it was helpful for me to give myself rules to adhere to before doing a section or test. often in the form of "i will not make x mistake no matter what." i would be perfectly happy to make new mistakes. if this a general issue of yours, force yourself to go with the first answer you select or something. it will also force you to think longer about it, which is good. untimed work is fine. your primary goal should be to make your first instinct correct. when i was studying i would still be disappointed in myself if i ended up correct but i didn't notice the pattern at first, and being harsh on your own process is helpful towards becoming very very accurate!

there is some good advice under this post: https://7sage.com/discussion/62110/how-to-get-timed-to-look-like-br

tldr blind review makes things a lot easier. it is likely not representative of your ability and it can be misleading/frustration inducing to think that it is! make your br settings more challenging (turn off suggestions and maybe br only what you flag) or take the tests untimed and see how you close you can get to those br scores.

Do box breathing while you're waiting to go in to take your exam

Purely out of curiosity (I seriously don't mean this to come off as cynicism, I'm genuinely curious and I am sorry in advance as it may sound that way), but what is your value proposition at $180/hour? I am not at all questioning your merits, but at such a price I would want to know more about your track record as a teacher. Is the price just the result of the inelastic demand for LSAT tutoring? I am just wondering because I started tutoring recently and have heard of prices much higher than yours and I am curious how they are justified considering the fact that the LSAT score you got might be something necessary for charging such a price but not sufficient by itself, because how can you guarantee that you can teach someone how to get that same score? Thank you in advance for taking the time to reply, I am just trying to spark discussion and transparency. To reiterate I am not questioning your credentials but rather how the difference in price compared to cheaper tutors guarantees a reflection in the difference in quality.

I would start taking these untimed (or with more time) and see how close to 180 you can get. BR can be misleading because changing the question from 5 answer choices to 4 often removing the most tempting wrong answer makes things much easier. Slowing down will let allow you to reason with yourself until you're confident abt an answer rather than just seeing the correct one. Challenging yourself to draw on the patterns you've learned in order to confidently say one answer is good for X reason and the other is bad for Y reason is probably more effective for learning and getting quicker.

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Blunt advice would be to sign up for a later test!! That's a lot to improve in a month. I don't want to crowd your comments section with conflicting advice with that of people who've already commented, but bottom line is I wouldn't waste an official lsat attempt if I'm 20-30 points below my goal score. Obviously anything can happen and I don't know the limitations on your situation in terms of when you have to take the test by, so best of luck, but if possible, I would reschedule!! This is a test of pattern recognition that is best ingrained across months and months of consistent & intentional study.

(Blunt again sorry) I'd be careful of letting chatgpt gaslight you into thinking "your issue isn't content" and your "underlying logic and comprehension are there." If you are scoring in the 140s, your issues are in fact content, underlying logic, and comprehension. It's great that you are more accurate on blind review. Maybe start emphasizing untimed practice so you can close the gap to the those BR scores without the aid of potentially knowing your chosen answer was incorrect. By taking sufficient time on each question to arrive at a confident answer, noting your mistakes, and being very intentional to not make them again, the time you take to arrive at answer confidently will come down over time! I promise it will, but the emphasis is on over time. Forcing yourself to cram for a test like this may not be productive.

This is a very hard stimulus to parse through. My suggestion here is that if you struggle to understand what the argument is actually saying, you can use the following guidelines: in general, establishing representativeness (language of "the same" etc) helps/strengthens evidence whereas denying representativeness (language of "differs") hurts it. A, B, D, and E in one way or another say the evidence may not be representative of what is being inferred. C is the answer choice that says no this is good evidence, because it tells us that evidence is representative of something it's trying to prove. That's how you can can a little more confidently select the correct answer on a tough problem like this

@crorosco02956 Apologies for not getting to this comment sooner; I tend to ask students how they've preferred to get tutored in the past and base it on that, but with most students I suggest a dynamic where they tell me areas of recent issues before a session and then I will hand pick 5-10 questions that I think are representative of said issues to work through with them. We then go through each problem very slowly where I hear their take on the stimulus and then I offer mine, and we repeat that for each answer choice, emphasizing takeaways that can be applied to future problems. I don't think it's good to move on from a concept or argument until it's fully understood, so for that reason sometimes we get through as little as one or two questions throughout the hour.

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I am just starting to tutor and I am focusing on making the lsat tutoring experience more accessible for to those who can't afford extreme prices. I charge $18/hour with a free consultation and two free session afterwards to see if it's a good fit. You're welcome to check out my site here: https://www.fundamentlr.com/home

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C is an immediate elimination but it is subtle: "When X happens... bla bla bla"

but we have no reason to believe X will happen at all from the passage so this cannot be supported

@BrianDowney this is a sufficient assumption question (see "conclusion follows logically" in question stem), not a necessary assumption question, so extreme language is helpful. often in order to guarantee the truth of a conclusion, which is the job here, we will need extreme language.

@brine exact same for me

@HeathHughes agreed that this is overlooked in the explanation-- i guess the explanation would be that all things considered even with this slight caveat to the code being fine as is, it still constitutes a "general defense" whereas answers A and C don't really get at the core idea of the second paragraph, the fact that the oath remains good. Would appreciate a tutor chiming in on this though

this is one of those where theres only one answer that even remotely makes sense so just pick that

something ive noticed on the lsat is that there is often the following relationship between content and answer choice or vice versa in a most strongly supported question: where one says usually, generally, tends to, frequently etc or basically anything implying "most of the time" the LSAT will want you to conclude that there is also a likely/unlikely (probabilistic) relationship between the two phenomena

E is almost necessary for the argument to work-- if no works of art lose their appeal when serving function other than original, then how could we say that a distinguishing characteristic of sophistication in the arts is defined by essentially the opposite! (the reason for sophistication being art NOT losing appeal when serving function other than original)

this is a cool demonstration of the idea that if X is correlated with Y and Z is correlated with X, there may be no overlap between instances of X (smoking) that cause Y (heart disease) and instances of X that correlate with Z (caffeine). in fact, it may even be that when taken in tandem, caffeine and smoking PREVENT heart disease! (lol) like we can imagine a scenario where having a dangerous disease is correlated with an early death and having said dangerous disease is also correlated with taking a medicine for it, but instances of dangerous disease + medicine is then NOT correlated with early death!

@JeromeSong for this reason I also took a while on the question I'm glad you pointed this out

this is an awesome question