Hi 7sage,
I have been scoring between 160-163 on most of the PTs. On all of the PTs 80s I have score above 160 and up. Average is 161. But every time I do the PTs above the 90s, the newest ones from 2020, I always score in the upper 150s.
My question is: are the PTs in the 90s unusually harder? The RC section in PT 91 is mind-blowing hard and it felt abnormally harder than any other PT I have ever taken.
Thanks!
Hi 7Sage,
Some people might disagree with this, which is understandable, but after doing many practice tests, I feel like some practice tests are much harder than others. I understand it is standardized, but I felt like PT 62 was way harder than the 11 other PTs i've taken in the past.
For example, on PT 53 I got 3 LR Qs wrong. But on PT 62, I got 13 wrong! I usually average -5 to -6 on LR, so this would extremely weird and I felt like PT 62 was the hardest PTs I have ever taken. PT 62 was so hard I felt like it was so different.
Are some tests just outliers to the rest?
Thanks!
After studying for almost 2 years I have come to the conclusion that it is nearly impossible to improve on RC and to do all 4 passages under timed conditions. What are some ways that helped you get to all 4 passages under timed conditions as well as get under double digits with regards to wrong answers? I usually get 10-12 wrong on RC sections and I want to at least get to -9.
Thanks.
Question 13 is just an absolutely terrible question.
Hi 7Sage Community!
My question is, how many questions can you get wrong in order to get a 160? LSAT's grading sort of confuses me with some tests needing more points and others needing less points to get a 160. I do not know if in the more new LSATs it is harder to get a 160.
So I have been studying for awhile and I am hitting around a 154. RC is my worst, averaging -11 (slow reader). In LG and LR, I am averaging around a -7 on both. I have only taken 4 practice tests so far. My goal score is a 160.
Thanks 7Ssage community!
I do not see how being troubled is the same thing as being concerned about a current situation. #help
Need help on this easy one. Stuck between C and E. Do not know why this is considered an easy one haha
Thanks 7Sage.
How is this considered an easy question? lol I can do strenghtening questions that are super hard but this one, I was stuck on C,D, and E. Arrowhead for example, we know nothing about whether arrowheads is "new method of warfare" in the conclusion? Maybe it was maybe it wasnt we don't know. E does make us make assumptions on arrowheads. #help
As many others I also chose E, I think we can say the "efficient" is wrong in E because we may falsely assume that since the pheromones evaporate, then they are more likely to be lost, gain less food, have trouble going about their work, and their productivity drops. But that is all an assumption that is not supported, maybe they have other means to forage for food during the afternoon? So they do not necessarily become "less efficient".
Doesn't C also make us assume the tenacity of the disease in question? What if the moose had the flu or a cold or something weak? We would have to assume the disease is a killer disease? #help
I have been going to different forums to understand this question and i'm still having trouble with it. Idk why C is wrong. Wrong timed and in BR. Thanks!
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Inline translation practice, translation drills (including The Memory Method for Improving LSAT Reading Comprehension, and confidence drills. For LG you really do need to just nuke from orbit (its the only way to be sure) and get as many games under your belt as possible.
Overall mindset is a key component. You can't be stuck in a sunken cost fallacy or you are in effect creating a self fulfilling prophecy. If you think you can't move fast and skip aggressively because you'll have wasted the time invested, and wont have time to come back, you won't... because you are preventing yourself from doing what is necessary to have the time to do so.
Thank you @ , are you still doing tutoring sessions even though you are going to law school?
Hi 7Sage!
My last PT was a 152 and my current and highest BR score stands at 171. Trying to get above a 162 on real test day. Is it that possible for someone who is more of a slower reader and does not have the best focus endurance?
Obviously a big gap that can be found in timing issues.
So my main question is: what are some good timing drills you do in RC, LR, and LG that helped you get better at speed and timing?
Thanks!
This is awesome, thank you for sharing this! 1 question, how did you blind review?? What was your blind review method?
I was stuck between A, B, and C lol
Someone please save me. I chose A because the author is assuming that freedom is worth more than anything else, even more than your life and I feel like A is catching onto to that by saying there could be other things of higher value (like your life in this situation) and the other can't just say 1 thing is paramount at the expense of everything else. Flaw Q are my worst in LR.
Thanks 7Sage!
I am having problems with this question. How is B wrong? The author is saying these critics are wrong because they are not poets but you can be a critic and not be a poet?
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We face the same hurdle. From what I gather, it just takes time (cliche answer), but it's also super important to keep a positive attitude toward the test -- literally talk back to whatever negative thought is causing anxiety, e.g., for RC you might tell yourself, "I'm excited to learn about something new/something possibly from a different perspective than I'd considered." For LR, you might reframe yourself as a detective solving crimes of faulty reasoning presented in each stimulus. You mentioned slow reading as a challenge; I'm right there with you. For RC, succinct (sometime copious yet organized) annotation seems to work for me; test prep calls it "tracking viewpoints & information." I'm still trying to find efficiency, but when I've done it, it takes me to near perfection on a passage. I'm only getting 3/4 done under timed conditions to give you an idea. As it pertains to LR, the skill that 7Sage teaches right up front--namely reading for the subject and predicate, and identifying the conclusion (by rearranging info in the stimulus to verify if necessary)--has helped increase my own comfort with parsing blocks of text without feeling like I'm missing the point. If you can do this, you start to notice how much fluff there is. To be honest, I don't read every word of the stimulus first. I look at the question briefly to see what the test makers want me to do, then break down what is being argued. With games, it's all about the rules and deductions; there are only so many variations and ways to arrange a fixed number of items; you just get better at recognizing the setup by practicing them over and over -- even old ones you've done before -- and watching various videos to see how others approach them. Often there is a key deduction. Hope this helps! Take your time. Meditate! Stay strong!
This is awesome, thank you so much!
Hi Y'all !
So as you can see I have a pretty big gap between my raw scores (Pt 40 - 147) and (Pt 41 - 150) and my latest BR score of 171. What are some helpful tips to close this Gap? My biggest problem is of course timing, whenever I am timed the anxiety and nervousness kicks in and comprehension drops. The LSAT is not friendly to those who have been slow readers their whole life. If you're on my boat, I know you feel my pain.
Thanks 7Sage!
Why did JY negate the necessary (RU -> MG/) when without is Group 3 negate sufficient? #help
I'm interested! What time will this take place?
After 2 years of studying for this crazy exam, I have always been so bad at weakening questions. Sometimes doing problem sets untimed and still getting weakening questions incorrect and continuously falling for the trap answers. I feel like weakening ACs are so subjective and ambiguous. Even when I dissect the stimulus and separate the premises, find the assumptions that connect the premises and conclusion, I still get it wrong because I feel like there is SO much reasoning involved in weakening questions that it is nearly impossible to do under timed conditions. Surprisingly I am pretty good at strengthening questions. So I'm in a bit of a paradox lol
Powerscore says to focus on the conclusion, 7sage says focus on the assumption. Both forms of advice have not really helped me thus far.
Any advice? This exam is so frustrating lol
Thanks Y'all !
Isn't A just a restatement of the conclusion? How would that be an assumption? #help
But isn't "any" in the first sentence a sufficient indicator? Do we just pick and choose which Sufficient indicator we go with #help
But there is a "Not" in the Premise 3, so why do we keep that premise as is yet we negate the conclusion making it P3→CCL/ ? It feels like we are picking and choosing which "No, Not" to be a negated statement. #help