Hi,

I'm studying for the July LSAT in Washington DC and wanted to see if there are any other future lawyers in the DC area that would like to start a local study group? Self-studying is great but there's always something you just can't figure out and it would be so much better to be able to just ask someone next to you without waiting for a person.

Please let me know if you would be interested and what your availability is. If there's enough interest hopefully we can get something going.

Ben

Just beginning my fool-proofing process and I'm curious to know what everyone has done/ is doing! Debating between going in order from the different games I come across (for ex: simple sequencing examples then the problem sets then sequencing w/ a twist it's examples then its problem sets etc) or jumping around wherever I feel like.

Good luck to those testing next week!

Hey friends!

Tomorrow it's my first time taking LSAT. I just printed my ticket and realized my hair is way longer than I took the photo. In the photo, I had a short bob with a bang, now it's around my shoulder and I decide to tie my hair up tomorrow. Would this be problematic? Would I be deny entrance? Since on the information sheet, it says "the uploaded photo must match your appearance on the day of the test (with or without beard).

So I'm working through the CC right now and I'm currently in the Intro to Grouping Games: In/Out Games section. So as I've been going through these games I have been fool proofing ones that give me difficulty, which is most of them actually. So what I was really wondering is if I should not move onto to another set, game etc. until I fool proof the prior games. It seems that sometimes i'll be fool proofing and do about 7 copies of a game and master it then I move onto another game in the section and I get stuck again. I'm just wondering if moving on further down in games without fully mastering games is actually hurting me. But I do have to keep moving forward is basically what I'm getting at. I can clarify what I mean as well. Any advice here would be greatly appreciated.

Does anyone have any advice/comments on RC cookie cutters? Would love to start a discussion on the various cookie cutters on passages, right AC's, wrong AC's, etc.

Some I can think off the top of my head is cookie cutter wrong AC's are often way toooo strong, the phenomenon/hypothesis in science passages, etc. Thanks!

I was freaking out because I thought the test was not at 12:30pm despite what my ticket said. I thought perhaps they did not indicate for PDT, but it is 12:30 PM in June all over the country, right?

Also, my ticket is printed in black and white. Is that okay, or does it need to be in color because of the photograph?

I have finished fool-proofing the first 20 games in the set but I regularly come across games that give me problems. I have improved, don't get me wrong, but my scores on full sections are still wildly inconsistent. My best section ever I was able to get -2 and finish all of the games in time, but just yesterday I got a -7 on a full section. Is this type of variance normal for someone who has fool-proofed around 20 games or should I restart from game 1?

thanks :)

Has anyone found themselves BR'ing a few questions from right to wrong in RC?

Any advice on this? Thanks.

Hey everyone,

So I went through the CC awhile ago probably a few months ago ( I've been reviewing it since ) and also have a book by the Princeton review that I'm using for RC/LR . -called cracking the lsat

Logic games is def. my area of weakness - I'm trying to work on that right now, but wanted to fool proof Lr and rc as I thought I was getting the hang of it.

I'm focusing more on review than PT's that's for sure -I've probably done about 5/6ish PT.

For LR , I'm getting about 13/14 right on each section and that hasnt changed much even though I'm studying.

Rc- really goes up low of 14, high of 18/19

I'm aiming for 150's /mid 150's (pref). Target - 155

I began with high 130s before 7sage- mid 140's - then high 140's, and I've gotten one with 152 (untimed).

But now my score is sitting in that plateau area and I don't know if it's moving fast enough to consistently get in the 155 area timed and on test day.

I study about 5-6 days a week , for about 5 hours give or take. (starting mid may) started studying for lsat mid jan (but that was when I was working) so I didn't get that much studying done. Right now I'm doing about 1 pt a week, reviewing the pt and then reviewing CC.

Now I'm doing timed PT .

Taking the july lsat, how many PTS should I be doing a week , timed/untimed - all timed from now on ?

After every pt I go through it and look at areas of weakness.

Not sure if it's just anxiety/ mind set OR if I'm missing an important step. How did you all study coming up to the LSAT ?

I'll keep this short... if you're an early bird and are taking either one of the summer exams, try to head to bed a bit LATER these next few nights. Reason being... things don't kick off (on exam day) until 1pm, so being bright-eyed and bushy-tailed (at 8am) won't work this time around.

EDIT: It's PT 57, not PT 58

The conditional logic here is really bugging me. It seems, with the benefit of knowing the answer, that the beginning of the stimulus ("The law") implies a bi-conditional? That is the only way I can see how C is a MBT answer choice. I ended up with the correct answer just because all of the other answers make no sense, but I'm hoping someone can help me pin down where I'm still going wrong on really understanding the structure of this one - even if it is a bi-conditional, it's not perfectly clear to me why (especially with the wording in the conclusion).

Here is how the argument still reads to me

-If $100+ & nonresident & /former resident, then register with the CC

-All contributions were from residents and former residents, therefore the campaign complied with THIS law

*MBT Answer: No contributions needed to be registered

It seems that the MBT answer should have specified, "No contributions needed to be registered as a result of THIS law," at the very least due to the wording in the conclusion. Had the conclusion said "the law," it would have more clearly been intending a bi-conditional relationship, though it still could be a referential phrase referring to the specific law in question. "This law," obscures whether or not there may be other laws to consider. In that case, concluding that nothing needed to be registered is too strong of an answer choice. My thoughts after reading the stimulus were some loose version of, "We still don't know if anything had to be registered because we only know this law doesn't necessitate registering those contributions."

Any help is greatly appreciated

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Advice needed!! D:

So tomorrow I have an opportunity to take a mock exam in the exact venue that our actual LSAT will be taken in.. BUT I have only ONE fresh PT left (this is my fourth take...). Should I use this opportunity to simulate test conditions and see how I do, and finetune/focus on my weaknesses till 24th June (international test date)? Since I've already studied for so long I have a feeling that I probably won't dramatically increase my scores in the next few weeks... OR the other option is to take the last exam maybe a week later after which I would have had more time to review.. what do you think would be best?!

(Also I think my biggest weakness is dealing with high pressure situations.. my scores fluctuate terribly depending on how confident I feel.. so I am leaning towards taking the fresh one tomorrow in the testing site so that I can get used to the environment.. But of course! your input will help me finalize my decision!)

Thanks!!

Can someone please be kind enough to explain to me why the answer is (c)? I was able to eliminate only (a) and (b). I thought (c), (d), and (e) were all valid. I think I am missing something here.. Please help! Thank you so much.

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Hey everyone,

So, I'm working through my analysis of this question since, yes, I got it wrong on my last section drill, and I'd be interested to hear some of all you smart people's thoughts on the question/choices. For context, it's a MBT. As I read it, the contribution law outlined in the stimulus could be translated logically as,

Contribution of $100 by a nonresident who was not a former resident ---> contribution must be registered with the city council

The author notes that no nonresidents contributed to a particular candidate's campaign. So, from my understanding, the sufficient condition outlined in the stimulus is failed (but not necessarily the necessary condition). So, when I glanced at "C," I immediately thought that they were trying to tempt me with a mistaken negation, purporting that it must be true that no contributions to the candidate's campaign needed to be registered with the council. The thought that popped into my mind was, "Well, but there could be other reasons why a contribution might need to be registered with the city council." But, in this case it seems that I and the LSAT writers are not of one mind. :P

Is part of my misunderstanding rooted in that it introduces the particular law in question as "The law..." rather than "A law..."? Should that indicate to me that there is only one law and, thus, only one reason for registering a contribution with the city council?

Love to hear you're thoughts!

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Does anyone have a blank copy of the spreadsheet Pacifico used to keep track of his LG progress?

Thanks in advance

why C is correct?

my understanding is that "when people show signs of having a heart attack, EKG is used", so the "cases in which no heart attack occurred", they probably not use EKG, so it's out of scope, because the conclusion is about "Interpreting EKG data".

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Hey guys, I am fairly new to the community here. I am planning to take the test in September. Because I have only recently been able to gain a more open schedule, I am somewhat intimidated by the remaining time I have until the exam date. I will begin working full time this upcoming July, therefore I seek to dedicate a certain number of hours a week to LSAT study. Do any of you have a recommendation of a certain amount of hours? Also, aside from using 7sage, has there been any apps or products you think would compliment the use of 7sage?

Hey guys!

I was wondering if any of you have a technique to identify cookie cutter questions and answer choices? I really can't tell unless JY mentions it in an explanation video to the question.

Thanks!

Does anyone have any information about the test center in the International Trade Center (Ronald Reagan Building) in Washington DC? My test center got switched to here and I have no idea where to go, since the Reagan Building is a massive federal building. Any advice??

Hi everyone,

I've been doing PTs for the past 3 weeks now and have just been stuck around 155-160 averaging around the same for each section. Sometimes RC is horrible and sometimes i do really well, but the LR sections are always around 65-75%. It is so frustrating that I'm not getting any better and the June LSAT is FAST approaching. I started studying using 7Sage after my finals ended around April 20, and I naively thought that would be enough time. I did not want to take the undisclosed July sitting as this is my first attempt at the LSAT.

any other tips/tricks would be great too

This question kind of screwed me because of how I got it wrong. It seems like being critical in this instance really played me for the worst!

After reading the stimulus, I did what any decent test taker would do, and got combative with the author. I mentally muttered to myself, "alright buddy, maybe these writers were 'frantic' because our nation is in decline!"

I want to be clear here. I could've said just about anything. I could've just as easily said, "Maybe these authors just drank a cup of coffee before writing their essays. That doesn't mean their arguments are invalid." But I didn't say this second retort. I said the first, and low and behold, I got sucked into answer choice E.

Answer A is right. It's kind of beautiful, because usually ad hominem flaws are easy to spot, but the LSAT writers did a number here with the language in A. It's roundabout, and doesn't explicitly state that the author fails to address the actual argument, but instead attacks the proponent of the argument. That language is normal for ad hominem flaws. This choice kind of duped me.

Check out E. It's literally playing off my first rebuttal. I mentally said that these guys could be anxious because our nation is in decline. I'm not saying that's what it is, but I'm just saying that someone's tone isn't indicative of anything. I totally fell for this trap and what's most amazing is that it's like the LSAT writers KNEW that someone would think this way. That's going to be hard to get around if this happens again..

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What's the best method to use when you need to choose the AC between two answers. Always get stuck between 2 choices.

I wanted to see what you all thought about my schedule leading to the September test. As it stands, I am finished with the CC, I am 1/3 of the way through fool-proofing 1-35 and I have done a total of 3 PT's including my diagnostic. My plan is as follows -

I have 13 weeks and I will divide them between:

3 weeks to finish fool-proofing 1-35

remaining 10 weeks to take 2 PT's/week with intense BR and drilling in-between tests.

Does this look like a good strategy? Should I increase or decrease the number of PT's that I have taken?

Hi everyone, so I started doing the Logic Games of the CC around 2-3 days ago. I'm finding that I'm getting the questions right (perfect on almost every quiz so far) so my problem isn't that I am struggling to understand the games, it's the time. JY always tells us the target time and I'm consistently way over it...any suggestions on what this means and what I can do? I try repeating the same games and sometimes I can hit the target but other times not

Thanks

How many games did you foolproof? Is it recommended to do all of the games from PTs 1-35? Also how long does it take to foolproof? I understand that everyone learns at a different speed but what's a ballpark figure?