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Anybody taking the test at Wagner college on Staten Island? I'm coming from Brooklyn... I think I have a ride worked out but I wouldn't mind making a back up plan with someone else. The whole no phones allowed thing really makes it hard to work out a cab or anything like that, and I am, like most of NY, sadly car-less.
LSAC just opened registration for the September, December, and February LSATs. The good seats are filling up fast. You want to register as soon as you can so that you won't to drive far to your test location. Also keep in mind that some test locations are more comfortable than others. Some locations have long tables available instead of small desks. So read some online reviews before choosing your test location. I hope this tip helps, and good luck to all of you.
I am registered to take the LSAT this September. I am looking for a serious study partner who is diligent, enjoys strategy, and is taking the intuitive approach to studying. I am open to using Skype chat, or any other online or over the phone method of communication. I am a Philosophy major, and would love to meet others from my major.
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Anne
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Okay, so I havent seen this in a problem and if I have I cant remember. But how would someone diagram this: If necessary, they need to register for the race, mainly the if necessary is what throws me off.
Hi 7sage community,
I just want to share a little story that might help some of you who are in a similar situation as I am.
Never have been a smart kid in my life and I was mainly fascinated with lines and colors so I assumed I would grow up to be an artist. After graduating, I did become an artist and I was fairly content with my occupation.
But somewhere along the line, I found myself taking more pleasure in drafting contracts and negotiating with my clients. After much thoughts and research, I decided to enter law school to specialize in design copyrights. But before I could set my feet in the school, I needed to take this freaky monster called the LSATs. This test was like encountering an extraterrestrial deformed monster from Dead Space. Each question attacked me with its ugly testicles and claws. Not fun at all.
But I sticked through to no avail.
I knew how to attack them, theoretically, but when I was out in the field, my hands trembled and quickly they ripped me apart with their slimy trickeries.
Main problems for me were that I could not stop stressing about the test and the meaning of the score I would eventually receive. But then I realized that this was just a test and I could not allow this test to dictate my own self worth as a person. After this conviction, I solved through PTs with clam hearts, without stressing myself.
And lo! I was in control. I sliced through the trickeries and punched each question with efficiency and I ended up getting 1 question wrong for LR, which is my weakest section.
So the moral of the story would be this; don't stress out and solve the questions without the fear of receiving low scores and know that there is no causal relationship between the score and your intelligence.
http://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-47-section-3-question-14/
I'm very confused with this specific question, one of the few LR that I have ever blind reviewed and been unable to get correct. It's a weaken question but the correct answer choice DIRECTLY attacks the main premise of the argument, basically completely renders it false. It is a, if true, question so in hindsight I can see how the answer choice is correct but it seems to defy my strategy for attacking weakening questions. Am I missing a subtlety here or did I just think to deeply into this question and miss the obvious answer..it doesn't help that none of the other answer choices seemed correct so I went with C because the argument claims that EVERYBODY needs to wear sun screen and the answer says that some people are allergic, but it does say some people allergic to most sunscreen so they clearly can just buy stuff they aren't allergic to. Mainly, does this answer choice bypass our Goku lazer beam analogy?
Non-math major here. So I found out that one of my biggest weaknesses in LR questions is the question type which deals with percentages and averages. I always sucked at math and thinking in terms of percentages and averages does not come naturally to me. Should I break out a math book and review? What do you guys do?
Does anybody have neck pain from all this studying and test taking? My neck is killing me today! Any advice?
I just bought the 7Sage package like a week ago, and my schedule says I'm going to need at least 8 hours a day, six days a week until my end date to finish this program. I just don't have that time in my schedule. I'm concurrently taking two summer classes, plus an additional Kaplan course. I've just finished the Nova book, and I have two Bibles to go through. What do I do? Is there anything I can skip?
I was under the impression that, on reading comprehension, reading the questions before you read the passage was a bad idea and a waste of time. However, I have been struggling with reading comprehension lately, and so wanted to experiment with some new techniques.
I decided to read the questions ahead of time. Specifically, I read for the details. I tried my method out on PrepTest 60. On one of the passages, I noticed that about three questions were about a group called the 'New Urbanists." Also, I found one question that mentioned a specific line, and marked this in the passage. Basically, I took a note of the concept in each question. This probably took me 15 seconds.
That ended up changing the way I read the passage. I now read with a focus on those details I had just scanned. It made the right parts of the passage pop out and ultimately led me to be able to finish all four passages (which I had been struggling to do).
This approach just make reading comprehension a lot more straightforward because I approached the passage with a direction instead of feeling around for which details would be important.
I would compare it to reading the question stem before doing a logical reasoning question. It seems similar to me because reading an RC passage without reading the questions beforehand gives me the same feeling that reading a logical reasoning stimulus without knowing the question stem. A feeling of foreboding about what would be coming at the end. I tried to retain what I'd read in the stimulus, but was always jarred by the need to contemplate the question stem and its effect on the passage. I find reading the questions for the first time after reading a passage is like someone pushing me while I'm trying to balance on a ball or something. It's such an effort to stuff the passage into my brain that trying to juggle the questions and their effects on the passage really throws me off.
By having a heads up on the questions, I am able to search my way through the passage instead of stumble my way through.
It made me wonder if somehow logic games might benefit from the same approach?
I have found that labelling the answers in LR as either "True," "Could be...," or "False" helps me to understand the question types better.
The only significance compared to the way I've seen answer choices labelled in other places is that I don't separate Could be true or could be false.
If you think about it, there is no question where you would need both could be true and could be false answers. If an answer COULD be true then just by definition it could also be false.
In a can't be true question, you would say a wrong answer choice could be true.
In a must be true question, you would say that very same answer choice could be false.
So, in the context of the question, it doesn't matter if you label CBT or CBF, you might as well shorten it to C.
I eventually started to notice that question types tend towards distribution patterns.
For instance, a necessary assumption might have a distribution like T T T C F where..
T (1) is the correct answer, a necessary assumption...
T (2) restates the conclusion and...
T (3) restates a premise,
C is a sufficient assumption answer choice (and so it COULD be true and so bring the argument to validity, but also COULD be false, and so must not be true in other words is not a necessary assumption.), and...
F is a can't be true answer choice, that is, it would evoke some sort of contradiction in the stimulus.
Compare that to a Can't be true question, which might be F C C C T
F - Correct answer. Evokes a contradiction.
C - Random, Irrelevant. And so could be true or could be false.
C - Random, Irrelevant. And so could be true or false.
C - Random, Irrelevant. T/F
T - Something that must be true. Some tautology or inference.
Compared to a Could be true, which is probably C F F F F (and is pretty strict, I find)
C Correct answer. Some possibility given the stimulus.
F Contradiction
F Contradiction
F Contradiction
F Contradiction
So you can see that the question types tend to have different types of distributions...
This is not to say that every question type has an exact distribution, but they tend towards particular patterns.
A CBT question couldn't have a distribution like CCFFF and it also probably wouldn't have a distribution like CTTTT. I've rarely seen one that has any T's in it, though I do remember one case where they put a T into a CBT Q.
Any critiques or comments?
I would like to try and take at least 6 or 7 5 section practice lsats. I live in queens but can meet in the city. It would be helpful to have at least one or 2 other people in the room. Thanks. Message on this thread or contact me directly. danpelo1@gmail.com Thanks and best of luck in your studies!
Danny
I have tried reading answer choices E through A and think this method has helped me improve on LR. First of all, most of the time, the trap answer choice precede the correct answer choice, since the test makers know that people normally read A- E. Also, a lot of difficult questions, where you hardly understand the stimulus, will also have the correct answer choice somewhere towards the bottom to make sure you slow down. Has anyone else tried this and found it helpful?
I apologize in advance if a question similar to this has been posted before.
I am looking for advice in regards to how to properly use the prep tests I have available. The issue is that I am already registered to write on June 9th, however, as of right now it looks like I may be having to rewrite in September. Obviously I would prefer not to rewrite in September, but this is my first time taking the test so I just need to have a backup plan incase June doesn't go as planned. So, my question is how should I use my prep test if I do need to rewrite in September. I have every test available to me (purchased all the books), but a lot of the drills I did came from PT 1-38, and I have used the tests 52-61, as well as 62, 63, 64. This leaves me with 65-71 before the June test, but if I use them all for the June test I will not have any "new" test to use for the September test. So, should I set aside a few, maybe 2-4 PT's, just incase I do need to rewrite? Or should I go ahead and use them before the June test? If I do use them for the June test, then what should I use/do to prepare for the September test?
Thank you in advance for the assistance, and I look forward to hearing all your responses.
I'm looking to buy a 180 watch. If anybody is selling, please please let me know. You can e-mail me at richadhirani@hotmail.com or send me a message through 7sage. Thanks so much !
with the thousands of law schools in the US it is impossible to go through each one and determine if they meet all my needs and if i meet theirs. is there a website with credibility that i can go to, put in what i am looking for in a law school and they give me a list of schools that have what i am looking for.
currently using law school transparency and have determined my number one choice but i need other options. what are you using?
I am looking for a dedicated study buddy in Orange County Area.
I live around Irvine, and am prepping for September 2014 test.
Anyone who would like to join me, please let me know!
Is there anyone in LA (koreatown area) studying for the Sept 2014 LSAT? I could really use a study buddy. I work full-time, so evenings or weekends work best for me. Shoot me a message if you're down to study with me!
Hey guys, Alan just made this neat chart to help you figure out what GPA / LSAT score you need for your target law school.
Rule of thumb is to get above 50 percentile in both GPA and LSAT to have a realistic shot and above 75 percentile to have a good shot.
Copying game boards used to stress me out a little bit because of the numbering. Every time I copied a game board (which could be 4 or 5 or even 8 times possibly?) I knew I needed to copy over the numbering (1 2 3 4 5 6 beneath the spaces), but found it very time consuming. My way around that is 1. using roman numerals instead of numbers. They are a lot quicker. 2. only marking slots 3 and 5. I borrowed this from the guitar fretboard, where only select frets are marked. You are told which is the 3rd and 5th fret, and from that it's plain to see which is the 2nd and 4th etc. This made copying game boards just a LITTLE bit faster, which made logic games just a LITTLE bit less stressful.
Efficiency 8-)
This might be a dumb question, but if you are blind reviewing do you time yourself when you are redoing questions? Also, are you erasing/making a copy of questions so that your previous work is not there? Finally, do you blind review entire tests sometimes? or are you are only to BR the questions you marked, got wrong,etc?
Thank you in advance for the assistance :D
Thanks JY... You've made me into a causation theory nerd. -_-
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Hi everyone!
The grammar section helps me a lot.
However, since I can’t post the real LSAT sentences, if I have trouble deconstructing a sentence I read, where or how can I raise my questions at 7 sage? or Is it allowable to post one or two sentences?
Any comment or suggestion is welcomed.
Thank you.
Hi all,
Aidin Again, I have been studying LSAT using 7sage for few months now and I have noticed many comments regarding HOW to use this website. Do you take notes when the lessons are being taught? Which pages should you print out and which ones just go over on the screen? What information between hundreds of hours of video is note worthy? How do you access the big picture spider web looking master chart J.Y. always pulls out that no one gets access to ? If anybody has a good idea about what is the most effective way to use all this useful material to our advantage without being confused please SHARE!
