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What are the other types of question types that have the word "principle" in their stems but are not really principle questions? I know "pseudo sufficient assumption" question stems often have principle in them.

But I also just saw that 7sage has labeled PT65 Q6 as an MSS question and I'm really confused. The stem for this question is "which of the following most closely conforms to the principle illustrated by the argument?" I thought this was a principle question and diagrammed the conditional to formulaically look for the proper premise and conclusion in the answer choices but it seems that's not really necessary.

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Hi Everyone -

I'm looking to collect some best practices because I work full time, so I need bang for my buck during study time. I hope this forum will benefit others in my situation!

I took the LSAT a while ago and scored in the low 160s with very little preparation. I thought - HEY! If I try really hard and use an awesome course (like this one!) I have a chance of breaking 170! By using this course, I've improved in terms of my raw score. I get almost 50% fewer questions wrong per section, but this only improves my actual LSAT score marginally.

Now, the thought that I've reached the capacity of my intelligence has crossed my mind. But I think this may not be the case - after some very serious self-reflection. Because I immediately understand why I get something wrong, I feel like this is more about synthesizing all of the skills in a test taking environment.

Can we start this discussion to share "curve breaking" tips? They can be any kind of suggestions - how to study, when to study, how to approach certain problems, strategic skipping, active reading strategies, timing strategies... Any thing you got - I'm all ears!

Thanks in advance everyone!

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I can't tell if there is a setting I altered or if its the new video player, but when I go from full screen to regular my video restarts every time. Its a real pain when you're taking notes on the computer or trying to refer to the comments section and not being able to go back and forth. Is there a way I can change this to keep streaming when I go back and forth from screen sizes?

Thank you!

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Hi,

I had a problem getting videos on this site to play at first, I changed my settings to use flash instead of html5 and this fixed that problem. I am now, however, having an issue with the videos loading extremely slowly. I'm running a macbook pro OsX 10.9.1, firefox and all plugins are up to date. I'm not having with problem with any other videos. Thanks in advance for any advice.

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Looking for Tips to increase my score, could some please tell me if there is a special way to BR Games and RC?

I assume they would be different because they have different methodology?

Thank you in advance! :)

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Okay, so I'm far from a respectable source of knowledge on Law School admissions, but I know many of you have applied (or are already in).

Is anyone else finding it drop-dead incredible how responsive and accepting law schools are being lately?

I know that admission is down by 16%, but to give you all an idea: I have a 3.1 GPA and a 157 on the February LSAT. I've been getting emails and having very, VERY promising correspondence from schools that I don't even meet the 25th percentile for. How is this possible? I even had a great talk with the Dean of Admissions at the University of Virginia, and they're ranked 7 or so.

Now, granted, I did start two businesses, have a lot of extracurricular activities and did a lot for my community, however they didn't know all of that when they sent me an email and asked me to apply free of charge, or in some cases even offered me scholarships.

All that they knew about me was that I had a 3.1, a 157, and am Puerto Rican.

My best guess is that they need Puerto Ricans for affirmative action or something,or that the 16% drop in admissions this year had a much bigger impact than I thought it would.

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Is the experimental section before or after the break? because it'd be a disadvantage to have it before as it you'll be more fatigued for the remaining real sections. I did a PT with the experimental at the beginning and it really affected my performance.

Also for those that have done the test, is the break 10 minutes or 15 minutes? Might seem like a small detail but I want to replicate test conditions as closely as possible.

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taking the june 2014 LSAT, hoping for a 161. first untimed score was 143. seeing a lot of people saying it took them a year to go from the 140's to the 170's, which is freaking me out. I'm thinking maybe these people had time to study for a year. should I be banking on taking the October LSAT too? or do I need to calm down and start studying 30 hours a week?

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I'm so nervous about the LSAT. I just can't help myself. I'm taking my first practice test and I'm taking each section, answering the questions and then going over the answers. I don't know how to calm my nerves. Any tips?

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Hi, I'm looking for an online study buddy (e-mail,Skype, whatever) who is taking the June LSAT and is looking to improve their LR specifically. I'm doing pretty well with LG and RC to a lesser extent, but I really would like to improve my LR from the -7 range to the -0/-1/-2 range.

I don't know anyone in my area that is also studying for this, so it would be very helpful to have somebody to talk LSAT with regularly.

Let me know if you're interested!

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Why is my syllabus all of a sudden marking literally everything (even lessons I haven't done yet) with black checkmarks?! It stopped keeping my place in the lessons, and when I click "continue" it goes straight back to PT question and answer. Ugh!

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Hi, I am looking for some insightful advice. I am currently applying to law school and I have taken the LSAT twice now, but unfortunately have gotten the same score both times. This is a multi-part question, but is very important to what I do for the next three months. 1). Is there any benefit to retaking? 2). Has anyone been in a similar situation and maybe redesigned the way that they've studied and achieved a much better result? I feel that I need to dedicate myself more completely than before, but with all honesty I feel that does not mean much unless I have a better approach.

Any advice or helpful hints would be much appreciated!

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Has anyone noticed that the Syllabus looks different? The stars aren't yellow anymore, and it's hard to tell which lessons I have already done because all the check marks look the same. Is this something on my end or is anyone else noticing this? Please help! I forgot which lesson is next

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Hi guys, sorry about the title..I did the question several days ago..so I forget it comes from which PT..As soon as I find out i will change the discussion title.

Studies of the reliability of eyewitness identifications show little correlation between the accuracy of a witness's account and the confidence the witness has in the account. Certain factors can increase or undermine a witness's confidence without altering the accuracy of the identification. Therefore, police officers are advised to disallow suspect lineups in which witnesses can hear one another identifying suspects.

Which one of the following is a principle underlying the advice given to police officers?

(A) The confidence people have in what they remember having seen is affected by their awareness of what other people claim to have seen.

(B) Unless an eyewitness is confronted with more than one suspect at a time, the accuracy of his or her statements cannot be trusted.

(C) If several eyewitnesses all identify the same suspect in a lineup, it is more likely that the suspect committed the crime than if only one eyewitness identifies the suspect.

(D) Police officers are more interested in the confidene witnesses have when testifying than in the accuracy of that testimony.

(E) The accuracy of an eyewitness account is doubtful if the eyewitness contradicts what other eyewitnesses claim to have seen.

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I'm taking the June LSAT. I took it five years ago and got a 131. I really need to improve this score so much. I look forward to taking this course and engaging with all of you. Just one question. As i try to navigate the site on a tablet, can I print out all the test first and then go back to the lessons.

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Whenever she considers voting in an election to select one candidate for a position and there is at least one issue important to her, Kay uses the following principle in choosing which course of action to take: it is acceptable for me to vote for a candidate whose opinions differ from mine on at least one issue important to me whenever I disagree with each of the other candidates on even more such issues; it is otherwise unacceptable to vote for that candidate. In the upcoming mayoral election, the three candidates are Legrand, Medina, and Norton. There is only one issue important to Kay, and only Medina shares her opinion on that issue.

According to the principle stated in the passage, in the upcoming mayoral election

(A) it is acceptable for Kay to vote for either Medina or Legrand, but it is unacceptable for her to vote for Norton

(B) the only unacceptable courses of action are for Kay to vote for Norton and for her to vote for Legrand

(C) it is unacceptable for Kay to vote for any of the candidates

(D) the only unacceptable course of action is for Kay to vote for Medina

(E) it is acceptable for Kay to vote for any of the candidates

Does the 'and only Medina shares her opinion on that issue' means Medina agree with Kay?

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Hey guys, you might have noticed that it's been a while since I've responded to comments. Sorry. I must have kept many of you waiting.

I'm withdrawing from responding to comments, broadly speaking. There are a two reasons for this.

First I'd like to focus on making videos which is an incredibly time consuming thing to do.

Second, I'd like to encourage you, our community, to help each other out. I realized that going forward, in the long run, if I keep responding to comments, I would be in effect encouraging the community to always specifically ask for my response, my help, which has the unintended effect of discouraging other students from responding. That's not good for building a community where we are both teachers and students.

I am still reading the comments. If there's enough confusion, I will clarify. But, you guys are smart and very nice to each other (thank you) so I don't anticipate many problems that you cannot resolve among yourselves.

You might have noticed that our commenting system has improved. First, recent comments show up directly on your command center, after you log in. Second, we've added the "Like" feature so now you can vote up helpful comments.

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It's an article about 2 schools of economics. I don't understand Q15 which answer is A. I chose B.

A. The environment's ability to yield raw material is limited.

B.Natural resources are an external constraint on economics.

Isn't that A can be interpreted as that natural resources is limited, and that's what Line 20-22 says (steady-state economists' view) and Line 30-35 saying "that natural resources, if depleted, can be replaced by'' shows that the neoclassical economists also believed that natural resources is LIMITED (although it could be replaced by other resources)?

And I don't see why B is wrong. Although the passage doesn't explicitly say that the steady-state economics hold this conception (or hold the conceptions like external/internal constraints.)

Can anyone explain this?

Many thanks!

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