The LSAC just announced this a couple days ago. Starting in August 2022, all test takers (regardless of first-time status) are allowed to purchase score preview. Cancelling your score via score preview will still show on reports sent to admissions officers, but I've heard from most admissions officers that cancelled scores don't significantly negatively impact your application — I would check with other sources to verify this.

I also eliminated A because the word inevitable and ended up picking C even though it was a bit of a stretch. In my mind, the status of being inevitable made A wrong whereas had the potential of being correct. I am curious as to what J.Y. would think of this. #help

@jamesmarmaduke444.marmaduke @jmarmaduke96714 this is super helpful, thank you so much for the insight. Since I am taking the August LSAT in about a week, I'll hold off on tutoring because I'm afraid a drastic change in my thinking process will hurt more than help. If I end up retaking, I'll definitely pursue some tutoring. I usually only have a minute or two left in every LR section which I end up using to make sure my parallel reasoning / parallel flaw questions are correct because I know I can always get them right if I spend enough time on them. On some questions, I feel like I just can't quite make the connection to why the right answer is correct, so I end up picking what I feel like is the best answer (even though I know it has a small flaw or doesn't quite feel right). An example of this was PT83 S1 Q23; even after my blind review when I knew I got it wrong, I could not figure out what the right answer was until I listened to JY's explanation.

For the next week, I'm definitely gonna work on getting LR faster so I have more time to do a second round. Thanks again for your help -- it's really appreciated

@jmarmaduke96714 it's normally just the questions with the hardest difficulty ratings:( though this sounds hellish, i've been considering making drills with only high difficulty questions and do them timed and the untimed -- i feel like this is probably my best bet at improving.

PT8 S1 Q20

this was my reasoning:

a) does nothing; if it did not have the “unless” and everything written after, it would have supported the opponents of demolition, but the “unless” statement makes it ambiguous.

b) forces us to determine that rehabilitation is the correct choice because one proposal (demolishing the houses) precludes the possibility of trying the other approach (rehabilitating the houses)

c) does nothing; we do not know if the government fundings are secure yet

d) does nothing; “thoroughly investigated” is too generic of a term. is the condition of “thoroughly investigated” met if you research the alternative, or is the condition of “thoroughly investigated” met only if you actually implement the alternative. if the latter is the case, then the opponents’ of demolition proposal would have been accepted; however, the term is ambiguous, so it does not help.

e) does nothing; if this is true, it still doesn’t help us decide if which plan we should pick

feel free to reach out if you have any more questions! hope this helps

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tldr: watching the videos and doing the drills once was certainly not enough to get me to -0. imo learning how to do logic games quickly and accurately is like learning how to do math. sure, watching someone do it and trying a problem once will get you somewhere, but — assuming you are not some genius — you just have to practice over and over until it becomes second nature.

i got to averaging around -1 in about a month, but it was really grueling. i decided in the middle of june that i was going to take the august test after a diagnostic of 163 where almost all of my points were taken off for games. from june 23 to the middle of july, the only thing i did was work on my games

it took me around 2.5 weeks to get through all the curriculum and then another 2 weeks of 6+ hours of drills daily. my strategy was to do every single drill in the curriculum until i could do it in -3% target time. i literally have done some of the drills more than 10 times (the in and out drill w the souderton and randsborough game made me go insane). once i had all of the drills in the curriculum down i used the old PTs to make my own drills. i started with 2 game drills and worked my way up to 4 game drills for stamina.

from my experience, progress was not at all linear, so definitely just keep plugging away. in my first week, i started to get comfortable looking for inferences and drawing game boards — i saw decent improvement in my score just from that, and it also just felt a lot better feeling like i knew what i was doing instead of frantically trying to draw out all the scenarios like i did in my diagnostic. after the initial improvement, i basically saw none for another three weeks. i felt like i was getting better, but my score was highly variable; for some drills i was getting minus 0 and for some drills i couldn't even finish the first of two games. at some point, i realized i was spending too much time trying to make inferences and draw game boards when it was faster to just attack the games with a basic understanding of how the rules interact with each other. after i realized that and got good at determining when to draw sub-game boards and when to just attack the questions, everything just clicked and i started averaging anywhere from -0 to -2. i still do two 4-game drills every day to keep sharp, on top of my daily PT. i find if i don't keep up, i get rusty really fast. anyways, if you want to talk more feel free to pm me!

interested!