Change your perspective! Red marks are good because you are exposing yourself to new tricks the LSAT uses against you. Study those red questions and get familiar with where you are going wrong. The next time the LSAT uses that trap, you will be good for it. You got this!

Look at the most common types of questions you get wrong and create drills with just those. If you are not understanding JY's explanations, you can put the questions into Chat gpt, ive found their explanations are pretty good. Best of luck!

For some people, the logic of LR questions are intuitive and you can parse out the logic without all of these notations. For most, learning "lawgic" is necessary to understanding some LSAT LR questions.

While you can totally just ignore this and take the loss on those few LR questions (unless you are just one of those people who can parse through logic in your head), understanding logic and logical fallacies is not only important to the LSAT but to a career in law and your future studies in law school.

I wouldn't equate this to math or overcomplicating the LSAT, in fact, it's a tool to simplify it. With practice it will become more intuitive BUT if having to learn logic is enough for you to rethink your career choice, maybe this isn't the one for you.

Either way, best of luck with your studying and I hope that the understanding comes to you :))

Thank you for sharing~ It's good to hear because I've been comparing my study process to that of others on this platform. it was definitely good to see someone talk about how personal the process is.

Congrats on your score and best of luck during your application process!

Hi! Have you tried doing untimed sections? doing that allows you to slow down and understand the passages and question types. Good luck!

Hi! I also took the September LSAT and I'm also planning on taking it again (November). I think that the best way to go about it is to keep studying in these next two days anyways. If you get the score you want and withdraw, then you dont need to study any more and you should feel good about it!

But if you receive ur score and think you can do better, then at least you will not have wasted these few extra precious days of studying, and you can take a day or two to rest/ recharge right before ur test. Hope this helps and good luck!

Thats awesome, keep it up! And good luck in November :)) you got thisss

The new RC modules were definitely challenging but SUPER helpful. Thank you Kevin!

Thank you!

Only thing that pointed me towards D was the rest of the sentence after the excerpt. Still felt like I was guessing. Any tips for purpose in context?

between AC B and C, I crossed out B because the 3 hypotheses do not point towards the SAME origin (the stem says all 3 have to agree on it).

As for timing, I think the first step is to do untimed RCs and make sure your accuracy is there. The best way to work on accuracy is to really allot a good amount of your time to understanding the reading. After this, your reading will get better and faster and the questions will fly by.

Hope this helps and good luck :))

Any tips for meaning in context questions? I seem to always miss them.

For parallel analysis, should we watch out for prescriptive vs. descriptive language when looking at the ACs in comparison to the stim?

In a way, for the stem "The argument proceeds by presenting evidence that..." are we just looking for a restating of the conclusion?

Not sure if I skipped through the part of this section where he explains the two defects and starting/ ending at the wrong places/ right places. Can someone explain?

Hi! If your logical thinking doesn't lead you to see why one answer choice is better than the others, you can use Process of Elimination and start by figuring out which AC's are irrelevant, which ones are contradictory to the info provided in the stim, and which ones leave you with more gaps to fill.

Basically, the point of this type of question is to explain the phenomena in the stimulus. In this question, you are trying to find an answer to the question, "Why do sugar maple trees deteriorate faster in acid rain than spruce and fir trees."

With this in mind, you can get rid of any answer choice that doesn't mention sugar maple trees, meaning (A) cannot be right.

(B) says the opposite of the phenomena we are trying to explain. It says that sugar maples deteriorate less rapidly than the spruce or firs while the stim says that the sugar maples deteriorate more rapidly. (contradiction)

(C) is the right AC. it gives an explanation, to the question "Why do sugar maple trees deteriorate faster in acid rain than spruce and fir trees," which is what we were trying to find. They deteriorate faster because the spruce and firs have another way of getting calcium.

(D) Is irrelevant and it throws in the idea of seasons to confuse you. We would need a lot of not totally reasonable assumptions to support this.

(E) brings in another supposed explanation but it is also irrelevant because the stim already says we are talking about areas that experience acid rain, in fact, the stim is talking about scenarios in which spruce, firs, and maple receive acid rain.

I know my explanation is pretty similar to JY's, but I think that the main thing to keep in mind is that the point of the question is to solve the phenomena.

Hope this helps a bit!

I didn't understand this either, but this is what ChatGPT gave me:

A conditional statement typically consists of an "if" clause (the condition) and a "then" clause (the result). For example: "If it rains, then the ground will be wet." The given sentence does not follow this structure. Instead, it presents a factual statement about a situation without specifying a condition and a result.

The given sentence:

"In surrounding counties, where hunting is permitted, the size of the deer population has not increased in the last eight years."

This is a descriptive statement providing information about the relationship between hunting permission and deer population size. It does not use a conditional format (if-then) but rather provides context ("where hunting is permitted") and a related observation ("the size of the deer population has not increased").

Hope this helps a little.

same here.