#help Would negating answer A be "A type of school system that works well in one country will not work well in any other country.

Or would it be "A type of school system that works well in one country will work well in some countries"?

Need to review my negation lessons for the negation tests on NA

I read the newspaper. That way I could bring it into the test center and throw it out. Learning about the world felt productive enough to me

#help When it comes to parallel questions I generally rule out answer choices that don't match the certainty of the conclusion in the stimulus. For example, in the stimulus it said "probably did not cause" so I assumed B was wrong because its conclusion was definitive. Is this something I should change about when I attack these type of questions?

And if the certainty of the conclusions/arguments don't have to match in parallel flaw questions does that mean the certainty of the conclusions don't have to match in parallel questions?

I feel that. I'm always feeling like I'm never doing enough. However! Sometimes you can take that stress and anxiety and channel it into your work. If the stress is going to be there might as well make it useful. Stress doesn't have to be debilitating, in fact, it can be motivating.

I like to look at Tom Brady (full disclaimer: I hate the Patriots), he thrives and actually improves when the pressure is on. Why can't that be us on test day?

Your method is good but do note that the more recent RCs are a bit harder and there's now a comparative passage that you won't get in the older tests

Thanks for the heads up! Remember to cancel before the 6 weeks are up if you don't want to pay. Hopefully this will help my RC. The bane of my current existence

#help What's the difference between Main Point and Primary Purpose?

Try an easy one!

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If I had 110 minutes to LR I would POE every question.

Have a reason for eliminating EVERY wrong answer.

Thanks for the input! That's what I do for LG and I've been averaging -0 or -1. Also, it's 70 minutes. 110 minutes for 5 sections would probably be too much haha.

I generally watch the videos for questions I circled. Occasionally a couple where I didn't circle as well

I find it's helping me to slow down as I get closer to the june test. At this point the bed has already been made. It's more about getting yourself mentally prepared to perform on test day rather than learning new material. So do whatever you need to. Personally, taking some time off as school was ending so I could focus on my final papers and getting drunk with my friends did wonders for my mental health and I even performed better on my next PT I did.

@ Wow what a detailed, awesome, helpful response! Love the picture. Thanks for all your help and comments. Love the idea of looking more into metacognition rather than just going for the hardest X type of questions. I think going over my thought process and tracking that will be more beneficial.

Thanks again!

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I think it kinda depends on where you are in your studies. I’ve found that drilling by question type feels much more productive than it actually is. If you look at analytics and see that you’ve missed 21 out of the last 25 NA questions, sure, you need to do some work with NA. But once you understand what the question types are asking you to do, I’m just not sure what that drill is supposed to accomplish anymore.

I greatly prefer section drills. Timed, untimed, whatever your specific goals for the drill call for, a section is a dynamic sampling of different question types across a broad spectrum of difficulty levels. This, to me, is a much better starting point to study argumentation and LSAT trickery.

So it really just depends on what your specific goals are for the drill you’re doing. Sometimes you absolutely need to be doing questions by type. For most purposes though, I think a section drill is best.

Thanks for the response! I'm taking the June LSAT. I'm in the PT phase right now, and have hit 170 a few times but am trying to break into the mid 170s by then. Just trying to find and fix any weaknesses (pun intended) by that time

Mixed up the sub-conclusion and main conclusion but lucked out and got the answer right. Need to work on that in the future.

Anyone remember a Reading passage about dancing Bees? What's up with the LSAC and their love of bees?

"We've made numerous excursions to the kitchen" I relate to that

About 15. I thought that a good number so I didn't burn out.

Any ideas on when this will be updated for this year's cycle?

#help What would circular reasoning look like in lawgic for this question?

You might be able to get a perfect score on logic games along but for the entire test? Very unlikely. I'd set a more realistic goal

In a similar spot and everyone here really eased some of my nerves. Thanks everyone!

I started off at a 153 and have been averaging about a 170 after 8 months of studying! Just takes time. I did about 2 hours a day on weekdays

I haven't taken the real test yet (taking it in June) but it took me 6 months to get hit 170. Keep in mind that I'm still averaging about 169 on my last PTs and only got 170 once (have taken 5 PTs total). I used ultimate + and LSAT Trainer

if you took AP classes they should already show up on your undergrad transcript

The wording of "can best be explained if" got me. I thought it meant that they still cannot explain the phenomenon but they're actually explaining why the ring is able to flicker that quickly. Somehow got it right in real time but changed it to the wrong answer in BR.

If the stimulus said something along the lines of "can be explained since the ring of gas has a radius of 49km" that would have been much easier. But alas the LSAC writers aren't trying to make that question easier