LSAT Report

This past Saturday morning was the big LSAT day.

I went to bed around 9:45 the night before and set my alarm bright and early so I would have time to wake up before the exam. I had only done one practice test the day before and didn't score phenomenally on it (just a 169), but I chalked this up to stress and hormones.

I wore my favorite new shoes (known in my inner circle as "the ugliest shoes ever"), oatmeal legwarmers, my favorite old Seven jeans, and an old frat sweatshirt. I put my hair in a high ponytail, pulled my bangs back with bobby pins, and brought an arsenal of additional bobby pins to secure any renegade hairs.

I had a Naked juice en route and arrived comfortably early, as is my M.O. I was seated in the back right corner of the room and had plenty of time to arrange my four No. 2 pencils from sharpest to dullest and balance my watch perfectly on the edge of the desk.

When the tests were distributed, I was delighted to discover that Analytical Reasoning (my weakness) was the first section of my test booklet. As I dug in, I found that two of the four Analytical Reasoning sections were variations on Sequencing, the single type that I am a rockstar at. Whereas my original battle plan for the Analytical Reasoning was to complete as many as I could and guess "D" for the remaining questions, I was able to complete the section. Pressed for time at the end, I had to guess on two remaining questions; however, I was first able to reduce them down to two possible answers so I have a 50% chance instead of a 20% chance at those two answers being accurate.

The experimental section was one of two Reading Comprehension sections. Because the first section more closely fit the mold of the practice tests I had done, I believe the second section was the experimental section. Regardless, I'm confident I did well on both.

One of the two logical reasoning sections was tricky for me. There were four questions that I was not completely certain of the answers. I do think that I selected good answers, but I won't know if they were the best answers until I get my scores back in three weeks.

Naturally, as I worked through the test, I made note of how many I was confident I had answered correctly, and how many could possibly be wrong. Comparing this score to the past ten years' tests, I believe I scored approximately 173. I will be humiliated, but not devastated, if my results show otherwise. If my scores are particularly good, I may scratch a few of my lower choice schools and instead apply at a few of the dream schools that felt out of reach when I first began this endeavor.