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First off will say, 6 months ago my message was help how to stop missing easy questions before #15. Now its how do I stop missing the 4 and 5 start questions later in the section. Good problem I think.
So how do I stop missing the 4-5 star questions later in the section. I am pretty much getting all the questions right before number 15 the 1-3 start questions and getting them right fast. Now I am missing 4-5 star questions frequent misses are in order of most frequent (LinkA, Causal, Phen-Hypothesis), NA, Flaw etc. Now sometimes I can see the gap right away, other times I absolutly cannot even see the gap, and I find that if I dont spot the gap in the stimulus, its basically just a guessing game through the answer choices. Also when review sometimes it just doesnt click for me and I am still not sure.
Any adivce would be great.
OP can you explain more on how you did this? RC has been my worst section
@Kevin_Lin Yes sir, I mean to say, why is LSAC doing all these changes, doesnt seem that they are necessary
Hey @J.Y.Ping , why all the changes. There has been so many different little changes, the font, where the buttons are, now reading comp looks entirley different. Im talking in september and its just annoying the little changes.
@BaileyLuber @RahelaSami @EricHu @ZeSeanAli i thought I would tag the live class crew. You all always have so valuable insights in class your awsome, I'm throwing a hail Mary here for help.
LSAT HELP! Limited Progress
Hello everyone, I've been studying for the LSAT for about a year now and I am still struggling. I thought I would make this post to get some much-needed help from the 7Sage Community . I will do my best below to outline my struggles. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Background: I have had limited progress in the year. I took a diagnostic at 1:49 since then I have been only doing time sections and untimed sections. I have averaged about 15/26 correct but have gotten as high as 19/26
The issues
1. Timing: this has been one of the biggest issues with me when I do sections or questions untimed I get them right. Then when I do time sections, I make a little mistakes on easy questions usually, like question two or seven something like that usually 1 to 3 star questions.
And I know that I'm doing something different on drills versus when I'm doing timed sections, but I don't know exactly how to replicate this in my timed work
2. Diagnosis: I'm not exactly sure how to diagnose my own issues so what I've been doing is when I take a time to section any question that I miss what I do is for the next week I'll focus on that question this week was NA questions, and I really go through them slow, but I don't know a specific plan or specific set of actions to get better at the questions that I'm missing.
3. The stimulus: usually I do a pretty good job of understanding the stimulus when there's an argument, present understanding the gap and the reasoning, but then I get into the answer choices, and I struggle in the answer choices, especially with vague language and understanding what they say.
I'm just going all out here asking for your help everyone. I already put off going to law school for one year and I don't want to do it again. I have received much help from people on here and I greatly appreciate it.. I'm not opposed to getting a tutor and I'm wondering maybe if that's what it's gonna come down to., but also scared that what if I pay for a tutor and don't end up improving anyway. What has worked for everyone ? Like what are some specific things that I can do specific drills practices stuff like that because often I've gotten an advice before from people that seems to be very general like while you just need to keep practicing. I'm at a point where I think I've practiced a lot and I'm just feel like I'm spinning my circles.
Thank you everyone in advance for reading the long post. Also feel free to inbox me. I have posted on here before, and I lucked out and found a tutor or somebody with the same experience as me., that had some really valuable insight !!! Help please
Here's the thing I redo questions. For the most part I don't even remember him I might sometimes remember topic in LR . But a lot of the topics are very similar. Don't know if that helps.
Also for me if I get the question wrong again that I got wrong before that's a clear indication that something is not clicking that I have to work on
#feedback Help!! Does anyone have any tips for me. I get the hardest question in the set right but then miss an easy question.
Stimulus: The size of northern fur seals provides a reliable indication of their population levels—the smaller the average body size of seals in a population, the larger the population. Archaeologists studied seal fossils covering an 800-year period when the seals were hunted for food by Native peoples in North America and found that the average body size of the seals did not vary significantly.
Don't know why I struggled so much with E. I do this frequently I knew absolutely that the other four answer choices were wrong but did not choose E and chose B and C because I couldn't see how E was right then ill start justifying a wrong answer even though I know its wrong.
Key sentence: Archaeologists studied seal fossils covering an 800-year period when the seals were hunted for food by Native peoples in North America and found that the average body size of the seals did not vary significantly.
vary significantly is referring to the body size of the seals across the 800 year period. When I first read this I thought well you can't infer anything because it didn't tell us the size of the body was it big or small. But either way if the body size was small across the 800 years it was small and did not vary significantly meaning the population across the 800 years remained pretty constant. Or if the body size was larger meaning the seal population was smaller according to the stimulus and that "vary " sentence taken in context then the population did not vary either meaning the population big or small remained constant over the 800 years. When I read vary significantly I first thought it meant the body size did not vary significantly between each other meaning they were all large or all small. I did not understand that it was referencing the 800 years as well. The fossils did not vary significantly. Lets suppose they had lets suppose that they found fossils with varying body sizes some really big some really small. Well that would have told me that the populations at somepoint varied.
Seems simple now but I do miss MSS questions even the easy ones. Does anyone have any adivice?
having a lot of trouble with this question type HElP. Don't really know my task I feel like these questions don't come easy.
Does anyone else start at the bottom and work there way up. Feel like this is the best approach.
I feel like the answers are more likely to be "E'' with these simply because of the time consideration it would take you to work though A-D.
#feedbackGetting these right seems to be that it's just a good understanding of simple formal logic? Just wondering about strategy for future test taking
1. Seems like I should always flag these and do them last because you can still get a really good score by missing the 2 parallel questions in the Test?
does anyone strategies like this for these questions.
#feedback!!! Someone please make more sense on why c is not the correct answer
It is highly likely and that is what I thought of in my prephrase. I thought well I have to take the premises as true and don't try to refute those. I immidetiatly thought of calcium and said "well if they stop drinking milk couldn't that itself have a negative consequence. There could be negative consequences from not drinking enough milk!
You got this what really started to help me was reading the stimulus. Slowly and really understanding it asking myself what is wrong with this. Even if I take these premises to be true why would it still be that the conclusion is not necessarily true.
Also what helped me was it was hard for me to rethink through my thought process like I was actually doing it in the moment. So I copy and pasted the question into a word document and typed out all my answers. I typed out my thought process. SO after the stimulus I would type what I thought after reading it what the summary was what I thought it was saying etc. Then when I got to the answers I would type why I thought they were wrong and why I thought the right answer was right. This helped me see exactly where I went wrong because I would then have what I wrote(the typed explanations of me working through the question in real time) and I would compare it to the explanation video so I could see "oh I misread that , or oh I made an unwarranted assumption etc.
Starting to get really confident with this LSAT. Let me explain two years ago when I first started studying for the LSAT and then stopped I would get confident when I got the answer correct. Now I am starting to get really confident not just because I got the answer correct. But also because I am able to accurately eliminate wrong answers and explain why I got the right answer correct, and why the wrong answers are wrong. Also because im really understanding the stimulus, and I am really starting to see the patterns the test writers do in the stimulus and the wrong answers choices!!! Anyone else feel the same way!!!
JY absolutely love that you started off the video with "this is probably the hardest MOR question that we have come across". Got the question right and said "really" to this being the hardest.
175 here I come!!!
Got the correct answer but did anyone else spend way to much time on E?
I defiantly feel what you're saying. I got the exact same answer when I negated b on the first Go around. Then I seen that the author just like Kevin said "If". So I said oh this guys just being theoretical. And figured out that C is the correct answer.
I think what also confused me on this question was on the first read I thought the conclusion was by feeding the heat they could reduce their "electric bill. ". but ultimately the main conclusion was that they could save money
Okay I can tell you why I quickly eliminated E.
"Colette's purpose in poetically condensing emotional crises in the lives of characters in her novels was to explore some of the
important moral questions of her time."
Conclusion: "this charge is unfair"meaning the critics critique about her being "indifferent" to important moral questions that charge is unfair. Meaning that she was not indifferent.
Premises:" Each of her novels is a poetic condensation of a major emotional crisis in the life of an ordinary person of her time. Such emotional crises almost invariably raise important moral
questions."
Now when I read this I immidetiatly seen the gap in the reasoning. For one thing all this premise did was give us some information about what had been written. Each of her novels "is" a poetic condensation of........invariably these "writings" raise moral questions. So when I was thinking about the jump was just because she wrote about them does not mean that she's not indifferent to them. You can write an account of something from a. completely outside view. and be indifferent at the same time.
Now "E" states her purpose for writing was to expose the important moral questions of her time. Which is does not have to be true. What if her purpose was not to explore the moral questions of her time. Then the argument could still work it doesn't fall apart. let's say her purpose was to make money. which would be not to explore some of the important moral questions of her time. Then the argument still works this charge is unfair and you could still make the claim that she was not indifferent when writing.
Now B says "A novel that poetically condenses a major emotional crisis does not have to be indifferent to the important moral questions raised by that
crisis." Now that absolutely has to be true or the whole thing falls apart. Let's imagine that a novel that poetically condenses a major emotional crisis HAS to be indifferent to the important moral questions raised by that crisis. Well if this novel has to be indifferent it means that if she did this it is indifferent meaning that the charge is completely fair and the authors argument falls apart.
Don't know if that made any sense but it did to me. Sometimes I think typing replies to comments helps me more understand that I have a solid way to figure this out because I can explain it to someone else. "Anyone ever can feel free to correct me if im wrong"
Hello I did not receive a decision either.