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By far the hardest question type for me in LR is SA and MBT questions. I have learned the whole formula/diagramming/translation stuff that is taught in the Core Curriculum and I understand it quite well. However, I try to do it in my head (as one is supposed to do) then apply it as I'm doing each question to get the right answer. But I always get them wrong. These two questions types have me stressed out because I can't improve no matter what I do.

I should note I mainly have trouble with the moderate difficulty and harder questions (levels 3-5 on the difficulty scale). The easier ones I can do.

How do I improve at these question types? What advice or help can you give me? Perhaps other techniques additional to this?

Hello. I'm having trouble understanding why Answer Choice A is incorrect and why choice C is correct. Answer Choice A reads, "Whenever a society has plentiful resources, some members of that society devote themselves to the study of natural processes." In the stimulus, you know that people have leisure when they have plentiful resources, and leisure is needed for the study of natural processes. Therefore, whenever a society has plentiful resources, people have the leisure they need to devote themselves to the study of natural resources. That is why I thought Answer Choice A is correct and can't see why it is incorrect. I watched JY's video explanation, but I got lost and confused when he explained the order of logic.

I'm also having trouble understanding what part of the stimulus gives support to Answer Choice C.

If someone can please explain to me how my way of thinking about Answer Choice A is wrong and why Answer Choice C is actually correct, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you so much in advance!

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How do you guys choose the order of passages you are going to read first? Does anyone choose by how many paragraphs are in each passage or how many questions a passage has? Or do you go in order and skip after you get a feeling that a certain passage is hard as you are reading it?

Hi! I would love to hear how you "mark-up" your RC passages when doing timed tests (i.e. what you underline, put in brackets, highlight).

I am having difficulty with what to pick out when reading the passage under a time constraint. I find I am either marking up too much, or not enough to help with retention.

What key things do you highlight that you find useful? Or do you even mark it up at all?

I am struggling to understand why A is correct. In the final paragraph, the author recommends action "such as replacing fossil-fuel energy". This action would mitigate the temperature rise problem. This must be the "course of action" that the question refers to. Answer choice A offers a solution to "determine whether more costly measures are warranted", that is to learn more about whether action to combat the problem is necessary. This is not what the passage offers. I see that it matches other important information from the passage, such as action under uncertainty, but this difference I have described seems drastic enough for A to be wrong.

Furthermore, B solves this. In B, action to combat the problem is suggested. It also describes action under uncertainty.

Thank you!

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This was a weird question because while A,B,C, and E all looked wrong, D looked ok but I just couldn't quite 100% understand why D was right. How were we supposed to know where demagogues place on the legitimate/illegitimate spectrum? Why is D right?

Any #help would be appreciated!

Hello! Title pretty much says it all. I have been able to fine tune LG and LR to the point where I am only missing 5 star questions or in the event I just read something wrong. But for the life of me I cannot read the RC passages fast enough or keep focused enough to get a decent RC score. The low res method does not really work for me because I just repeat the low res summary in my head and forget what I'm actually reading.

Has anyone had a similar experience and been able to work through it? Any help is appreciated!

Hi,

When I began practicing main conclusion I was struggling at fist but started to get the hang of it. I practiced the technique of isolating the conclusion and rewording and it was a success. Of course I'm still struggling with time but I'm getting all of the questions correct. I then moved on to most strongly supported questions and it hit me like a ton of bricks. I couldn't catch a technique in order to conquer the MSS questions. After practicing a whole bunch I realized that I need to understand the stimulus and the answers become a tiny little bit clearer. Okay now getting to the real problem, when I look at my results I realize that I'm getting all of the low priority questions correct and the high priority incorrect no matter the difficulty. In addition my timing is horrible.

How can I improve my timing?

How to conquer most strongly supported? Any tricks?

What is Low and high priority? and In what context?

Hi everyone,

I was wondering how some of you were able to improve your Reading Comp skills? I’ve been studying for months and have improved in both LR and LG both have seen little improvement in RC. I’m still getting 3 questions per passage wrong at times. In particular I know I have trouble with Author Attitudes questions but also in general seem to be picking answers that are rather too broad or too specific depending on the question.

What are good science newspapers to subscribe to in order to get better in RC science passages!? #help

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So here was my reasoning for this question, but I still couldn't quite fully understand why A is right and C and E are wrong:

A-- right because "people" includes "environmentalists", "fail to consider" includes "ignore", but I think that "tend to" means "most" (according to some tutors I have read/talked to) so how can we deduce that "most people" ignore?

B-- wrong because no evidence of one thing "outweighing" the other (it just says good stuff and bad stuff about satellites without actually balancing the two)

C-- wrong because, like B, we don't know if it is "largely" beneficial (aka more beneficial than it is negative) but I am still kinda stumped about the word "usually" here-- I initially rejected C because we don't know about what technology "usually" does in general, but this is also the reason why I rejected A (since A said "people tend to") and A ended up being right. Anyone have some better insight here?

D-- wrong because no evidence of the situation being "worse" (same reasoning as B )

E-- wrong because #1-- we don't know if it is "unforeseen" (but not sure about this reasoning because "fail to consider" can also include "unforeseen" ignorance of something), #2-- "often" is too strong (but not sure about this reasoning either because "often" only connotes frequency and not quantity like "most" according to the Powerscore LR Bible)

Any help/explanation here would really be appreciated on this tricky problem!

In LR, my worst question type by far is Sufficient Assumption questions. I know about the translations and the formulizing we need to do for that question type (as 7Sage/JY teaches us in the CC), but actually applying that while doing a convoluted question is very hard and it also takes up a ton of time, in that by the time I've selected the answer minutes have gone by. Sometimes I get confused while doing the translations and formula in my head as well.

As a result of all this, I end up getting a lot of the harder SA questions wrong. I can generally get the easier ones (1-3 dots on the difficulty bar) correct, but anything past that I almost always have trouble.

What can I do to improve on SA questions?

Hi all.

I know countless threads have been done on this topic, but I need a space to just kind of rant and get practical advice.

I have been studying for this test for who knows how long at this point. My biggest weakness is by far logic games. I completed the entire CC, took no short cuts in drills, etc., and I still can't zero out or get close to -3 on games. I foolproof, watch tutorials when I've missed games, and I still can't perform when I take PT's! For a while, I was consistently getting -5 or -6 when I would PT, and this past month I have been getting -8 to -9, as I was when I first started studying. Maybe the recent change (now PTing the PT's in the 70s) is causing this recent shift. When I take the test, I breeze through the first two games, but can't sufficiently work through the 3rd and 4th games. I figure out the game type, and I can see how rules interact with each other, but when I move to the questions, I can't work through them and completely blow it.

My main question is: what the heck do I need to do to get my scores up? I am so frustrated with this section, because it seems so intuitive and learnable, and after foolproofing sections, I always feel so dumb for having missed any in the first place.

P.S. I'm sitting for the July test, so I have a couple of months.

Hey everyone,

I've been watching literally ALL the conditional reasoning videos, beginner and advanced, and I seem to be missing something key that I can't find in the videos. He keeps talking about diagramming "or" using a "negate the sufficient" rule. Can someone direct me towards those videos or a relevant thread? I'm going crazy looking for it and I know it's just a little piece that I'm missing when diagramming in/out games!

Much thanks!

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Greetings all! I've gotten really good at identifying and parsing conditional statements... I can quickly identify the indicator group and from there the rest is history. However, for whatever reason, I'm really struggling with chaining the statements together. On the syllabus examples, the Game of Thrones prompt really threw me for a loop and I ended up with way more possibilities that weren't addressed in the explanation. This is so frustrating because I've gained so much ground but ultimately know that if I cant combine the statements then I'm really not that much better off on any LG.

Im specifically struggling with understanding whether or not in an actual scenario the implicit contrapositive can always be applied. Obviously, the rule says it can, but I'm getting the feeling that practically you shouldn't always assume so. My intuition is getting it...

Does anyone else struggle with this? Is there any more material that I'm missing to better explain and practice chaining? Do I need to just do more and more practice LGs and see where I improve? Thanks!

I cannot find fault with A or E. Both seem to fit the pattern of reasoning. E seems to be more applicable, but that doesn't make A wrong. Any help appreciated!!

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Hi,

This question had really tricky answer choices. I was wondering:

How can A be the answer when the word "ignore," according to the dictionary definition and my past LSAT experience, means that the person intentionally disregarded the negative environmental effects of the satellites, and "fail to consider" (in the stimulus) doesn't seem to have this same meaning?

How can A be the answer when "tend to" means "most", and it seems like we don't have enough evidence to make that deduction? After all, C is wrong because "usually" means "most," so why doesn't this apply to A?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi Everyone! I attended the skipping webinar yesterday which I must say, was SUPER helpful! But I am curious to know how do people generally BR RC?

My strategy is this:

Is this the wrong or right way of BRing RC? I am so confused!

Thank you in advance!!

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Hi,

This was a very difficult question. I found myself stuck between A and B, and I still don't understand how one is supposed to deduce that the correct answer here was B.

Any #help would be really appreciated!

Hi guys,

It looks like some people, particularly someone like Nicole Hopkins, has a very specific annotation strategy on the paper LSAT. I'm trying to incorporate something like that for myself, but on the digital LSAT platform.

I have been going at it without annotating at all, but just writing down the low-res summaries of each paragraph and the main point , structure, and tone before attacking the questions. I tend to get -5 to -6 on the RC section timed and want to go down to -2 to -3 range...

Does anyone have a digital annotation strategy that helped them significantly?

Hello everyone,

Hope you're finding a way to maximize your LSAT prep in quarantine!

Just wanted to share that @"Cant Get Right" and I will be hosting a webinar on skipping strategy this

Saturday, April 11th at 7:30pm EST

Several of you have been asking about skipping strategy and specifically about what worked for me here:

https://classic.7sage.com/discussion/#/discussion/21717/140s-to174-thank-you-7sage

@"Cant Get Right" was my tutor when I was grinding and learning how to apply this skipping strategy was key to maintaining a consistent score range in LR

If you're interested in learning what it is, we'd love to tell you about it!

We're in the midst of preparing for the webinar and will be sharing the link soon.

Hope to see you there!

EDIT:

ZOOM LINK: https://zoom.us/j/5033908804

I have a question regarding a potential "Most strongly supported" question that may have an answer choice with the inclusion of "always". For an example: Lets say that in a stimulus, it reads "I eat pies on Wednesdays." If one of the answer choices was-- I "always" eat pies on Wednesdays, would that be correct? Even if it "always" is not stated in the stimulus, should that be implied through appropriate reasoning?

Hi everyone,

I'm very inconsistent with Reading Comprehension and one of the main things I'm seeing is that I spend so much time dwelling on trap answer choices and end up wasting so much time and momentum. I've done lots of practice but for some reason I always end up with 2 answer choices and basically just guess between the two. Any tips?

For those who are supplementing their 7Sage Prep with The Loophole by Ellen Cassidy, our study group is going to be reviewing Prep Test 75 section 1 using this method. We will be sharing our translations on Tuesday 4/7 and then we are planning to going over the translations and CLIR as a group on Wednesday 5 pm Eastern time.

Here is the link to join our group:

https://groupme.com/join_group/57415632/QdTu0vK9

Both study sessions are added to the calendar and we will also be adding the Zoom link and Google drive link there as well.

Hopefully, this will be the first of multiple sessions. In addition, we have been having BR sessions weekly for various prep tests so if you are looking to improve your LR understanding or hoping to take the LSAT in the near future we would love for you to join us. All levels of prep are welcome, we also have a sub group for people still taking the CC.