I have not been studying all too hard the last two weeks to try and stay relaxed. I've just been doing some sections and reviewing, focusing mostly on logic games. Should I continue this day before or allow my mind to rest?

http://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-71-section-1-question-03/

Had trouble understanding what "on balance" meant here. I interpreted it as "in moderation" so, to me, the conclusion was alcohol consumption, in moderation, is beneficial. Could someone enlighten me real quick on this?

The most difficult for me is the Logical Reasoning and I was wondering if anyone had a perfected study guide for me use. I would really appreciate it! Im taking the LSAT in February and am in dying need of help on this one section as of now!

Hey guys I heading to Hong Kong in few days and will be staying in the Kowloon from early-December to mid-January. I am aiming for the February test and have been PT in the 165-175 range. I plan to do PTs and fine tuning RC and LR sections during my stay at Hong Kong.

Personally, I find it extremely helpful to form a LSAT group in order to PT efficiently and rigorously, as well as stay motivated. I mostly need a group for PT and not for studying or going over PT purpose, but I am also open to studying together if it turn out to be efficient. I don't care about your PT score range. If anyone is interested, please inbox me.

Hey everyone,

I hope you are all relaxing before the test and not exhausting yourselves! I am unfortunately posting this message because I woke up today feeling very very ill. I have a fever, soar throat, and my whole body is in pain. Even coughing causes pain.

If I remain at least as ill, my cognitive performance will be significantly impaired. Not to mention, I may very well get other people sick.

I already took the test once in June and I did not reach the score I needed, so I definitely don't want to attempt to retake the test without being in maximum mental and physical shape; doing the contrary will show no significant improvement. So, my question is, how much am I negatively affecting my chances of admission by taking the LSAT in February? I have read a lot about this topic, and almost everyone's opinion is that I am cutting my chances by a high margin.

Please let me know what you think, any advice would be much appreciated.

Thank you very much!

I really think I am burned out. All I am thinking about is the LSAT, and took 3 tests in 3 days, with review after. My average is about 160 and my scores have been 165, 152, and 154. I know I didn't suddenly get dumber, but I don't think studying anymore can benefit me at all. I've read so many stories about how people did well after taking a few days off before the test, so I think at this point that's what I'm going to do.

Hey guys I'm very new to this forum mbut I figured I would try my luck.

I'm looking for a partner who is serious about working. At the moment I'm averaging about four hrs a day to the LSAT and I'm seeing some very slow improvements but improvements nonetheless.

However, I've been told that groups often tend to help learn things much faster than the traditional way, so if anyone is interested in skyping a few PT's or just want to do specific sections please let me know.

vincent _ cordone a t hotmail

thanks

I was just wondering if people in general found the LG in LSAT 72 much harder than usual? I usually get perfect to -2 on LG but I got -5 and found the games more difficult than usual, maybe it was just me..

Any suggestions? T-3 days.

With the following comments, I'm hoping incite from people some input, be it advice or general opinion:

First, a little about me: From a modest upbringing, my parents, though nice, do not have a high school education. I wasn't poor or significantly disadvantaged, just a regular blue collar Canadian lower-middle class family. I had a very late start in my academic life; I was diganosed with ADHD at 12, had a Grade 3 reading comprehension in Grade 9, and essentially stopped participating in Math in Grade 5. After dropping out of high school, I decided my type A personality wasn't suited for manual labor so I obtained my high school diploma and enrolled in the local community college. After two years studying 12+ hours a day I had high enough grades to transfer to a reputable University, where I finished my last two years and obtained a Criminology degree with a 3.5 GPA. It was an absolute grind but I managed to do it.

Since University, I spent several years working in law enforcement and as a Youth Counselor. During this time, I realized I wanted to be a lawyer. I've written the LSAT four times, once in 2011 and three in a row in 2012-13. Because of the three times rule, I was prohibited from writing it for a year only to return again this December 2014 exam, of which I am registered in. My first attempt in 2011 I was practice averaging 150-156 and scored a 149 (often 16/25 on LR, 3 passages at 14/25, and only two logic gams at 12/25). I then spent over three months studying logic games specifically and was able to reach a third logic game giving me 15/25 and moving my practice scores to 153-158, I would then officially score 153, 151, 151.

This last round I completed all of 7Sage's material, with a heavy focus on LR. I have managed to improve my LR scores to 20/25 but my RC and LG have not improved. I cannot reach a fourth logic game or reading passage. With 12 practice tests this month I am consistently scoring 155-159. I've been studying 30-40 hours a week since September.

I should note that although I don't have panic attacks, and i'm generally stable, I get a lot of anxiety. I tend to think of the worst case scenario(s), assuming them to be probable, and then lose sleep and be stressed out all day. This last week I have slept 5-6 hours a night, have become extremely irritable, and have dropped to 155 on my last two practice exams.

I want to be a lawyer. I have the schools picked out I would like to (and could be admitted to) attending. I have great references and great professional experience. I have applied, but all that stands in my way is this stupid exam. Unfortunately, I can't help but wonder, after all this effort and studying, given my score only ever rising from 152-159, and my pattern of choking on test day... am I just not intelligent or stable enough to do this?!

Should I finally throw in the towel? Thanks for your input in advance. I would have sought advice from friends and family but they don't seem to get it.

Brad

I know it's going to have an impact on some deadlines but I need 8 more raw points to guarantee acceptance at my 1st choice school.

Hey guys quick question, I recently purchased the starter pack and can't seem to find video explanations for logical reasoning. It only says logical games explanations. Do I need to upgrade for the LR explanations?

http://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-23-section-1-game-2/

I'm looking at the video and the questions and so far everything makes sense, EXCEPT a few key issues.

1 If hired ------> interviewed

and

IF F h (ired) -----> K i (nterviewd)

then the contrapositive would be ~Ki -------> ~Fh but what does that mean? I mean if K isn't hired he wasn't interviewed, but here the contrapositive is saying that he wasn't even interviewed....so does that mean that he COULD be hired...or that HE WAS OUT?

If the later is the case then shouldn't there be a third box to the sketch: H / I / Out ?

Hello,

I will start studying for June's test. Following the starter schedule, it says that I do full tests at the end of my prep i.e. last some weeks. My question, how relevant are the older tests? let's say 19's or early 2000's? When it says to practise a section, which year am I to choose and which ones do I leave for the full exam? I assume that the sections I chose for training shouldn't be part of the full exam.

Good luck to all Saturday's writers.

Hi,

I just want to know if other people have this same issue and what methods you used to overcome it: I know the LR concepts pretty well, and when I take un-timed tests, I do really well without spending a lot of time on the questions (as much as I would spend under timed conditions). But, when I take the actual test, I get considerably more questions wrong. When I do the blind review, I usually don't look at the answer I picked, I go back to the question (on a second set of the same test without any marks) and read the question again and most of the time (8/10) I get the correct answer and I look at the answer I picked during the exam and it makes no sense to me. Is this me? Am I going nuts? :/

I know this curriculum identifies the first step as reading the question stem and then the stim, however I know that this is also somewhat controversial i.e. the powerscore series/lsat trainer have different things to say.

Does anyone have a preference? Do you think its critical?

Hey guys, I've noticed more parallel reasoning questions on recent PT's, and, with my luck, they're also the only ones persistently giving me trouble/costing the most time. Does anyone have a particular method that helps them with these? Like is it better to look for similarities in the conclusions, premises, or overall structure first? Also, has anyone noticed common traps writers put in the incorrect answers? I find myself stuck between 2 and choosing the wrong one. Thanks!

Anybody in Chicago looking for a study buddy?

I just tried to take PT 72 and got so frustrated and thrown off that I quit during section 2. I printed it off from everylsat.com and screwed up in RC (section 1) bc I had to keep flipping back and forth looking at the passage for questions that were on the back side of the page. I had only 3 minutes to get through the last passage and got murdered by it. I started doing section 2 and was just so mad about the last section that I got through 5 LR questions in 8 minutes and nothing was making sense. I thought that it was just best if I stopped, bc I had had a long day (usually don't do PTs at night) and knew I was going to do horrible on this test.

It is especially discouraging because I scored a 165 yesterday on PT 71 and was feeling so confident. Should I still take 73 tomorrow?

Hey 7Sagers! Someone wrote in with a question that I thought you could help out with! Here it is:

When blind reviewing a preptest, should I go back and review the answers to all the questions or just the questions that I circled?

When I blind review LG I go back and do all the games and usually miss only -1 or 2 questions. Thanks!

Anyone at USC studying for december/February?

I can't remember if I've ever read this... but are we only allowed to bring in water in our bag? Or can we bring an energy drink for our break?

Hey Guys,

So i just finished a prep course and i'm not scoring exactly where i want to be. My diagnostic was 152, and my score has been fluctuating with the highest score being 157 and the lowest being 150. My goal is to score 165. I just recently discovered 7sage and the whole blind review thing and have started to implement it. My Blind Review score was around 163 the last time i took it. The main issue i have is with timing. I'm only able to get to 20 questions in LR, 3 Games in LG, and 3 Passages in RC. Reading Comp is my worse section, and Logic Games is my best section. My goal is to be able to finish each section but i'm not exactly sure how to practice timing outside of just taking timed sections and practice tests.

Also another issue i have is that the prep course i took kinda implemented questions from each practice test, and essentially left me with only 12 fresh practice tests that haven't been used. My plan is to just do timed sections from those older practice tests that they've utilized and hope that i don't remember much for it to affect my score/timing significantly. Since i only have 12 fresh practice tests i'm thinking i'll just do one a week, leaving me with 4 additional ones. If anyone has any advice i'd love to hear it. I feel kinda screwed in the sense that i don't have alot of unused practice tests left and i'm not scoring where i want to be.

http://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-71-section-3-question-21/

I've figured out why C) and E) are wrong, but I'm not sure how the other incorrect answers weaken the argument.

Any ideas or explanations?

Of course you are. You're about to take an important test. It's not the most important test though. That one you will be taking in February.

Just kidding. This is likely the last LSAT you'll ever take.

I'm only trying to remind you that for something this important, there are second chances. That's not true for a lot of other important things in life, so that's something to feel good about.

For most of you, you already know what score you'll get. Take your last three recent properly administered LSAT PrepTests (e.g., 71, 72, 73) and average your score. You'll get plus or minus 3 points of that average.

There is nothing separating you from that score except the mere passing of a few day's time.

You are as prepared as you can be. You have already seen everything those crafty LSAT writers will throw at you and you've amply demonstrated your ability to respond with craftiness of your own.

Saturday will not be a new day and the December 2014 LSAT will not be a new LSAT. It will only be "LSAT PrepTest 74" which will be just like PT 73 and PT 72 and PT 71 and so on.

For Saturday, remember only this: keep moving.

You will encounter a few insanely difficult curve breaker questions. Every LSAT has them. Every student who has ever taken the LSAT before you has encountered them. You will encounter them (again) on Saturday. I am telling you this now, so you will be prepared. Skip those difficult questions. Maintain your rhythm.

Keep moving.

You got this.