Hey guys,

I've been doing research online about Splitters (Low GPA, High LSAT Score vice versa) and a lot of it is outdated. Does anyone else have any splitter stories they'd like to share? I'm interested to know if T14s still accept splitters. Or what these splitters showcased aside from GPA and LSAT scores that made them valuable candidates.

Thanks in advance!

Hey everyone,

For those taking the Sep LSAT next week, on your admission ticket, is there this faint gray/light blue circle thing at the top right of your picture? My photo meets all the requirements, but I just want to make sure this isn't some indication of my photo not meeting the requirements. Hope I'm not the only one. Thanks!

Hey everyone,

So, even though I get most of the SA questions included in the 7sage drills right, I end up taking 2-3 minutes (sometimes even more) on them (barring the really easy ones: i.e., 1-3 difficulty rating). I think converting the sentence into lawgic consumes a lot of the time. As a point of contrast - I was wrapping up the PSA questions within 1:24, and wasn't diagramming for any of those.

Any suggestions on how I can improve my speed?

PS: I didn't print the questions and was drilling directly from the laptop, which meant I couldn't immediately underline key words and diagram. I'm not sure if this was an obstacle in completing the question within the allotted time?

Looking forward to everyone's suggestions!

Hi friends,

I keep having trouble with questions such as #5 section 4 on PT 72 that say something along the lines of "The order of _____ is fully determined if which one of the following is true?"

Any tips on how to solve these? I think I'm really in my own head when it comes to these questions.

Thanks!

Hello everyone I'm still undecided about which package I should buy. Just a little background:

I've studied from Feb2017-April2017 and I have begun studying again in August. I'm looking to aim in the 175+ range. Should I bite the bullet and get the Ultimate. I wouldn't want to give my diagnostic scores because they aren't timed, therefore not accurate. But does anyone have any advice on whether or not the Ultimate is that big of a leap from the next course below?

Note: Due to my severely poor GPA I NEED to score 175+ (URM+Financial Issues+ Rough Background)

Thank you in advance for all opinions and advice

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Hi guys, Im having trouble setting up this type of game. Not sure where to put what elements, what the elements are and what the base is. Does anyone have any tips? Would reading the advanced linear games in PS help with the set up? Im good once I get to the set up.

Hi all,

I'm scheduled to take the LSAT on the 16th in Southeast Florida. Looks like Irma is gonna be hitting us big time, and we're being told we could lose power like we did back when Wilma came through 11(?) years ago. (When Wilma hit, we literally lost power in the entirety of the southern region of Florida for two-four weeks. It was crazy; there wasn't any light pollution and we could all see stars in the sky at night.) Anyway, if that happens to us (fingers crossed it won't), would the LSAC offer an alternate test date? I've counted out how many test centers would be effected, and at least down by me it'll be hitting 14 test sites. I have a hard time seeing the test still happening if there's no power at the test centers, and if people are literally unable to get to the centers because of all the damage. But I'm also retaking and am kind of freaking out that I'll have to postpone until December because of the stupid hurricane. Does anyone have the details on the LSAC's reschedule/cancelation policy due to natural disasters?

Thanks!

I'm a bit confused about the technical differences between the errors of (1) mistaking sufficiency or necessity and (2) mistaking necessity for sufficiency. I realize the instances in which the errors arise may be different (i.e. mistaken negation and mistaken reversal, respectively), but aren't the 2 mistakes essentially the same error described in two different ways? If you were to switch the necessary and sufficient conditions of a conditional statement (mistaken reversal) would you not be able to describe the error using either one of those descriptions?

Hi guys,

I have been with 7SAGE for a few months now. I am only on the MSS section of the course. I find myself irritated and frustrated every time I sit down to study. I walk away from studying more confused then the time before. I have paid and am preparing to take the LSAT in December. I think I am finding excuses now to stay away from studying when I used to study every day for 2 hours. I have a lot in this so I can't give up so I guess I am just looking for reassurance. I have quit my big girl job and we even pay to keep my child in daycare a few times a week just so I can study. The Main Point part really confused me so once I got through the last section of it I was super stoked to start something new. Well I get to MSS and its JUST like the Main Point section.. I know my biggest issue is not being able to identify the Premise and the Conclusion. I even went back and RESTARTED all the lessons again and am still at a loss.

Sorry for all my complaining but if you would like to complain with me please comment below or leave some really amazing great advice instead :)

Good luck everyone!

Hello fellow 7Sage students! I am taking the December LSAT and wanted to see who else is, and if you wanted to form a study group! I am aiming for a 155-158, but I welcome all that are really serious about getting it done the next few months! Who's with me?

Pretty much what the title says. It feels like everything I learned went down the drain. I'm trying very hard not to panic for the test in less than two weeks. How can I get back on track?

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Currently drilling flaw questions (my biggest hurdle) , and I'm getting every single one wrong.

I have drilled question 1-100 on the cambridge packets, easy-medium questions, and did well, and I think I have a pretty good grasp of the 19 common flaws + how to tackle them...but for some reason on the 4/5 start ones I keep choking. Any suggestions on how to do better? (are earlier flaw question types different?)

I am consistently getting NA questions wrong. Any advice? I find them very hard.

So I've been at the LSAT for over a year now. I've struggled and plateaued. I've wanted to give up, I've felt motivated and defeated. The September test is right around the corner so I wanted to prove something to myself. I sat down and took my original diagnostic test again. I took this test in May of 2016. It's been over a year since I touched this material.

PT 63

May 2016 score: 151

September 2017 score: 174

While I know there are some factors here, like memory, the feeling of seeing pure progress is amazing.

If you want a confidence boost before the September test, and you are okay with retaking a test, I say give this a shot. It really helped me see that some of my work is at least paying off haha. Just a thought for my fellow September testers out there!

Hello! I was hoping to get some clarification on this question.

So clearly our right answer should link the reintroduction of rock salt to a disproportionate burden on low income people.

I put B, and the correct answer is D.

My understanding is that you're supposed to use the part of the prompt that says "Although the city claims that cars are now better protected from salt's corrosive properties than they were as recently as five years ago" to pair with the text D, which says that low income people are more likely to purchase older vehicles.

My issue is that I think not a large leap, but a nonsensical leap to interpret the prompt portion as referring to new cars in comparison with old cars. The text merely says that "cars are now better protected from salt's corrosive properties." There's literally one subject in that sentence: cars. The sentence makes no distinction about different groups of cars within the general "cars" umbrella. The distinction, grammatically and logically speaking, is between how "cars" handle salt now, and how "cars" handled salt before.

Maybe "cars" better handle salt because of some trends in humidity levels. Heck, you could just as easily and fairly interpret the opposite of what you were meant to. Maybe the older a car is, the more resistant it becomes to salt corrosion because they develop a layer of dirt and debris that keeps the salt from penetrating as deeply as it does in new cars which are exposed.

Deriving the necessary assumption is ludicrous and arbitrary, in my view.

On the contrary, D requires but a small, feasible leap. We're told that sales tax disproportionately burdens low income people. We're told that road maintenance is primarily funded by local sales tax. This appears to have all the ingredients we need to make a perfectly in-tact chain of logic. All we have to do is check to see if rock salt re-introduction counts as road maintenance.

Rock salt is applied to roads in order to maintain a safe, drivable road. It is undoubtedly a road maintenance matter. We weren't using it for several years, we are now. Sure, maybe we have a vast reservoir of rock salt in an underground bunker that will spare us any additional expense, but that's terribly farfetched and extreme. At the very least you're going to have some costs associated with the switch, if not also the highly likely case that you're going to have to buy some quantity of rock salt, the money of which is coming from sales tax that disproportionately burdens low-income people.

B seems to be all but iron clad, while D is all but impossible. We need but the smallest, likeliest set of circumstances for B to work. We need the biggest, most ridiculous, most ambiguous crapshoot of an assumption in order for D to make a drop of sense.

Am I missing something here?

https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-67-section-4-question-08/

After writing many preptests, I've realized that no matter what type of section the section after the break is, I do the worst on that section. I am assuming this is because I lose focus/momentum after the 15 minute break. Wondering how to avoid this?

I first took the LSAT in December of 2016 but was in no way ready for it. I ONLY focused on the logic games and neglected the logic reasoning and reading comp thinking I would be fine. I looked at those sections at the last second and completely siked myself out. Needless to say I completely bombed the Dec 2016 LSAT but killed it on the logic games section. So to help this time around I registered for, then backed out of the June one and bought the 7sage course because i needed to focuse on my spring semester. I studying again after I graduated this past May. Since then I've been studying like a mad woman but I am terrified that I'm still not ready. I've gotten much much better at logic reasoning and reading comprehension but now for some reasoning my logic games are suffering. I study over five hours a day and I know that sounds crazy but I do better when I do more. I take the weekends off to let my brain rest and read, listen to music and stuff but my point differentiation hasn't changed. I normally score in the high 140s my best was 149 as a raw score and that same test after blind review was 161. My logic games after blind review is normally -1 sometimes its -0 so I know that I can get into the 150s maybe even low 160s if i could just get my logic games together. I'm afraid to take too long off though because I'm retaking the LSAT this month and don't want to lose any time.

I think I might end up registering for the December LSAT but that would just make me uncomfortable because then I'd be afraid I'd be cutting it close with admissions. By then most students have applied and law schools are in the middle of their evaluations. It's just—I'm stressing and though I am trying not to I can't help but feel like I won't do well again. Should I planned on stopping a week before the test to fully reboot, but if i keep scoring in the 140s before i do that's all I'll think about in the week that I take off. I don't know if anyone has any tips on how to combat this type of mentality but if you have any I'd love to hear it.

Is there any site/resource where we can see explanations for all the practice tests?

Okay guys, I need your help figuring out my next step.

I have finished CC, Manhattan LR and Trainer and I do believe that I have a very strong sense of LR arguments and question stems. My strategy was to do LR from PTs 17-36 untimed and really take my time to analyze the questions. So far I did 17-19 and my average is -6.5 per section. I need to bring it down to at most -2 and I do not know how to achieve it.

The way I did the questions that I did was to

Now two things happen 1) either i am down to two answer choices (most of the time one of them is correct) and i pick the wrong one because somehow in my head i overthink it and all of the sudden it becomes somehow attractive or 2) i do not read careful enough and misread the right answer in a way that it becomes a wrong answer, so even though i take my time to understand the argument, i rush with understanding the answer choices.

My question is, should I stick with my strategy and keep going with the rest of the PTs in hope that after enough bumps along the way I will be able to learn better what my weaknesses are and spot the wrong answer choices easier?

Should I employ a different strategy?

P.S there is not one specific kind of questions I miss the most. I am pretty decent at all of them according to 7sage trends, with SA and Flaw being my best and Strengthen, AP and MBT being the worst.

I'm taking the Sept exam and was wondering how I can get better at deciding whether to split the game board, solve by brute force or just make a basic diagram and move on to the questions. I usually rush towards the end because I spend too much time trying to split the game board or too little time making inferences. How do you guys approach different problem sets? I kind of have to get -0 in order to get the score I need...

Very curious

So how should I space out these last three PTs? I'm thinking it might be wise to take 2-3 days in between so I can drill and focus on weaknesses, but I'm also curious about when I should take my last PT before the test date.

Do you all have any suggestions for a solid schedule for the remaining two weeks?

How concerned should I be about BRing around this time as well? Should I just take a hard look at the questions I missed and didn't quite understand so I can save time for drilling? A complete BR usually takes a couple days for me and I feel like I won't have much time for drills.

Thanks. You all have been a big help.

Hi

I have a question about boosting my Blind Review up to my target score. My current timed test is in the 155-157 range while my Blind Review is a 166-168 range. This is mostly due to logic games, so I've been focusing on getting better at them. My target score is a 170. Since I am blind reviewing where I am, do you think that getting in the 170s on Blind Review is just a matter of exposure?

I am planning on doing the games until I get them to where I want and then focus on the rest of LR and RC to bring my timed test up? Does this make sense. I guess I just feel like it's such a large gap I'm not going to be able to do it.

I guess I am just wondering how much I should focus on the fundamentals and how much I can power through. Should I be asking myself specific questions in my BR?