Hi everyone I took the April LSAT and am cancelling my score for the June LSAT retake. I continue to struggle with RC. Trying not to get bogged down by the articles stating RC is the hardest to improve but I cannot seem to grasp how to get through at least 3 passages all correctly. What is your strategy? What is your method of attack when approaching a RC passage? What do you look for and ask yourself along the way? Appreciate any input thanks
what is the blind translation? Does this mean reading the stimulus, covering the answer choices and predicting the answer in advance?
In! Also preparing for April Flex. Im on discord too.
Hi everyone- studying for the April 2021 LSAT. Started at PT 50 to do a game section a day and LR here and there. RC needs work.
In factoring my allowance of how many tests to leave before April's LSAT, how many do you typically take, in terms of sitting through full PT in the lets say 3-4 weeks leading up to your test? How do you space them apart?
Looking for general opinions so I can create a schedule, appreciate it, thanks
Looking for an affordable tutor for just RC to help me understand how to read the passages quicker, struggling with this section the most, thanks
#help answer choice D, isn't the "single fact" that is incompatible mentioned in the last sentence after the word Since...the "typological theories does not count sibling species as separate species, it is unacceptable". Isn't the bolded part "the fact" mentioned in Choice D, and it says it is unacceptable????
#help, I am really not understanding this, mental block. How is C correct?! How is the effect of a sugar SUBSTITUTE, aka, NOT sugar, enough to weaken an argument that discusses the effect of SUGAR, not sugar substitutes. When I did this PT, I read answer C and thought "what does that have to do with the conclusion of sugar, when C is talking about sugar substitutes"?
What am I missing? Can someone help clear this up? Appreciate it
#Help Question 16 I chose A because in lines 31-32 when it says "usually dark throated", that is preceded by saying explicitly "Indications that plumage probably does signal broad age-related differences..." and then mentions adults usually dark throated. Choice A is literally a negation of the wording surrounding the words mentioned in lines 31-32 which is why I immediately crossed it off.
#help where does it treat "most people favoring" as a necessary condition? I don't see that. I understand the
If most favor --> airport built
But then it goes
Favored --> built
Which is bad conditional logic but how is the original sufficient of "if most favor" being treated as a necessary? Where?
#help., I originally put C but then the premise of the argument LITERALLY says "there is nothing new in this idea of growth". Doesnt this eliminate C? He is saying there is nothing new in this idea of growth so how is the AC that he is overlooking possibility that new reasons for restricting growth have risen. Isnt this refuting the premise because he explicitly says otherwise?
Me. I am on the east coast canceled April and am taking June. Let me know please if you form a study group. Available every day from 530 onwards and weekends
Hey- in. Also taking April and the countdowns on. I can do any time, morning and night and also on east coast. Let me know.
Is it just me or was anyone else completely thrown off by the games in PT88 including the first game even though it's scored 1/5 and I have done well on all other in/out sequencing. What was this section???????
@ what do you mean by low hanging fruit
Looking for an affordable LR tutor on East Coast, maybe another person who's studying but excels in this section
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What helped me on RC was practicing active reading and relating each sentence/paragraph to each other. While reading, I also try to notice whose opinions are whose and when the author interjects their opinion. Ultimately, the end goal of reading the passage is to understand what the author is trying to tell us and the reasoning behind their opinions.
Also, this really helped me improve in RC: https://classic.7sage.com/discussion/#/discussion/22588/a-guide-on-rc-improvement
Thanks. what do you mean by active reading? Like reading as normal?
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I try to find the main point then try and think of everything I read as serving a purpose in regards to the main point. It helps me really understand the structure, which lends to my understanding of the passage as a whole. I also maybe write 2-4 words per paragraph on my scratch. I used to do more but felt that I would be more focused on the summarizing part rather than the passage itself. Everyone is different but this is what has worked for me.
I like this idea a lot ill give it a try
What has been your most useful, in summary, tactic in improving your points in RC? I seem to be doing the standard "summarize each paragraph" as I go but maybe it is just me but it is not clicking. I feel like there is more science to it than just summarizing as you read the entire passage.
Anyone else?
Look at necessary assumptions in a way that the conclusion has to prove the necessary assumption. I read this in Loophole in LR book (Conclusion --> Necessary Assumption), treat it just like any premise and conclusion instead this time the conclusion is the premise proving the NA (conclusion), just a trick.
Whatever the Conclusion is, it has to prove whatever the necessary assumption will be. The NA is provable.
She gives example that a conclusion has bread that will disappear in 20 minutes. A necessary assumption, that the conclusion depends on, is that the banana bread is movable
The conclusion here, banana bread moving in 20 minutes, PROVES that the bread is movable (the NA). If the banana bread was not moveable, then your conclusion is invalid
This is a trick in the answer choices to negate the answer choice, to negate the necessary assumption. If you negate what you think is the right answer choice, and it destroys the conclusion, that's probably your answer
Hope this helps
Hi- I have saved the most 4 recent LSAT to take before next Tuesday. Wondering what other people's strategies have been leading up to test day to ensure they are getting the right practice under timed full test conditions (rather than timed sections), without burning out
Hi everyone- any tips on the Powerful vs. Provable framework in helping to eliminate the answer choices? Loophole mentions this but it's a bit confusing. Can anyone try to break this trick down? In terms of question type and how powerful/provable AC either should be eliminated or be the correct one?
Thanks
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Have you thought about delaying June and taking August?
unfortunately I am trying to get in for this fall and June is the last LSAT that will be accepted
Aiming for mid 150 and I suck at LR. I guess questions 20-25 and place hold all the NA and SA questions between 1-19 and do those at the end. This way I can focus on the questions that I am good at between 1-19. I am trying to allow myself to get no more than 10 wrong in LR and usually get -12 or -13
For all of my LR sections, I always get NA and SA questions wrong.
Does anyone have any tricks on how to master NA and SA? Even NA being Q3 being easy I still struggle with I do not understand the framework. Getting these right will allow me to break into -10 or even -9
Does anyone have any advice or tips on how to attack an LR section differently? I tried the loophole but do not see the powerful/provable method being of much help to me personally
Any help is appreciated
I am aiming for that too. All the tutors I used and the best strategy I found was to do the 3 games to give me more time 11 minutes and change a game to ensure I get them right and then pick an answer choice for Game 4 and guess across. The first game is usually the easiest so I get that done in under 10 minutes. I do about 12 minutes for G2 and G2 and then whatever minutes are left, even 1 or 2 minutes I try my best to at the very least answer Question 1 on Game 4 since it is the easiest being an acceptable situation question
ill never understand necessary assumptions
Yes me! I just canceled April LSAT and am taking June!
#help Loophole: Has anyone who read the loophole able to explain how choice E of all the answer choices is the most powerful? I know it is not "linguistic" because there is no keywords and that confused me. How is E more powerful compared to the rest?
#help I dont understand why AC C is wrong but A is right? Wouldn't C work for the exact same reason A does? To say that they need not collect every art style of every period does justify the fact that the amount of contemporary art being small is appropriate, no? If you don't need to collect art of every style at every period then shouldn't it be okay to not have so much contemporary art? How is that NOT justifying?
Hi. How has anyone seen improvement in being able to answer the questions in time? I’m not struggling too much to get them if I have unlimited time and I’m sure most can relate
With games they have patterns so it gets repeated you can apply. Even a little with LR
but with RC you are starting over with each passage. Has anyone seen improvement and have any tips on how to drill down time?
Appreciate it !!
this is not a 1 start passage. no way
#Help, wouldn't D also weaken the argument? The stim is saying the trucks are safe. But wouldn't the drivers having a special license for them weaken the argument? I was stuck between B and D. They both seem attractive to me. Can someone explain why D is so clearly wrong I am not seeing it?
For the same reason B explains that the highways are spread out and therefore it is not the truck but the fact that it is more spread out, which weakens, doesn't D also weaken in the sense that its not the trucks themselves that are safer but the drivers operating them because they got special licenses?
D & E are literally saying the exact.same.thing!?!?!?
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