Help me break out of low 160's hell please, and thank you for everything you guys do!

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Hi history majors, if you relied on outside knowledge for this, LSAC knew you would. Don't do that. Ever. If you had it down to E or A like me, remind yourself that any number of classifications of humans could have settled North America first, Indus Valley, Africans, whoever. The stimulus never rules out all other possibilities, and due to this being a weaken question, we must take each answer choice as if it was stated by God, true beyond a reasonable doubt. Meanwhile, the stimulus does not rule out alternate possibilities.

A might not stand out at first, but it is for sure an alternate explanation. Correct!

B is trash as we are looking for the first SETTLERS, I don't care about Nomads

C is trash as why would it matter if one fossil was found or two. If they are in the same region, same place, same date, nothing is ruled out. Author's argument can still work

D strengthens the argument if anything, giving corroborating evidence.

E slightly weakens the authors argument. It gives a reason for a potential move to North America from close Eurasians. however, it does not tell us if people were actually there. Just because it was conducive, does not mean these people were settlers at all. In addition, E ignores the possibility that parts of Eurasia farther from North America were equally inhospitable.

@amhuynh I bookmark questions I get wrong on the website, there is an icon that looks like a ribbon on the top right of every question when looking at the answer key. Once or twice a week I go through the recent bookmarks and refresh, if there patterns in my mistakes, that's when it gets written down and I go back to curriculum if I need more help.

@hopefullsatcrusher Nope, did core curriculum and the drills in there first. Then do drills. I think I did 500 questions before I touched my first full section, by then I was averaging in the mid 150's per section, sometimes higher. Then full PT's. Make sure you're timing is improving too.

@BrandonJager03 Yea BTW my diagnostic had one LR section 6/25. Not -6, 6/25. Correct. Improvement is possible.

@BrandonJager03 This is more for LR, I did not struggle much with RC even since I started LSAT prep, but I am assuming double your study time and put that extra time into RC if you struggle on RC.

For anyone asking me for tips, DO YOUR CORE CURRICULUM, not all of it is great, but like 75% is super useful so just skip the stuff you know (like they tell you to do). You want to go through this quick, take some notes, but you really want to start drilling as soon as possible. After your first few weeks of drilling, start doing whole timed sections, then after a month of drilling and sections start doing one full PT a week. Aim for at least one to two hours a day if you're studying 7 days a week, and two to three hours if you're studying 5 days a week. If you're shooting for 165+, I recommend 6 months prep time and 5 hours a day 6 days a week. Best of luck to everyone this cycle!

@somanglee239718 The key words here are "compound DEFICIENCIES", even if you're not aware of that specific definition, if deficiencies are being put together or, compounded, then there are more problems, i.e. "to make worse"

ill get a question like this right but miss a 83% correct answer selected "3 Level Difficulty"

Is B not be a scenario where crime rates initially spiked after the chief was appointed? How could he claim to make progress if the overall total is higher? WHAT?

"Becoming more easily frustrated by small difficulties does not constitute being 'easily angered.'" Yea I guess ill just take the L

"The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence"

How does answer choice D not block a hypothesis? I never understood this one