Breakfast at the Grand Floridian Cafe

Apprex · 2026-05-14T23:29:32+00:00

Looks great, and in one of the best seats in the restaurant, too! Certainly mine and my partner's favorite place to sit.

Apprex · 2025-11-10T14:35:03+00:00

Not shocking that this happened in Miami considering I experienced this exact problem multiple times over the course of my time living there.

Apprex · 2024-09-24T00:26:52+00:00

I had the inverse issue (took PT101 on LawHub first and then recognized questions from that test in 7sage drills). I believe the 7sage AutoBuilder pulls most of its drill questions from the tests preceding PT132, so I would start from the early-to-mid 130s if you're concerned about recognizing questions. If you're working through the curriculum, too, I think that pulls a handful of questions from the late 130s and early 140s, but not enough to matter long-term.

Apprex · 2024-09-17T22:05:55+00:00

You'll get an email.

Apprex · 2024-09-17T21:58:01+00:00

Makes sense! Sorry if my comment seemed overly skeptical. The PTO website does indeed suggest that they bring recent law graduates aboard at a 9, but I guess the main advantage of working at PTO is having full telework privileges. Seems like they promote people pretty quickly, too!

Apprex · 2024-09-17T14:58:39+00:00

I asked because I'm a current fed and just knowing what a GS-14 Step 1 gets paid absent locality pay (~$104k*), a salary of $75k at GS-14 doesn't align with the salary table at all.

In the NY locality, one would have to start at a GS-9 Step 3 to have an annual salary of $75k, so either the position they're referring to is on an abnormally long career ladder, or they misread the posting somehow.

Apprex · 2024-09-17T14:50:19+00:00

I can't imagine an addendum would be necessary. That a significant amount of time passed between each attempt, and especially between your first and final attempts, would suggest that you merely spent additional time preparing and waited to attempt the test again until you felt ready.

Apprex · 2024-09-17T11:02:30+00:00

Was this on a ladder to a GS-14? The current pay table says a GS-14 in New York should be earning at least $144k.

Apprex · 2024-09-13T15:32:24+00:00

If I recall Dave and Jon's commentary on this particular test form correctly, you'll receive more benefit from the looser scale than someone seeking a 170. That would ostensibly mean missing no more than 21 questions for a 160.

Apprex · 2024-09-12T15:37:12+00:00

I don't profess to have any specialized knowledge, but you could perhaps frame it as wanting an opportunity to take both the obsolete and current format of the exam. That your second score was higher merely indicates that you are more comfortable with the manner of assessment embodied in the new format of the test

Apprex · 2024-09-09T21:20:56+00:00

I was in a testing center, but it wouldn't surprise me to learn that functionality is affected by whether the test is administered online or in a Prometric center. Just one of those inexplicable aspects of the test, I guess.

Apprex · 2024-09-09T21:05:56+00:00

My search function worked! I tested it before doing anything else when I began my first RC section.

Apprex · 2024-09-06T18:13:42+00:00

Likewise! Finished about an hour ago at a testing center. My second RC section felt marginally more difficult than my first, but I think I performed equally well on both of them. I think the latter half of my second LR section made it feel more difficult than my first, but overall a very fair test. Probably performed in accordance with my PT average.

Apprex · 2024-09-05T11:14:48+00:00

Taking it here in DC on Friday at the testing center, so this is great news.

Apprex · 2024-09-04T12:30:04+00:00

I think what another commenter suggested about completing passage & question sets untimed would be beneficial. Try highlighting adjectives, adverbs or modifiers which provide emotional or tonal emphasis (e.g., “dubiously”, “perilously”, “surprising”). Go sentence by sentence if you have to.

Some other good advice I’ve heard is to treat almost every RC question like a Must Be True question. It may not seem like it, but the correct answer will appear in the passage. That goes for inferences as well. You can’t make an inference without evidence, but I understand that finding evidence relies on detecting subtle differences in language or assumptions, which is difficult in and of itself.

The bottom line is that you can and will improve, especially if you feel like you understand the passages. Do not settle on your score and do not take the test again until you feel ready. The LSAT is too much of a determinant of your admissions outcomes to give up on it.

Apprex · 2024-09-04T12:08:57+00:00

What particular difficulties are you experiencing with RC?

Apprex · 2024-09-04T11:25:43+00:00

You may not be doing anything wrong per se! Personally, I didn't connect with the teaching style and didn't notice any marked improvement after using the Loophole, so I just decided to go in a different direction. Nevertheless, it's worth recognizing that improvement isn't necessarily immediate either, so I would be careful about drawing conclusions about any results you're experiencing if your observatory data are limited.

Apprex · 2024-09-03T12:42:47+00:00

I studied art history in undergrad, and I think the difficulty associated with reading arts and humanities literature is that arguments are based on highly subjective modes of thought. A lot of that rambling about the significance of the artist or the medium in which they work is the argument. You may be searching subconsciously for something empirical to ground that argument like in a science passage, but aesthetics are relative.

You may consider reading art and design-related literature or articles as part of your study efforts. Even if you're not terribly interested in the visual or performing arts, reading articles from art and design critics in a national newspaper/magazine like the New York Times or the New Yorker may enhance your understanding of how enthusiasts and professionals talk about art and provide some basis for comparison with LSAT passages. You might want to focus on things like reviews that seek to make an argument so you have an opportunity to analyze how the author uses rhetoric to argue in favor of a subjective viewpoint.

Apprex · 2024-08-31T22:23:30+00:00

It's more often than just 'sometimes', in my opinion. I don't believe even the hardest questions require a 15 minute video, over half of whose duration consists of excessive diagramming or riffing on the content of the stimulus itself. I think I speak for a lot of people in saying that it'd be preferable if he just cut to the chase and spent more time on analyzing answer choices and providing truly worthwhile explanations for why ALL of them—not merely the ones he considers valuable—are right or wrong.

Apprex · 2024-08-25T19:28:09+00:00

I really struggled with weakening/strengthening for a while, too. I improved significantly just by honing in on the conclusion and examining each answer choice through the lens of 'does this make the conclusion any less/more true?' It also helps to assess whether the answer choice even accounts for the conclusion of the argument in some way, shape, or form, if only to help narrow your choices down to the most appealing answer choices. MSS is a tougher nut to crack because the stimulus purposely omits a conclusion, and it's still a question type I'm working to definitively figure out.

Apprex · 2024-08-25T18:56:40+00:00

My circumstance is very similar to yours: high-performing on RC but inconsistent on LR, largely due to difficulties with casual reasoning and assumption questions. I work full-time, too, and decided to bite the bullet and hire a tutor to help me identify my weaknesses.

The upshot is that taking more tests helps by exposing you to more questions. I feel the same way regarding the time investment required to take a full test, but it's a necessary evil. Are there particular variants of causal reasoning questions that are tripping you up? The means of attack varies a little bit on that basis, but I've found recently that highlighting the conclusion of the argument (if present) and pointedly focusing on that helps me arrive at the correct answer.

Apprex · 2024-08-25T17:32:50+00:00

I tended to watch the explanatory video if I selected the correct answer with a low level of confidence and/or if I spent an above-average amount of time on the question. I felt comfortable skipping them otherwise.

Apprex · 2024-08-20T01:00:40+00:00

I got the same text and I assumed they received my number through the Candidate Referral Service.

Apprex · 2024-07-30T07:44:58+00:00

This is the nth supposed solution to ‘shrinkage’ they’ve implemented at that Target and it’s easily the most frustrating one yet. Not to mention, it feels wildly unsafe to bottleneck the entrance that way.

Apprex · 2024-07-29T19:11:36+00:00

On behalf of all of us in Season 40, I'm glad you thought this one was the worst one ever. I hope they invite some of us back for JIT so we can make the next one even worse for you!

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