The question is basically asking "what's the best response to attack the letter's argument".

Letter is saying: the newspaper is not holding the same requirement for different claims.

A is saying: indeed we are not! Because extraordinary stories need to be backed by extraordinary evidence!

https://www.amazon.com/Official-LSAT-PrepTest-88-September/dp/0999658077/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=lsat+88&qid=1569851580&sr=8-1

If you go to "manage institutions and Transcripts" under CAS, you can see your "academic summary report" under "my status" on the right upper corner. Scroll down and you will see your GPA.

I think unless your target is 170 and you are predicting a 155, you should not cancel. A cancel can be seen by school anyway, and schools will always assume it's bad. On the other hand a few points of score drop is no big deal.

@ This is hands down my all-time favorite post. Your descriptions are so vivid too it feels like I'm experiencing the emotional roller-coaster with you! I hope you keep writing these. Very helpful for us 0Ls.

Hi, have you found anyone who you could study with? I was thinking that we should have an online study group. We can do skype chatting or something. I scored high 160s for July and aiming for 170+ for September. I'm also signed up for October just to be safe.

I want to cite the great @ here, he has some pretty good insights about how to be staunch.

https://classic.7sage.com/discussion/#/discussion/19235/lsat-takers-be-staunch

I think you should re-adjust your mentality. Not knowing the exact test location should not affect what you are doing to prepare for the test. You PT, you BR and you improve. If you were thinking about taking the test in October, no need to postpone to November just because the test location is unknown. The only reason to postpone is if you feel like you are not ready yet.

My advice, if it's 100 miles far, go get a hotel room around the test center the night before. It would be a 2-hour drive maximum, so no need to worry too much.

I've been working full time and studying for almost 6 months now. Just want to share my schedule with you. Following this strictly has prevented me from burning out.

I get off at 5pm from work every day, and arrive home at around 5:30.

Monday, Wednesday:

I make food,

watch an episode of the office,

or simply do nothing and lie around,

browsing Youtube till around 7:00 then

I go do a full length test timed till 10:00 pm then go to bed.

Tuesday, Thursday:

I go straight to gym and work out till 6:30.

I go home and make food

Do non value-added meaningless things and waste my time till 7:30

Go do blind review till 10:00

Friday: I do absolutely nothing on Friday.

Saturday Sunday:

Because I do two full length test during the week, must make sure I reviewed every single

question and that I understand them before I move on.

I grind hard and usually do one more test and BR

But I sleep till 10 in the morning.

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Hi 7Sagers! Can anyone who had RC experimental or LG experimental comment with the topics (no answers)? I noticed no one has talked about this yet

Are you asking about the topics on the experimental sections?

I had LG. I remember two games:

Operating machine/Directing traffic

Jazz Trio

Depends on the school. I think most schools I checked will allow you to switch between ED and RD if you call them before a decision is made.

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This isn't super helpful, but I just wanted to say I'm in the same boat. I was knocked out by the LGs yesterday (it was my first section and I stopped myself from walking out only by assuring my brain that it must've been the experimental). I also have a subpar GPA from over a decade ago. I haven't yet decided whether to cancel, but it occurs to me that if many other folks blindsided by the LGs decide to cancel, then presumably the curve won't actually be that generous, because the leftover non-canceled scores would push the average up. (This assumes that canceled scores aren't included in the scaling; I can't see why they would be. It also assumes most test-takers act rationally and have an accurate view of their performance, which is a big assumption.) So maybe it's overthinking, but that's one factor that weighs in favor of canceling. I also plan to sign up for November, and I don't think it's too soon, as long as the difficulty reverts to the mean.

The numbers of drops simply won't matter. You are not scored based on how you perform among the same month test takers. Each question is pre-calculated for weight/curve based on previous experimental section. LSAC has the curve decided already before we took the test. This is to prevent test takers from trying to figure out which month has the most low-scorers.

LG: 23 LR1: 25 LR2: 26 RC: 27 Total: 101

Source: r/LSAT

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Correct if I’m wrong but If the average score for this test is below the 50th percentile, would they have to move the majority of people score up into the 150’s because 150 is “average”?

The curve is set when they make the test. It isn't curved afterwards, unfortunately. If everyone bombed it, it would just mean everyone had a low score.

This is my understanding. If everyone bombed it, most likely test-takers who experimented on these questions bombed it too, thus these questions will be deemed "difficult" and give a more lenient "curve". You are absolutely right that it isn't "curved" afterwards. The difficulty is already calculated for test takers in each score band. So if everyone bombed it, it would not affect your score as much as if you were the only one out of 15,000 test takers who bombed it.

E: It is more limited because original studies thought all ravens recruit more ravens to help eat a carcass, but his investigation revealed that only juvenile ravens who do not have territories do this, thus it is a "more limited set of observational data".

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Digital is up too! Better than I expected but still not enough, let's fight this war again in September! Never give up people!

I understand why A is correct, but I also think that somehow B is stating the same thing as A, because "it takes for granted that if a correlation has been observed between two phenomena (reliance on ghosts and spirits vs. steady advancement in scientific understanding), they must be causally connected (Not necessarily because something else might have caused the advancement in scientific understanding)".

Couple things to remember:

We never do PTs just to get a "trophy" to show off, we are aiming at understanding every single questions thoroughly. We want to understand why the correct answer is correct and the wrong ones are wrong. We want to write couple words next to each answer choice, find the pattern in the argument, try to identify similar structures, create the "I've seen this before" impression when you see a question. Pianist do not play a new song every day when they sit down. They simply play the same one again and again and again and perfect the techniques.

Remember from now on, your PT scores would be inflated by about 3-5 points. This is just my personal experience. So a good thing to do is always target 180. Why? Because you've seen it and done it and reviewed it before! If you still get them wrong, then you really have no clue what's going on and chances are that you will make the same mistakes on the real test. Or more realistically, if your target score is 160, starting to aim for 168/170.

A good thing to do is to go back to basic. From time to time review the core curriculum. There are also books for more advanced test takers.

From now on, do not only circle the questions you are not sure about when you are doing timed session, as introduced by the 7Sage BR method. Circle EVERYTHING that you even had a WHIFF of doubt. If you felt confused for a second, circle it. When you come back, try to think why you were doubting it. Even for those questions you solved under 30 seconds.

It's sometimes better the second time! Good luck!

It could be that the city is very punctual cleaning all the sidewalks between the 24-48 hrs timeframe. Thus, although the landowners "do not clear their sidewalks within 48 hours", the city does. And they will not be fined, just charged for the service.

Just remember that you've been preparing for this. There will be no surprises for you. You know what to expect.

I'm in the exact same boat. 169+3.94. I've signed up for October but I've decided not to take it again.

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How's everyone feeling about this score release?

Definitely checking reddit for the curve before I check my own results 😂 is like to be let down gently.

I think it's a -13.

How's everyone feeling about this score release?

Everyone gets a fresh start September 2019. Anything before September is Zero tests taken against this new rule.

The argument is saying: look, there are eight lobsters together in one trap but they did not eat each other for two months, so you, biologist, are wrong.

But wait, what if there is a dead whale in the trap that provides way too much food for eight lobsters for two month? Then they would not have to eat each other because they would be having whale fiesta every day. In other words, the biologist might not be wrong, it's just that they have enough food.

That's why the argument is based on the "assumption" that there wasn't enough food, that's why they are hungry the whole time. And yet they still didn't eat other, so the biologist must be wrong.

When you approach assumption questions, negate the answer choice and see if the entire argument falls apart.