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xuewangamy566
Saturday, Dec 27 2014

Typically there won't be an argument in MBT or MSS questions. For argument parts questions, you need to figure out the logic structure. But don't assume them to be perfect. I can see your point to put comas around the word perfect. Being critical is crucial but trying to find flaws in every stimulus will probably be counterproductive. In another word, don't be hypercritical.

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Friday, Dec 26 2014

Does anyone find this helpful?

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Sunday, Jan 25 2015

Yes! I have the same problem

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Wednesday, Jun 24 2015

Wow that's great! Thank you very much guys!

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Wednesday, Dec 24 2014

Thank you for sharing. I like the statement that unrealistic expectations can lead to burnout. Once I realize that my accuracy and speed are there, I hope to do perfectly every time. That made me burnt out.

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xuewangamy566
Tuesday, Jun 23 2015

Hi Matt, how do you find the explanation? Is there any easy way to navigate videos by PT? Thanks!

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Friday, Sep 23 2016

I just did so for PT78 passage 3. This time I had bad luck since this passage happened to be the hardest passage of the set. Usually doing the longest passages first puts my nerve at ease and forces me to keep moving. But I need to learn to skip if the longest passage happens to be difficult.

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Thursday, Jan 22 2015

This is very helpful! Thank you'

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Thursday, Jan 22 2015

I have the same question here

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Sunday, Dec 20 2015

I went to Cambridge LSAT website today and I can see PT75 and 76 for sell at 10 bucks each. https://www.cambridgelsat.com/preptests/4-section/ Are these legit?

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xuewangamy566
Saturday, Jun 20 2015

Purely analytical deduction works better for me. Alternatively, you may want to get the LSAT SuperPrep to see how the test makers solve logic games. I see logic game as a misnomer while almost no one still uses its official name: analytical reasoning. The split-game-boards approach is like a programming style iteration, which, I think, does NOT align well with the essence of analytical reasoning. FYI

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PT107.S4.Q1
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xuewangamy566
Monday, Jan 19 2015

Hi JY could you do a video explanation for Question 3?

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Saturday, Apr 18 2015

@ I upgraded from Basic to Ultimate shortly after I purchased the Basic; I emailed you but I didn't get extra six months... I'm crying here...:(

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Thursday, Dec 18 2014

@ could you explain what you mean by "TCR"? thanks!

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Tuesday, Apr 14 2015

thanks @ and I gave you 5 points haha

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Tuesday, Apr 14 2015

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Karmas?

Hi guys I'm very curious about how karma points are calculated? say posting a comment in the forum/under a class video = ? karmas? initiating a discussion = ? karmas? and how karma points are linked to a user's role in the forum: mentor or member, etc. Any thoughts?

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xuewangamy566
Sunday, Jan 11 2015

Fake questions are just used to train your mind when you exhausted almost everything, scored high, but were somehow intimidated by new questions for no reason. It's nothing about your theory of real LSAT questions but the nuances of your mentality, which I think could only be resolved by facing something new. Even though the questions are faked, your solid master of the patterns of LSAT won't let you be misled by the faked questions. All you need to do is to win the mental battle.

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xuewangamy566
Saturday, Jan 10 2015

I understand the intimidation factor you mean. I'd suggest to try Princeton LSAT Workout and Princeton LSAT Logic Games Workout. I will do some fake new LGs before this Feb's test, just to keep me in a good shape when facing new games.

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Thursday, Feb 09 2017

I work for a D.C. think tank. I'm so sick and tired of the D.C. politics. I will head for the west coast for law school this fall... I know this is not helpful...I just feel compelled to add another miserable aspect of D.C.:) BU and GW are both great. I think your decision should come down to where you plan to practice what kind of law and which school can best help you achieve this goal.

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PT119.S3.Q24
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xuewangamy566
Saturday, Mar 07 2015

This diagram works better for me:

no one believes in money --> money exist (meaning, money doesn't always exist)

(A): exist --> always exist

money always exist --> money exist

money exist

Do any Dec test takers seriously consider retaking in Feb?

I'm kinda determined to retake unless I get a 170+ this December, which is somewhat unlikely though I'm still hoping that...

I think I'm fully prepared but didn't perform well yesterday. I bombed the last game... Feb will be my third take...

I already have one and half years' gap after my master's degree... so Definitely don't want to wait for another year. I have the capacity to score in the high 170s range (before BR) and really need to translate it into an official score even though I'll have to take the test for the 3rd time!

Let's wait for the December score first. But let me know if you are on the same boat. I'm hoping for a kickass final score.

I'm in the DC area. I hope to have an ambitious study buddy I could meet in person to discuss questions, passages, practice strategies, and more importantly, the mental battle!

my email: xw73@georgetown.edu

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xuewangamy566
Saturday, Feb 07 2015

I'd say this works for me, though I practice speed reading from a different source. I'm a natural reader. Before I used the speed reading techniques, I generally spent 3.5 to 4.5 min to read and notate. After some practice, I can read without stop for 1:00 to 1:30 per passage. If I notate and sometimes read back to check those referential phrasing, I can still finish a passage in around 2:30 with a quite good comprehension. English is my second language. I can do it. Why not you guys?

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PT128.S1.P4.Q22
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xuewangamy566
Friday, Mar 06 2015

Could anyone share his opinion on how to interpret "impossible to predict" mentioned in the passage?

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PT104.S4.Q21
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xuewangamy566
Friday, Feb 06 2015

Please don't read my previous lengthy summary...It's entirely wrong....

I mis-represent the entire argument structure and beemomo8's summary is correct. There's no so-called difference between "the original generalization" and "the generalization at issue". Analyzing the stimulus and the answer choices at this level is very dangerous...

The argument structure is as simple as:

1) the original generalization:

-ee words → a person affected by that action

2) the "absentee" counterexample:

-ee words ←s→ a person performing that action

3) the revised generalization:

if a two-party transaction → (-ee words → a person affected by that action)

narrow down the original generalization.

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PT104.S4.Q21
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xuewangamy566
Friday, Feb 06 2015

My initial problem with answer choice (D) was that I didn't quite see how the argument narrows the scope of the generalization?

I consider the generalization to be: "the person affected in the specified way by an action performed by someone else", and the final qualification to be: "if a word with the ending -ee refers to one party in a two-party transaction, it refers to the party at which the other party's action is directed"

For me, they are EXACTLY the same.

In this case, how can we say the qualification narrows the original generalization?

The argument structure is like:

1) a generalization

2) an example illegitimately broadens the scope of the generalization

3) no, no, no, this example is irrelevant, because it misinterprets the scope of the generalization. Actually, the scope is...

In retrospect, I can see that (D) doesn't mean that the argument narrows the scope of the original generalization. This is my own misinterpretation. (D) says "the generalization at issue". I think "at issue" indicates that there's a disagreement on the scope of the generalization raised by the counterexample. So "the generalization at issue" really refers to the scope-broadened generalization used by the counterexample rather than the original generalization.

I admit that being too picky about the word choice of "narrows" in answer choice (D) made me ignore one horrible factual mistake in (E):

(Don't argue the words: "replacing" and "spurious")

1) It's not "the notion of being affected in the specified way by an action" but "the notion of being affected in the specified way by an action performed by someone else."

In this sense, (E) doesn't describe the way this argument handled the counterexample. It's absolutely wrong.

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xuewangamy566
Saturday, Feb 04 2017

Do the orders of passages and games in the other thread matter? I remember those passages/games but not in that order.

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Saturday, Feb 04 2017

I remembered both LRs have 26 questions and LG has 23 questions. Unless RC has 26 questions, the total should be 102. I dont know if RC only has 26 questions. I feel it was a standard 27- questions session

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