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Sept. LSAT anxiety disaster

Hey everyone, First post here but have been a lurker for ...
Abusive box office brethren
  09/28/14
how much is the lsat this year?
stirring green piazza legend
  09/28/14
I assume this is from TLS?
Demanding site
  09/28/14
Your mind is telling you not to go to law school.
Khaki soul-stirring turdskin
  09/28/14
Sounds like you should cancel and retake in December. But sh...
Vermilion water buffalo resort
  09/28/14


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Date: September 28th, 2014 5:26 PM
Author: Abusive box office brethren

Hey everyone,

First post here but have been a lurker for a long time (thanks for all the tips!). Really on the fence on a decision and was hoping some of you had some suggestions on what I should do.

I wrote the LSAT for the first time yesterday. I was obviously nervous before the test started but hoped that it would go away once I was in full swing of the test - quite the opposite happened. To prepare, I did almost every single preptest out there, and by the end my scores ranged in the 170-178 range under timed conditions (177 on the Dec 2013 one).

And then there was yesterday... was skipping around too much on LR, couldn't focus on RC, and missed 1 and half games entirely. All of my strategies for tackling the test just went out of the window, with time running out each section.

Should I cancel? retake in Dec? I was really hoping to go for the T3 (my GPA is 4.17 - Canadian) with University of Toronto as my backup (even with its 165 25th percentile I feel I scored lower yesterday). My family and friends want me to keep it, they say that I probably won't do better in Dec and then I risk not being able to apply this cycle. I am completely on the fence, I know I can do better in general, but under the stressed conditions of the test - I don't know (perhaps someone has a magical way to relax during it haha).

Anyways, thanks for all the help! really appreciate it.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2686681&forum_id=2#26415870)



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Date: September 28th, 2014 5:27 PM
Author: stirring green piazza legend

how much is the lsat this year?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2686681&forum_id=2#26415877)



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Date: September 28th, 2014 5:27 PM
Author: Demanding site

I assume this is from TLS?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2686681&forum_id=2#26415880)



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Date: September 28th, 2014 5:27 PM
Author: Khaki soul-stirring turdskin

Your mind is telling you not to go to law school.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2686681&forum_id=2#26415884)



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Date: September 28th, 2014 5:31 PM
Author: Vermilion water buffalo resort

Sounds like you should cancel and retake in December. But should also consider what caused you to mess up and see if that's just jitters or something you need to work on. Missing that many games is a killer.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2686681&forum_id=2#26415916)