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Friday, Jul 28 2023

There already is one.

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Friday, Jul 21 2023

@ if you've done BR in the drills, just click on the number next to the question and it will give a drop down of place to input your BR answer choice. You can also press the "~" button.

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Thursday, Jul 20 2023

80s are hard, I wouldn't stress too much about it. Just BR them thoroughly.

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Thursday, Jul 20 2023

I think you should BR it to get a good baseline of your abilities untimed, so when you finish the curriculum you can see how far you've come.

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Thursday, Jul 20 2023

Sort of... I believe it can be used two ways depending on context, that's why its not on the cheatsheet. The first is a like group 3 (negate sufficient) as used in your example and second is "and not" which is the actual more official translation.

Here is it shown the other way

People 'and not' "no direct experience on matter" -> don't defer to journalists

simplified: People & direct experience on matter -> /defer to journalist

It works here as a group 3 here because people is an encompassing term but if it was something more important specific it falls apart (instead of people it was something more specific like students) especially if you're running the contrapositve.

Here's a more clear example "Picasso paintings except for those during his blue period do not have dull colors"

PP-picaso painting

BP-blue period

DC- dull colors

Picasso painting and not Blue Period -> no dull colors

PP & /BP -> /DC

This illustrates if your running the contra positive it can be.

DC -> /PP or BP

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Tuesday, Jul 19 2022

nicholasleissos893

Course Question Problem Set Timing?

Hello,

I'm relatively early on in my LSAT studies and I was wondering which 'Time Adjustment' should I be using?

I noticed with previous sections its given me "standard time" but recently with certain problem sets (ex. in the later MSS Problem Sets) the timing switched to infinite?

It seems weird to have the BR right after if we are getting unlimited time on the questions, is this a oversight? or should I set the timing myself to Target time/Standard time?

What's recommended by 7sage? #help or what have you all been using?

Best,

Leissosa

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nicholasleissos893
Friday, Aug 18 2023

If you go on the analytics page (under the practice tab), on the chart that shows your LR question analysis. Hover your mouse over the circles and you can see the average amount of questions per test.

Although I'm not sure if this has been updated to reflect the current 3 section test.

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PT131.S2.Q14
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nicholasleissos893
Tuesday, Jul 18 2023

Dang I initially picked D but my thick self read E as "most donut eaters also eat a bagel too in one sitting" (the negation) and I related to that.

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Tuesday, Jul 18 2023

You're making the assumption that if the drug works slower it must be more ineffective, you cant make that assumption since we don't know enough information. Additionally the negation of significantly faster isn't "slower", it could be just tiny bit faster or the same speed.

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Friday, Jun 16 2023

I had two RCs in April and two LRs in June, I believe two LGs more rare and is probably gonna become more and more unlikely in the future considering they are changing the LG section.

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nicholasleissos893
Thursday, Jul 13 2023

80s are tough, I wouldn't stress to much about it

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Thursday, Jul 13 2023

35 min X 200% = 70 min

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Saturday, Aug 12 2023

Its not that serious, for the writing portion of the exam they just record your webcam. You don't have a live proctor. The only thing you need to avoid is people around you and having scratch paper right in front of you.

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Saturday, Aug 12 2023

My test was scheduled at 3pm, stuck around till 4:30pm. I asked Dave Killoran @ powerscore what to do since it seemed like he was in contact with LSAC. He said to walk.

As I was exiting the app I finally got connected to a proctor. I thought about taking it, but ultimately decided against it, I was burned out from stressing out about everything and I had told my roommates my test window so they would have came home while I was mid-test.

I filed a complaint with LSAC prior to that so I guess I call them tomorrow or something to confirm and use this day to do a practice run of a PT.

Not sure if it was a good call or what LSAC is gonna say since I ultimately got connected and declined it, but considering I haven't even done a question and I'm exhausted I think I would have probably bombed it.

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PT144.S2.Q24
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nicholasleissos893
Tuesday, Jul 11 2023

this is for the birds

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Thursday, Jun 08 2023

PT17 S3 Q20

PT6 S3 Q8

PT24 S2 Q8

PT49 S2 Q23

PT15 S2 Q20

PT71 S3 Q20 (interesting AC, but the stim itself if circular)

No this is a bad approach, the ACs are 99.999% logically sound, so it's not really "what works best", it's objectively the best.

Although the question stem's say "which is the most accurately..." "..the most vulnerable..." "...most helps..." one AC is objectively correct and the four other ACs are objectively wrong.

https://classic.7sage.com/which-lsat-questions-have-two-right-answers/

Some of the language they (the LSAT writers) may use is convoluted in a sense that you need to "push" it back into the stimulus or its verbose to throw you off (this will be the case some higher level difficulty questions). The answer may seem poor but at its core is the only possible answer.

[side note] An example of this that comes to mind is on argument part questions, say you've identified the part of the argument as the sub-conclusion. In the ACs instead of saying "this is the sub-conclusion" they will say "this is a statement used to support the conclusion that XYZ and is supported by the statement ABC". (you have to push up the information in the AC to the stimulus and is intentionally verbose to throw you off).

RC is different but follows the same general guidelines, in MSS questions you technically choose the "best supported answer" but in follows that it really is the only AC that's supported by the passage and the others are wrong.

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nicholasleissos893
Saturday, Jul 08 2023

You should skip to more modern PTs since you're already at your target score. The LR is considered less formulaic; RC is more about the author's perspective/inference based and there's comparative passages (I believe starts in the low 50s); LG tends combine elements of different types of games.

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PT140.S2.Q19
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nicholasleissos893
Monday, Aug 07 2023

If you use Hillary and Trump for Tanner and Lopez the question makes more sense

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nicholasleissos893
Friday, Jul 07 2023

No you don't "need" a gap year. I would definitely recommend it though.

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Monday, Aug 07 2023

This used to happen to me when my internet connection was shoddy. I found if you refresh the page after the error, you can find the newly made drill in "Show existing Drills" tab.

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nicholasleissos893
Wednesday, Jul 05 2023

there's a chapter in the core curriculum that has flashcards that you can practice with. Additionally when I was in my beginning stages of my studying I would try to guess the question type when I was BRing.

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nicholasleissos893
Monday, Jun 05 2023

I mean unless your home/apartment is noisy I don't see the advantage of taking it at a testing center. You still have to take the test on the computer either way, so its not like your getting the advantage of a paper test.

test center

Pros

-possibility quieter depending on personal situation

-stable internet

-don't have to deal with remote proctor (but have to deal with live proctor and other student in the room)

Cons

-wake up earlier

-drive to testing location

-take test on unfamiliar computer

-no practice runs

-no access to kitchen or your own bathroom on breaks

-disruption from other students/proctor

-cant warm up

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nicholasleissos893
Monday, Jun 05 2023

I use these, but I found there is a bit too much pressure for extended periods (personally) so I cut them down a bit.

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Thursday, Aug 03 2023

Yeah I believe I just completely miss interpreted the "two different state of affairs", because I landed on the flaw, eliminated the A,B,E, and held onto C and D

Then interpreted D's "two different state of affairs" as referring to the control group and the experimental group so I eliminated it based of that.

I wasn't happy with C, but just stuck to it and moved on.

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Thursday, Aug 03 2023

you don't get bonus points for getting the hard questions right, you're better off going after the easier questions first.

Can someone go through this question and explain their thought process?

I think I was thrown off by this for two reasons. First, I was uncomfortable drawing the conclusion that Self Help books -> less visits and secondly, in the answer choices what "state of affairs" was referring to exactly?

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