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This lesson is proving a bit frustrating to me. When I use the technique we learned, I still get confused. For example in Q1: No Jacksons are non-swimmers. We circle "no." It's in group 4, so we Negate Either and make it Necessary. The 2 categories are J (Jackson) and NS (non-swimmers). But that's not how the video approaches it at all. Second example in Q3: My translation back to English once I did the steps we learned was "If the birds sing, the pastries cook themselves." Contrapositive is "If pastries don't cook themselves, birds can't sing." No explanation anywhere of why the answer was written as "The birds cannot sing unless pastries cook themselves." In the RSVP example we have a "No" and can choose either, Negate and make Necessary. The subjects are I (Invited) and... people who did NOT RSVP? Is that because it's the word "not" and not the word "no?" Brain is fuzzy.... I get it now, but piled up Negations are so frustrating at the start that for me, at this early point, any skipped steps just add overwhelm.
I got a little confused by the changeover from superscript to subscript, though I see it now... First, we learned to write X with superscript A to indicate that X is a member of A. So in the above example, I was tempted to write A (member) with superscript J (Jackson family). I got confused when I saw J with a SUBscript (A). Maybe it'd be good to at least briefly introduce that equivalence at some point before this.
It seems to me like Answer A on "Second Medical Opinion" and Answer B on this page are similar wrong answer types, like if someone read the question stem and thought it was asking "What can YOU conclude from the paragraph as a whole?" or "What can be concluded FROM the argument?" Not realizing that it's asking "What is the AUTHOR (not you) concluding IN (not from) the argument?" Is that a common Wrong Answer Type?
#feedback It might be helpful to put quotation marks around "Most" in the title of this page
I didn't see Answer choice A the way it was explained. I saw it as meaning that doctors aren't diagnosing and treating malnutrition correctly for people who are 65+, and that's why more of this group suffer from malnutrition ("were malnourished") and the percentage is higher, so it helps explain and gets eliminated. But in the video explanation, he says that maybe doctors are diagnosing & treating it too frequently in that group, so the true rate is actually lower? Are both of these interpretations possible or is my interpretation not possible?
#feedback I'm having a lot of frustrations similar to what is being mentioned here. The way things are explained changes from the written lesson to the video lesson/exercises, the examples are totally without context which means we are just learning an abstract series of skills and have no understanding of how they will come in handy on the LSAT, and it is utterly frustrating that stopping the video makes the screen go blank. I'm pausing the video to look at something that is confusing. It's incredibly aggravating to have it disappear. Having to scrolling up and down isn't solving this, it makes the material even more confusing and the experience more aggravating.
It's too much frustration at this early stage. I have done 2 other prep courses in my life that were pretty great and I was doing a book before I changed over to 7sage based on old reviews, and I never felt this frustrated. Self-study honestly felt better - less discouraging. The number of people who are leaving frustrated comments is telling.
#feedback I'm having a lot of frustrations similar to what is being mentioned here. The way things are explained changes from the written lesson to the video lesson/exercises, the examples are totally without context which means we are just learning an abstract series of skills and have no understanding of how they will come in handy on the LSAT, and it is utterly frustrating that stopping the video makes the screen go blank. It's too much frustration at this early stage. I have done 2 other prep courses in my life and I was doing a book before I changed over to 7sage based on old reviews, and I've NEVER felt this frustrated and confused. Not sure how much longer I want to stay with 7sage. Self-study honestly felt less frustrating. The number of people who are leaving frustrated comments is telling.
Question 3: I got it the first time I did it, but when I tried to repeat it with specifical focus on using what we are learning, "sales technique" goes into the Necessary Condition (comes after "No"), not the Sufficient. And so far, we only learned to kick up uncontested things in the Sufficient Condition... and now I'm fuzzy. Any help?