Okay! The comments helped me. I wrongly assumed she HAD to vote for somebody SO I was down to C and E.

Someone (Bailey I think?) on the 7Sage podcast said that they skip around half of the questions on the first pass through any section. Then they go back and scoop up more and maybe flag one or two to go back to at the very end. Going to try this on some PTs. It makes sense especially as you’re getting into the groove.

I was lured!!! I wish I had looked at this question during my split approach.

Ahhhh now that you point out the X and Y thing, I totally see why THAT is questionable reasoning. I had a hard time imagining what "reasoning" was here and didn't realize vacuous had such a strong negative connotation. This is why this curriculum is so helpful!!

I didn't eliminate A on my first run-through, not sure why now that I am watching this! I'll work on being more aggressive!

OK, tried this myself using Quick View and the Split method and got them all correct. It made me queasy. But I am into it.

Shoot my issue here was that I put the some relationship on the wrong side of the arrow. Hopefully that’s a mistake I will only make once. If anyone has any tips of how to nail that more confidently please let me know.

Laughed out loud in the library

This was the best motivation break yet.

I did this on my own first, before listening to the paragraph breakdown, and truly had NO IDEA why the second paragraph was there despite rereading it twice and reading again after I finished the passage. So later on, I skipped question 17, then came back to it and picked B just because I still had no idea why this random study was suddenly being discussed. Now it seems soooo obvious.

This was the first time I truly had comprehension issues with a paragraph of a passage. I'd be fascinated to hear what high-scorers do in the event of a comprehension issue like this.

Got this main point right finallyyyyyy but it makes me nervous that this is a one star passage!!

Gosh I have such a hard time with Main Points!!! I will try moving forward to really nail down the author's viewpoint better. Here I don't fully get the fact that the author WANTS CEOs to ignore their legal obligations. I just thought that the author thinks economists' views are wrong. Eeek

JY is so right here, I pre-phrased and then selected A immediately and felt confident, then I read the ACs and was like oh shit maybe I missed something and then changed my answer and got it wrong

In many cases, RC answer choices are apt to confuse Emily

Sometimes it just floors me the audacity of the LSAT to suddenly be talking about seawater ballast tanks lolol

Like if you are here during the 2025 tariffs

Question 19 made me notice something about myself, so thank you, Question 19! Maybe you do this, too: I gloss over subtext whenever my brain starts realizing that I am about to get to the main point, the good stuff, the controversy, etc. I totally glossed over the "that of gender offers a framework..." and only internalized the author's skepticism about gender studies. I feel like they did that on purpose. Had I internalized author of A's nuance when contending with gender studies as a framework, E would have been MUCH more attractive.

This is such a good example of why finding the premises and conclusion EVERY TIME and nailing your understanding of it is so important. I went into ACs thinking we were working on "why is it that Shakespeare could have written the plays" not "other people are motivated by snobbery." Then my alarm bells went off and I was able to pick D, but my alarm bells shouldn't have been needed here had I just internalized the REAL conclusion first.

lol I literally switched from B to D and patted myself on the back for avoiding the trap answer ...........

The importance of slowly, deliberately reading the stim. I did not read it closely enough and had to re-read it twice. Got it right but 3:44

I did not choose D because D felt like a too-good-to-be-true answer choice, a trap that is too cute by half and must somehow be wrong. lol whoops

This question really preyed on my desire to get through it quickly. More evidence to the claim of the LSAT being a reading test. The string of sentences and my speed reading made me feel I was cascading towards a sub conclusion. When I saw C I knew I wanted it to be right. It felt good and I blissfully picked my trap wrong answer and moved on. Through this process I will learn to slow down and focus on one sentence at a time. Asking each sentence, “are you receiving support? Are you giving support?” might help.

This is such a great explanation from Kevin and I feel like I now better understand RRE questions, and I thought I understood them pretty well! Then J.Y.'s following explanation really solidifies it, of easy RRE questions "popping" versus hard RRE questions making the WRONG ACs "pop". I love this one-two punch for the five star questions. Thank you both so much. #feedback

This was the only five star LR question I got right on this test ..../quiet sob.

Came here to make myself feel better before launching into my wrong answer journal and understand why I somehow got this one right. I think it's because picking apart argument by analogy is more intuitive for me.

Staying for the "what the f-?"

I learned something new!!! I think I kind of knew this already, but that actually is cool. And yeah, no way I would have gotten this right haha I remember reading C and being like what are you even talking about. But that's also because I was rushing at the end and did not closely read the part where it says "at precisely the same location" -- I figured we had to have more context about why we decided its their ancestor and not just a fluke. It is fascinating how the LSAT writers put these little tidbits in that seem innocuous but end up being critical info.