Hello fellow 7Sagers,

I have a question regarding the third passage of PT17. I cannot seem to understand what the author meant in line 13 to 16. What does the author mean? Why would you substitute less-polluting fuels (natural gas) for those carrying a higher tax (meaning more-polluting fuels)? This is mind-boggling to me!

I've watched and re-watched JY's explanation video, but it doesn't solve my problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,

Admin Note: https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-17-section-4-passage-3-passage/

Hi everyone!

I'm a consistent high 170's-180 scorer that's been tutoring for around 2-3 months now. I hope everyone who's currently taking the Jan test is doing well, and congrats!

This sesh is more for people who are targeting the Feb/April test, and is generally geared towards all skill ranges, but primarily focused on beginners. If you were on the discussion forum a few months ago, you may have seen this post before - the lesson is essentially going to be the same thing, but do stop on by if you want to do any review on formal logic or LR approaches.

I'll be holding the session on Wednesday 9PM EST. It should go on for around 1.5-2hrs, or so, and I'm going to be covering, roughly, the following topics:

Afterwards, I'll be going through an LR section and talking through my approach, while also taking questions. If you want to follow along, please have PT20 S1 in hand.

Join the following zoom link @9PM EST Wed 1/20

https://middlebury.zoom.us/j/5528647080?pwd=TTJUM0lDV2ZxbEFvTXRjRWVXRVJEdz09

with password 686121

Conf Id 552 864 7080 also works with the same password. Thanks, and see you soon!

If you can't make the time, I'll try my best to schedule a second session, so please let me know.

How do you approach studying for logic games? Do you expose yourself to one new logic game at a time, and then keep repeating it to master it? Or do you do as many logic games as you can, and pocket all the ones you had difficulty on to come back later to work on them?

For whatever reason I'm really bad at mid-level assumption questions, like "what follows if this is assumed."

Does anyone have any advice?

I haven't started anything with RC , I wanted to nail down LR first in hopes that it would my RC in general.

Any suggestions on how to tackle RC? 7Sage method ? PSB ? Reading a dense passage every night ?

Hey all!

I will be taking the flex on Tuesday at 11:30 AM.

I took my last PT today (May 2020) and could feel myself very fatigued of just reading LSAT material by section 3 - so I decided to do the last section untimed to take pressure off of myself incase I underperformed (didn't want any psychological stress of score fluctuations before my test lol).

For those who are also writing Tuesday: I was wondering what you are doing today/what you will be doing tomorrow?

I'm not sure if I should do any timed sections tomorrow? The other option was just doing some drills of questions I need practice with for LR.

For RC I was planning on finding a couple dense passages and practicing reading through them/identifying the MP, tone and structure to myself (not answering any questions).

For LG, I was planning on practicing setting up some difficult games and making inferences upfront (again not answering any of the questions (just practicing being able to set things up properly and efficiently).

Would love to know what everyone else is doing today, tomorrow, and what you will do the morning before your exam?

PS: I know a lot of people thought May 2020 was an easier exam - I ended up scoring fine (thank god) - but I thought RC was rather difficult while taking it...thoughts? Maybe it was my nerves kicking in a little, but the second passage was a WTF moment for me for sure.

Sorry if there are any typos, I'm really tired today for some reason lol and didn't read anything over just now! Feel free to message me if you want to talk about your plan of attack before we sit on Tuesday! :)

I'm a Tuesday test taker, just wanted to wish everyone else good luck. Remember to stay steady, focused and, consistent! Don't rush through the questions simply because it's test day. Do whatever you normally do on your practice tests - we've got this!

help!!!! i just tested my equipment for my exam today and it says my RAM is too high. it was at 94%. i was connected to a live representative and they told me to restart my computer and clear my cookies and now it's at 98%!

Hi everyone!

I'm a consistent high 170's-180 scorer that's been tutoring for around 2-3 months now. I hope everyone who's currently taking the Jan test is doing well, and congrats!

This sesh is more for people who are targeting the Feb/April test, and is generally geared towards all skill ranges, but primarily focused on beginners. If you were on the discussion forum a few months ago, you may have seen this post before - the lesson is essentially going to be the same thing, but do stop on by if you want to do any review on formal logic or LR approaches.

I'll be holding the session on Wednesday 9PM EST. It should go on for around 1.5-2hrs, or so, and I'm going to be covering, roughly, the following topics:

Afterwards, I'll be going through an LR section and talking through my approach, while also taking questions. If you want to follow along, please have PT20 S1 in hand.

Join the following zoom link @9PM EST Wed 1/20

https://middlebury.zoom.us/j/5528647080?pwd=TTJUM0lDV2ZxbEFvTXRjRWVXRVJEdz09

with password 686121

Conf Id 552 864 7080 also works with the same password. Thanks, and see you soon!

If you can't make the time, I'll try my best to schedule a second session, so please let me know.

I'm fairly new to 7Sage, but I am curious to know others' thoughts on this. Should I keep doing problem sets in a specific category if I am getting them right every time? Even without blind review? Not trying to brag or anything here, just genuinely curious of what others are doing.

Hello there,

Could someone provide me with a condensed analysis of the 'bridging' concept of Necessary Assumptions. I'm struggling on identifying these Q-types and I'm missing a great deal of NA questions on PTs unfortunately.

Also I'm looking for examples or a PT that may have more than the usual amount of these. Could anyone point me in the right direction?

Muchas Gracias

I went to test my mac book on the proctor U website and it passed everything except for 'RAM usage'. Did anyone have this issue/did it affect you on test day? I write tomorrow so any advice would be greatly appreciated!!

I usually don't make any notes or map things out on the LR section and I usually score between -5 and -7. Should I be mapping out every single question?

I see JY maps out every question, should I be doing the same?

Okay so I can see why E could be the correct answer. But I just wasn't sure whether there was both government inaction (maybe the government is just but they are acting) and he did everything in good faith.

I chose B. I took a contrapositive of the principle and it seemed to fit. Maybe that's not the right thing to do, but I was between B and E and I wasn't sure about E.

Hey everybody,

This post is directed towards people who have already written for the LSAT Flex. My concern is regarding the room/office/space/cell that one will take the flex in. Is there a certain type of room LSAC expects us to use? And specific guidelines as to what the room entails? For example, I have a desk in my office at my house. It has a few paintings on the wall, a few plants in the corner, a small book shelf (with books), and behind my chair is a tall "desk set". I'm wondering if I have to deconstruct the set and remove all other items from the room before the exam. Not about to spend 6 months studying just to be told that I can't take the flex because there's a portrait of a matador in the bottom left screen.

Let me know what I should do as its just around the corner. Thanks for the help fellow Sagers. :)

Is anyone taking the test outside the US or Canada? Was hoping to create a discussion thread for Tuesday (Obeying all 7sage and Lsac rules ofc)

Hey everyone I tried searching through the forums to see if there were any hits and I didn't see anything but I am a little confused on general principles. I am doing pretty well on the method of reasoning portion of the curriculum knock on wood but one area that I've noticed myself wasting too much time on are on answer choices that mention something to do with the argument using a general principle. I've been getting in the habit of quickly attempting to come up with an example of whatever the answer choice is and then comparing that to the argument featured in the stimulus that I have summed up in my own words but I keep second guessing myself on the answer choices with something to do with a general principle.

In the second lesson of the method of reasoning curriculum JY uses the "all jedi use the force" or "all apples are fruit" as examples for a general principle. That makes sense to me but then I'll see some stimulus's where either a premise or conclusion will say something that I think could be interpreted as a general principle and then that gray area is the source of my question. Most recent example was form LSAT 19 Section 4 Question 18 June 1996. I got it right during blind review but it seems like this is one simple fix I can make to tighten my shot group. Does anyone have any other examples of general principles or any tips on their approach?

-Stay safe and thank you for your time!

The file that needed to be downloaded for a proctor to show up wasn't working. Now i have to reschedule. the restart button is not showing up.

Did anyone have this problem?

Hi everyone. As I am studying for the LSAT, I am beginning to get concerned for what lies ahead. I originally planned to take the LSAT flex in January but this had to get pushed back for personal reasons. Now, as I am still studying and struggling, I do not think February will be the best option for me. Because I have only been in the cycle since the start of the flex, I am really concerned if I couldn't make the LSAT flex in April, and then they begin re-introducing the regular LSAT. Anyone have any ideas on future lsats for this next cycle post-April? Thanks.

Y’all. Good luck for real lmao cuz that was no joke 😩💀.

LR was harder than the 80s imo.

LG was easy. Last game was tough but solvable.

RC was denseeeee

Good luck yall ♥️🙏🏼

Having a breakdown. im supposed to test today

Apologies if this has already been addressed but wondering whether the underline tool that we have here on 7sage is a feature on the LSAT flex?

Thanks!

Can you use lined paper on the LSAT Flex? Or only unlined? SOS, I literally have no printer paper.

January has turned out to be the largest test administration of this cycle with over 40,000 people registered and as such there are many first time test takers as well as people that have taken a Flex test previously but are still not too familiar with the format so I thought I would create a post.

Here are some important things to know:

There are multiple different versions of the test. In some of the previous Flex administrations we have seen more than 50 different versions of the test.

Order does not matter. So all those posting their order in the January discussion thread, you are not helping anyone nor are you potentially trying to gauge your perception of how well you did. You may even be accidently hurting others who are looking to fellow test takers to get a better idea of how they may have done on the test When you post that you had the order of: LR- LG- RC and you write about how how LR was the hardest section you have ever had maybe the section you had was difficult but someone else who had the exact same order as you had a different and easier LR section and now they think that the questions went right over their head and are cancelling their test.

There is multiple different curves- Depending on content, there will be at least several different curves. Previous estimates on past curves have ranged from -7 to -10

All Flex tests are non disclosed so we won't see questions or really know how we did

Here is what we can and can not discuss on the January discussion thread:

We can discuss topics. You could list the topics of the games or RC passages for example.

You can say something like I found the questions about dinosaurs, Plato, and birds flying to be the trickiest questions or questions you thought you got wrong

By listing topics you may be able to find other test takers who had the same section as you and get their perspective as to overall difficulty, hardest questions ect though you can't say something like I answered question #15 with B, did you?

We can't discuss game type or question type

Will be taking the january test and my RAM is 97% instead of 90%.

How do i change it?