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Hi All,

I remember being able to print off prep tests on 7sage the last time I logged in (about 2 months ago) under Course - Syllabus but I can't seem to find them anymore. Are they taken off from the website now? If not, where can I go to find them? Thanks for your help in advance!!

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Thursday, Mar 09 2017

I also have a few questions that I would like to post here before I forget.

If I haven't yet written a "Why X Law School" essay, is it too late to write one and submit it as an addenda instead of a LOCI, especially if I haven't heard back from the school yet? What's the recommended length for these "Why X Law School" essays (i.e. 500 words or less)?

If I were to send my LOCI to those schools that I have not yet heard from, what is the best way to do so? Should I just send it as an email to their general admissions inbox?

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Wednesday, Jan 11 2017

So I had to take 2 semesters off at the beginning of my 3rd year in university because I had suffered from severe eating disorder... Although I had recovered from it fully since then (and this gap year happened about 7 years ago) I am planning not to write an extra addendum unless schools specifically ask me to explain about any gap years in my education history (So far I have noticed that Cornell, Duke and NYU ask this).

Would it be ok if I just say that I developed a medical ailment and decided to treat it during the 3rd year instead of talking about the details of the illness? I just don't wanna open a can of worms if I do not have to. I've been looking for some sample addenda explaining about gap year but haven't been successful as of yet... Any feedback on this would be much appreciated!

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Monday, Jan 09 2017

@tlu758 Thanks for your feedback and glad to hear that a really short and simple response would suffice! I was literally thinking that it would be like a few sentences long like you said lol.

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Monday, Jan 09 2017

@alejoroarios925 thanks for your feedback!

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Gap year explanation

Hi All,

So I had to take 2 semesters off at the beginning of my 3rd year in university because I had suffered from severe eating disorder... Although I had recovered from it fully since then (and this gap year happened about 7 years ago) I am planning not to write an extra addendum unless schools specifically ask me to explain about any gap years in my education history (So far I have noticed that Cornell, Duke and NYU ask this).

Would it be ok if I just say that I developed a medical ailment and decided to treat it during the 3rd year instead of talking about the details of the illness? I just don't wanna open a can of worms if I do not have to. I've been looking for some sample addenda explaining about gap year but haven't been successful as of yet... Any feedback on this would be much appreciated!

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Monday, Jan 09 2017

@davidbusis895.busis Thanks for that feedback! Just out of curiosity, would a person still be able to write an LSAT once they started law school or they are stuck with whatever the LSAT score(s) they used for the law school admission when they transfer?

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Wednesday, Jan 04 2017

@emmanuelntow789 @bobbyrengifo219 @dypark92847 For me, I feel like RC is the section that you can improve most on by recognizing and becoming fluent with the passage / question patterns that LSAC uses, much like the LG section before the LSAC has gone mad and have decided to throw us with all these random games lol. For example, I was consistently scoring anywhere from -8 to -12 with RC section when I did my practice tests in late 60s and early 70s (I did a lot better with earlier RC sections like the ones in PT 20s and 30s but still I would not score any less than 4 in these earlier tests). As the Dec exam was approaching I felt frustrated as my score was not improving much in the RC section despite doing timed RC sections almost every other day.

During the last two weeks of LSAT prep before the December exam, I decided not to do anymore new RC sections (except for PT 79 I did a week prior for last full timed exam practice) and instead really hone in and internalize all the questions I got wrong in RC in PT 60s and 70s. I documented both the questions that I got wrong and the ones I thought were really tricky (even if I got them right) throughout my prep and this came really handy esp. when I decided to go back and review RC. Focusing on the wrong questions and familiar passages made me feel a lot more at ease as I spend more time reviewing the RC section. While reviewing almost all the RC passages in these latest PT's, I tried to focus my time on the 3rd and 4th passages from each exam which I tend to find to be more difficult than the first two passages. Also, I paid particular attention to the questions where I came down to two AC's but was not 100% sure with my final choice regardless of whether I got it correct or not. I tried my best to understand what made these particular questions tricky and really tried to understand the type of AC's that LSAC prefers as opposed to the AC's that I naturally gravitated towards because I thought they "sounded right" when I was under the time pressure. Also as I was reviewing these PT's I tried to memorize the types of questions that tend to appear most in RC and tried my best to anticipate these questions as I read the passages during my December LSAT.

My response got a bit lengthy but hope this somewhat help you guys as you prep for your LSAT! I would say the biggest thing with RC is not to get discouraged by the number of questions you get wrong in each practice test but rather try to look at each attempt as a practice to make yourself good at looking at things both holistically (i.e. recognizing the passage types) while having a firm grasp of exactly what LSAC is trying to tell you in the RC passages.

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Wednesday, Jan 04 2017

@476.rizeq @staciaglee275 Aww thanks guys :D

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December was my first LSAT attempt and although I did not meet my target score I'm pretty pumped about the fact that I have scored 0 wrong in the RC which has always been my worst section ever (scoring nearly 10-14 wrongs). I totally bombed my LG section which was to be expected given that I literally guessed last two of the four game sets but I'm still happy that I can improve on RC with practice!!!

I'm not done with my LSAT journey yet but would like to thank 7 Sage members for all their encouragement and support :) Love you guys and happy 2017!!

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Tuesday, Dec 27 2016

Thanks @gregoryalexanderdevine723! I will take a look at this website and share it with my boss :)

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Tuesday, Dec 27 2016

@lawschoolstuff16866 Thanks for your feedback! My professors have no issues with how to format etc but this question I posted is specifically for my boss who has less experience writing these types of letters... If this is a general letter and not catered to a specific school, would omitting the address and just addressing the person as "To whom it may concern" should suffice right?

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Hope everyone had a great Christmas weekend!

Quick question to those of you who had a chance to submit a general letter of recommendation to LSAC. I'm about to send an instruction to my recommenders on how to submit their letters etc and was wondering who they will need to address in the letter head. For example, should the address of the person / committee receiving this general letter should be that of LSAC as opposed to specific school?

Also, do you have any thoughts on not putting the date when the letter was written by the recommender? Given that these letters can stay on my record for the next 5 years and since I may be applying again after this admission cycle, I was wondering maybe I should ask the recommenders to omit the date in their letters... Really appreciate any thoughts you guys have on these questions and hope everyone has a great rest of the week :)

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Friday, Nov 25 2016

@gregoryalexanderdevine723 @476.rizeq Thanks guys! Yeah, I won't even bother figuring out which section is which and just treat them all the same lol

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Friday, Nov 25 2016

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Experimental section

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This might be a stupid question to ask but is there a common section where the LSAC places their experimental section in the test? For example, is the experimental section more likely to show up in the first 3 sections as opposed to the last 2? Are there some ways to tell if a section is experimental or not? I was just curious to see if they are always random or if there are some patterns as to where they get placed etc... Thanks!

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Friday, Nov 18 2016

@twssmith644 Thanks!! I actually watched this webinar awhile back but it didn't really make much sense to me. I rewatched bits of it today and it seems to resonate more with me after doing more questions which is good lol

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Friday, Nov 18 2016

@7sagestudentservices And all this time I thought they were birds after reading AC (B) lol I just googled to check out what real lemurs look like lol Thanks for the thorough explanation - really appreciate it :D

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Thursday, Nov 17 2016

@7sagestudentservices Hey, thank you so much for your help again! So in this case, you are saying whether there is a significant difference between the population size of these birds is irrelevant because even if that was the case, it still doesn't explain the fact that why birds in the deciduous forest was more active, correct? I think I was making an error in thinking that by canceling a discrepancy between these two bird populations by providing some other evidence (i.e. we are not comparing apples to apples bc of significantly different sample size difference etc) would resolve the discrepancy but that wasn't really what the question was asking me to do after all :). The approach should be to really "explain" the difference not somehow say that there is no difference!

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Thursday, Nov 17 2016

@chung723 Awesomeness, thank you so much :D

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Thursday, Nov 17 2016

Hi @chung723 Thanks for that clarification!! I initially did not negate "vow to stop it" but it was negated in the explanation provided on the LSATHacks website which I found to be a bit confusing :(. So just to reiterate, you are saying in this example that if either the person does not criticize their own behavior or vows to stop it or do both then they should not criticize other's behavior correct? I'm glad you clarified a lot of the confusion I had with this question!

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Thursday, Nov 17 2016

@7sagestudentservices Thanks :D

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Wednesday, Nov 16 2016

@chung723 I haven't thought of it that way but I think that makes sense. Thanks for sharing your thought!

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Hi All,

So the stimulus in #20 reads,

"If one does not criticize a form of behavior in oneself or vow to stop it, then one should not criticize that form of behavior in another."

Would this sentence translate to

1. ~Criticize one's own behaviour AND ~Vow to stop it --> ~ Criticize other's behavior or

2. ~Criticize one's own behaviour OR ~ Vow to stop it --> ~ Criticize other's behavor?

I initially thought that the latter was the case but not sure about it anymore... Any feedback will be greatly appreciated!

https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-77-section-2-question-20/

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Wednesday, Nov 16 2016

Me!! Thanks :)

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Wednesday, Nov 16 2016

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PT77.S2.Q19 - a recent study examined

Hi All,

So I'm still struggling to identify exactly when certain arguments could be strengthened or weakened by the total number of samples (or any sort of number play for that matter) and when they cannot be. I remember seeing a few questions in the past where certain group was seeing a particular pattern or a phenomenon while the other group didn't and the discrepancy was due to some problems related to the size of the sample in one group (either their total number of participants were not counted properly, thereby inflating the trend) etc.

PT 77 Section 2 #19: A recent study examined the daytime and nighttime activity patterns of two populations of tree-dwelling lemurs - the first living in a rain forest, where tree canopy cover is consistent year0round, and the second living in a deciduous forest, where many trees lose their leaves during the winter months. Both groups of lemurs were found to be more nocturnal during winter months than they were the rest of the year. However, the winter increase in nocturnal activity was significantly more pronounced for the population living in the deciduous forest than it was for the population living in the forest.

For the question above, none of the answer choices really stood out for me initially and when I looked through them again, I noticed how the AC (D) was talking about the bird population in these forests are different, in fact, the lemur population in the rain forest is twice the size of the population in the deciduous forest... I thought that if that's the case, couldn't it be possible that the nocturnal activity looks more pronounced in the deciduous forest even though the two forests had the same number of birds that are both just as active at night? The correct answer turned out to be (B) which talked about the high-flying bird predators who hunt their prey during daylight...

So my question is, how are we supposed to know when these numbers actually come in play and exactly what the question means in this case - whether there are more % of these birds in each forest (in which case the population size matters) or it could be that the entire bird population is following a certain trend?

https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-77-section-2-question-19/

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