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Powerscore sucks, don't use them. I read 80 pages of their LR book and threw it in the trash. Why you ask? Because they use weird tricks instead of teaching the basic underlying logic, and I hated their explanation of MP and Weakening questions.

Lol this post is funny to me because the way Dave (the author of the LR Bible) and JY suggest students approach weakening questions are fundamentally equivalent. Both suggest focusing on the conclusion and looking for an answer choice that weakens the amount of support the premises provide. I mention this because I find it amusing when people say certain companies are "trash" or "useless" when in reality, the ones worth their salt all suggest methods that will be helpful to some, or are essentially quite similar.

I think it needs to be pointed out that posting this on the 7Sage discussion board is obviously going to get you responses that are biased. Posting this elsewhere, where your responses aren't solely from people who are in some away affiliated with 7Sage, is going to yield a less biased response. In other words, you're dealing with an unrepresentative sample here.

Go to a PowerScore forum and post the same question about 7Sage and you'll probably get a bunch of people saying the 7Sage style didn't work for them. The reality is, there are several efficient and knowledgeable prep companies that all, in my opinion, do an adequate job of preparing students for the exam. At a certain point it's just about ending up with one that appeals to your particular style.

Having said that, the answer to your question depends a lot on where you are in your stage of preparation and what score you're targeting. Reading the Bibles and doing their exercises could prove beneficial to you. Again, it depends on where you're trying to end up.

Thanks for this detailed review! Do you know of anyone who's taken the test closer to the Boulder/Denver area and could provide feedback on these testing centers? Gunnison is a bit far from Boulder.

Interested.