35 with 2 silly boys at home. The toughest part for me is definitely the feeling of making progress. Then, a child gets sick or some long hours at work make it seem like I'm slipping back.

I guess for me, studying the LSAT is like a rising tide. It may take wave after wave of some progress and some recession. But eventually, I'll hit that high water mark and FLOOD THE BANK WITH MY LOGICS!!

That or a 170.

All Jedi use the force. But if you use the force, you could also be a Sith. If All force-users on the dark-side are powerful. This statement doesn't preclude a powerful force-user who is on the light-side.

Something like that

I fell for this. But by the point this stat is tied back to drivers, you realize that youve made half a dozen baseless assumptions just to force this AC to be right.

Meanwhile E just requires a tiny assumption to strengthen.

C would similarly be classified as you call it, a premise booster. It says even not being inherently safer, minivans have less injuries per vehicle with 4 extra passengers per vehicle by average. WOW!

But that statistic cannot be attributed to drivers. What if it is because minivans are almost always driven during the time of day when severe accidents least likely to occur?

So C and D strengthens the power of premises but not the reasoning that would allow us to draw the conclusion.

So C would be better if it added that research shows drivers drive more defensively the more passengers they carry. So now we can tie more passengers, less injuries to low risk drivers.

Does that make sense?

Congrats! That's about my goal score and I'm chipping away with 7sage help!

LG question: I feel and see tangible improvements in LR. I grasp conclusions better and eliminate trap answers faster. I can feel my thinking processes change.

For LG however, how do you KNOW you've made improvements? IS there a mental checklist or process that gets faster or more accurate? For new games, I still freeze up after initial set up when I can't make any of the key inferences.

How do you think you've improved on this and how did you go about eliciting this type of improvement on inferential skills?

Thanks!

I kind of like the panel of guests they had of different lawyers telling us what lawyers actually do.

I got some fee waivers, some new contacts and a helluva sore heel, but it was worth it.

The funny part was that the official LSAC test writer was trashing prep companies. He's said, all the answer choices are completely random so don't look for traps.

As if a magician will reveal all of his tricks.

Also, most law schools I spoke to didn't really care about GPA nearly as much as LSAT. If you just ask, "nod your head if my score of 165 would be an admit for your school?" You will get a hint at it even if no admin personnel will make an outright statement.

Just got here, smaller than I thought. I'm the guy carrying his LSAT books in the biggest backpack in the ballroom.

I have a quizlet premium account. I can paste a screenshot into one side of the "flashcard" and then write all of my explanations on the otherside.

The only thing is you can't do custom sorts like you can in an excel. But I hate large blocks of text in excel and don't see a value in sorting so there you have it.

I'll be there Saturday! I'm feeling like 7sage needs a fanshop, hats, t-shirts with some famous JY quips printed on them, mugs with your goal score on it, and pictures frames to hold photos of loved whom you haven't seen since starting the LSAT journey.

Just some ideas, let's talk!

I read the amicus brief, NOT the actual legal document, also statements and tweets and listened to a podcast that covered this.

It seem to be really vague when exactly we'll see a change, if any. At this point, everyone should just get back to foolproofing!!

There will be changes.

However it will be at LEAST 4 years before LSAC must complete RESEARCH into a POSSIBLE new AR assessment.

So with testing and rollout,

LG will not be going away for the foreseeable future.

But i was quote shocked when I first caught wind of this.

#HELP

I really think this is categorized as an MSS is because of the tiny assumption between stimulus and AC-B.

Stimulus has premise: The best strategy is to renovate train station.

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AC-B has: Outerville SHOULD renovate train station.

Missing premise (assumption) is that if it's the best strategy for Outerville, they should do it..

I really think this was written as a MBT/MP question but downgraded to MSS because AC-B cannot reach the 100% validity required for MBT/MP question.

So instead of rewriting the stimulus, they just turned down the question stem from MBT into a MSS.

Yea I agree, the stems makes it almost a fill-in-the-blank question. I think it's helpful to practice adding "THEREFORE" in front of every AC. This way we know that we're looking for how the author most likely would've concluded the agrument.

If you add "THEREFORE" in front of B, it almost contradicts the stimulus.

If you add it in front of C, it flows into yes, even if some people say that plant cultivation started during hunger and drought, but they must have had some good days during which they studied and learned cultivation.

I got this wrong too. I didn't understand how to attach the conditionals and did a bad reversal in my head. I went PlentyResrc --> Leisure --> StudyCultivation.

Seemed valid to me at the time but now I get that I flipped the necessary and sufficient. In order to study cultivation, you MUST have had leisure. But having leisure alone cannot guarantee that its used to study cultivation. Maybe all that leisure time when to browing /r/LSAT reddit.

My mistake #1 - not picking up the fact that caffeine is a psychoactive substance based on the first sentence of the stimulus.

#2 - That caused me to pick C and not even bother with E.

The full CC is included with all levels. The difference is your access to the PT's and the drill sets.

No. You can't get valid arguments from:

A → B

C → B

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A←s→C

No no no. A and C never intersect anywhere.

I have PowerScore books, LSAT Trainer, tried LSAT Demon, tried LSAT Labs and Loophole Book.

In all honesty, I appreciate JY's video explanations way more than any written explanation. Sometimes he can be vague, sometimes he misses things or makes errors. But in general, it's the way he thinks, his attitudes towards the crappy arguments and even crappier answer choices are what the real value is.

You have a rare insight into how a top scorer carves up a question, an argument, diagram a rule.

That alone, is worth the price of admission.

The only other interface that I kind of like is LSATLab. But their core lessons and explanations are not even close to the compendious work of JY.

So if you want to make your own "LSATDemon" like app, I got Quizlet. Then I make flashcards out of the questions and type my own answers and explanations. On tough ones, I paste in particular explanations that helped me understand the question. So then for $10 or $15 a year, you can reproduce the basic functionality of the LSATDemon. It just takes a little bit of work creating those flashcards.

Here's the one I'm working on for PT1-35 strengthen questions. https://quizlet.com/_6tgy09

Password is 7sage

Ideally, your intuition is good enough on the non-curve-breaker questions that you don't need to diagram. The easier SA questions will have a glaring gap in reasoning.

For SA you look for the exact wording of the ideas you want to link together. You can also look for contrapositives. I find SA questions a bit easier because the burden of the AC to move the argument to 100% validity.

PSA questions are quite different. The ideas that link together are not necessarily exact matches. It's quite a big looser in terms of validity.

Often with these, you are looking for reasoning errors and the common correct AC types for each:

Causal reasoning: look to help argument become more than coincidence. defend against alternate causes, etc.

Comparisons: look for AC's the make the comparison in the argument more applicable and likely to hold water.

Most of all, these questions are often just obvious leaps over gaps.

Such as: Barry stole our company secrets, PAY HIM!

Well, obviously it's missing a premise that link these ideas together. Perhaps Barry was contracted to conduct Penetration Testing and our company always pay our dues.

You get the idea.

We don't. But the passage specifically said that this bicultural composite authorship is based on orally telling a story, then the translated and written down.

Awesome!

Hi, this is an amazing tool.

Quick questions:

Can you "randomize" the questions order? I wanted to create a drill set for all "flaw" questions from PT 1-35, but instead of the PT order, can I have them random?

Can I customize the timing/clock on the the customized problem sets? I'd like to time it based the JY's LG timing recommendations. Also, for LR or RC, can I just keep track of the time spent on the passage/questions without having a "limit"?

BTW I tested an LG and it's amazing to know how long I spent on each question. We must shower 7sage with all the Kudos.

I mean the explanations videos are actually all done digitally. So..