Kira: I have a conclusion called X. I believe this because A.

Binh: Undeniably, A exists. But it's a bad argument for X. [Avoids commenting on X itself]

Kira: I have an opinion about how you should live your life!

Binh: lol sit down Kira your reasoning sucks

@jhaldy10325 @nasrinlin530 echoing others, will there be a recording posted?

Also, I listened to your episodes of the 7Sage podcast on Spotify and found them very helpful - thank you for doing those! I think you both mentioned a "skipping webinar," which I have not been able to find on the website. Do you know where I can find that?

"I know what's waiting for me in the answers and it's NOT pretty" lol

same. we mixed up secrete with excrete

ugh clauses. ugh reading

Yup. I haven't been sleeping this week, sometimes by choice sometimes not. Really starting to worry about being overly tired on test day

I picked E because higher barrier to entry could definitely mean higher profits. I grappled with the issue JY mentions: excluding competition could actually harm the development of a commercial application, but I thought the other possibility outweighed it. I was wrong. The iffiness was a good reason to get rid of E and I didn't listen to it

Awesome! Love to hear it! Thank you for sharing

@yasmeencrose759 It's super helpful but such a time suck for me. I get so carried away sometimes it's like the whole passage is color-coded, so right now I'm trying to limit myself to highlighting one or two words per paragraph. Basically I highlight a high-resolution word instead of writing it down. I feel like I'm slightly less confident when I get to the questions but I save so much time that I can actually attempt all 4 passages, so for me it's progress. What's your highlight strategy?

@oagui023127 Good luck! You’ll do well, just keep that feeling alive ✨

@oagui023127 Thank you for your positivity! Totally agree. For me, concentration has required practice just like the core concepts. Let's go crush some RC!

#19 looks like I am among the few who miss this question... Is A correct in facts, but incorrect in emphasis? Can someone please #help me understand why not A?

I think of a premise as a tangible thing - a sentence. The support is a more abstract thing - it is aid that one sentence lends another, or a measure of the effect a sentence has on a conclusion. A premise can exist on its own as a random fact; e.g. "the floor is hard." A premise suddenly conjures up support when it is given a relationship to something else; e.g. "the floor is hard" creates some support when it is placed next to the conclusion "I will hurt myself if I fall."

100% yes, boils down to "had given" (A) vs "would have given" (D)

my LSAT mantra:

the best choice is often imperfect

just pick the least imperfect of the bunch

TIL what nerve sheath is! It's called myelin and it does a lot more than guide nerve growth https://www.britannica.com/science/myelin

On a less fun note, I chose (B) in a PT because "sheath begins to disintegrate after three months unless there is living nerve tissue within in" and didn't we just learn that we can, indeed, put new nerve tissue in it? After about three months, say, the motor nerve continues trying to grow, stepping perhaps a little more hesitantly through what JY called the "tube" of its sheath because that tube is starting to crumble, but the presence of the new nerve could slow that disintegration, right? Wrong. The prompt says "the growing cells require the original nerve sheath to guide them" -- not a slightly disintegrated nerve sheath. After three months, the sheath would not be in its original state, so nerves would not be guided there, so they would not grow there, so they would not be present to prevent further disintegration.

I think that's a good question but Papi also suggests that pigeons "build up an olfactory map of their surroundings" (line 39), so he seems to think pigeons are limited to their existing smell map. Dropping a pigeon outside of its existing smell map would render it unable to home, according to Papi, but (D) suggests they were still able to home, which could weaken Papi.

I have to constantly remind myself that whenever the prompt asks what will most or best weaken/strengthen, there's a good chance the correct answer will be imperfect. The correct answer will just be the least imperfect.

40 hours of LSAT per week is going to burn you out right in time for your brain to be mush the first week of October! Don't do that!

I'm not sure whether it is in your best interest to take the October test. I will say it sounds like it would be good to put in roughly 25 hours per week and set a goal score for November. Don't stop studying until you're satisfied with your score -- i.e. get ready to apply with your Oct/Nov score, but be prepared to take the January or February exams if your cycle is not going well or you know you could do better.

If this is your first application cycle, consider that rushing in with a bad LSAT score (whatever that means for you) could very well result in reapplying next cycle, speaking from experience. I wish someone had told me to slow down and do it right the first time.

After I read the first sentence of an RC passage I literally say in my head “oh interesting.” I’ve done it so many times now that it’s like an inside joke with myself, so it also perks me up. It’s kooky but it works.

When I feel myself waning in LR, I scooch to the edge of my seat, sometimes close my eyes for one-one thousand and go back in with guns blazing. Sometimes I give the author of the prompt a goofy voice in my head as I’m reading their position. Again, kooky but works for me. One other thing: I think losing focus on an LR question is a totally valid reason to skip it and return at the end.

Ear plugs could totally save me from my neighbor whose lawn-mowing hobby is utter randomness. And three cheers for Team Pen. This is huge. Thank you for sharing

Why not let us compare the standard and Flex scores?

takeaway: You only need one reason to eliminate an answer choice

^Seems so obvious, but in the moment it's really not for my slow ass over here deeply considering each answer choice before moving on to the next. Question #15 would have been easier for me if I could absorb this lesson.

Speaking of #15, JY invites us to elaborate on (E). I agree that the "explanatory" inference probably refers to how motivation and intense training could explain the "differences between good and outstanding performance." But I would add that motivation and intense training could also explain child prodigies, raised in the first paragraph where "certain psychologists" claimed "most outstanding musicians are discovered by the age of six" as evidence of the old hypothesis.

takeaway: "some/certain people say..." and "people once believed/previously held/have long thought..." appearing in the first paragraph are good indicators of the alternative hypothesis Reading Comprehension passage structure (below) and signal you to skim that paragraph. The rest of the passage will be far more important.

OLD HYPO (don't sink time here)

COMPETING FACTS

ALT HYPO

RESOLUTION

^1st paragraph typically least important