#help After taking a prep test, will we receive two scores, one for what we would have received had we not blind-reviewed, and another for our post-blind review outcome?

"You owe it to yourself to see how much progress you can make."

Good line.

This is interesting and helpful. Thanks for posting it.

“It’s okay to eat fish cuz they don’t have any feelings."

Nirvana.

"You're trying to purchase points when they're being sold at a good price."

Excellent insight.

Good lesson.

"The rooms interact with each other."

That's why I wish we'd see all five answers.

"I put it to you, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, that a ghost of strife..."

#help When J.Y. says here, "I talk about that in the timing video," what's he referencing? Where is the video on timing?

#feedback #help I'm not even sure how what I'm going to mention can be implemented at this stage, or if there's even the desire to do so, but (seemingly) all lessons, at least up to this point, take the meta-approach that we as test-takers will be able to be writing directly on the test itself, e.g, parsing grammar, identifying premises and conclusions, noting referents, etc...7Sage's explanations and various techniques all rely on the existence of a conceptually older form of the test, not the current iteration, which is, of course, all done on a monitor with some scratch paper. We're being taught in a way that is no longer relevant with LSAC's switch to an all-electronic format. Is there any possibility of 7Sage addressing this?

Last summer, when I first began to dabble in the LSAT, and before utilizing 7Sage, I took a prep exam and received a 158. That was paper and pencil. A month later, after making the move here, I did the same, but with an online prep exam, and received a 152. Each test is different, obviously, but that's a nearly 4% drop which can, conceivably, be attributed, at least in part, to format shift. I can literally sense a slight cognitive difference between when I'm highlighting a conclusion in pink on the screen vs. blocking it out on paper, and J.Y.'s video explanations are essentially mimicking the former, which I preferred. However, this method is, unfortunately, no longer relevant.

How will this be written physically - on a keyboard, or via some type of hand-held writing implement?

LSAT writer's prepositional problem here - one doesn't harvest in, one harvests from. It's subtle, but throws one off briefly.

So may we ever see an example of how an ace maps out this argument verbally within the mind?

Not following.

I eliminated choices and was left both A and E, and since the stimulus was talking about the beliefs of astronomers and the estimates of astronomers, I got rid of A, since it stated, "The mass of galaxies is 'thought'...". Thought by whom? Grade schoolers? Random people on the street? It doesn't say. The question itself is referencing the estimates of the astronomers, not the estimates of randos.

Choice E, sticking as it does with astronomers, talks about the fact that there's no consensus among them in how to ascertain the estimates. That doesn't mean that estimates have to be wildly convergent; there could indeed be two different schools of thought, with, for instance, the majority believing there to be no change in total mass and a minority believing otherwise. This to me allowed the leeway necessary in the fact that it's "many" astronomers' estimates that have remained unchanged.

So I chose E, and I did so in blind review as well, and all I get for it is a wrong answer, lol.

(C) Some members of the Frequent Viewers club can receive the special discount coupon at more than one location of VideoKing.

How is this not "Must be True" in the way in which it's worded? It if read, "Some individual members of the Frequent Viewers club..." then yes, it's contradictory to the stimulus and thus false, which is the way JY views it, but it doesn't say that, it instead reads, "Some members of the Frequent Viewers club..." We know that some members are able to pick up the coupon at the last location they rented a movie from, while some others are able to get the coupon at the Main Street location. Thus some members of the Frequent Viewers club can receive the special discount coupon at more than one location of VideoKing, indeed, all members of the Frequent Viewers club can. Again, not all individual members, but all members.

I'm not claiming D is not true as well, I'm saying C is poor wording on the part of an LSAT writer who hasn't recognized the ambiguity of the English word "some."

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But there is an implied time element to E, in that people are noticing (well, not noticing) the dress, which comes about after the time spent attempting to match the dress and its lining and they're doing this at the time that the dress is actually being worn. This indicates the future. Clearly, in retrospect, A is correct, but E definitely leads you in the wrong direction.

Shoddy question. If A→B→C then the transitive or logical argument says A→C. If the question had read immediate cause it would have made more sense. It doesn't. It says a cause. My guess is that those choosing D were looking for what's caused the farmers to be dwindling, and that that cause itself would have been a better answer, with the thinking that if heirloom crop varieties hadn't been too difficult to adapt to large-scale agricultural production then they would have. I guess E is the better choice with what we're given, but it's still a poorly worded problem, IMO.

Lol - "Where's this going?"

The subject is NOT "behavior," the subject is "form." "Behavior" is the object of the preposition "of." Together the two words make a prepositional phrase. This phrase, "of behavior," functions as an adjective describing the subject/noun "form." It answers the question, "What kind of form?"

"Kidding. I'm kidding." Lololol.

You can't do this to us, J.Y.

If we're writing these out on scratch paper, should we be assigning relevant stimulus letters to each variable (e.g., LF, T, etc...) for each passage, or should we be assigning A, B, C, etc...for the stimulus and then doing the same for each individual answer choice?

I don't see how AC C works. Just because fewer books are lost or stolen doesn't mean that more will be returned on time.

#feedback I love that this is done - it's something I've wanted for a while. However, since paper and pencil is obsolete for us, are we able to see an on-screen equivalent, ie., J.Y. doing the exam on a monitor?

Too bad it's all moot for digital.