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Hi everyone,

Just have a few questions for those who will be writing upcoming lSAT test dates, or who who have written the LSAT online in the past.

What methods or tips can I use to mitigate the disadvantages of writing the test online vs paper? For example, for questions I find it very important to highlight and circle key words. I assume there is no option like this for the online version.

Thank you.

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I take my LSAT next week, and I am in the low 160s at the moment. The literal only things on logical reasoning that is keeping me down are the conditional and causal reasoning questions. Are there any specific lessons from the syllabus that anyone found really, really helped with these? I know I could just rewatch all of them but due to my limited time I want to make sure I'm really prioritizing what matters here. Thanks! Good luck everyone

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I identified the premise and conclusion as the following:

P1: Spy is identified as the only clergyman working at the French embassy

P2: Bruno had been ordained a member of the clergy long before he started work at the embassy

Concl: Bruno must have been the spy

I narrowed down to A and C and eventually picked C, which was the wrong answer.

I thought C was correct since his lack of French skills meant that he lacked the skillset that the spy had. On the other hand, I eliminated A because "not being dressed or functioned as a member of the clergy" is insufficient to prove Bruno wasn't a clergyman at all. He might have been an inactive member but could still have retained his clergyman title. I still don't see why C is wrong and A is correct. Can anyone walk me through the correct reasoning?

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I picked C initially. I picked this answer because when the question mentions "malicious" my brain starts thinking for reasons why the toddler is not morally wrong in this situation. While this could be a decent explanation of the first sentence, it falls flat for the second. Additionally, WE DON'T DISCUSS ACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR. This is really important: for principle questions, you are not going to get new information in the answers. It must be a general summary or explanation of the passage, not with new information.

Question A is right, it summarizes the passage well.

Question B is about attention, which isn't relevant

Question D is about ends, which isn't mentioned

Question E is about effectiveness, which isn't mentioned

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Hello everyone! I am new to 7Sage. I am writing because I work a full-time job from 8:15am to 4:30pm. I have to wake up a 4am which kills me. I take the train to work every day and i get home at around 7pm. I am tired from work, and I do not have time to do anything but get my clothes ready and go to sleep. Do you think the studying for the LSAT just on the weekends would help. My goal score is a 167. During the week I just do not have time and I suffer from migraines and sleep apnea. I need some advice. I plan to take the November LSAT. What do you all suggest?

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Hi all,

I'm really struggling with In and Out Logic Games!I'm able to write out all the rules but with connecting them and contra posing I get a little lost and waste so much time trying to complete these types of games. Is anyone able to tutor me? I'm on Pacific Standard time! :D

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This was a toughy

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how do you guys do MBT and MSS conditional logic questions quickly / in a timely manner? When I am doing a timed run sometimes the language of the stim feels like gibberish to me so that doesn't help because I'm re-reading it several times. Then I also feel like diagramming the whole thing takes too much time. From there I'm already tempted to skip it. However, in BR, the answer feels way more obvious once I understand the logic at play -- it just takes too long to grasp the logic at play. If anyone feels the same as me, how did you 1. read the stimulis without freaking out / decipher it without needing to read it a million times 2. do you diagram it ? or do the inferences stand out in your head quite quickly? 3. Was it a matter of just drilling these questions more and then you got the hang of it ?

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Just want to share my notes/thought process!

Cannot is G4 negate necessary

Good legal system -> well paid

Police well paid -> good legal system

Flips lawgic

A. E. Irrelevant

B. Must is a stretch, we dont care about them

C. Effective is irrelevant

D. Yes, it should be a NC but it switches to SC which doesn’t warrant the lawgic if NC is satisfied

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Hey!

For the life of me, I cannot understand the level 5 difficulty questions for PSA. I can get the lower and medium difficulty questions correct, but it seems like the higher difficulty just isn't clicking. Does anyone have any tips or mental strategies for how they approach difficult PSA questions? I think I'm getting lost in the answers (and I believe my most common mistake is confusing sufficiency/necessity language even though I'll have it diagrammed properly!!)

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I got this question wrong both before and after BR and the explanations did not help but I finally think I understand it so I wanted to help anyone still confused like I was!

Here is how I logically mapped it out (I,F, and U mean inviting, functional, unobtrusive)

I & F → U

Contrapositive: Not U → not I or not F

This is the rule which the stimulus says modern architects violate. To violate this rule it would be that it is NOT the case that (I & F → U)

In other words, in order to violate this rule, there must be some case in which there is I and F, but not U

This is where I got caught up, as I was thinking that they had only mentioned that the buildings were not functional, but had not mentioned if they were inviting- but that doesn't matter. For the rule to be violated, it HAS to be the case (MUST BE TRUE) that there is some case with I, F, and NOT U. The other details are unimportant, as the correct answer just focuses on one aspect of the conditions that must be met for this rule to be violated.

Let me know if anyone has another explanation that makes more sense, or if my reasoning is wrong at any point!

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Can someone explain the reasoning behind the correct answer

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The reason why the restorers want to make an exception for De Volterra is that De Volterra removed ALL layers of paint in the sections of the paintings where he made his addition before he made these additional. This suggests: De Volterra removed not only those layers of paint that people other than Michelangelo had added but also parts of Michelangelo's works themselves. This in turn means: If De Volterra's additions were removed as well, Michelangelo's underlying painting would not be revealed. Instead, there would just be a blank piece of wall, as De Volterra already removed those sections of Michelangelo's work that were there originally.

Making an exception for De Volterra thus arguably makes sense, because even an addition made by a painter other than Michelangelo would seem better than just have a blank piece of wall in the middle of Michelangelo's painting.

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I had a quick question about a line of reasoning regarding the correct answer to this question. I got the correct answer, E, but for a different reason than what was explained in the explanation video. In the video, the narrator discusses the difference between old people and old people with insomnia and claims that this is where the sample is unrepresentative. However, when I was thinking about this question, I was focused on the phrase "as they age" and the fact that the sample size was those aged 65-81. I thought that it was too difficult to determine that melatonin was produced less as you age because what if it is produced at a lower rate during early years as well, but the sample only included older people? Would this line of reasoning be incorrect? Is this a type of thinking anyone else had?

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Link to explanation video: https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-74-section-4-question-18/

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