Hello all,

I have been prepping for the January exam since this past summer. I have the PowerScore bibles and the Starter 7Sage curriculum. I spend a lot a time grappling with this material. But for some reason I am just not fully grasping the logical reasoning concept. For some reason, I end up with two answers (one being right and the other being wrong and I always fall for the wrong answer or the one that has absolutely nothing to do with the argument) Weaken, Strengthen, and Necessary Assumptions specifically are my extreme problem areas. I know that Logical Reasoning is a huge component of this test and also a catalyst to success with Logical Games. What are some strategies you all have used to help strengthen your logical reasoning understanding? My goal is to break into the mid or high 150's (those are the scores I need to apply to my top schools and applying next cycle is not an option for me). Please give me strategies to make this a reality.

I've been trying to make a LG summary and was wondering if anyone has any notes that they'd like to exchange? Just a brief overview of what to keep in mind when encountering each type of game set!

Thanks so much and happy studying!!

Hello!

My name is Christo and I am wondering if there is anyone that would be willing to provide any tips on the Digital LSAT. I will be taking the test in November and am concerned about logistics for the testing day. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

From,

Christo

Did anyone else take the test abroad? I had two LG sections. Was the Ghana/India/France question real or experimental?

Has anyone taken the May LSAT-Flex on a Surface Go tablet/ laptop. I just want to see how your experience was. I am a bit anxious as when I test my camera on the proctor U site, the camera freezes a bit. I want to know if this is normal or if I should think of using a different laptop.

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

When I went to do my digital writing sample I had my phone in my backpack, and I forgot to turn it off. I got a text during the writing sample, so the reviewers could probably hear the notification. I just kept going on the test and didn't reach into my bag or anything. I haven't heard back to see if it was accepted or not. This is probably a new issue with the separation of the writing portion from the actual test day, but is it necessary to write an addendum or anything if you get a rules violation, or will LSAC just send whichever writing sample was accepted?

I am absolutely freaking out. I just applied to my top four schools, and I selected "No" to all of the Character & Fitness questions for each school. At my college, you received an "Academic Warning" whenever you failed a mid-term since your average in the course was now below passing. I received a couple of these warnings my freshman year, but I did well on the remaining assessments and passed the courses. Hence, I forgot all about these warnings and failed to check the appropriate box on the law school applications/provide the appropriate addenda. Has anyone seen this situation before? Would there be anyway for me to amend this mistake while my applications are still pending?

Thank you all so much!!!!!

Hello all, I hope you are doing well. By way of introduction, my name is Sharitah. I'm looking for a study partner or partners in the Hamilton/Stoney Creek area in Ontario. If anyone is interested in joining me, please feel free to reach out; we can meet up at the local libraries. I work a 9-to-5. Weekday evenings work best, and am flexiable on weekends.

I aim to take the August LSATS and October as a backup. Thank you, and looking forward to hearing from you.

Hello, I originally posted this in the comments under the question but the more I look at it I'm second guessing if my reasoning is correct. I've pasted it here with a couple alterations because I accidentally put "understand" instead of "know" in the other post. It got me to the correct answer but could someone please confirm if my reasoning is correct and if not, where I went wrong. Thank you.

59.3.19

Premises:

A := Understanding a word

B := Knowing its dictionary definition

C := Understanding the words that occur in the definition

(A →B) → (A → C)

Premises: we have an instance of people (e.g., babies) who don’t understand the words that occur in the definition.

==> C

Necessary failed, contrapose back.

==> (A →B)

which is equivalent to

A and B

In other words, it could be the case that people (e.g., babies) understand the words they’re saying even if they don’t know the word's dictionary definition.

Which matches AC (E).

Hi,

Can anyone help explain why the answer here is E instead of C? I understand why A,B, and D are wrong, but I just don't understand why C is wrong. I felt the main idea of the passage was that we need to reform the way we rehabilitate child criminals, which seemed to me to be a form of cooperation between criminologists and law enforcement (since creating such policy would be a form of law enforcement finally acting on the criminologists' findings).

Any #help would be appreciated!

Thanks!

I don't know if this is possible, or something others have requested in the past (I didn't see any previous requests for it), but I would love to have my settings from my previous quiz saved when I move on to the next one. Or even if there was just an option to "Use Presets" from before so I could activate them in one click — that would be simply magical.

Here are the settings I'm referring to, if you're not familiar:

Ideally, I'd like to be able to automatically activate fullscreen mode (1 click), coffee shop background noise (2 more clicks), select a highlighter (1 more click), and set the font size to "small" (2 more clicks). For those of you counting along, that's 6 clicks for each quiz, before starting the quiz. That can get to be a lot if you're doing 15 quizzes in a row (lookin' at you, Weaken Questions section...).

Obviously, this isn't a "required" feature — just something that would be nice to have. I don't know if there's anywhere to "officially" request features aside from the "Contact Us" option, but I thought I'd see if anyone else thought this might be useful.

What do you think? Would this be helpful for you, or am I alone in this desire?

I was self-doubting after the test and had to distract myself. I've read somewhere that not only the "curve" is pre-calculated based on previous experimental sections, test-takers are actually compared with others in their score band, because a question that is "very difficult (5/5)" for sub-160 test-takers might be an "average(3/5)" for 170 test-takers.

I'm making an inference on this. Under extreme circumstance, if one section is SOO difficult that only genius (1%) of the population can perform well. Then would it result in a curve that looks like this?

170: -10

160: -40

Sorry this has nothing to do with actual test, just food for thought out of curiosity.

Also, flowers for all who sit for September test. 🌸🌼

And some kittens/doggies. 🐱🐕

Does anyone know when the October 2019 International Score release date is? The Exam was on October 13.

Can someone explain why they chose B over E?

Anyone interested in joining our study group. Let me know.

Can someone explain how C is incorrect? I can’t seem to wrap my head around how differently answer choice B and C affects the argument. Thank you!

Admin note: edited title; please use the format of "PT#.S#.Q# - [brief description]"

Taking the flex in 2 weeks, and LR is crushing me. I do sections and get around a -8, then in BR I check my flagged questions and usually end up at a -5 (my goal). Whenever I look over the questions I think "of course the answer isn't this" and end up picking the correct answer. I guess my issue is the time and pressure, but how do I overcome this? Any tips would be appreciated!

I took my LSAT at the University of Alaska Anchorage center in June of 2015. I went to the test center on a Sunday to try and find the classroom so that there wouldn't be any confusion. The actual place where the test was being administered was part of a shopping mall that was gated off on the weekends. Needless to say, it wasn't that difficult to find on Monday.

The testing center itself was not very conducive for such an important test (I ended up retaking and flying to another state to avoid this place). The proctors could barely read the instructions. They were not clear on their task direction and wouldn't clarify things upon test takers asking. The parking was not explained correctly and one test taker had to leave to move his car prior to starting the test, and they continued the pretest material with him being absent.

They were very rude with trying to make people enter the classroom prior to the advertised time to report. They told people that once checked into the classroom, they were not able to leave (which is true). A couple of people were waiting to make sure they didn't need to use the restroom. There was still 45 minutes until they had to be in the classroom. The "proctors" became extremely rude towards these people because they wouldn't just hurry up and get into the classroom.

Very disorganized place. I would recommend people avoid this test center location.

Hi, I'm currently a 167-169ish scorer. My goal is T14, preferably East Coast schools with dreams of Penn/Columbia. Just hypothetically speaking, if I were to get a 167-169 in Nov and a 172 in January, what would you say is the better time to apply? Im thinking I could get that three point increase by January if I tried hard enough! I graduated from an international institute with a "Superior" (GPA of 3.78/4.3)

.

Anyone live in southern Connecticut and would want to set up a study group for the December 2017 LSAT evenings and weekends??

When I am doing blind review, I perform 300% better - an ACTUAL stat I am tracking with LR.

Something about the clock is truly impacting my judgement on these questions.

When I do timed sections of RC - I can get two passages with 100% accuracy on the questions. Then I have no time to do the other passages.

This is becoming a major point of contention for me in my study journey. HELP!!!

Are you allowed to have a blue and black pen, or do the pens have to be the same color ??

Hi all,

I came across this game in a practice test (# unknown) recently. I am wondering how best to approach it. I am especially interested in understanding how to diagram this game. Thanks in advance!

Two friends, Rachel and Teresa, own a dog walking business. During a particular week, on Monday through Friday, they walk three dogs--a Newfoundland, and Otterhound, and a Poodle--in accordance with the following conditions:

-Each dog is walked exactly once by each friend and no dog is walked twice in one day.

-Rachel walks the Newfoundland at some time in the week before she walks the Poodle.

-Rachel walks the Poodle earlier in the week than Teresa does.

-Teresa walks the Otterhound earlier in the week than Rachel does.

-Rachel walks the Newfoundland on the day immediately before the day or the day immediately after the day on which Teresa walks the Newfoundland.

-Rachel walks no dogs on Wednesday.

Hi,

I am having difficulty diagramming this question:

This is what I have so far:

P1: ~Increase Ag Prod. ----> Reduce Biodiv.---> Abandon C.A.

C : Sustain EG ----> Increase Ag Prod.---> Abandon C.A.

I assumed that abandoning conventional agricultural techniques, and radically modifying agricultural techniques to be the same (Abandon C.A.)

Any help would be much appreciated!

Admin note: edited title; please use the format of "PT#.S#.Q# - [brief description]"