Hello - I am studying the CC and was wondering when do we start timing ourselves when we do the problem sets after each section. I haven't been timing myself and taking my time answering the questions sets and then I BR. Thx.

I'm in the midst of my first really intensive bout of studying on RC, and I'm a little hung up on strategy. Out of the last 5 or 6 sections I've done, there have been two passages that have really tripped me up. On those two sections I finished around the 31 minute mark, so I had time to go back to have another shot at it. It's what to do with that time that I'm not sure of right now. I'm already trying to force myself to slow down when I notice something isn't sinking in on a passage. Most passages I can read around 2:30 and go -0/-1, and I've spent up to 3:30-3:45 on tougher passages up to this point. These have been in the -3/-4 range (one even got worse on BR...). Does anyone have any tips on whether I should spend even more time up front, or is having the distance of the second pass at the end a better strategy? If I'm going back to a passage at the end that I have 3+ circled questions on, should I dive back into the questions or read through part or all of the passage again? It's kind of a limited sample right now, but it's definitely been an ongoing trend on RC for me. Right now these passages are pretty much my biggest LSAT nightmare.

I'm getting almost every flaw question wrong. I'm not sure why, when I do BR and really take time on the questions re-reading stimulus and answer choices, I can usually get the correct answer but still have difficulty. Is there a specific list that I could possibly use to memorize all the cookie-cutter flaws and answer choices corresponding to those particular flaws? Should I make flash cards? Any advice on this will be appreciated!

I am wondering if my approach to NA questions is wrong? Despite some concerns about my approach I am still usually getting the correct answer; however, this is not good for test day!

I read the question stem

Read the stimulus, but look for the conclusion

Find the support

Try and find a gap between the conclusion and support (but I struggle with this step sometimes).

I usually get answer choices down to 2-3 (mostly 2)

At this point I’m sort of confused so I just try and negate the remaining answer choices. But sometimes when I negate both answer choices, I feel as if both would destroy the argument?

Thoughts/advice??? What is your approach to NA questions? Thank you! ?

I'm new here, but have been studying for awhile, and am looking for another person to trade messages with as we go through the CC and then post-CC. I also want to talk about our schedules. Thanks for considering this. I appreciate it.

Hi all, during some of July and most of August, I foolprooed 1-35. And then I started to go back through the games immediately after I was done to make sure I could do a full section under timed conditions (I FPed by doing six new games a day, timing each individually and separately). However, I found that I was going -2 or even -3 per section.

So I stopped. I only looked at games during a PT.

And y'know what? I've gone either -1 or -0 on every single PT I've taken since (six, so far). FPing is time intensive. I was doing 6 new games two times and then doing the 6 games from the previous day a third time AND 6 games from a week earlier. All in one day, starting at 5am and fitting it in between working 7:45am-5pm. This is all to say that FPing takes a shit ton of work. It is exhausting. But your brain is taking it all in, somehow. So if your plateauing---or even backsliding---take a break. Don't look at a game for two weeks. And then get back on the horse and you'll really see how much you've improved. Of course this is all anecdotal but I just realized today how much that break probably improved my morale.

Hey Folks,

I need help with something.

It seems that whenever I get an LR question wrong, it's one of my contenders, but I just don't see the right answerr in the moment. What's especially frustrating is that the correct answer is either immediately before or immediately after the answer that I choose.

Any guidance or tips?

Hi everyone! So, I have finished all the curriculum and I am doing the December Exam. I am now doing timed sections. So far, my biggest challenge is answering all the questions on time. I missed an average of 2 to 3 questions in each timed section I have done. I am trying to figure out strategies to be faster in going through all the questions. These are the ones I have been trying so far:

I am sure many others have trouble in finishing sections on time. I am wondering if you guys have used other strategies to improve your performance!

Thank you!

I am starting to Fool proof LG. However, sometimes I remember the answer choice from watching the video, so I choose it automatically. Anyone have similar experiences, and any way to solve this?

This question tripped me up a bit, not because I didn't understand what I was being asked to do, but because I couldn't really differentiate between some of the answer choices.

Specifically answer choices C, D and E.

(C) Prove that there are factors other than number of police officers that are more important in reducing crime....

(D) Demonstrate that there is no relation between police officers and crime....

(E) Suggest that the number of police officers is not the only influence on the crime rate....

I was able to eliminate answer choice C because it said MORE important, which was not the purpose; however, D and E still trip me up.

I understand that D says number of police and crime rate are not correlated. Which in the stimulus he says;

Which to me suggests they are not correlated.

I also understand why E can be right. I just think the statistics speak more to D than to E. What am I missing here?

I am trying to sink my teeth deep into RC and i am starting to realize i dont have a solid understanding of what every question type requires

Author inference questions (which view would the author most likely agree with)

Is this a MBT? Or more like an MSS?

Is the answer in the passage?

Chose the credited answer, because nothing else came close, but I'm quite bothered with it. Where does the passage say, or even suggest, that the finding about neutrinos might someday be extended to a complete solution of the dark matter problem?

https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-40-section-4-passage-3-passage/

https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-40-section-4-passage-3-questions/

Can someone explain to me why the answer is A? I was able to get the right answer but only through process of elimination. I don't actually understand what A is saying...

Thanks a lot! :)

Took me a lot of time to get this

How can we break it down to get to the correct answer choice faster?

https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-25-section-2-question-22/

Hi there, looking for someone to talk through some question with over skype maybe 1x a week in prep for December test. Scoring pretty well overall, but would love to bounce some ideas/reasoning off of others.

I got the question right, but any idea how to translate this into lawgic?

https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-24-section-2-question-24/

So this question was an oddball for me. I know it's something we've seen before where we are given a principle/rules/whatever and we have to apply it to given situations. I normally do a fairly decent job of keeping track of all the "rules" in my head but this one really played with me. It's an "except" question as well which threw in an extra degree of uncertainty when working through it.

I found three major problems that hit me during the timed section because of this problem;

1.) It was an "easy" question objectively, but turned into a time sink for me.

2.) I had a hard time keeping track of the different rules. For example;

Credit can be given only if the missed copy is reported to us within 24 hours and only if a replacement copy is unavailable.

Request for temp nondelivery must be made at least three days prior to the first day on which delivery is to stop.

These are very confusing to read and I think they got jumbled in my head, which caused the question to seem more difficult than it was.

3.) For the next 2-3 problems in the section I felt "shaken" by this and didn't feel as confident as I had before.

In hindsight this question should have been marked as an easy "skip and come back" question. I still managed to finish the section 5 min early and was able to address some errors in the section but I think I spent almost 3min on this question alone. I didn't really identify how much it threw me off until it was too late.

So my questions are;

1.) How do I not let a question throw me off if I encounter something like this?

2.) How could I have identified this sooner as a time sink question?

3.) Is there a better way to "map" this out to keep track of the rules? Would drawing the conditionals here have helped?

4.) How do you guys remind yourself that it is an "except" question when you are knee deep into the AC and start to feel the confusion?

Are the MSS questions in the 7Sage course basically the same as Inference questions? I was looking for Inference questions on my syllabus but I don't see any specific courses for Inference questions. Just wanted some clarification. Thx.

Hello! I am having some trouble with the question types and general strategy for RC. Does anyone have any outside supplements that they have found helpful specifically for RC? I'm in the process of drilling RC passages now and any help would be great.

I am in the CC in LG, and I am having trouble with this section. Should I fool proof everything that I have trouble with and not continue with the CC until I fool proof everything? I feel lost as to what to do. LR and RC are my strong sections.

Writing down my reasoning to understand better where I'm going wrong.

Available coal supplies = Total coal mined- Total coal consumed in a year

1991- Total coal mined =100

Total coal consumed= 70

Available coal supplies = 30

1990 - Total coal mined = 100

Total coal consumed = 50

Available coal supplies = 50

There are two possibilities I see-

1.Either there is less consumption in 90

2. More coal was mined in 90

This made me chose AC (D) . I feel like I'm missing something basic with answer choice B or my understanding of the stimulus is wrong. Any clarifications would be great!

https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-20-section-1-question-24/

It is incredible. I just finished the LG curriculum today, and so all evening I was drilling LG sections.

I was having a ton of trouble getting all the way through the sections. I felt like I was hardly getting the easiest LG's done in a timely fashion, and had no time for the last few questions... if not the whole last section.

Then I discovered I had been setting my timer to 25 minutes instead of 35. I then started setting my timer for 35 minutes. Poof, like magic, after I discovered that one little hack I finally got my first - 0 on the very next section.

Cheers to all of you burning every last synapse up in preparation for the December test - you're not alone!

Z

I have a sincere doubt on diagramming 'OR'....

A or B is it incorrect to diagram as A --> /B , B --> /A

i know group 3 indicators are diagrammed as /A --> B , /B --> A

but would it make any difference if I simply drew A --> /B

been racking my brain about this....

vini

I am having trouble with logic games. I understand what I am doing when I have my tutoring session, but when I am by myself, I have a mental block. I know how to do 1:1 ordering games but do not know how to do the others. I am terrible at math. I did buy a prep test for the games but I do not know what to do. Logic games is my weakest section but I want to practice and learn how to do logic games. I did watch the foolproof method several times on this site, I do not know how to set up the game by reading the rules. Sometimes I am able to discern whether it is Underbooked, Overbooked, etc., but I do not know what to do. More often than not, I guess when I am taking the practice tests. I do not know what to do. Please help!

Would like to know about Except JY....another word that gets me stuck quite frequently...