I found this logic game to help alleviate the anxiety of waiting for the results! Honestly the LSAT material actually does make you smarter. Everyone have a go at this, it was fun.

http://mathbits.com/MathBits/MathMovies/HarryPotter.pdf

I took the LSAT on September 27th. I do not feel like I did well. My guess score would be somewhere between 140-145. I plan on studying and practicing more PT's, spending more time with blind reviews and taking the test again on December.Is it better for me to keep the score (even though I know i did not do well) or cancel the test score and just focus on doing better in December. I have been told before that Law schools usually look at the higher score when making decision on an application. Is that true?

With only one day left to decide if I want to keep my score, I feel torn inside!

Any advice and comments will be much appreciated!

Thank you

Okay.

I have finished 100% of the material (yay).

I was wondering what other people have done at this point? I've decided to wait until Monday morning to write my first practice LSAT test, and take tonight, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday to review all of the Practice Tests in all of the sections, and work through some of the harder Logic Games that I didn't completely understand.

Did anyone do anything similar? I want a refresher before I dive right into the practice. :)

I'm just going through the lesson on Valid Argument Forms now and I was wondering for which questions are the existential quantifiers relevant? I guess I'm just having a hard time visualizing how learning the different valid forms will help to different between Logical Reasoning questions types.

When notating rules in a game, is it advisable to NOT write down the contrapositive, but simply understand how it would work for a particular rule? Or is it best to write down the contrapositive under each given rule?

I noticed that writing down contrapositives for each rule becomes time consuming... and also I noticed JY writes down the contrapositives for some rules and not for others...

Any clarification is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Oh how I wonder if there is a "fitness" criteria prior to first day of classes...it's not even thanksgiving and I can't stop eat...hey now neither is it winter... What a drag this is right now ughhhhhhh

On what kinds of questions are those invalid existential conclusions relevant?

Like, A-->B some C

And we can't conclude A some C.

Are these in must be false questions? Has anyone come across a question that deals with this kind of bad conclusion?

I have a question. I am new to 7Sage. I am used to books. I am used to crossing off wrong answers. I am used to taking notes as I read. There are no traditional books for 7Sage. Does anyone on here find it easier or harder or anything? I am thinking of just printing off as much of the material as possible. Any feedback on the lack of books would be appreciated. Thank you.

done the 7sage prep course, and read the powerscore bible for LR, and I drill like it's nobody's business; would like for someone to recommend a book that will help me out with understanding it a little bit better. being that we have 2 LR sections (possibly 3 depending on exp section) I want/need to improve. Flaw seems to be my biggest issue. any recommendations?

Anyone have tips for writing personal statements ??

Okay so i was watching the video where JY tells us how to distinguish between Valid and Invalid argument forms and at the end he gave us a little trick to remember how to distinguish between the two and that was that:

In the valid forms, the existential statements appear first and then the universal statements.

So an example is

A some-> B-> C

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A some ->C

And in the invalid forms the universal statements appear first and then the existential statements.

So an example of this would be:

A --> B some-> C

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A some->C

BUT, the problem is that this doesnt hold true for VALID forms 6-8 as they start with universal statements rather than existential statements. So can someone tell me a trick to remember those three.

Thanks!

So I took the September LSAT at Pace University in NYC last weekend. During the test, there was incredibly loud pipe construction above us banging throughout the test, along with an occasional loud hissing sound that lasted for around 10 seconds coming from a mysterious part of the room. It got so loud that during the middle of the test right after we had finished one of our sections, the proctor told us that the LSAC was aware of these issues, and that we could cancel if we wanted to. None of us did.

Although I actually feel pretty good about this test (I was strangely able to concentrate pretty well for some reason), would there be any benefit to me to report the construction issues to LSAC given that I definitely don't want to cancel? Thanks!

Can someone explain "blocking" the alternative hypothesis? I am doing the strengthen causation questions, I got them right and went back to make sure I understood why, even though I got them right, I wasnt 100% sure why. I am also not totally understanding what you mean by "blocking. " Please elaborate, clarify so I can understand. Thank you

I took the Feb 2014 exam. I am studying again for the LSAT. I am wondering if you have a teaching of a logic game that was similar to the one that threw us for a loop on the Feb 2014 exam....I know you dont have access to that, but it was something about a round table, maybe how people were positioned.....I definitely do not remember the details, I just recall it was something like that. Hoping there is now a lesson for questions that like.

For instance, a -> (b -> c) simplifies to a + -b -> -c. What about (-a -> b) -> c. How can I simplify it?

I'm not a Saturday observer but I do play college basketball and we have a game the day of the dec lsat. What are the rules to not take a Saturday test? Could I possibly switch it to the Monday? I don't practice that religion but the only way I can take the lsat this winter is if it isn't on a Saturday. Wondering if you guys have any advice or experience with a situation like this.

So I took the June LSAT, by going through 7sage pretty quickly and the LSAT Bibles I got a 153.I took the test last weekend and am going to cancel my score due to proctor problems but was scoring around high 150's during PTs right before. I skimmed through 7 sage and mostly did practice tests and reviewed wrong answers.

So now I am registered for the December LSAT and kinda stuck on how to study for it. Should I go through 7sage again or the Bibles again or just really focus on my weak area of RC? I was planning on started 7sage from scratch and going through the whole thing but not sure if that is truly the best use of my time. Im usually missing -7 or -8 in each LG,and each of the LR and missing about -11 to -13 on RC.

Every time after a timed section i blind review and for at least 3 or 4 they were such stupid mistakes or i didnt read carefully or all the answers. I think its because i feel like im rushed and looking over with a relaxed state of mind changes everything. anyways what do you guys think will help me?

Is there a video answer to this question on 7sage? It gave me a lot of trouble.

Thanks!

[Admin edit: Video here: http://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-29-section-1-question-18/ ]

I am going to get 7sage basic and study as much as possible before the December Lsat. I took a diagnostic and got 164 but my goal is 170+. I also have a Kaplan LSAT 2014 book. Questions are:

Is this enough time to improve to my target score?

Should I even bother to read my Kaplan book in addition to using 7sage?

Should I add anything to my plan at all (other books or study programs) or just hit the 7sage course hard when ever I have free time?

I work full time and am taking 12 credit hours of college. I know it will be hard to fit it all in, but law school won't be much better. I figure it's good training. I can study for the LSAT about 6 or 7 hours a week if I give up almost all social life for the next three months.

Hey y'all,

So unfortunately I cancelled my score from Saturday's test. I took the test at Pace NY and there was construction being done on the roof of the building and as I'm sure you can all imagine, the incessant banging of pipes and jackhammering of concrete didn't make for an efficient test site and it certainly didn't complement the Reading Comp section very well.

The good news is that I took the test, cancelling my score after, and I really believe I was well prepared, thanks to the months of studying aided by 7sage. I do think, however, I can better my timing, I ultimately cancelled the score because I couldn't risk the possibility that the distractions screwed me up on things I know I could otherwise have been positive about.

BUT, now that I have time to do some more prep, I want to look at bettering my timing. When I time myself and take pts on my own, I finish sections in 33 minutes or so, but both times I took the actual test (last October and Saturday) I fell apart. Of course distractions were at an all time high on Saturday because of the crazy amount of noise from construction but now that I am taking the test in December I'd like to better prepare getting my timing down to a science. I'm thinking maybe I should start taking tests with other people.

Does anyone know of any programs or group that facilitate group tests? If not, would anyone in the NYC area be interested in maybe putting a group together this way we can take the exam under more realistic conditions?

P.s. if anyone else was at the Pace location and feels the construction was an overwhelming distraction, LSAC is being very accommodating and investigating all the reports and will either offer a make up or reimbursement. Be sure to get your complaints in to them if you need to!

Even though I had written close to 39 prep tests, I did feel much more nervous on the actual LSAT. And I tried to keep as calm as I could by relaxing and doing fun things on the day before but I realized it's hard not to be nervous. For people like me, who have wanted to become a lawyer since they were 10, the LSAT pretty much determines whether you make it or not. You try to forget it but it's really something you can't get rid of completely. That being said, I didn't lose my head, and kept as calm as I could I be. I think my adrenaline rush helped me go faster and I finished the reading comp and first logical reasoning with 5 minutes to spare. And I also finished the logic games and second logical reasoning without feelings of impending doom.

Overall feelings:

The reading comprehension: the first passage was easy, second was by far the most difficult and the other two were okay.

Logical Reasoning: the first was pretty easy, the second was tough, many questions I had to really think about and make an educated guess.

Logic games: not as easy as I expected, time consuming, had to do a lot of brute forcing, and last game I ran out of time so guessed last 2-3 questions.

All in all, it wasn't terrible, no surprises, and I felt it went okay. I wasn't coming out of the exam crying, or wanting to cancel it. BUT I can't tell you for the life of me of what my predicted score could be. I just have no idea. Is this normal ?! And do people who scored in the 160's and 170's

ever feel this way after their exam. ( I was scoring high 160s and even a 170 the day before the exam).

Hello, I am currently scoring at 158 consistently, yet am aiming for a 163 at the least. I have been studying for a while and have seen my score already rise by 12 points. Can I make further ground?

Would anybody like to partner up online to keep each other sane, accountable and productive for the February 2015 LSAT? :)

For anyone who had LR (25), RC (27), LR (26), LR (26), LG (23), do you know which LR sections were real? TLS says the two real sections featured an Irish mace and a parrot. I remember those questions, but I don't remember where they were in my setup.