to -6 points. The highest score I got was a 176 a week before the LSAT and I got exactly five points lower. I consider myself a pretty good test taker too so I guess if you have severe test anxiety knock a few more points off. I heard 3-5 points off and that held true for me. I was testing 180 for about 2 weeks before the test and ended up with a 175, so beware of any and all optimism.
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I just realized I "billed" 2485 hours last year as a patent examiner.
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Baruch Obamawitz posted:I just realized I "billed" 2485 hours last year as a patent examiner.
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evilweasel posted:Is that counting all of your hours as "billable" though? Doesn't count non-production hours, so no.
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Baruch Obamawitz posted:Doesn't count non-production hours, so no. We're also on a production system where I, for instance have about 17 hours to produce an Office Action, and I hit 115%, so I got something like a 2% bonus yay
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OptimistPrime posted:Also, hours in prosecution are brutal in their own way because of how tightly budgeted most applications are.
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I treated the LSAT like a football game, pumped myself up, and the "game-day" adrenaline carried me to a 173. My practice average was 171. So you could also score a little higher than your average. Of course you could also say I blew it getting so hyped up. 6 of my 7 wrong answers were right out of the gate on the 1st section of the test. Reading Comprehension. Ugh. p.s. I'm now a 2L as WashingTTTon & Lee, and have had one single call-back interview from OCI and a metric poo poo-ton of rejections. Last 2 interviews in 2 days. Journal, prior work experience (management), MBA, etc. Don't go, no jobs, etc. etc.
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Boosted_C5 posted:I treated the LSAT like a football game, pumped myself up, and the "game-day" adrenaline carried me to a 173. My practice average was 171. Yeah not saying that you can't do better. There was a running joke about Sigma Nus at my undergrad doing way better on the LSAT than their scores would predict. Every year just one out of the Sigma Nus (out of 2-4) would test mid to low 160s then blow out a 174+ for no reason while having a sub-3.0 gpa. It happened all four years I was at my undergrad. I think the dude my year had a 175/3.05 or something and got in ED at G-Town. I'll have to ask around in a few weeks to see if the streak continues. Omerta fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Oct 5, 2010 |
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Green Crayons posted:If you were watching Crossroads Pt. 1 and 2, you only have yourself to blame for not learning what you needed to know by osmosis. PS. SPOILERSSSSSS
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chinchilla posted:Nothing a blow dryer won't fix. They don't like it but it saves that precious, precious fur. Correction: some chinchillas actually enjoy the blow dryer. Weirdos. It's more the being-held-in-one-spot thing that bothers them.
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chinchilla posted:Correction: some chinchillas actually enjoy the blow dryer. Weirdos. It's more the being-held-in-one-spot thing that bothers them. lovin dis
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Stop fucked around with this message at 05:47 on Jan 30, 2013 |
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Then you must be the snowflake the prophecy foretold. I see a bright future ahead of you...For you are the quisatz hadrach
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Stop posted:I got into law school. What one and is it Cal/Stanford like you wanted? Also Sigma Nu = Sigma Nuisance
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Stop fucked around with this message at 05:48 on Jan 30, 2013 |
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Yay! http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-prosecutorial-misconduct-20101005,0,6016828.story quote:The researchers discovered 707 cases in which state and federal courts and appellate courts found prosecutorial misconduct in opinions issued between 1997 and 2009. Of those, 67 prosecutors committed misconduct in more than one case, including three who committed misconduct four times and two who did so five times.
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Soothing Vapors posted:it's kwisatz you fuckin scrub I don't read those loving nerd bibles, what's wrong with you. The little girl yelled that at Sting and then the dude from Twin Peaks blew up a bunch of storm troopers in trash bags with those fake guns
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Low Ping Gentleman posted:I've scored 174 on 10 of the 12 practice tests I've done so far (170/175 for the other two), but for whatever reason I'm convinced that I'll barely score over 160 when it comes to the actual test. I figure practice tests don't mean too much, since you're not facing the pressure of writing an actual test. I took the LSAT three times and for my third and best try, what made the difference was approaching it like a practice test. The previous two, I was thinking that I had to get every question right and overthought my answers. When I relaxed the last time, I got exactly where I was practicing.
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Phil Moscowitz posted:I don't read those loving nerd bibles, what's wrong with you. The little girl yelled that at Sting and then the dude from Twin Peaks blew up a bunch of storm troopers in trash bags with those fake guns Are you two talking about a real thing
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Holland Oats posted:I took the LSAT three times and for my third and best try, what made the difference was approaching it like a practice test. The previous two, I was thinking that I had to get every question right and overthought my answers. When I relaxed the last time, I got exactly where I was practicing. Basically same here. Stressed stressed stressed for December, got a 166 when I'd been practicing 169. Didn't look at an LSAT for all of January, did one practice the first week of February, got a 171; took the real thing, got a 173.
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nm posted:Yay! You know how some OBGYNs become OBGYNs just so they can dissuade and/or kill women who want abortions? Some prosecutors become prosecutors just so they can put poor black/brown people in jail, and to hell with the law. It's so crazy these stories of the crazy rear end people who purport to be on the same intellectual level as us. These guys are the Tea Party of lawyers. Even penniless paupers who will die alone and young (from liver failure) (all of us) know these guys are insane BigHead fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Oct 6, 2010 |
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BigHead posted:You know how some OBGYNs become OBGYNs just so they can dissuade and/or kill women who want abortions? Some prosecutors become prosecutors just so they can put poor black/brown people in jail, and to hell with the law. It's so crazy these stories of the crazy rear end people who purport to be on the same intellectual level as us. These guys are the Tea Party of lawyers. Even penniless paupers who will die alone and young (from liver failure) (all of us) know these guys are insane http://www.ocregister.com/news/name-200589-site-pierce.html quote:In his letter to Flory, Rackauckas wrote: "As you are well aware, I explicitly explained in my meeting with you that I would not be endorsing any deputy district attorneys until the time for candidates to file has run. I further explained that I did not want to endorse one deputy district attorney over another should more than one deputy run for the same office. Also check this out: http://www.metnews.com/articles/flor103103.htm quote:A prosecutor engaged in “outrageous misconduct” when he told a judge he intended to violate the judge’s order limiting his closing argument, and proceeded to do so, the Fourth District Court of Appeal said yesterday. . . . He has a job still. edit: this site is awesome: http://www.veritasinitiative.org/our-work/cases/ edit2: Oh poo poo http://www.veritasinitiative.org/state-cases/?county=Humboldt quote:He referred to one woman as "dark skinned," claimed that Native Americans are "resistive of the criminal justice system," and said that he had heard "child molesting is okay in certain [N]ative American cultures. nm fucked around with this message at 04:52 on Oct 6, 2010 |
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BigHead posted:You know how some OBGYNs become OBGYNs just so they can dissuade and/or kill women who want abortions? Some prosecutors become prosecutors just so they can put poor black/brown people in jail, and to hell with the law. It's so crazy these stories of the crazy rear end people who purport to be on the same intellectual level as us. These guys are the Tea Party of lawyers. Even penniless paupers who will die alone and young (from liver failure) (all of us) know these guys are insane Fair prosecutors get hung out to dry and don't last in a judicial system bent on splitting babies and a political system encouraging a blind jihad against crime regardless of circumstances.
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Abugadu posted:Fair prosecutors get hung out to dry and don't last in a judicial system bent on splitting babies and a political system encouraging a blind jihad against crime regardless of circumstances. The just about the fairest lawyer I know ran the office.
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Abugadu posted:Fair prosecutors get hung out to dry and don't last in a judicial system bent on splitting babies and a political system encouraging a blind jihad against crime regardless of circumstances. To be fair, fair prosecutors aren't elected. And if they aren't elected, they don't give a gently caress what some hick from the sticks thinks. And by "hick from the sticks" I mean hick from the sticks and elected official. Edit: in my limited experience. BigHead fucked around with this message at 05:02 on Oct 6, 2010 |
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What they got against white folk where you all are from? Every prosecutor I know is fair
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Phil Moscowitz posted:What they got against white folk where you all are from? Every prosecutor I know is fair
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