How long did it take for you guys to receive your watch?

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Yeah, I couldn't imagine studying for the LSAT during my senior year of undergrad. I was just doing way too much. Now, I work full-time and studying on the nights and weekends, which is still pretty difficult. Every now and then I just have to take a break and have some fun. But most days, I work, study, sleep, repeat.

I've taken 5 LSATs so far, and my highest timed score is a 157 :\.

My highest BR is a 169.

I would like to get my timed score into the 170's. We'll see. This material was all new to me, so I hope with a lot of study, I will improve dramatically.

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Haha, awesome. The law professor that wrote is teaches at Rutgers, my home state's university.

It's a good read. Right now , I am only on page 60.

I finished the entire 7sage curriculum a couple of months ago, and have been doing about 1 practice test a week since. I have decided to re-take the Logic lessons. I have also bought a book on Logic that I have been reading whenever I haven't been studying, and a book entitled Law 101. lol.

I've been studying since December. I was going to do June, but I am not ready. Hopefully, I'll be ready for the October LSAT.

Very interesting post, JY. Thanks.

What do you mean by an answer choice that "reversed it". Are you talking about the contrapositive?

The contrapositive of "If I have my mind on the money, then I have the money on my mind" (MNDonMNY-> MNYonMND) would be:

"If I do not have the money on my mind, then I do not have my mind on the money" (/MNYonMND->/MNDonMNY)

Like Simpaticonx was saying, the sentence may also be a biconditional if you insert the phrase "if and only if":

"I have my mind on the money, 'if and only if', I have the money on my mind."

Which breaks down into:

1) "If I have my mind on the money, then I have the money on my mind"

2) "If I have my money on my mind, then I have my mind on the money"

The contrapostive to this biconditional would be:

"I do not have my mind on the money, if and only if, I do not have the money on my mind"

Which then breaks down similarly to the example above.

If you were simply just asking whether the phrase (my mind on my money/my money on my mind) is confusing because the two components are so similar... then yes, I would say it could be confusing... lol

Does this answer your question?

Hi Yihan,

I can finish an LSAT from anywhere between 1 to 2 weeks with my current review method. :)

Happy Holidays to you too... and thanks!

Rishi,

I do not understand, but I am very curious as to what this brain teaser/sentence means! Please explain :P

There is no logical indicator in the phrase "Mind on the Money and Money on the Mind".

You could make the sentence, "If I have my mind on the money, then I have money on my Mind".

In this sentence, "mind on the money" would be the sufficient condition and "money on my mind" would be the necessary condition.

You could also make it, "I do not have my mind on the money, until I have the money on my mind".

This would have the same meaning as the earlier sentence, since "until" is a negate sufficient logical indicator.

Ultimately, the phrase you originally wrote " Mind on the money and Money on the Mind" is not a conditional statement, because I believe it lacks a subject, a predicate, and a logical indicator.

However, very good question! :)

I disqualified answer choice E, because Erin failed to talk about cancer in her argument. She only stated "lung and heart disease". So, I reasoned, it would be a somewhat irrelevant counter to Erin's argument; couldn't one still suffer from heart and lung disease without cancer? Was this train of thought logical?

I forgot to mention that I am printing from Adobe Reader.

Bret

The only thing I could think of was my muscles. Those are the only things harder than the LSAT.

J....K :P

Hey Alan,

What is happening is very strange. I finally got 46 to print, I took the test timed, and then realized that the very last page of the Games section was only printed half-way! lol.

The following page that printed gave this message:

ERROR: ioerror

OFFENDING COMMAND: image

STACK:

-dictionary-

I am printing from a university computer within our campus library. I attend the University of Oregon. I am using their computers. Currently, I am on a PC, a Dell. I think it uses Windows 7, but I am not positive.

If you have any more questions, I will do my best to answer. Thank you for your diligence!

Bret

Without the embedded clauses, the sentence would read "My guess is that disciplines... are usually part of a discipline where the vector of meaning... gets thrown off".

1: "My guess" is the subject... "is that disciplines" is the predicate.

2: "Disciplines" is the subject... "are usually part of a discipline" is the predicate

3: "Vector of meaning" is the subject... "gets thrown off" is the predicate"

"Disciplines" is modified by [that are populated by smart, well-educated people [who are good readers]] [but are nevertheless characterized by crummy, turgid, verbose, abstruse, abstract, solecism-ridden prose].

The part of the sentence between "vector of meaning" and "gets thrown off" is a little hazy to me.

Very hard sentence. How close am I to deciphering this, JY?

Thanks for the advice, Jason. Now, you go too... go quickly into the night with your torch... your armor... your sword, and prepare to slay the mighty LSAT Dragon again. May the hand of Grog, the all-powerful, be with you. Farewell for now, brother. Good luck on your logic quest.

Hey Pamela,

I just took 47 as well. I'm on Pacific time, but if you need a study buddy still let me know!

Bret

JY, the terminology in Melvin's argument through me off: "recruiting even more agents...is out of the question". I thought this implied that recruiting more agents cannot be done. Therefore, since I believed recruiting more agents was an impossible solution to their dilemma, I chose D. How should such language be interpreted in the future? What is the point of putting such a statement into the passage, and how can we look out for such traps?

164 is a pretty good score in my opinion, but if you are aiming for better, then keep studying and taking practice tests to gauge your progress.

My strategy is to take 5 practices tests in 5 weeks, and do an intensive blind review each week. At the end of the 5 weeks, I take an average of those 5 tests, and review what I need to improve. I will then take another 5, and do the same thing. If the average is going up, then that's a good thing. Expect to score around there. If your average is 170+, then I would say you have a good chance of scoring very well.

I hope this helps.

I think a 180 is possible! Work hard! I know you can do it! :)

Take some practice tests and find out. There is always hope. Best of luck.

Hey sweetxoxo,

I think un-timed tests are helpful. However, I only do very old LSATs un-timed (1-30). I save the newer LSATs to take timed (30+).

I have taken many timed tests, over 20 total. I stopped taking some of them timed, mainly to help relieve some of the stress it was causing. I was getting "burnt out". Instead, I just wanted to sit down with my LSAT at a nearby coffee shop, sip some java, and do my LSATs wit ha relaxed, clear mind. I like taking some of the tests untimed, because it is less stressful, and actually makes doing them more fun.

Of course, taking Timed tests is incredibly important. But if you want a stress relief, and you have some old tests lying around, try taking them untimed. I don't think it will hurt at all!

Bret

Bump

Thanks, Litian! :P

Thanks for that

Thanks