I suggest taking a deeper look at those questions. Maybe you're falling for trap answers. Analyze why you found the wrong answer you chose attractive and why the right answer was not as attractive. Write out your thought process for the stimulus and the answer choices. Then compare your thinking to official explanations. I often find it helpful to look at multiple explanations from official test prep companies to illuminate what I missed. Time and effort spent reviewing just one question can be well worth it. You can learn a lot from these questions you're missing. In addition to explanations here, you can make use of https://180pedia.com/ to find additional explanations quickly.

There aren't any questions that require you to map out anything. It is a matter of how comfortable you are with the stimulus/answers. If you think it will be helpful to you for a particular question, then, of course, map it out to help you get it right. You may find yourself mapping less and less overtime as you become more comfortable with the test. After much practice, I use mapping only as needed for conditional logic, parallel reasoning, parallel flaw, must be true (usually for overlapping of quantifiers). Do what works for you.

A(----) B and this B(---)A are the same. A biconditional can be read forward or backward. As someone who didn't study logic in school, I found it helpful to look up real world examples online and then come up with my own examples that apply to my everyday life. You wrote the contrapositive statement correctly. I hope this helps.

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@ Science stimuli can sometimes be hard to wrap your head around. If, according to the skeptics, coal deposits are giving false dates for the deepest and oldest levels, the same would have to be true for the middle and upper levels. The skeptics only mention having an issue with dates of the deepest and oldest levels. What about all the other sample levels/dates? This coal deposit issue should also make the upper level appear older than it is as well. However, we're told the upper level corresponds to the present time. I hope that helps.

This was a tough question. With weaken questions, remember to focus on weakening the connection between the premises and the conclusion. I didn't understand this concept at first, but once I did, my performance with with weaken questions significantly improved. I think of it as making the premises less relevant to the conclusion so you now have less reason to believe the conclusion. You're telling the author that the premises they provided don't lead you straight to their conclusion.

Of note, the stimulus doesn't say that smoking was the only way they preserved meat. No language in the stimulus gives that restriction. Also, notice the author doesn't have a high level of certainty about the conclusion. He uses the word "probably." The only reason we should believe they were smoking meat is because they had a fire around that was much better at producing smoke over heat/light. That's it! The author is assuming that smoking meat is the only reason they would burn this high smoke fire. For weaken questions, it helps to focus more on the assumptions the author makes to reach their conclusion (not so much the conclusion). The right answer tends to attack an assumption the author is making. This is why you have to be careful about eliminating answers that seem out of scope at first glance for this question type.

A - You said "this suggests they also used heat." Do you mean use heat to preserve food? I would say heat would cook food, not preserve it. This answer doesn't weaken the argument. It introduces another type of fire instead of focusing on the lichen and grass fire. I can't say how this new fire relates to the argument.

B - weakens because it provides an alternative explanation. It introduces the possibility that they were using the lichen and grass fires for something else - heat and light. Lichen and grass were the best plants they had around at the time to burn for heat and light. This answer makes the fact that this fire produces a lot of smoke less significant which makes it less likely they were burning this fire specifically to smoke meat.

I'm interested. Is there a group chat yet? Thanks.

1. Do LSAT

If you don't want to go all in and answer questions on your commute, you can still practice. Some examples:

LR question skills practice- focus on identifying premises and conclusion, type of flaws in the argument

read RCpassage- 35 minutes is enough time to read a passage (identify main point, structure, viewpoints) and do the main point question

2. Read

-core curriculum and their discussions, you can learn a lot from comments left by others, focus on areas you struggle with

-outside nonfiction reading material (books/articles), make reading a habit, build up your schema in the main RC topics (law, social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities), I like to focus on the areas I find more challenging to read

-LSAT blogs- 7Sage, Powerscore, Manhattan Prep

3. Listen to LSAT Podcasts.

This is my favorite commute activity. I follow several LSAT podasts.

My top 3:

-7Sage

-JD LSAT & Admissions

-Powerscore

4. Review notes and wrong answer journal

There are many other things you can do. As you go further along in your studies, you'll come up with more ideas. I hope this list can help you get started. Good luck!

It's normal to have some jitters while testing. What's important is to have stragies for managing that. Only you can determine what works best for you. It would helpful to do a more specific analysis of your mistakes and develop strategies to avoid them. Look at things like misreads, mistakes diagramming rules, incorrect inferences that are over or under inclusive, the types of questions you tend to make a mistake on, etc. The more you avoid these mistakes in practice, the higher your confidence will be which should reduce the jitters. Stay positive about your ability to perfect the section (you're so close) and keep practicing. You'll get there before you know it.

Is your time for games you've done before improving with foolproofing? Foolproofing should help improve your timing over the long haul. It will make you faster at making inferences. Since there are only so many game types, set up patterns and rule connections will repeat over and over.

Don't overthink it. Just stop doing LG.

Why not? It is a test of language. If it's something you enjoy studying, keep it going. You can study/learn anything purely for enjoyment and self-development.

This is not changing. LSAC website states you have the option to go to a test center or test remotely.

International dates are available on LSAC. International is not available on every test date (no August). In the next testing cycle, LSAC lists October 2024 as the first international test administration. The tests that say "All testing regions" are international. Review the full list for 2024-2025 LSAT Testing Year- https://www.lsac.org/LSATdates#new-TY

Did you see something somewhere that makes some sort of distinction between the two? As far as I know, they're the same thing. You can use either term. With a false dichotomy, aka false binary, only 2 options are presented and all other possible options are ignored.

@ It would behoove you to reach out to LSAC directly for a legit answer. In situations like this, go straight to the source for clarity and an official answer. I would feel most comfortable proceeding with the instructions LSAC provides. Whatever a peer says here, I would still have to verify with LSAC. So why not just skip the extra step? Don't delay. Contact LSAC today so you can check on his off your list.

You’re right that problems 1 and 2 lead to problem 3. I think your misinterpretation of part of the stimulus led you astray with the answers. The stimulus says there was "excessive irrigation," so there was too much water. Nothing in the stimulus translates to "wheat production requires too much water.”

B (correct answer): Helps explain why barley increased and wheat declined. The salt accumulation isn’t as much of an issue for the barley compared to the wheat. It’s helpful to remember that the salt accumulation is the consequent problem of excessive irrigation and lack of drainage. So if the ultimate issue that resulted, salt accumulation, is addressed, you don't need to address the other two separately here.

A (wrong answer): This comparison is irrelevant to the historian’s argument. This answer implies wheat wasn’t receiving enough water; however, we know that there was actually too much water (excessive irrigation).

If you haven't taken the LSAT format without the LG section, I suggest doing that. Seeing your score with LR, LR, RC might help you feel more comfortable making a decision. Just based on how many you're missing in LG now, I say plan to take June. Then retake if you're not happy with your score.

In NYC. Can meet up.

To maximize your score, it's best to be prepared for any type of game on test day. You may or may not get a miscellaneous game. With that being said, if you haven't mastered the major game types yet, focus studies there. Mastering the different game types is what will help you develop the flexibility and confidence needed to knock out a miscellaneous game.

It sounds like you might need to take a break. During that break, reevaluate your "why?" Review and redefine your why and use it to inspire you and reinvigorate your studying. Yes, this is hard, but it can be done. So many have felt like this and have found a way to push themselves down the road of success. Take care of yourself. Step back and focus on things that make you feel positive. Remember this test will still be there after you take a break. Best wishes!

Your score is telling you that you must do something different. Maybe instead of just taking more PTs, spend more time studying and changing the way you reviewed your PTs (review then again, but differently). Your score shows there's still a lot you can learn and improve on. Focus on quality over quantity when working through questions. Go back over questions you missed, especially the ones you found the most challenging and the ones you were confident you got right but didn't. I learn the most from reviewing these particular questions. Write out your thinking and then compare your thinking to official explanations. This will help you uncover gaps in your understanding and force you to acknowledge what you don't understand yet. and what you're missing. Keep going!

For the most part, you will find a mixture of experience levels within a class (beginner to advanced). However, you can use the tags on classes to help you select classes to start with. Look for classes tagged "beginner" and you can gauge from there. You're not required to speak in live classes so you can start participating /speaking in class when you're ready. You can take classes in conjunction with going through the curriculum. No need to wait. What's most important is getting started and developing a consistent study routine. Good luck!

When you hover over WSE, it doesn't provide the full label. Admin needs to fix that. From looking at a few RC questions with this label, I would assume WSE stands for "Weaken/Strengthen."

Example WSE question stems from preptests-

Which one of the following would, if true, most strengthen the author's position

Which one of the following would, if true, most seriously

undermine the author’s conclusion

Which one of the following would, if true, strengthen the

position

You're doing a lot of PTs. PT scores often aren't linear. Focus on your average score. There's a reason LSAC includes a score band when reporting LSAT scores. It's hard to hide your weaknesses across multiple PTs. Your scores reflect this. You're clearly doing well, so focus more on the individual questions you're missing and why you're missing them. Maybe dig deeper instead of just jumping to another PT.