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Josephine
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Josie has a BS in Creative Technology & Design (Engineering) and a BA in Film Production from the University of Colorado Boulder. They have experience teaching as a learning assistant in computer science courses, and have been tutoring for about a year with 7Sage.

Josie sees the LSAT as a puzzle-like game with learnable rules and strategies, and has a passion for helping students learn to play the game of the LSAT. Their tutoring focuses on clear, actionable strategies & processes to help students crush it. They also prioritize balance, and have helped clients working full time or attending college build consistent, effective study habits.

In their free time, Josie enjoys reading, playing Dungeons & Dragons and board/card games, and crocheting.

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Berkeley
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Boston College
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Boston University
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Colorado - Boulder
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Columbia
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Cornell
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Denver
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Fordham
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Georgetown
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George Washington
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Harvard
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Illinois - Urbana
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Michigan
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Northwestern
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NYU
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Stanford
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UC - Davis
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UChicago
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Attending
UC - Irvine
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UCLA
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UPenn
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USC
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UVA
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WashU
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Yale
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Josephine
Yesterday

I've had a number of clients who struggled with feeling overconfident, especially in RC, and I've found that it's often due to a misread of the questions or the passage. Take a close look at the questions you missed (consider a wrong answer journal if you're not using one already!) and see if you can identify why you missed each one. If you're noticing a lot of misreading, or a misinterpretation of the author's POV, etc, try drilling RC passages with a specific goal of fixing that pattern/issue. Identifying a pattern in your wrong answers and using targeted drilling to fix it is one of the best ways to increase your accuracy (and your confidence will likely become more accurate, too!).

As for sections 3 and 4, endurance can be difficult! The LSAT is a long test, and that's intentional on the part of the test makers. One way to improve your focus during the later sections is to try out drills that are longer than a standard section (these are one form of endurance drill). You could also try doing one section one day, then two the a few days later, then three after that, and finally four. Build up your endurance gradually and with measured practice, so that you're not trying to run the LSAT marathon without shorter training! And my last big piece of advice is never blind review the day you take a PT. It will usually drain you, as you noted, and your review won't be as comprehensive/useful because the goal becomes "get it over with." Hopefully that helps!

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Josephine
Yesterday

When you're reviewing questions, your first goal is to understand why you got each answer right/wrong. Your second, longer-term goal, is to come away with an action item. That could be a mistake pattern that you watch out for, or reading more closely, or focusing on the question process for a particular question type, etc. Then you can focus on that action item as you drill, which will hopefully help you improve in areas that trip you up the most.

To review, I highly suggest a wrong answer journal! Any time you get an answer wrong (or pick 5-ish answers per study session), make an entry in a notebook, google doc, or your note-taking mode of choice. Make sure you include the train of thought that led you to the wrong answer & why that was faulty/where you went wrong and a justification for the right answer. A wrong answer journal helps ensure you're reviewing your answers in depth, and it also provides a record of where you went wrong. Over time, you'll likely start to see patterns in your wrong answers, and those become your action items (the things you focus on improving while drilling). Everyone does wrong answer journals a little differently, but I've found that they are a great way to review!

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Josephine
6 days ago

Hello! You're absolutely right that the LSAT interface used to highlight the sentence/word/phrase referred to in the question. When the LSAT changed interfaces in August this year, that went away (along with a number of other interface changes). So what you see in 7Sage is what you'll see on test day, with no sentence/word/phrase highlights. Hopefully that clears things up!

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