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I heard that LSAT is getting rid of the logical games, is this true?

Should I try applying to a reach school with a median LSAT 4 points above mine? My GPA is 0.15 above their median - but not sure if that's enough to balance it out! Anyone with success stories please share :)

Update:

My speculation was right after finishing preptest in Preptests 70s.

To people who score very similarly as I did, you likely are and would continue be dominating LR sections. All these complaints about new tricks, wordings, trends and shifts on new tests by other people who are relatively weaker on LR sections, don't apply to you.

There may be a few tricks you can pick up along the way to speed up and decrease very marginally your error rate per LR section. But these are marginal in their very nature: I estimate they would probably only give you an improvement of a couple of points. Your time likely would have much higher value elsewhere.

So I would suggest skipping easy LR sections if you feel you are dominating LR sections.

After finishing around 40 preptests, roughly from preptest 1 to preptest 43, I found I almost always dominate logical reasoning sections:

Averagely I finish a section in about 33 minutes with an error rate of minus 3 to 0 per section[average is below 2]. [I almost never use my extra 2 minutes left to go back and re-work on the questions I felt uncertain about, just to to put more pressure on myself]

I am thinking about skipping logical reasoning sections in Preptests due to time limitation and just do a couple of later tests' LR sections, such as LR sections of preptest 75. [I have less than a month before the test date.]

However, I worry my domination may be fake: maybe early preptests are too easy in comparison to later tests such as preptest 88; maybe to maintain the "feel", a certain amount of workload must be kept; maybe a domination is defined with even higher standard; etc.

If you have some experience and insight, can you please help me with my worry?

I'm thinking that maybe C is wrong because the mergers does no good to the market share, and the newly merged companies still have to gain market share by purchasing competitors. However, D indicates that since some producers have been squeezed out of the market, there are some space for new companies which can gain their market share through more aggressive marketting. That's why D is the correct answer. i'm not sure if my explaination is correct, please help.

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Hi all,

I took the Nov test (first write) and was unfortunately, 10 points down from my PT. Pretty disappointed as I have been studying full-time since May. I already applied to law schools in Canada and the last score they take for this cycle is the Jan test. I have just under a month to study for the Jan test, and would appreciate any advice on the most effective study plans, tactics, and tools that you've used to succeed. Thank you! :)

I almost always fall for this rule/time sinks when seeing this in LG, I can never draw out this rule intuitively. Some examples:

9.3.1 At least twice as many roses as orchids.

27.2.3 Exactly twice as many of the film buffs see the H film as see the F film.

32.3.2 At lease as many F novels as R novels are selected.

At least twice the amount of A as B

Can someone please kindly tell me how to understand them properly and efficiently? Thank you so much!

I got a 158 on the November LSAT, I have one more chance to write in January for 2020 admissions, should I write again??

(Applied to Ryerson, osgoode, queens, western, Ottawa and Windsor)

cGPA: 3.25, last two years: 3.8, two LSATS: 151, 158

I am having trouble diagramming this sufficient assumption question. Can someone please explain why A is correct and the others are wrong? Thank you.

So I just finished reading the Loophole in LR by Ellen Cassidy (great book for anyone no matter where you are currently in your prep) and I thought it was necessary to share this topic covered in the book with y'all. I have been studying for a little over a year now and I never noticed this concept, but now that I do I can already tell it will make a drastic improvement on my LR score.

So in the book she basically talks about strengthening, weakening, and SA (to name a few) as powerful questions that need powerful answer choices. That being said, think about how weak and also often tempting answer choices that begin with "some", "several", "many", etc. are.

I'll give an example of the point I'm trying to make. Look up question twelve, section one on prep test 45. I still think this question is very difficult, but look at the most popular wrong AC, AC D, that 4% less people picked than the correct one. "Some of the fish." In this stimulus we were never given how many fish were affected so for all we know it could be 100k fish. Some of the fish could be 1 fish. Does that weaken the argument in any way if there were in fact 100k fish in the sample size? Hell no! You could look at those first four words of the AC and with a decent level of confidence eliminate that AC saving you a lot of time trying to parse out what it means, how it is connected to the stimulus, and if it even weakens the stimulus.

So in conclusion, be very wary when you have a "powerful" question and an AC has a word that makes it weak. Most of the time it probably does very little to the argument if anything at all. I'm not saying to eliminate it based on that fact alone, but definitely be cautious of this.

Hope this helped some of y'all who never noticed this either.

is there a January 2020 specific forum? I don't see it, the last one I see is for November 2019

I halve been drilling for 2 months and I only improved by maybe 3 points. How do you approach inference, MBT and most strongly supported questions on the RC. I find it easier for LR than RC. How do I improve? Please.

It’s giving me nightmares

Hi everyone,

I am confused on how to react to my latest LR section score. Under timed conditions, I scored a 7/26 (-19). Horrible. I know. But my Blind review was 17/26 (-9) which is not good but significantly bettter than -19.

Now for the question part of my discussion post. What do I make of this score? How do I make my BR score my timed score?

Thank you,

Hello,

I have finished the core curriculum and have done four prep tests but I have been using the 50% added time to them. Is this bad practice I plan on reducing my time until I can hit the 35 minute mark.

Thanks

Unable to figure out this PSA question out. Please help.

Can someone please help explain why D is correct? Not sure if this questions is actually very difficult or if I'm just not fully understanding this stimulus to begin with. Been looking at it for ages and it's just not totally clear to me why D is right, help!

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Hey guys,

I am writing the LSAT in January. I want to aim for -0 on the Logic games section. So far, I always get perfect on the sequencing games. Other games, such as In and out, grouping, sequencing twist games- I struggle a little bit on those. I know that if I practice a little bit more, I will aim to perfect those. In terms of the miscellaneous games, I still have a lot of work to do on those).

For the last month- I was planning to do PT 40- 70 (an entire LG section per day). I know that sounds a lot. But I am pretty comfortable with this section. I had a question, should I focus on games from 40-70 or should I do other prep tests. Some people say that if you want to improve on LG miscellaneous- then games from 1-35 are the way to go ? Or should I mix it up ?

Thank You :)

I am having such a hard time understanding why answer choice (E) is wrong. Doesn't "few" translate to "some," rendering this answer choice valid? Somebody please help.

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I chose AC: B. Why is C the flaw for this question?

How long has everyone waited for their writing sample to be released?

I sat for the ‘November 2019’ exam just over ten days ago. Is it normal to still feel exhausted after this much time has passed? So far I have woken up with an lsat hangover every. single. morning.

I refuse to continue feeling sluggish.

Hi all does anyone have an Excel sheet where they keep track of questions they've missed where you can track your flawed reasoning and see how your reasoning changes over time? Pacifico had an LG Excel sheet but I'm looking for an LR sheet. I know I've seen one on here before but I can't remember where. Thanks in advance :) Feel free to DM me and I'll send you my e-mail if that works best.

Hey guys,

Are "depends only on" and "all that is needed" sufficient condition modifiers? If yes then why? Please help!

H

Someone please tell me why A is correct.

I think SoA is incorrect because: let's pretend there are two subdivisions, A and B. Let's say sub A contained houses of $1mil and sub B had houses costing half million. Let's say someone like Bill Gates lived in sub A. $1 mil is drastically lower than what he can afford, but de facto segregation between sub a and sub B still exists.

Please explain AC A. Thank you.

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