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Hi, I'm curious about people's strategies with author's attitude questions. I pretty much consistently get these wrong even though they seem like the easiest questions. I am always able to rule out the positive/negative answer choices but am usually choosing between two. If I'm reading a passage where the author clearly does not believe a theory and thinks it's unsupported, choosing between "cautious skepticism" and "vehement opposition" is almost impossible. Please help!

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Hey all - taking the June Flex and I've noticed in the last few weeks that I have gone from regularly -1/-3 on LG to -5/-7. As test time gets closer, I'm making a lot of really dumb mistakes, getting angry, missing key inferences. Even problem sets that I have already done before, I am now missing questions on. Whenever I think about LG I now get this pit in my stomach. I would welcome any advice to get this train back on track, and thank you!

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Hey all,

For those who are familiar with the infamous Newspaper articles game from the January Flex, I wanted to know if you're aware of any similar game types. When I took the exam back in January, I was flabbergasted because of the way the rules were presented. I want to practice similar game types before the June exam this weekend that way I'm best equipped.

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Hi everyone,

This weekend will be my first time taking the LSAT and I am unfamiliar with the logistics of the writing sample. Do we have to take it the same day? Do we have to take it in one sitting? When is the earliest/latest we are allowed to take it? Do law schools factor the writing sample into their decision making process?!

Please advise!!! TYIA

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PT 47 Section 1 Question 19

In the stem it talks about a case of polio occurring due to the administration of a vaccine of 12 per year. By doing an alt vaccine, it gets cut into half 6

We need to weaken this

The correct answer is that the alt would cause for some new polio to occur.

MY ISSUE

Some means 1 - infinite; if the some of the new polio is 2, then it's obvious to take the alt. If it is 50, then it sucks

But what should we assume

Admin note: Edited title. Please use the format "PT#.S#.Q# - [brief description]"

https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-47-section-1-question-19/

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Hey everyone!

Can anyone give some helpful tips on how to make the most out of reviewing the mistakes I make on the RC section? What are some helpful strategies/methods for reviewing and analyzing this section to avoid making similar mistakes on future RC sections?

Thanks in advance!

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Hello, I hope everyone is doing well! I am having a little bit of an issue identifying principles vs conclusions when asked to identify certain aspects of the argument. I keep overanalyzing whether it is a principle or the overall conclusion, I am wondering if anyone has this problem as well?

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I just did the May 2020 Flex LSAT as practice and noticed the RC passages are significantly more verbose than the earlier exams. My reading time is close to 3.5 minutes usually but I am noticing I took a longer time to read these. Did anyone else feel like this threw them off? How can I combat this in time for my June test?

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I couldn't understand why I got this wrong until I started writing this, so I figured I'd publish just in case it helps others.

Decrease in revenues > Prices risen beyond what people can afford > Salaries not kept pace.

Contrapositive: Salaries kept pace > Prices do not rise beyond level people can afford > No decrease in revenue

Question: If salaries have kept pace during last year, what MBT?

(B) Incorrect: Retail stores will not experience a drop in retail sales this holiday season

(C) Correct: Prices in retail stores have not risen beyond the level that most people can afford during this holiday season.

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I started out with a 154 diagnostic and with my last PT, improved to 167. Although this is a great PT and could certainly be an outlier, the one thing that remains constant is my RC score. I have NEVER been able to reduce my incorrect ACs below -6. On the 167 PT, I got -7. I am curious if there are any other high scorers who had originally had this issue and were able to resolve it. Any advice?

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Hi all, quick question!

In the Harder MBT Questions unit, JY covers two questions that involve the negation of embedded conditionals. I'm a little confused on the negations, and was hoping someone had some insight.

PT 33 S1 Q11:

A --> B

NOT (A -->B) which becomes:

A some /B

PT 30 S2 Q20:

(A -->B) --> /C

C --> NOT (A-->B) which becomes:

C --> A and /B

Does anyone understand why the negation of (A-->B) in one problem resulted in a some statement, while in another problem resulted in an and statement? Thank you!

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Hi all! I keep misreading rules on logic games under time pressure. If a rule says “when J is in Y cannot be in,” I’ve read it as “when J is in Y has to be in.” Really silly in retrospect but I keep doing it under time pressure. I’m taking the June test (coming up in about a week), any tips for how I can avoid this and learn to do so in T minus one week? Re-reading rule translations was a useful one that I got from discussion forums. Anything else that could help?

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Curious on what to do for LR. When I do an untimed LR section, I only get a few wrong. When I do a timed section, I get a lot LOT wrong. I know this happens due to the time, I am just unsure how to fix this?

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Hey y'all just in a bit of a rut and need some clarification from my 7Sage peeps. When the term "unless" is used in a logic game rule with other groups things get kinda dicey for me quick.

For instance in an In/Out game if there is a rule which combines the negation of a player via the group 4 "not" or "cannot" group in the conditional I can't for the life of me get it down who gets negated and ends up in the sufficient. Example:

"cannot select J unless W is also selected" . Question: Do I negate J to /J via cannot, then negate my negation of /J again via "unless" to end up with: If J --> W ? Is this correct?

I thought I had this mastered until I took PT 87 Game # 3 (Double layer Sequencing)

"Hanbock cannot be shown earlier than the third week unless Ibex is shown in the first week"

Who gets negated, how, and ends up in the sufficient? Sorry if this is painful for those who have mastered LG conditional logic. Thank you for your help!

-Drew

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So I am currently in the process of fine tuning some of my strategies and doing some last minute drilling before the June exam and was wondering if there is a reliable way to determine passage difficulty for RC. I feel like if there is a method to assess the passage difficulty, I could improve my RC score a little bit just by being able to focus on the easier passages first. If anyone has any tips/recommendations I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!

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Hi all,

Back for the April 2021 flex thread there was a really helpful comment a user wrote about which LG's he did prior to the test that made him feel really prepared. If you're one of those that feels LG is your greatest strength, I think this may be one last beneficial step just to lock it in. I plan to do it at least and hope it helps. I wanted to list the user's name for reference but it got cut out of the picture I took so feel free to look back through the thread and you should find it easily. A lot of people were saying how some of the April games threw them off but this person said he felt extremely prepared doing these hard/unusual games prior to testing.

Here's the list:

PT2 games 3 and 4

PT7 game 3

PT15 game 2

PT21 game 4

PTF97 game 4

PT25 games 2 and 3

PT 79 game 4

PT 88 games 3 and 4

All credit to him!! Just wanted to re-share for the upcoming test in case it could help. Happy studying everyone!

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A couple months ago, I was getting somewhere between minus 3-7 per RC section and now I've seemingly lost my groove as I've been getting minus 10+ on more than a few occasions. Has anyone else experienced this? Tips/advice?

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Hi everyone,

I have been studying since November and am signed up to take the August LSAT. For a long time I was super consistent but now I can feel my study motivation dropping. I am interested in finding someone (or a group of people) to study with to hopefully reignite my motivation. I am currently scoring between 169 and 171 on my PT's. I live in Hawaii so schedule wise people on the west coast would probably work best. Please let me know if anyone is interested!

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My last couple of practice tests have been REALLY rough for RC. I can read and understand the passage pretty well in around 4 minutes, but spend way too much time on inference questions (both author agreement/disagreement and general inferences about the passage questions). My RC scores have been tanking my overall score, I'm consistently -0 to -2 LR, -0 on LG when I finish the section but sometimes don't get to the last 2-3 questions. I was at a solid -3 to -5 with RC for the majority of my studying up until now, usually just from not finishing the last few questions, but recently my uncertainty with these inference questions is killing my score. I can usually only get it down to 2 or 3 answer choices, I overthink them for 2ish minutes, and then invariably choose the wrong answer. Looking for tips on how to answer these question types more confidently, especially when 2 or 3 answer choices can reasonably be supported by information in the passage. How should I be quickly assessing which statement for which there is more evidence that the author would agree with it?

If anyone has recently taken PT87 and remembers passages 1 and 2 from the RC section, would be interested to hear your thoughts/approach on the inference questions - especially question 6 from passage 1 of PT87! Or in general, if anyone has receded severely in RC - how did you get your score back up? Any and all help much appreciated

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