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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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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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Friday, Oct 18 2024

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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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PT139.S1.Q19
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kmcke01356
Tuesday, Sep 17 2024

I used conditional reasoning can someone tell me if I'm right in my answer?

Premise:

Goblin Fern -> Thick Leaves

No thick leaves - > No goblin Fern (contra)

Earthworm that eats leaves & lives in area with thin leaves exists

Conclusion:

Earthworm -> No Goblin Fern

To get the gap I realized that there was nothing bridging Earthworms to no thick leaves.

I felt that E bridged this gap as it made it so; If Earthworm then No Thick Leaves. By eliminating the possibility that the Earthworm likes thin leaves, it means they can only feast on habitats with thick leave coverage. Therefore;

Earthworm -> No thick leaves -> No Goblin Fern

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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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Lessons · Skill Builder - Chaining Conditionals
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kmcke01356
Sunday, Sep 15 2024

I feel like #5 isn't a commonplace assumption that the LSAT would make. It seems like a leap in logic that breaks the "code" of commonplace LSAT assumptions.

Maybe I'm wrong but I feel a better explanation would identify the assumption, then say that in order to bridge the chain you would need to add that assumption. This seems like the perfect example of a necessary assumption or flaw question, and by saying "this assumption is okay to make" instead of "heres a missed assumption that could be added by an anwser choice/ another premise" is setting up newer test makers to not be as skeptical as they should be when reading CR.

I'm doing this course because my CR is a bit shaky so please let me know if I'm misunderstanding anything.

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Lessons · Group 4 - Negate Necessary
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kmcke01356
Sunday, Sep 15 2024

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I've done a whole course and watched so many videos, and this is the first one that's truly made sense to me thank you.

I found the other methods tended to work 90% of the time, but became tricky when the language got more confusing.

I at first learned with Power scores "unless" rule which is ultimately the same thing( when you see unless, put the word following unless as necessary and then negate the sufficient.) The problem with this rule is it would really trip me up when group 3 and group 4 rules got combined. This makes a lot more sense relationship wise and it clicked seeing the relationship between the normal and the contrapositive.

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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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PT140.S2.Q13
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kmcke01356
Thursday, Sep 12 2024

I got tricked by C by ignoring the part that stated that increased productivity was achieved "by" giving individuals greater influence.

I read it as increased company productivity + greater individual influence(which should not increase productivity), and though C would resolve by showing an alternate explanation for the phenomenon despite the workers not actually increasing their own productivity.

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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

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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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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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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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