so this was my first lsat guys I have been studying since fall of 2020 and I started low 150s and I've since been practice testing in the 170s thanks to my amazing tutor, lots of drilling and maintaining a study schedule despite how busy I am with school. I woke up so ready for the test today and was very calm and collected when I sat down at my computer at around 1:55 to begin my 2 PM test. I literally didn't begin the test until 2:40 because the fucking proctor system was continually buffering and none of their tech people knew how to fix it. by the time they did end up fixing it and I was all set with my proctor all my anxiety despite my constant reassurances to myself about how long I've studied and my practice test scores were out the window. I barely finished every section and in each section there's at least a few questions that were skipped or I never got to that were blank. if those were the only ones I got wrong then they're less than 10 but given my uncertainty about some of the other questions (especially in RC and the final LG game) I can't bring myself to believe that I got everything I answered right. I am so angry sad and disappointed. I'm reaching out to LSAC tomorrow to see what can be done and the ProctorU software people if possible to give them an earful. I don't know if anyone else had an issue like this but I'm trying really hard to keep it together right now and I just cant.
I’ve heard a couple of stories from people where the proctor was not well trained and they were not allowed to use control f on the test. Should I touch base with the proctor on that before starting the exam? I just wish there was somewhere on the LSAC website where I could have that as a backup in case the proctor is difficult.
They call their combined anti-dandruff shampoo and body wash "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes" and the corresponding face wash "Eyes, Ears, Mouth, and Nose".
Even the fact that Dr Now stands over them while Proctor sits down to look them in the eye.
(Dr Proctor is on family by the ton, 1000 pound sisters, and had his own show for one season, Too Large)
Literally f this service, f the proctors, and f any professors that use it. If you think it deters cheaters, you’re an idiot. People will find a way, just make your Exams extremely hard, vague, and open notes. Examity is riddled with technical problems and ethical issues. Cherry on top is that you have to pay to get fucked on exams when their monitoring service goes down and they automatically flag you as a cheater. FRUSTRATING... especially when you have a professor that doesn’t understand technical issues aren’t always the students‘ fault.
My exams are using a lockdown browser with a monitor. They have to do a camera and mike check. I gave them a short "pretend" exam so they could see how it all worked ahead of time, and this is what I got.
I tried so hard to get them all set up. I made personal and individual phone calls and zoom sessions with people that might have issues. I have never done anything but tried to help this student.
I usually don't let them get to me, but I don't mind saying, this really harshed my mood.
Edit: Thanks for the support
I will tell you the truth - the reason this threw me is because I had no idea this student felt like that. I know that some of the students don't like me, are mad at me etc. But it is like finding out that someone is cheating on you and then wondering what else you didn't know and what else was a lie.
There are couple people in the class that if they said that, I wouldn't have actually been that upset.
"Firetruck."
I said,”No it doesn’t.”
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Family
My f33 sister f34 has been struggling with infirtility for years. She and my brother in law resorted to so many options including trying rounds of I.V.F. this is costly so as a result a number of I.V.F cycles had cost them a lot and none of them worked. My sister and brother in law were advised to take break seeing the physical and emotional and financial toll this unsuccesful I.V.F treatment has had on them but my sister wanted to try one more time before she enters her mid thirties where her chances are lower.
My parents refused to give her any more money so she came over to my place where she had a mental breakdown begging me to help. I decided to help her out and helped pay by pulling 13k from my husband and mine's shared account. My husband was out of town for days and I didn't go out of my way to tell him after he missed my initial call before going forth and giving my sister the money.
I brought it with him on the phone later and he blew up at me saying I shouldn't have made such decision and taken money out of our joint account without consulting him first but I said I tried calling and he didn't pick up the first time but he said still I shouldn't have made any moves til I had talked to him first then said he didn't agree that I gave a huge sum of money that he worked hard for given the fact he contributes 70% to this account and said I messed up big time. I tried to explain my sister's situation and how this was an emergency and assured him she'd return the money but he said no she won't since she doesn't even have job, same with her husband and said I shouldn't support their bad decision to want a baby when they're broke to negin with. I had an argument with him and said he was acting cruel and unsupportive of my family but he corrected me saying he's not a doormat and he worked hard for the money that I had no problem giving away without even telling him but that is my sister and I felt obligated to help her out yet he refused to understand that.
That was the last time we spoke, he demanded I take the money back asap but I haven't responded to him yet. AITA or was he?
RIP to the 1.5 years I've diligently completed my Anki cards and numerous research, extracurricular and hobbies I intentionally missed out on to sacrifice for this test :)
Edit: I understand this is unlikely, I never claimed it was a rational thought...just a dumbass worry of mine
started my test at 1. RC up first (I think: hell ya we prepared for this we finna kill it let’s go0o0) I read a little sumn about an author destroying 'the self'. I am hERe for it!! Let’s get existential baybeeeee
second passage. *you’ve been disconnected* I watch my time dissolve behind the error notification. *tick tick tick tock* Takes about 10 minutes to get connected again. I lost like a minute and a half from my time.
ITS FINE--I KEEP COOL, ITS ALL GOOOD ILL MAKE IT UP. two minutes of reading diligently before anotha *you’ve been disconnected* ALRIGHTY then. thats ok!! it was resolved within about 5 minutes. I only lost maybe 15-20 seconds. I KEEP READIN-- *you’ve been disconnected* immediately. things are not looking great.
this time it takes AN HOUR to get back on :D im really worried because my proctor is no where to be found and im like..... what do I do? I can't use my phone to contact LSAC. so I searched for a chat assistance thing after a while but im just like *AAHHHAHHHHH* ya know? I got switched back and forth between like three different tech guys, one of them restarted my whole ass computer. I am utterly DEFEATED.
I finally. {finally}. get connected and what do ya know--I have lost 2.5 minutes from the ol' clock-er-oooo. Just doing my best BUT, of course, one last time for the one time *you’ve been disconnected* I get connected back quickly, pero like.... does ^(anything) even matter at this point? ^(at all)? I lost another minute and a half.
So that really hurt. I then sat there and finished the rest of the stupid exam knowing I'd have to retake it bc I couldn't just... not[?]
I crushed LR, and LG. By the last LR I was just absolutely deflated. I had no will whatsoever to check my answers or exist. During my 10 minute break I texted my proctor "Im sad lol."
This REALLY sucks bc I was 100% ready for this--AND, despite the interruptions, if I hadn't lost all that time (about 6 mins total) I think I still would have been fine. But my 4th passage was on some crazyzy astronomy and I basically had to soft guess on all like SEVEN questions bc ~n o time~
SUPER BUMMMMMED =)
*btw I was using google chrome--I previously recall issues occurring with chrome so I initially opened up safari but my DANG proctor, (for I do not know what reason) decide we was gonna search through my apps and pop over to chrome. so that was an overall terrible experience. especially since im finishing up
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I was just playing some games of historic on arena with this list
https://mtgdecks.net/Historic/azorius-control-decklist-by-platinum-mythic-rank-player-1272292
And it felt really strong, Strict Proctor Pulled it's weight on it's own especially against food decks, but the synergy with lotus field was just insane, untapping 2 fields with teferi to hold up counters and a deluge and getting ahead on lands in Control vs Control matchups felt great.
Has anybody tried something simillar in Pioneer? This has to be an awful deck to play against hidden strings version :P, nut other than that it feels like it could be somewhat good
