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Tuesday, Feb 17

@AryanaRaval FYI!

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Surprise Day!

It's Tuesday, it's February, it's dreary (on the East Coast), it's time for a Surprise Day.

What's Surprise Day? We just made it up.

@AryanaRaval, congrats! You get 10 hours of 7Sage tutoring on the house. Surprise!

Happy studying.

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ScottMilam
Friday, Feb 23 2024

There's no need to BR an untimed drill. The point of BR is to show you how you would have done if timing wasn't a factor on a timed drill or PrepTest.

On an untimed drill, you already know how you would have done if timing wasn't a factor!

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Wednesday, Feb 21 2024

You should take enough sets that you feel like you "get" the underlying concept and can consistently apply the method from the lesson. For some students, 1 or 2 sets will be sufficient. Others may need a few more, and that's okay!

I would not recommend trying to do all of them! The drill creator will keep giving you questions until you run out of fresh material.

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ScottMilam
Tuesday, Feb 20 2024

The course doesn't go from "easiest to hardest" but are arranged such that each new question type builds upon what you've learned previously.

Main Conclusion questions are the first LR type covered because you have to be able to reliable identify the conclusion to an argument before you can do anything else. The syllabus then takes you to Most Strongly Supported questions because that teaches you to distinguish when a conclusion is supported by its premises, which in turn prepares you for Point at Issue questions, and so on.

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ScottMilam
Tuesday, Feb 20 2024

Good question Hannah!

In English, "or" can be used inclusively (either Harry or Ron or both...) or exclusively (either Harry or Ron, but not both). In LSAT lawgic, we assume that "or" is inclusive unless the author has given us a clear reason to do otherwise (for instance, by adding the phrase "...but not both."), since that is the way it is used on the test.

Hope that helps!

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Monday, Feb 19 2024

Answer C negates the premise ("One can always keep one's hands warm...") by offering an example of a situation that violates the general rule. That in turn weakens the conclusion, since we can no longer be certain that wearing additional layers will "always" be enough.

The conclusion isn't directly refuted/contradicted. It could still be true for other reasons not found in this argument. But the argument is weakened because the premise has been shown to be false.

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ScottMilam
Monday, Feb 19 2024

I used material I'd taken before. The point isn't the challenge, but to get you in a flow state.

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Sunday, Feb 18 2024

The morning of my test, I took 5 LR questions, 1 game, and 1 RC passage, just to "get in the zone" before the test. I tend to be a bit sluggish at the start, so taking a few problems before the beginning of the exam really helped!

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