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gabrielmontimanzano28

Friday, Sep 25 2020

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There was a post about this recently and a representative from 7sage chimed in. They researched test taker performance on LR sections across their site and found that the difference between any two sections on average was in the most extreme case about a point. In most cases, for an individual 7sager there is no statistically relevant difference between the first and second LR, which is why they always drop the second LR from the test to keep things simple.

Thank you!

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Thursday, Sep 24 2020

gabrielmontimanzano28

LR Difficulty & LSAT Flex

Hi! I've been practicing with the 4-section PrepTests and I always leave the second LR section for last, since there's not going to be two LR sections in the Flex test. However, I almost invariably find myself doing considerably worse in the second LR section. Could this just be fatigue, or does anyone else find the 2nd LR sections more difficult than the first ones?

And for those of you who've already taken the LSAT Flex, how do you compare Flex LR to your average LR section?

Thank you and good luck for everyone who's, like me, taking the test in October :)

General · How can one hit 170s?

gabrielmontimanzano28

Monday, Aug 24 2020

Hey! For me, I struggle with LR a lot. A strategy that really helped me was this:

I would go through LR sections (usually in the early preptests) and only read the stimulus. Read it thoroughly, but read it once. Once you get to that last full stop, you’re done, don’t go back, cover it up. Then do the following:

Explain what you just read (I usually write it down, but you can say it aloud too).

Categorize the type of stimuli (Argument? Premise Set? Debate? Controversy?).

If it’s an argument, what’s the flaw? If it’s a premise set, what’s the inference? If it’s a debate, what’s the point at issue? If it’s a controversy, how can you resolve it?Write that down too! And only look at the argument again once you got all of this down so you can correct what you got wrong.

DON’T read the answer choices. DON’T try to answer the question after that. Seriously.

If you do this consistently (I tried to do this at least with one section a day), your memory and analysis will improve, and you’ll be able to read the stimuli quicker and move to the answer choices more sure about what you read and probs already with the inference or flaw in your head! But most importantly, if you do this often, you’ll start to notice patterns. Really. You’ll start to see how formulaic it is.

It got me from -16 in LR every prep test to ~ -3.

With RC I don’t really have a lot to say except that the answers are always in the passage.

I’m taking the test in October too, so good luck to us!

Hope this helped a bit :smile: