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Lessons · LSAT Argumentative Writing and How to Prepare

avapfehrenbach781

Tuesday, Sep 17 2024

Can you use a portion of the 15 minutes allotted for reading and drafting for the actual writing? I took a practice writing section yesterday and felt pretty confident in my comprehension of the perspectives and outline after 10 minutes. Are we able to skip ahead early and have those extra minutes roll over? Or will it be only 35 minutes for writing regardless?

Lessons · [OPTIONAL] 4 Groups of Conditional Indicators Summary

avapfehrenbach781

Saturday, Sep 07 2024

Hi there! It's the morning of my first LSAT and I came back to this lesson to review the 4 groups before heading off to my test. I saw your comment and thought I'd contribute my two cents: you don't need to necessarily memorize these indicators right now. As you move into LR and continue practicing conditional logic, you'll notice these indicators kind of become second nature to you. Some of them will stick immediately and they'll mostly be intuitive for you. You may struggle to remember others (hence why I'm reviewing this right now, "no" always makes me second-guess myself). The LSAT uses some of these indicators far more frequently than others (I'd say if, when, every, all, only, must, always, unless, and no are the most common). Refer back to this once in a while throughout LR and apply what you know, but don't stress about memorizing them fully right now. You'll understand them better once you see them in action :)

PrepTests ·

PT125.S1.P2.Q8

avapfehrenbach781

Sunday, Sep 01 2024

watch the passage explanation video. JY is using the split approach so he does his first run-through of the questions after reading just passage A.

Lessons · Problem-Analysis Passage, Paragraph 2 (Broadcasting)

avapfehrenbach781

Sunday, Aug 25 2024

Ahh okay I see. Thanks so much for clarifying Kevin! RC lessons are awesome so far :)

Lessons · Problem-Analysis Passage, Paragraph 2 (Broadcasting)

avapfehrenbach781

Thursday, Aug 22 2024

is "which residents often use at public gatherings as a daily journal of events and interests" modifying "television" or "oral poetry"? i always get confused about these modifiers in sentences with multiple subjects. i thought it was the latter but this explanation suggests the former is correct. i got a question wrong before solely because of this misinterpretation. were there any foundational lessons on modifiers that dealt with this specifically? will it always be the case that the modifier refers to the first/main subject? is there a rule we can apply uniformly? or does it vary depending on the sentence and context? #help

PrepTests ·

PT121.S3.P4.Q21

avapfehrenbach781

Wednesday, Aug 21 2024

i eliminated C based on this reasoning as well, but upon further review i was reminded that the question stem only asked us to choose the statement that the author is most likely to agree with. This is a far lower standard than asking if the author is correct in her assumption. Certainly C would not fly in a MBT question.

Lessons · Single Position Passage, Paragraph 2 (Stealing Thunder)

avapfehrenbach781

Tuesday, Aug 20 2024

9:50 we got a lotta raisins

Lessons · You Try - Paleomycologists and Global Airlines

avapfehrenbach781

Saturday, Aug 10 2024

RAHHHHH

Lessons · [OPTIONAL] Lesson 11 - Vegetarianism and Nutrition

avapfehrenbach781

Friday, Aug 09 2024

😭😭😭

General · New LSAT Format Practice Tests

avapfehrenbach781

Tuesday, Jul 30 2024

Just kidding. Answered my own question. For anyone else who needs it: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sczox8uJgD6yFSIkgr9q8ode0hhNtoMItFeBb3WkbTE/edit?pli=1&gid=157460206#gid=157460206

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Tuesday, Jul 30 2024

avapfehrenbach781

New LSAT Format Practice Tests

So I just took PT 132 (new format) and I am frustrated because I recognized almost all of the LR questions either from drills or JY's video lessons. It is my understanding that these "new" tests are just sections from old tests put together for the sake of practicing the new format, but these are the same old tests that 7sage pulls from for lessons. Obviously you cannot preview the test before starting it, and I want to know that the test I will be taking is entirely new beforehand since I feel like that test is now entirely useless in assessing my score.

Is there any way to know which of these new tests are actually comprised of all clean questions? Has 7sage looked into this and created a way to avoid this issue? Has anyone else experienced this and found a way around it?

PrepTests ·

PT106.S1.Q8

avapfehrenbach781

Monday, Jul 29 2024

are they gonna get nuked? 😭

Lessons · Lesson 2 - City Council Vote or Abstain

avapfehrenbach781

Saturday, Jul 20 2024

I think it really boils down to the test writers baiting us to assume based on the stimulus that because the activist wants the city council members to either vote against or abstain that the city voters deciding in favor of the proposal is automatically a bad thing. They want us to make assumptions based on our real-world knowledge. Because many of us are familiar with voting processes and politicians etc. we are subconsciously assuming that the city council must not want the proposal to pass.

Two things are wrong with this: 1) the city voters voting in favor does not immediately guarantee that the proposal will pass, be enacted, be enforced, etc. 2) like I said before, there could be other reasons why the activist doesn't want the city voters to decide besides the proposal being passed. The issue with voters deciding does not have to be the fact that they will vote in favor. Maybe the activist believes that the city voters are not educated enough to make a reasonable decision on how to vote, regardless of how they vote.

It is hard for us to recognize that we are making these assumptions because they don't typically align with our real-world experience, which is exactly what the LSAT writers are preying on.

For these reasons A is not an over-qualifier, and definitely not sufficient.

Lessons · You Try - Shrinking Applicant Pool

avapfehrenbach781

Wednesday, Jul 17 2024

yeah i was shocked to see this was rated as a level 5 difficulty

Lessons · Lesson 2 - City Council Vote or Abstain

avapfehrenbach781

Sunday, Jun 30 2024

I think by making this assumption you are already subconsciously applying answer B to your reasoning. There could be other reasons for the activist not wanting the matter to be decided by the city's voters besides not wanting the proposal to pass (maybe the activist just thinks they are stupid and inferior so they don't want them to make the decision). The activist does not explicitly express an opinion on the proposal itself, and answer A does not say that the voters deciding in favor of the proposal is a bad thing. But B explicitly states that the voters deciding is a bad thing. I hope this makes sense lol.

Lessons · You Try - Preserve the Maximum Number of Species (PSAr)

avapfehrenbach781

Tuesday, Jun 11 2024

that's enough for today folks

Lessons · You Try - New Marketing Campaign (W)

avapfehrenbach781

Friday, Jun 07 2024

The part that made me confident in choosing D was making the reasonable assumption that since the company cares about sales, specifically the sales of its new product (as mentioned in the context), then the company must care about its "overall position."

PrepTests ·

PT101.S2.Q19

avapfehrenbach781

Monday, Jun 03 2024

I got this question right but I hate it. I feel like B requires a HUGE assumption. Australia began a major road repair project, but does that mean they've made any improvements yet? How long does this major project take to complete? Does it result in road closures and increased traffic on other roads which could lead to even more traffic fatalities? Also, I have a hard time equating "driver education" with "skill." I almost thought E could be weakening the argument by implying that these drivers are not necessarily more skillful, just better educated (maybe they've been taught how to act quickly after a collision, thereby minimizing traffic fatalities. To me, "skill" seems to imply some set of innate, natural driving capabilities, and driver education would be the opposite of that.

Lessons · Negating “Some” Statements

avapfehrenbach781

Saturday, Feb 24 2024

Got it, thank you!

Lessons · Negating “Some” Statements

avapfehrenbach781

Friday, Feb 23 2024

Could it be the case that negating a "some" claim is simply denying that it is merely some rather than most or all? For example, could "It is not the case that some parrots are clever" imply that, actually, most parrots are clever, or all parrots are clever? #help