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I saw the post regarding the cancellation after the score is submitted option - but upon looking at the comments, many people mentioned how a cancellation is also looked negatively upon.

As someone who just began my entire studying last week, would you recommend still taking the July exam - or is this too soon that the ability it take an exam and cancel after knowing the score (with just a month of studying) is outweighed by continuing to wait until ample studying is completed before a first test is taken for schools to see.

Thank you!!

Hi all-- I am new to the community, but thought I would post my current struggle to see what great advice you all may have!

I scored a 158 on my first LSAT last September, and then with the help of the 7Sage LG videos, I scored a 165 in November. I have decided to try one last time this July to breach the 170s. I missed 3 on RC, 3 on LG, 4 on the first LR, and 7 on the second LR, on my 165 LSAT. I have decided to try to perfect the LR sections as closely as I can, but I keep missing 3-4 and 6-7 on each practice LR section that I do (started studying again about 2 weeks ago with the CC, and practice-testing this past week).

Any advice on how I can narrow down my LR missed questions? Or any advice on how to get that 5 point jump in general?

Thanks a million, and keep up the hard work!

So first I'll admit that I spent far too many months on the curriculum and haven't haven't enough practice tests. My actual LSAT is tomorrow.

I I consistently scoring WELL BELOW where I want to be. Barley higher than when I first started. I'm a wreck!! Logic games is my absolute worst, I usually don't get more than 10 LG questions correct on a PT.

Aside from that, I think I have a good grasp on LR. I understood all the lessons and did will with the problem sets through the curriculum. However, for LR, every time I take a timed PT, I do process of elimination and get it down to 2 choices, I stare at it for a while, realize I'm running out of time, pick the one I was leaning toward, and move on. Except I always choose the wrong one.

What is going on??

Most of the time when I slow down and read the question aloud I understand the logic and the reasoning. But when I try to do problem sets under timed conditions I wind up getting most of the hard questions (160+) incorrect. It feels like I just don't comprehend the question correctly in the heat of the moment because it is written in such a dense format. Anyone else have this issue and if so, does it fade with time?

For reference I'm about 2 weeks into full time (but frankly unfocused) study, planning on taking the September LSAT

How specifically do you approach diagramming in order to minimize the writing necessary while maximizing clarity and organization? Especially when splitting game boards, I find that I end up wasting a lot of time just copying game boards over and over again when I've already made the inferences in my head. Any tips for cutting down on the time needed to diagram without sacrificing too much on clarity or organization?

I was wondering of any of you would be able to recommend a good source for writing samples. I would like to see actual examples of this assignment. I an foreign educated and never took SAT, I have a very vague idea of how this sample should look like.

I will greatly appreciate if any of you can recommend a good resource.

Andrii Onysko

Just a quick post for anyone taking this Monday's LSAT - we've got this! I'm resisting the urge to do a bunch of problem sets and trying to just relax.. Time to trust the 7sage process and rock it on Monday. I'm very grateful for the support and advice that y'all have provided.

Anyone else struggling on the digital RC about how to markup the low-res notations for each paragraph? Solutions?

The greater the number of people who regularly use a product, the greater the number whose health is potentially at risk due to that product. More people regularly use household maintenance products such as cleaning agents and lawn chemicals than regularly use prescription medicines. Therefore, it is even more important for such household products to be carefully tested to ensure their safety than it is for prescription medicines to be so tested.

Which one of the following principles, if valid, most helps to justify drawing the conclusion in the argument above?

I put A but the credited answer is C. Can anyone tell me why, please? Thanks!

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Any fruit that is infected is also rotten. No fruit that was inspected is infected. Therefore, any fruit that was inspected is safe to eat.

The conclusion of the argument follows logically if which one of the following is assumed?

I put A, but the credited answer is E. Can someone tell me why, please? Thanks!

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what letter do you usually pick once you reach that 5 minute mark.

I've been thinking of the LG -B

LR -B and the other section of LR D

and RC I am not to sure about that one but I am between B and D?

quick question, is it correct to say, when there are only two options (like an in-out game), to translate "a and b cannot be on the same day (or whatever it may be)", then you use bi-conditionals. But if there are more than 2 game boards or possibilities, than you translate it as "not equal"

#Help

I realize that "d" is the (a) right answer.

But I can't figure why "c" isn't just as good, if not better.

To fill the logic gap, I need to establish that "forgone pleasures" were both desired and would have been regretted. C does exactly that.

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Hi,

How do you decide whether or not to diagram a particular LR question?

I often over-diagraming. There were several questions in recent PTs where I thought I must diagram, I did, only to realize later that it was a wast of time. The flaws were in quantity terminology (many, some, all etc.) or specific words rather than chain of reasoning.

Any tips?

Thanks.

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In this question why do we "attack" the premise. I thought we don't really try to attack the premise but in this question it does. How often does this type of question show up on the LSAT? I understand this question just a little bit but I am unsure why the answer choice is what it is.

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I miss an average of -15 on RC. I have finished the CC, but I'm still struggling with this section. Is improvement a matter of drilling a lot of untimed/timed sections? Does anyone recommend a supplemental textbook? Like Powerscore or the LSAT Trainer for RC?

I have a deeply engrained habit of always writing down things that I think are interesting right when I encounter them.

I think I'll need to learn how to override this to make it through the RC section on time. I keep reading these passages and thinking, "Well this is incredibly interesting. I want to read more about this. Let me just quickly make a note to look this up on Wikipedia later." When I have really been under the gun with the initial couple full PTs I have taken I think I have somewhat stifled this urge but it's still there.

Anyone else have similar thoughts?

I have started just keeping a log of what I've read that I fill in afterwards / when time has run out and this helps make me feel I have a chance to document what I read for future research but I still find myself wondering during the reading about this topic and realize I just need to squash this wonder about connections and implications that are outside the scope of what's written about in the text and required for the questions.

Either that or I need to find a test that measures my excitement around learning a little bit about everything.

Good luck to all with you studies!

Any direction towards what you do to remain hyper focused during RC readings on just what is required would be helpful.

Can anyone explain this question for me? #help

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I put D as my answer to this question, but the correct answer is A. I don't understand why, since the stipulation for a work to be considered unique is for it to have historical or aesthetic value. How would that apply to an unflattering painting of someone's father?

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Can someone please help me figure out why A is the correct answer and the wrong reason for C?

Thank you!

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I was going to ask if anyone could help me out with answer choice A and B, but I think I figured it out.

(A) You don't know that cell death OFTEN does not occur in test animals. The stimulus does not support this answer choice.

(B) "Until now studies ... have always involved administering to test animals doses of additives larger than the largest possible human exposure levels and massive enough to kill large numbers of cells in the animals, and then observing the ... rate" definitely supports our answer choice (B), which says that results encouraged overestimation!

How is the answer to PT 7 S4 Q8 E?

Anybody have any tips on how to improve in reading comprehension? It has consistently been my worst section throughout my studies, and from what I've heard most people feel the same way. I feel like this section has the least amount of study resources in any curriculum as well, lol. However, anybody who's strength lies in this particular section have any insight on how they succeed? Or anybody who has improved in this section have any advice? There has got to be a way to improve here other than just being a natural, right ??