@dh2303 Okay, thank you clarifying and for backing me up.

@antitrust_fan You never answered my question. Can calculators reason?

@antitrust_fan Right, the only person I "dunked on" was someone using ChatGPT to critique the "passive aggressive" language of 7Sage's AI chatbot. This is crippling addiction no matter how you slice it and it should be shamed. Don't forget that you and I are only having this conversation because you responded antagonistically to someone sharing their perspective.

The people profiting from AI usage and investment want you to believe it can "reason". This is literally just a semantic point, it depends on how you define "reason". Nothing I said was untrue. If you had any idea how AI worked this wouldn't be so difficult for you. Please continue defending the likes of Palantir, I think it'll be really fulfilling for you.

Yes, I'm clearly the mean-spirited one here. If you want to continue to use AI to get through life, I'm certain we'll end up at different schools. :)

@antitrust_fan LLMs do not reason. This is not up for debate. Their ability to recognize statistical patterns in syntax is limited to what they've been trained on. How exactly do you think these engines improve?

Yes, we all know AI has scored a 180. The LSAT is a multiple choice exam. This does not support your claim that they are able to reason. I'm guessing you believe calculators reason as well?

There is no "AI hate train". Being a principled person is not "hating". Your LLM is giving you Trumpian Twitter arguments.

Literally what are you on about? Comment sections are a place for discussion among peers, not a place where students expect to find flawless explanations. "Rhetorically charged yet virtually substance-free"? Using pithy Redditspeak doesn't give you any intellectual high ground.

@icedshakenespresso In other words, if continuing to study will help you feel prepared and lower your anxiety, then do that. Good luck! :)

My take is that it doesn't really matter what you do in the few days leading up (study-wise). Just make sure you're sleeping well and managing stress/anxiety as much as you can.

@kae Just try to shake it off, it happens. It doesn't define you or your capabilities. Good luck on your exam!

Did you review the PT? That can tell you if it's stress/nervousness or something else.

He's the best to ever do it.

@antitrust_fan Stop. All LLMs hallucinate. Your anecdotal experience of plugging in a couple of questions is not evidence of anything.

Huh? Gemini doesn't need to be trained on 7Sage materials; it's trained on a colossal amount of data. The internet is full of discussions of LSAT PrepTests, Reddit in particular. Do you understand how this works?

@DavidDuncan88 These are future legal professionals, can you believe it?

@Lidiia Ratioed btw

@antitrust_fan So you're using it to review missed questions after you've read/watched the 7Sage explanations and lauding it for never being wrong? Please be a bit more honest with yourself.

@ionicinstinct Bravo

@Lidiia You're complaining about a chatbot having "passive aggressive vibes"...

@Lidiia You are under spells

@cattail8148 I love you

This is... an odd choice.

@EthanO For resolve/reconcile/explain questions, you must assume the answer choices to be true. In the stimulus, the phrase "seems unlikely to provide effective camouflage" isn't a fact, it's a (human) judgment. C resolves the discrepancy that black-and-white coloring seems that it would not provide effective camouflage from a human perspective while actually giving animals with black-and-white coloring an advantage. The stimulus also tells us that effective predation is how species survive predation.

I don't think A is a terrible answer choice (I chose it), but simply being more populous doesn't really target the discrepancy. Predators eat more than one animal of prey during their lifetime and — like the explanation says — more populous could mean their population is bigger by just 1.

For RRE, you have to assume that all of the answer choices are true. You're trying to identify an explanation for a paradox presented in the stimulus. The answer choices are giving you new information to consider.

"Which one of the following, if true, contributes to a resolution of the apparent paradox?"

In this case, you're trying to explain why high-rises in cities with recent earthquakes have little damage if scientists currently believe that displacement pulses (to which high-rises are especially vulnerable) are present in all earthquakes according to computer models.

Yes, B casting doubt on the prediction that high-rise buildings are especially vulnerable to displacement pulses because it attacks the accuracy of the computer models which helped to make this prediction.

Unfortunately, if you're scoring in the mid-140s on practice exams, you won't be able to score 170 on test day. I say keep drilling. What's important is being able to predict the answer before seeing the answer choices. I also suggest doing a deep review on your previous practice exams.

Thank you 7Sage!

@BillyNotReally I think that's common. Answer choices aside, do you understand their process (i.e. what they do with the stimulus)? If you don't recognize their approach, try revisiting the curriculum, learning Lawgic, etc.

I'm so deeply sorry for your loss.

Grief completely scrambles our brains. It makes us slower, more forgetful, less able to retain information. It makes us perpetually exhausted. If you are set on applying this fall, maybe consider testing in August or September so you have some room to breathe. Take your time, the test will always be there.

Are you watching the video explanations for the practice questions?