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General · kudos to all of us
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docmarsey318
Wednesday, Nov 04 2020

no one deserves a pat on the back

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LSAT · Help needed for LR section
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docmarsey318
Wednesday, Nov 04 2020

No you cannot.

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General · Im curently stuck at 152 need tips on how to improve my LR and RC by November
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docmarsey318
Tuesday, Nov 03 2020

Flaws

Do LGs everyday. 1-2 games a day up to PT 60

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PT146.S2.Q25
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docmarsey318
Thursday, Oct 29 2020

For some reason I saw this as begging the question because it stated the conclusion before hand but I was definitely torn between the two

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Hi everyone, hope your studies are going well. I just wanted to share an explanation of SUFFICIENT and NECESSARY conditions. This explanation is something I randomly came up with and I hope it works for someone trying to understand how that works in LAWGIC.

Explanation of the Sufficient/Necessary condition:

I want you to imagine that you are trying to enter into the most secure building on earth. There is only one way into the building, and that’s through a giant electronic glass door.

Conditions:

YOU are on the outside.

YOU have a proximity card that can be scanned to open the door

There is also a buzzer outside the door that you can ring.

When you do ring the buzzer, the door can be opened on the inside by a SECURITY guard.

Some days your proximity card works and some days it does not. Depending on if you are needed in the building on that day.

So there we have it.

Now:

SUFFICIENT: You scan your proximity card OR you ring the buzzer.

NECESSARY: The door opens

Scenario one:

  • Sufficient occurs ------> Necessary occurs (You scan your proximity card on the day you’re authorized to enter the building and immediately that door opens. Your card is sufficient to open it)

  • Sufficient occurs ---> Necessary occurs (You arrive at the door and realize, you’ve forgotten your card. So you hit that buzzer and the guard presses the button. The door immediately opens. The guard pressing that button is sufficient to open the door)

  • Sufficient fails ----> Necessary unaffected ( You arrive at the door on the day of work. One of two things happen. You lose your card. Well, the door could still open! Security guard could open it, another person walking behind you can open the door, someone leaving the building etc. the same can be the case if the security guard fails to open the door. You can have your key or someone else can open it.)

  • Necessary occurs ---->  Sufficient irrelevant or falls off (You get to the door on the morning you’re suppose to work, and while fumbling around in your pocket for your proximity card. You notice the door is open. At this point, The NECESSARY thing you need to enter the building, has happened. You don’t care about scanning your card or hitting that buzzer. You can still do it, but you don't have to.)

  • Necessary fails ----> Sufficient fails (Now for whatever reason, one morning you walk to that door and that door does not open at all. What do you know? What do we all know? Well we all know that:

    • a. The necessary thing you needed to enter the building: DOOR OPENING, has failed.

    b. If that door failed to open what else do we know? Well, your card didn’t work or the guard was just not going to let you in that morning. IN short, door didn’t open. Thus all the things that could’ve made it open... someone walking ahead of you or leaving the building or using your card or the guard pressing the buzzer didn’t happen. )

    I really hope this helps. It's lengthy but I imagine it would be much simpler as a short cartoon.

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    General · Huge news for for August Flex
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    docmarsey318
    Monday, Aug 24 2020

    prob not. Which is why you can have a few with you> @ said:

    can we sharpen our pencil during the test?

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    PT136.S2.Q6
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    docmarsey318
    Thursday, Aug 20 2020

    Guys this is a text book example of valid argument form 9:

    It clicked while I was halfway through struggling with this question

    A ‑m→ C

    A ‑m→ B (this is your answer)

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    B ←s→ C

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    General · Advice - Reschedule August test? Or just take it unprepared?
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    docmarsey318
    Thursday, Aug 20 2020

    I would recommend you not sit.

    Do at least 2-3 LGs per day.

    Foolproof them. So you should be doing LGs at least 6-8 times most days

    practice with sections, refer back to CC and most of all. Make sure you LOGIC and ADVANCED LOGIC are tight.

    Advanced logic is one lesson a lot of people do not get to for some reason. It helps in LG and LR..A LOT!!

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    General · 7Sagers in Alaska?
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    docmarsey318
    Wednesday, Aug 19 2020

    Hey im not in Alaska, but I can do some LG with you virtually or something if you wish

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    General · LG Anxiety
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    docmarsey318
    Wednesday, Aug 19 2020

    hey I had the same thing. The only thing that really helped me was OVEREXPOSURE. I did all games from 1-35 about 4 times each making sure to foolproof them. Theres a link somewhere here about that strategy. Now, I can finish just about every game. Even if im not sure how im going to proceed. I just start and things click

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    PT135.S1.Q19
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    docmarsey318
    Tuesday, Aug 18 2020

    I attributed that attrition to the migration, which is so easily laid out for you to walk right into

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    General · Huge news for for August Flex
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    docmarsey318
    Tuesday, Aug 18 2020

    Hi. Doesn't seem to be much online yet but it was emailed to August test takers. Here is a little more on it.

    @ said:

    Do you have a link to the official announcement? This is huge for me. I much prefer pens and live on a very noisy city block. Definitely going to see how earplugs effect me.

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    PT112.S1.Q23
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    docmarsey318
    Friday, Aug 14 2020

    For some reason I selected D but I realized that Fire pits would mean less lamps being used.

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    Wednesday, Aug 12 2020

    docmarsey318

    Huge news for for August Flex

    We will now allow test takers to use a regular or mechanical pencil, or a pen, while taking the LSAT-Flex. You will still need to show your writing utensil(s) to the proctor during the check-in period.

    In addition, test takers may use soft, non-electronic, non-corded/banded, generic foam ear plugs, which will need to be shown to and approved by your LSAT-Flex proctor.

    I like it!!

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    PT130.S1.Q4
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    docmarsey318
    Thursday, Aug 06 2020

    The problem I had with this was it said nowhere in the stimulus that it was the judge instructing the jury but I guess you can infer that from them taking visual cue from the judge. SIGH

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    General · Please help me negate these sentences
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    docmarsey318
    Friday, Jul 10 2020

    I've seen this in some questions where you'd usually just make the Ignore a subscript of Trivial and then negate it or not negate it

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    General · LSAT Score Preview for First Time Takers
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    docmarsey318
    Friday, Jul 10 2020

    Life is unfair> @ said:

    How is this not incredibly unfair to those of us who took test in June, May, etc and really wanted to cancel after seeing score but now can't?

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    PT133.S1.Q7
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    docmarsey318
    Friday, Jul 10 2020

    I picked C because I was thinking, hit could be carried by trade. Oh well. Can't be practical on the LSAT

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    PT130.S3.Q22
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    docmarsey318
    Friday, Jun 19 2020

    D seems like the. most logical answer because of the use of CITIES and North American CITIES

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    PT132.S4.Q18
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    docmarsey318
    Monday, Jun 15 2020

    #help, can anyone point me to the lesson on embedding??

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    PT132.S4.Q6
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    docmarsey318
    Monday, Jun 15 2020

    I was confused about this question because I was not sure whether to use the "any" or the "if" as the first sufficient indicator. This sort of issue usually stops me cold during a problem. Any one can #help me with this?

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    PT132.S2.Q17
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    docmarsey318
    Sunday, Jun 14 2020

    Wow...trying to map this out in logic was so difficult. I would've never though "sacrifice" equated to "not having health"...so many things to parse and I just drowned in the question. Even in the BR

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    Friday, Jun 12 2020

    docmarsey318

    One rule that confuses me

    I sometimes see a rule that says something like:

    X does not play in the same match with K

    J.Y then interprets this rule as X --- > /K

    Where as I take this rule to mean the same as a bi-conditional.

    can someone #help clear this up for me?

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    General · First Score After You Finish Core Curriculum
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    docmarsey318
    Wednesday, Jun 10 2020

    On my third go around the curriculum now... about a 6 pt increase after each go. Its like learning a language. 1st time in class, 2nd time speaking on a computer, 3rd time immersion in a native country lol

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