If you understand deeply in your bones and your heart and the folds of your brain why an answer choice is right, you won't worry about it being wrong. The only way to reach that understanding is to have a strong base of fundamental reasoning skills and lots of practice. Read/watch the lessons. Do your drills. You will get faster because you will recognize things automatically that took effort before. You got this.
good to know, i think part of what's been improving my time in the drilling i've been doing has been realizing that i don't always need to read every answer
if i get to, say, answer choice c and i'm certain it's right without a shadow of a doubt, i can just select it and move on...
or sometimes, i'll have a good idea in my head of what the answer should be before i even start reading the answers, so i can just skim through them and pick the one i know is right
it makes it easier to do this knowing that, in the instructor's words, there is 1 right choice and 4 embarassingly wrong ones
Since it seems like the profanity is being scrubbed from the content, at least in the Foundations module, I thought I'd flag it here, too. I hope you do remove it. :)
Awesome article to tell us all to lower our egos, accept we were wrong, and grind a question out until we understand how wrong we were, why we were wrong, and how we can now become right
@CamilleChmura Additional note, I think that this drives the point home of reshaping the way we think. LSAT ways of thinking are very different from the ways we would think to solve issues in daily life.
I thought about stopping halfway through Foundations and moving to LR, but there are a lot of questions on the LSAT that you have a good chance of getting incorrect if you don't go over the Foundations section.
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Took me over a month to get past the foundations unit but I've finally made it out!
Really glad this lesson is here, saves me a lot of anguish and wasted thinking
Check egos at door. Study longer figure out why it wrong. Don't waste time challenging as you will lose... Thanks for the reminder.
Good luck in all your endeavors.
See y'all on the other side
The insight is helpful. But I'm still panicking about getting the wrong answer choice with such time constraints.
@LincolnBrown Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.
If you understand deeply in your bones and your heart and the folds of your brain why an answer choice is right, you won't worry about it being wrong. The only way to reach that understanding is to have a strong base of fundamental reasoning skills and lots of practice. Read/watch the lessons. Do your drills. You will get faster because you will recognize things automatically that took effort before. You got this.
good to know, i think part of what's been improving my time in the drilling i've been doing has been realizing that i don't always need to read every answer
if i get to, say, answer choice c and i'm certain it's right without a shadow of a doubt, i can just select it and move on...
or sometimes, i'll have a good idea in my head of what the answer should be before i even start reading the answers, so i can just skim through them and pick the one i know is right
it makes it easier to do this knowing that, in the instructor's words, there is 1 right choice and 4 embarassingly wrong ones
congrats to all of us who made it past foundations!!! lol!!
@SusanLeifker omg I didn't even realize I made it out PHEW
@SusanLeifker Yes we conquered
Since it seems like the profanity is being scrubbed from the content, at least in the Foundations module, I thought I'd flag it here, too. I hope you do remove it. :)
@pamelajkok why? we are adults? girl...
@Jeshelto33 grow up dawg and keep studying
Awesome article to tell us all to lower our egos, accept we were wrong, and grind a question out until we understand how wrong we were, why we were wrong, and how we can now become right
@CamilleChmura Additional note, I think that this drives the point home of reshaping the way we think. LSAT ways of thinking are very different from the ways we would think to solve issues in daily life.
Hmmm, I work in the legal profession for over 2 decades (two continents, that's why I deal with this here now).
Some of the "correct" answers could be likely disputed to be the "best" answers. If it was worth the time and effort. But it is not.
Can I just skip the foundations lessons and start on LR? has anyone done this and been fine? (Asking because I'm on a tight timeline)
#feedback
I thought about stopping halfway through Foundations and moving to LR, but there are a lot of questions on the LSAT that you have a good chance of getting incorrect if you don't go over the Foundations section.
Love this. Of course a bunch of people with legal aspirations are going to try to argue and fight questions every step of the way lol
Good to know about the LSAC policy. Everything else was a waste of my time.
How would I even know what question to challenge if we don't get results back to see what we got wrong?
bro is really hammering down the "one right answer" concept
Umm... well I wouldn't even remember which question I answered wrong. Would you?
nope
To be or not to be, that is a question ˜
To get a high score or to argue, that is a question ˜
Be realistic or be idealistic , that is a question˜
I totally understand why this is right, but I'm sure I'm also right that there's more than one right answer. Here, look at my proof.
Yeahhhh but I still always think I'm right
This feels like I am getting lectured for leaving a comment saying Im still sure the wrong answer is right
beautiful.
No need I get that I am wrong hot damn
Love the authenticity in this article lol.
So let me get this right? There's only one right answer?