I guess E makes sense because it means that modern historians are merely projecting modern day categorizations onto people that did not even know such categories existed.

I know this might not be super helpful but all I’ll say is just keep chipping away. With 7Sage you have all the resources in front of you to improve, so just make sure you use them. I’ve found some success from taking a weekly practice test (though you can burn through these quickly,) and through explaining why a question is wrong or right to myself on paper. Once you understand the rationale for an answer choice’s correctness (or lack thereof) you build confidence. Once you build confidence, then you’re able to hold it together during a test and not let your nerves get to you. That is why you do blind review too, because it shows you that you can figure out these questions, but the main issue is timing. I hope that helps!

I can relate. On my last 5 tests I’ve got scores between 158 - 162. Even when I try to make sure my timing is right I manage to score poorly (averaging -7 per section.) I think I’m going to keep plugging away, but I’m not sure how to improve other than maybe by trying to take more time on individual questions rather than rushing.

Maybe this is a silly question, but do only witnesses give testimonies during trials?

@02kimask That's exactly what I was thinking too. What happens if the criminal accidentally becomes a criminal? I get that E is MORE correct, but it is still a frustrating question.

How much reading are you doing outside of the LSAT? Also, how good is your LR generally? RC is essentially longform LR, so I’d say depending on how good your LR is, just take a bit more time with reading and also finding evidence in the text (even for implied questions) for your answer choices.

Maybe you can do a bit of both? I don’t see why doing the core curriculum would be a bad thing. Are there specific question types you are getting wrong frequently? If that’s the case, then go to the core curriculum lessons on those question types. It can feel a bit slow but it is definitely helpful to have those foundational concepts in your brain.

Should it really be a "some" arrow here in between the Hallstown and Frozen Dinners Regularly conditionals in the stimulus?

I am so stupid. I wondered what the LSAT meant by position - I thought it meant post or role, not opinion or idea (or treatment plan)

This question really annoys me because the correct answer relies on the fact that you are thinking too narrowly about the definition of reducing smoking. I know answer choice C is correct, but the LSAT is LSATing and it frustrates me.

@calliekoskovich Yeah I second this opinion about PTs. I usually try to take a PT on Saturday and then review it on Sunday. If I am feeling energetic I will try to combine this into just Saturday. Mostly though, I spend some time at work doing practice questions (the priority tab on the drill section is very helpful for this, to just take 5 questions at a time, to truly target the questions that are troubling you the most)

@iwillcrushthelsat Interesting. Is it specific types of passages (ie. Science, or Law or whatever) that you are doing worse on?

I think it’s mostly just reps, that way you get to be more intuitive about RC in general. Obviously the BR is going to help and the explanation videos can be good too for some passive learning. At least for me, the things I have found to be most fruitful are repetition and if I begin to plateau then trying do so some research about what could be wrong about my approach.

I think it’s also important to remember with RC that it’s essentially just long form LR, which for you, should indicate that it’s a fatigue problem, no?

@k13lawwwwww Understood. What exactly are admissions counsel's looking for? Is it mostly clarity or just that you can write in an organized way? I just did a practice exam and ran out of time.

Also, E is wrong because knowing a consequence is different from evaluating a consequence

@LawyeRell Literally same. I was so mad once I got to reviewing this, because I thought indispensable meant that you cannot dispense it (ie., it cannot be used...) I got even more upset when I realized there is a line in Hamilton (which I am a big fan of) where Burr describes Hamilton as having made himself "indispensable," to Washington (which makes the necessary component a bit more clear; although the knowledge of the show is INDISPENSABLE for you to know that.)

So I’m in a similar boat. I’ve been studying for about 4 months, while working 2 jobs. My best and most recent PT score was a 154, which I think is okay without being great. I’ve found that the things that made a difference for me were relying on my Google Calendar heavily (so every weekend I look ahead at the coming and week and try to schedule out my study sessions), creating a plan of my own (which is built from the 7Sage curriculum), and like lots of people have said in the comments, giving myself some grace and being open to the possibility that the LSAT is at least interesting.

I’ve also created a study log on Google Sheets just to keep track of my weekly hours, my confidence levels, and patterns of study, in order to try and produce some data regarding what drills or how many hours a week will improve my score.

Also, take some time for yourself. I try to read a chapter of a book every day, and am making more of an active effort to work out daily. I also really value time with my friends and family, since that takes my mind off the LSAT.

Maybe these tips will work for you! I think the most important thing to mention about these tips however, is that they are built from past experience and other people’s tips, but include some of my own flair when they are put into practice.

For Q21, do we know from the passage what defines an adaptive mutation?

Hi I have a quick question on Question 19. My issue with this question is that I selected answer choice D twice (both on the test and in BR). The 7 Sage explanation claims that D is "Not supported, because passage B does focus on gender." I can completely see that this is true, and on the 3rd go around, I selected E, since the second passage seems to show how looking at gender can be a useful lens through which to view politics and culture. My issue, however, arises from the notion that we do not know when the second passage was written. The phrase in answer choice D that bothers me is "much recent historical scholarship." How do we know (if we can in fact, know) that Passage B, let alone Passage A, was written recently? Also, if it WAS written recently (which we have no way of determining), how can we tell what defines recent? I am thinking that these questions surrounding a technicality could be helpful for someone trying to solve this question. I also do think that this says something about my approach to this question, since it appears I am doing POE rather than "hunting" for answers. Regardless, some clarity on when these passages were written would be helpful.

@LauraRizzler yeah I kind of figure it’s just like growing pains but I didn’t realize it would be this severe. It’s also like 7sage is not cheap so I really want to keep at it and try and get my money’s worth

@LauraRizzler Well it's nice to know I am not alone in that. I guess we just have to keep on trying right? That seems to be a good way of pushing the score up (even if the results do not come immediately lol)