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Summary: This is far and away the ideal test center. If you're anywhere near DFW or North/East Texas, take the test here! I told an LSAC employee about my experience and she said it was one of the best she had ever heard of. I would even consider making the trek from OKC or Austin.

Setting Pros: We were in small rooms; I had 9 other people in my room. Each person had an entire large table. My room was in the basement near a bathroom.

Parking free and easy. Right off the freeway.

Setting Cons: It might get a little cold. Not a lot of great hotels nearby but you could branch out a bit (if traveling to the test center).

Proctor Pros: We had 2 lovely proctors who kept time very well. They were extremely quiet and respectful.

Proctor Cons: None.

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Last comment sunday, nov 08 2015

Superprep A RC #20

Can't understand this question for the life of me. Might be because I don't have a good science background.

The author says explicitly in lines 34-42 that because the "magnetic fields of basalts in NA are aligned quite differently from rocks formed in the same epoch in Europe" this supports the theory of continental drift.

Doesn't (C) undermine this since it talks about some being the same magnetic field alignment? And how is (A) the answer? The seafloor spreading supports contintental drift since it shows that the plates move. Isn't (A) just something additional that we were able to figure out?

A and E were easy to eliminate, would appreciate an explanation for why A is right and C and D are wrong. TIA.

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Like the title says, I'd registered for the Dec at JFKU law and had enquired about seating conditions at it with the test center staff. I received an update that suggests that seating will be bad (multiple people on the same desk), which can be very distracting for me.

Should I change the test center? The Deadline is Today so I don't have much time.

I am open to driving far as long as the center has excellent seating and will be staying at a hotel the night before.

I am considering other centers in Bay Area.

I am consideting UoP McGeorge Law at Sacramento but don't know anything about this test center.

Any opinions on if I should change and to what center in Bay Area?

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Petri dishes are disgusting and probably shouldn’t be stored anywhere near another disgusting petri dish. Sorry, not sorry.

Ewwww!

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    Last comment saturday, nov 07 2015

    Newer reading comp

    So I used to be averaging around -2 to -4 on the older RC passages but for some reason with most of the 50+ ones I've been taking, I always get around -7 to -9. I've been trying to change my method and lengthen the time I read the passage (used to do 2 minutes, trying for 3.5 now). Is it better for me to continue working on adapting to this new method, or stick to my old one? Or are the new ones just a little different and need some more time to adjust to?

    Also, I didn't have much luck finding tips on comparative passages on the discussion board (probably didn't look far enough), so if anyone knows a link to suggestions on these that would help immensely!

    Thank you!

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    LSAT Party time, that is!

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    LSAT in February? No problem

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    Hello,

    Would the LSAT ever use the same flaw type that has subcategories in the same question? For example, would it ever have multiple answer choices that would say A) over generalization B) Bisased sampling , etc. there are many subcategories of this flaw type but would they have answer choices that falls under the subcategories

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    Don’t wait to hit the 70s in January! Be prepared!

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    Superprep! Get your formerly non-disclosed test on! Answer that age old question: Is it really the “Champion of LSAT preparation”?

    Friday, Nov. 6th at 8PM ET: PT A

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    Last comment friday, nov 06 2015

    I don't know how to diagram

    I've been studying on my own for some time. When I do PTs I notice that I am getting an average of 5 wrong per LR section. All of them are either assumption or paralel/parallel flaw questions. Everything else is right. I've been looking online and most of the suggestions involve diagramming. I don't know how to do that. Diagramming confuses me. Right now my results are -0 for games, -5 for reading ( which I am improving by getting used to reading more. ) but for my LR sections, I am stuck. Any suggestions or advice? Is learning how to diagram mandatory?

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    PT73 S2 LR - I *really* need some help with explanations on a couple LR questions on this test

    Question 9 (weaken) - Answer is C, i picked A

    Question 18 (flaw) - Answer is E, i picked A

    Question 19 (weaken) - Answer is B, i picked E

    Question 21 (mbt) - Answer is E, i picked B

    Question 22 (strengthen) - Answer is A, i picked B

    *REALLLLYY* need help as I am taking the December exam. Huge thanks to anyone who will help!

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    Last comment friday, nov 06 2015

    PT 23 Section 3 Question 12

    Sooooo inferences are usually much more clear and this one is giving me a lot of trouble. I gave B a considerable amount of thought, but I felt like it's a flaw because it goes from health food enthusiasts to saying in general, those who take XYZ will lower chances of heart disease. And I saw that the researchers corrected for differences in health habits, but I still felt like I'd be making some sort of assumption by picking B.

    That being said, I didn't like D or E much either because I felt D is really broad. For E, this is the one I chose because although I thought it shouldn't be going from XYZ to general "large daily doses of vitamins," I thought it was the best option available

    What am I missing here!

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    All Librarians enjoy spending time organizing books. Since Susan enjoys spending time organizing books, I imagine she's a librarian.

    It is well known know that Yahoo Corporation has slashed the amount it pays in salaries by 6 percent this year. Since Jeff works at Yahoo, his salary was reduced by 6 percent.

    Are these different flaws or the same?

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    In a recent poll conducted among readers of popular surfing magazines, surfing was ranked as the most popular sport and beach volleyball was ranked third. Therefore, it cannot be true that tennis is more popular than both surfing and beach volleyball. Part of me feel like this is a biased sampling simply because the readers are clearly supporters of surfing; so of course they would rank it more high. On the other hand, I feel it is also an overgeneation because it bases its conclusion off of those reader's opinion, and never specified if those polled were representative of the population.

    Will there ever be a flaw question containing an overgenerzation and biased poll answer choice? because if both appeared as an answer, I wouldn't know which one to choose and why

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    hi,

    for those of you (like me) who might have started in the late 140s and have been stuck in the 50s for a while...

    how do you convince yourself that it CAN BE DONE? I had 161 as my best score and 160 and then dropped back down. I can feel that part of me doesn't even believe that it even is possible, to get into the higher 160s much less in the 170s. i know at this point i need to convince myself of the actual possibility of this happening, or my scores won't budge. do you meditate on a specific number? Use a vision board? zone in on where improvement has actually happened? I was just curious if anyone had any advice. I read the "don't give up post" (thanks!) but can still feel this weight...

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    Is there any quick way to diagram the following sentence during the exam? It takes me a lot of time to figure it out during PT.

    If a sentient being on another planet cannot communicate with us, then the only way to detect its existence is by sending a spacecraft to its planet.

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    This is how we do it in BR Group. Hope to see you there!

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    UPDATE: Hey folks—just in case anyone has trouble joining or the Webinar fills up, there WILL be a recording and a PowerPoint—and I'll give out my email address during the session.

    Due to popular demand, we will be holding this webinar using GoToWebinar. Please continue to use the sign-up link below. You will receive an email prior to the webinar with instructions.

    NEW! 7sage Webinar (RC) | Saturday, October 24th 6pm–8pm ET

    Hey y'all. A few of us Mentors are going to be hosting webinars on a variety of topics. These are free and open to the public (and to folks at all levels of LSAT mastery).

    RC with Nicole: It's Hammer Time

    In this webinar, I'll share my notation strategy and talk about how to effectively turn the passage into a toolbox with which you'll eliminate 4 wrong answer choices for each question. This strategy is for beginners, strugglers, and experts looking to refine their own method.

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    Hi I know that there are books that group the logical reasoning into question types but does anyone know of a book or other study material that has lsat questions grouped specifically by the type of flaw

    EX.) the flaw: Absence of evidence-describes the flaw and then lists flawed lsat questions that are this flaw

    do this for each type of flaw

    (I feel this would really help me see how each type of flaw is used in a lsat question) -Thanks

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    Last comment friday, nov 06 2015

    Figuring out the setup

    So I'm still going through the 7Sage curriculum and I'm sure (or at least hoping) that I'll get much better at Logic Games (before enrolling when I just tried them out a few times I was like -15) and as I'm slowly going through the practice and what not, I'm noticing the one MAIN and basically only issue I have with games.

    I am horrible at figuring out / visualizing in my mind how to set up games if they are not simple 1 to 1 sequencing.

    Diagramming the rules, coming up with inferences, all of that is coming to me fairly quickly, but reading the stimulus and figuring out how to draw the setup what rows/charts/etc to use is where I seem to get stuck at.

    Any tips on how to overcome this?

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