Thank you! It is quite convenient that it is also my actual name.

Very interested!!

Sincerely unsure at this point. I'm pretty certain I'm Harvey. But sometimes I wonder if I'm Fred Flinstone, as seen in S1E6 The Dabba Don. Maybe I had... A little accident? With a bowling. I'm not sure truthfully. But of this much I am certain: the person writing this message is in fact Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law.

Hey guys, so I might not be the best person to start the group up since I'm not located in CLT

@mcowene92828 @taylorj8297998 @shannon3of3430-likeitshard @shannon3of3430 @taylorj8297998 @londontaj1147 Do you guys want to set up a group chat on some messaging platform?

So my sense is that reading all ACs is usually instilled as a general "best practice" for people starting out on LSAT prep—and honestly, I can understand why; it's important to practice articulating what makes one AC right and four ACs wrong. But I will also say this: since I've started focusing on drilling and timed sections, I've definitely found myself needing to backtrack on reading all ACs. I'm increasingly coming to believe that it depends on what the question warrants really. Different stems and stimuli warrant different approaches for accurate answering (e.g. if you squarely understand what's needed to fill the gap in the argument for an SA question and you've found the AC which fills that gap, it is most likely not to your benefit to read every AC under timed conditions). Do with that what you may...

@polinam220305169 so the group chat is on signal—you'll need to download the signal app and set up an account. After that, you can join the group by following this link:

https://signal.group/#CjQKIERaIsL1_nchT5BIQsAlqqsz5emJ8l9S-GLprY-grKQwEhCvZknSZng1LU0cw_1BBtcm

@payalshah061984 the link above should work. Let me know if you run into any problems. Same goes for anyone reading this that's interested in joining the group!

Hey so I'm not in the CLT area but I am in NC and would love to join an NC based study group

Wow, this lesson is exactly what I need to revisit right now. Sincerely, thank you for bringing my attention back to this lesson with your reply to my comment.

Could you give an example where you're running into this problem? Like a specific question number on a section of a practice test?

@ethananthonywood620 Hopping in the chat now

I'm no pre-law advisor, but I'm inclined to think that if your GPA is still within your control (i.e. you're still working on your undergrad), then don't risk your GPA for your LSAT. Get that GPA as close to perfect as you can get it while it is still within your domain to do so. Walk the stage, get the diploma, and then do hard pivot back to LSAT Prep. My sense is your GPA and LSAT will both probably be better for it.

I'll take the case!

I am Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. And since I'm Harvey Birdman, I always take the case. Any case. And because I always take any case, any LSAT LR stimulus could reasonably be my closing statement before a jury. This is plausible (because I am Harvey Birdman). For all LR stimuli. Wait are we talking about LR question stems?

So it came down to (B) and (D) for me after reading passage B, and yeah, "theory" in (D) is what should've tipped the scale here. I think I got half way through the questions during the second phase on this passage last night. I started from scratch today. I'm pretty sure I got at (B) last night and (D) tonight—I was definitely being more attentive last night lol.

I didn't cross (A) but I did cross (C).

Dude I kept (A), (D), and (E) after reading Passage A—my sense is most people attracted to the split method by this point are finding they could've been a little more aggressive after Passage A lol.

Same lol.

Oh wow, I really wouldn't have thought to cross (A) during this part of the Split method. I mean, I still got this right after reading passage B, but I suppose I could've answered this without passage B. Not sure. 7sage might be a bit bold for me here hahahahaa.

Same! I was a little antsy during the latter half of the method but it seems like it might be worth adopting.

Oh wow! I thought I might've gotten one or two of these wrong with split approach, but I didn't: (B), (C), (B), (B), (D), (E). Nice. I think I'm going to adopt this approach for now.

I was wondering why I seemed to be getting those 4 and 5 star Stated and Implied questions correct without having any idea of what the distinction was. Pretty early on in the RC units, I basically just stopped paying attention to any indication about whether the question was Implied or Stated. Once I did that I basically never got those questions wrong lol. But still, I guess I can see how the distinction could be useful given certain question type variations and that sort of thing. Implied: supported side of the support spectrum. Stated: far end of the supported side of the spectrum. Yeah?

Is there any we can download these meditation audio files?

I don’t know if that’s how I’d explain my process for getting to (D). I don’t think you need to be particularly imaginative—we know that (D) is directly supported in lines 25-30 of the passage. What’s really needed for this question is the ability to recognize that there actually isn’t any support for all of the wrong answer choices here. You can definitely get this question right by taking MSS in LR as your guide—that’s how I got this question right. I’m really not sure how useful the implicit/explicit distinction is in RC questions—my sense is usefulness probably depends on passage style for the most part, but I'm still not entirely sure.

YO some LSAT item writer was reading Donna Haraway and went "this is EXACTLY what we're looking for" I'm DEADD 💀💀💀