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LSAT · Best approach to LG improvement in my situation?
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tatchuthan177
Saturday, Aug 28 2021

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Thanks for the detailed response.

One of my bad habits was not doing full PTs and wasting material on single section tests. On those LG sections I usually get 4-9 wrong. The only PTs that have remained untouched are the one's past 75 (had the sense to preserve these, at least). I did my first full PT since my diagnostic a few days ago and got a -14 on 88's games. It was by far the worst I've done in ages and shattered my confidence. I've since read that it was one of the toughest games sections, but it did little to assuage me. I guess I should be grateful that I took it early and shook myself out of complacency, god knows how I'd have reacted to that one near the test date!

Alright, I'll follow that method. I'm just starting to foolproof but I was giving it one day before re-trying the game. I'll be doing them immediately afterwards as well now.

Do you have any suggestions on how I should space out my fresh 75+ PTs until November? I've also heard people talk of saving some for retake preparation. I've never written the LSAT before btw.

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Saturday, Aug 28 2021

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Best approach to LG improvement in my situation?

LG is by far my weakest section and I intend to write the Nov LSAT. I've done all the LGs from 10-75 but I was ignorant and casual about studying in the past (wasn't sure about pursuing law school). I'd do them, watch an explanation video and never revisited them to ensure my understanding. There'd also be large breaks / gaps between games sometimes. I did another circuit from 40-75 again in that time as well. Needless to say, my improvements have only been modest, my confidence in LG is low, and I remain prone to catastrophic breakdowns.

I've only now purchased 7sage and have backfilled all my past papertest results into the system to generate an analysis. I can see where my weak spots are. What should I do now? Do I drill my weak areas by type & difficulty progressively? Or take full 35 min sections of LG from diff PTs and foolproof them?

Anyone that can suggest a focused regimen for me would be greatly appreciated. I find myself ruing my decision not to sit for the old LSATs back in 2017, 2018 etc. where this only represented a quarter of my grade...

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Friday, Sep 24 2021

tatchuthan177

LR, 'Intuition' and Resources

So, I've always gone about LR in a kind of unstructured way, I've never formally studied for it and reliably go about -2 to -4 since my diagnostic. I don't actively think about LR in a technical way, like trying to identifying premises and conclusions, highlighting stuff, mapping out lawgic, thinking about trigger words and question types etc. I've continued to depend on a formless sort of instinct for what is right and wrong. I'm sure some of these considerations operate at the back of my mind, but it's nothing deliberate. Although this has served me well until now, as the test approaches I feel doubts about the sustainability of this approach. I feel like even if a resource doesn't improve my scoring range, devoting some time to seriously studying LR would salve my fears and firm up my confidence for the test.

I have Powerscore, the Trainer and naturally 7Sage. What I'm curious about is the Loophole. Do you guy's think it's worth buying that getting through before the November LSAT in my situation? Or any other resource with the Nov test in mind? LG is still my weakest section and I've been grinding it for the past month.

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LSAT · Horrible Proctor-Ask me to show ID in the middle of section.
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tatchuthan177
Sunday, Oct 24 2021

This is really scary. I'm writing for the first time in Nov and I hate that a tactless proctor has become my overwhelming dread... back in the old days you only needed to worry about the conformation of the test!

Will take your experience to heart. I won't comply with any instructions from them during the test that aren't first accompanied by a pausing of the time. And if they jabber away noisily instead I'll mute them and continue on, damn the consequences.

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An old boss of mine has agreed to provide me a LOR but was asking for some guidance on the finer points like:

  • the recipient address

  • should they use the letterhead from their personal company (I didn't work with them in this company, both of us worked for another company we no longer serve now)

  • how long should the letter aim to be (page/word count)

    • Also if anyone has samples of strong LOR from an employer, I'd love to see them.

    Thanks!

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    PrepTests ·
    PT147.S2.P2.Q14
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    tatchuthan177
    Tuesday, Oct 19 2021

    14 reminds me of that RC question referring to boats and flooding. You have to contort yourself to make an inference from a throwaway word in the first paragraph that's basically irrelevant to the passage.

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    LSAT · ⚖ Official November 2021 LSAT Discussion Thread ⚖
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    tatchuthan177
    Wednesday, Nov 17 2021

    @ said:

    @ said:

    I took mine on Sunday / 14th. LG-LR-LG-RC. I brain-farted on the first LG of the first LG section and wasted 7 minutes with nothing to show for it. Powered through everything else and returned and did it again and it went fine. Now I'm sad & worried because I felt too crunched on time to be secure in what I did on that section. No time to re-check, make sure I didn't misread anything etc.

    The second LG with Ancestors went much, much better. Had 18 minutes+ to do the 4th game. Sad to see so many call it an experimental on reddit :/

    LR and RC went well, I think. Can never be too sure though.

    Ditto. Exactly same with me. 7 min haha same also. usually I am done a game in 7 min. I could not even answer a single question. Went to all other games tried to perfect them and put all my eggs in one basket since i was unsure if i could do G1. returned back and noted i made a silly reading error of one of the rule which i think is relatively new and unseen in past sequence games. Had 3 min left. Atleast 1/5 right. Guessed 4. so hoping 18/23 atlaest.

    Wow! I've usually got a good instinct for skipping but they misfired here because it was the first game. In all my long history of practicing I've never been in a situation where I've had to skip Game 1 (very common for Game 3, sometimes 2 etc.) so I kept worrying at Game 1 unproductively. Usually I can do Game 1 even if I have to use an inefficient approach but this time I just got stumped for some dumb reason. Super annoyed with myself because it seemed like a normal LG section I just messed up my time management.

    I'm going to learn from this since it's my first real LSAT and I'm applying next year.

    Hoping we both get at least 18/23. Would be super happy with that!

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    LSAT · ⚖ Official November 2021 LSAT Discussion Thread ⚖
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    tatchuthan177
    Wednesday, Nov 17 2021

    I took mine on Sunday / 14th. LG-LR-LG-RC. I brain-farted on the first LG of the first LG section and wasted 7 minutes with nothing to show for it. Powered through everything else and returned and did it again and it went fine. Now I'm sad & worried because I felt too crunched on time to be secure in what I did on that section. No time to re-check, make sure I didn't misread anything etc.

    The second LG with Ancestors went much, much better. Had 18 minutes+ to do the 4th game. Sad to see so many call it an experimental on reddit :/

    LR and RC went well, I think. Can never be too sure though.

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    LSAT · Farewell for now!
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    tatchuthan177
    Sunday, Sep 12 2021

    Hey, can you expand a bit more on your LR strategy? I've done about a dozen PTs (65-75, 82, 88) so I have a decent amount of material for the analytics function on here. How should I approach correcting my weaknesses? Create problem sets with the questions I got wrong by type and drill them? What about older, untouched PTs? For example someone suggested I should drill my weak question types from PTs 1 - 40 ish even though I haven't tried the LR sections on any of them yet. I fear spoiling a valuable resource by doing this. I'm writing for the first time in November.

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    LSAT · What are some LGs similar to the duet musicians game from the October LSAT?
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    tatchuthan177
    Thursday, Nov 04 2021

    I didn't take the Oct test, but how would guy's rank this Duets game against the hardest LGs ever? Up there with Dinasaurs, CDs, Computer Virus etc.?

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    Hey,

    I've heard that sorting for your weak LR types and drilling these questions can be highly beneficial. My question is -- should I have experienced these questions within their full sections before employing them for drills? Or can I safely use material from untouched, old PTs and still get a lot of value out this practice? I'm writing the LSAT for the first time in November so I fear I won't have the time to work through all those ancient PTs, but I don't want to waste valuable material needlessly.

    If it's no issue, where should I draw the line for which old PTs to use for this purpose? (pre 52, 40 , 30 etc.)

    Thanks

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