Open Office Hours, so bring your questions! We can talk LR, LG, RC, writing, admissions, law school, or whatever else y'all want to talk about. It's entirely up to you. Bring LSAT questions about fundamentals, time management strategy, general theory, procedure and execution, study strategies and diagnostics. Ask about law school admissions. Ask about 1L doctrinals, law school exam strategies, or writing legal research papers. I'm always happy to talk about my research which is primarily concerned with bird law, over-criminalization, housing and education policy, and law and social movements. The point is, whatever you want to ask about, ask about it! Feel free to ask ahead of time in this thread or through DM. Of course, you can always just ask live too. Lurkers are welcome if you don't feel like talking, but participation is always encouraged.
See y'all Thursday!
Thursday, January 26 at 7:30pm EST
A bit about who I am: To learn about my personal journey with the LSAT, you can check out 7Sage Podcast Number 1 for my discussion with JY: https://classic.7sage.com/1-ama-w-7sager-cant-get-right-152-to-176/ As the first ever 7Sage podcast, it's an oldie but, I like to think, a goodie. From a relatively low diagnostic, I improved about 50 percentiles to score a 176 on my official LSAT in Sept 2017. I attended Northwestern Law School and graduated with honors this spring. I've tutored the LSAT since 2016 and was a 7Sage Approved Tutor during the earlier version of tutoring on 7Sage. I have taught hundreds of students from all over the world and have sent them all across the T-14 and to target schools all over the US, Canada, and Australia. Post graduation, I have decided to do what I love which, for reasons I can't fully explain, is teaching the LSAT. In addition to tutoring, I am also President and Executive Director of Legal Education Access Plus, a non-profit committed to making legal education accessible to everyone. I've also amassed more 7Sage karma than any other 7Sage member, so you can check out my comments on threads from over the years which address just about any LSAT topic you might could think of.
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New session coming up. Hope folks can make it!
Since we’re talking about RC, let me elaborate a bit on why I don’t recommend the Economist for outside reading.
The Economist is a fine publication. The writing is consistent throughout, clear and concise, and at a reading level just high enough for people to feel smart without creating too much risk of losing anyone. And that’s why it’s not a good stand-in to approximate RC passages. The Reading Comprehension section of the LSAT is everything The Economist is not: inconsistent, muddy and rambling, and confusing enough to overwhelm strong readers.
Though RC passages are drawn from real sources, they are not copy/pasted. They are adapted. All too often, what that means is that they are rewritten to transform good writing into bad writing.
You won’t find any outside reading deliberately written poorly, but I think we can do better than The Economist. My recommendation is Lapham’s Quarterly. It is not poorly written, but it is not cultivated for easy, consistent reading either. It’s a passion project by an old, veteran editor from Harpers. Each issue deep dives around a theme and includes writings from the ancient to cutting edge contemporary scholarship. A good starting place is a back issue on a subject which you’re unfamiliar with but that you find interesting. I’m sure there’s even better sources than this, but Lapham’s is at least a big leap forward from Economist.
As always when talking about outside reading, it is never a substitute for LSAT passages or a replacement for studying. But for anyone wanting to read in their off time, it certainly can’t hurt.
This will not be recorded, but I may do this one again soon. And if I do it a second time, I'll do it at a different time/day, so hopefully that resolves schedule conflicts people may have from the this one. I'll announce on this thread if I decide to do another one, so just keep an eye out.
Just a reminder that this will be happening tonight! The link will be posted 10 minutes before start time.
Updated with new session time. Hope folks can make it!
@isabellabianchi2220 said:
@jhaldy10325 Love that you are doing these. Are you planning on hosting another one in the near future?
Here you are!
@mccaindee265 said:
@jhaldy10325 Thanks for your time and knowledge tonight! Much appreciated! -Jas
You’re welcome! This was a really fun one, and thank you for your excellent questions.
Happening tonight, looking forward to seeing everyone!
@heliasadeghi675 said:
I'm sad to have missed it. If you ever do more of these in the future we would all appreciate it a whole lot!
@ajamal2479 said:
Hey!! I didn't get a chance to attend but wanted to ask if you would be holding similar meetings/programs in the future? Thanks
Sorry y’all weren’t able to make it, but I’m glad you find these valuable. I do plan to do more! I think what I’ll do is update this same post. That way I don’t create unnecessarily duplicate listings, and for anyone interested in attending, you can follow this post to get the update on the time.
Hope to see y’all at the next one!
Following for link
Thanks a ton for doing this! I am going to try to be in attendance.
I will kick things off on this one with a brief discussion/rant against pre-phrasing strategies. In short, pre-phrasing is bad and you shouldn't do it. To find out why--and what to do instead--come and see me this Thursday!
Thanks to everyone who came out tonight!
Happening tonight! Just a reminder, the link to access will be posted 10 or 15 minutes before start time.
Will there be a recording? Unfortunately, I work out of the country right now and it'll be 1am here.
Thanks for everyone who was able to make it!
oh my goodness...long day nm!
See y'all in a minute!
Was super valuable! Looking forward to the next one.
@shihfrancis114 said:
Following.
Very excited for this.
Yeah, I think it's going to be a good one. See you there!
Just wanted to give an update for this week’s topic of discussion. I know “advanced LR” is a bit broad, so I thought it might be helpful to narrow now that I’ve developed more focus. I’m going to be putting specific emphasis on issues that have their roots in grammar rather than logic. These issues are often the problems that come up when students feel like they still don’t understand what’s going on even after studying a question in BR. So that’s what we’ll cover. See y’all then!
Happening today!
Starting soon!
Folllowing
New session next week!
@kayonyekwere855 said:
hello Please post for the next one. I'm just now seeing this for the first time
Will do. and if you'd like to receive notifications from this (or other) posts, you can follow the thread by hitting the little star over to the right of the thread title. That way you'll be notified so you don't have to keep such a close look out for updates.