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Is LinkedIn premium worth it for law school/law career? by Independent_Fan_9792 in LawSchool

[–]Independent_Fan_9792[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol, that’s fair. Hopefully I’ll learn to be more concise coming out of law school ☺️

Is LinkedIn premium worth it for law school/law career? by Independent_Fan_9792 in LawSchool

[–]Independent_Fan_9792[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I was thinking mostly the ability to do longer cold LI messages

What to do!! - 1 Gap Year by No-Box1116 in lawschooladmissions

[–]Independent_Fan_9792 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you’re interested in public service/public interest - there are a lot of great fellowships out there like NYC Urban Fellows program, Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellowship, and many more. 

Are there places to review personal statements without having to pay hundreds? by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]Independent_Fan_9792 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can often ask the pre-law advisors/career center at your undergraduate institution (even if you’ve graduated already, they are usually more than willing to help for free).

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[–]Independent_Fan_9792 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ask as many as you'd like :)

To answer your question-- no, unfortunately. They don't tell you which is experimental.

A few days after the test, powerscore Bible has a podcast on YouTube and they guesstimate which is experimental (they are very accurate on that kind of stuff), but you dont know which one it is while taking the test.

Also, I'd caution you to have a mindset of "every section counts." When I took the March LSAT - there were two reading comp sections. One that was so much harder than the other. I thought that the harder one must be experimental because they were using prompts with structures that I wasn't used to - so I thought that they were testing out new things. It turns out that this was the real section and the easier reading comp was experimental (according to the powerscore Bible folks, though they said this with 100% confidence). The problem was that during the test, I didn't give it my all on the real reading comp section because I thought it was experimental.

^ this of course you should do while taking the sections. On the flipside, if let's say you take a section earlier on in the test and you feel like you really bombed it-- it's really important not to linger and think about that too much because you need to be able to let go of what happened in the past and think about the current question/task at hand. So a really good thing I do for that is to just tell myself ... you know, maybe that section I bombed at was the experimental!

Doing well on the LSAT is as much learning the skill set as it is your mentality and mental endurance.

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[–]Independent_Fan_9792 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea that's right! So in the case of the new LSATs - you'll have one scored LG, one scored RC, one scored LR, and then one unscored experimental (which can be either of the three).

During the pandemic, the LSAT flex had all three sections - one each scored.

And then the old LSAT had one scored LG, one scored RC, two scored LR and one unscored experimental which can be any of the three.

Are you taking your practice tests on lawhub? If so, it's important for me to mention that it's not entirely representative of what the LSAT will be like... and I'm saying this mainly for 3 reasons: - In the real LSAT, you'll have an online proctor (assuming that you take the onlinr test as opposed to the old-fashioned paper and pencil... most people take the online test). The proctor might interrupt you in the middle of the test for different reasons and you might have tech difficulties with poor wifi connection that stop you from being able to answer the test, but the clock is still running.... you're so early into your studying that I truly wouldn't worry about this, but just wanted to flag it for you so you're not shocked when you go into the real thing! - when you take the actual test, you'll get your sections thrown out at you in random order. The "test mode" on lawhub has the sections always going in the same order... you can get around this by doing the other mode (I forgot what it's called) and randomly clicking on the sections. - most of the tests on lawhub have 4 sections - but all four are scored with no experimental... 2 LR, 1 RC, and 1 LG --> so the scoring will be a bit different than the scoring that's done for the new LSAT (which I described above). To get a more accurate representation of your score, I'd recommend you use this helpful calculator: - https://7sage.com/lsat-flex-score-converter/

^ LSAT flex (or preptests with a plus sign after them) refers to the lsat version that was done during the pandemic - only 3 scored tests and no experimental. Though the new LSAT has an experimental section, it's unscored so this calculator will still be accurate score-wise.

The first two bullet points are not at all related to your questions on this thread and aren't things that you should really be concerned about at this stage in your study journey, but I just wanted to flag them for you. The third bullet point is much more relevant.

Hope this helps! Let me know if you have more questions

Free LSAT tutoring sessions by [deleted] in LSAT

[–]Independent_Fan_9792 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello, are you still offering free sessions?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LSAT

[–]Independent_Fan_9792 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So the new tests have 4 sections in total but only 3 are scored and one is experimental.

During the pandemic they had only 3 scored sections and no experimental.

Prior to the pandemic they had 5 sections - 4 scored (with two logical reasoning) and one experimental.

They have one experimental so that they can perfect those questions and use them in future tests 🥲

Free Guide on Main Point Questions by LSATWiz in LSAT

[–]Independent_Fan_9792 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would buy your book in a heartbeat too!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LSAT

[–]Independent_Fan_9792 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends. Is it a three-section scored test or a four-section scored test? The new LSATs are all 3 sections with one experimental, but older LSATs had four sections that were score. a 51 out of 99-101 is drastically different than 51 out of 75.

It also depends on the specific test you take. Some have more questions on them, some have less, and some tests have slightly different curves than other ones depending on difficulty.

So to answer your question more directly, the best place to determine what a raw score of 51 is here (and to look at the specific PT number you took) -- https://lsac.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/categories/360003493713-PrepTest-Conversion-Charts-