@ Hi (:

Apologies for the late reply!!

Firstly, I love when you said "I can barely finish it" LOL On the test that got us a 162, I vividly remember not answering the last two questions (26 & 27) on the RC section 😂😂 I didn't even have time to guess - or I must have tried to read one realized it was too long and then tried to jump to the other before time ran out and ended up not putting an answer for either lol

So with RC, again to echo what you said, it was my worst section but that's not to say that I didn't improve. Over the 7Sage lifetime I went from -12/-13 to -7/-8 on AVG - not a big improvement but still something substantial in my books. And there were days where i'd do a -5 as well but not often.

One thing that helped me with RC was really diving deep into what the Question stem is asking, classifying questions on the scale J.Y talks about, whether the AC will be Explicitly Stated (ES) or Strongly Implied (SI). This distinction definitely helped saved a lot of time in knowing when to jump back into the passage to find something ES or try to use my 'shotty memory' to try and push out an inference answer for SI questions. To add, for SI questions they are literally like MSS questions. I realized early on that I never made the connection between the two question types (SI and MSS). Once I started to attack SI Q's as I would MSS my score on RC started to rise since there are a bunch of them on the section - Easily supportable AC are weaker answers and anything with strong verbiage were already a red flag. Not to say that they are wrong all the time but seeing strong verbiage on Strongly implied Q's ACs allowed me to not place much emphasis on that AC at first which resulted in me scanning all the ACs faster and if nothing popped (weakly supported ACs that made sense in context to the passage) i'd go back and revisit the ACs with strong verbiage. but most of the time this worked for me.

Secondly, I think the biggest thing with RC is understanding the structure lol (the most cliched RC advice right there - i apologize) 🙊 AAANDD I had no idea what the heck structure meant until super late into testing lol just kept putting it aside and hoped Id understand it as the tests went on - dont do that!!! Really understand what that means.

It definitely helps to know a little bit about the topic - For example: Science and Law topics were easier for me to understand because of my interest in them but when it came to any topic related to Arts or Humanity, that's where I got lost.

That being said, I'd say on avg 75% of questions on a passage are more so based on a few things:

(1): What the author is saying - this is easy to pick up:

Usually you know the Author is about to speak when we see, "However, consequently, unfortunately, but" those are all indicators. Or adjectives like "interestingly, impressively, inconveniently" each adjective describing the subtle attitude the author may show ((- this one is a bit tricky to see but once you see it once on a passage, you'll see it going forward)

(2): RC IS NOT ABOUT UNDERSTANDING EVERYTHING IN THE PASSAGE.

(3): From point 2 we move to the structure - the way I layered it out during BR was for each paragraph, I would ID the main point, people speaking, the tone of the paragraph (what's the attitude: are they in agreeance, Is their conflict, so on and so forth) and then structure, where do I think this paragraph belongs in the context of the entire passage? (is it main point, premise, support, context, OPA). Lastly, how does the next paragraph connect to the following paragraph.(/li)

This process was slow at first and unknown but I kept doing it and doing it this way and eventually it became natural when doing the test. What's important is to talk to yourself . At least that's what helped me.

And this is an example of me talking to myself lol

"Okay who's speaking, oh some scientists, okay what are they saying, hmm looks like they have a hypothesis to the observed phenomenon" okaaaayy 🤔.. oh look we get a however, now the author - what are they saying. - seems like they are offering new evidence almost contradictory hmm At the paragraph conclusion, hmm this may be the main point - author made their point where's the support. now I can anticipate the direction of the passage.

the next paragraph may be support for the authors claim. even if isn't according to my guess or anticipation theres an element of shock or surprise because for sure i swear I thought that this was going to be support and you revise your mental structure further allowing us to be interested in the passage and be engaged with it (:

Let me know if you need more clarification or PM me and we set up a call to further talk about RC (: definitely an interesting section - the goal I would say is to start liking to do RC

Hey Team (:

I think why A is wrong is firstly, it is, in my opinion, it makes an attempt at attacking the conclusion which is already a tell tale sign to cross that choice off right away, Even the smallest suspicion of attacking the premise or conclusion is a red flag for me. Concl: "lie-detector tests that can detect these reactions are a sure way of determining when someone is lying"

I think A if anything is consistent with the conclusion. We don't know what kind of physiological reactions this test is looking for. AC A says the tests measures only some of these reactions and "some" has a huge bandwidth.

Even if it measures one physiological reaction then the test will still be able to determine if someone is lying or not and that's fully consistent with the conclusion.

Please chime in if y'all have other interpretations.

The video was really informative on not just cholera but on germs in general! thank you (:

Sneaky...

Guessed this question because I was running out of time. But coming back for BR, and getting it right definitely puts a huge smile on my face. Weakening questions have been a hurdle and seeing the comments and rating on this stem definitely shows progress, haha I hope! loved this question, oddly!

"Same origin" is a new piece found in the conclusion. just went hunting for "same origin" or the contrapositive and landed on E

@-1 Thank youuu

@ Haha Hopefully those comments were helpful lol some were just vents!! but willing to offer help if you need (: Thank you for reading!!

But it was definitely one hell of ride! lol

@ You got this!! I am definitely cheering you on (:

With E, to simplify the this description, "unless" = negate and make sufficient A [ C→F] → B (DEC).

AC E starts with the Necessary Condition of Demonstrate Extenuating Circumstance.

- Satisfy Necessary, rule falls away, and everything else afterwards is a CBT not a MBT.

- Or from the fact that we can't conclude anything by being given DEC. ( DEC→ ?).

LOVED THIS QUESTION, YEEAAAAAHHHH!! LOL

Anyone ever run across a problem, question, or situation and appreciate the difficulty of what you are facing?

Saw "Logically follows" in the stem and completely forgot what kind of question type this was... We live and we learn!

Oddly, I got Q25 correct using the inference obtained from line 46: "Evolutionary Mechanisms are Never Observed Directly"

The way I understood it was by connecting evolutionary mechanisms to the immune cells and the process of reverse transcription - as it made sense for me to classify that as a mechanism that contributes to evolution.

I forgot English at this question..

@ Yes sirrr!! you got it 🙏🏼 Who's to say you won't score amazingly on the upcoming test?? NO ONE!!

Aim for the stars

Thank you for reading and your kind words (: && I wish you the best of luck - dominate

@ Hi (:

Hmm that's an interesting position 🤔 Take what I say with a grain a salt lol

Personally, I never meshed with Khan Academy - I only used them for two weeks and never looked that way afterwards.

I used the power score books from 2017 - read cover to cover which I found helpful as well.

and 85% of my studying/learning came from 7Sage. So I would say if Khan Academy is working for you, might as well keep that in the rotation to further cement the concepts and ideas. But personally I would recommend really harnessing what J.Y has to offer (THE MAN IS A GOD) and go in the order the CC is offered, don't worry about mixing (my opinion).

The reason I say that is, I found myself at times returning the CC even when I did PTs to further understand and to see if I missed something. Helped a lot whenever I did return to the CC when I was PTing. From what I remember - phen/hypo, weakening, and formal logic (knowing when things trigger, or become irrelevant) (--- this last one was good for LG and for PSA, SA, Para Reas, and sometimes NA questions.(/p)

Note: I want to be hesitant before I say this but just as something to be aware of

If we can toggle an AC both ways, particularly in flaw, strengthening, and weakening Q's most of often that AC will be wrong (Emphasis on this part about being wrong, just something to be aware of, may not in fact be wrong but something to watch out for). In this case the word Change is there to allow us to be baited in assuming a positive version of the statement, but change can be toggled as an increase or decrease. Viewing it one way will strengthen an argument and toggling it the other way will weaken (toggle effect)

Well then which way do you toggle? DON'T unless it is an Evaluate Q in which the toggle effect is required for the correct AC - I think the appropriate term is called the variance test.

@ Hi (: Never a problem, Thank you for taking the time to read.

Yes I would 100% recommend finishing the core curriculum. and then try to take away a couple main points from each section. For example, 90% of the time for MSS Q's, weak ACs are easier to support - key words to look for are "some, at least, sometimes, etc.." within AC - but still ensure the AC makes sense and is relevant to the stim.

So my situation may not be the ideal situation. I wasn't working when I began studying for the LSAT. I actually quit my job to treat the LSAT journey as a full time job.

My schedule went like this:

Core Curriculum: I would start my study days at 9am and end at 4:30-5:00pm. I literally treated it as a job, adopting a 9-5 attitude because I wanted to finish the CC as fast as possible. I would not recommend speeding through the CC (So don't do what I did lol), take your time with it, that's the foundation.

Once I started PTs (1 per week): I would do the PT on the day I felt I would choose the LSAT to be on. I always opted for the Friday sittings whenever I took the official test. So I would wake up every Friday thinking it was test day and start each PT around 10:30-11am depending on the day. SIDE NOTE: I never simulated the flex option.

After each PT I would take a break for 2-3 hours, go workout, watch YouTube videos, or soccer. After my break I would come back to the test to begin Blind Review (BR) which I allowed myself to take a week. If I finished BR in 5 days (say Wednesday) then that's more of an incentive for me to take the 6th day (the day before the next PT) as an off day. but most of the time I never had that luxury as I would always take all 6 days lol.. WORTH IT!

To start my BR, I would always start with LG - I would do one Game and then go to the Explanation Videos, then second game followed by second video, so and so forth. The reason why I did LG first is because each day I would return for BR I would start with LG by getting a scrap paper and then trying to beat my time to finish each game faster than I had the prior day - this allowed me to get to perfect (I think) on the 162 test in their LG section. Also I recommend using a tablet for BR, you save a lot of paper lol.

Also, each BR day was treated as a 9-5 (EVEN ON WEEKENDS). of course there were off days where I hung out with friends or created plans later in the day to incentivize myself to get work done. I was also blessed to have friends who would hop on zoom and we would all work, study on things we had to work on.

The way I implemented the 9-5 study time was I would do 45 minute sessions and take a 15 minute break to be on my phone, YouTube, snack, do pushups, etc - In my later days of studying for this test, I deactivated all of my socials, so no Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Snap.. which helped LOADS. around 12 I would take an hour break for lunch and the come back at 1pm to resume all the way until 4:30-5pm.. depending on the day I would go for longer.

Let me know, if you would want the cheat sheet I used to help keep me honest. I sent it to one other person and they seemed to like it (:

I had a tough time eliminating C on BR, unsure why, maybe a long day after watching EURO2020. Then realized I wasn't reading actively.

My attempt at making C correct would sound something like this:

"The Olson Motor Co. manufactures the three best selling automobiles in Vancouver. The Decade is Olson Motor Co's best-selling model. Thus, the Decade is the best-selling model in Canada."

- We can't assume that because there maybe a company that has a better selling automobile elsewhere in the country say Ontario.

For you American's, you can substitute Vancouver with Texas, and Canada with USA.

@ Thank you for your kind words and I'm praying that you achieve great things!!

Firstly, let's get the "dream score" out of your vocabulary lol - if we say dream score then it'll stay in your dreams, rather lets both say "that's the score I am going to get or the score I am aiming for and will achieve" let's speak that into existence. The reason I say that is because as I was finishing my fifth attempt at the LSAT I was keeping a mental note of where I could have gotten a question wrong and what my overall score for each section could be. At the end of the test I wrote down 163 on my scrap paper as the score I should get regardless of how unsure or confident I was and through some grace we landed on a 162.

By no means am I implying that caused anything lol (LSAT Trauma corr/causation) but just to encourage yourself to have faith in yourself! You be your #1 supporter.

That being said, sorry for the drivel, I realized I wasn't Clear in my post lol whoopsie!

After receiving the Jan 2021 LSAT score, I started from the beginning, implementing the entire syllabus, really trying to understand what the heck it is that J.Y was trying to say when attempting to explain the process of answering questions. I didn't touch a PT until I got through 90% of the course. I say 90% because I skipped some drills more specifically the Para reas, para flaw reas, etc.

One thing I wish I paid attention to earlier, and in my opinion the most important thing to knock down and understand, is sentence parsing.

For example, "Many boats that have red railings with the letters S.S. Zeus painted on them are more likely to capsize than are most boats that feature black railings with no letters on them"

So during BR I would literally talk to myself as such:

"Okay, so boats - are we talking about all the boats in the world? NO, we are talking about 'Many=some' boats."

"Okay moving on, what kind of many boats, well it looks like many boats 'that' (descriptive) red railings. okaay what about those red railings, they have S.S. Zeus written on them"

"Okay what about these specific subset of boats?"

they "are more likely to capsize than" STOP, Than = comparative and we have a winner in the comparison (More likely) who's more likely?

So on and so fourth. THIS IS THE HOLY GRAIL OF SECRETS to conquering the LSAT IMO. Once I truly started to implement this is when my scores and speed at understanding question stimulus sky rocketed - Not only for LR but for RC (my weakest section). It helped spot gaps in words being used (many to most), or identify jumps (assumptions) from premises to conclusion. Hopefully that helps.

But yes really focus on the syllabus/course. they really help lay the foundation - especially sections on

Phen/Hypo: know how to weaken/strengthen - create predictions

Correlation/Causations: know how to strengthen/weaken - pay attention to control groups.

and analogies: be comfortable in strengthening and weakening analogies.

PSA Q's - look for a conclusion that either affirms the conclusion or negates the premises.

- Be quick to eliminate, ACs that affirm the premise in the conclusion or affirms the opposite of the conclusion.

Prescriptive vs descriptive

etc. I can send you the cheat sheet I created to help me - I would read that once a week to keep me honest with the entire process. Let me know, although, fair warning I don't know how legible it may be lol

@ Thank you for reading haha

@ Thank you for your well wishes!! Praying you and everyone else dominate this test

Thank you everyoneee 😊

@ Thank youuu!!! Looking forward to hear or read a post from you soon as well ☺️🙏🏼

I see that you're studying for the June Sitting. YOU GOT THIS IN THE BAG!!!