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LSAT · Broke into 170s... Still missing the easiest LR Questions tho
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ggoekler928
Wednesday, Jun 02 2021

@learnedastronomerlsat236 said:

Remember that what is difficult for others might not be difficult for you, and what is difficult for you might not be difficult for others.

Thanks, I think I just needed to hear this from outside my head. You’re right and I appreciate that you pointed out i can look up other explanations beyond 7sage. Since I started using it I hardly refer to anything else anymore, which is silly.

I think you’re also correct regarding any sort of “patterns.” I’m focusing more on the curve I suppose than the overall score I’m getting.

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General · 7Sage Podcast Episode #46 - Richard Pomp - A Conversation
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ggoekler928
Wednesday, Jun 02 2021

Loved his insight and thoughts on entering the career field at this time. Also Thought Vietnam story was crazy lmao

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So... past two weeks got into the high 160s, Last PT hit a high of 172.

LR was once my strongest section, I’ve honed LR and RC to be more reliable and better scoring now however.

I’ve noticed some patterns reviewing recent LR Sections for me. The main being that I always seem to get incredibly stuck and destroyed by one of the easiest questions on the test according to the curve. I’ll get anywhere between -1 to -5 very variable. But invariably among the misses will be one of these questions.

I’ll find a few behaviors/patterns on these questions. They tend to be early, within the first 12 questions, as early as the 2nd or 3rd. It usually tends to be between two answer choices (usually one is the right one too). I end up spending too much time, crossing out all the other answers, flagging it and moving on to keep pace. On my 2nd round I return to it, then come back and still feel unsure about BR. Then when I get to the explanation JY kinda explains that the other answer choice is obviously bad and just scratches it out (lol I get it its a lot of answer choices on the test, but I’m dumb and dont get it, pls help me).

I can’t seem to find a rhyme or reason, they’re different question types etc. What could I be missing? Just more study?

For those curious, here’s a couple examples of the questions I’m talking about missing.

PT45 S1 Q2

PT70 S1 Q6

PT54 S2 Q2

PT61 S2 Q10

🙏🏼 thanks to anyone who has any words or advice in advance

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LSAT · reading comp might actually be my downfall for June flex
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ggoekler928
Tuesday, Jun 01 2021

Hey Kevin I was in the same boat and recently made a huge jump in RC that got me into the 170s. Last 3 RC sections Ive done I got -2 (prior -7 to -10 avg)

Idk how helpful my experience is to you but this is how it went for me.

Diagnostic i did like -15 on this section. For ost of my time studying I could never get through all of the passages. I got my first gains in this section forcing myself to highlight. Never really had a strategy just tried to brute force do better via maybe more discipline and then obviously the highlighting. This got me to previous mentioned average.

Once I was in your position, I wasn’t sure what to do. Now Prior to my 2.5 months here at 7sage, I went thru the LSAT Trainer by Mike Kim. So I didnt go thru the entire core curriculum here, just used it for trouble areas in LG and LR.

I went thru the 3 theory videos JY has at the beginning of the 7sage curricullum. I watched these with intention and forced myself to implement these strategies the next sections. Since then lowest I’ve gotten is -5.

I dont write anything down or highlight anything now. A lot of it is discipline earned from a lot of PTs too. I just focus, after every sentence I try to comprehend the narrative or facts here, just like an LG rule or LR Stim. You need to grasp the relationships and narrative their telling you, know the structure of the passage and the tone/POV. Derive inferences from this.

At the end of the passage, I look over once to kind of re-establish the big picture, then i dont return unless the question has a line reference or similar, or on my 2nd go round if i wanna eliminate answers. (Yes implementing this has gotten me to where i reliably have time remaining in RC).

Feel free to message me if you want any more detail or have more specific questions!

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General · How to get above the low 160s plateau?
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ggoekler928
Monday, May 31 2021

Just broke through a wall at 162 into the 170s.

LG - you’re LG sounds good, if your missing more than 1, drill the type. And just keep LG chops strong in general.

LR - This is where you can gain big. You need to skip long questions and BR thoroughly

Drill types here as well.

RC - change something and try it for a section. If you dont highlight, do a section and force yourself to. I even tried doing some sections were i read the passage twice and then wouldn’t look back unless there was maybe a line reference.

Long run, RC is about really READING COMP. You gotta comprehend it and be able to understand it and even draw inferences from it.

The night before I broke my plateau I watched the core curriculum videos again about RC with intention, and implemented the kind of strategies and thought process JY detailed in the videos.

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General · High 160's looking for advice!
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ggoekler928
Monday, May 31 2021

RC - Go thru core curriculum lessons (not the passage breakdowns, the intro lessons etc) seriously. A lot of RC is just kinda mindset while reading the passage to retain info.

LG - do all the games 19-49. Repeat them as necessary till you’re getting -0 each time. Games is really drillable.

I personally struggled much more with grouping and in out than sequencing, and found the problem sets were great for really drilling the concepts/inferences/etc.

LR - force yourself to skip flaw, parallel flaw etc. type questions. They require a lot of time and sometimes actually making a map on paper. If you skip them you’ll find you have ample time at the end to do them and it will be less stressful and you can take your time make sure your answers are sound.

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PrepTests ·
PT145.S4.Q9
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ggoekler928
Monday, May 03 2021

I chose B and it has me concerned I may not have the proper grasp of the concept that I should.

B was kinda just crossed out on the video, I was wondering if someone had more of an explanation as to why it should have been eliminated?

My process was that the author was confusing the neccesary condition of receiving donations and voting in favor of the developers with being sufficient for their letting contributions control their voting.

Not arguing B should be right, just trying to understand what I should be able to see clearly to eliminate it, or the error in my understanding.

Thank you!!

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