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Edited 2 days ago

kittenWhiskers

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Keeping Up with Motivation

Hello everyone!

I've recently started studying (about 2 weeks now) for the LSAT. I'm hoping to take it early next year so I wanted to get a head start during the summer.

I've been studying for about 2 to 4 hours a day with the comprehensive foundations lessons, but I've been falling behind recently. It's been difficult to keep up the consistent motivation because I found it to be quite a lot - already burnt out possibly (I hope not).

Are there any tips to maintain a good, motivated study schedule that can persist not only through the summer but throughout the academic year as well?

Thanks everyone!

Lessons · You Try - Motivational Posters

kittenWhiskers

Edited 6 days ago

While solving this question, I got overwhelmed thinking about do I have to know the premise/conclusion? What about the modifiers? What about the subject/predicate? Where are the referentials? The modifiers? But given the time limit on a real LSAT, I recognize that it may be not possible to analyze all of this. I know that it has to be intuition but when I stumbled upon this question I didn't quite know where to start. I read the paragraph and understood it but didn't know how to approach it.

What would be the best way to study for questions? How would I know by just looking at this question that it is a question focused on referentials? Should I start by analyzing all of the steps I mentioned above and take some time before it becomes automatic?

Lessons · Skill Builder - Modifiers

kittenWhiskers

Friday, May 22

For question 1, shouldn't it be like this?

Subject: antibiotics

Predicate-verb: fail to kill

Predicate-object: the bacteria

Lessons · Skill Builder - For, since, because

kittenWhiskers

Wednesday, May 20

Question 3 isn't in the explanation video, but shouldn't it be broken into two premises?

Premise 1: Since the residents' reviews about the new park have been exceptionally good

Premise 2: because this park is vital for their community interaction

Conclusion: the city council will definitely consider its expansion.

Lessons · Skill Builder - Premise and Conclusion 1

kittenWhiskers

Tuesday, May 19

For question 4, I have a question - I got a bit confused because I thought "how do we know that for pedestrians cars driving faster is dangerous?" since we aren't supposed to use outside knowledge but rely on the premise and conclusion of the argument.

But this is not relevant to identifying whether it is argument because the point of the exercise is not to evaluate the strength but to identify the premise and the conclusion, right?