I've reviewed JY's lessons for Sufficient, Pseudo Sufficient, and Necessary Assumptions twice, but I'm still struggling a lot with these question types. I frequently get them wrong, particularly Sufficient Assumption, and it's really frustrating. Any advice on how to overcome this stumbling block? I feel like as soon as I improve on these question types, my overall LR score will improve immensely, so any help/suggestions would be immensely appreciated.

So I took the June LSAT and got a 153(sucks), and deciding to take it again this past September and ended up canceling my score and getting refunded because they fudged the time up on our test(sucks even worse). So now I am on par to take the Dec test and have most of my applications already done.

My question is should I go ahead and send my applications in even though I am taking the Dec test? All the schools im applying to have LSAT scores in the high 150's low 160s and this is where I believe my score will be. Does sending in my application with the low first score hurt my chances or is there someway for me to let the schools know that I am taking the LSAT in Dec? I am afraid they will look at my lower first score and throw my application out even if my score in DEC is in the high 150s

I was recently (as in 2 days ago diagnosed with ADHD) been studying for about 3 months (taking the Dec Test) and having a few issues. Makes sense now with the diagnosis. I was just wondering if anybody else is dealing with this and how you're handling studying? Are you asking for special accommodations on the test or are your meds helping enough? Any tips or idk general info would help. Thanks.

Three and half months into studying and still really struggling with timing on LR. I seemed to only be able to get through 17 or 18 questions in a section. Any advice?

Hi,

I recently look a weekend LSAT course, and I wanted to share some info that maybe supplements this course? Or maybe I just missed some aspects in the lectures, but I found it really helpful.

For NA questions, there are two types obviously. But there is a distinct way of solving both type.

NA Bridging. For bridging questions, it was kind of lost on me how to solve them, because I was never writing out the conclusion and stimulus. I was just kind of rushing through them. But I was also getting caught up in the..... you have to negate the answer choices, so instead I would just write the conclusion, start negating the answers and I would get lost.

For bridging, I was now told that you solve them strictly by writing the conclusion and the premise and find the missing gap. Just like SA.

An example of this is this question:

"Lines can be parallel in E systems of geometry, but the non-E system of geo that has the most empirical verification is regarded by prominent physicists as correctly describing the universe we inhabit. If they are right, our universe has no parallel lines."

Premise - E system, parallel lines. non-E system, the most empirical verification.

Conclusion: Our universe has no parallel lines.

What premise is missing? That there are no parallel lines in the non-E system that has the most empirical verification, which is the right answer.

No negation of the answer choices necessary. Just birding the information and finding the gap. Which, probably was being done by all of you, but was completely lost on me.

NA Shielding, in contrast, can be solved by negation. However, i think we were told to solve it strictly by negation of the answer choices, but I was taught that it is more effective to negate BOTH the conclusion AND the answer choices and make them match up, which works perfectly for me now.

An example of this is in this question:

"Novelists cannot become great as long as they remain in academia. Powers of observation and analysis, which schools hone, are useful to the novelist, but an intuitive grasp of the emotions of everyday life can be obtained only by the kind of immersion in everyday life that is precluded by being an academic."

Premise: (basically) that you can only get an intuitive grasp of emotions through everyday life and not through academics.

Conclusion: Novelists cannot become great as long as they remain in academia.

Negate the conclusions: Novelists can become great ... as long as they remain in academic.

Which means that the premise, that they need emotions through everyday life, is irrelevant.

The negation of the answer choice: "Novelists CAN be great if they stay in academia. They don't need an intuitive grasp of emotions."

Negate the conclusion. Negate the premise. Make them match.

Seems so easy now, but before I was so lost. Hope this helps some people!!

Just wondering if others are experiencing issues with the class videos or is it just my computer? Thanks.

Hi all! My major GPA looks better then my over all GPA, so I was wondering if I could list only my major GPA on my resume for applications? I dont have either GPA on my resume right now because I have read that if your GPA is below the school median to NOT include it on the resume at all. But what about the schools that your major GPA falls in their range? Basically, when/if at all should I include my major GPA on my resume for the applications?

Id appreciate your thoughts and comments on this

Thanks!!

Have you ever got the feeling you did horribly after a problem set or PT and yet you somehow did really well? I've personally compared notes with a few other 7sagers and noticed the same results. Anyone else notice this? Any theories? I thought I would address this bizarre phenomena.

Hello All,

I just wanted to know if there is anyone else out there who is really struggling with even the simplest of logic games? I just started the logic games portion of the course but I am having a hard time even making the smallest inferences in logic games. This is making me feel really hopeless since I know they only get harder. Is there a section that most people just dont do good at? Is it possible to still score around the 160s if your logic games skills are not there? I am trying to keep hopeful because I dramatically increased my understanding on logical reasoning and reading comprehension using 7sage but my brain is just not working with these logic games.

Any advice or personal experience with drastically increasing your logic games skills would be appreciated! Thanks in advance!!

My last few tests have all been in the mid 160s and my weakest section is by FAR the logic games. I've printed out every LG in the syllabus and drilled them until I get get the 100% correct under timed conditions, but somehow it isn't translating to timed tests. I either 1) freeze 2) fail to push out all of the inferences so I consistently miss a question or two per game or 3) am flabbergasted by the random misc game that seems to be appearing on each test and therefore get it all wrong. Does anyone have suggestions for taking my LG performance from a 70% to closer to 90% by the December test? Is it even possible in that short of a time period? Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

We are hardly 5 weeks away from Dec LSAT and I have been doing the BR since September 2014 and studying for this test since May this year. I have been doing everything JY explains in his course and still I do not go above 160 on PT. My average on BR is 175 which is an indicative of my potential score. I BR each test I take within 24 hours after taking it and I clearly see why the right AC is right and each of the rest are wrong. Then, I listen to videos which confirm my way of thinking. After all of that, I open another test and I see the same painful score!! Any advice/ personal experience on how I can manifest what I know without time pressure under timed test?

PS- This is my average timed performance:

Logic Games: 98%

LR: 76%

RC: 54%

Average raw score: 68-74

I appreciate any input.

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Hi There,

Just wanted some on advice on these questions. I'm still having a little difficulty with these questions but am slowly getting better. Im able to see the flaw in the paragraph but have a hard time matching it to another statement. Is this something you just get better at with time?

Cheers,

I'm trying to wrap my head around seeing multiple conditional indicators in a sentence, and I'll like some confirmation as to my thought process.

Suppose we get this statement:

All vegans [V] cannot eat meat [M].

This seems straightforward.

V → /M

or

M → /V

However, in comparison, this statement, which I'm copying from one of the lessons isn't as straightforward for me:

All things that cannot swim are not Koala bears.

We see what appears to be two indicators "all" (sufficient) and "cannot" (negate-necessary). However, on close examination, "cannot" is not acting as a predicate as compared to the first example. It seems to be attached to the swim idea. In other words, there's actually only one indicator: "all."

So:

/S → /K

or

K → S

Am I on the right track? Thanks in advance.

Hey, fellow 7sagers.

I'm having trouble with law passages in reading.

Knowing this, I now freeze when I see a passage about law.

Any advice on what outside material or reading might help?

I read the Economist and Scientific American, but they don't seem to provide much help in terms of

law passages..

I know scoring your PT after you take it is supposedly the antithesis to Blind Review, but if you score it and don't look at what you got wrong (specific questions and questions per section overall) are you really hurting yourself that much? I know I'm not getting perfect scores, so I am always assuming I got X (or varying) number wrong, which is what any score under a 180 will tell you. I am scoring consistently at 167-168 and I am starting to circle less questions as I take the PT (most of my wrong answers are from RC, which I do a Blind Review for every question in the section) I get 2-3 wrong on LR and I know which ones they were most of the time but I am wondering if scoring right after I take a PT is really that detrimental to my Blind Review success. Sometimes I want to know what I got right after I finish an exam because what I was feeling during the test is fresh in my mind still and I can connect whatever score I got with the correlating vibes I had during the test, so it seems that scoring right after can provide "some" benefit. Can anyone add some advice to this?

Yep, that's the question. Thought I'd raise awareness if you didn't know about it. Register through LSAC.

Maybe us 7sagers can get coffee before/after the fair.

Hi all,

I wanted to get your guys' opinions on how to study for the December retake. I have done almost all the logic games using the foolproof method and was getting -1 or -2 at most leading up to the September test. When it came test day, however, I got two sections of LG in a row — the second of which ended up counting. I remember the games not being particularly difficult, but for whatever reason, my brain refused to work. I got -7 in the end, which hurts my soul. Anyway, I'm wondering if I should chalk it up to test day nerves/fatigue (I redid that particular LG section yesterday and got -2) or if there's something fundamental I'm missing and should review before I retake the test. Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks!

http://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-33-section-3-question-21/

I dismissed A right off of the bat because I've grown skeptical of the word every.

I see now that it makes sense because for Sufficient Assumption Questions you need to find the Answer Choice that GUARANTEES the outcome, so A works. It may be extra strong, but that's ok.

I should have also had my eyes peeled more for tricky answer choices because it is Q. 21

http://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-33-section-3-question-19/

I see why B is the best answer, but not 100 pct why it's right. Raphaela doesn't address this point specifically other than her umbrella statement that no government should redistribute.

But As I'm writing this, I see that's the point. She makes a broad statement, and Edward makes a generalization.

Choice D, which I originally posted is too broad to address Edward's argument.

I'm going to review Disagree Questions.

http://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-33-section-1-question-21/

This is the Attacks on an Opponent in a Debate Question.

I'm not sure why the answer works. Can someone explain it to me?

Hi everyone!

I was just watching JY's explanation of the third game explanation for the Dec 2004 LSAT. At the very end of the video for Q17 JY tries out answer choice (D) to show us how to determine which answers are incorrect. Why is it that why Y and Z are in the photo W, S, and U get tossed out? Here's is the link for the video http://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-45-section-3-game-3/

I'm just confused about the very last question (17) when we try out answer choice D

THANKS!

Hello,

I've got a lot of prep tests to take still and I have printed out many already. How bad would it be if I saved a couple trees and took the test by just using the PDF on my iPad? I've already done more than a few practice sections like this, but not full tests. I feel like as long as I practice with a couple real printed out tests here and there I'll be fine.

I'm interested in opinions. :)

Thanks,

DG

Hi,

Can someone please explain the difference between these two question types? I find that there is a significant amount of overlap in the content of answer choices and it is hard to distinguish. Is a MSS question asking for something that is just most likely to be true based on the stimulus? On the other hand, does a MBT have to be true 100% of the time no matter what based on the information in the stimulus? Before coming to 7 sage, I previously used powerscore to self-study and they group both question types together under one umbrella.

Can someone clarify the difference? To me it seems like a MSS is more like a Could be true question from the LG, whereas MBT is always true.

Thanks