26 is mean :(

anyone have any tips for how to tackle inference questions in general? took this RC section to try to improve my inference skills and got demolished by this passage. tough luck :( But if there's any general help someone can lend that'd be great! #help

#help can somebody please tell me why 9 isn't A?

Hey! Remember that everyone's process and brain is different. I had a 150 diagnostic on May 1st, spent about 4 weeks with a part time job and active non-lsat life learning the 7sage lessons, not in an extremely committal way really just to rip through them as fast as I could to get to PTs, and my next score (4 weeks later) was already about 10 points higher. A day or two later, it was ranging around 165s. In the next couple of weeks, I was in the mid 160s, then continued to fluctuate from the mid to high 160s with only one 170 breaker (I believe 5 weeks after i started taking PTs). I was aiming for the July 15 test. I think I took about 2 or 3 prep tests a week (usually 2 I was very tired) with the BR method, and I didn't use any external resources other than 7sage. BUT hitting your target score also doesn't mean that your target score is an average, and my PTs fluctuated so much that my average stayed around 164. My BR was consistently high 160s and low 170s, I think right off the get-go of PT-taking. This can also be helpful for boosting your confidence, knowing that you know your sh*t outside of timed conditions. I also ditched blind review after a bit out of impatience because I needed to be time-conservative to make it for July. (Months later, in hindsight, I probably don't recommend this if you have time to do it, I feel like I stopped progressing once I did this). Anyway, I was going into July with recent high 160s, but I was ill the day of and there was a two hour delay (specifically, sitting in the test room staring at the damn tablet welcome screen for two hours not knowing any info about when you would begin) that psyched me out so badly and I tanked LG (typically my best 100% section hahaha). AKA I'm taking it again in Jan. I also think that your confidence going in is the most important, as I only know one person who has taken the lsat and she said to study for 2 months max, including a full time job (this was the general consensus among her friends, but everyone is different and I don't want anyone to rip into me for saying it because i know it is very unattainable for many people). Having that mindset made me work way harder and progress much faster than I probably would have if I listened to someone who told me it would take a year. Anyway, the point of all this is that your internal confidence is so important and will manifest in your study habits. And some people take two years whereas others take a month. Also, a lot of people lie about their progress timeline and what they scored. Please remember that. Hahaha. Finally, it's important to not get discouraged if it's taking a while. I would also say that if you are hovering at a certain unsatisfying score, you probably need to refine your technique or revisit theory or do more BR if you aren't (I know from experience hahaha).. just stay in tune with yourself, be confident, be kind to yourself, and remember that this test is NOT the entire world! Also, getting lost in these threads and seeing crazy success stories as well as discouraging year long non-success stories can really mess with your head. Sometimes, you just gotta take a step back and forget about the rest of us to focus on yourself only. :)

#help my initial instinct was d but how do we know that believing your work is difficult and requires uncommon skills is threatened by your skills being less crucial to production? Your work may still be these things while being irrelevant to production, no?