Reply #10: Thanks for the tips!

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I got to know and love logic games -- I tested a 7/24 on the first try, but am up to 18-22, especially when "beads on a string," "roads connecting villages" or "books on two shelves" show up. (Not so much for the "if A, then B" ones.) I'm not too worried about the writing sample, as I write for a living, can do so coherently during a time crunch, and it's not scored anyway.

I've taken practice sections in horrible conditions -- including in my BF's poorly lit bedroom, while his daughter howled (didn't want to go to sleep) in the next room; on a train; with my parrots squawking non-stop; and in dead, brightly-lit silence.