I FLOPPED so hard. The passage comparisons really trip me up.

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Hi! I don't know how exactly qualified I am to give this advice, but I think one thing that has really worked for me to improve is focusing on quality rather than quantity. To preface, know this is standard advice that 7Sage gives and I am not reinventing the wheel by any means! After I complete a section timed, I really really really blind review it. I speak the passage out loud, rephrasing it to myself, I speak each question stem out loud and really pre-phrase and understand it. The really important part is all of the answer choices. If you can really accurately explain why each one is incorrect and give REALLY GOOD reasons to eliminate and be 10000000% sure about your answers, you will be so much better at spotting traps and mistakes in the future (then if you get the question wrong its holy shit I need to revalue myself versus "oh I just didn't have enough time"). Then I always watch the explanation and make sure that my reasons for eliminating an AC were similar to J.Y. Obviously, each passage varies so if you know the process to get the correct answer choice in and out, it's pretty intuitive to apply. Doing all of this makes me want to cry and its the mental equivalent of running a marathon, but I really feel like what has worked for me is taking my sweet time and really understanding how the LSAT writers create the wrong answer choices.

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I keep a wrong answer journal, this really has helped me see which type of questions I am getting wrong and I write down what I did wrong and how I can improve in the future.

when in doubt. READ IT OUT LOUD. even moving my lips, I swear, makes everything click. I misread often (hence my dyslexia) so any chance I get to read out loud and HEAR it helps. Mumur under your breath, move your hands as if you are talking ect.

All in all, what has worked personally for me is not really "drilling" its a deep deep deep understanding of one passage and all of the answer choices associated with that passage. quality and tracking mistakes is gold.

without fail, every time, I get the space questions wrong. something in the stars and planets is NEVER ALIGNED FOR ME

As a lover of both wine and econ... I was disappointed to get this question wrong twice :(

This is 100% a skip.

Looking back it seems so simple but I think the question stem really confused me

Question 5 was the first time I have seen an RC question and genuinely been stumped what to do

I thought E was way too obvious for question 20.....I need to stop basing my reasoning on this.

This entire passage I was thinking about the show Jury Duty and sweet, sweet Ronald. Especially the Vior Dire scene HAHA, the best show for anyone who hasn't seen it yet!

I agree with this 100000%

such a good, subtle question. wow. maybe the best method here was process of elimination, arriving at A and seeing the clues given about mature trees and regeneration in shade. well done lsac

I guess a note to myself: If I feel confused about the question stem, read through the ACs. I was stuck between nominee and honoree because I felt like they both answered what I THOUGHT was the question with the same conviction, but all LR questions should have 4 horribly wrong answer choices.... this confusion should have led me to question whether I was understanding the question stem correctly.

I was SO CONFUSED what this question was asking for! For "the reasoning of the argument remain unchanged" I thought it meant which one of these words shows that the original use of "ee" is best. IE get rid of the counterexample all together. this comment is confusing, im sorry

I swear when it gets past question 15 any answer that seems correct MUST BE WRONG because the test writers are so tricky and subtle, it's never the obvious answer that is correct.

I have been doing these questions by writing a little description of the stimulus in more general terms.

For this question, I wrote: To conclude that this condition is present, this ONE piece of evidence is not enough ON ITS OWN. This is because the condition has a different trigger that is necessary for the condition to be true.

Answer choice B really satisfied this explanation and I felt very confident about that answer choice therefore.

I literally thought four ACs on this question could be correct...

I feel like I understood the passage and the conclusion/premises accurately, but in the answer choice, D did not understand the vocabulary or what "economy of expression" even meant, so I went with AC B. I am so scared to take LSAT and get an answer wrong because of vocabulary :(