The diagramming in the video is mostly to show his thought process and how he approaches the question as a 175+ scorer. If you can answer without it, more power to you (especially timing-wise).

We are also just learning through this curriculum, and while I did follow the same steps as you, I find seeing the diagrams in the video to help as well with my overall understanding of the concepts we are being taught.

This test is really tough and everything has its place!

Don't divert your attention to other things while drilling or PTing in general. If this is inevitable during certain periods of study, star the drills and come back later when you have the time and headspace to give your full attention.

Diverting your attention makes your brain take time to process switching tasks from drilling to whatever else you're doing. You don't know whether you can hit the time limit legitimately unless you stop multitasking during time-sensitive study tasks.

From there, if you still struggle with timing, keep drilling and focusing on accuracy and minimizing the steps you take (the more repetitions of a specific problem type, the more plausible shortcuts you find).

Point is: the actual LSAT does not give you the luxury of multitasking, nor should you try to do so during the test itself. Practicing in a similar environment will help you the most.

Depends on the stimulus.

You can get the answer right by guessing though.. these aren't the only two ways nor does it ever state so in the passage.

Also, a logical equivalent of the statements you gave would be:

get question correct→recognizing right answer AND eliminating four wrong answers, when "two paths" implies two different avenues of sufficiency. The conditionals in the lesson are correct.

a conditional's sufficient is not the same necessary

A way to think of this concept is:

I grabbed a glass of milk, so I had to open the fridge.

M→F

which is equivalent to the contrapositive:

I did not open the fridge, therefore I did not get a glass of milk.

F → M

Hope this helps!

Got it right 10 seconds faster than target! The shallow dip method is amazing! I used to be so stuck on these Q types. Thanks, JY!

I got it in 26 seconds. The second I read it, I knew it was invalid conditional reasoning. 7sage is working!!

I took 0:56 for this question and got it right (first try).

First, I read the question stem and highlighted the keywords. Then, I read the stimulus paying close attention to what the reporter's flaw was (basically going on a mission). Then when I looked at the answer choices, AC A looked perfect. I selected that THEN I scanned the other ones (I was set on A mostly) in case A had some mistake I overlooked that another choice didn't make.

This has been my strategy through the whole curriculum and it has worked thus far for me. As long as your accuracy and reasoning are solid, you should be fine trusting your gut like this.

I mostly struggle with stamina during actual tests (apart from LG), so timing isn't a huge issue for me, but it's still obviously a difficulty (35 minutes is short!).

I got this right, but wouldn't the excerpt also be an immediate conclusion which, in conjunction with the following premise (which is an analogy that shows its importance), supports the argument's main conclusion?

Slayed. (23s faster than target time too!)

I completely missed the CBA bait and got it right because the correct answer had my original necessary assumption filled- LOL

Is it reasonable to interpret it that way or to make that inference though? This is something you need to evaluate when making inferences-- are they reasonable?

"A can be understood only through B" the "only" is a necessary indicator, meaning that it translates to A→B. Replace A and B for "true meaning" and "insight" respectively and you have the stimulus.

Hope this helped!

"50 minus 10, carry the 8"

I finished this one in 1:59 and got it right.. below is my map (I haven't watched the video yet).

CH→Pub

R→Pub

Pub(WD)‑m→Art (ended up crossing out when I saw it was irrelevant)

Pub(C)→Pub(WD)

Pub(WD)→Pub(C)→space

The bold is the only part of my map that I used, I had the first 2 lines basically memorized at the point of reading the options.

Is there a better/faster way to do this? For shorter stimuli like this, I usually translate as I go (especially if it's conditional chaining) to promote active reading and so I can take a shortcut when I translate answer choices (for conditionals: if it doesn't match up with my chain/contrapositive, it's out for MBTs). I just want to know if anyone has got this down better, if so, how?

B is not a MBT like JB says, it's MSS because the stimulus says "no single antibiotic now on the market [yada yada]." This means that it COULD BE possible (not super strongly supported, but also not proven wrong by the stimulus) to use multiple at once and eliminate bacteria X while B says "if any antibiotic now on the market is used [yada yada]" saying nothing about taking multiple. Answer choice C addresses this and is merely consistent, so it could be possible even according to the answer choices.

Who knows? Maybe the effects overlap or multiply? We don't get that information.

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