I am going over the LR flow chart. Step 0 is to idenify the stem, step 1 is read the stimulus, step 2 is asking is there an argument...my question is this... once i complete step 1 and identify the task shouldnt that tell me if an arguement is going to be there? For example: weaken/strengthen/ main point/ etc pretty much anything that is not strongly supported or inference questions are going to be arguements. So if the stem is a MSS or Infernece then i can eliminate step 2, right? Ive never seen a MBT or MSS with a real argument, but then again i havent seen all questions.

Drilling LR questions by question type came up during the last BR group call. I thought I'd share something that I've been using with everyone, a master list of LR questions grouped by question type (aside from the awesome 7Sage question bank).

This list starts at PT#7 and goes to #59 and has been incredibly helpful to me in drilling down my LR problem areas. This list distinguishes between the types of arguments and flaws within each question type (i.e. ad hominem flaws, appeals to authority flaws, correlation/causation etc). I usually search 'correlation' or 'necessity/sufficiency' to address my specific flaw issues within certain question types.

Here's the TLS forum link:

http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=108425 I hope this list can help you too!

Hi everyone, just want to confirm the validity of the answer choices. I find this question confusing, even though I can see (A) is the best AC.

The breakdown of the core is:

ignore anything not directly related to the funded research ——> serendipity is no longer a part of scientific discovery

I can eliminate B,D,E on first read, and after looking into (A), it's essentially saying: directly related——> purposefully seek(no serendipity)

So the conclusion of the argument can go like: ignore anything not directly related to the funded research——>focus on only the directly related stuff——>purposefully seek(no serendipity)——>serendipity is no longer a part of scientific discovery Correct?

However, I still feel like (A) is just the contrapositive of the conclusion! If so, does it work for necessary assumption questions to use contrapositives as the bridge?

Also, is (C) wrong because "personally prefer" is a big stretch?

Thanks a lot!

This question is still confusing me after watching the explanation. I thought the question stem was Pseudo Sufficient Assumption.

I thought the best way to approach this was to try to attack the flaw. As an argument by analogy it just seemed highly unreasonable to assume that what works for Biology would work for Physics. I think I'm mostly confused because it didn't strike me as a strengthen question to begin with.

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What is going with the LR section? I can't see the answer and explanation.. can someone explain this?

Can someone explain why it's c and not Be? I narrowed it to b and c but chose B because Arg doesn't state that Janson was murdered in his office. I'm

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Have only taken 1 PT in the 80s. Have taken some in the 70s and they seem slightly harder than the 60s and before that. Is there a difference between 70s and 80s, though?

Can someone please explain this to me? Why is the correct answer choice E?

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Hey everyone!

I'm taking the November LSAT, and am in the final push for studying. I've gotten my LR and LG consistently up to -0/-1 but the reading comp section is absolutely killing me. Do ya'll have any suggestions besides just practicing to improve active reading and memory? Thank you!!!

Hello! I'm in the home stretch of studying and looking on how I perform on RC sections, the only questions I continue to get wrong are the Main Point q's and analogy questions. Does anyone have any general tips for these two, specifically?

For example on the analogy questions, I often get down to 2 AC's but there is some nuance I miss that leads me to narrow it down but often choose the wrong one. Same for the MP questions.

Sorry if this is vague or often-answered, just been seeing a pattern and I can't seem to shake it

I just did a question today where usually = most.

e.g. "Kate usually buy juice on Wednesday" --- Wednesday most buy juice

Can I always translate usually to most? Was this mentioned in the CC?

Hi 7Sage community ,

I joined the community to have access to the games videos that were going to be taken down but I swear I read somewhere on this site that we would need Premium and up once they are removed. Unfortunately I can't seem to find where I read that to verify. Can anyone confirm that premium is needed?

Thank you :)

I am a bit worried because I have studying rediculously hard for logic games and I hear that they might be on the cutting room floor? Any chance that it might be come november? Its my best section.

Im testing a while from now and dont want to burn through all the recent PTs. Can one legitimately improve LR by using the really old LRs? Anywhere from 1-20?

I am not a student, but a parent, and I am appalled at the lack of professionalism and inhumane conditions my son was subjected to at the DoubleTree Hilton Hotel in Binghamton on October 28th, 2019, after months of preparation for the LSAT. If any student feels the same please speak up and write the LSAT a complaint letter, and post here as well. I will be taking actions.

This is completely unprofessional, inconsiderate, and inhumane.

If this was outsourced, or operated by employees of the administrating board, actions should be taken.

Is there any chance the lg could’ve been the experimental?

I am registered for the November exam and hoping to apply for the 2020 cycle. I have been studying on and off since mid-June, seriously studying since August. I took a diagnostics originally and score 136. The last PT I took a few weeks ago, I got a 150. Would like to be in the 160s but I'm now thinking that might not be possible given the short timeframe. Should I push my exam date to January or just wait a full cycle? Is taking the January exam too late to apply?

Maybe somebody can get something from this story so I decided to share it. Today, I took the LSAT. The first game in LG was not normal and threw me a little so after two min, I skipped it. The 2nd game took me longer than it should have I think. The third game was also very different so after a few min, I skipped it. So here I was almost 15 min in with one game complete and in the back of my mind, I knew that two of the games were weird. Game 4 turned out to be pretty easy then I went back to game 1 and though it was weird, it just clicked and it was very easy to me. After all that, I had over 10 min to do game 3 which was difficult but I got through it and expect I only missed 1 at most. I have never skipped game 1 before and did today and I am confident that i got 22-23 right on the section, don't be afraid to skip anything and most importantly don't panic.

Should I file a testing center complaint?

The proctors were very inefficient, and were very leisurely running the test, while laughing and gossiping with eachother in between giving instructions. It took us an hour and thirty minutes past the start of the exam to actually start.

This was DETRIMENTAL because I am a student with ADHD and my medicine is instant release (lasts only 4-5 hours. The mere wait to get into the room ate up half of my time on my medication.) The second half of the test my medicine was worn off and I could hardly hold focus through a reading passage.

Aside from this I also suffer from anxiety and the wait, and knowledge of my medicine leaving my system with an entire half of the LSAT left certainly harmed my score.

I really dont know what to do. I felt really good about the first half of the test, It's possible I magically did well so I dont necessarily want my score canceled. Im also taking my last lsat next month in the same testing center, and i'm nervous this will happen again.

Honestly, I'm really distraught at how unprofessional this was, I felt really good going into today and now I feel terrible.

Hey guys im reaching out to anyone that can offer me some advice. I do pretty well untimed and timed I do horribly. I took the June LSAT and scored a 150 and my target is a 168+ Ive been studying since August, and I am signed up for the November exam but I took another practice test and I am still around the same area, Idk why when its times all my organized thought goes out the window I have raging anxiety and I cant think straight and stumble on works. It like the episode of spongebob with all the mini spongebob running around like crazy. Basically it is just extremely hard for me, I have gotten significantly better at Logical reasong although more improvement will help as well as continuously foolproofing LG. My biggest struggle is 100% Reading comprehension I mean like bad I don't know what it is. Anyway I am applying for Fall 2020 cycle if I took the January would that be too late, I pretty much have the rest of my application supplements already done, its just this exam I need to get out of the way. Please anyone help me, I feel like a failure and I just don't know what to do.

(Also aiming for a good school not necessarily a T-14, in terms of application cycle and lsat date)

Hi everyone! I’m taking the lsat tomorrow in Walnut Creek. For those of you who don’t know, Walnut Creek is 15 minutes away from the Lafayette fire. I just called the hotel and they said that they currently don’t have any power and are unsure of when the electricity will come back. Assuming that that electricity is still out tomorrow, will the test be cancelled? If so, will LSAC send a notice? How do reschedules work?

I thought I had been getting better at LR, I took this section and got -9 which is no better than when I began studying. Kinda discouraging but I think this was a really hard LR section.

I got almost perfect RC, missed one,because I misread the question. Was it easy for you too? Shoot me any questions!

I don't know about you guys but something I have had to contend with since the digital format is striving to read LG rules as accurately as possible. It's just something about the digital format that makes misreading or completely missing a rule more likely for me, which had never been an issue before. On RC and LR this isn't catastrophic but on LG it is, as you will blunder the entire game from such a tiny mistake as missing a "not" within a rule. So here are some tips for those who have encountered the same problem as I did.

Read slow. This is just great across all sections. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. It's especially hard on LG since we want to bank as much time as possible for the miscellaneous monster, but in the end rushing will more likely cause blunders than it will bank time.

Tick the rules with your highlighter. By ticking I mean just highlight either the first letter or the first word of the rule statement. This way you are accounting that you've taken the rule into consideration. If you try and highlight the whole statement you risk highlighting the rule underneath it by accident as you lift your finger off the screen, fickle as touchscreens are, which has happened to me before.

DON'T FORGET TO TRY TO SCROLL DOWN THE RULES PAGE. This has happened more often then I'd like to admit. You're in the zone, translating your rules, not realizing there are more rules underneath the ones you just wrote until you get to a question and things just aren't making sense. Frustration and panic ensues and throws you out of your focused mode. You can always bounce back from a blunder of course, but it's always best to just avoid it from the beginning.

Return to the rules and set up when no answers appear as correct. Generally you will find that you misread something or missed a rule. Often times this means you have to start the game all over to account for the corrected mistake. You might start to feel dread and start to think "it's not even worth it to finish the section now, I won't have time." Although it's always unpleasant to start over, you shouldn't think you won't finish. Full proofing trains us to finish with extra time and it's always possible to bounce back from a mistake. Perhaps you will have to auto-select for the last three questions, but that still leaves good chances for a strong performances on games.