@ thanks so much!!

@ Thank you so much! I assume its probably similar to LG where you're bound to get better with practice, but I just hate RC so much I can never get myself to practice aside from preptests haha. Anyway, with LG, I know it's tedious and can be extremely frustration, but if you keep practicing with preptests you will naturally get faster at overall games given you will become much faster at identifying rules you've seen, just with different subjects and minor changes. One prep book I used (while it wasn't that great for LG) put it in great terms with an analogy that applies to all sections of the LSAT: a rider and an elephant. Basically right now you're probably consciously thinking about all the rules, and trying to remember what each rule means when you're looking at games. With time and practice, you will be training your unconscious and it'll come to you automatically. "Our conscious mind is the rider. It gets all the notoriety and attention because it is what we most notice and because it "seems" to be in control. But once that timer starts, your unconscious - your instincts and habits for what to think about and how - takes over." So in other words, with a ton of practice you will get much better just from the fact your brain will naturally recognize games appearing similar to prior games you've done. If you even have a slight understanding of conditionals and how games work, practice will be the biggest indicator of what you don't understand and should focus on. At first, I was completely overwhelmed and shocked when Id watch videos reviewing diagrams not understanding how the instructor was able to automatically get inferences that seemed so far fetched, and how he was able to do it immediately. Now I've come to realize almost every game that is a part of particular game type is identical in its diagramming process, including how to figure out their inferences. Also, keep in mind, there are typically only a couple major inference(s) per game, so if you can figure that out move on to the questions and don't overthink the diagram expecting endless inferences or trying to make up inferences that don't exist. Look for connections between rules (Ive found this to be where most inferences lie). In sequencing games look for positions certain elements can't go. Look for elements that are limited to only a few spots. Pay attention to when you should be making more than one diagram. Example: if in a double sequencing game a rule says something like "Theresa performs Thursday for one of the two days, but not both."(PT64-game 3 has something of this nature) and there is no other rule that has someone narrowed down this much, then make 2 diagrams to represent that and the rest of the rules will typically fall into place on those 2 diagrams (while this may not appear as an inference, it's a trick the LSAT does to see if you will make 2 diagrams, or make 1, and thus making the questions much harder and ultimately more time consuming if you only do 1 diagram). Also if you just can't figure out what the inference(s) are, and you just can't seem to answer the questions confidently based on your diagram and/or are taking too long, this is when you skip that section and return to it later. Another thing to focus on is when there are strings of letters being clumped together (ex: "F is before X but after Y": Y-F-X (F and X can't go in 1, Y and F can't go in the last spot) ... pay close attention to rules such as this because it'll typically limit where exactly it can be placed and most of the other rules will narrow it down even more/revolve around it. Rules such as these dictate games.) If you see games with almost all conditionals this is a sign it is an in-out game. All these things Ive said is not from me memorizing any of this (which is what I originally did and it didn't work), its from endless practice. Good luck! and thank you again for the RC advice!

How long have you been repetitively practicing LG from practice exams? For my first exam I only did a single practice exam before hand, and even though I thought I knew everything to know about LG, I was completely lost on the exam. However, from just 2 weeks of doing practice exams every other day, I have noticed my LG drastically increase to an average of 0 to -3 under time constraints. Two weeks prior, getting to all four games wasn't even a conceivable thought I had, and I was getting around -10 to -12 under time constraints.

I think the biggest thing for me was blind reviewing and really thinking about exactly how to diagram it without time constraints. Try nailing the diagramming without time constraints during blind review, and once you get back to another practice exam it is highly likely you will see a game you spent a lot of time blind reviewing and automatically recognizing how to go about it (or adjust your techniques to go about it). Once you get to a point where you can answer every question right without time constraints, then try to focus on your time. At this stage, if you are still have great difficulty with time, you should flag/skip all "substitute a rule" questions (typically 1 a section), and come back at the end. These are time traps. Any question you come across that you are taking more than 30 seconds (give or take) to understand, skip and come back to at the end. Any game you read that you find great difficulty in trying to process how to diagram, skip it and come back at the end. One extremely hard game means there is typically a much easier game that you can quickly finish, then come back to the difficult game and try to answer, and worst case guess (and definitely blind review it).

Ultimately, the two main things that really helped me were 1) Re-diagramming all 4 games during blind review while not timed (no matter whether I felt like I did them wrong or right), then watching the 4 videos to see how 7sage diagrammed it, and watching the videos to review any questions I got wrong. Repetitively doing this on every practice test til I got to a point where I don't get any diagrams or questions wrong during blind review. Then focusing on time, which mastering diagramming (and being able to instantly spot inferences) naturally helped with time 2) Knowing when to skip a question, or even a game, and coming back to it at the end.

Side note - do you have any advice for RC? I am awful at it and can never come up with solid low res's and I'm never able to figure out the main points haha

Anyone that had fencing, political parties, & movie genres for the LG, what was the 4th game again?

@.anderson I think we had the same version. I also breezed through the first LG, but the second one seemed to trip me up which never happens, so I’m hoping that was experimental too. For your second one was it fencing, political sides, movie genres & one other im blanking on? I for some reason took so long on the movie genres I ended up having to guess on a couple :(

@ hey did you have the security guard game?

@ hey! What type of experimental did you have?

@ hey I saw that they offered you a retake. If i had some proctor issues as well would I be able to see my score first then decide if i want to retake/ get a free test in August? Or did they tell you you’d have to decide without seeing your score?

@ they sent an email out about people who need a laptop and they’ll send you a laptop, and they will pay for a hotel room for you to take the exam in…

Any particular logic games to practice in preparation for my exam tomorrow?

You get an individual proctor with/without accomodations so you don't get placed into a seperate room. I believe they have your proof of eligibility given it is connected to your LSAC account, but I am not 100% sure if you have to show your letter to your proctor.

@ If you click "reschedule test" on ProctorU then scroll down and look on the bottom left. Mine says "163 minutes Exam Duration." I am assuming we are fine if it says that and hoping that isn't including check-in time. If you don't mind letting me know if you have the same duration I'd greatly appreciate!

@ Thanks so much! So weird that it says "You have no active accommodations on your account," but then says I have 163 minutes.