Some question types are more foundational than others. One thing that you have to do with probably 90% of questions is identify the conclusion and have a feel for the assumption that the argument is making. So to that end, focus on main point questions and sufficient/necessary assumption questions. The other questions use that same formula.

Everyone is about to give you some amazing input, so I'll just give you one tidbit of info that I think is often overlooked by many. When you're reviewing the questions, think about how everything connects. Think about the common themes between different question types. Understand how a strengthen question can easily be a sufficient assumption question or a weaken question. Understand how a weaken question can be a flaw question. I say "understand" because I'm sure you already have gone through the curriculum to see that, but really think about it in each question you do. When you start to see the LR as all part of the same theme rather than a jumbled mess of different question types, I think it will be then that you really "tune in" to the mindset of the LSAT writers in writing these questions. Good luck

If you're already beginning to get sick, vitamin C is kind of too late. Although still take that for sure. What you need is garlic, a natural antibiotic. Onion is an antiseptic.

Anyway, I don't wanna bore you with the science, but just eat the following if it's getting worse by the day: garlic, onion, hot pepper, ginger/turmeric (a natural anti-inflammatory, which is often the cause of some of those symptoms), and sleep well and stay hydrated. Echinacea, which can be found in a herbal juice form is also an anti biotic.

I'm a Canadian soccer player too and from one fellow player to another lol I think you should apply this cycle. Those are pretty decent stats and if you do rewrite it in December and hopefully get a 162 ish let's say, then you'd be very likely to get in I believe. Make that personal statement great

As a side note, particular LSAT test difficulty is factored into the score conversion. For example, a 75 raw score might be a 159 on one test and 161 on another test. This means that it was harder to get a 75 raw score on the 161 test so they curve it that way. That's why there are slight differences between the preptests. It's not random. So if a test had a hard logic game section and all other things being equal, my presumption is that it should be favourable when it comes to converting the raw score (75) to the scaled score (161). In other words, don't worry too much about it and just keep improving your logic games score.

Haven't read everything posted as I'm at work at the moment, BUT don't forget to answer the "why" part of the personal statement. Like you said, there are word/character limits, so don't waste characters on sentences like "therefore, this is why I'm the shit and you should accept me." Try to show them not tell them. Just like in a resume. You don't say "managerial skills." You say, "trained and supervised X number of employees." Let THEM decide your character without you telling them. That's more powerful. And it saves space. Good luck and I'm Canadian too so this advice is legit LOL

I had a hard time distinguishing the actual flawed reasoning here. I initially chose A because the logic matched perfectly, but changed my answer to E because E was more obviously flawed. My question is: when in doubt like this, is it best to just match the logic perfectly without worrying too much about identifying the flaw itself and just move on?

For the people wondering if December vs October gives better chances of admission, here's what I think. If you write in December, it'll only have been one month into applications (Nov 1st deadline) and in that time, I would think they'll mostly only send out admissions offers to people with amazing stats, like a 170+ LSAT. So if you're hovering around 160, then I don't think writing in December would hurt. Besides, if you state in your application that you are writing on a certain date and the rest of your application is decent, then they will hold on to your application until they get your LSAT score.

Oh and I'm Canadian too from southern Ontario please don't stalk me LOL

@ That's interesting thanks for the tip. I'll make sure to refer back to your aforementioned list of factors after my LSAT

What do you mean "new personal statement?" @ its not like they have your old one side by side for comparison. They don't even know you applied before. Unless you mean a new one relevant to what you're doing now. In other words, an updated personal statement

Hahahaha I guess that works as well @

@.hopkins Yes for sure, waking up at the same time is vitally important and even in my experience as well. Regarding that app, for anyone else reading she's talking about how blue light has a greater impact on inhibiting melatonin vs red light for instance. There are some screen protectors for your iPhone that claim to do that as well. If you have an android phone or jailbroken iPhone, you can download an app for it as well.

So try this. First thing is you need some analytics. Obviously you're timing yourself. But time your passage reading and question answering separately. So say use your iPhone and hit "lap" when you're done the passage. That way you know how long you're spending reading the passage vs answering the questions. If you're only spending 2 mins reading the passage and 7 mins answering the questions, then slow down.

With regard to actually reading, just try to enjoy what you're reading. When you read a cool article or book, you can pretty easily explain it to someone right? Try to mimic that. Understand that the topics are taken from actual publications so they're of value in and of themselves.

Anywho, with regard to questions, know what they're asking you. With RC, there seems to be less concrete logic and more a sense of what the right answer is right? It's a lot of times based on tone, etc. So know which questions require more of a tonal answer vs more of a, for lack of a better word "factual" answer. Questions that ask "suggests" are common and they're very tonal as an example

LOL a day or three @ I will make an effort to do that you're right. And you'll smash that test in October as well don't worry

Okay thanks for that @.janson35 and @

I was noticing it in some MBT and SA questions with conditional language and thought there was a way to diagram always. But I see what you are both saying now. So in those types of questions, if I see since, then basically just do the following:

For example, an SA type question:

X --> T

C (this one is the since; it wouldn't connect to the other two conditionally but rather in the form here as a premise)

Then let's say the conclusion is D. Without getting overly specific I know how to do SA's but basically just find the answer choice that then connects the "since C" conditionally to the rest?

For MSS it's basically just asking: what do you know? (Based on the info above) MSS always baits you into making further assumptions that seem legitimate. But the answer is always something more basic.

@.bashi It's a sign you have to get it now. I'll allow you to thank me later lol

@.hopkins Honestly, I would love to take a week off, but I'm writing in Oct. Did take a day and that helped. And if I eat extra cupcakes I won't have abs sadly :( Those are crucial for sitting and writing a long test

@.bashi Check out "the alchemist" by Paulo Coelho while you're at it lol. And my name is Pani, unique name I know. I probably should have included my first name in my username too. I was named after some ancient Assyrian king who was supposedly a big deal so I guess that automatically makes me cool as well lol. You have some extensive historical research to do now haha

Thank you Chelsea and Matt :) (Yes, you guys are on first-name basis with me now lol). I know you both said to take some a few days off, but I'm happy to report I went to the gym to just focus elsewhere for a bit, then afterwards wrote another fresh LR section and got 20/25. BR was 21/25 :)

@ Yeah you know what I try to do that as much as I can as well. It's sort of like beating a high score in a game lol. I'm glad I'm not the only weirdo around here haha. And you're right as soon as it's done that's it, but I am trying to enjoy the process. Being overly competitive helps keep me going like I wanna beat the test

@.bashi Honestly thank you for that. I used to have a couple post-it notes taped to my desk saying "Get into university!" and that definitely worked for me (yes, we call it university in Canada lol). So I think if you are seeing those words written down everyday, you're reinforcing it in your subconscious. Like that book "think and grow rich" by napoleon hill. I And I'm writing in Oct by the way, so taking time off is kind of difficult. Worst case scenario I'll write it in December if I need to but I just need to get started on law school already. I need that yacht haha

I retook a preptest today (about a month old) and found that some questions I got wrong both times and for the same reasoning errors. To me, that's gold because now I know certain areas of weakness that haven't been addressed. LSAC writers got me twice. Fool me twice, how does the rest of that saying go?

It's funny I'm actually the other way around. Having that time constraint gets me into focus. I assume most aren't that way. But perhaps it's the way you see it? I consider the time constraint as a "okay now it's for real lets go." So easily distracted without timing.

When you focus on the time too much, you devote mental energy to it and not doing the actual questions. So a remedy that works for me is to check the time less. Care less about it. How ironic right? Doing that allows you to really get into and absorb the wording of each question, provided you've had enough practice where you have already developed a rhythm and internal clock. I don't recommend this advice to someone just starting out. So what I do now is check it at specific intervals and at no other time. So for LR let's say, at question 10 and 20 and that's it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

For LR I do every page as well. But for games or passages I bubble in at the end of the game/passage.

If you do happen to missbubble (say by rushing and either not colouring within the lines or not fully filling it in) you can tell them to mark it by hand right?

Stimulus says: Boss shouldn't tell them what to do. They should just decide themselves.

D is too extreme. It says the employees doing the work know best what decisions to make. But do they? How do we know? All we know is that one of the best ways to get your employees to do a good job is to relinquish that decision-making power to them.

And that's exactly what C says. Sometimes, your effectiveness (as a boss who's aim is to get the most out of your employees) is enhanced when you give up some of your power to your employees.

It says FAKE in bold at the top of the page. No I'm kidding lol but don't worry about that. It's not "fake" at all. This is just the section where they experiment with new questions to use on new LSATs. So how different could it possibly be? Just do your best on every section and make that your only focus you'll be fine