Being able to highlight/underline one letter would be much better. I hope that’s something the test writers allow in the future! But we shall make do! :)

I kinda slayed this one. Only got 1 wrong!

I started underlining the first word where a paragraph breaks (like switches gears or perspectives) to help me keep track of this! So far it's been looking to be effective

Shout out to Taylor Swift for teaching me what esoteric means. Never thought I'd encounter that word in real life!

Also, that one urban planning class I took came in handy for one of my passages. :)

I was typing up my question about timing right as you got to answering it! Thank you for reading my mind haha!

God this one is painful

Same! I could not figure out where I was going wrong, but this makes sooooo much more sense!

I like these built in study breaks!

They can be used in court! I used to intern at a workers comp firm and we would get client's medical records, ranging from regular appointments (related to the injury) to X-rays/MRIs all the way to some pictures of the injury the day it happened!

Your information is still protected by HIPAA, but when shared with lawyers and staff at a law firm you've consented to have that information shared. However, it's still protected through confidentiality agreements, which is basically the legal profession's version of HIPAA.

I really appreciate you telling us how this would work in a real timed test! Very helpful insight.

Mine is Saturday! But I'm retaking it in October if need be, so I'll have plentyyy of time to practice this if I need to (hopefully neither of us have to though). Good luck on your test, you've got it!

Right now I'm writing the summaries down, but just to reinforce the ideas we're learning. Once I feel confident in my ability to make these low res summaries myself I'm going to try not writing anything down and see if I keep all that info straight in my head. We shall see what works haha!

Should we still go through the old science passage section? Or is it just a more condensed version of what we're learning here?

MacNeil is saying because the collection (as a whole) is valuable, every piece (or part) must be valuable as well.

Which matches answer choice C: The paragraph (as a whole) is long, so every sentence (or part) must be long.

This one was harddddddd, if I encountered this question on a real test I would have done a completely random guess and just moved on. Not worth the time I would spend on it :(

I eliminated A because I took it to be a comparative claim, is this wrong? J.Y. didn't mention this when giving his explanation, but mentioned it for D, so is it not a comparative claim? I decided it was because it says "more difficulty surviving...broader diet will not"

I would highly recommend going into the drill section and putting the difficulty meter on "easiest" sometimes we just have to start with super easy questions and build our way up. If you get any wrong on "easiest" that's okay! We're all still learning, so watch the explanation videos for those questions. Once you are consistently getting the "easiest" questions right, move the meter up to "easy" and repeat the process until you're getting those consistently right. Then keep moving up the levels until you feel you are comfortable with this question type! And don't feel like you have to rush through to get these right asap either. It can take time to understand a new topic that you find difficult, it is totally okay to get the answers wrong, for it to take a while to understand them, you can't rush learning!

Also, do not feel pressured by time right now. If you're not doing too well with a certain question type, I would completely ignore the timer and focus on just getting the answer right, speed will come later.

Keep a wrong answer journal, write down the questions and what you answered, why you thought it was the right answer, and then after watching the video explanation for that question, try to see where you went wrong and write it down! Write why the right answer is right, and why your original wrong answer was wrong.

I'd also recommend going back through all these flaw question lessons (I know it's tedious but trust), take your time going through them, take notes, and take time to digest what you just read/heard!

Finally, don't be scared to take a break from studying, sometimes we just need a few days. Just stop your LSAT prep for a few days and relax! You'd be surprised at what can suddenly click after coming back in with a fresh mind.

Don't be discouraged, you will get better at these! Keep practicing, remember this test is a marathon, not a sprint. :)

If I'm able to answer intuitively I do BUT I go back in during blind review and really think about why an answer is right and why the others are wrong. I do this so I'm really drilling in the skills we're learning. I fear only relying on being able to do it intuitively without a true understanding of what makes something right vs wrong will hurt me down the road.

This one took me 1min 11sec, this one I got pretty intuitively, but there are some questions I'll spend 3 or 4 minutes on! I'm not too focused on time right now, I'm more so concerned with getting the answers right and understanding why wrong answers are wrong. Speed will come with practice!

twins!

I've been finding that taking the few seconds to underline the excerpt in the stim and highlighting the conclusion helpful. It just helps me visual the parts of the argument a little bit better.

this is exactly where I went wrong, thank you!

I was doing so well with NA too...

Keep going guys, you've got this. You're all going to do fantastic on your tests, you're going to get into law school. You're going to do great things. I'm rooting for you!!!! You can do it!!!!

You will! Keep practicing, keep reviewing the lessons, and for drills watch the explanation videos for the questions. Also, sometimes we just need a break, don't be scared to walk away from studying for a few days, a fresh mind can help you make the connections that you're missing right now.

Don't give up, you've got this <3