Hi all, scores were released today. I did ok. Below what I wanted and slightly below what I had been PTing. Now I need to retake it, any advice on becoming motivated and bringing score up. Can someone give me hope that I can go from 162 to breaking 170s by August has anyone done it!
I had the same experience. You're going to hate my answer... but I went through the curriculum again, I think it helped having context from drilling- I understood and retained techniques better the second time around.
Hi! I also used to struggle with NA questions. This is what helped me. First: understanding the difference between NA and SA questions. If you see "if" in the Q stem you can pretty quickly assume it is SA. SA require stronger answer choices that fill in a gap and sometimes actually strengthen the conclusion- think of them as BOOM big explosion wow moment. NA questions require much, like you said, narrower answer choices, I don't even like to think of filling in a gap, I like to think of what does the argument seek, what does it need. These answer choices confine closely to what is stated in the stimulus- if the answer choice offers any new information or goes above and beyond- that is likely not the answer. That's where it gets tricky. It helped me to think of Conlcusion supports the necessary and Sufficient supports the conclusion.
I have found that the negation test tends to be pretty accurate, if the negation of this answer choice destroys the argument or makes the argument HIGHLY UNLIKELY to follow then it's probably correct. In theory we could always find loopholes around the negation test, but I suggest just taking it as it is and don't overthink because you will be able to find assumptions in almost all answer choices on the entire test and that becomes like a black hole.
For PT127.S2.Q20
Think of it almost as steps (I AM NOT DRAWING OUT CONDITIONALS) this is my thought process that usually leads me to the right answer-
Talk show------ broad audience
But broad audience --- not high quality
OK but why does that even matter?????
not high quality ---- no talk show
WAIT BUT WHYYYYY?
you can kind of see here where the argument is missing a premise, it introduces "high quality" without justifying its impact and position in the argument. That is what we need to resolve, we need to give high quality a purpose.
So we can look at the conclusion and the lead up to it and say ok all of this information together needs answer choice D while silmutaneously providing support for it to fit seamlessly into the argument.
If you negate D the argument should not follow (of course you could deep dive into assumption land) but just take it as surface level as possible.
Hi all, how is everyone treating these few weeks between taking the LSAT and receiving the results. I don't want to totally stop studying so I try to do some drills - but I find it very hard to focus and want to study. But I don't want to lose momentum and get out of the groove.
@JacobBaska Thank you for your response- yes, I did not want to bring up mental health as a "roadblock" or something I had to overcome. It was going to serve as a segway into my purpose! This was a very helpful response- thank you!!!!!
Hi, as I start thinking about my personal statement- I wanted to get some opinions about mentioning mental health, it would be mentioned in the least dramatic way possible I promise and it would not be the main theme, just a small touchpoint within the broader picture. I just wanted to see if admissions officers would read about struggles with mental health and see it as a drawback (again nothing debilitating), is there a stigma? Thanks!!!
I am taking the test on Saturday, and I feel like I am being toooooo chill in advance of the test. What should I be doing.. how should I be prepping?
I like the written better because I find that they connect back to question types and tags more- whereas the videos feel very question specific and not widley applicable.
It's pretty straightfoward I would say. I did not take the time to practice and I did not know this- beware that you CANNOT copy and paste anything written in your outline, into the actual essay area. I had no idea and ended up wasting a lot of time retyping three paragprahs which I had written during the 15 minutes for outlining- use that time to read only and create an outline only.
Maybe I am just horrible at math. I cannot understand at all, the 29% is of students in Westerville, what does this have to do with the other number? We have no totals so these percentages in relation to each other mean nothing?
Did anyone have an aha moment for these, I can't figure out how to differentiate main conclusion from the summary type ACs
Doesn't B also mean that experiencing a traumatic event produces more cortisol. You are producing more cortisol- to prevent PTSD, which is probably triggered by a traumatic event?????????????
For anyone who struggles with LR, I highly recommend drilling Parallel and Parallel Flaw Q's and truly gaining a deep understanding of the strategy, approach and argument structures. As soon as I was able to understand how to break down an argument to that level and be able to find a comparable one in the answer choices, something clicked- other question types naturally came easier because I could more clearly and quickly understand the structure.
Should I write an addendum if I had a year where my GPA was slightly like very slightly below the rest of the semesters (but it did bring down my GPA). How severe does the grade fluctuation need to be to warrant an addendum?