Hi, coming here from the two comments in the explanations (https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-35-section-4-question-23/).

I would really like to get a clear understanding of why choice A is wrong.

The issues raised by JY and others in the comments with choice A also appear to be applicable to choice D (which is correct).

A is wrong because it could be that her daughter is just very wise at birth. Isn't this the same as saying a tree could just start off with a lot of rings? Those both don't seem to interfere with the relationship set out in each: thing gets older, thing gets wiser/gets more rings.

I believe the issue for me boils down to understanding exactly why the relationship in choice A is not a general/universal claim.

As one gets older one gets wiser [than one's earlier self] <-- the correct interpretation

As one gets older one gets wiser [than someone who is younger] <-- wrong interpretation

The older a tree, the more rings it has [as opposed to it's earlier tree-self] <-- the wrong interpretation

The older a tree, the more rings it has [as opposed to any younger tree] <-- the correct interpretation

Hello all,

I need some advice on how to improve on "retaining" information; specifically for LR.

What I'm finding is that with all LR questions, I have a hard time reading the stimulus and REALLY nail it into my brain and not be confused when I'm wading through the answer choices. And of course, I'm sure most of you guys already know, when you're not clear of the stimulus, every answer choice becomes a time-suck. I almost feel as if all these lessons on how to approach different question types are irrelevant at this stage, because before you can employ these strategies, you need to actually understand the stimulus... Trying to run before learning how to walk, so to speak.

So, have any of you been in my position and found a way to improve or overcome it? I am seriously in awe when I'm watching JY explain these questions and he seems to just instantly understand the stimulus and attack the answer choice with so much confidence... It's motivating and discouraging at the same time!!!

For those who are still studying for exam, I have brand new LSAT tests from LSAC along with analog watch for the test. All free (including shipping for domestic shipping). Analog watch was used one for the test and it was one recommended by 7Sage I bought on Amazon. I will even include pencils with erasers since I don't need those either.

I am done with exam and I don't want to ever see another LSAT practice exam again! I am happy to put it all behind me and attend law school in Aug.

If interested, please reach out to me and I will FedEx it over to you. Good luck everyone.

Managing LSAT Stress and Anxiety

Thursday 4/28 9pm ET

This extra special 7sage webinar will be led by Pacifico Soldati who, in addition to being an LSAT expert, is also a certified yoga instructor. Covering general stress/anxiety management, the autonomic nervous system, LSAT specific stressors, an overview of Meditation, and closing with a 10 minute guided Meditation and Q&A.

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So the consensus is that if you're able to take PTs in the actual room that you're taking the LSAT, do it, right? I would have to agree with this notion. Not many people have this luxury, but I do. So far I've taken a total of 3 PTs after re-doing the curriculum. 2 were in the actual room (which is at my university), 1 was in my university's library. However, for the PTs which were in the actual room, I was faced with a myriad of distractions and interruptions that I don't think would be present on D Day: my university decides that NOW is a wonderful time to start repaving that beat-up street in front of the room (imagine jack hammering, huge trucks scraping up the demolished pieces of concrete, the constant beeping of those trucks when they go in reverse), also a janitor decides that cleaning said room is absolutely imperative to the functioning of the university: arranging chairs to desks, throwing out the garbage bins that have no garbage in them, and just walking around the room aimlessly which was incredibly distracting (mind you, it's just a big room that no classes are ever held in). Now for the cherry on top, the room adjacent to this room is undergoing some sort of construction as well: drilling holes, hammering, literally anything that could make noise. I had to Pause mid-PT until noises died down a little.

I was definitely off of my game for those PTs in the actual room and it showed with my scores.

However, for the PT I took in the library, it was perfect. Some noise, but definitely not inhibiting my ability to focus...and it showed with my score. (this was the highest score I received to date)

What I'm asking is: should I not continue taking tests in the room and take them in the library? Getting accustomed to the actual testing environment is important, but not with all that noise/distractions, right?

Y'all—

Some of us here are about to "graduate" to law school. Various members of our community (myself, @allison.gill.sanford , @alexandergreene93 ) have been discussing plans for a pre-law-school/0L study group.

The content will:

[Reading] basically be a copy/paste of @"Nilesh S"'s advice (Short and Happy Guides for Torts and Contracts, Glannon's Civ Pro Examples & Explanations).

[Meeting] Sessions to discuss concepts and practice issue spotting (using hypos gathered from various sources).

[Project] Practice exams exchanged/discussed by the group.

I think starting in mid May would be ideal. That would give us about 3 months to work on this before we're all likely to head into orientation week (ours is the very last week of August).

Interest? Ideas? Mostly we're looking to learn some black letter material and build our chops a bit before we head into the storm.

Can anyone point me to the lesson on diagramming for 'some' ?

For example: Under the Sufficient Assumption & Psuedo-Sufficient Assumption Section, Lesson 6, I need help remembering how to navigate the diagrams that involve "some."

https://classic.7sage.com/lesson/quiz-on-finding-sufficient-assumptions-with-intersection-statements-1-answers/?ss_completed_lesson=11893

We're given premises with one premise missing that helps us arrive at the conclusion. In this case:

F (--some--) U

[find missing premise]

-----------------------------------

U (--some--) /I

For the life of me I'm having a hard time navigating "some" when diagramming. Any help or letting me know which lessons to review would be greatly appreciated!

Hello 7sagers,

I'm asking for thoughtful comments/advice on my personal situation. This is causing me tons of anxiety and I haven't been able to study these days and I need to study, like really really need to. Any thoughtful comments are appreciated :)

I am 100% confident in my decision to attend law school. This means so much to me. I will be filling out the part of the application where it asks if you have some factor which warrants special consideration. I really don't want to fill this out but I have no choice since my gpa is poor and I have no stand-out academic, or any, achievements.

A brief description of my situation:

I've had poor health compared to my peers for as long as I could remember. I just got a proper diagnoses and started treatment less than a year ago. My condition is "serious" but controllable. To elaborate, it causes many uncomfortable and embarrassing symptoms (but they should improve :) and I have to follow a strict diet but I can otherwise live a "normal" life. I've also gone through very poor mental health because my symptoms are embarrassing and I was bullied most of my school years. I also had a facial dis figuration for a few years and unfortunately, that led to abuse from family members on top of being bullied at school.

My poor mental health and fatigue (symptom of my medical condition) made getting through university very difficult. Although my gpa is bad, I am proud of it - more so than I would be if I hadn't gone through that (referential phrasing :) and had a 4.0 gpa.

I'm Canadian and will be applying in Canada. I'm concerned this information could harm my application more than it could help. My thinking is, after all, a school should MUCH prefer a healthy applicant with good numbers, over me ("unhealthy" with mediocre numbers). In fact, I doubt if they give "special consideration" at all because they place so much value on good numbers (as they should). I'm also concerned they will doubt my ability to finish law school, and then, doubt my ability to be a lawyer...am I being silly? Although I haven't had a panic attack in a few years, I am having mini ones just with the thought of having to write this, not to mention the personal statement.

If you have a brilliant idea about how I can write a good personal statement, please share. Obviously, I need to write about my situation because this has been my life. I just started thinking of how to write it in my head and stopped because...the facts alone sound like a sob story! I don't want my personal statement to sound like a sob story. I'm especially anxious because I'm not a great writer to begin with.

If anyone can provide some insight on the validity of my concerns, I would be grateful. If anyone is in a similar situation, maybe we can help each other out?

- sora

Hey, so I'm a big fan of using caffeine to study with the LSAT (specifically caffeine pills). Will I be allowed to bring those into the test with me, or would they be confiscated? I've heard different answers.

For those in undergrad currently (with exams starting next week or the week after most likely) -

Are you planning on taking a week off from PTs and other LSAT studying to focus on finals? I'm torn, I have a few days off between different exams, so I think I might take one during the week. Curious to know how others are delegating their time...

In a rush to get registered before the last few spots filled, I submitted a sub-par photo to LSAC, assuming I could change that photo after registration. I see no option to change it, however. I'll try calling them tomorrow when they open back up, but I was hoping maybe one of you may know.

Thanks,

Mikey

Hey Sages! Have any of you thought about making a podcast of all of the webinars? Or just a 7sage podcast elaborating on LSAT study techniques? I think it would be great hit! Just a random thought.

So I'm visiting my parents and my brother and sister-in-law are here as well with my two year old nephew. I decided to try some Games this morning figuring that the many distractions that accompany a two year old at breakfast would be good practice. I was wrong. You don't necessarily want to be in a zen like vacuum of tranquility and solitude, but a vortex of activity, crying, and poop is not good practice. Lesson learned.

For anyone who is trying to get to where I am, I'm happy to provide any insights. For anyone far beyond where I am, I'm reaching out for help.

I've been tackling the LSAT for a few months now and am somewhat stuck. I started the test doing very badly: -6 on LR, -5 on RC, and missing one game on LG. Now, I'm at -2 or -4 on LR, -3 on RC, and -1 on LG (usually due to stupid reading mistakes). My question is: how to move from a ~170 to a 180 score?

In my case, I know I haven't maxed out yet, since I can occasionally score a 180 during BR. But I always seem to miss a couple during first attempts no matter what. Right now, I'm not confident at all about scoring a 175+ on test day (which is my goal, given my unfortunately terrible college GPA).

I welcome anyone with any insights about how you raised your scores (even by a bit), and happy to provide insights from my end if anyone would like them. Thanks!

Quick question:

I took LSAT 76 in October 2015, do I have access to pdfs of those sections through the lsac website? I did cancel my score, but I know I have since seen pdfs of the sections on the lsac site.

Was I imagining this? Where can I find it?

Thanks!

Hi Everyone.

My access to 7Sage expires in two weeks, so I have the choice of either extending my access for Ultimate or upgrading and then extending after the next month.

My question I guess is for the Ultimate+ people. Is it very beneficial to use Ultimate+ over Ultimate? I gather that I get more explanations from JY/Jonathan and more of the PT breakdowns.

I just got through the Weaken/Strengthen lessons, drilled questions from PT 1-38 from Cambridge, and tomorrow/this weekend will be doing an intensive review of the questions I got wrong and put in my LR notebook. This is my plan for the rest of the question types before I hopefully start PTing in June.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance.

Hi guys,

I have been studying the LSAT for over a year (will be 2 years in June), and I have been taking prep-tests very often ( nearly one a day). I haven't had much burn-out during my study-sessions, however sometimes I find it difficult to de-stress before going to sleep. Sometimes, I would be anxious or concerned if I'm on the right track and stressing about the exam before my sleep has affected my sleep-schedule. I would sometimes wake up in the middle of the night, 3 or 4 am, which would consequently make me feel sleepy and drained during the rest of the day. Do you guys have any rituals to de-stress?

To be precise, a lot of my anxiety comes from the fact that I seen nearly every exam besides PT 77 and I'm concerned about how to make gains from the 160 fresh PT score I got in the recent PT 70s exam back in January, coming from a diagnostic of a 140. In most of my other exams, which were retakes, I would go for minus an average around minus 4 to minus 7 but on the PT 70s I would get minus 12 to 15 on the recent LR. I'm getting a little better in noticing patterns in LG, thanks to the FoolProof method as well as getting better in RC, having scored minus 6 on a fresh prep-test. I did consider doing some drilling for LR, but it wasn't a particular question type so much as it was the way the newer exams that were written that gave me issues. Should I just re-do the PT 70s exam? I haven't BR-ed them because I was urged against so by a tutor I once had before I signed up with 7sage.

Hi guys,

Was hoping to get some feedback on effective ways to get into the right frame of mind prior to attempting PT's. I wrote PT 37 and scored 10 points below what I usually average. This was quite a huge hit to the confidence. That being said, I woke up early, had breakfast, and just jumped into the test cold. I can't say I ever had a "warm-up" prior to my other PT's, but I did write them later on in the day and found it easier to get into the tests. What are your Pre-PT rituals? I'd love some advice on this.

Context: I've been studying for about 10 months; have done all of the tests except for the 7 most recent ones, and have started to retake many tests I've already done. I've found on retakes I can score in the 174-176 range, and learn quite a bit from seeing the patterns in the test. For the last stretch of my study period I was going to do two retakes a week(think tests from the 2003-2006 range) and one fresh test a week from the most recently released ones (2012-2015) to gauge my progress.

However, I had an epiphany; screw gauging my progress!

I've been stuck in the 166-171 range for 6 months. I know what I'm going to get on a fresh test. So, perhaps it would be worthwhile for me to take these fresh recently released tests twice instead of just once. Granted, the scores closest to my test date will probably be inflated, but I feel like that this is a better learning opportunity versus just seeing those problems on one take and a blind review.

With that said, I'd be taking a test for the first time, and then retaking aprox. 3 weeks later. Maybe that's too soon, or maybe it doesn't matter?

n case I wasn't clear, this is what I mean as an example:

Example of a week in scenario 1:

Retake Oct. 2003, BR it

Take Oct. 2013 for the first time, BR it

Retake Oct. 2006, BR it

Example of a week in scenario 2:

Take Oct. 2013, BR it

Take Dec. 2013, BR it

Take June 2014, BR it

Then, three weeks later, retake those same tests and BR them again

So, the last 7-9 tests I will have taken before the official exam will all be retakes. While this may not give me an accurate assessment of where I stand, it may be a better learning experience (seeing the most recent problems four times in total instead of just twice), and maybe the inflated score will be good for my confidence, and be more beneficial in the long run than scoring a 169 or a 170 just days before the test.

My intuition is telling me to try this out, as regardless I will be doing mostly retakes in the next few weeks.

What are your thoughts?

Hey Everyone,

As we all know, June is right around the corner (46 days away but who's counting, amirght?).

I have PTs 63-69 and 71-77 left. 77 is my only non retake, but my other takes on the others were 6 months ago so in my opinion they're basically fresh.

I just finished undergrad classes yesterday and have until May 16th (when I start my job) to go hard on the LSAT life. I feel like that's a good timeline to start tapering down anyway to avoid burnout. I want to do 2 PTs per week with awesome BR, but maybe 3 PTs per week in the first 2 weeks of May since LSAT is my only responsibility.

I feel like I should take the mid-late 70s sooner than later so I can fully understand those newest tests, but I just noticed the group BRs are going to hit those tests mid May. Should I take the mid-late 70s now in my PT schedule, or wait to do it with group BR? Should I only PT the 70s, but just do timed sections with my remaining 60s?

I have LSAT ultimate so unfortunately don't have access to all of the explanations for the newest tests.

Any input about my PT plan or how to effectively use this last bit of time would be really helpful!

Hey everyone,

So I am mainly drilling sections PT 1-35 for the next couple months before PT stage. I drilled a LR section from PT 1 and found it to be really weird. The question stems are different and I felt overall, that the passages are written differently. I definitely underperformed on it compared to 1996 and beyond. I know the logic is the same but am I wasting my time focusing on 1-16?

Sorry if this question has been asked before. Thanks!

Weaken/Strengthen

Friday 4/22 at 9pm ET

What if I told you I had one weird trick to completely fix your understanding of Weaken/Strengthen questions? Well, I'd be lying. But I do want to share with you my personal approach to these questions, which involves considering the methods of reasoning most commonly employed on these question types (being correlation/causation, argument by analogy, and phenomenon/hypothesis). The good news is that for the lion's share of these questions, determining the method of reasoning gives you a leg up in selecting the correct answer choice. The BETTER news is that I'm going to teach you how I do this.

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This is both a general question and a question directed to any person who is reading this (how do you drill?)

Let's say I miss a few weaken questions on my latest PT, is there a certain amount of weaken questions that I should drill? say, 10 or 15?

Hey Guys!

I haven't purchased a 7sage course yet and I don't even know if I need a course. Ive taken the test twice already and I think what I struggle most on is knowing how to use my time leading up for the test, ex drilling more, PTing more etc. Does 7sage help with that? My past test scores have been extremely low after much studying, I haven't passed a 150 therefore I decided to request accommodations for my disability.

Recently I was granted testing accommodations and will now receive 54min per section! It is the third time I will take the test therefore I can not mess this up. Should I practice as if I have 35 min per section? Where do I find strategies for people who are taking the test with extended time? If someone in a similar situation has done something remarkable to improve their score please let me know!

Any advice would help.

Thank you!

OKAY. So.

I'm taking in June; I've been studying for about a year and a half. I don't want to do so much over the next few weeks as to burnout, but also I want to feel like I'm not letting myself get rusty (this increases my anxiety which is bad for lots of reasons too). I still have about 8 PTs left, which I'm not sure I'll be able to get to. I obviously know not to expect any major score increases; that's not what I'm going for. I just want to stay consistent and steady.

Anyone have a magic formula as to how much time I should be spending each day/week? Anyone who has taken and burnt out, what would you suggest I definitely avoid doing? (I've already stopped drinking alcohol - btw)

Is doing 1 drill 3 times a week (3 drills total with BR) + 1 PT on weekends & BR too much? Am I going to burn out on this schedule? Help my nerves are bad. <3 yall