I chose D because all the other answers weren't strengthening the argument and the answer is A but the reason why I didn't pick it was because it says " that are proportional to the harm they BELIEVE to result from those crimes". We're not talking about the perceived harm so that is why I didn't choose it, can someone explain to me why this answer is correct. Thank you!

reasons why the other ones are incorrect:

b) Were not talking about legality but harm

c) Were not talking about an increase in penalty were talking about equal sentencing

e) Were not talking about deterrence

https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-64-section-3-question-09/

I am having a problem seeing how a/c C WEAKENS. To me it looks like it is strengthening the argument.

Maybe I am just misunderstanding how the argument is designed, I don't know, please help. The explanation video didn't help me.

https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-45-section-1-question-12/

I honestly did not think I could break into the 170's. But on Friday I scored 174 on PT 76.

I just let go of the results of each test and did my best to BR every test.

Something that really helped me was BRing the next day. I was too excited to check my score and so the bulk of my br's were sloppy. Once I did that I got a few 169's and lo and behold

I have completed fool proofing PTs 1-35. I'm now 11 preptests into my PT phase. Getting -0/-1 on tests, though admittedly some of the mid/early 40s are supposed to be easier than average.

Anyway, what are y'alls thoughts on fool proofing LG on PTs36+? Obviously I BRed them when I took, but should I go ahead and just start repeatedly doing these PTs' LG sections after I take them? I'm up in the high 40's now, so I was thinking I'd do 10 PT chunks of fool proofing the LG games, by the time I'm done with that, I'd be another 10 PTs ahead in testing. Repeat.

The advantage is just more and more practice on LG. The disadvantage is that such PTs would be "ruined" for retakes. Then again, I don't personally plan on doing many retakes because I've got so many untouched PTs in front of me and am already scoring well so I don't think I'll need to retake the real thing more than once.

Thoughts? What have others done to keep LG skills robust after completing the traditional fool proofing method?

A couple of week out from the June 2017 LSAT and FLAW type LR questions are still plaguing me. If you were to spend 2-3 days just handling FLAW with a series of focused drills, what would you do?

Thanks!!!

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It's not that I don't understand the questions or that I can't get the correct answer; I can. I'm just really slow. For example, I find that for LR and RC sections I have to read the stimulus twice before I can select the correct answer because I don't understand what it says the first time. So, I spend at least 1min per LR question. Is there any way for me to improve my reading comp so I'm not so slow?

Hello all!!

I'm currently enrolled in the Lsat starter program but want to upgrade to the Ultimate + level. However, I noticed that originally if you first bought the ultimate + you should have access for 18 months. But when upgrading from the started to the ultimate + it just says that you would get an additional 3 months access (which would be a total of 6 months access to the program since the starter gives you 3 months access). Does anyone know if this is a mistake and if I will actually get a total of 18 months access if I upgrade to the ultimate + rather than just an additional 3 months of access?

Thank you!!

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I know 7sage has difficulty ratings of all the LG sections, but is there something similar for CR/LR? I'm trying to figure out which final PTs to take before writing in June, and I'd like to take at least 2 of the harder overall tests (I've left most of the 70's available for this purpose) and an easier one to boost confidence before test day.

Something completely different than what I have printed.

So i am just finishing the CC and i am gonna start applying all the methods for LG's that we learnt. I was wondering what the best methods for drilling would be. I would really appreciate any suggestions.

Hey guys! Does anyone have any advice on how to solve/approach Inference questions that do not have conditional statements?

It has occurred to me that every time I take the 15 minute break after the third section and come back to start section 4, I lose focus and I can't get back into the questions until about 15 questions in... I am not very attentive and overlook some of the details in the Question Stems... Has anyone experienced this as well and does anyone have any advice?

I understand the flaw in the correct answer choice, but not how it applies to Tom's argument in the stimulus.

D : "Fails to apply a general rule to all relevant circumstances" is the correct AC here.

Conclusion: No it isn't the the best one to rent

Premise/Sub-conclusion: The yard isn't as big as it looks.

Premise: Property lines in Prairieview start 20 feet from the street, so what looks like part of the yard is really city property.

Rolanda points out his flaw: "That's true of all the other properties we've looked at too."

What is true of all the other properties we've looked at? General rule: Property lines start 20 feet from the street, so what looks like part of the yard is really city property. The yards aren't as big as they look. (Is this last sentence included in the general rule?)

Would this still be flawed if Tom said "None of the yards are as big as they look?" I do not understand where exactly this flaw is committed in his argument. If someone could point this out, I would be very grateful. Thanks.

https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-65-section-4-question-11/

Hi!

I have been working in the core curriculum for some time and there is something that I am not quite clear about conditional reasoning and its inferences.

What I do know is that IF A, THEN B contraposes(is that a word?) to IF NOT B THEN NOT A. I know this must be true.

But what about IF NOT B THEN A? Is this a cannot be true or a could be true? Does this statement negate the original statement?

Help!

I often read arguments in the Flawed Assumption stems in LR and find myself regarding them as things I hear often. I don't even mean to be all that nice in this observation.

I wish option E was literally always, "The argument has no flaws."

I guarantee that even if the LSAC issued a blanket statement saying that hypothetical option E was NEVER the correct answer, people who commonly use these hypothetical flawed techniques in day-to-day arguments would still pick E.

Hey 7Sagers, I'm leading BR calls for PT 80 (December 2016 LSAT).

I'm holding 9 sessions total. 3 for each of LR 1, LR 2, and RC. Each session will focus on only one section of PT 80. All sessions will start at 7p EST and end at 10p. Multiple sessions are meant to accomodate people's various schedules and to reduce class size per session.

What happens in these sessions?

I'll ask students to state which questions were circled for BR. We'll work through the questions the group nominates. I generally try to ask students questions to elicit the right response. Please wear headphones and try to be in a quiet place.

How should I prepare?

Take PT 80 and have the questions you'd like to BR ready. The first thing I'll ask everyone is which questions they'd like to BR.

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Past Sessions

5/18 Thursday - Section 1 - LR

5/19 Friday - Section 4 - LR

5/20 Saturday - Section 2 - RC, Passages 1 and 3

5/21 Sunday - Section 1 - LR

5/22 Monday - Section 4 - LR

5/23 Tuesday - Section 2 - RC, Passages 2 and 4

5/24 Wednesday - Section 1 - LR

5/25 Thursday - Section 4 - LR

5/26 Friday - Section 2 - RC

I finished all the Powerscore Bibles and went through the whole 7Sage core curriculum.

I have PT'd from 36-44 and my timed scores are only averaging in the low 150s (150-152). I am BRing around low 160s.

My weakest area is definitely LR in terms of accuracy. However, during timed sessions, I find timing and speedto be the biggest obstacle regardless of section. Most of the time, I will not be able to finish a whole RC passage and also likely not be able to finish a LG game (around 14 points gone right there). For the games, I usually have 5-8 minutes left for the last game but unable to even start it because I don't know how to diagram. These games are generally in the "Misc" category.

I also go through all the explanations for questions I got wrong/unsure of and make detailed notes of why the answer is right and wrong.

Should I continue PTing? I am taking the June exam but unsure if continued PTing will increase my score. I don't mind if the increase is gradual if I continue to PT, but I just want to make sure I am making the most out of my time. I am a bit averse to taking another course as I understand the technique to attack each question but I feel the time constraint is the main issue I am having.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. As you can probably tell, I am in a big dilemma...

Thanks,

Kevin

I am having the hardest time with assumption questions required and sufficient alike. I am getting it down to two answers; the right one and the one that everyone picks and I pick the wrong one. Does anyone have any sort of advice on how to handle assumption questions? I reviewed all of my notes and Im still not getting it. Thank you!!!!!!

Hi all,

I'm new to 7sage and must say that I love it. I have used the LG Bible from PowerScore to learn the foundation of Games in particular however when I discovered JY's videos I realized that 7sage was for me.

Have done PT's 65-66-67 with scores of 166, 167, 169. I'm aiming for lower t14 with big money. On each PT, I have been -3/-4 in Games. I find that these games are significantly less complicated than the ones I find in my book that mainly come from the early 90's to the early 2000's. When I do the PT's, I read the stimulus of the game, the rules once to understand, once to diagram, once more for inferences and then I am ready for the questions.

That said, when I look at some of these grouping games (example) from the early/mid 90's, I freeze. There's sometimes 7-8 rules that are all conditional. I have no problem understanding it but getting all of that done in 8 minutes literally makes me fearful. There are so many moving parts. As a result, I see these games and often shut down or get rattled which obviously takes away from my ability to infer which in turn, adds time and limits accuracy.

Is this a common problem or is this all in my head? How worried should I be?

Frank

Hi guys,

I'm working through the core curriculum at the moment in preparation for the Sept. LSAT, and I'm getting a bit hung up at the logic section. A lot of my undergrad has been formal propositional and first order logic, and so many of my intuitions are being challenged by the unconventional way 7Sage teaches logic. For example, I would immediately translate the statement "No pilots are blind," as:

~∃x(P(x)^B(x)) - there does not exist an object that is a pilot and that is blind.

And of course the negation of that would just be ∃x(P(x)^B(x)) - there exists some object that is a pilot and that is blind.

Do you think it's worth 'reprogramming' myself to do things 7Sage's way, or just stick with the way I've been doing it for years? I guess I'm just a bit concerned that there is something specific to the LSAT where conventional logical notation would fail, and it would be worth knowing 7Sage's method.

Can someone please help me understand why this is A. How does this strengthen the argument that Han purple was discovered by accident?

http://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-74-section-1-question-17/

I am stuck on some of the MSS questions, Weaken, and the difference with how to tell MSS and Strengthen apart especially when C/C Strengthen is in play.

For example, PT 16, S2, Q21 was on a webinar with Nicole and presented as a C/C Strengthen question. The stem says what I would take as a MSS question though, stating "Which one of the following, if true, most strongly supports the conclusion drawn by the entomologists?

Nicole suggested looking for the one answer that actually doesn't strengthen the entomologists conclusion at all, rather to choose the AC that doesn't support it, thus making the entomologists conclusion more sound.

Such as A causes B is the conclusion, so the answer needs to be either: B causes A, C causes both A and B, or No relationship.

Can someone please explain how and why I would know that I wasn't supposed to be choosing a supporting answer, but rather a conflicting one? Are there any tricks or key words for questions like these?

I have grown disheartened in the past few weeks as my PT scores but particularly my LR scores have fallen. I feel like every question has two right answers and always seem to pick the wrong one. I'm currently studying full time (7hrs/day) so I was hoping I would see some improvement but I'm only getting worse. Any tips?

Would you take the test here again?

Yes! In fact I have registered for the Feb 2017 exam at the same location. I can't really imagine a more perfect LSAT test location (maybe something that's closer to me?). I had a good experience here on test day.

Proctors:

They were friendly, fair, and mostly competent. The main proctor in my room did forget to do a 5-minute warning on the first section, but I have no reason to believe this would be an issue in the future.

Facilities:

The campus and the building looked brand new. Everything was comfortable. The bathrooms were located directly outside our classroom, which made things less confusing during the break.

What kind of room:

Lecture-type class room, with rows of long tables. It was very well lit with natural light filtering in through the windows.

How many in the room:

I think there were about 50-60 test takers in my room.

Desks:

Long desks rather than individual desks, which allowed for plenty of space. Chairs were very comfortable and their height was easily adjustable.

Left-handed accommodation:

I can't speak to this, but given what the desks looked like I think it was probably good?

Noise levels:

No problem here - it was quiet, with no noticeable outside noise. One test taker had a cough.

Parking:

I didn't drive to the site so can't speak to this.

Time elapsed from arrival to test:

We started the test at about 9:30am. I arrived a little before 8am, and check-in began at 8:30am.

Date[s] of Exam[s]:

Saturday, December 3, 2016