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Saturday, Jun 22 2024

For anyone having trouble on WHY C is correct - C engages directly with the argument. It says "Actually, long term relaxation training is valuable because...".

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Thursday, Aug 01 2024

It's definitely doable! I was never in your shoes, but I'm happy to offer some test strategies and study tactics. Before that, if you need any other advice or maybe some explanations as to why some questions are right/wrong, please feel free to message me! I'm still on my LSAT journey as well and will be taking both August and September, and I would love to assist you if I can because this test sucks.

Study Tactics:

After you take a PT (or any section), note the incorrect questions and record the following information: Question Type, Difficulty, Stimulus, Question Stem, Breakdown, Answer Choices, and Notes.

The first four are pretty self-explanatory. With the 'Breakdown', type out the stimulus in your own words. Use 'lawgic' if you want, and try to make it as easy to understand for you as possible. With the 'Answer Choices', type out each answer choice and explain it to yourself. Why is this relevant/not relevant? What makes this question right/wrong? Lastly, with 'Notes', write down things that you think will help you on similar questions you get in the future. Did you make a mistake reading the stimulus or the question stem, or is it a general concept you're misunderstanding? It could be any number of things.

While sections are great to do, try drilling as well! Input the wrong questions you get on PTs on 7Sage, and use the 7Sage Virtual Tutor option on the Drills page. You want to drill the question types you get wrong as often as you can until you're able to get enough of them correct that you feel comfortable. Focus on the issues you have, not just the ones you get right often.

Test Strategies

Memorize the '33 Common LSAT Flaws' as published by Powerscore, and read the Flaw section in 'The Loophole'. By teaching yourself to identify flaws, you can become better able at answering Necessary Assumption questions, Flaw questions, and all other sorts of questions as well! This is super helpful, and bumped me up from a diagnostic of 164 to pushing past the 170s.

Try to learn how to recognize when questions are giving you a phenomenon and an explanation, or when causation is established on basis of correlation. While 7Sage breaks down questions into easily discernable types, on the LSAT, there can be a lot of overlap such as Strengthening NA questions. Practice your conditional reasoning if you need, too, particularly with diagramming. A lot of people say it's a waste of time, but diagramming on hard questions when you have the time is extremely helpful!

Other Helpful Things

This may or may not be relevant, but eating well, getting 8 hours of sleep a night, and exercising (I run, highly recommend) are hugely beneficial for this test because all of those are necessary to being in the best mental form you can be for test day. I also recommend a magnesium supplement. While this may seem odd, so many people suffer from a magnesium deficiency, and it helps maintain proper blood brain flow! I do that alongside a once-daily vitamin, because I know I don't eat well some days and need vitamins, especially that magnesium which Adderall drains like hell.

I hope some of this is able to help :)

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