I do this on parallel/parallel flaw questions.

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All the basics that you need are made freely available on LSAC website. Relaying on explanations during the early stages of preparation is very detrimental. You need to let your brain develop the neural networks it needs to overcome tests obstacles independently.

I don't agree that LSAC's free materials are sufficient for most people to reach their best score, especially in a section like LG where that material is notoriously incomplete and poorly constructed. But even if they were, it wouldn't mean that commercial prep doesn't offer a ton of value in other ways. There is a lot more to 7sage than explanation videos.

But, I can get behind your larger point that students would be better off locking themselves in a room with nothing but preptests and going through them over and over than they are being spoonfed solutions and otherwise not engaging directly with the exam. This is exactly why JY recommends taking 40 PTs and then conducting a rigorous blind review of every question, and then further reviewing those questions you miss in BR, or struggle with.

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Look, at the end of they day you get to believe and do what you want. I don’t care about your response. This post is a wake up call for all LSAT takers who fall victims for LSAT prep companies who are more interested in increasing their revenue than increasing your score.

I am telling you there is a more effective and free way to increase your score. You can listen to me or ignore everything I said.

I agree with some of what you are saying but not about prep courses in general. I think it's true that most top scorers eventually move beyond explanations, but most people are better off in the beginner and intermediate stages having specific curricula/reliable sources of information to build the foundation of knowledge and skill they need to get to the 99th percentile. As a result, I think courses like 7sage make most students' journey up the scale more efficient not less. And believe it or not, not everyone has the ability to "figure everything out" on their own. I'm a 99th percentile scorer (174 in June, and multiple 180s on PTs) who frequently learns things I didn't know from JY's videos and the discussion on 7sage. This is to say nothing of the tools 7sage provides to identify and isolate areas where I need work, practice individual questions, take timed sections, etc. Sure, I could do much of this on my own but it would be far less efficient.

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Please just stop commenting (notifications are exploding) and this post will fade away to obscurity.

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Cringe troll post. There are more productive ways to use your time fyi

How about you worry about your time and let the rest of us spend it how we see fit.

Irony!

I think you're missing something significant. The credited response on a SA question is far stronger than a mere connector between premise and conclusion; it ensures that the conclusion is true. In other words, when added to the argument in the stimulus, the right answer will guarantee the truth of the conclusion.

MSS questions are very often sets of facts (not arguments) and thus the credited response need not have any connection to a conclusion or a premise. The right answer is simply the statement that can be best proven given the information in the stimulus. For example, check out PT 32, 1, 24. This is the infamous MSS question about "brown dwarf" celestial objects. You will find no argument here.

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It's worth pointing out that a prerequisite is a necessary condition, something you need to do in order to do something else later. Even if you don't take the time to parse out what the hell this answer choice is trying to say, you should be able to recognize that it's moving the wrong way, against the flow, up the conditional chain. The correct answer will describe this invalid move to the left, from "reading skills" to "Democracy." Whatever E is trying to say, it describes a move to the right down the conditional chain.

Take August. And if you're not happy with your score then take October too. I know people who have gotten into HYS with 5 takes on their record. Your highest score is what counts most.

ETA- August scores come out after the October registration deadline so you should plan on taking October either way.

Manhattan's LR book is excellent

I'm not sure what "innate skills" is supposed to mean but any differences in these hypothetical skills are attributable to differences in native intellectual ability. Assuming average+ natural intelligence, all of the skills needed to do very well on the test can be acquired with time and effort. But individuals absolutely do vary in natural intellectual capacity and therefore have different performance ceilings.

The question is flawed in that the author fails to consider the possibility that some combination of innate and learned skills contribute to LSAT test taking ability.

Seconded. 178 in August.

^^^ Lots of good information above.

I'd add that it's useful to know the common characteristics of correct answer choices for each question type. For example, correct answers for Sufficient Assumption questions tend to use strong language while correct answers for Necessary Assumption, Must Be True, and Most Supported questions tend to use weaker language. Please note: the content of the stimulus/argument will ALWAYS trump secondary concerns like language strength in determining the correct answer. However, this method can be crucial for picking up points when you're down to two answers and it's time to move on. If you do have a bit more time, and you know what to look for, focusing on differences in language strength can help you identify what differentiates two similar answer choices.

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Seconding Justin's comment, that link explains what the score bands are better than I could.

I also had an 8-point spread, though for me I believe it's because that was my first LSAT, so they didn't have much data on me to narrow down that spread. Was this also your first LSAT?

As for how admissions officers view that, I don't know. I'm guessing with a grain of salt since I haven't heard/seen any indication that score bands matter.

Yes, this was my first time taking. So, you're saying that score bands ARE individual, then? Not based on the test itself?

Again, score bands have nothing to do with individual performance and are simply a statistical description of score variability. All test-takers have the same "spread" for a given exam.

Your score is what schools have to report and is all that matters. Score bands are just a fancy way of accounting for statistical variation in scores.

Score bands have traditionally been +/-3, but that was for the 100 question test. The current LSAT only has 75 scored questions. Smaller sample sizes mean larger statistical variation so score bands moved from +/-3 to +/-4. It has nothing to do with individual performance.

No, but i went from working 40+ hours to 20 or so.

Take June. It's your last crack EVER at the Flex.

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