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In all seriousness, I have managed to get good at every LR question except for this one. I am hovering at 70%. I believe my problem is that I have memorized the list of recurring flaws, and after I read the stimulus, if I do not immediately recognize the flaw, my prephrase is screwed. Any advise on getting my flaw questions close to 85-90% would be greatly appreciated.

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I could not find anything to prove the conclusion > few people understand current events> and did not see the flaw the LSAT makers identified.

Here's is what I did:

Tried to create conditional statements but did not understand how to represent Appreciation of Significance.

TV --> DI and DOC

Newspaper --> DI and DOC

Fully understand current events ---> DI + Appreciation of Significance

Since > few people who seek out news sources other than newspapers and TV> was a premise I took it to be true. The conclusion jumped and inferred > few people ever understand current events>. There was nothing sufficient to prove the conclusion. Wasn't that the flaw?

Tried pushing forward to say that those other people must have been the few, but it still got me nowhere.

What all did I miss? Thanks!

https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-22-section-4-question-19/

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What does answer choice A mean to you? Coming out of Feb 1996 PT 14 Section 4 Question 10.

Question stem: The therapist's reply to the interviewer is most vulnerable to which one of the following criticisms?"

A) it precludes the possibility of disconfirming evidence

I'm having real difficulty parsing out the meaning. I thought the question showed a circular reasoning flaw, so I hope this describes circular reasoning...

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After a bombed reading comprehension section on my last practice test, I'm doing some reading comprehension drills and trying to evaluate myself and my methods.

This evening I drilled from practice test 31. Not even half way through the third passage, I thought, "Who is this hoe?" (the author the passage was discussing). On the fourth passage, about philosophers advocating subjectivity or objectivity, I realized I was drawing on past philosophy courses and personal reading, comparing what I was reading to knowledge and beliefs I already had. I bombed the questions for this passage and in going through them, argued against the correct answers (angry at LSAT again). Again, each time I had to say, "Fine. I see where you're coming from."

Then I had something of a eureka moment: in general, I've been reading very defensively and evaluatively and thus closing my mind off to a set of interpretations of the core subject matter, any one of which LSAT can subtly amplify and design the questions around.

PowerScore said to read "aggressively" but I'm not sure that was the right word to use. I now think the right mindset might better be described as actively receptive.

Maybe in logical reasoning, the defensive/evaluative mindset is where you need to be, but in reading comprehension you have to relax a little and be more receptive.

Has anyone else had a similar experience or, at least, found they needed to consciously shift their mindset between section types?

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Is there a lesson or webinar on how/when to use subscripts in conditional statements?

I see JY uses subscripts in some of the questions, but I often find myself using regular conditional arrows for the same questions.

If there is no lecture, could someone please break it down for me?

Thanks.

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I am studying for the December LSAT this year, currently on the last practice test I took I got a 145. The last test I took was a few weeks ago, but now I am a little more than half way through the 7sage LSAT curriculum and I think I am understanding concepts much better and have improved on LR at least. I am wondering if it would still be possible to score a 150-155 on the December test. I am studying a lot and hoping to focus on PTs starting next week or the following week. I am in a 3+3 program and I need a 155 to get automatic admission. I also can take it in Feb again but I do not really want to do that since I am still a full time student. Anyone have any advice? Does this seem possible? I am nervous and a little lost!

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Does anyone have a successful strategies in tackling this difficult question type? I always get them confused by one another and inevitably chose the wrong answer choice.

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So I kinda make up my own rules

One rule that worked for me and saves me a lot of the time was

Not .... without/until sentence

Whenever I noticed this type of sentences I automatically remove not and make whatever condition that follows without .... a necessary condition. It conforms to the group 3 and group 4 rule so nothing new.

So sentence like

A is not feasible without or until B

Is always

A -> B

My question is about making a rule about

only A when/if B

I think it is safe to say that I can always translate this sentence into

A only when B

1.I only study when I feel urgent

  • I study only when I feel urgent

    • These two sentences are exactly same I think.

    If a certain verb follows only and then when pops up ( only a when B) what only would refer to can be none other than whatever condition that follows after when.

    Would there be any contradiction or perhaps a counter example?

    Thanks

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    Long question! Thought it would be helpful to keep everything organized in one place to hear the thoughts of folks as the questions below all seem to have a common thread and could help the next person.

  • How is an argument proven without conditional or causal reasoning?

    • Not all works of art represent something, but some do, and their doing so is relevant to our aesthetic experience of them; representation is therefore an aesthetically relevant property. Whether a work of art possesses this property is dependent upon context. Yet there are no clear criteria for determining whether context-dependent properties are present in an object, so there cannot be any clear criteria for determining whether an object qualifies as art.

  • How do you determine if statements are causal or conditional if a stimulus contains both indicators? After that, how are they diagrammed?

    • There is no genuinely altruistic behavior. Everyone needs to have sufficient amount of self-esteem, which crucially depends on believing oneself to be useful and needed. Behavior that appears to be altruistic can be understood as being motivated by the desire to reinforce that belief, a clearly self-interested motivation.

    As a political system, democracy does not promote political freedom. There are historical examples of democracies that ultimately resulted in some of the most oppressive societies. Likewise, there have been enlightened despotisms and oligarchies that have provided a remarkable level of political freedom to their subjects.

    Climate and geology determine where human industry can be established. Drastic shifts in climate always result in migrations, and migrations bring about the intermingling of ideas necessary for rapid advances in civilization.

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    How do I determine goal time per game during foolproofing? JY sometimes mentions them in his explanation videos, but when he doesn't should I just assume it's ~8.5?

    Even better, does someone have a spreadsheet of these?

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    Hey everyone, with a month left to go before the December LSAT, I just wanted to provide an update to show that the FP technique really is beneficial.

    Before the September LSAT, I had only used the 7S games explanation videos and the Powerscore bibles to study. On a typical LG section, I would score around 18/23 was almost always pressed for time. Last night after completing all of my law school applications, I finished the games section of PT 61 in 26 minutes with only one mistake due to missing a word in one question.

    If you're worried about LG like me, it's not too late to improve!

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    Thursday, Nov 2, 2017

    lauraw918735

    LR Drills

    Hi everyone, so with the long LR drills from test 70-79. Do any of you time them? or do you just do these questions free form to further understand things.

    Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

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    The whole argument is about SSH mechanism.But I think there is a huge mistake.All the author wants to prove is that the SSH is an independent factor affecting bird's status.And he did it.The question is that if a juvenile male bird with higher SSH confronts an adult male bird with lower SSH,who will win?And according to author, this question cannot be answered,because these factors are independent.So how can the SSH mechanism achieves its goal that it can reduce the conflicts?

    https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-20-section-2-passage-3-passage/

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    Heyyy 7sagers,

    I have literally looked at 7sage, LSAT Trainer, and Kaplan's approach to necessary assumption questions and I just don't get it.

    I have been drilling these questions down and I still have trouble with them. It takes me super long to get the answer if I somehow do even get them correct.

    What has worked for y'all? I can use all the help I can get.

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    https://classic.7sage.com/lesson/flaw-questions-problem-set-12/

    https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-20-section-1-question-10/

    For this qs, while it fits well into the classic causation correlation flaw category with AC c as the correct answer, i am unable to get past AC e for its equitable validity as an answer choice as well....

    can anyone help me get past this road block in my head please...

    thanks heaps!

    vini

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    I feel like I'm having trouble with the SAs and the PSAs, even though JY says they should be freebies on the test. I did really well on the SAs in the core curriculum, when just working in lawgic. But when working through the English statements in the stimulus, it takes me a long time to translate the English into lawgic that feels aligned with the valid argument steps we learned. And sometimes I think I would get the answer much more quickly if I didn't go through those steps.

    I've been using the Question Bank to focus in on just SAs and PSAs - usually getting 1-2 wrong and the rest right, out of sets of 5-7 questions...but for freebies on the test, I should be getting 100% right.

    Anyone else have a similar issue? I'm so frustrated by this. Does anyone have suggestions for getting better? And getting faster?

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    I was reviewing game 4 of preptest 81 and for question 23 JY mentioned the “core curriculum on substitution equivalence.” I’m on the cusp of understanding what he means with the knock out/sneak in test, but I need a little more. I can’t find the discussion listed as such in the core and assume it’s part of another lesson. Anyone know where so I don’t have to watch them all again? ? thank you!

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    Just want to throw out there what I think constitutes sufficient assumption questions. Sorry if this doesn't belong here but I like to just write it out.

    Sufficient assumption questions: How can we take the premises we are given and make them lead to the conclusion we are given. Obviously there is a gap, the sufficient assumption + the premises will then help lead to the conclusion.

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    I am only starting out but I would like a simpler way to find premise/conclusion? Any help would be greatly appreciated! I struggled doing the problem set.

    Also, is there a way I can print out the text underneath the videos w/out having to copy and paste them into a word document? I want to be able to highlight, etc...

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