I’ve been highlighting to eliminate for a few months now, and I’m pretty sure I learned it from you when response masking first became a thing.

In cases where I prephrased, an answer choice matches my prephrase, and the rest are obviously wrong, I don’t highlight at all. I simply select the choice I want and move on. For questions where I have a broad prephrase and the correct choice won’t be so apparent to me, I highlight the word or phrase that makes me want to eliminate a choice. For example, if an incorrect choice is using a different domain or subject than I want, I highlight that. After I’m done, I’m left only with one choice that has no highlighting, and I choose that one.

I’ve found this approach helpful for getting around the masking feature. Anecdotally, though, I don’t find masking clunky at all. I used it sparingly in practice leading up to my August exam, but I used it more on test day without any issues. I had felt like all of the answer choices were being mixed up in my brain, and I needed to not see some of them. However, I do think I was more prone to nervously eliminating choices with the masking rather than making educated decisions. That’s where highlighting to eliminate is valuable for me. The method works for slowing down just enough to make sure I’m reasoning through each answer choice with the skills and concepts I’ve learned instead of acting on fearful instincts to rush.

Overall, I’ve actually noticed an improvement in my performance from consistently using highlighting to eliminate, and I’m hoping to keep that up on Saturday. Hope this was helpful!

Thank you! This makes it so much easier for me to go through the process of blind review honestly instead of gaming it (a habit I tried and failed to break too many times 😅).

Is this the tool you're referring to? https://7sage.com/how-long-to-improve

Have the consequences of this new predictor been properly implemented across the entire website? If I access my list of schools through the “my applications” page, all of my schools appear to be “super-reaches.” In addition, the schools with the best and worst chances are each set at 0%. However, if I go to the “school data” page, some of my schools have much higher acceptance percentage predictions. My LSAT, CAS GPA, and URM status are the same on each of the “my applications” and school data” pages.

@monmon I completely agree! I also personally haven’t had negative experiences, but I did see someone else comment a while back that a user was sending uncomfortable or harassing messages. I believe the 7Sage team did take action quickly (which is wonderful!). However, since 7Sage is looking to make certain parts of this place a social platform, they really should implement safety measures like blocking. I also don’t see a report feature, which could be another good measure to keep the space positive and helpful.

Seconding this! I’ve actually reduced using the discussion section because of this issue. An alternate option that may help, if blocking isn’t feasible, is if we were allowed to filter comments by user type (such as 7Sage tutors only) and be able to preserve that filter across all questions.

I don’t review my wrong answer journal, primarily because the process is cumbersome. I used to maintain an Google Sheet (so Excel style) with my entries, but I ended up making so many entries (partially because I would also make an entry if I got the correct answer but took way too long because I was tempted by a trap) that the sheet became very laggy. I switched to maintaining my wrong answer journal here on 7Sage by making private comments, but review of this was also cumbersome because while I can see each of my comments in one place, there aren’t tags or other organizational features that I can assign based on what I wrote in my wrong answer journal entry to gather insights. I did feed one of my most recent wrong answer journal entries to the AI Coach, and found its insight useful.

Another thing that makes wrong answer journal review cumbersome here in 7Sage right now is that I also do a “blind review journal.” I do this for all questions 7Sage suggests I review before seeing the correct answer. I write down anything I was unsure about in the stimulus, my prephrase, and an assessment of each answer choice (including a justification for the correct choice). Since all notes show together as far as I’ve been able to see, these notes show together with the wrong answer journal notes even if I ended up getting the question correct (and I was not unsure about my answer). If the 7Sage team could consider this, that would be great!

Overall, I do find the process of making the wrong answer journal entry useful, even if just to write my process down and make sure I’m applying the methods I think I am when approaching a question.

I love this so much! I’ve always wondered if it was possible to gamify certain aspects of the learning process for the LSAT. Both games are well-crafted, and I definitely felt that I was reinforcing core skills when playing them. For me, the timed feature for the Logic Blitz game along with the lower stakes nature of playing a game was useful for being accountable and honest with myself as to how confident I truly am with conditional and quantifier logic.

This is such a great feature! As someone who relies heavily on interactive visuals for learning, I drew out diagrams to internalize quantifiers. An interactive version like this would’ve sped my understanding up. Even now, with me being more confident with quantifiers, going through the lesson was helpful for seeing how playing around with the rectangles changed compliance with the premises and the conclusion. I’d love to see interactive visuals like this for other concepts!

I'm currently playing around with this, and it's pretty cool! Are you considering granting the AI access to comments we make on questions? I'd be curious to see what insights it could pull from my wrong answer journal comments.

If you’re an applicant with postgraduate law related work experience, are you expected to make that a major part of your personal statement? Would it raise questions or concerns with admissions committees if you did not?