Quiz of the week: have you been studying for the LSAT too much?
Have you been studying for the LSAT a lot? Have your friends been avoiding you lately? Those two phenomena may be linked!
How can you tell if your LSAT studies are affecting your relationships? Take the following quiz (Cosmo has nothing on popular LSAT mag The 180!) and find out.
Q1: When your significant other tells you about their day, you:
a) Pay close attention, making sympathetic noises in all the right spots.
b) Nod and smile, occasionally “mmhmm”ing.
c) Point out the misguided assumptions they made throughout the day.
Q2: When you meet your friends at the bar, you:
a) Talk about sports, entertainment gossip and current events.
b) Are the perfect wingperson.
c) Pull out your LSAT practice book and do “just 1 more passage”.
Q3: Your friends want to go see a hot new movie. You suggest:
a) Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
b) Red One.
c) Assumption: The Story Behind the Missing Piece of Evidence.
Q4: You gather at your friend's house for your weekly Housewives of XXX get together. You're heard murmuring:
a) Wow, those ladies be crazy!
b) One day that will be me...
c) If that one housewife says one more thing, that other housewife will flip the table over. Contrapositively, if the other housewife didn’t flip the table over, then the first housewife didn’t say anything more.
Q5: When watching a show you've PVR'd, you:
a) Keep skipping ahead to the good parts.
b) Fast-forward through commercials but watch the entire show.
c) Skip over the show to the commercials so you can practice identifying common logical flaws.
Q6: While checking out profiles on your favourite dating site, you:
a) Google everyone who looks promising.
b) Ignore the profiles and just check out the pictures.
c) Highlight structural keywords and make margin notes beside each paragraph.
Scoring: if you answered (c) to more than 1 question, you're well on your way to LSAT success – but you should be prepared to buy a lot of expensive gifts when the exam is done to repair your relationships.