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Monday, Apr 29 2019

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Any advice on how to proceed?

I know I've reached out to a few of you over the last few months as I've been struggling in my prep (thank you to those of you who replied with great advice), but I seem to have hit a wall and could use any advice I can get. Sorry in advance, it's a bit of a long post!

I started my LSAT journey in Feb 2017, where I took a diagnostic test a scored a 140. Over the next 10 months I used Powerscore but I didn't really see any improvements and joined the 7Sage community in March 2018. I've been studying full-time since November 2018

  • I spent around 4 months completing the CC and doing the practice drill sets.
  • From there I took about 4 tests and began to identify my weakness, so I went back and drilled those LR question types while typing out explanations for why I got questions wrong.
  • I then moved on to fool proofing LG (1-50) and began to practice my low/high res summaries for RC with a mix of timed and untimed drills (35-60).
  • I continued drilling weak areas, recorded myself taking tests and sections, listened to all the 7Sage podcasts and webinars, started to be more active on the forums and answer people's questions, pretty much anyway to get my score up
  • I even changed my diet and exercise and incorporated the meditation into it and took breaks to avoid burnout
  • In between all this, I took about 9 tests more and my average was sa 158 and my BR was a 168. My section breakdown for the test is usually LG -2, LR - 7, RC -11 and my BR breakdown is LG -0, LR - 5 and RC - 8.
  • I took my first test this past March as a litmus test and scored a158 (as expected).
  • Since then, I took about 3 days off and started again, doing retakes and practice tests and drilling sections. I identified my weak areas as being in LR where I needed to really engage with the stimulus and and in RC where I had to make sure I was taking in what was being said (Because in untimed practice I was fine, it was in a timed situation where nothing I was reading seemed to be retaining) and I did drills and figured out strategies to improve. I also read Ellen Cassidy's book and the LSAT trainer because I know these target weak areas such as mine. I'm hesitant to take any more PT's because I don't just want to burn through them.

    I've done my best to focus on the learning and inculcating good habits, rather than chasing the score, but I am still stuck on a 158 and my BR is still a168. My aim is to get to a 170+ and I am registered for the June and July exam. I have already put over a year's solid work into this and I don't want to just give up because I know people score 170+ all the time. I know my diagnostic is much lower that the average (that I have seen) and I've realized I take much longer than most people to understand things - but I don't think of myself as dumb or anything, I just have not been able to get my learning to where it needs to be to get my dream score.

    Clearly I'm doing something wrong, I'm just not sure what. Any advice on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated :)

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    PT132.S1.P4.Q22
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    Saturday, Apr 27 2019

    Low Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: Issue/Concession/Difference 1 and 2

    Paragraph 2: Concession/Different conceptions 1 and 2

    Paragraph 3: Expands on conception 2 - context, implication and = should be given more weight

    MP: Can see why Jewett would be aligned with domestic novelists of the previous generation, but should not be

    Tone: For Jewett, but understanding

    Viewpoints: AP

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    PT132.S1.P3.Q15
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    Saturday, Apr 27 2019

    A

    Paragraph 1: Relation

    Paragraph 2: Evidence

    Paragraph 3: Execption

    MP: Usually more agricultural dependence, more decays

    Tone: Scientific

    B

    Paragraph 1: Population that HG to DA

    Paragraph 2: Decay may be from increased carbs or alterations in tooth wear

    Paragraph 3: Diet

    Paragraph 4: Do not conform to generalization

    MP: Do not conform to generalization

    Tone: Scientific

    Viewpoints: Slight surprise

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    PT132.S1.P2.Q9
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    Saturday, Apr 27 2019

    Low Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: Issue/-CMMI1+2

    Paragraph 2: -CMMI3/+CMMI1

    Paragraph 3: -CMMI4/+CMMI2+3, Ex

    Paragraph 4: +CMMI4

    MP: CMMI have a legitimate place in courtrooms

    Tone: For use of CMMI in court

    Viewpoints: Some opponents of the general use of CMMI, AP, Some lawyers

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    PT132.S1.P1.Q1
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    Saturday, Apr 27 2019

    Low Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: M1 - radiocarbon dating

    Paragraph 2: M2 - lichenometry

    Paragraph 3: Evaluation = M2 is better than M1 (AP)

    MP: lichenometry is better than radiocarbon dating

    Tone: Pro lichenometry

    Viewpoints: AP

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    Friday, Nov 23 2018

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    Using an eraser during LG practise?

    Bit of a random question but - during test day I was told to try and minimise your eraser use, but does that mean that you should practice LG without it completely? Or still have it with you in case?

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    PT139.S2.P4.Q21
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    Monday, Apr 22 2019

    Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: Report/What is said

    Paragraph 2: Specifics of what it said/Aim/Conditions

    Paragraph 3: AP does not like it 1

    Paragraph 4: AP does not like it /reasons hold for all clients

    MP: These fees have issues associated with them

    Tone: Not liking it

    Viewpoints: AP

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    PT139.S2.P3.Q13
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    Monday, Apr 22 2019

    Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: Start of C political activism/Grape boycott/theatre

    Paragraph 2: Inspo for valdez/how acto worked/aim/effect

    Paragraph 3: No tonly valdex/acto collective effort = valdex + carpas

    MP: Teatro Campnes was part of Chicano political activism as led by Valdez, but was a collective effort

    Tone: Not only valdez effort

    Viewpoints: Valdez, AP, Yolanda

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    PT139.S2.P2.Q8
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    Monday, Apr 22 2019

    A

    Paragraph 1: Aristotle finding/Von Frisch pattern/specific mechanism?

    Paragraph 2: Wenner and Esch sounds/Many scientists thought bees had no hearing/Wenner said the smell

    Paragraph 3: Gould said not smell/Kirchner and Michelsen said sounds

    MP: Bees communicate through sound to other bees to tell them about a good food source

    Tone: For the sound of bees

    Viewpoints: Many as said above, AP

    B

    Paragraph 1: All animals communicate/some symbolically/Seyfarth et. al. Vervet study

    Paragraph 2: Von Frisch - bees dance/Wenner - smell, but not so

    Paragraph 3: Do not follow ANY information, Gould

    MP: Some animals communicate symbolically

    Tone: Neutral

    Viewpoints: Many as said above and AP

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    PT139.S2.P1.Q1
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    Monday, Apr 22 2019

    Low Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: What is SS/NU - no SS 1

    Paragraph 2: NU - no SS 2-4/NU suggestion

    Paragraph 3: Opponents of NU/AP defends NU against their opponents

    MP: NU does not like SS and believes development should be done based on early 20th c urban neighborhoods

    Tone: Side of NU

    Viewpoints:NU, Opponents of NU and AP

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    PT131.S1.Q17
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    Monday, Apr 22 2019

    I'm not sure if this is the correct way of thinking, but if we have already figured out the contrapositive of the second principle (I'm ignoring the first principle as it is much easier) - can't we just look for a conclusion that matches either - Retool/ or [legally required or long term substantial savings] instead of combing through each answer choice under timed conditions?

    #help

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    PT131.S4.P4.Q23
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    Thursday, Apr 18 2019

    Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: Experiment

    Paragraph 2: UG/how it often played out/Puzzling according to economics

    Paragraph 3: Some theorists - prehistoric ancestors need for support of a strong group

    Paragraph 4: AP - Years of living in small groups and evolution favored angry responses to low offers

    MP: Response in UG to reject low offers probably stems from the evolutionary response that favored angry responses to low offers

    Tone: "Compelling explanation"

    Viewpoints: AP

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    PT131.S4.P3.Q16
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    Thursday, Apr 18 2019

    Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: Who/Characteristics/Ex

    Paragraph 2: CB mentor/Led to thinking that sculptors relied only on a negative light

    Paragraph 3: Returned to the US to work for BF where he started to use chrome steel

    Paragraph 4: Fundamental invisibility of surface + analogy - communicated through reflections of images surrounding them

    Paragraph 5: Natural evolution

    MP: IN brought about the use of positive light reflections and fundamentally invisible surfaces

    Tone: Likes IN

    Viewpoints: AP

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    PT131.S4.P2.Q9
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    Thursday, Apr 18 2019

    Low Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: False impression

    Paragraph 2: Reality/Skill 1

    Paragraph 3: Skill 2

    Paragraph 4: Counterargument and response

    High Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: What/Problem/ False impression 1 and 2

    Paragraph 2: Reality/Example/Interpretation

    Paragraph 3: Synthesis - able laws as a whole and synthesize other areas

    Paragraph 4: Regionally different/Skills acquired in mastering statutes important

    MP: Statutory law should be there so that there is interpretation and synthesis

    Tone: Pro statutory law

    Viewpoints: AP and "counter argument" people

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    PT131.S4.P1.Q1
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    Thursday, Apr 18 2019

    A

    Paragraph 1: Recent studies/Problems

    Paragraph 2: Brute force explanation/Ex/available computers inadequate for the task

    Paragraph 3: Available computers capacity increasing and the task can be shared/public participation

    MP: New way of computers to compute trends via individual computers sharing the load

    Tone: Not happy with old way

    Viewpoints: AP

    B

    Paragraph 1: "Parallel"

    Paragraph 2: Ex of ants

    Paragraph 3: Pradigm shift from sequential to parallel

    MP: Pradigm shift from sequential to parallel as exemplified in nature

    Tone: Excited about new way

    Viewpoints: AP

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    Wednesday, Jan 16 2019

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    PT38.S3.Q7 (P1) - The myth persists that in 1492

    The question asks what the word "succession" in line 57 refers to. I read back over the part and thought that it referred to the action of "clearing followed by regular burning" and picked A. However it is C and I don't really understand why?

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    PT130.S2.P4.Q21
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    Friday, Apr 12 2019

    B

    High Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: Expectations is a key determinant in musical emotions/About build up and release of tension

    Paragraph 2: Mismacth

    Paragraph 3: Familiarity and pleasure

    MP: Expectation is a key determinant in musical emotions

    Tone: Neutral

    Viewpoints: AP

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    PT130.S2.P4.Q21
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    Friday, Apr 12 2019

    A

    Paragraph 1: certain complexity has positive effect on listener/Prefer some coherence

    Paragraph 2: Music is like human language

    Paragraph 3: Certain sounds = relaxing, possible explanation is from the natural environment about the danger

    MP: Music impacts listener

    Tone: Likes music, think of it like language

    Viewpoints: AP

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    PT130.S2.P3.Q14
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    Friday, Apr 12 2019

    Low Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: Proponents of TOT/Premises of TOT +Ex

    Paragraph 2: Transferring ownership of rights/In IP, theorists POV

    Paragraph 3: Proponents of TOT, +TOT, AP -TOT1 and 2 + Ex

    High Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: Proponents of TOT - IP rights are logical extensions of right to own and create tangible objects/Premises of TOT 1) every copyrightable work has a physical form, 2) confers rights to the owner that they can do whatever + Ex

    Paragraph 2: Transferring ownership of rights but some rights the owner reserves and is common in real estate/ In IP, theorists POV - copyrights means an intention to secure rights to works = Ex

    Paragraph 3: Proponents of TOT = +TOT - justifies IP without using the problematic idea that one can own ideas, AP = plausible, -TOT1= but does not extend to live broadcasts and -TOT2 = Conceiving ideas more crucial + Ex

    MP: TOT has some good points, but is problematic

    Tone: Skeptical/Critical

    Viewpoints: Proponents of TOT, Theorists and AP

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    PT130.S2.P2.Q8
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    Friday, Apr 12 2019

    Low Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: PE built parallel computer network to solve for oil

    Paragraph 2: Drew inspiration from tree branches

    Paragraph 3: Drew inspiration from honeycombs/PE predictions

    High Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: What fueled his desire/His breakthrough by building a parallel computer network to solve for oil/Previous computers were slow

    Paragraph 2: Requirements of modeling oil field/His his network was setup/Drew inspiration from tree branches

    Paragraph 3: Drew inspiration from honeycombs to predict global weather patterns/PE predictions - better understand systems evolved by nature which will facilitate evolution in human tech

    MP: PE built parallel computer network to solve real-world problems by drawing inspiration from systems evolved by nature

    Tone: Side of PE

    Viewpoints: AP

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    PT130.S2.P1.Q1
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    Friday, Apr 12 2019

    Low Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: Reasearch prevalied, despite obstancles

    Paragraph 2: Technological advances/Philosophical revolution

    Paragraph 3: Advanced on another front

    High Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: Research into ancient crafts practiced by women prevailed, despite obstacles about archaeological remains and surviving texts.

    Paragraph 2: Technological advances helped - more information available + Ex /Philosophical revolution - different pursuit and preserving things of no discernible value + Ex

    Paragraph 3: Advanced on another front - actual reproduction of cloth to checking H + Ex

    MP: New techniques and philosophical understanding have helped advance research about

    Paragraph 1: Research into

    Tone: On side of new research, maybe a little excited

    Viewpoints: AP

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    PT129.S4.P1.Q1
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    Thursday, Apr 11 2019

    Low Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: FFC appeared to only serve the broadcasting industry

    Paragraph 2: Landmark case that changed this

    Paragraph 3: Judged revoked license without remand to FCC

    Paragraph 4: Implications

    High Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: FFC appeared to only serve the broadcasting industry as it recognized viewers as only members of the public and gave them no avenue to voice concerns

    Paragraph 2: Landmark case that changed this - church wanted TV station license revoked as it called for racial segregation. FCC only put short term reprimands in place which begged the question - why not cancel it? Probably because it would allow citizen groups to enter a closed group of Gov and industry

    Paragraph 3: Chruch petitioned in court, but no avail then a judge revoked the license without remand to FCC

    Paragraph 4: Implications - opened up the public to the world of broadcasting and gave them the right to question TV and radio licenses at license proceedings

    MP: A landmark case changed the course of FCC and allowed the public to enter the world of broadcasting and gave them the right to question TV and radio licenses at license proceedings

    Tone: Supportive of the progress

    Viewpoints: AP

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    PT127.S4.P4.Q22
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    Monday, Apr 08 2019

    Low Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: Issue

    Paragraph 2: P1 and P2

    Paragraph 3: Later use

    High Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: Issue - nondiscriminatory education system for gender was only put place in France in the 1880s but not for lack of proposals

    Paragraph 2: P1 - Replace religious education with a reformed curriculum but girls would be pulled out of school at 8/P2 - more comprehensive and wholesome but also defined females by gender

    Paragraph 3: Not implemented but used later to justify new law for public secondary schools for women, no fees and compulsory attendance

    MP: 2 proposals were put forth to reform the education system in France, but these were rejected and later use as justification for new laws which met the same aims

    Tone: Sympathetic to plight of women

    Viewpoints: AP

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    PT127.S4.P3.Q16
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    Monday, Apr 08 2019

    A

    High Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: No universally accepted definition for NM only 2 criteria/ P and N vaguely defined with nation linked to nationalism and sovereignty

    Paragraph 2: Problem for Roma

    MP: With no definition of NM and vague definition for P and N, it is problematic for Roma

    Tone: Sympathetic to Roma?

    Viewpoints: AP

    B

    High Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: Capatorti's definition of the minority where Roma fulfill all except 1

    Paragraph 2: Should be classified as a minority

    MP: Roman should be classified as a minority

    Tone: Roma's side

    Viewpoints: AP

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    PT127.S4.P2.Q8
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    Monday, Apr 08 2019

    Low Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: Issue/H1

    Paragraph 2: H1 via Ex

    Paragraph 3: H2 + Ex

    High Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: Issue - why kin recognition occurs/H1- inclusive fitness theory = natural selection favors organisms that help their relatives as it increases their own genetic representation + Ex - honeybee

    Paragraph 2: H1 via Ex - helped explain cannibalism in animals, where spadefoot toad tadpoles eat species members but avoid siblings unless very hungry

    Paragraph 3: H2 - preserves it's own life + Ex - cannibalistic tiger salamander larvae

    MP: Why kin recognition occurs can be explained via inclusive fitness theory or self-preservation

    Tone: Reporting

    Viewpoints: AP, biologists

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    PT127.S4.P1.Q1
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    Monday, Apr 08 2019

    Low Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: Issue + Perspectives

    Paragraph 2: Not a novelist, but a folk teller

    Paragraph 3: Folk telling with African oral tradition

    Paragraph 4: How Tutuola's shows features of Folk telling with African oral tradition

    High Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: Issue - Tutuola first Nigerian writer to be given internal recognition + Perspectives = Literary critics - inventive, His critics - dismissed/AP - need to see the genre, not novels

    Paragraph 2: Not a novelist, but a folk teller - folk teller is supposed to derive subjects and framework from a corpus of traditional lore

    Paragraph 3: Folk telling with African oral tradition - teller has lots of room to maneuver and their reputation depends on their ability to modify and embellish

    Paragraph 4: How Tutuola's shows features of Folk telling with African oral tradition = 1)specific episode repeated, 2)blend of language, 3)personal touches and 4) traditional accents and techniques of the storyteller

    MP: Tutuola is a folk teller and his work is best approached via African oral tradition

    Tone: Believes Tutuola is a folk teller

    Viewpoints: Critics, His critics and AP

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    PT134.S4.P3.Q13
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    Monday, Apr 08 2019

    A

    High Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: Theory - human behavior from the theory of evolution/Problem of altruism

    Paragraph 2: Answer is in psychological experiences of ID and empathy where self-propagation may operate through instinctive actions that appear unselfish

    Paragraph 3: Later applied to groups

    MP: Human behavior from the theory of evolution is rooted in psychological experiences of ID and empathy where self-propagation may operate through instinctive actions that appear unselfish

    Tone: Beliefs in this explanation

    Viewpoints: AP

    B

    High Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: Evolutionary psychology os a conspiracy theory

    Paragraph 2: Can appear persuasive on the onset - favor monogamous families because of interest in propagating genes

    Paragraph 3: Who knows, but must make inferences carefully.

    MP: Evolutionary psychology os a conspiracy theory and must make inferences carefully.

    Tone: Against EP

    Viewpoints: AP and some Evolutionary psychologists

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    PT134.S4.P4.Q20
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    Monday, Apr 08 2019

    Low Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: Issue + P1+P2+P3

    Paragraph 2: P3 vs P2 1

    Paragraph 3: P3 vs P2 2

    Paragraph 4: P3 VS P2 3

    High Resolution:

    Paragraph 1: Issue significant and opposing directions in Russian literary criticism + P1- arts high and above present +P2 - founded in concrete reality +P3 - reality was arts crucial sourses but a deeper understanding of reality

    Paragraph 2: P3 vs P2 1 - depicting reality as it is = No because P3 - explode boundaries between the real world

    Paragraph 3: P3 vs P2 2 - serve particular political view = No because oP3 - judged on artistic merit which means the ability to write well

    Paragraph 4: P3 VS P2 3 - useful = No because P3 - encounter breadths that we cannot measure with precision and may not serve a useful purpose only because we cannot see how

    MP: P3 opposed P2 on 3 main points

    Tone: AP seems to be with P3, not with P2 or P1

    Viewpoints: P1, P2, P3 and AP

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    Tuesday, Jul 03 2018

    vxsinha96118

    Taking the LSAT in US

    Does anyone know/have experience taking the LSAT in US when on a tourist visa? My family is shifting to US in 2months, while I finish up University in Australia. In case my November 2018 LSAT does not go well (which I give in Australia) I had wanted to take the February 2019 LSAT, however, I would be in US by then on a tourist visa :/

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