We're reviewing our curriculum, and I'd like to hear some candid feedback on 7Sage/s grammar lessons. Did you do them? Did you find them helpful? Did they improve your score?
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We're reviewing our curriculum, and I'd like to hear some candid feedback on 7Sage/s grammar lessons. Did you do them? Did you find them helpful? Did they improve your score?
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would prefer a condensed lesson but with more practice
I believe they could be condensed significantly, but still found them very helpful overall. If anything, I would appreciate it if some of the other lessons referenced them more frequently. For example, the use of several referentials in a clause indicates (to me, at least) that what I am reading has a good chance of being the conclusion in MC questions, but I don't think this is part of the curriculum.
I think is one of the most important lessons in the CC. Understanding referential words and modifiers are a game changer.
I thought it was decent, but long, the curriculum absolutely has to be cut down, no one can go through a 4 month curriculum, something has to change.
Very useful. For me, I didn't necessarily see an improvement in score immediately, but it helped me fundamentally understand how to read the stem, stimulus, and answer choices that also helped me understand Lawgic.
I would've preferred if possible for them to be much shorter and with more applicable practice because I believe it was a bit long for the fundamental curriculum, but it was helpful.
@JosueRMorales agree!
I am a native english speaker and found them to be quite helpful :)
Looking back, they were helpful, in the moment they seemed irrelevant. I think having more pratice intergrated in these lessons to show why it is so important would help students understand it better.
Though they initially seemed unnecessary, they were actually very helpful for thinking about how to parse through difficult stimuli/passages
I'm currently doing the grammar lessons right now and I personally find them helpful. I do wish there were more practice questions for them in the CC.
For me, they were somewhat helpful. I've studied a lot of languages and have a pretty good grasp of how grammar works in English - but even then, it was a nice refresher and a way of reframing the grammar in the LSAT specifically.
For me, it was very useful!! (ENglish as a second language)
Helpful
The grammar is very good, the program is excellent, but the explanation in the videos especially for the exams is very simple and superficial. That part should be improved; I understand it’s the most important part for studying.
@JanPadilla Agreed Jan.
Very helpful! Essential
I think it was definitely a good introduction to the curriculum, coming from someone whose first language is English. I do think that the LSAT is written so specifically that the best way to nail down the grammar is drilling, and I think the grammar lessons would have made more sense in context if they were just before the MC lessons.
Ehhhhh I didn't really think so
Grammar lessons are helpful. I find as someone who preferred to read books instead of paying attention to grammar lessons as a child, that breaking down the long passages into its simpler components is immensely helpful. This is coming for someone who relies mostly on intuition from extensive reading for grammar instead of memorized knowledge.
Yes the grammar was good review and i think needed for this test especially for those needing to spend time in the core curriculum
I liked the grammar part because it helped clarify and better understand the grammatical parts in the questions and answers.
I am an avid reader and consider myself quite good at intuitively understanding grammar, so I was very surprised when I found the grammar section of the course to be incredibly helpful for making my implicit understanding more explicit.
I think it is very helpful for people that do not have English as their first language!
Without a shadow of a doubt! As someone whose English was not my first language, learning the nuances of grammar applied to the LSAT increased my score a lot.
It gave me some clarity especially when I went through modifiers. Still going through them when I have time.. it helps me with translating the stimulus into basic translation.
I didn't find the CC in general the most helpful. I needed a tutor to break down the lessons to me. 20 hours later, I feel pretty good about most-things LSAT. It may be my particular learning style. To answer your specific question, if I remember correctly, the grammar lessons are one of the first topics covered, so I tried to force myself through it. I found myself skipping most of the content toward the end as it was not the most engaging.
I agree with another poster that the grammar aspect of this exam, I think, it best learned through exposure.
Not sure if this is under the grammar section, but I refer to the conditional diagraming cheat sheet often.
When it came to how to read, with the commas, it helped me but not a whole lot.