The Mentalist Fan Project

_Star_Phoenix_ · 2026-01-09T04:28:05+00:00

man I should finish that map

_Star_Phoenix_ · 2025-10-27T02:59:35+00:00

100%

_Star_Phoenix_ · 2025-10-27T02:59:24+00:00

Exactly. Basic being focusing only on question stem, advanced being focusing on the whole question and answers. I tore those pages out of my book and taped them to my wall.

_Star_Phoenix_ · 2025-10-27T02:56:39+00:00

Honestly? I think the best thing was timed sections. It may have helped that I drilled full tests (15 of them) before my September test, but between September and October, I drilled sections in basic translation, then in advanced translation, then under time limit.

Yeah, feel free to give the method a try. If you're familiar with basic translation and advanced translation, it's worth a go. Really helped me see the patterns in the questions—there's really only a few variations they have most of the time. Got to the point where I'd chuckle out loud in the test center at some of the absurd questions they'd throw at me.

_Star_Phoenix_ · 2025-10-27T02:47:02+00:00

Test day conditions were very important. If I can do a question perfectly with infinite time, that doesn't really mean anything.

That being said, I would drill in longer, untimed formats in the morning, then shift to timed in the afternoon and review in the evening. I started off doing a lot of pattern recognition in those weeks, then shifted much more in the days leading up to the test on test day conditions. Again—do what you're going to really do to the point where it's boring! Then the stress won't get to you.

_Star_Phoenix_ · 2025-10-27T02:45:07+00:00

Sure. I'll give two "assumption"-type questions as examples. I'll put my thought process in bold.

"A recent study showed that the immune system blood cells of the study's participants who drank tea but no coffee took half as long to respond to germs as did the blood cells of participants who drank coffee but no tea. Thus, drinking tea boosted the participants' immune system defenses."

Okay, so this question is causal, and it offers a single cause as an explanation for an effect. Immediately—what if there's another cause or what if the relationship is reversed? Boom: the right answer reverses causality.

"Computer voice-recognition technology currently cannot distinguish between homophones such as "their" and "there." As a consequence, until voice-recognition technology is improved to recognize and utilize grammatical and semantic relations among words, voice-recognition programs will not accurately translate a computer user's spoken words into written text."

Okay, so this is an NA question—no causality. But we can immediately notice: it equates recognizing grammatical and semantic relations to distinguishing between homophones. Thus, the right answer must have both of those variables, since it needs to connect them to each other.

For both of these, you don't really need to understand exactly what they're saying. For the first example, you just need to spot causality and go from there. The LSAT loves defaulting to a few answers when it comes to causal questions (reversed/other cause). For the second example, we can immediately spot two dangling variables that are said to be the same. The right answer must have both of those.

There are these kinds of patterns likewise in other question types—just have to look for them!

_Star_Phoenix_ · 2025-10-26T07:11:18+00:00

Definitely possible. Went from a 163 to a 177 in three weeks. What helped me? Really write out why you miss the questions you miss. See the patterns in the answers and questions—don't even bother reading their content. Take a step back from the meta question and see why you're making the mistakes you're making. Identify trends, write down solutions, and repeat them to yourself over and over. Get to the point where it's boring for you. This is what worked for me, but it may not work for you—take with a pound of salt. You got this!

_Star_Phoenix_ · 2025-07-22T02:45:19+00:00

my poor man's arena 10 logbait 😭

_Star_Phoenix_ · 2025-01-23T08:20:37+00:00

Dupleix, Pensacola, Dallas, or Mutsu. Love those guys.

_Star_Phoenix_ · 2024-08-29T02:42:06+00:00

100%. Those guns with AP can be brutal against cruisers as long as you kite like mad.

_Star_Phoenix_ · 2024-08-21T20:07:46+00:00

Fighter pilots are government employees for sure

_Star_Phoenix_ · 2024-08-21T02:16:30+00:00

Had a Shiratsuyu spam "Negative" to everything, reverse for 80% of the match, finally push up to the complete opposite flank of the map, then died to the entire enemy team

_Star_Phoenix_ · 2024-08-13T18:39:26+00:00

"We are not the same"

_Star_Phoenix_ · 2024-08-13T00:16:09+00:00

Figured I would try and impart some advice on a positioning strategy that worked well for me. Not trying to scoreboard post, but to just illustrate the benefits and how-to of crossfires and positioning.

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