These tips are very helpful and reassuring when tackling the RC section. As someone who loves to read in my free time, I DREAD the RC section on the LSAT.
I am just now arriving at the second appearance of the Ezekiel Mphahlele passage, and I find that I'm having trouble approaching that lesson successfully because I remember too much about the passage. I think this diminishes the value of the later lesson.
It would be valuable if each passage used in the curriculum was used only once.
@ToweringTextbooks From a different perspective, it may be more valuable to juice the most out of a passage for these types of lessons so that the rest can remain fresh for drills. If a passage is used only once for these lessons, we lose a lot of their value because, for example, this lesson only goes through it shallowly.
Critics - specifically critiquing the categorization of EM's work whether it is autobiography or fiction and drawing on two of his works to support their opinion
Author - dismisses critics argument saying they are too focused on traditional labels and EM forms his work in a way to promote a social message.
So there are 2 perspectives that I identified.
Ugh, I can see how the high scorers are the ones who can do this mentally. For me, it really helps to have the summary written down. Is there a chance for me to get a high score though I can entirely do this mentally or am i being to pessimistic from the get-go?
#feedback The player on these videos do not work all of the time, not allowing me to change viewing speed or change subtitles settings. In this video, subtitles covered the passage and I could not read all of it without reloading the page.
engage in the vids, if Kevin wants me to pause and make a prediction, well that is what I'm going to do. So far, so good. I understood the breakdown of the passage while using the foundational in LR. good luck to all
Same question here. In the past, I noticed that the text was just a transcript of the video, but I'm just now realizing these ones are different from the video. I'm more of an auditory/visual learner than just reading.
#feedback not even attempting to say Mphahlele's name was not super awesome. To borrow from Uzoamaka Nwanneka, if you can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michaelangelo and Dostoyevsky (and the latin names of bacterium in the case of 7sage), you can learn how to say Mphahlele!
He is giving you a strategy for the LSAT and showing you how he breaks it down to remember it. You will 100% waste your time if you sit there trying to pronounce someones name. All of the names listed above, including yours, would all just be a letter in my summary. Lets not turn something into something it is not. You are answering a question on an LSAT not making a new friend.
I get what you're saying, and I use abbreviations in my study as well. I just find it curious that in the following lessons, "Agamemnon" and "Aeschylian" are pronounced in full several times and with no abbreviation, while the same is not true of Mphahlele’s name.
I had the same reaction-- at the same time, Mphahlele's first name used to be Ezekiel, but he changed it to Es'kia to separate from his colonizer birth name...so maybe Kevin knew this and wanted to be respectful and therefore just used E.M.? wishful thinking
I thought I did a good job understanding the passage until he broke it down and realized there were a lot of things that I missed.I was able to identify the 3 different perspectives including the others view. I look forward to developing this skills and getting better
I understand the author is just describing a perspective: the critics. Is it also possible that this paragraph shows the author leaning more towards in favor of EM, considering the end where the author mentioned the critics are missing the bigger picture when it comes to EM?
It's apparent that the author has respect for EM, and implicitly says that the literary critics are missing the point: EM is not trying to adhere to categorization of prose, but communicate a significant political and social message.
Given that EM is South African and the timing of his novels coincide with apartheid, one that has no idea who EM is, can assume his writings are meant to inform a greater, global audience of an important message.
#feedback - Can you clarify how much of this analysis/low res summaries should be done in our head vs on paper vs. through highlighting the passage? Is this supposed to be a combination of the three or more intrinsically, entirely in our head?
It varies from person to person. Most high-scorers probably just do this entirely in their heads. Some will like to highlight different perspectives, especially the authors.
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These tips are very helpful and reassuring when tackling the RC section. As someone who loves to read in my free time, I DREAD the RC section on the LSAT.
super real
Unfortunately, it's too real! 🥹
your username gave me a chuckle. the struggle is real.
he's right, the LSAT writers ARE gremlins
These darn gremlins
#feedback This content is good, but both the Ezekiel Mphahlele and LHB passages are used for deep dives later in the curriculum (see https://7sage.com/lessons/reading-comprehension/passage-style-phenomenon-hypothesis/late-heavy-bombardment-paragraph-1 and https://7sage.com/lessons/reading-comprehension/passage-style-spotlight/mphahlele-passage-2-paragraph-1).
I am just now arriving at the second appearance of the Ezekiel Mphahlele passage, and I find that I'm having trouble approaching that lesson successfully because I remember too much about the passage. I think this diminishes the value of the later lesson.
It would be valuable if each passage used in the curriculum was used only once.
@ToweringTextbooks From a different perspective, it may be more valuable to juice the most out of a passage for these types of lessons so that the rest can remain fresh for drills. If a passage is used only once for these lessons, we lose a lot of their value because, for example, this lesson only goes through it shallowly.
The perspectives for this passages are:
Critics - specifically critiquing the categorization of EM's work whether it is autobiography or fiction and drawing on two of his works to support their opinion
Author - dismisses critics argument saying they are too focused on traditional labels and EM forms his work in a way to promote a social message.
So there are 2 perspectives that I identified.
Ugh, I can see how the high scorers are the ones who can do this mentally. For me, it really helps to have the summary written down. Is there a chance for me to get a high score though I can entirely do this mentally or am i being to pessimistic from the get-go?
I'm feeling ready to fight some gremlins. Bring on the spotlight passage about tabletop roleplaying games!
are you guys reading and watching? I was but low keu taking 30 mins per moduel is not it lol
To save time I typically just watch the videos and skim the stuff at the bottom.
#feedback The player on these videos do not work all of the time, not allowing me to change viewing speed or change subtitles settings. In this video, subtitles covered the passage and I could not read all of it without reloading the page.
#feedback same here!
I thought the author was going against the critics perspective since he felt like they got "EM" intention wrong..... ayayay!
This is very helpful!
I often mess up with these questions because it never occurs to me to remember or consider "Why do they hold this view?"
engage in the vids, if Kevin wants me to pause and make a prediction, well that is what I'm going to do. So far, so good. I understood the breakdown of the passage while using the foundational in LR. good luck to all
#feedback is it advisable to watch the videos and read the text or do only one? It takes so much time to do both.
Same question here. In the past, I noticed that the text was just a transcript of the video, but I'm just now realizing these ones are different from the video. I'm more of an auditory/visual learner than just reading.
I'd just do one or the other; no need to do both. Sometimes the text might differ slightly, but it's not going to be an important difference.
actually the differences are significant -sometimes entirely different texts are covered...
#feedback not even attempting to say Mphahlele's name was not super awesome. To borrow from Uzoamaka Nwanneka, if you can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michaelangelo and Dostoyevsky (and the latin names of bacterium in the case of 7sage), you can learn how to say Mphahlele!
He is giving you a strategy for the LSAT and showing you how he breaks it down to remember it. You will 100% waste your time if you sit there trying to pronounce someones name. All of the names listed above, including yours, would all just be a letter in my summary. Lets not turn something into something it is not. You are answering a question on an LSAT not making a new friend.
I get what you're saying, and I use abbreviations in my study as well. I just find it curious that in the following lessons, "Agamemnon" and "Aeschylian" are pronounced in full several times and with no abbreviation, while the same is not true of Mphahlele’s name.
I had the same reaction-- at the same time, Mphahlele's first name used to be Ezekiel, but he changed it to Es'kia to separate from his colonizer birth name...so maybe Kevin knew this and wanted to be respectful and therefore just used E.M.? wishful thinking
@gabbyshek1655 Agree
I thought I did a good job understanding the passage until he broke it down and realized there were a lot of things that I missed.I was able to identify the 3 different perspectives including the others view. I look forward to developing this skills and getting better
170+ here we come!!!
I think I preferred this one as only a reading lesson. The videos are too short to be engaged at the proper level.
why would the author refer to themselves as they? Wouldn’t these use I, or people like myself etc?
Hey lesson is nice but this page and the page before are glitched for me, I cannot see the texts or his words without using transcribe.
#feedback “sharply defined cataclysmic catering period.” typo needs to be "cratering" period
Maybe we actually mean a sharply defined period where we ordered a hundred burritos from Chipotle and it ended in a bathroom cataclysm...
I understand the author is just describing a perspective: the critics. Is it also possible that this paragraph shows the author leaning more towards in favor of EM, considering the end where the author mentioned the critics are missing the bigger picture when it comes to EM?
It's apparent that the author has respect for EM, and implicitly says that the literary critics are missing the point: EM is not trying to adhere to categorization of prose, but communicate a significant political and social message.
Given that EM is South African and the timing of his novels coincide with apartheid, one that has no idea who EM is, can assume his writings are meant to inform a greater, global audience of an important message.
#feedback - Can you clarify how much of this analysis/low res summaries should be done in our head vs on paper vs. through highlighting the passage? Is this supposed to be a combination of the three or more intrinsically, entirely in our head?
It varies from person to person. Most high-scorers probably just do this entirely in their heads. Some will like to highlight different perspectives, especially the authors.