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Hi everyone,

I began studying for the LSAT in June using 7Sage's CC v1, but I recently learned that there is now a CC v2. I am about 25% through the logical reasoning portion of the curriculum, and after gaining access to CC v2 I've noticed that the curriculum is much more condensed and different. I'm wondering what I should do, either continue with CC v1 or switch to CC v2 for the remainder of my studies. Would continuing to study CC v1 disadvantage me in preparation for taking the October/November LSATs?

Any suggestions or insight is greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

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Hello everyone,

2.5ish weeks ago I had been scoring high 160s and was ecstatic to finally break into the 170s on PT77, but then my scores for the next four PTs were were back to where they were before. Today, I just finished PT82 with my lowest score in weeks.

With the August test weeks away I had been optimistic, but have no idea what to do now. Maybe I'm burnt out (been doing 2 PTs/week recently), but it seems too late for a break. All tips/advice/encouragement are welcome.

Thank you.

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Hello!

Is there a specific lesson where J.Y. discusses the types of reasoning? I completed the core curriculum last year, and I don't recall him discussing the types of reasoning. Is this something new to V2? #help

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WHY IS IT NOT E? like it literally says "government official" how is a insurance adjuster a government official? And it said that it is wrong for the person to not give an answer and that they must tell the truth? She literally told the insurance adjuster that she doesnt know?

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PrepTest A - Section 2 - Passage 2 Question 11

If someone could assist me in explaining how D is the correct answer. The final paragraph, to my knowledge, explained how Fannie's Film gave the working women a chance to tell her own story. In this case it gives women who were ignored by mainstream media the ability to expose realisitic filmaking and give them represenation?

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Hello! I am debating if I should do the CCv1 or CCv2 and was wondering if anyone had any experiences switching. Apparently, the Core Curriculum v2 (beta) contains 84 hours of lessons, whereas the Core Curriculum v1 has over 217 hours of lessons. So I didn't know if I would be missing out on a lot of content by doing the CCv2. For references, I just started studying and made it through the Foundations of the CCv1and just started the LR. LSAT in November.

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Is it me, or did the preptests get way more tricky with LR bait answers between the 00s tests to the 10s tests?

I show improvement in RC and LG but LR seems so difficult to adapt to given the amount of bait answers that have become more numerous in the more recent preptests.

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PrepTest February 1997 - Section 1 - Question 14 - AC E #help

I am confused here as to why AC E does not work. Although I have my own reasons, I am just looking for some confirmation on my thinking here since there is no explanation posted for this question yet.

From my understanding of the passage, we see no difference in the number of collisions at place that used to require headlights only when visibility was poor which then switched to having headlights mandatory at all time.

E seems to resolve this paradox. If a place used to only require headlights be turned on in poor visibility, but visibility is also poor all of the time, then we would expect everyone's headlights to be on all of the time. Thus, implementing a new law that makes it mandatory for headlights to be on regardless of visibility would have no impact on this, resolving the paradox.

Is the reasoning for E being incorrect the use of the word "frequently" rather than "always"? Thus implying that there may still be SOME difference? I can definitely see that being the case.

As for AC C being correct, is this due to AC C establishing that the use of headlights has no causal effect on collisions, and instead is simply case of correlation between safe drivers and headlight usage? It would then logically follow that increasing the use of headlights would actually have no impact on collisions, since now we will just have the unsafe drivers also using headlights at all time.

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How do you guys review your wrong answer journal? Once I fill in the information about why i got it wrong and why the right answer is right etc, i just move on and don't really review after. Does anyone have a good system?

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I hoping to get my first two games down to a relatively speedy pace so I have time on the second two. What tags/difficulty should I be drilling that are representative of the first two games?

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Hi, just wondering some thoughts on what the most effective study method is for most. Do I just go down through the syllabus in the order that it shows, or do I continue to stay in a section I am currently in (MSS for LR) retaking the drills until I start getting 100% on all the questions, and start to answer them with the targeted time? #help

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I am about midway through logic games now and am hoping to finish the curriculum before August 1. I have no idea what to expect in terms of improvement. I am not a strong test taker and got a 151 on my diagnostic. I have been pretty serious about studying this summer and feel like I am grasping a lot of the material, and I am scheduled to take the test in September. I don't want to get my hopes up for my first practice test and expect some large jump in my score if that's unlikely. What experience have you all had in terms of your diagnostic score in comparison to the scores you got after completing the curriculum?

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Hi everyone, I wanted to share a strategy that has worked very well for me in improving my performance on LR questions. I've been coming to the realization that around 95% of the time I get a question wrong, it is because I didn't understand the stimulus. At first, I blamed myself for this, saying that I simply was not smart enough to decipher what I was reading, and this, of course, did not help me whatsoever. But, as I started to progress through the lessons, I realized that the LSAT is intentionally confusing. If the test were written by sane, normal, and non-sadistic people who wrote English in the way we all do, the LSAT would be one of the easier standardized tests. So, I decided to look for places where I could find arguments contained in very complex and confusing wording and language. And that is when I stumbled across this thing called the Supreme Court. I found that the arguments they were presenting were strikingly similar to some of the arguments I've encountered on the LSAT in terms of complexity, grammar, etc. So I got to reading cases and this is the strategy I followed.

  • For each sentence, I took a very brief moment to assess whether I understood what it was saying. If I didn't, I read again.

  • At the end of each paragraph, I looked away from the text and restated what it said, in simple terms, in my head.

  • By the time I finished with an opinion or a dissent/concurrence, I formed a low to moderate resolution summary of what the overall argument was and how it was supported.

    • This trained both my comprehension and my memory skills. So far, I've done about 20 cases and I've noticed sizable improvements in my stimulus comprehension since then.

    This is the book I used: https://www.amazon.com/Supreme-Court-Decisions-Penguin-Classics/dp/0143121995

    (It is part of a larger series of civic books; I strongly recommend that you check out the other books).

    While I haven't gotten to preparing for the reading comprehension section of the test, I am sure this will aid me in that too.

    (P.S. Besides just improving your LSAT performance, I feel as though reading SCOTUS cases will be of other use as well. First, it is important to know your rights. Second, the Supreme Court is kinda important to the law and stuff and I think a prospective lawyer should know at least some things about the law.)

    (P.P.S. Another strategy that may help is imagining that every argument you come across on the LSAT is being presented by your least favorite Justice; I think that will allow you to more readily see flaws in the reasoning.)

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