I wouldn't unless it's games that's tripping you up maybe. I mean if you can get a 178 I don't think you really need to sit down and learn the basics.

If coffee doubled the response time, and tea was half the response time of the coffee. Then the tea would end up having no change in response time from someone who had neither coffee nor tea. Hope this helps someone. I stared at this question for nearly 5 minutes

I'm not sure I understand the difference between brute forcing and other techniques, but for me I think the two most important things are that M/V will always be in one of the three spaces in each semester and only one location gets to be in both semesters.

For what it's worth, I think you can divide the game into six boards like this:

F: V O (M/T)

S:MHT

F: V T (M/O)

S:MHO

F: M H (V/T/O)

S: VTO

F: M O (V/T/H)

S:VTH

F: MVH

S: (M/V)TO

F:MHO

S:VMT

I wouldn't get so down on yourself. As much as it seems everyone is getting acceptances and stuff already, it's still early in the cycle and just because you're not a 4.3 180 applicant doesn't mean you're not gonna get offers this cycle. If you don't get what you want out of this cycle, apply again next year. If you're not motivated to study then don't resit. Assuming you have a decent GPA, you're a competitive applicant, so I don't think there should be doom and gloom at this point in cycle.

Yeah everybody signs up for a testing center even tho they have announced it's Flex. They'll email you about a week before the first day of testing for sign up spots.

MSS questions will tell you to accept what's in the stimulus as true and then ask you which answer choice can be concluded from the information in the stimulus. (Top down)

Strengthening questions will say assume what's in the answer choices are true, and identify which one helps the argument the most. (bottom up)

Both question types use the phrase "most strongly support" and "provide support," but MSS will ask you "which AC is most strongly supported by the passage?" or "The passage provides the most support for which AC."

While Strengthen questions will ask you "Which AC (provides the most support for)/(most strongly supports) the argument?"

The grammatical distinction you draw is correct, but that's the underlying cause of the difference in wording.

Damn 22 point increase is king/queen/monarch shit. Congrats!!!!

@ellenajin451 said:

That's amazing. How long have you been studying with 7sage?? I just received my score and definitely need to retake in January. However, given my target score (170+), it seems that I might need to re-strategize my study timeline in order to have enough fresh drills/PTs. It would be really helpful to know an approx. range of months needed to get to the ideal score!

I took my first diagnostic in late August and got a 154. I grinded really hard for a few weeks getting through the LR/LG curriculum. I work part time, so it was easy for me to dedicate a bunch of time, but I feel like I should have aimed for at least 4 months before my first sit not just 3.

@ellenajin451 said:

Congrats! Is this your first official exam? Or have you taken it before?

This was my first exam! Debating sitting again in Jan cause people tend to do better the second time or so I hear. But 170 is several points above my PT average so I think I might just call it.

Read it as many times as you need to, but if you're constantly having to go back on every stim, I'd say you're probably not reading closely enough the first time through it. You shouldn't really be racing the clock in LR either. They roughly are put in order of difficulty, so rushing through every question to get through it all will probably lead you to a worse score than taking your time on the easy ones towards the beginning of the section and just guessing on the tough ones at the end.

Apply to schools you like and schools you'll likely receive scholarships from. You can use those scholarships to bargain for better offers at the ones you like. Also, you might get more money than you think from some schools you didn't consider. I think applying to one school is short sighted even if you really are only considering that one school.

Stared at B and D for three minutes before I internalized the "overlooked" meaning. They intentionally write a correct answer "it [assumes that] the possibility that a consequence will surely follow if all farmers adopted the practice of organic farming would still ensue even if not all of them did." and then change assumes that to overlooks, which makes it the opposite of the flaw.

I ruled out E for 26, because it wasn't clear in the passage that Gilman's views on Social Darwinism were unique to her. In fact, there's good evidence to the contrary cause we know she's part of a group that shares those beliefs.

B is also better, because the stimulus is so focused in the beginning on explaining how social darwinism was a consequence of darwinism's creating two competing camps from its application to society.

I think you're misreading the last sentence of the stimulus. I don't think it's a necessary assumption that the little documentation there is is written by his enemies. That's the whole basis of the historian's critique. There's not a lot of evidence and the evidence that exits is too biased to make a definitive conclusion.

I got my first 170+ last week and thought it was a fluke. I took another PT today and got a 173. You probably won't score a 177 every time, but scores like that don't happen by chance.

You're confusing biconditional with contrapositive.

Biconditional (M(-)/K) would mean both M->/K and /K-> M. But in your conditional /K doesn't imply M.

Here's the two rules you would need for a biconditional:

M->/K | K->/M is the first rule

/K->M | /M->K is the second rule

You combine these rules to form the biconditional

M(--)/K | K(--)/M

Ex.

Say a passage says:

All Apes are not blue (A->/B) also means if something is blue it's not an ape (B->/A).

So A implies /B, but /B doesn't imply A, so this is not a biconditional because A(-)/B isn't true when read from right to left. With this rule something can be not blue and still not be an ape, but no apes can be blue.

It then adds that

The only things that are not blue are apes (/B->A) which also means that if something is not an ape then it is blue (/A->B).

Here we cover the ground missed by the first rule. If something is not blue then it definitely must be an ape. Now we can conclude the biconditional. All apes are not blue, and all not blue things are apes (A->/B)

Everyone's talking about 14, but 12 is totally incomprehensible to me.

I'm having the same sort of fluctuation 161-171 range!

Respect to everyone who hasn't just skipped to the first PT yet

Those tricky question stems!!!

Don't write an addendum. You have a near perfect GPA, and highlighting a failure will call extra and undue attention to a bad part of your application. If they see a 3.85 they'll say "Wow! This a really determined student!" if you start saying "well, I had problems here and it affected my school performance" you're instantly making them think about the possibility that you have another flair up in law school. Your 3.9 speaks for itself and says that you're an absolute badass, so don't detract from that by calling attention to the most negative part of your application.

I have an almost identical GRE score, so I'm curious too. Ultimately GRE is not what the schools report to the ABA and it has no bearing on their ranking, so I imagine it basically doesn't matter.

Same score as Elle Woods!!!!