Honestly, it is a little difficult to get much out of these lessons without being able to see answer choices prior to explanations. You can't truly see where your intuition is potentially flawed.
The reason they have the moments in-between lessons when you try a question on your own and then review it afterwards is to get that practice. He's trying to teach you about a question type before you try it yourself. There's plenty of time for drilling practice questions but you might do better on them after he walks you through this A-B-C-D question type. w
coming back and reviewing topics after completing the core curriculum -- if y'all are struggling now, I pinky promise it'll all make so much more sense later! I remember not understanding this question AT ALL the first time through and getting so annoyed, but reading it today I was like "duh, A" without a second thought. you got this!
Why not print the stim and answers outside of the video so we have a chance to tackle them on our own? The video just jumps straight to the correct answer choice without even showing the other choices. The quiz-explanation format is more effective imo.
I am only to this point of the logical reasoning lessons so far but I really would love to see or hopefully I will get to see better ways to answer these questions in a short amount of time. So far it has been very useful to pick apart the entire passage but it is not reasonable during the actual test. Would love to see him do test environment and timed questions to see how to improve.
Give yourself time! If you've following the course as suggested on the website, we really just started answering the questions within a time frame. Speed will come as you do more and practice recognizing the prompts and answers more quickly. One thing that helped me is to create my own drill sets for questions we've learned so far, set them to the easiest level and do drills with 5 questions at a time. Review after each set and make sure you know why the right answer is correct, but also why the wrong answers are incorrect. This skill will help you recognize flaws and tricks the LSAT does -> which will improve your speed and score. After you are consistently only missing 1 question per round, boost the difficult of the questions and repeat. Hope this helps!
#Feedback this is the first time on MSS questions that I have been able to work thought the answer by myself and understand why my answer is correct and this made me feel really accomplished while this has been a long and hard journey I am really happy to see if start to finally pay off :)
#feedback I prefer when all of the answer choices are shown on the screen at once so I can try and answer by myself before the individual explanations for each answer choice. Revealing them one by one makes me believe I would've been able to get the correct answer all along even though that may not be the case if given the question without help.
Totally second this feedback! How I work around this is clicking the "+ Quick View" button above the video which pops up the question and answers, then attempting the problem on my own before pressing play on the video. If you haven't tried this yet, this might be a good workaround for your problem.
i really wish the videos showed all the answer choices + stimulus at once and then gradually worked through each answer. really frustrating this isn't a default option
@PenelopeCopetas i found out you can look at the q + stim entirely!! another commenter said the top where it says "lesson 3" right under there's a "show question" button and it'll show everything
@Suretha What I have started doing is quick viewing the question (its an option in the top middle of the screen when at the top of the browser) and working thought it myself first because I got sick of having to hand annotate it (its made my life much easier) hope this helps :)
would be great if they had a lesson dedicated to flushing out modifiers and referents fast (I know they already have one that hits this topic, but not for the speed component)
This type of question absolutely eats up the clock. Even with the explanation of the right answer and all of the breakdown of the stimulus I'm still having a hard time parsing it all together.
Is it common that some types of questions will be "faster" or "slower" than others?
@JakobYeager I think it's less that some questions are faster or slower than others, more so some people are faster or slower at some types of questions than others. I suck at some kinds of questions that other people might fly through but I'm better at others that some people might struggle with.
@JakobYeager I would say this specific question is a time burner, especially as it contains an extremely long sentence and a 'could cause' claim that can easily be lost within the mass of words.
is it possible to fix the beginning of each of these videos to show the stimulus/passage and the answer choices altogether, so we can pause the video there to try the questions on our own first and then continue with the video to see the reasoning behind the answers. I wanted to find the answer A on my own, but the video hides the answer choices and presents you with answer first, which is nice. But this doesn't give me a chance to try on my own with this question, so I could come to my own conclusion first and see why its right or wrong. Just a suggestion!
tried to answer it by myself and got it wrong because I didn't take my time to notice that there was a period after "however", not a comma. interesting how such a minimal detail completely derails your performance.
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Honestly, it is a little difficult to get much out of these lessons without being able to see answer choices prior to explanations. You can't truly see where your intuition is potentially flawed.
totally agreed, its very confusing
Agreed. It's not striking me as optimal.
Yeah I was just thinking this, I'm having a hard time learning this way.
The reason they have the moments in-between lessons when you try a question on your own and then review it afterwards is to get that practice. He's trying to teach you about a question type before you try it yourself. There's plenty of time for drilling practice questions but you might do better on them after he walks you through this A-B-C-D question type. w
Yeah exactly. It's good practice to translate and synthesize our own answers before the answers pop up.
@erikmmayer527 I was literally popping into the comments to type this!
Let us see all answer choices before telling us what the right answer is. :(
i agree!
click "quick view" at the top of the video before it starts! the question will display there
@spower31 Thanks a lot !
I do not understand how one is expected to answer this question in just over a minute...
I do wish you would show the answers and give us a chance to solve it before showing us the correct answer!
coming back and reviewing topics after completing the core curriculum -- if y'all are struggling now, I pinky promise it'll all make so much more sense later! I remember not understanding this question AT ALL the first time through and getting so annoyed, but reading it today I was like "duh, A" without a second thought. you got this!
@nknapp120301 thank you
@nknapp120301 Thank you for this, I was like what am I suppose to do with this
Why not print the stim and answers outside of the video so we have a chance to tackle them on our own? The video just jumps straight to the correct answer choice without even showing the other choices. The quiz-explanation format is more effective imo.
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Why do you solve the answer choice before letting the student attempt to? Can there be a visual of the answer choices without any solving first?
I think this is just a introduction for how we go about answering these types of questions so we can practice with a better understanding
I get that, but it would be nice to use as another opportunity to practice since it's a real practice question
I am only to this point of the logical reasoning lessons so far but I really would love to see or hopefully I will get to see better ways to answer these questions in a short amount of time. So far it has been very useful to pick apart the entire passage but it is not reasonable during the actual test. Would love to see him do test environment and timed questions to see how to improve.
Give yourself time! If you've following the course as suggested on the website, we really just started answering the questions within a time frame. Speed will come as you do more and practice recognizing the prompts and answers more quickly. One thing that helped me is to create my own drill sets for questions we've learned so far, set them to the easiest level and do drills with 5 questions at a time. Review after each set and make sure you know why the right answer is correct, but also why the wrong answers are incorrect. This skill will help you recognize flaws and tricks the LSAT does -> which will improve your speed and score. After you are consistently only missing 1 question per round, boost the difficult of the questions and repeat. Hope this helps!
#Feedback this is the first time on MSS questions that I have been able to work thought the answer by myself and understand why my answer is correct and this made me feel really accomplished while this has been a long and hard journey I am really happy to see if start to finally pay off :)
Thanks 7 Sage!
#feedback I prefer when all of the answer choices are shown on the screen at once so I can try and answer by myself before the individual explanations for each answer choice. Revealing them one by one makes me believe I would've been able to get the correct answer all along even though that may not be the case if given the question without help.
Totally second this feedback! How I work around this is clicking the "+ Quick View" button above the video which pops up the question and answers, then attempting the problem on my own before pressing play on the video. If you haven't tried this yet, this might be a good workaround for your problem.
This one was crazy
i really wish the videos showed all the answer choices + stimulus at once and then gradually worked through each answer. really frustrating this isn't a default option
@Suretha I agree, I find myself taking pictures to try to solve it myself before he goes into the lesson
@PenelopeCopetas i found out you can look at the q + stim entirely!! another commenter said the top where it says "lesson 3" right under there's a "show question" button and it'll show everything
@Suretha What I have started doing is quick viewing the question (its an option in the top middle of the screen when at the top of the browser) and working thought it myself first because I got sick of having to hand annotate it (its made my life much easier) hope this helps :)
I feel like this one is a little crazy.
my biggest takeaway from this question is the importance of grammar parsing in getting rid of distractor and trap answers
this question is insane
This one seemed harder because of all the modifiers in the stimulus.
What I took from this question: Process of Elimination is your best friend!
@LsatQueens Right, lol.
would be great if they had a lesson dedicated to flushing out modifiers and referents fast (I know they already have one that hits this topic, but not for the speed component)
This type of question absolutely eats up the clock. Even with the explanation of the right answer and all of the breakdown of the stimulus I'm still having a hard time parsing it all together.
Is it common that some types of questions will be "faster" or "slower" than others?
@JakobYeager I think it's less that some questions are faster or slower than others, more so some people are faster or slower at some types of questions than others. I suck at some kinds of questions that other people might fly through but I'm better at others that some people might struggle with.
@JakobYeager I would say this specific question is a time burner, especially as it contains an extremely long sentence and a 'could cause' claim that can easily be lost within the mass of words.
is it possible to fix the beginning of each of these videos to show the stimulus/passage and the answer choices altogether, so we can pause the video there to try the questions on our own first and then continue with the video to see the reasoning behind the answers. I wanted to find the answer A on my own, but the video hides the answer choices and presents you with answer first, which is nice. But this doesn't give me a chance to try on my own with this question, so I could come to my own conclusion first and see why its right or wrong. Just a suggestion!
Above the video, you should see a 'Quick View' option, which allows you to view and attempt the question before watching the video. I hope this helps!
This was a difficult question and not sure the explanation was very clear... first one where I really was confused pretty much the entire video
did not know true belief amounts to knowledge, thats why I got it wrong. I was down to my last two but ruled out A because of it. Good question
tried to answer it by myself and got it wrong because I didn't take my time to notice that there was a period after "however", not a comma. interesting how such a minimal detail completely derails your performance.
#feedback "Fact v. Belief. v. Knowledge Link" is still not working. It seems that it has not been working for months
#feedback - "Fact v. Belief. v. Knowledge Link" isn't working for me. anyone else?
same here
same here
Yep same here