I find that developing consistent markings for temporal quantifiers, opinions, people, and important concepts helped me a lot.

I only applied to one, because I knew that it was the only school I really wanted to go to. Since my stats were within their medians I felt sure that I'd get in, and I did. I think that you shouldn't waste your time applying to schools that you don't want to go to.

If the NC is the only NC of the SC then it's a bi-conditional.

What has helped me has been going through every stimulus, without reading the question stem, and writing out the premises and conclusion. For example, if the stimulus looks like this: "The dress is purple. This is because it is neither yellow nor blue" I would diagram it as:

-Not Yellow

-Not Blue

-?

Dress is purple

This helps me impose order on even the most complex of stimuli, and helps me feel more in control. Also, intentionally leaving the gap in the diagram helps to signal to my brain that there is a gap in the argument.

I recommend that you do this without timing yourself or even looking at the question stems with a few LR sections you have already gone through. Then go through the sections again, read the stems, and then pick apart every answer choice, and write down why it is either wrong or right. It should take hours, but after doing several sections like this the form of the LR stimuli start to become second nature.

I'm in the Peninsula and would love a study partner!