Archive for June, 2010

LSAT Proctor App for iPhone and iPod Touch!

Ryan
Jun 22 |06:32

Well, it took long enough but I promised that I would get an app into the iTunes app store and it is now complete. The LSAT Proctor app for iPhones and iPod Touches is now available for free! The app does require you to upgrade to iOS 4.0, though.

It features all five sections for the LSAT with vocal prompts for “Start, 5-Minutes, and Stop.” It also contains a break in the appropriate placement as well. The app has built in distractions to help you acclimate your studies to potential testing day conditions. If you are already confident in your abilities to tune  out distractions and what to focus on timing conditions, the distractions can be turned off in the settings menu.

Direct Link to download the App: http://tinyurl.com/iphonelsat

 

Good Luck, June2010ers!

Ryan
Jun 7 |08:09

After talking it over with a few people, I decided that it just makes more sense to take the October exam; I know, I know… I am sure you will all miss me at the exam (read: I know that you will not miss me at all).

Sincerely, though, best of luck to all of you out there taking the exam today. No reason to stress out anymore. It won’t change anything. You are either ready or you aren’t. Have a good breakfast and tackle the tasks that come your way one at a time. From the 40 gigabytes of bandwidth you guys used last month on the LSAT Cacophony, you have practiced more than enough and I am sure you are ready for the test!

Let us know  how you did and/or what you thought about the test.

 

Decision Time

Ryan
Jun 1 |08:28

Well considering I still have four books to read this week and a paper to write in addition to work, I need to make a decision about the June LSAT. To make it short: I’m not ready. I’m not where I would have liked to be and I have just had too much on my plate. I have a hotel booked on Sunday next to the testing center, it’s too late to postpone the date… so, I either need to take the test and let the score stick, take the test and cancel it, show up and immediately cancel it or not show up at all.

I will see how the rest of the week goes, but I’m starting to think that taking the absence is the best route to go as it does not count against my “three attempts in a two-year period.” I am quite depressed about the idea of pushing back applications until October, though. I will be completely done with undergrad as of July, so it would give me July, August and September to study for the exam, which is a much better prospect than taking the exam when I am not ready and bombing it.

It’s not even that I am scoring poorly on the practice exams, but I’m not scoring how I would like to be scoring. Better yet, I’m not scoring how I know I could be scoring if I could actually focus on studying for the LSAT. Also, too much time is passing between one opportunity to study for the test and the next opportunity to study for it. I’m having to do too much mental backtracking and it just is not efficient.

It also saddens me to know that I will be forfeiting my LSAT fee and my hotel reservation. Maybe I’ll just go to the hotel and try to relax… who knows.

I’m not sure what I am going to do, yet; I will attest that I am in a pretty severe state of panic at this point.