@AmandaDemiglioClarkson I can only speak for myself but since doing this I went from inconsistent scores- to consistent -2

I know everyone says WAJ- but WAJ. I do it on paper I think it's more effective. I breakdown the stimulus premise by premise + conclusion and I write out how the conclusion is supported or what its missing. I Identify the gap, alternative explanations and inferences I should have made before going to the ACs. Then I explain why the AC I picked was wrong, and not just "I misread" (even if I did), I actually write out why it does not work. Then I do the same for the correct AC. Spend a lot of time on it- it made me increase my score in like a month

When it clicks it clicks. Here are some things I wish I had implemented muchhhh earlier

• At first I thought knowing the Q Types was not necessary, but once I learned them and placed them on the spectrum of support, ie. what does each Q Type need. For ex. SA can have a powerful answer (so can be more powerful in its language ie. most, all, always). whereas NA needs to be provable- so weaker (ie, some, sometimes) everything became more intuitive. This can you help you eliminate tempting ACs off the bat just by seeing one word.

• Understanding Phenomenon-Hypothesis Stims. When you BR or WAJ, actually write out the phenomenon and hypothesis (or what it is asking you to hypothesize).

• A lot of times I think we think the entire test is just conditional reasoning- not true! Give some love to causal reasoning (it is not as intuitive as you think) and really learn to see the chain of causal reasoning in the stimulus and flaws that often accompany it.

• Always go to the ACs with a prediction, even if your prediction doesn't match any ACs, it has helped me find the gap in the stimulus almost always and identify the correct AC faster.

• Just bc you can do conditional logic in your head, doesn't mean you should, pen to paper helps (and really will save you time), I don't diagram every Q but always the hard ones.

• For weaken and strengthen questions, looking at the stim and asking yourself, wellll what could be an alternative explanation for this thing happening, always helps.

• Idk if this is good advice, but I have started thinking of MSS as, I need to find a conclusion for this stimulus, what would the premises support? - this has led me to picking strongly supported ACs, vs getting confused.

Out of all of that, if I could pick out one general theme of advice, ALWAYS ANTICIPATE BEFORE LOOKING AT THE ACs. Untimed drills helped me with this. I would read the stim and the Q type, break it down premise by premise on paper, and write down 2-3 predictions and thennnn go to ACs. Speed comes with understanding of the concepts- so it's ok to just do untimed until you realllllyy get the concepts (esp. if you're not taking a test soon). I actually got faster (and more accurate) when I paused from timed drills and sections and just broke down every single Q type and stim type like this and learned to anticipate patterns.

I hope that helped!!!

I was so confused by the wording of this it makes it seem so hard. But this is the type of Q you can get right entirely by POE.

@Dagny OH NO!!! That's so annoying, I haven't figured it out either, good luck, in this together !!

@steamboatwillie That's why I thought is was a glitch but even so that means 6pm EST for me, but I don't have that information anywhere its so annoying

@steamboatwillie This makes sense, I just hate that they're not clear like ugghhhhhh

@Dagny I also emailed, I just wish they were more clear, they should put your window in jd services this is really confusing to me

It tells me in the prometric site that my time is 11:59pm but I got an LSAC email that says 11:00am today??????????

How do I stop myself from finding assumptions in the ACs. Like I didn't pick E bc I thought to myself what if the stuff needs to be shipped from one side of mars to the other through space- that would also be expensive.

The explanation for e literally says probably, which is what would have made it easier to pick the answer DOESNT SAY PROBABLY

Could we also have eliminated D b/c it's saying the material came from both, but the stimulus says "his material came either from spent fuel rods or from the plant's core" and does not say OR BOTH. This question was impossible so I feel like eliminating would help?

I think they go hand in hand more than you think- I started scoring better when I started thinking of RC as long LR, that being said get the foundations down.

@JacquiF Do I need to have purchased CAS before the Recommendors send those in?

@Sof You choose your center closer to the test

Yay! Thank you!!!!!