Yes, I only studied for two months, but I have to say a big Thank You to 7sage! I needed a 165 for a full tuition scholarship for the law school I can attend, so that's where I set my sights. I got a 166! My first diagnostic score on 7sage was a 158, so that's an 8 point increase. (I only bought the basic membership) Thank you, 7sage! You've saved me a fortune in test-prep costs and law school!!!!

(RC: -6; LR1: -6; LG: -5; LR2: -1) I thought I did better on the LG than I actually did, but that last LR section saved me, I guess...lol.

Nevermind....got it. ;)

I think I would get stuck on this one every time. I see why E is not the correct answer choice, but B and D are so similar, and both are speculative, so it would be difficult for me to absolutely decide that one or the other is the best answer choice. Any suggestions?

Even if you don't take the full course, I think just having access to the ebook is well worth the effort.

Sorry! No...not trolling, just was confused about which site was offering the course. Coursera is not correct either. I will give you the correct link:

https://class.stanford.edu/courses

I'm not sure how to make that a link, but please don't be rude about it again. Just copy and paste. Thanks!

I agree with James Ray. Law schools these days are offering more scholarships and reducing the requirements to obtain those scholarships due to a dearth of law school applicants. Therefore, even if funds for scholarships hadn't increased substantially, there very possibly are still more vacancies for those scholarships than in years past. So, you should have a better chance at scholarships, even if you take a later LSAT.

I suppose it could be argued that since scholarships are easier to obtain, more June LSAT students might qualify for them, but as James stated, schools don't want to limit their options to pick up high LSAT scoring students late in the game. Their school's reputation and rank are boosted by every point average increase of their L1 class. Later LSAT testing students, I would think, would be a rich bounty for many schools, as the more prestigious institutions may expect earlier applications. But that is a supposition for which I have little real evidence.

I missed 15 out of a misinterpretation/misreading of lines 46-49. Since the author of the passage wrote that Bettelheim "interprets all fairy tales as driven by children's fantasies of desire and revenge, and in doing so suppresses the true nature of parental behavior ranging from abuse to indulgence," I make the false connection here that children's revenge was motivated by parental abuse (italics mine); hence, I answered C, that Bettelheim must believe that children understand their parents abusiveness/bad behavior in order to be vengeful themselves. It was a very myopic train of thought, and I realize now that I tend to disregard the big picture when intently focused on a single question. I need to remember to breathe.... ;o)

I couldn't possibly get the correct answer here by "thinking logically" at all. Trying to "read the contrapositive" of a statement, or drawing outlines would not work for me for this question. Instead, I simply questioned the conclusion. I asked myself, quickly, "what about people's lives and property?" Then I scanned the answers. "B" was the obvious choice, since you have to preclude all other reasons why you might want to stop forest fires to make the conclusion true. Then, "A" didn't even resonate with me as an option.

I would definitely recommend that for assumption questions, you just question the conclusion, then find an answer to that question among the choices. This process only takes a few seconds, and if the answer to your question isn't there, you know you've asked the wrong one - you've missed the necessary assumption by missing the hole in the argument. Then, and perhaps only then, is it time to start the complex process of "thinking logically," which invariably takes more time and effort than the above suggestion ....IMHO.

I believe I have benefited from watching you review the RC passages, in that you parse the material to mentally remove the author's extraneous, often nonsensical, verbiage (e.g., "formed and informed", etc...). LSAT writers make no promises that the passages they select will be well-written, and I'd bet that they, at times, choose byzantine styles just to throw us!

Thanks for responding lsathopeful and vandyzach. After taking your suggestion and reviewing each section of the test, I found that there was really no certain section that was increasing or decreasing the score overall, except perhaps for LG, but those apparently have not become more difficult. So, I will keep studying and taking more tests before drawing conclusions. Thanks!