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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

 

LSAT Cacophony: iPhone App

Ryan
May 25 |09:11

I know I have been absentee as of recent but that is because I am going a little insane from all that I am doing. As a “mea culpa,” here is a sneak preview into the iPhone App that I have been working on.

Notice the “LSAT Proctor” App on the home screen!

The Loading Screen!

A Clean and Simple Interface: Click Play to Start Studying.

Section 1 is currently playing; it will proceed through the sections/break until completion.

Noises driving you crazy? Turn them off. Love the noises? Hear them forever.

Share you study success with friends. Note: The Share Screen is only accessible after you have finished studying; we do not endorse further distractions.

That’s about it as of right now. I’m just working on cleaning up a few bugs and playing run around with Apple. I have no estimation as to when it will be in the App Store, but I can tell you that it will not be available before the June 2010 LSAT (sorry). The price will be: free. So if you are looking to steal the idea… it’s probably not worth the investment.

 

One Semester Down, One to Go

Ryan
May 13 |19:36

Grades are finally in for my last Spring Semester at USF: 3 A’s and a B… wish I could have done better, but I’m not upset considering how thin I have spread myself.

Next Monday brings the beginning of the Summer session and my attempt to take 3 condensed classes and studying for the LSAT at the same time.

I am a little concerned as I just ordered my books for one of my six-week long classes and they consisted of the following:

Hamlet
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
The Merchant of Venice
As You Like It
Titus Andronicus
Oedipus Rex
Richard II
and more…

Not that these are particularly hard pieces but that is some extreme reading for six weeks when coupled in with two other classes and practice tests; it should be quite the experience.

The cat is out of the bag about the upcoming changes to the LSAT Cacophony, so I’m going to go ahead and say it:

I’m working on an iPhone app version of the LSAT Cacophony. It should be available in July or August. For more information, send me an email (especially if you are looking to beta test).

 

LSAT Proctor and Distraction MP3: LSAT Cacophony

Ryan
Apr 21 |08:48

Studying in the noisy library at the University of South Florida – Tampa campus has helped me prepare for the distractions that I might run into. Sometimes, though, I just want to quickly do some studying here at the apartment. The library also does not give me the 5 minute proctor warnings nor the convenience of helping with pacing.

This lead me to searching around the internet for something to remedy my problem. I learned about the LSAT Proctor DVD created by Simugator, but I have spent quite a lot of money on LSAT materials and could not bring myself to spend $25 on a Proctor DVD. I thought to myself, “How hard can it be to make a simple MP3 that does the same work?” From 6:30am this morning until about 8:30am, I sat in my bed and created the following file. I used sound effects from freesound.org licensed under a creative commons agreement, my allergy-ridden voice, my MacBook pro and Soundtrack Pro to create this cacophony without having to purchase any additional materials. Since this didn’t cost me anything other than time, I see no reason to charge anyone for it.

It is only ~35 minutes long with the proctor introduction, 5-minute warning and proctor stop-issue. Between those segments, there are a plethora of sound effects that appear throughout the piece. I’m sure if I spent a little more time on it, I could make a better file and I might make LSAT Cacophony 2.0 and Extreme versions later. For right now, though, I hope this suffices.

Click below to begin playing the file:

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Right-click the link below and “save as” to download the file:
Padawan Law – LSAT Cacophony

 

Drastic Times Call for Drastic Measures

Ryan
Apr 19 |07:19

I decided yesterday during a marathon of studying which was interupted by interspersed impulses to check my facebook that I might have a slight addiction to the site. Technology only serves to fuel that addiction. It would be easy to just close my laptop and stay away from the site, but the iPhone facebook app makes it just as easy to waste minutes/hours on the site. As I really can’t keep my phone off and/or away from me for a myriad of reasons this presented a problem.

So I did the only sensible thing, I deleted the facebook app from my phone and blocked the website in my browser. The logic behind this move is that if I have the time to just sit around aimlessly on facebook, I could easily be doing some logic games or going over wrong answers to figure out what I did wrong. I’m going to recommend this move to anyone who has a site (facebook, myspace, youtube, whatever) that they are checking multiple times per day.

I use firefox as my primary web browser and I installed the BlockSite Add-on to block all direct URL entries and links on other sites that point to facebook.com. We are starting to come down on crunch time before the June 2010 exam. If you are having trouble focusing and you can identify a site as the culprit, it might be time to add the domain to a site blacklist and indulge yourself after the exam is over as a reward.

Today’s agenda consists of work, then a trek over to the library to get some studying and work done before classes tomorrow.

 
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