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PT129.S3.Q20
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kmcke01356
Monday, Nov 11 2024

I didn't realize the timeline and was confused.

Congrats on getting in!

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PrepTests ·
PT129.S3.Q20
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kmcke01356
Monday, Nov 11 2024

When did I say that? You asked how to do this type of question in the allotted time and I took the time to answer.

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PT121.S4.Q16
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kmcke01356
Monday, Nov 04 2024

Good for you?

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PT129.S3.Q20
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kmcke01356
Saturday, Nov 02 2024

Most don't.

You diagram and compare to your diagram.

A -> B -> C

B SOME /A

Conclusion:

C SOME /A

If you can't understand this diagram you need to go back and learn conditional logic and formal logic better.

I would draw it with an S with arrows, but the format of the website messes it up. I would also not write out "conclusion" and instead a line on the page.

The some is formal logic. The rest are conditional terms.

If you want to be able to do this in your head you need to thoroughly understand the diagram and how the logic works first. Some people can hold the diagram in their heads, I can't very reliably so I take the extra time to diagram so I'm not constantly checking the stimulus.

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PrepTests ·
PT129.S3.Q16
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kmcke01356
Saturday, Nov 02 2024

I don't believe this is a conditional statement at all. It is a causal one.

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PT129.S3.Q16
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kmcke01356
Saturday, Nov 02 2024

I got confused because I thought the question stem was trying to trick me into a correlation/causation association.

The first statement is "as technological innovations improve the pace of life becomes faster than ever before."

I thought a big lesson is that two things existing together does not equal causation unless explicitly stated. Am I confused about a grammar rule here or something?

If anyone has advice for avoiding these confusions I would really appreciate it.

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PT157.S3.Q24
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kmcke01356
Wednesday, Oct 30 2024

I would say the presence of the other answer choices such as C makes this question easier rather than harder.

I was having a lot of trouble with this one and didn't feel 100% confident in the logic, but I was able to understand the structure of the argument.

I diagrammed like this;

CS#

SD>FSF

# Total

SD> SF

% of CS (CONCLUSION)

SD< FSF

I wasn't able to break down the logic in my head but what I was able to do was look how my two premises structurally fed into my conclusion. Because of this I was able to really quick mark out C and a couple others.

Also, something you didn't address was the idea of feature-length Sci-Fi movies vs just Sci-Fi movies.

This reasoning also carried forward into answer choice B but you did not address it at all. I was able to identify that "missing piece"and look for it in the answer choices. I don't know if this was right to do or not.

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Friday, Oct 18 2024

kmcke01356

Suggestion for Saving Answer Choices

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Hello,

I really like the platform overall, but wish I could save answer choices in folders. There's some questions I wish to come back to or want to save for specific reasons, but I only have the option of pinning them.

I would really like a way to save questions in a more specific way so I could have a folder for myself with titles like "need to re-review" or "hardest conditional reasoning."

I mark questions in a book by hand that I would like to revisit but its really annoying to keep track of it this way, and once I do return to them its annoying to find them in the system using the drilling platform.

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PT130.S3.Q23
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kmcke01356
Friday, Oct 18 2024

I had a lot of trouble with this question and still feel a little confused.

I'm hung up on the "significantly" wording of C that is present.

I get that C strengthens the conclusion by weakening the study's findings in relation to the conclusion, but it still feels lackluster. Would I be wrong in saying that C is the right answer in the context that its better than all the rest, but is overall still a weak strengthening?

I had a lot of trouble because both A and C seemed to be answer choices with problems, but at the time A seemed less problematic.

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PT130.S3.Q15
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kmcke01356
Friday, Oct 18 2024

I have trouble with these and its because of my weakness in conditional reasoning.

The nice thing about if you're scoring high but struggling with these questions is that they are easy to drill. If you can get CR down you have a nice way to scoop up points.

I also have trouble with CR and am in the high-160s, but find its topic in which I've had the most immense improvement.

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General · Advice for LSAT score dropping again after improvement?
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kmcke01356
Thursday, Oct 17 2024

Yes this happened to me and it happens to a lot of people. The reasons for why are going to vary a lot for each person though.

What helped for me was taking the pressure off and really deep diving into why I was getting answers wrong.

Apart of the reason I was getting worse was that I was finally understanding concepts and this was taking me LONGER to do each one. Before I was just going off intuition and I had an ok chance of getting answers right. After studying the concepts I was understanding the logic behind them, but was a bit more delayed timewise as I wasn't comfortable. After sticking with studying in drilling I not only understood the concepts and got more answers right, but I did them quickly.

Another thing I noticed is that I was looking at my practice-tests in a very short sited way. I was really getting "lucky" on a lot of them and would often bomb the experimental sections. In reality my performance didn't get much worst as a whole, but the way I was testing was just less favorable to the score I was getting.

I made sure to hone in and analyze my practice tests and identify any weak spots.

The biggest thing for me though was stress management. I made the decision that if I wasn't ready for this years test cycle and had to take January it wasn't going to be the end all. I was able to focus more on what was going to improve my results long-term and not just short-term, and this shift in studying had dramatic impacts in the way I was taking tests. When I take tests I feel more prepared and well-rested despite actually cutting my study time down. I only study a maximum of five hours as after this point I feel myself stop making mental progress.

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PT135.S4.Q8
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kmcke01356
Monday, Oct 14 2024

The explanation he give explicitly states it is not a causal flaw, advising to not even finish reading the stimulus is such a bad idea when so much of the test content is explicitly testing your ability to read closely.

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PT135.S1.Q21
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kmcke01356
Monday, Oct 14 2024

This struck me because it seemed like a sufficient assumption answer. It does link the premise and conclusion, but it didn't strike me as something that was necessarily made.

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PT131.S3.Q19
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kmcke01356
Friday, Oct 11 2024

I feel I got screwed up by making a silly mistake reading, but I thought my way of charting it was easy to understand and may help others too.

[Understand Word -> Know Dictionary Definition] -> [Understand Word - > Understand Words in Defintion]

[UW -> UDD] -> [UW -> UWDD]

Writing the conditions as a branch of UW makes the stimulus very confusing. For the second bracket to be true, the first must be true.

If you simplify the brackets you have X -> Y, but X and Y have their own conditions in itself. The fact that one of the conditions is repeating on each side does not really matter, its just confusing wording meant to make you mess up a more simple concept taught on day one of LSAT prep.

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Lessons · Single Position Passage, Paragraph 2 (Stealing Thunder)
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kmcke01356
Monday, Oct 07 2024

Thankyou for your quick and thoughtful feedback! I really do appreciate all you guys put into these courses.

What you're saying makes a lot of sense. The frustrating thing for me is that I find it so much harder to find and quickly track information in the digital format as opposed to the paper format. I guess I just have to keep practicing, its frustrating but it is what it is.

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Lessons · Single Position Passage, Paragraph 2 (Stealing Thunder)
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kmcke01356
Monday, Oct 07 2024

#feedback

I like the videos overall but would really love to see some lessons using the new format for reading comp.

Simple strategies like paragraph breaks intimidate under a timed situation since we don't have the same ability to mark up the passage as shown in your videos.

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PT134.S2.Q13
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kmcke01356
Tuesday, Oct 01 2024

I'm so nervous about time that I sometimes miss questions like these.

I clearly understand the answer now, but I get intimidated by these long wordy questions and my brain shuts down.

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PT134.S2.Q18
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kmcke01356
Tuesday, Oct 01 2024

I read this as a must be true and spent so much time on it ugh! Its so much easier now lol

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Lessons · Skill Builder - Drawing Valid Conclusions 3
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kmcke01356
Tuesday, Oct 01 2024

I didn't get a power score tutor, I used the logical reasoning bible from Powerscore. I thought it was pretty helpful and now I like having it as a reference guide for questions.

I like 7Sage a lot since it deep dives individual questions, but I also like having the book on hand. Its very organized and is more helpful for me when I need to check over fundamentals. THe 7Sage course content here seems pretty good overall, but I find the organization a bit chaotic when I'm just trying to get a quick overview of a topic.

The tutor I got was private. To be honest I felt I didn't get a ton out of it compared to the cost of what I was paying. I've heard other people with better experiences though, this was just one guy so maybe we weren't a good fit.

I feel OK with formal logic, but am having trouble with the speed. But a tutor can't really teach me that, from here its all about repetition on reviewing concepts to make sure they're instinctual.

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Lessons · Skill Builder - Drawing Valid Conclusions 3
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kmcke01356
Tuesday, Oct 01 2024

Yes I agree. I used the powerscore books which had a whole chapter on this and have worked with a tutor.

Formal logic is one of the most confusing topics for me, and I know its the same for a lot of other people. The way they design their curriculum for this part of the test doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

If its any consultation Formal Logic is one of the more rare and difficult aspects of the exam. I was advised to only do a deep dive once I had a complete understanding of the other aspects of the test.

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Lessons · Negating Conditional Statements
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kmcke01356
Tuesday, Oct 01 2024

Its mostly helpful when you get to the assumptions unit.

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General · Should I Even Bother To Retake?
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kmcke01356
Wednesday, Sep 25 2024

With you dude!

I was practice testing around a 165 for about a month till the LSAT. The two weeks prior my practice test scores consistently going down between a 158-160. I got a 159 on the official LSAT that I opened today. Super discouraging!

I feel a lot of what got to me was the stress. I under slept and put myself under A LOT of pressure. In a way the studying WASNT helping me as I was targeting a lot of really difficult topics with inadequate time to dive into each one.

I readjusted my studying with the help of this course and I'm now scoring up and just got my highest score of a 169 on a practice test. I'm taking the October in a week and am going to signup for November for a little extra safety.

I'd suggest you keep working at it but in the meantime try to take some of the pressures off. Get some sleep, exercise a bit, maybe try to meditate if you're open to it. Come back with a clear head and try to look at what you're struggling with most and target that. It can be really demotivating and studying or staring at your prospects isn't going to help right now. Take care of your self, do some things to make sure you're feel good about yourself and do some research and think up a gameplan to go forward when you're in a better headspace.

No matter what path you choose we got this and just have to stay positive! There's always another LSAT and there's always another application cycle if you don't get what you desire in the end.

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PT138.S4.Q11
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kmcke01356
Monday, Sep 23 2024

Wouldn't a big reason for D being wrong that it does not bridge the gap between studying cultural inclusivity and a cosmopolitan and in-depth education?

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Lessons · Kick Up Conditional Conclusions
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kmcke01356
Wednesday, Sep 18 2024

I agree,

I feel like this lesson is tripping people up not because of the content itself but the way that it was presented when coupled with the last lesson.

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Lessons · Skill Builder - Chaining Conditionals
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kmcke01356
Wednesday, Sep 18 2024

I watched the video and he basically says this if anyone else was confused (around 31 minutes)

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