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Tuesday, Mar 17

BrooklynHope

😖 Frustrated

Maximize Study Time Between Now and April

Hi, taking the LSAT for the first time in April. Did a 7Sage self study plan and just caved and paid for 4 sessions with one of their tutors because I wanted an extra boost and was feeling nervous. Right now PT scores oscillating between 165-169 and blind review 170-174. My goal is 175+ on the exam which I know is quite lofty.

Any tips on making my last four weeks of practice count? Suggestions on number of practice tests per week, timed sections, drills, etc.? How to make the most of the 60 min tutoring sessions? Any hacks for RC or LR that helped improve your score at the last minute that people don’t know?! I also need tips on keeping a positive mindset, I'm at the point finishing a practice test and seeing that my score still isn't above 170 really gets me down.

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Sunday, Mar 8

BrooklynHope

🙃 Confused

How to break past 169

I've been studying for the LSAT since mid-January and I plan to take it for the first time in April. I'm a getting bit nervous because I have a little more than 4 weeks until the test and I haven't been able to break 170 on an initial run through of the test although on blind review my highest score has been 174. For people who have already taken the test and broken 170 what are some tricks or indications that I am likely to get that score on test day and how would you maximize the next few weeks of studying in order to achieve that goal? Also it would be helpful to know if this is normal if most people see consistent improvement throughout their study process.

Average number of questions wrong on an RC or LR section is -4, but with LR on BR I can often get that down to -1 or -2. RC it feels like I'm a bit more stuck often getting very stressed out about timing that causes me to miss easy questions or spending a lot of time on a single question because none of the answer choices seem to fit right.

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PT147.S3.P2.Q11
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Saturday, Mar 7

Maybe this is a dumb question but I didn't understand that the question was asked about the proposed regulations created in P4, I instead thought that the questions was asking about the existing regulations that Mali passed. Could someone explain how you know the question stem is asking only about P4

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PT140.S4.P3.Q16
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Thursday, Feb 26

@Katie_Volpert But your example of this is exactly what makes A feel incorrect. In the case of two soccer players where was a child prodigy and the other was a good child with intensive training the way out differentiate exceptional innate talent is right there in the childhood record of each. Again, because no one starts intensively training at birth it feels clear that way to distinguish between whether a player is superior is their performance when they first started the game. Even the passage seems align with this is by saying at least ten years of intensive, deliberate practice is what makes folks superior. I'd argue that anyone who is exceptional prior to year 10 you could consider to have exceptional innate talent

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PT140.S4.P3.Q16
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Thursday, Feb 26

I understand A is the most correct here, but I think that I challenge anyone to make a give an example of what a case would be where it's difficult or impossible to ascertain the difference between extensive training and exceptional talent. I think what making this question so difficult for people is that it's intensive training is either something someone is doing or something they are not doing. It feels like a no brainer that if prior to training someone was doing exceptionally well then they have exceptional innate talent and if they weren't doing exceptionally well they did not have exceptional innate talent. I'm not trying to argue for no reasons but I think a much better tutor explanation for this questions is POE as opposed to what's here.

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PT140.S4.P2.Q13
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Thursday, Feb 26

@LowriThomas I disagree with you statement that the other answer choices don't accurately reflect a piece of information in the passage. Top of the second paragraph we see a reference to AC A. I think POE is a good way of approaching this question but you will get tripped up just relying on that here

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PT140.S4.P2.Q13
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Thursday, Feb 26

Going to be honest. I got this one wrong like a lot of people and what it truthfully comes down to is that in a test taking scenario it's hard to decipher what definition of *real-world trade* is and somehow connect that with the phrase *intentionally commodified* and even more importantly with in-world sales. There's an inherent vagueness in the way that first and third phrases I mentioned specifically are presented where it very well could be referring to selling real items for virtual currency. However, if you consider just the word intention you realize you need to find a part of the passage where the author outlines what the game makers actually allow not just what players are doing and gives you the right answer. Very long but TL;DR sometimes it's just as important to parse out each word in the highlighted phrase as it is to understand the full phrase

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PT139.S3.P2.Q12
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Friday, Feb 20

Did anyone else have trouble with this questions and question 11 because the time period that's "today" in the passage is not well defined and is likely earlier than it actually today? I'm just wondering if we should anticipate having to deal with something like this on the actual test?

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Tuesday, Feb 17

BrooklynHope

😅 Nervous

Cadence for Practice Test

I'm currently studying to take the LSAT in April. I started studying in January, got a diagnostic score of 164 then I completed an expedited version of 7Sage's core curriculum in ~4 weeks during which I didn't do any practice tests or full length sections and just focused on learning the content and format of the test. Now that I've completed that I want to switch wholly into practice mode for the next 7 weeks leading up to my test, but I want advice about what the right number of practice tests vs timed sections per weeks is. This week I've already taken two practices tests and on the first scored a 167 on my run through of the test and with blind review. On the second I scored a 162, but have yet to blind review the test.

I spoke with two friends who have both taken the LSAT, scored well, and I trust and they recommended very different things.

Friend 1: Try taking three practice tests per week at the beginning of this practice phase and gradually decrease to 2 when you are consistently getting the score you want

Friend 2: Start by taking only 1 practice test and then doing timed sections on days that you aren't testing. From there slowly increase to 2 practice tests per week.

Any advice on which approach would work better? I'm hoping to only need to take the test once and really really want a 175+. Feeling incredibly nervous about this because the test feels so close and that score feels far away from my target, so any thoughts would be welcome!

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PT128.S2.Q19
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Tuesday, Feb 17

@BrooklynHope Also I chose C because it didn't fully click for me that is contradicted the first sentence of the passage. As I read it now it feels like a no-brainer but once again proof there's such a thing as too quick

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PT128.S2.Q19
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Tuesday, Feb 17

E being the correct answer feels misleading at first because most often in resolve discrepancy questions it feels like the side of the discrepancy that is more subjective or more likely to be subjective is typically what is bolstered by the correct. Here it's flipped the police tabulation feels more objective as it deals with actual numbers as opposed to a survey that relies on people's memories. For me understanding that I was bringing in a bias to the question that isn't present in the stimulus was helpful in understanding the answers

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PT128.S2.Q12
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Tuesday, Feb 17

This is a great example of a question stem where speed reading will get you into trouble. I was moving quickly taking the exam and didn't realize the question stem only referred to the part of the analogy regarding time at a stoplight not the complete analogy that also refers to time spent in traffic

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Tuesday, Feb 17

@Kevin_Lin I used the sneak peek function and saw that I got a 100% so I didn't even need to BR

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Monday, Feb 16

@Kevin_Lin I saw the same passages about risk communication and outcomes analysis for this drill that I had in the drill for the C&D section

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Friday, Feb 13

Echoing what others have said these are the exact same passages and questions that show up in the critique or debate drill. If the intent is to show that critique and debate passages can also be problem-analysis passages that's totally fine but would be helpful to clarify

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PT101.S1.P4.Q22
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Thursday, Feb 12

I got this question wrong but understand why D is correct. However, I would advise against anchoring on the last sentence of the explanation about how the final sentence about Michelangelo's work assimilates and transcends as I think it weakens the answer. The hardest part of this passage is that the author isn't very present other than the first few sentences and the last few sentences of the passage. Focusing review on spotting when the author is present as opposed to summarizing another author or critique allows you to choose D with certainty.

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PT138.S3.Q18
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Sunday, Feb 8

@BrooklynHope Furthermore on answer choice E if you negate and say the move to Ocean View will come with a significant pay raise there's nothing about that that implies the raise is significant enough to allow them to afford new houses in Ocean View. Feels like this answer implies that the significant pay raise is relative to what the employees make now whereas them not being able to afford the neighborhood is absolute based on the difference between home price and salary

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Sunday, Feb 8

I feel like the reasoning for A being incorrect is not true. The conclusion is that ONCE THE COMPANY HAS MOVED, most Acme employees will have a commute of more than 30 minutes. If you negate A you then have the assumption that no Acme employees can afford housing within a 30 minutes commute of Milton and which means they are commuting more than 30 min in the present. Since the conclusion of the stimulus is contingent upon the company moving as written the negation of A nullifies the conclusion because moving is no longer the factor that triggers the 30 min or more commute.

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Sunday, Feb 8

@WilliamZiebellRichards I feel like C to me doesn't even look that great but it seems no worse than A which is a difficult thing to contend with

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Sunday, Feb 8

I'm struggling with A being the best choice of these 5 options because it seems to fly in the face of the fact that if there's an indispensable aspect of residency training that requires long hours those long hours could still jeopardize lives. To me, those concepts are not mutually exclusive and thus the negation of this indispensable fact could still yield more lives saved overall which to me seems to be what the conclusion around working hours is focused on.

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PT135.S1.Q25
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Tuesday, Jan 27

@ConnerKline Why did you keep the most relationship between well design public places and comfortable public places the stimulus states all well designed PPs are comfortable

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PT135.S1.Q25
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Tuesday, Jan 27

I answered C which I see in hindsight is incorrect because we can't say that most coffeehouses that are well designed feature artwork that confuses the most relationship between public places and well-designed (most = 51%+ coffee houses could be very small in the total number of PPs so they may be in the category of well-designed PPs without artwork). However I'm caught up on why not uncomfortable should be instantly translated to comfortable? I feel like it's usually not the case that the negation of a sufficient condition is it's antonym

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PT110.S3.Q15
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Tuesday, Jan 27

I think what's confusing me about this question is that I think implicit in Susan's remarks is that she does not believe contemporary art has become big business. I interpreted her I disagree statement as being directly against the conclusion of Leah's statement (CA has become big business) whereas Susan's second sentence is an example of why she disagrees (it's not big business there's still small galleries with innovative art). I understand that D is correct too but I'm not sure I fully grasp why it's a substantially better answer than C

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Tuesday, Jan 20

In question 4 isn't everyone a referential for voters?

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Edited Wednesday, Jan 21

BrooklynHope

Should I use the blind review peek function?

Hi just started studying for the LSAT and I'm finding the blind review function that 7sage offers really helpful. I'm just wondering in terms of best practices should I utilize the peek function that 7sage offers that will let me know how many questions I missed before doing the blind review, or in order to really make sure I'm working through the entire section properly should I try not to look at the peek function?

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