It's so hard to take a day off but I do think it's important. Even a few days off is probably helpful. But there's no way to know for sure if it will help or hurt you. That's why it's stressful, for me at least. Lol. Trust your gut.

Hi A_lheduru,

I really liked this rc passage because it was so positive about professionals and had that nice sentence about the practice of law.

Anyway. Okay, so question 26 asks about the author's attitude. When I reach these questions I first skim the answers to see if the first word of any answer strikes me as true of the author's attitude. Right off the bat, I think, the author did not seem eager. He wrote professionally and with a strong opinion, and eagerness seems at odds with certainty and strength. E stuck out to me because the author does seem "certain." I read E and thought it made sense. Because I never have enough time in RC sections, I just chose E and moved on.

In review, though, of course it's better to think deeply about it like you're doing. I think you're right. A is wrong in part because the author is speaking broadly about all professionals. You can eliminate A because of that reason. But A is also wrong because the "new perspective" it is referring to is in lines 1-10: "There are various ...new meaning?" His entire essay is then structured to answer that question. In other words, he is committed precisely to the opposite of answer choice A; he is trying to show that the new perspective is wrong.

Meanwhile, E is right because of line 58. It is almost explicitly stated.

I hope that helps!

Oh my god Nilesh those read exactly like LR questions. and Vandyzach, thanks, I'll look that up it sounds interesting.

I don't know anything about this, but my instinct is that in your situation it would be better to send your application in once you have your lsat score. Your reasoning for doing that seems strong.

Oh my god I have the same problem but in the LG section.

What I've learned is that if possible, I should try to reach the end of the section with minutes to spare. This is obviously really hard, but you can skip hard questions to do this. That way you are sure not to miss any easy ones between 21 and 25, Josiegsaldana. Then, if you skip, like, 15, 18 and 22, you reach the end of the section with 3 minutes left and tackle two of those skipped questions.

Or some variation of that. For me I get psyched out when the proctor calls five minutes left, so it's best if I'm on the last problem by then.

I think they do that on purpose to mess with you. just ignore it. the powerscore bible says the most lsat has ever done is four in a row, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did five just to screw with us

Kelly- The main thing for comparative reading passages is figuring out how the passages relate to each other. What would the authors agree/disagree on, what is the point at issue between them (even though they are not responding to each other). Read the first passage carefully, and as you read the second passage you should be coming up with the answers to those questions: how does this passage relate to the last one, etc.

This is perfect! thanks for the quick response, Alan. :)

I haven't noticed that, but I've done a lot more LR than RC (because there are twice as many and because I like them more). I'm interested to see if people who have studied more than I have have noticed a trend.

For me, the "trick" to RC is to be interested in the passage. It's difficult because the passages are so short and you know the questions are coming up and there are more passages after, but if you can forget about all of that and just be interested in what you're reading, you'll do better.

That was a hard one. I got thrown off by all the econ words. I chose A because I thought it referred to a time 50 years before the argument's time period.

Hi!

I thought this was a tough question, too.

With answer C, what exactly is the contention it is trying to show? That is circular reasoning. The question would need to say something like "It's obvious to everyone that development in the trail should proceed. Therefore, development of the trail should proceed" in order for C to be right. It doesn't do that, so C is wrong.

D is wrong because it says a "few users" characterize the majority. But in the question stem it says "most" trail users would not litter. Most is a majority, so D is inaccurate.

A is the right answer choice because you can't decide that one thing is right just because someone else made an argument against it and they are wrong. I can't say I should throw my brother a surprise birthday party just because Anna said he doesn't like cake but she's wrong, he actually does like cake. There are a ton of other reasons why I should or shouldn't throw him a surprise party. Similarly, okay, maybe there wouldn't be litter but that doesn't -mean- they should build the trail. Maybe they don't want to chop down trees or disturb the environment or maybe there's some tax thing. So the argument is flawed in that it relies on the weakness of the opposing argument rather than on the strength of its own.

Hope that helps!

don't worry about the oddball games, because there is absolutely nothing you can do about it. Instead, drill the games that are very common because even if there is one oddball, the other three will be games like those you've seen before. Hopefully you can do those quickly and leave time to figure out the potential oddball. Good luck!

If they resampled and found fewer 100s than they had even thrown out into the world, that would offer some evidence that even those 100s that they themselves had released are now "in hiding" and thus give some evidence that their theory about hiding might be correct.

thanks JY

Something that helped me was to take a PT every day for a few days. For me, a big problem was feeling anxious that I had to get all the questions right (which I definitely wasn't). By taking the PTs more often, they stopped each feeling like a BIG DEAL. I only did this for four days, and since then have taken one every other day or so, and it has helped so far.

Hard to know if the answer is more studying or less, like raytranr said.

Also you should recognize that going from a 154 to a 165 is really great. :)

I'm also wondering about this. I'd been planning on saving tests 60-72 for September but now I think I'll do some in the next week in case they are harder than the ones in the 40s that I'm currently doing (I stupidly did section practice for the 50s before finding 7sage)

Something else I've noticed is I tend to do worse on the first section, no matter what type of section it is. I think I haven't settled into the test yet. Could you have a problem like that?

Also, it seems like if there's an easy lg section then there is a hard rc section. So sometimes I will get most/all right on one and 3-4 wrong on the other, and the next PT it will be the opposite. (I figured this out using the analytics tool where it says if each section is easier, harder, etc compared to other tests.)

same. love the analytics resource!! thank you!

Keep taking pts. You can review concepts from 7sage now that you have context for them; you'll be taking pts so you'll know what areas are giving you trouble. lsat analytics is helpful as someone said. You can do it!

Blind review. It's what has started to push me past the score that I was getting and toward what I want to get.

I've taken that test-- do you have a question? Maybe I can help answer it.

I broke up with my boyfriend at the beginning of the summer, not because of the lsat but in part because he was so clingy that I felt like I couldn't get away to study, which made me feel kind of captured. His parting words to me were, "I think you should rethink law school." So that was nice.

take a break! relax. You didn't forget how to do these questions, you just panicked. come back tomorrow or even the day after and you'll be all set. You could work on your personal statement or something in the meantime if you can't take a day off

does anyone else see a face in JY's abstract picture of loneliness?

Llaima01, thanks so much for your ideas. Thinking about the questions in terms of "what does the author think" instead of "what is the passage trying to say" makes it much easier.