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connorjmacleod215
Thursday, Sep 19 2013

Always always always do the whole thing instead of one section at a time. Way better for practicing endurance/just getting used to the test in general.

As for re-doing old PT's I also remember a lot of the questions. My thought process for questions I remember is to think of them like you're teaching someone why the answer is what it is, this method forces you to go through the motions and even if you do not feel like you're getting something out of it, you are.

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connorjmacleod215
Wednesday, Sep 18 2013

It seems to be the only "reliable" way to improve is to just do as many PT's as possible, even repeat ones you've already done - if you have completed all available PT's already. Just make sure you review after each one and understand why the correct answers are correct. It's just pure repetition, do as many as possible and you will almost definitely see a score increase - unless you've already done all that I'm suggesting :p

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connorjmacleod215
Monday, Jun 17 2013

This is for PT 9 section 2 #25

A is better over B since negating A would completely wreck the argument since the whole thing is about the necessity to have a medical journal publish finding, however if peer review would happen anyways, without having to be published then there would be no reason to force findings to be published in such a way.

Answer choice B if negated would just read that some people who do not serve on a medical review panel have the necessary knowledge to evaluate research findings. Just because some do does not mean that error cannot still occur; therefore, the argument is still fine on these grounds

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connorjmacleod215
Thursday, May 16 2013

Feasible = viable? Really? My first reaction from reading B was that okay, while it may not be commercially feasible to produce, that does not mean that its cannot be commercially viable. I read viable to mean that nobody would buy anything that was spun by hand, and feasible to mean that it would be only profitable to manufacture things by machine -- however would not mean that you couldn't still sell cotton products produced by hand - you would just be losing money on production..

Definition of feasible = Possible to do easily or conveniently

Definition of viable = Capable of working

I mean in some cases I could see them being used interchangeably, but certainly not a 100% synonym for each-other.

I really hope that what you said about LSAC is true because this question is kind of shaky at best.

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connorjmacleod215
Monday, Sep 16 2013

To be honest RC just came naturally to me. I am a history major/Econ minor, so I read a lot of dense passages every day. In my opinion you should see what works best for you: either being the memory method that 7sage suggests, or just blast through the passage reading at like 450+ wpm and just getting a basic understanding of the layout and then look back for every question and once again read quickly. The former works better for me, but that may just be because i'm used to having to recall information from dense passages all the time. So yeah I would just experiment with different methods until you find which one gives you the better average RC score. Generally I get -2/-3 in RC so i'm definitely not perfect and cannot claim to have an overall "best method."

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connorjmacleod215
Sunday, Sep 15 2013

To be honest I think you have enough time to reach your desired score. You just need to be patient.

What are your issues in RC? Is it that you are running out of time or just not fully comprehending the passages? For me personally I found that I could complete RC passages quicker If i spent more time on the article itself fully understanding and memorizing it, and I would only look back to it if the question recalled a specific line, or a specific paragraph.

As far as LR is concerned this is where you should be putting the bulk of your time. -7 is quite a few questions missed. Is there a certain question type you have trouble with? Is it a timing issue? If you can find out why you're scoring low on LR than it will help immensely. For me I usually get around -1/-2 on LR and find that if you blast through the first 10 or so questions really fast it helps with questions 11-20 which are typically harder. The key to do this is to trust yourself with the opening questions since they are not the curve breaker questions LSAC creates to balance out the scores, think of them as freebies, they should not be taking up a huge chunk of your time.

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