I've now reached the point in my studying where I've been hoodwinked by so many trap answers that I am now second-guessing no-brainer questions like this lol
@Arshavin To be honest I am very intuitively good with RRE questions but I think to myself "Ok why would congestion -> low fatal accidents" I then predict that "Ok it must be that drivers are going at high speeds" and answer choice D confirms my answer. Hope this helps!
Also I just make sure I really concentrate on what the stim means after reading than trying to focus on every individual word
does anyone else feel like the time expectations are unrealistic? i feel like i have to skim the stim and the questions rather than properly read them if i want to meet the time restraints...this question was super easy and once i read the right answer i chose it barely glancing at the other options and still was 11 seconds over...anyone else feeling like this?
#feedback I feel like these easier questions should be placed at the front of the lesson so the relationship between stimulus and correct answers becomes apparent from early on. Personally I know I would have benefited from this.
Chat, I noticed that the questions have a difficulty rating 1-5. This one being a 1, so easiest tier. I am assuming the LSAT will also be designed like this following the same measurement for questions like this one. But do we know many of each difficulty level we will face? Also it says game difficulty level 3/5 dots. Does anyone understand the second difficulty indicator>
The second set of dots you are referring to is saying how difficult the passage is to understand. In terms of how many "hard" questions there are, the last 10 are the most difficult, and the first 10 are usually the easiest. However, there really isn't a set number. You should assume at least five questions are level 4 or above. This should not concern you, though, as most questions will be level 2 or 3, and if you know your concepts well enough, all the questions should not be that challenging, relatively. Focus on your weaknesses, prioritize low-hanging fruit, guess, and come back to questions you think are going to take too long to solve, and focus on accuracy. Who cares if you don't get to correctly answer five questions at the end that are super hard and guess on them? If you get the first 20 right for each section, you're still looking at a score around 160. With enough drilling or practice, anyway, you may be able to solve those last five questions accurately. You just need to practice being accurate and at least have some time management with that. You have this in the bag.
@faamian786 Its pretty random. I just did a section a couple days ago with like 14 level 4/5s and no 5/5s. There's also ones with mostly 1 and 2s with like 8 5s.
You actually did answer the question in a perfect amount of time. The LSAT logic reasoning section can have a maximum of 26 questions and you have 35 minutes to complete it which means you should be spending around 1:20 per question. If you get below 1:20 you did a good job no matter what 7Sage tries to tell you :)
Keep going you got it, but remember! You want to bank time on easier questions like this one so you can spend maybe 2 minutes on harder questions, still this was good time.
Anyone else get suuuper irked by this question? The answer D DOES work by order of elimination....but who says your rate of speed (or lack of speed) necessarily has to do with congestion?? To me, the stimulus says nothing about rate of speed. You could be packed like sardines on a highway (congested in my mind) but everyones still going 100mph...
Sometimes the easiest ones make me second-guess the answers...envious of those who crushed this one in 30 seconds...y'all rule!
I think this falls under the "the correct answer doesn't have to be perfect" category... which is inherently annoying. But, we need to assume the most logical definition of "congestion", which is that it is packed and slow-moving. Also the fact that all the other answers suck (by POE), D is the only right answer.
It's sort of common sense. Or reasonable assumption, one might say. At least for those who have been driving for a while and have seen traffic jams, which are loaded and, therefore, slower.
@AhmiG I think this is one of those questions that rely on assumptions, and thus your common knowledge. I've noticed that I'm better with higher questions that rely on the provided information over assumptions than the lower levels that are easier but rely on more common knowledge. I get caught up in wondering what the question wants.
I don’t think I have ever chosen an answer this fast and being correct. Before I read the answer choices I was already looking for these answer. It would be awesome that all questions would have been this easy because I have been struggling with these section.
B provides a fact that is believable and consistent with the stimulus, but the question is asking you to explain why higher congestion leads to less traffic accidents.
B just says moderate congestion has higher accidents, which doesn't explain anything about higher congestion.
up to this point i have not gotten a single one from this ENTIRE section correct should i be concerned ( keep in mind i have absolutely no idea how to do MSS) EITHER
Your level of concern should depend on how much time you have left until your test date. If you have 5+ months until then you’re probably fine, just review some more and make sure you’re getting the foundations. If you have 2 months left then you’re cooked
I would recommend just keep pushing on! I had an earlier section with an experience very similar to you. For me at least, its so easy to get worked up over a few missed questions and let it spiral into making mistakes I usually wouldn't. When that happens, I just stop studying and pick up where I left off the next day. Best of luck in your studying endeavors!
Same exact thing here. If I'm not actively studying, I'll instead spend my time actively reading books or articles just to reinforce my reading comprehension. Definitely recommend it.
The only thing that tripped me up about this one was the fact that the answer I chose (which was correct but I wavered lol) didn't have information that was presented in the stimulus.
As soon as I read D, I knew it was the right answer but took a little longer to answer because it was a little suspicious that I spotted the answer right away. I need to be more confident when it comes to the answer I'm choosing. That definitely stresses me out.
I relate to this! Drilling has helped me a lot with this. I try the questions timed and aim to answer them accurately as fast as possible, and then I take my time with blind review & go over my approach in more detail, reread, etc.. When I see that I'm getting questions correct under timed conditions, then it boosts my confidence and reinforces the most important strategies/approaches I should be taking when tackling questions. This way, I'm habitually practicing and positively reinforcing taking the most efficient approach/strategy when tackling questions, and I end up spending less time second guessing, etc. during timed conditions.
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Yea this one was really easy
no need to watch the video or read the explanation for this one!
Exactly +00.00
If only every question were like this . . .
yay! an extremely easy one finally
I picked D first and then changed it to A at the last min 😭 need to trust my gut
I've now reached the point in my studying where I've been hoodwinked by so many trap answers that I am now second-guessing no-brainer questions like this lol
LETS GOOOOO!!!
under 4 seconds lets go
@MRod Same!
@MRod how it takes me at least 20 seconds to read the stim
@Arshavin To be honest I am very intuitively good with RRE questions but I think to myself "Ok why would congestion -> low fatal accidents" I then predict that "Ok it must be that drivers are going at high speeds" and answer choice D confirms my answer. Hope this helps!
Also I just make sure I really concentrate on what the stim means after reading than trying to focus on every individual word
I was over 1:15mn how do I fix my time??
does anyone else feel like the time expectations are unrealistic? i feel like i have to skim the stim and the questions rather than properly read them if i want to meet the time restraints...this question was super easy and once i read the right answer i chose it barely glancing at the other options and still was 11 seconds over...anyone else feeling like this?
@hebakalises That comes down to just improving reading comprehension ultimately.
#feedback I feel like these easier questions should be placed at the front of the lesson so the relationship between stimulus and correct answers becomes apparent from early on. Personally I know I would have benefited from this.
@abjaved00 I personally think that having the harder ones first makes things so much easier.
You get trained to understand hard concepts at first and when you get something like this you can figure it out in seconds.
Chat, I noticed that the questions have a difficulty rating 1-5. This one being a 1, so easiest tier. I am assuming the LSAT will also be designed like this following the same measurement for questions like this one. But do we know many of each difficulty level we will face? Also it says game difficulty level 3/5 dots. Does anyone understand the second difficulty indicator>
Thank you Lucas this was very helpful!
The second set of dots you are referring to is saying how difficult the passage is to understand. In terms of how many "hard" questions there are, the last 10 are the most difficult, and the first 10 are usually the easiest. However, there really isn't a set number. You should assume at least five questions are level 4 or above. This should not concern you, though, as most questions will be level 2 or 3, and if you know your concepts well enough, all the questions should not be that challenging, relatively. Focus on your weaknesses, prioritize low-hanging fruit, guess, and come back to questions you think are going to take too long to solve, and focus on accuracy. Who cares if you don't get to correctly answer five questions at the end that are super hard and guess on them? If you get the first 20 right for each section, you're still looking at a score around 160. With enough drilling or practice, anyway, you may be able to solve those last five questions accurately. You just need to practice being accurate and at least have some time management with that. You have this in the bag.
@lucas.guyton52704 this is the best thing that has been said for advice and genuinely made me feel more relaxed for my upcoming test !
@faamian786 Its pretty random. I just did a section a couple days ago with like 14 level 4/5s and no 5/5s. There's also ones with mostly 1 and 2s with like 8 5s.
@lucas.guyton52704 people, please like this so I remember to come back to this later
here the assumption is that one cannot travel fast on a congested road.
I don't even care that this question was obnoxiously easy. I needed that.
real
Answered in 38 seconds and STILL slower than the target time. You couldn't let me have this one?
You actually did answer the question in a perfect amount of time. The LSAT logic reasoning section can have a maximum of 26 questions and you have 35 minutes to complete it which means you should be spending around 1:20 per question. If you get below 1:20 you did a good job no matter what 7Sage tries to tell you :)
TY for the kind words :)
Keep going you got it, but remember! You want to bank time on easier questions like this one so you can spend maybe 2 minutes on harder questions, still this was good time.
Anyone else get suuuper irked by this question? The answer D DOES work by order of elimination....but who says your rate of speed (or lack of speed) necessarily has to do with congestion?? To me, the stimulus says nothing about rate of speed. You could be packed like sardines on a highway (congested in my mind) but everyones still going 100mph...
Sometimes the easiest ones make me second-guess the answers...envious of those who crushed this one in 30 seconds...y'all rule!
I think this falls under the "the correct answer doesn't have to be perfect" category... which is inherently annoying. But, we need to assume the most logical definition of "congestion", which is that it is packed and slow-moving. Also the fact that all the other answers suck (by POE), D is the only right answer.
It's sort of common sense. Or reasonable assumption, one might say. At least for those who have been driving for a while and have seen traffic jams, which are loaded and, therefore, slower.
@AhmiG I think this is one of those questions that rely on assumptions, and thus your common knowledge. I've noticed that I'm better with higher questions that rely on the provided information over assumptions than the lower levels that are easier but rely on more common knowledge. I get caught up in wondering what the question wants.
I don’t think I have ever chosen an answer this fast and being correct. Before I read the answer choices I was already looking for these answer. It would be awesome that all questions would have been this easy because I have been struggling with these section.
Could someone please explain, in a less visual way, what about B makes it incorrect?
I was able to distinguish it from the correct answer, but I don't trust "gut feeling" as a strategy for the LSAT
B provides a fact that is believable and consistent with the stimulus, but the question is asking you to explain why higher congestion leads to less traffic accidents.
B just says moderate congestion has higher accidents, which doesn't explain anything about higher congestion.
Difficulty level...first bubble shaded only...a win is a win.
I can’t believe it took me only 30 seconds to find the right answer. I wish I would understand the rest of the questions like this.
up to this point i have not gotten a single one from this ENTIRE section correct should i be concerned ( keep in mind i have absolutely no idea how to do MSS) EITHER
Your level of concern should depend on how much time you have left until your test date. If you have 5+ months until then you’re probably fine, just review some more and make sure you’re getting the foundations. If you have 2 months left then you’re cooked
I would recommend just keep pushing on! I had an earlier section with an experience very similar to you. For me at least, its so easy to get worked up over a few missed questions and let it spiral into making mistakes I usually wouldn't. When that happens, I just stop studying and pick up where I left off the next day. Best of luck in your studying endeavors!
Same exact thing here. If I'm not actively studying, I'll instead spend my time actively reading books or articles just to reinforce my reading comprehension. Definitely recommend it.
The only thing that tripped me up about this one was the fact that the answer I chose (which was correct but I wavered lol) didn't have information that was presented in the stimulus.
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As soon as I read D, I knew it was the right answer but took a little longer to answer because it was a little suspicious that I spotted the answer right away. I need to be more confident when it comes to the answer I'm choosing. That definitely stresses me out.
I relate to this! Drilling has helped me a lot with this. I try the questions timed and aim to answer them accurately as fast as possible, and then I take my time with blind review & go over my approach in more detail, reread, etc.. When I see that I'm getting questions correct under timed conditions, then it boosts my confidence and reinforces the most important strategies/approaches I should be taking when tackling questions. This way, I'm habitually practicing and positively reinforcing taking the most efficient approach/strategy when tackling questions, and I end up spending less time second guessing, etc. during timed conditions.