I am noticing a pattern when ever I take a few days off from prep I come back with more mental capacity. I hope this encourages someone to take a break fi they feel they are hitting a road block
@gastoncaleb14165 Love this comment, very important to not underestimate the power of a break. If you want a fun video game example, there's a YT video about someone getting a record in Mario Kart. Long story short, he improved his record after taking long breaks from playing the game.
However! IF you're deadline is approaching or you just really don't want to take a day off of studying, take a break with some kind of physical activity!
Try to pick an activity that's fun and you're able to do in your space. Since I study at home after an 8-5 office job, I need a minor break. So, I literally dance for 20-30 minutes inside my home before starting to study. Does wonders!!
I confidently chose A thinking this was way too easy and audibly gasped when I saw the correct answer was C. Thank you LSAT for continuing to humble me. <3
Hey, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt that maybe you're just having a bad day, based on your last ill-mannered comment on one of my own comments. Nonetheless, I'll try and overlook that, give you the benefit of the doubt, and spell it out for you.
When you're going too fast for your own good, you may end up missing vital details which will either slow down your ability to answer the question stem or hinder your ability to get the question right. Both results are not mutually exclusive. When you slow down a bit, you might (often) find it that you'll be more apt to retain details in the stimulus better, or you give yourself some breathing room to think about the logic being presented rather than using a greater-than-needed portion of your brainpower worrying about the time you're taking on the question and thus trying to rush through it. When you give yourself a little extra time to retain those details, you'll find that you'll get through processing the questions more smoothly than before. This smoothness and ease of processing the answers, crossing out the wrong ones, and choosing the correct one often makes up for the time spent going a little slower on the stimulus, and it often allows you to complete the whole question faster than if you're purposely trying to rush through it.
The whole "slow is smooth, smooth is fast" is a quote often repeated in the military when training (and other areas of society). It applies here, too. It is even something that J.Y. mentioned explicitly in the Core Curriculum. Did you not pay attention to that crucial detail on this learning platform, or are you only concerned with putting others down in the comments?
No. On the particular day this individual sent this message, they were writing multiple disparaging comments across the website. That's part of the context for this message I sent.
If that's not what you're referring to, also no. Slowing down for sake of keeping a calm mind does, in the end, usually provide a sizable return on investment vis-a-vis overall timing on the test.
JY is right. It was so easy to get focused on why the argument didn't make sense that I stopped for a second to figure it out. But i realized i was wasting time
I feel like none of this question type can rightly be called one star difficulty. Even if the reasoning itself is simple it's still easy to get bogged down in the answer choices. Yes, it's easy to get correct, but difficult to get it correct with good timing.
felt like a boss aswell, the timing was definiately not boss of me. Picked C at 1:22 but finished checking everything else at 2:45... need to improve timing, can I just move on once I "found" the asnwer? I get nervous moving on without disproving the others
I would def suggest just moving on, you could quickly glance at the others and just kinda vibe check them. But if you find an answer that checks out, then I wouldn’t spend too much time trying to figure out the rest. Often there are word salads that are simply meant to eat up a bunch of time by having to understand them. But all this does hinge on how confident you are generally with your answers. As you get better, you can move on faster. Best of luck!!
I am slightly confused about what happens when uncertain terms such as likely are used in conditional arguments. Since the argument follows a traditional conditional argument form, but uses the term likely, could it ever be considered valid? For example, if the second premise was "It is not likely that Jackie's second baby is born before its due date," and the conclusion was "so Jackie's first child was not born before its due date either," would this be a valid argument? It sounds weird because of the term "likely," but just wanting to know if an argument in conditional form can be valid even when it uses uncertain langauge.
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Follow the Highlight method!
@OmarAbuaita you have officially convinced me
@OmarAbuaita this is great, thank you!
@OmarAbuaita this is helpful, thank you
@OmarAbuaita Big big fan of highlight method!!!
@OmarAbuaita why have I never thought of this. Thank you!
@OmarAbuaita this is so smart, thank you!
@OmarAbuaita Highlight method has always been OP
@OmarAbuaita i'm cooked if we lose the highlight tool in august
@OmarAbuaita I just want to say I used this method on the next question and got it right so much faster. thank you for this
@OmarAbuaita thank you omar. i hope you get a 180
@OmarAbuaita I didn't know we could highlight. Thanks!
I am noticing a pattern when ever I take a few days off from prep I come back with more mental capacity. I hope this encourages someone to take a break fi they feel they are hitting a road block
I feel the same! I love taking little breaks.
@gastoncaleb14165 Love this comment, very important to not underestimate the power of a break. If you want a fun video game example, there's a YT video about someone getting a record in Mario Kart. Long story short, he improved his record after taking long breaks from playing the game.
However! IF you're deadline is approaching or you just really don't want to take a day off of studying, take a break with some kind of physical activity!
Try to pick an activity that's fun and you're able to do in your space. Since I study at home after an 8-5 office job, I need a minor break. So, I literally dance for 20-30 minutes inside my home before starting to study. Does wonders!!
Excited I got a "tricky"one right... ends up only being a 1 on difficulty
My thoughts exactly, hah!
I got this right! I am so proud of myself. I would like to thank JY, the academy, and of course my parents who never let me give up on my dream.
You will be great!
The name "Hawkman II" has indeed aged rather badly in light of recent events lol
Watch out for when Hawkman rug pulls his meme-coin
Got this right and then saw the difficulty level.
Not sure if anyone else can relate but the one-star questions often make me second-guess myself. They feel too simple.
Yea, I got the last 5 star right, and then totally bombed this one for that same reason.
same here or its the opposite u are overconfident so u do it too quickly and miss a small detail
Hawkman II-ah
HAWK TUAH
hawkthreeuh
I confidently chose A thinking this was way too easy and audibly gasped when I saw the correct answer was C. Thank you LSAT for continuing to humble me. <3
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast
Slow --> Fast ??
Is...is this satire?
Hey, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt that maybe you're just having a bad day, based on your last ill-mannered comment on one of my own comments. Nonetheless, I'll try and overlook that, give you the benefit of the doubt, and spell it out for you.
When you're going too fast for your own good, you may end up missing vital details which will either slow down your ability to answer the question stem or hinder your ability to get the question right. Both results are not mutually exclusive. When you slow down a bit, you might (often) find it that you'll be more apt to retain details in the stimulus better, or you give yourself some breathing room to think about the logic being presented rather than using a greater-than-needed portion of your brainpower worrying about the time you're taking on the question and thus trying to rush through it. When you give yourself a little extra time to retain those details, you'll find that you'll get through processing the questions more smoothly than before. This smoothness and ease of processing the answers, crossing out the wrong ones, and choosing the correct one often makes up for the time spent going a little slower on the stimulus, and it often allows you to complete the whole question faster than if you're purposely trying to rush through it.
The whole "slow is smooth, smooth is fast" is a quote often repeated in the military when training (and other areas of society). It applies here, too. It is even something that J.Y. mentioned explicitly in the Core Curriculum. Did you not pay attention to that crucial detail on this learning platform, or are you only concerned with putting others down in the comments?
No. On the particular day this individual sent this message, they were writing multiple disparaging comments across the website. That's part of the context for this message I sent.
If that's not what you're referring to, also no. Slowing down for sake of keeping a calm mind does, in the end, usually provide a sizable return on investment vis-a-vis overall timing on the test.
Hope that clears it up. Have a good evening.
Ok, this one was a little too easy.
Got to answer C and didn't even read D & E. Knew it was right lets go!
Hopefully, I will get one like this on the real LSAT
First question where I had the confidence to choose the right answer without reading all of the ACs lol.
I needed an easy one after that last one geez
not the Hawkman slander
JY is right. It was so easy to get focused on why the argument didn't make sense that I stopped for a second to figure it out. But i realized i was wasting time
I actually really liked Hawkman II
I feel like none of this question type can rightly be called one star difficulty. Even if the reasoning itself is simple it's still easy to get bogged down in the answer choices. Yes, it's easy to get correct, but difficult to get it correct with good timing.
bro why did this take me longer to do than the previous one lol
@soapster same
felt like a boss answering this one star question
felt like a boss aswell, the timing was definiately not boss of me. Picked C at 1:22 but finished checking everything else at 2:45... need to improve timing, can I just move on once I "found" the asnwer? I get nervous moving on without disproving the others
I would def suggest just moving on, you could quickly glance at the others and just kinda vibe check them. But if you find an answer that checks out, then I wouldn’t spend too much time trying to figure out the rest. Often there are word salads that are simply meant to eat up a bunch of time by having to understand them. But all this does hinge on how confident you are generally with your answers. As you get better, you can move on faster. Best of luck!!
I am slightly confused about what happens when uncertain terms such as likely are used in conditional arguments. Since the argument follows a traditional conditional argument form, but uses the term likely, could it ever be considered valid? For example, if the second premise was "It is not likely that Jackie's second baby is born before its due date," and the conclusion was "so Jackie's first child was not born before its due date either," would this be a valid argument? It sounds weird because of the term "likely," but just wanting to know if an argument in conditional form can be valid even when it uses uncertain langauge.
Same here! #help
i also have this issue #feedback
I'm also confused on this #feedback
Gaining some confidence LFG. I wish this was 5* though haha.
@Arman1 me too. exact same timing too lol
bye i got this wrong
parallel will be the death of me