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I was reading the Trainer and I came through a simple example "She does not consume too much caffeine because she only drinks one cup of coffee a day and one cup of coffee is not too much caffeine for a person to consume daily"
Coffee is the only substance she consumes that contains caffeine - this is something which fills the gap but is not necessary. I am, however, having trouble in understanding this cause its negation can really hurt the way premise supports the conclusion. Could anyone help in clarifying?
Hey, I was wondering that when we say that A causes B, do we understand it to mean that whenever A will happen B shall follow or does such a causal relationship accommodates some instances wherein A happens but then B does not follow. I had trouble with question 11 in LR Section 1 on PT 58 and I think it was because I wasn't clear on my understanding of causation.
https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-58-section-1-question-11
I used to hear JY's voice in my dreams saying "First game in prep test X, it is a simple sequencing game, you should finish this game in X minutes". I thought I was going crazy.
@ first of all it is awesome that for difficulty 1-3 you are able to identify the flaws with rare misses. I would also like to say that for some of the hardest questions it is okay to let the answer choices let you feed the flaw so do not feel too bad about relying on the ACs sometimes.
I would suggest to go through the list of some common flaws if you have not already at https://classic.7sage.com/lesson/19-common-argument-flaws/ and study it thoroughly and think of making your own arguments to solidify the understanding. I think that helps a lot.
You may also want to think about the mistakes you are making deeply - are they common among some specific question types or are they related to you making a mistake in processing the stimulus for example not able to correctly identify the structure of the stimulus. You may then specifically target these weaknesses by maybe going through the relevant part of the curriculum again.
For tough questions i feel it also helps to isolate the fluff and focus on the argument except when the context may provide useful information to answer the question.
I suggest that while you are drilling these questions circle the ones you are unsure of and take some time off after the drill. When you come back to review the questions use a fresh print and type out the reasoning behind eliminating an AC and keeping an AC. Doing this repeatedly will make you better not only on the hard questions but will also improve your timing on the actual full length sections.
I get why AC C is wrong, however, I did not like D cause it seems like it is saying that the changes in the automobile design in past ten years have helped drivers but our stimulus says that reduction in accident rate started to happen the very year after the reduction of speed limit. It appears that we are to assume that such changes in automobile design happened in the next year itself.
I am also interested in this question, i mean how does it work? Do the schools on their own get to know your new score? I was almost convinced that none of the T-14 schools will accept the February LSAT score.
http://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-june-2007-section-3-question-15/
Hey, could anyone please help me understand how answer choice B does not weaken the argument? if there were more people with more than 6 months treatment responding then the absolute number of people representing 36 percent will become more than the absolute number of people representing 20 percent. If this increase in people with more than 6 months treatment happens wouldn't that give an alternative explanation of the discrepancy in percentages?
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Hi everyone, I am around 3-4 months into my preparation (finished 7sage curriculum and left with half of the trainer), my diagnostic (PT 55) was 150 and BR was 156 (I just did BR for fun with little idea about fundamentals) and I took a PT again (PT 39) sometime back, it was a heartbreaking 154 with a BR score of 167. I felt that I need timed section practise for a while before I take more PTs. Could anyone please suggest resources for the same? Does it still help to practise timed sections from PT 1-35 even though I have done some of the LR questions while finishing the curriculum and the trainer.
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Thank you @ and @ the session with you was super helpful and congratulations to you toooo, I just saw you have become a sage now, this is awesome
If anyone is looking for a tutor Daniel is great especially for LR, i had a session with him and he helped me with the conceptual process of solving LR questions and it helped me a lot.
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I had no idea about the LSAC tweet, i got the score while i was video calling my friend on gmail and in the middle of consoling her cause she had a break up, i was so damn freaked out too. My friend had a great time watching my reaction in real time lol
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@ - what was crucial for me was to save time by marking less on the passage, you may already know the basic RC mantra (to read for structure and main points) but saving time was something i really needed since i could not come back to the circled questions and marking less and just absorbing the structure and main points helped me save time to get to those circled questions. May be that is something you may give a try since i have heard that different marking strategies work for different test takers and sometimes it helps to mark less.
I just got my LSAT score and i got a 170, I am not sure if i will take it again, however, this would not have been possible without the guidance of the 7sage community. I absolutely sucked at standardised tests but with 7sage's help I was able to improve my skills a lot. It was especially helpful cause i am an international student and English is not my native language (my RC was as bad as it can get).Thank you guys. Also, i will be happy to help anyone here looking to break plateaus or anything else with whatever knowledge I have of the LSAT. Don't give up guys, this was not my first attempt and i thought i will never touch a 170.
Hey guys
I am registered for the Feb LSAT, it is taking place on 28th Feb in Asia. I have been studying for the test on and off for the past 6 months while I somehow juggled my seven day workweek of over 80 hours, it wasn't really "preparation". One month ago I took leave from work to study for the LSAT full time, I had completed the curriculum earlier so just went through some lessons again as a refresher. I have taken 6 prep tests (mix of pts in 40s, 50s and one from 70s) and I am averaging at 160 actual and a br score between 170-175(br-ing only the circled ones as recommended on 7sage) . I want to ideally score around 168 plus to have a chance at getting some scholarship at a decent law school and I am willing to put in the work and time, however, I was wondering if I should still take the LSAT to get a feel of it. I know I will not score in my target range if I take the test in Feb. In my limited knowledge most law schools consider only the highest LSAT score and having an experience of taking the test could only benefit. Or should I aim at nailing the June LSAT and take it when I am atleast feeling ready. Right now it is like I know I am not ready but I am registered so may be I should get the experience of writing the real exam but at the same time I am wondering if it will be waste of a take. This community has been super helpful and I will appreciate any thoughts and advice on this.
It is crucial to remember the difference between new shows produced last season and shows produced last season and to not assume that just cause it was produced last season it is going to be a new show.
Am i the only one who thought of Kungfu Panda at 4:59 lol
Hey, could someone help explain why E is the correct answer choice? I understand why others are incorrect.
https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-41-section-3-question-19/
Would A be correct if it had said that some governments have not reached complete democracy?
I think D is also wrong because it is much broader than what we need, our conclusion states the most effectiveness in terms of the ascent of the rocket. It does not talk about working of the rocket in general. If we negate D then the rocket is still working effectively overall after reaching into space too where it is not ascending anymore and maybe it has landed somewhere there but our conclusion that to work most effectively throughout their ASCENT we need those two nozzles still follows. I think D baits us to make the assumption that if a rocket's engine works most effectively by doing something then the rocket over all also works most effectively by doing that thing which may not be true since rockets are so much more than merely their engines.
Hey, does anyone know if any of the T-14 law schools place special emphasis on targeted letters of recommendation?
In my knowledge Stanford Law School website does mention " Please be aware of the high value Stanford places on school-specific letters of recommendation", are there any others?
It looks like this is a rare one. There was one similar to this one from the very early prep tests and it had something to do with train lines/subway lines. And it would be helpful to practice the ones in PT 1-35 too to prepare for the possible weird ones even if the probability of them showing up is low.
I usually diagram when the information presented in the stimulus is a little simpler. In the question you are talking about there is a lot of information and sometimes diagramming using few letters cannot capture the information which may lead to incorrect inferences or confusion. However, it helps to just keep in mind the conditional structure as you are reading the stimulus. With lots of practice and blind review you will reach a point when the conditional diagramming will happen in your head automatically. I have seen JY using just symbols or a letter in order to represent complication information in the stimulus and referring back to the stimulus in order to see what the conditional is saying.
Hey, sometimes MSS questions do involve synthesising and drawing a conclusion or an inference from the stimulus, however, the correct AC can draw support from any part of the stimulus and it may not necessarily be a conclusion drawn from it. It could just be an inference which is most strongly supported.
Looks like A is wrong also because it is a causal statement however the stimulus appears to have a chronological statement, though causation may have been assumed in the stimulus.
Hey, there are going to be many folks retaking the LSAT now (even 4 times) don't stress too much about it. If you get that high 170s score the fourth attempt will be worth it. Most schools look only at your highest score. All the best for your prep :)
Hey @ apart from blind reviewing thoroughly for LR, it is also helpful to have extra time for the hardest LR questions and in order to have that one needs to answer the easiest questions on LR very fast. I would say first 10 questions (even if you skip 1 or 2) in 8 minutes and keeping an aggressive pace throughout the section so that you can give like 2 minutes to the hardest of questions which you circle (after finishing one round of the LR section). If you see some of the JY's video doing LR, he has more than 10 minutes left after finishing one round of LR section.
Make sure you are doing the blind review correctly for LR especially. Write out explanations for each question you get wrong describing why right AC is right and why an AC is wrong and try to have a take away from that particular question. Before you attempt the next PT have a look at those take aways.
Don't worry, the hardest questions are hard for most test takers, it is just that they try to keep more time in the bank in order to tackle those beasts and a thorough blind review helps in having more of that time.
It feels so sickening to wait for the score and i keep visualising the worst. I have been eating my feelings out since i came out of the test centre (had a whole large pizza by myself with a lot of cheese). I hope this gets better in the coming days for everyone.
Hi, I have been practicing logic games following the fool proof method, it has helped a lot in my confidence. I have become better and getting -2 or -3 for the logic games section i do the first time, however, i have been struggling with the speed. For games which should take 8 minutes i end up taking 13-14, for most games i take like 5 minutes extra than the ideal time to finish though i get almost all answers correct. Anyone else experiencing the same? I have finished the logic games core curriculum and haven't started taking practice tests yet, should i get the Cambridge lg bundle, should i recycle the games from the core curriculum? Will drilling the same types of game would be more helpful? Any suggestions
Hey all, could anyone please help with finding grouping games wherein there are subcategories BUT we are not given which game piece belongs to which category and we are also not given the number of game pieces to be alloted to each group. For example - 3 groups - A, B and C, 7 game pieces, sub categories scientists and philosophers, atleast 2 scientists are there and maximum 3 people in group A, something of this sort.
I have been able to find grouping games with sub categories but the games do give which game piece falls in which category.
Similarly sequencing games with sub categories in which the game pieces are undefined with respect to their categories AND not all game pieces are to be sequenced, some are left out so there is a little subsidiary in out game going on as well.
I thought the conclusion was a conditional statement as a whole, i diagrammed it as
Premise - There was damage
Conclusion - if reasonable expectation by S --> pay for the damage
Sufficient assumption -- damage --> (reasonable expectation --> pay)
thus if damage and reasonable expectation --> pay
AC A matched it closely, there is damage and reasonable expectation --> pay
I am not sure if i am right as to identifying the conclusion as a conditional statement
I found the RC section in LSAT Asia to be quite difficult, initially i just skipped the bepop passage and came back to it after doing the oyster chemical protein passage. It was hard to figure out its structure.
there was one where there was a president and some managers and technicians, pt 14 i think.