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PT113.S2.Q15
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Monday, Jul 25 2016

I got this wrong, but after looking at it again it seems so easy. I think that a surefire way to instantly get the correct answer is just to realize that "critics" are a subset of "interpreter". Answer B is completely obvious that way. The question also seems set up very much like a principle question.

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PT144.S2.Q20
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Tuesday, Sep 20 2016

This explanation really seems off to me. The assumptions you need to make as presented in the explanation seem to equally as reasonable. I could be wrong but I think the real reason that E is correct is that it includes "over the years". Since C doesn't say that, you'd have to make an assumption that the uncertainty of first year majors is only recent - that seems to be much more unreasonable than the other assumptions it makes, as well as the assumption E makes.

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Saturday, Jun 18 2016

Here is a note that I left myself after favoriting this lesson; I hope that others find it to be helpful:

Identify [in the answer choices] the statement that would make the relationship between the premise and the conclusion [in the presented argument that's imbedded within the stimulus] inconsequential.

P.S. If this note is inaccurate please leave feedback so that I don't continue to mislead myself and others.

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Monday, Sep 05 2016

Thanks guys, I appreciate the feedback and encouragement. Most of you have suggested pushing back to December but unfortunately that just isn't feasible in terms of timing. I have taken a short break though. Yesterday was my birthday and I took the whole day off, and today I will be doing review and LG practice only. I know it's inefficient but tomorrow I'll be cramming in those PTs again. I am hoping that the dip in scores is only reflective of exhaustion and that I still learn from the mistakes. I think I am... a lot of the ones I get wrong are for ridiculous reasons - reading it backwards / ignoring "except" in the question stem, etc. Thankfully, I know that I can get into Loyola which is a great school and is by far the most convenient location for me (my wife works in Manhattan Beach 10 min away from the school). I'll have to just suck it up, keep testing/reviewing and hope for the best.

P.S. @ I am indeed a fellow SoCal teacher!

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Sunday, Sep 04 2016

josephshafik367

Getting worse at LSATs every day

I'm so incredibly pissed. I started studying in late June with the goal to take the LSAT in September. I know that's not a lot of time to study, but I am a full time teacher and I really have no other choice because I can't split focus between work and studies. So after going through the course, I began recording my LSATs with perfectly simulated conditions. I started from #39. As of now, I just completed #66, so I have 12 left.

Here is the deal, I have been doing so incredibly bad lately. My Average on my first 10 was 164.7, median was 165. On the next 10 my average was 166, median was 155.5. I actually got a 170 on LSAT #51. Now I have finished 8 more, and my average on those is 164.37, with a median of 164. My last test was a 162, and the one before that was a 163. wtf?

My LR has been consistently very good barring a few outliers; my LG went from atrocious, to bad, to slightly better but still bad. My RC has plummeted. I get 3x as much wrong now.

Honestly, it's the worst feeling in the word. I have to finish the next 12 over 19 days, (I'm at least spacing out the last 3 with lots of relaxation in the last week), and I'm starting to feel like I'm doomed to failure. I really want to go to USC or UCLA, but I'd need to get a 167 to have a shot, given the fact that my GPA is so low from my 3rd year of college - Computer Science was not my thing and I had to be my mom's caretaker. I know that I can explain that stuff in the application, but honestly it would be stupid for those universities to gamble on someone because of their situation when they have more than enough applicants that are getting better scores.

Anyways, venting over. I'm sure there are others out there experiencing the same crap.

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