Hello! I am reviewing PT 148, and I am a bit confused about why we can make certain assumptions and not others. On question 12 of section 1, I chose A but the correct answer is supposed to be C. After watching the explanation video, I understand that I had to make a couple assumptions in order to land on A. However, if C is correct, wouldn't you have to assume that the wolves prefer to prey on sick moose over healthy moose? The way I read the answer choice was just that the wolves often eat the sick wolves, not that they tend to eat the sick wolves over the healthy wolves. What if the wolves are still preying on more wolves than the diseases would? Thank you in advance for any help you can offer!

When going through LR questions, sometimes I see what i am sure is the answer but I still go through every other ACs and eliminate them. Sometimes this pays off because I change my answer to a better one but most of time time it feels like a waste of time. Should I be reading every answer even though I am 90% sure I already know the correct one?

Hi all,

I recently took a PT and saw that I mostly only missed Level 4 and Level 5 questions, but I'm a little confused on how to study because there is a Level 4 or 5 question from different question types that I missed. For example, I missed a Level 5 from method of reasoning, evaluate, agree, flaw, parallel flaw, and weaken. It's not a couple specific question type that I can drill and understand.

Any tips on how to go about working on/drilling these questions? Are there any strategies you guys were able to use to not get the L4 and 5 wrong later?

Anything helps!!

I just started regularly taking PTs, and I feel that I'm under-utilizing my scrap paper. I find myself reluctant to use it, as it feels like a time sink.

I'm curious to know how people strategize using scrap paper to help them effectively, so I can brainstorm some ideas for myself. I'd love to hear tips and tricks as well!

Thanks in advance :))

I just finished the LR section of the core curriculum, but I want to keep practicing while I work on the RC section. Does anyone have any tips on how to approach this? I'm thinking of doing 5-10 questions of a drill per day.

I am taking the test in september and am consistently PT'ing around high 160-low 170 but I find I consistently lose one or two points to these two question types. So I'd ideally like to clean them up before I get there.

Does anyone have any strategies for making these types of questions both more quick and more consistent? I find even when I get them right I'm unsure if I'm actually getting them right for the right reasons, or if it was just luck.

Hi! I'd love to have some friends to study with, maybe a pomordo type set up where we work and can chat over a break maybe, 30/5 or 50/10?

I'm thinking evenings or Saturdays but am open to weekday options too!

Whenever I do a standalone section with 26 questions, I am not able to get the allotted time to 35 minutes. Anyone have that issue?

I absolutely love the live class feature on 7sage! Nicole's classes have been extremely helpful in advancing almost 20 points in my test score since I first started studying for the LSAT. While I haven't been able to attend most of her classes live, I have been able to access her wealth of knowledge, and other tutor's as well, through the live class library. When I filter on the live class search bar the classes only go back a few months vs. the classic.7sage which goes back 10 + months. Will the live class library on classic.7sage be incorporated on the new and improved 7sage? #hopeful #help #feedback

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I'm having so much trouble identifying necessary and sufficient flaw types in weaken and strengthen questions. I have watched lectures, attempted to go over my notes, and even tried flash cards. If you also had trouble with this, please give me some tips on what worked for you!

Hi I am looking for people to study with who are just starting out or still stuck scoring in the 140s and would like help and encouragement!

Was wondering if anyone had advice for how I can help this problem. I've been studying consistently since June, and have been plateauing on scores of around 155. However, my blind reviews have been going up, to where I'm now getting 170+ but not seeing those actual score changes on the timed version? Does anyone have advice on how to fix it? Is it just more practice with doing timing? I noticed one thing that I have trouble with is more of the logic ones like SA's, NA's, Mbt, etc where I get them wrong on the timed tests but get them right on blind review when I have time to work through them.

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I have taken three practice tests and my raw score gets worse each time I take it (stuck in low 150s). However, my blind review scores are consistently improving. I am discouraged because I feel like my blind review results won’t transfer to my actual LSAT performance. I think I perform about the same on LR and RC.

Any suggestions on how I should organize my studying?

Having trouble identifying how assumptions play a role in LR stim's. I keep hearing 'inferences' and 'assumptions', pseudo-sufficient, sufficient, necessary in the content, but I am having trouble distinguishing the authors' vs my own assumptions (reasonably) to ID the correct answer choice. How do you go about ID'ing those inferences and/or assumptions to evaluate an argument's strength?? Any clarity is major appreciated!!!

Hello everyone! Happy Friday :) I am currently having a problem where I get down to 2 answer choices and pick the wrong one. I just did a problem set where I got 9/20, and there were 6 questions where I was left with 2 and picked the wrong one.

How do you decide from there, which of the 2 answers to pick? To add 6 raw points is crazy! I'm feeling pretty frustrated with this. I'm currently also mainly trying to drill Flaw, Causal & Rule App, Parallel Qs.

TIA!!! Trying to get those right answers between 2!

@JR For the sake of maximizing my study material, is it best for me to take the old practices right now on classic.7sage before LSAC pulls them? Or should I just switch over to the new platform and start taking the newer tests?

163 lsat 3.8 gpa. Applied pretty late got waitlisted into Chapman, LMU, UC Irvine. Got admission with 200k from southwestern. Obviously southwestern is lower ranked. Should I just go to southwestern or try again next cycle earlier?

Like many, this is one of my weaker points. It's been a focus throughout my studies and I feel like I'm finally understanding and getting more accurate! I know how to recognize SA vs NA questions, but it's not making sense to me how these questions differ in the answer. For example: "Which one of the following is an assumption necessary for the critic's conclusion to be properly drawn?" I am able to bridge the gap and connect the points, which is getting me the correct answers, but I don't see the answer as a necessary. An example is PT 126 Section 1. The answer is connecting B to C. Then the conclusion is C to D. So how is B to C a necessary vs sufficient assumption? Maybe I'm getting too in my head about it and the focus on finding and filling the gap is all I need to really think about. But open to any thoughts! And not able to pay a tutor $1000 to explain this question to me 🤪

I’ve done a few prep tests, and my actual score usually ranges from 150 to 160. My blind review score, though, is around 170. When I do timed drills, especially for four-star and five-star questions, I usually get only a few right or most of them wrong. But during blind review, I get almost all of them right, or sometimes just one wrong.

At this point, I know my issue isn’t comprehension. It’s timing.

If I focus on finishing within the time limit, I make dumb mistakes. But if I focus on accuracy, I often spend too much time on certain questions. Sometimes it’s because I’m unsure about an answer that’s actually correct, and other times I just can’t finish all the questions.

Do you have any strategies? I understand that comprehension is the key to improving speed, and I’ve been working on that for months. I see improvement only in blind review or with the easier one- and two-star ones and no major improvement in how quickly I can get through the harder questions during timed sections.

Hi!

After improving drilling accuracy for a particular question type, would it be more effective to then work on speed (and thus mastery), or to move on to another question type?

My thoughts are that working on speed will necessarily take much more time, perhaps disproportionately to the diversity of question types and skills a prep test actually requires, but it may lead to better translation from drilling to prep test scores.

(This post is about the "Babies who can hear and have hearing parents" stimulus) I was doing a "contradiction" challenge question and overlooked the correct answer because it said "depends primarily on", which the stimulus didn't directly say anything against. I didn't preclude the possibility that the stimulus used the example of deaf babies as more of an exception. I initially chose E, which I noticed didn't feel correct, and I now understand why it's wrong. My problem is that answer choice B still doesn't seem right to me. It just feels like the best out of a bad bunch. Could someone help explain this to me, please?

Hi everyone! I have made some progress on my LSAT score. I have been scoring low 160 and then high 160 or over 170 in the blind review. Any tips on closing this gap? The fundamentals are there it seems but the timing gets me I guess.

I am a visual learner and I am really struggling on how to study for the LSAT. I'm usually a flashcard person but I've been told that's not a good way to study for this test. I have looked on youtube, tiktok, chatgbt, I can't find any advice on how to approach studying for the LSAT as a visual learner. Anyone have any tips or tricks?