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Recently I've discovered using the highlighting tool on RC helps me pick up the smaller details and answer the questions much faster with better understanding. While it does take slightly longer in the set up (a tad over 4 minutes), I was actually having the issue of reading way too fast and understanding next to nothing in my timed runs, so I'd rather have it this way. Out of curiosity, does anyone else do this with success? Have you done it on the actual test (and are there multiple colors available like on 7Sage)? Thanks!

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Is any one here getting an "upload speed" issue ? It says that my upload speed is bellow minimum requirement. The issue appears randomly for a few minutes. Any idea what's going on ? I know we can't write the test if we don't meet the speed requirement.

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Last comment sunday, aug 01 2021

LR for PT 80s vs 60s/70s

I've been taking practice tests in the 60s/early 70s and only just started to take practice tests in the 80s and am seeing a nosedive in my LR score. Is it commonly known that LR is much less straightforward in the 80s? Also, do we have every reason to believe that the difficulty level for LR in the 80s is the most indicative of the real test, since PT 80+ are the most recent tests?

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I'm starting to get better at the test overall, and to do see improvement. In fact I'm doing much better than when I started studying for the exam. I was wondering if you guys could post what helped you learn/understand LR and make sense, any tips or advice. I'd love to hear from you guys, so I can apply that for myself in this learning process.

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Hi everyone,

I am struggling a bit with weakening questions and thus am completing problem sets. I noticed that the problem sets don't have video explanations, but rather discussions instead.

Does anyone know why this is? I actually do like listening to J.Y. and his videos are helpful.

Nonetheless, I'm a bit disappointed that there aren't videos are the prob sets.

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Last comment sunday, aug 01 2021

2 Week Push

As we get into the last 2 weeks before the exam, I'm hoping for any advice folks have on how to bump scores up. How are you studying? What kinds of resources are you using? And does anyone have experience boosting their score in such a short time?

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Hello, I am currently registered for the LSAT for August of 2021, but I think it may be a little too soon for me to take the test. My practice tests are a little all over the place, and my goal is at least a 160, ideally a 165. I registered for the August LSAT a few months back because I mistakenly thought it was the flex and therefore I had up to two weeks before the first test date to reschedule my test. However, that is not the case. For me to change my registration to October 2021, I would have to pay an additional $200. This is not money I am going to be thrilled about spending, and honestly I can't really afford to do that right now. But in the long-run, if I truly think it could help me bring my scores up, it may be worth it in scholarship offers. But honestly, studying since the start of May has been so rough on my mental health, I don't know if spending the extra weeks studying will be very healthy for me unless I change the way I am studying. My goal is to only have to take the LSAT once with score preview, and if I truly hate my score, cancelling it and just applying to law schools with my GRE scores that I got last year. Although not ideal since it would cut the number of law schools I am applying to in half, it could save me the added pressure of retaking over and over during the course of this next year. Let me know what you think or if you are at all in a similar boat.

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Last comment saturday, jul 31 2021

Burnout and Logic Games

Hi! I study 6 days a week, Saturday through Thursday. I take Fridays off, and PT every Saturday. With about 70 days left until the October exam, it's crunch time for me. I definitely look forward to my Fridays off, and it's helped me not burnout but I'm wondering if it's ok to study on Friday for Logic Games only. Does anyone do a few Logic Games every day??

I just don't want to burnout...because I get bad test anxiety sometimes I blank out/can't focus on reading through the dense stimulus on LR. But Logic Games, is something I don't want to forget also. Hope I'm making some sense. It's 1:13 am right now for me. Thanks~~

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Last comment saturday, jul 31 2021

What Games to Fool Proof

Hi, i actually did the core curriculum but have struggled with timing and game recognition. I found some games on newer prep tests to be way different than in PT 1-PT35. can someone who has improved on games substantially recommend me what games they used to fool proof? Thank you. I was getting -9 on gamesUNTIMED

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I got the answer right by confidently eliminating all the others.

I am still confused about the correct answer choice. The first sentence in the stimulus implies that more than .5 grams have the capacity to neutralize.. Not .5 grams.

I would greatly appreciate some clarification.

https://classic.7sage.com/lesson/neutralize-stomach-acids-mss-question/

https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-34-section-2-question-19/

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I have the Sufficient and Necessary conditions cheatsheet PDF saved, but I was wondering if there was a sheet somewhere like this in the curriculum I may have missed for the indicator words (idk if that's exactly the right term for them). "For, since, because" introduce premise, certain words introduce conclusion, etc. Just a nice neat place where all those words are gathered as a way to study them. Hoping someone can point me in the right direction of course material for this or even if someone made something themselves for this. Thanks! #help

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I'm having difficulty distinguishing "either or" as inclusive vs. exclusive.

I'm working on the Advanced Logical Indictor section from the CC and immediately ran into confusion with the question 1 from the Complex Conditional Translation section.

For instance using Q1 from that section:

If a cat weights over 10kg, then it is either a Maine Coon or suffering from obesity.

I was confident at first that the sentence could be translated to:

10kg+ → (/MC→SO) = 10kg+ and /MC →SO

But as JY and other users comments detailed, this interpretation is incorrect because I'm incorrectly presuming the "either or" is an embedded bi-conditional.

So to clarify, if the sentence does not explicitly state "but not both" and if there's no context that can be used to determine if the "either or" is inclusive or exclusive, should I default and interpret the "either or" to mean inclusive?

In this instance, since Q1 does not explicitly state "not both" and there's no additional context, is it reasonable to interpret the "either or" as inclusive?

Making the logical translation as such:

OG: 10kg+ → MC or SFO

If a cat is over 10kg, then it's either a Maine Coon or suffering from obesity.

Contrapositive: /MC and /SFO → /10kg+

If a cat is not a Maine Coon and not suffering from obesity, then it's not over 10kg.

I'm just trying to really hammer home and flesh out the difference between inclusivity vs. exclusive.

Any Reply or input would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!!

#help

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Last comment thursday, jul 29 2021

Worse at Easier RC Passages?

I am consistently worse at easier RC passages than the harder ones. For example, I just took a PT section with two level 2 passages, and two level 4 difficulty passages and I got four wrong just within one level 2 passage.

Any advice would help! Or if anyone can speak from experience - this has been a consistent problem of mine- I am always better at the harder passages and get at least 2x more questions wrong in the easier passages!

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#1

A cannot B without C.

Translation:

AB --> C

/C --> /AB

#2

A without B cannot C.

Translation:

/AB --> /C

C --> AB

I'm curious about the logic itself because if it's true then it's a great thing for me to memorize so I can quickly translate group3/group 4 indicators when they appear together on the test.

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Hi everyone,

My reading comp score has been the same for a while now. It won't go up or down it just stays the same. Can someone recommend some helpful tips on how to be more successful with reading comp? Perhaps there are certain strategies I can implement from the reasoning section in order to help me eliminate wrong answers in reading comp? Please advise! Thank you as always for all your help!

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Last comment wednesday, jul 28 2021

Prep Sets

Is there any way that I can take a premade 35 minute section without taking a full prep test? Looking to take full sections of logical reasoning without having to individually select things from the test bank or use a whole prep test just for one section

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