I am by no means a master of this test BUT i had located a recurring question type that i struggled with.. NA, and i am proud to say that i have conquered it!!!

How? With intense drilling.

I took all the NA questions from PT 1-20 and broke them into small digestible groups of 5s

I then did them at random times through the day for a week.

NA is the strangest question type for me bc it asks for something that is so obvious that my brain fills in the information for me.

By becoming sensitive to the kind of "in your face" obviousness that the question is asking for, makes the AC stand out like a sore thumb.

If anyone else has success stories or methods of slaying the beast (lsat), i would love to hear them

Taking the LSAT in Sept - just finished LSAT trainer/my 3rd prep test (65) and the one section I'm not feeling even alright in is RC. I scored a 162 on the above test and missed 12 in RC. For those who have seen improvement - how do you train yourself to synthesize the information quickly and accurately so as to be able to answer the questions that follow? Unless the content is fairly simple, I have a hard time doing the above.

So in the LG section JY has target times for each LG game, but I am unable to find this same thing for the RC passages. I am practicing RC and using JY's method; I spend 4 minutes up from reading the passage, visualizing the structure, and summarizing each paragraph inside my head after I read it. And then just tackle the questions. Sometimes passages take 7 minutes, sometimes 9 or more depending on the level of questions. What method do you guys use to determine a target time in which you should finish the passage in a section?

Why is D a flaw?

The question banks have them as silent videos but I really want to have them on paper in front me to drill. Thank you in advance.

I'm taking the LSAT in Sept 2017. I work full time, and am considering taking a few days or a week off of work at some point between now and the test. When would folks advise would be best? I'd like to use the time to really focus on studying, take a few more PTs, etc. I am thinking maybe the first week of September. I want to do it early enough that I can still have some improvements from studying (meaning, I don't think taking the week right before the test is when I would see real gains). Any thoughts on timing are appreciated--thanks!

So the common denominator between all 3 of these question types is..logic.

I have been through the curriculum multiple times. I know how to translate into logic. I have memorized the indicators. I understand existential quantifiers.

Why am i struggling so much with these?

So i have narrowed down my problems to MBT, and SA. Which tutor would you guys suggest for intensive stimulus breakdown and analysis into its logic

At 2:00 of his explanation video of PT57.S3.Q18 (https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-57-section-3-question-18/ ), J.Y. refers to "the Dramamine question."

I think "the Dramamine question" is PT4.S1.Q4 ("A survey was recently conducted among ferry passengers") but does anyone know if there is a video of his explanation of "the Dramamine question" in the CC of 7Sage?

Or is there another LR question about the effectiveness of treatment of seasickness?

Thank you in advance :)

How do you drill?

What do you drill?

Just wondering what qualifies as a prerequisite for drilling

Should the RC passages all take the same time, or should you expect some to take longer than others as in LG?

Can you wear your watch during the LSAT or does it have to be on your desk?

Thanks!

So i was wondering what the difference between A and D was

Hey could someone break this down for me? Thanks

I've watched the explanation for this video...but one of the conditional statements still has me confused. Basically, J.Y combined a /J and a J, to make a conditional chain...can someone take a look at this video and break it down?

https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-34-section-4-game-4/

I just signed up for the Sept LSAT in Orange County (Southern California) and was placed on a wait list. Is it likely to get off the wait list for nearby test centers or do people usually get reassigned to a location that is pretty far away? Should I try to contact LSAC and see if there are other ways to get around the issue (like taking the test on Monday) since I'm not too thrilled about driving 50 miles before taking the test.

Any advice/input would be greatly appreciated!!

I'm having a lot of difficulty understanding why B is the correct answer here. After watching the explanation I see why the other answers are incorrect, but I really want to understand why B is wholly correct...hopefully that makes sense. I see that Dana would disagree with B. She thinks that the learning a child is accustomed to should ALWAYS dictate teaching methods. Thus, a child should not learn (or at least all children should not learn) to adapt.

I fail to see why Pat would necessarily agree with B, given the text itself. Pat only say that it is not ALWAYS the case that accustomed styles of learning should dictate what method is used (maybe sometimes that is the case though...). He would agree that it is NOT wrong (it is correct) to think that that the same educational methods should be used with all children. Why does this necessarily mean he would agree that ALL children should learn to adapt to various educational methods? Couldnt there be some children that can't learn under certain methods, such as group learning. He doesnt have any universal statements in his disagreement...he just disagrees with Dana's universal statement.

Also, if anyone has tips on point of issue questions such as this it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks so much in advance!

https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-32-section-4-question-20/

When it comes to LG there is the foolproof method.

When it comes to LR there is a plan of attack and method for each question, and the ability to drill each question type until its fluent.

When it comes to RC.... argh. I sit everyday and do a timed section. After, i write down every part of every passage and how they relate to each other in my own words. And i may understand it after all this. I may even get them all right after this. But to no avail, when it comes to tomorrows section. I will suck just as badly as today

I finally feel like I have the Memory Method for Reading Comp down and I have seen an improvement in my RC scores, but I continue to have trouble with any author inference questions or anything RC inference related. Any tips for how to overcome this?

I am starting to realize that it is not necessary to understand the whole stimulis. Often, just understanding the premise and conclusion is enough to get the right answer.

HI everyone,

I have been struggling to correctly answer sample logical reasoning/weakening the argument type questions. Unfortunately, I am repeatedly selecting the most attractive wrong answer choices for each of the questions. My LSAT preparation material is advising me to use conditional reasoning techniques to identify the correct answer choices. So I am wondering if anyone can tell me whether using necessary condition and sufficient condition strategies works with finding the correct answer to logical reasoning/weakening the argument type questions.

Just a heads up guys - I'm going to reorganize the RC part of the Core Curriculum soon. There might even be a few new lessons. Don't be alarmed if you see classes get moved around in the syllabus!

LR is absolutely smacking me. I have done aprox. 30 PT with the most recent one being Being PT46. On the early PT i was scoring 165-172. But as the pretests started to become more recent, I noted the games seemed to get easier, the reading comp stayed the same but LR got significantly harder. I went from -3 or -4 per LR section to -5 to -9 despite my RC being -3 to -4 and games being no more than -3. Like I find myself struggling to read and understand the arguments on LR fast enough. My blind reviews are consistently above 176. The problem for me is that I can not seem to read the LR stem and understand it fast enough (the hard ones that is), and if If i take the extra time i need to get the right answer, I will usually not be able to finish. Is this a matter of me just reading too slowly? I still finish Reading comp just fine, and with about a minute to spare, or is this a matter of needing more practice with LR? By drilling old LR sections will this potentially increase my speed? Anyone else have ideas how to shore up LR? I mean I still have like 34 more prep tests to go through and blind review, but for the past 4 pretest this issues seems to be the most significant. I take two pretests a week and during the rest of the week blind review and drill old games and reading comp. I have never really went back and drilled LR. Does anyone else have advice?

Why wouldnt A be considered an attack on the premise that says that land becomes too poor to support agriculture?

Are there jy video explanations for prep tests A-C? Thanks

Hi 7sage!

After spending the last 3 months or so focusing intensely on LR and RC and making great improvements... I feel like I lost some of the momentum I had going with the logic games. Between January and April I fool-proofed PTs 1-25 and now am having similar difficulties as to when I started doing timed logic games (i.e. misreading rules, making careless errors, being generally slow in identifying inferences)... I am going back to basics and redoing the entire LG portion of the CC and am going back to foolproofing and will tackle games that gave me difficulty from 1-25 and will foolproof 25-35 in the coming weeks. Any other recommendations? I'm feeling nervous that maybe I wasn't progressing as quickly as I thought I was with the foolproof method and maybe I was just redoing games that I was already familiar with and that was where my success came from... Any advice would be much appreciated. Love this forum, love the LSAT!