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Monday, Mar 30

Garrett_dom

😖 Frustrated

Time management and drilling

Hi all,

Im starting to transition from the course LR content to more drilling and improving speed.

Particularly, I noticed that almost every practice test and section, almost all my wrong answers on the last half to last quarter, where I move more quickly and guess.

While I clearly missed something to get them wrong, I feel like the time really gets to me, espcially since my BR are usually a lot better than my actuals.

I wonder if this is a common feature most people see and the best ways I should do drills (such as what questions to work on, how many should I do at once, what settings or timing features i should do ect).

Also, right now I'm using the notes feature to help me study what im getting wrong, how to do questions more efficiently, and what mistakes I made in lawgic.

Am I missing any critical steps in my review that help me?

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PT120.S1.Q16
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Sunday, Mar 29

My issue with this questios and others are I don't want to make the immediate assumption that "living by moral standards" and being good/a better person are the same.

I agree that they are similar but I am hesitant to make that assumption because I feel like that's a way a test maker could trap me.

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PT122.S1.Q15
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Sunday, Mar 29

@MateoAgudelo What helped me do questions like this quicker is trying to note what answer has the parts we need.

  1. A condition.

  2. Something that (in theory triggers) the condition

  3. Realizing that it doesn't actually have the necessary condition (the sculpture doesn't evoke intense feelings).

  4. THIS IS THE BIG ONE, an explanation that conditional is wrong OR it doesn't trigger the lawgic (its not art).

  1. let me immediately elimnate D and B since they don't have the or condition. 1. Lets you eliminate E because I don't view it as a condition. and then you can see that A is not saying that the bilology lab is not a class (the sufficient condition), so it should be C.

I just started approaching these this way to at least avoid reading all the answers.

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PT128.S3.Q19
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Saturday, Mar 28

@keatricerobertson487 I did this as well. But im wondering if this could be problematic in the future?

I really don't see the issue if we only care about Scott.

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PT128.S3.Q23
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Saturday, Mar 28

For questions like this, my worry is how much time it takes to do these because in a way we are reading 5 stimuli!

I did think B was correct but there may have been a better answer so i had to read through the other options.

What advice do people have for finding ways to quickly eliminate answers so I can at least save some time on that.

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PT128.S2.Q22
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Friday, Mar 27

When I see the question type is about the or weakening argument or anything that undermines the stimulus, and I see a conditional statement of some sort, should this set off a light bulb that the flaw will be conditional?

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PT128.S2.Q25
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Friday, Mar 27

Can someone confirm if my understanding is accurate.

He fishing guide says “the most populp is fish adapted the most”.

The study says the catfish is the most populous fish.

But we can’t infer what the guide believes is the most populated fish because there is too much uncertainty.

We never said that they read the study or what they believe is the most populous fish?

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PT128.S2.Q18
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Thursday, Mar 26

I read this as unlike the stimulus, this does say NO GOVENMENTS can regulate employment and labor closely. And since the flaw with is that the subset of novels shortcomings isn't representative of the whole, then the fact no government can do this is fair sample to make the claim that non can improve the economy.

I see the point that just because you can't control inflation and unemployment that doesn't mean you can't improve a nations economy.

I feel like this was a trap I feel for so any advice on avoiding it?

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PT128.S2.Q4
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Thursday, Mar 26

What interests me here is that it seems like we are willing to go back and reread the stimulus, even though we do understand it.

We just can't anticipate where it's going. Is this an approach I should always follow or are there answers types where we shouldn't waste time rereading, even if we don't know where it is going?

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Saturday, Mar 21

What is the best way to study question formatting. I feel the sooner I can recognize that this is a premise, conclusion, counter premise example, or other structures, the more efficiently I can move through the problem.

But right now all i can think to do is maybe copy the stimulus, annotate it, and just keep it as a reference, but to me this feels ineffective.

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Saturday, Mar 21

I think this will be answered in later sections, but I have seen the word "generalization" appear a lot on potential LSAT answers like this. Maybe someone could let me know is there is something specific they mean when they mention this?

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Monday, Mar 2

But if I say that not all dogs are friendly, can we infer, or can we deny, that no dogs are friendly? It doesn't half to be the case but its not outside the realm of possibility here.

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Saturday, Feb 28

I know we can infer that when we use the quantifier many, it implies some. But we can not infer the opposite. If some dogs are pets, we can't infer that many dogs are pets can we?

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Monday, Feb 23

For Q5, can you make the whole thing a conjunction?

First, it becomes:

knowledge is element of a fact AND /(doesn't believe it exists) -> aware if existence -> established.

Then you can technically add another conjunction:

knowledge is element of a fact AND /(doesn't believe it exists) AND aware of its existence - > established

Maybe this is too much work, but for me it kinda makes it simpler that this is just 1 big conjunction.

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Sunday, Feb 22

Q4 I read the rule as if you have 10 + years of experience then you are supported and the exception if you have more than 50 animals.

Is there an issue with that?

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Sunday, Feb 22

Does it make sense to focus or use one of the three frameworks that makes the most sense intuitively to you or could there be instances where say thinking about the exception as a conditional statement instead of kicking it up is better?

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PT112.S1.Q14
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Saturday, Feb 21

I initially didn't make the connection that if McGuiness wins then someone less qualified won't win. For me it was technically too strong to say something like if MCG doesn't win then Yerxes will win.

To help me bridge the gap, are we saying. "We don't know that Xernes won't win and thus someone less qualified won't win"?

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Saturday, Feb 21

How do contrapositives work with these examples? My lawgic tells me that when we do the contrapositive, we can effectively change the or to an and?

For example

Plan Succeeds-> (Jedi Failed or Amidala Failed)

would become...

(Jedi and Amidala Succeeds) -> Plan fails

Are there caveats to this?

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Edited Saturday, Feb 21

Garrett_dom

💪 Motivated

Time Management while working full time

Hi all,

I have been studying for the LSAT for about a month now and its going okay.

My biggest obstacle is staying consistent with my studying. I work as a full time consultant and can have long, unpredictable hours.

This week as an example, I thought I could be home by 7:00pm and resume studying but I ended up having to work until 10:00 pm and 12:00 am most days this week. I like what I do but its just difficult to stay motivated after working long hours and stick to a plan when my weeks can be hard to gauge.

I knew this would be an obstacle for me so I'm trying to wake up a bit earlier, to squeeze some extra studying in, and do some longer sessions on the weekend.

Does anyone have any studying regiments or tips on how to balance a slightly unpredictable schedule with LSAT studying?

Regards.

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PT127.S3.Q11
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Monday, Feb 16

I wanted to check on the explanation. When it says that in 1990, 10 years ago, sunscreen protected against UV-B but not UV-A but now in 2000 we are protected against UV-A and UV-B, isn't that an weak assumption? I understand the logic and phrasing implies that, but we don't know for certain the in the year 2000, today, that sunscreen now protects against UV-A?

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