When will law school applications be made available for us to work on?

For anyone who has experience doing the games 1-16 - are these games representative of later games on the LSAT? If I am considering ponying up the money to buy the paper versions of the tests: are these good games to practice on? I have games from PT 17 through 76 - and have done about 30 PT's worth of games now... Obviously in a world where time was an unlimited resource I wouldn't ask this question and would just do them. But there's 3 months until September and I need to do and BR 19 PT's...

Just a quick question for you veteran PT takers out there... the LG sections of my PTs (all of the older ones, at least) are not formatted as they are on the modern LSAT -- meaning, each game is on a single page with little space at the bottom.

How do you guys go about replicating the real thing? Should I just make do with the little space at the bottom, or do you guys use scrap paper on the side?

I always get confused between the NA answers that states A most B and a subtle conditional (the correct answer). During the BR, I am able to correct myself by stating A most B strengthens but isn't required. But during the actual test, I find it quite difficult to choose between the two.

Therefore, I made a rule to myself: if the answer deals with "most," skip it.

Would that be a safe rule to apply for the NA questions?

I know that other existential quantifiers, such as some, can still be a valid NA answer, because negated some statement is absolute (None).

Thank you for your help.

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Hi guys, having a little bit of trouble with this weakening question. Here's my understanding of it.

(Premise) -> In authoritarian society the metaphor society as a human body governed by it's head is pervasive. (What makes something pervasive? If it has political utility as mentioned in the first sentence)

(Conclusion) -> Therefore, the society as a body metaphor, with its connection between society's proper functioning and governance by a head, promotes greater acceptance of authoritarian repression than do other metaphors, such as likening society to a family.

So-> My guess of the logical jump being made from p -> c is that since in authoritarian regime has great utility in the society as a body metaphor over society as a family metaphor for acceptance of opression/proper function it is therfore more pervasive. S

So the answer choice (A) weakens this by saying that since in an authoritarian society both are as popular, the pervasiveness is not fully determined by utility?

Basically im confused as hell.

Hey, Sagers.

Is anyone else using Windows 10 OS and having buffering problems?

Did you have any and then solved them, how so?

Hey guys,

Just a little update, most of you who know me understand why a local school was not only my target school but my first choice. I'm thankful today to be able to report that I am officially off the waitlist and will be attending UNC Law School in August. I am so excited that we do not have to move. I don't know how I could have functioned in law school not being in the same city as my college age son, let alone not in the same state.

Thank you 7Sage JY, Nicole, Allison, Cory, David Busis and everyone else. This really is a wonderfully supportive community & I'm so glad I have been part of it this past year.

Now I can keep an eye out for my June LSAT with a little less angst. :)

Hey!

I just graduated from undergrad and am now taking a gap year to prepare for the LSAT and hopefully get some legal experience too! I'm dedicating the first two months (August and September). just to studying so I was wondering if anyone has any advice as to how to self study! (Books, sites, apps, classes) I'm also not sure whether to sign up for a prep course (and if so, which one). I did Kaplan last summer and didn't feel it increased my score significantly enough but I need a lot of practice and help :/ any advice would be much appreciated!!

I just took PT 36 as the first full test after the curriculum. I haven't done the BR yet and I really don't want to speculate on my score, but I just can't do the games. I freeze. My mind goes blank. The inferences I can pull out don't seem to make a difference. Needless to say, I didn't finish the section. I thought hey, I know how to do this type of game, but then nothing falls into place and I"m just sitting there wasting time. It's just disheartening when i feel like I at least have some inherent skill at the other sections and I can apply what I've learned from watching the videos, but the games just tear me apart.

Are there any other ways to getting to at the games? I know JY says to print out multiple copies and just keep doing them over and over again, and I'll do that, but I'm apparently just not getting it.

Okay let me just start from the start. My cold diagnostic was a 145 (June 2007). Since then I've studied for about a month and a half taking a PT scoring a 149 (December 2012) and a PT today scoring a 155 (PrepTest A from SuperPrep). I've seen improvements in just about every category except assumption questions in which I've scored in order of PrepTests, 0/3 (0%), 2/3 (66% guessed correct answers), and 1/5 (20%). I've been through the Logical Reasoning Bible and my assumption question scores still just aren't there; any tips on improving them? Also a peculiar thing is that my flaw in the reasoning questions went from a 6/8 (75%) on PT2 to a 2/7 (28%) on PT3. Are these drastic fluctuations normal especially to begin with considering I'm only on my third PT?

Hi guys!

I'm looking for some feedback regarding pros and cons to delaying the law school admissions process. I'm about to be a senior in college, and initially had planned on taking the LSAT in September, in order to apply this fall. I know it's an option to take the test in December, but I also know admissions are rolling, and I want to give myself the best shot at getting into the best school I can. I've read that admissions counselors advise that you get your apps in by October at the latest.

I'm looking for some feedback as to pros and cons of delaying the process until after I graduate--as in graduate in May, take the LSAT in June and apply for law school that fall. I'm applying for an internship program in D.C. for my final undergrad semester right now, and a lot of the interns who participate are able to turn their internships into jobs post-grad. This would have the dual benefit of real work experience (not sure how valued that is by law school admissions?) and, hopefully, a killer recommendation letter from a supervisor, so both those things are worth considering.

I appreciate your help!

Hello,

For an application I was instructed to provide a reason to why I am applying to a school. I have 1000 characters to do so. How should I go about doing so? Should I just expand on my personal statement and make it specific to how their school would aid me in achieving such goals?

Thanks in advance!

Kirsten

Hey guys, I just thought i'd let you all know what's been working for me lately.

I stopped using fresh pts and decided to go back and reinforce my LR fundamentals for pts 35 and under. Now i'm forcing myself to BR on a fresh test and to write/type (I use a word document) why each answer choice is wrong/right instead of BRing on the test I took. It does take a while especially at this part of my prep because I have confidence errors and i'm still trying to master the methods and strategies, but I have nothing but time and I already see a difference in my thought process. I'm more cognizant of the small habits that are costing me points.

If you don't do this already or you want to take your br to the next level, give this a try.

Hi,

I am practicing turning the kind of colloquial English sentences on the LSAT into strict logical statements. For example, take the following sentence:

All that is needed for the forces of evil to succeed is for enough good men to remain silent.

I would translate this logically as:

enough good men to remain silent --> forces of evil to succeed

I'm reading "All that is needed is" to signify that the predicate that follows will be a sufficient condition. Here are four more examples:

- The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

- In order for ‘evil’ to prevail, all that need happen is for ‘good’ people to do nothing.

- The surest way for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.

- All it takes for Evil to prevail in this world is for enough good men to do nothing.

I suspect that the predicate in each case defines a sufficient condition. What do you think?

Thanks,

Stephanie

Hi guys. My question is when you guys hit the PT stage, how much review of the curriculum did it require? I understand it's an "iterative process" as JY likes to say of finding your weakness, going back reviewing, then working on it and so forth. But for you personally did it require going over everything or just a few places places that required patching up

Allo,

I'm curious to know how one might be able to retain the information gained from going through the curriculum. Please share effective methods/tools that you think are helpful.

Thanks.

I started studying May 15th and will be completing the full 7Sage curriculum by next week. That being said the games are really posing a challenge for me. On my Diagnostic I missed 18/23 on the games but I was also completely clueless on what to do. Now I have gone through sequencing games and feel pretty confident but the Sequencing with a twist seem to be a lot harder for me and I am not even to the grouping games yet. I am shooting for a 168+ come September so that I can comfortably apply for this cycle and even apply ED if needed. I'll be applying with a 4.0 GPA (Finance - if it matters) and am really looking to get into a T14. My RC is going well as I am missing on average 2-4 and LR still needs some work missing about 6/section but I just want to make sure I am not rushing anything. I dedicate about 4 hours/day to this test and would like to be ready for September but I see no point in taking the test if I will not be ready to perform my best.

Did the games just start to come naturally for y'all once you kept doing them over and over and watching the videos 7Sage provides? Was there anything else you did that helped you with the games that JY didn't recommend?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Is there a specific order in which to take care of everything? For example, is it better to ask for LORs before you write your personal statement or after? I'm currently reading/learning about the process and plan to begin over the next few days. Here's the order which I came up with, would really appreciate if someone can tell me whether I'm going about this the right way.

1) Submit transcripts

2) Resume

3) Rough draft personal statement

4) Ask for letters of recommendation (give writers resume and PS to assist)

5) Revise and perfect PS

I took my cold diagnostic a couple of weeks ago and got a 152 w/ -18 in lg, -7 and -6 in lr, and -7 in rc. I've been self studying for about 2 weeks and it is so frustrating!!! Balancing work and studying is so difficult. I'm just worried I won't be able to improve to a 169 by September.

Y'all too boys.

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About a month ago, I took my cold diagnostic and scored horribly. Since, I've purchased the LG and LR Bibles and have gotten through Ch 5 of both and have improved but I am worried that I have a glass ceiling. My goal is a 165 and I know that the cold diagnostic means nothing but what else can I do between now and September?

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So you didn't own a game and you print out 10 clean copies to practice the inferences. Should you continue to do the remaining of 10 copies if you're easily reproducing the inferences consecutively at copy 3 or 4? (And I mean consecutively in the same session. I'm not talking about never doing them again, such as the following day, a week later, a month...etc. as people have recommended). Is the point to just bank a few smooth and successful completions of the game or is it to just bat things into your "muscle memory" through repetition well after you're able to remember the inferences?

Just a background on my progress: I am taking the LSAT in September and it will be my third attempt. I am currently averaging in the mid 160s for prep tests, coming from a 158 on the Feb. test. RC has always been my best section, LR I've sloooowwwly improved, but I am still averaging -7 on LG. I want to drill and practice LG as if my life depended on it for my final bout, so if anyone has any other advice for mastering LG for someone at this point in the LSAT game it would be more than appreciated! Cheers everyone.