This is the question that prompted me to take a full week and really work on my FL. Calling people out here for not getting this question in 30 seconds (ish) caused at least one person to get way better. Thank you for that. It could have even possibly changed the trajectory of my life. Keep doing this

This is a good reminder because I've def seen questions that test this

In my true ADD nature I spent a lot of time on FL, got frustrated and decided I could muscle through these by intuition (note : stay away from reddit here). After a while, I realized this was not possible for me. I could get most all 1-2 stars correct, some 3 and few 4 or 5 star questions that were FL heavy. I will say though after learning some FL, taking a break to practice problems, and coming back to FL, it is clicking. Maybe you could benefit from some practice and come back to it like I did. The number of hours needed to be efficient haven't changed, I just split it up. After circling back it's like night and day as far as grasping the language.

I wish I had the brain that intuitively just figures this out, however, I do not and so I feel you. If you have learned to separate the ideas, then you are just learning the key words and how to apply away from getting this down. Until you grow this muscle memory, the ONLY way to consistently and accurately tell which is S and which N is understanding what the key words are and how they apply (IE point to suff and necessary). I would just continue to watch the videos and practice until you get it. Chatgpt can offer more practice content but I would rely on 7sage exclusively for the rules. I could lay out examples, but they wouldn't be as good as they have done here - in the end this particular skill is not going to click without lots of review and practice. Unfortunately, there is no short cut to learning this stuff

Do not give up and just find more time for practice. Even if you have to do something drastic like move in with a family member to free up resources and thus time for studying. Thank about the sacrifice you have to make and consider it in the grand scheme. Also, remember every point you raise your score has a quantifiable increase to your lifetime earnings. You are being paid the most you will ever be paid studying for the LSAT by that logic. Make the time, keep drilling, set goals and own this bitch of a test

I use it as a blind review (and not looking at the answer, just color) because I have to patience for waiting to see what I got right or wrong (Im working on this lack of patience;)

If formal logic isn't your thing, you can gain a lot of insight from him by reading between the lines and listening to some of the intuitive reasons he is striking answer choices (especially when he gets frustrated at the answer choices, which I find funny). With the really, really tough questions in this section, I find some success "reverse engineering" the stim by forming an (informal) logic chain AND using process of elimination to arrive at the correct answer. Kinda like a poor man/womans formal logic if you will. The 1-3 star questions will come intuitively with LR practice and ability to ID question type. Try going back to one of those tough questions and see if you can work backwards with some informal if/then logic and it may help you find the right choice. I have logged 179 hours since Dec 12th and am just now getting to where I can bank sig time. Good luck!

The word only is just extreme. Perhaps they make that reliance during periods right before rest on occasion, or right after. Only indicates that there is no other alternative and that just isn't supported in the stim. If it said 'sometimes' then it would or could be right

You never use outside knowledge on the lsat. You take what the stimulus says to be true and block outside knowledge as best as you can (even when you are familiar with a topic and disagree). It helps to remember the lsat will never test you on anything that isnt in the stimulus and this test requires zero contextual outside knowledge of the real world when taking it

He is just discussing format here and not intending to breakdown questions. The actual question and answer(s) are somewhat arbitrary in this lesson as they are focusing more on what to look for in structure.

I also had the same problem and it took me a min longer than you. Under test day conditions I would have probably quickly eliminated a couple of clearly not correct choices via scratch note and treated this as a third pass Q. If I had time I would have applied formal logic at the end of section to zero in on c. I cant decide if I should invest the time to become a "FL god" or just accept this will be a 50/50 at best and roll the dice. This is one bitch of a question though!