Hi all,

There are 10 weeks until the September 2019 LSAT. I was super discouraged after getting bumped off the waitlist to my desired school the second time I'm writing it. Since I am overall free this summer, I thought I would take the opportunity to write once more for my fourth time. Is it best to use ULTIMATE or should I go for the basic starter package and take 1-2 PT's a week? Any input would be good!

What do you wish you had done to prepare in hindsight?

Hey guys,

I’m particularly weak at LR and LG. My first mock test, which was the 2007 June one, I got 148 :(

Am I still suitable for LSAT? What materials u guys recommend for me to strengthen my weaknesses? Thanks

Hello everyone, I just finsihed my first LSAT today, and the RC gave me a really hard time as usual. I officially started my course with 7sage on May 1st (2019), and according to the 7-8 PrepTest I completed, my RC can hardly reach more than 60%. I'm thinking about taking a second and probably my final LSAT in November. In the meantime, I really want to improve my RC score by being well-read. Since I'm already familiar with the skills provided in the core curriculum, it really is my level of vocabulary and grammar that is limiting my comprehension.

I'm an international student studying in Canada, and I didn't speak English four years ago. Therefore I took a year off and learned the language before I enrolled in regular university courses (3 years ago). Now as a political science major student, I have no problem getting A or A+ in senior level courses, but the RC section contains a lot of non-academic but still formal vocabularies and expression. My situation is that becaue I didn't have the time to learn English step by step (from daily conversation to professional), now I can master many convoluted political theories with excessively abstract terms, but I'm lacking some every-day vocabularies and figure of speech. However, since now I have four more months to prepare my next battle, I want to read some passages that resembles RC section every day to improve my reading speed and refine my ability to summarize and retain information. My study buddies have recommanded me to read newspapers and novels, but I also want to hear everyone's suggestion here. Thank you all very much in advance!

April Li

Ok so I’m on the first section of the CC reading comp but I have a few questions...

When I’m doing the problem sets should I go through them untimed or timed? E.g. should I do it timed using the memory method and then blind review it then watch JY? Or should I go untimed through using the memory method and be fully confident in my answers and then watch JY? I just don’t know how to get better in RC; it seems to be my worst section.

What are your guy’s suggestions?

I usually finish all games in about 25 minutes and for harder sections, about 30 minutes. Mostly, i’d go -0 on LG but once in every 10PTs or so i’d get one wrong as a result of a stupid mistake. I find myself just sitting there for the remaining 5-10 minutes for LG not knowing what exactly to do. I also try to reread the rules and see if I wrote them down correctly, but even after that I I have time left.

What do you recommend me doing? Should I just take a deep breath, prepare myself mentally for the next sections and treat it as a mini break or is there something specific I can do to check my work?

Hello! I am currently studying for the September 2019 LSAT exam, this would be my second time taking the LSAT. I took the June exam and scored 150 on the dot, but I am aiming for my LSAT score to be 168+ because of my low gpa. I recently was offered an opportunity to go to South Africa for a mission trip for human right and justice, which I think would be a great addition to my resume and application. I did a mission trip to Ireland my Junior year of college but I have been out of school for a year and am applying for this cycle. My problem now is that the trip falls a about two weeks before the exam. I would be leaving sept 6 and returning sept 15 with the lsat exam following 5 days later on the 21st. I need to make this decision now if I will be attending the trip. I am very conflicted and would love some honest advice. Will this be a soft that substantial adds to my application especially with a a lower gpa and with hat being said is it worth going the 2 weeks before the September exam. Btw I was planning to study on the plane an print out a few questions to do when I can, or is it not a soft worth risking that time going so close to the exam? please please if anyone can help me I would greatly appreciate it thank you best!!

History/general law especially...just felt like I was spending way more time than usual on my initial read-through.

I'm taking the test tomorrow at a hotel about an hour away, and will need my phone for directions. The hotel front desk said they would be willing to hold my phone for me, but some other posts make it sound like I wouldn't even be able to get into the hotel with my phone? Could someone advise? Thanks!

I am 25% through the core curriculum and just finished the "Sufficient Assumption & Pseudo Sufficient Assumption Questions" section. After doing all the lessons and problem sets, I am still struggling to get SA and PSA correct. Something just isn't clicking. I watch all of the explanations but they feel very abstract to me. Is there another resource I can engage (LSAT Trainer, Power Score, Khan, etc.) that can help teach me these concepts in a different way? I think a new approach might be helpful, but the only study resource I've ever used is 7Sage (which for the record, I love). I'm desperate, because I know how foundational these questions are to doing well on LR. Any tips/advice?

Hey guys! While I don’t have another experience to compare it to since this was my first time, our digital process went incredibly smoothly. I actually liked that I could set the tablet up and read without being hunched over. Also, not having to fill in tiny bubbles and worrying that you bubbled the wrong one and got off track for the next 10 questions is a huge relief. I think this method saves some time for me that way, except.. I had a couple questions I flagged to go back to and got short on time so flipping through the screens to select an answer was a bit slower than rapidly filling in the blank ones on a Scantron. I intend to write again in October so either way it’s not the end of the world, I’m just glad I got to experience the digital version for this test. For the ones that got stuck waiting around for the digital, just know that it is capable of being run smoothly. It didn’t appear anyone had trouble with their tablet from what I could tell.

My memory doesn’t seem to be as good as everyone else’s as far as which section contained which questions BUT:

I did HAVE:

Sickleback fish

Jupiter

Tomatoes

Zebra camouflage

Planets/Stars

Bleached Coral

I did NOT have:

Haunted Houses

Coffeehouses

Napoleon

English Trade

Chinese Tea

Arsenic

Lemurs

Furthermore, the RC did seem tough to me in comparison to the recent 80s PTs I’ve taken. I always seem to trudge through if the topic isn’t at all interesting to me and the first passage was awful! So I definitely felt a bit slow. I’m not where I would like to be on LGs yet but they didn’t seem to be overwhelmingly difficult.

Good luck to everyone planning to write again... for me, back to powering through some more LGs.

How do you distinguish between answer choice A and answer choice D? While I understand why A is correct, why is D incorrect? If almost all citations result in fines, shouldn't "nearly all" of the landowners at 48+ hours be fined?

One huge disadvantage to the digital one is that I can’t annotate or write on the tablet. The scratch paper doesn’t really help except for the logic games :(. Any advise?

I’m taking my first real LSAT tomorrow! I was wondering if any of you have advice for taking the afternoon test. I wake up between 7 and 8 and am unsure of how I should spend my time before going to the testing center. I don’t want to freak myself out or get too stressed...but I’ll be up for hours beforehand thinking about it. Any advice is appreciated. And good luck to any/all testing tomorrow! We got this!

Hey, if anyone has taken this PT yet, can someone explain why the right answer is the right one?

I was able to eliminate the 4 wrong AC's during my BR but I still can't come up with why the right AC is correct.

Can anyone help me please?

Thanks!

#help

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just to clarify, we will only have the option of a free test if we decide to cancel our July LSAT, correct? If we decide to keep our score, the free test is gone.

Do you all bring a few LR questions / LG game / RC questions that you are confident on to the test center with you to warm up the brain before the test starts?

Other ideas for getting the juices flowing in the hour or so leading up to check in?

Thank you!!

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Does anyone know what the scheduled date for October score release is? LSAC just says TBD.

I'd feel more comfortable taking this test if I know scores will be sent before Thanksgiving.

I came across a rule I'm not used to diagramming in PT 85 Game 1, and was curious if any of you have come up with a clever shorthand. I ended up coming up with one on the spot, but I think it led me to make an otherwise avoidable mistake on what should have been a straightforward game.

There are at least two slots separating H and S, but H and S are interchangeable in order. (JY used H _ _ S with a small "LL2") symbol in a switching box, but he himself called it somewhat clumsy.) When I did this game the first time around, I ended up forgetting that 2 slots was a minimum and not exact. Perhaps there's a way to make this rule clearer in the diagram and less of an afterthought?

Another more general diagramming question, not from PT 85: Values are not consecutive. I've always represented consecutive as (AB) and nonconsecutive as (AB) but find this leaves something to be desired in terms of clarity. Any and all suggestions are much appreciated!

From a logic perspective (see below) I can't work out any meaningful differences, but I noticed that JY splits these off in his map of bi-conditional statements. Am I missing something?

A ↔ C

/A ↔ /C

Game 4 - Can anyone please explain this game.

I had a very rough concept of its limitations. I somehow guessed 4/6 correctly but I did not fully understand any of it.

I know some people argue that logical reasoning has gotten more challenging in recent practice tests, but I find that for the questions I am getting wrong on practice tests 1-10, I literally just do not understand what the stimulus or answer choices are saying at times. I find that the more recent practice tests are a lot more straightforward and use language in a way that I am more familiar with. Maybe this has to do with the fact that English is my second language and the early 90s LSATs are what my parent's generation would've taken, but they do not speak English with me at home so I may be unfamiliar with the way language has changed / is spoken differently. What are your thoughts on this?

Hi guys,

It's yo boy, coming here on the forums to type up some help for LR.

I was doing the LR, and then I discovered that I suck at one thing.

That one thing is literally that I seem to always miss around -3-4, no matter what. BR is around -0--2.

How do I refine my mistakes?

The questions I miss nowadays are usually strengthen, weaken, and passages with abstract wording/abstractly worded answer choices. (Usually, the questions I miss are the most "difficult" ones that many other people seem to miss.)

Anyone got any advice?

I'm taking September so I ultra-appreciate it.

Looking at a Monday forecast for rain % is pretty irrelevant at this point. This is a "RAIN event", and therefore the major concern is going to be flooding and pooling. The span of rain associated with Barry is1138 miles...Matagorda Bay Tx - Florida (even the Bahamas)! The major issue isn't just what falls as rain. When rivers, lakes, and water sheds start overflowing, things get even more tricky.

What would LSAC do if we (and proctors) are unable to make it to their testing site?

I cannot see us losing the advantages of July 15th LSAT due to a natural disaster...

What can/could we possibly be looking at?

One of the ways that I study for reading comp is downloading scholarly articles off of my university's database. I was wondering if there was any way that I could upload those documents to 7sage's digital tester, or if I could even download the digital tester as an app or toolbar of some sort so I can mark up the articles similar to how I would for the actual test. Also, I am open to suggestions with note taking sites or apps that could serve a similar function and have a similar feel to the digital test. Thank you!