how to indicate this logic "A and B cannot be selected together",

is it "A->/B" correct? or sth. else?

then it will be the same as "not both" rule?

really confused...

Hi,

I'm always confused about these questions. I don't understand if the question is asking you all the potential objects that can belong in the group, or the potential objects in the group in one instance.

For example (Prep Test 43, Question 18): "Which of the following could be a complete and accurate list of each of the office buildings that the falafel tuck serves?"

A. X

B. X, Z

C. X,Y,Z

D. Y,Z

E. Z

A, B, and E can be eliminated based on the fact that the stimulus provides that F must serve Y. The answer is D because the question meant "in one scenario". However, I read it as "all the potential trucks" the Falafel truck could serve. In one possibility, F serves Y,X and in another Y,Z. So potentially, F could serve all 3 leading me to answer choice C.

I'm definitely reading this question wrong. Can someone please explain to me the wording difference between when they ask for all potentials vs. in one possibility?

Thanks a lot to whomever responds.

did you see great improvement if any between your diagnostic test and 2nd exam? and between your 2nd and 4th test?

please give me a brief insight on your journey through these prep tests and your performance. I know it's different for everyone but I'd like to get an idea of what's going on.

Hi everybody. I want to practice Reading Comprehension but I need passages to drill with and we need 6-8. Where are you all getting your problem sets from aside from 7sage? I strangely remember the answers so I can't recycle 7sage material unfortunately. Thanks!

I was not a very talented reader and have been struggling but I found correlation between my ability to understand the content of this book and my ability to read RC passage with accuracy.

It is called Cleopatra: A life by Stacy Schiff.

I did not major in History so understanding the flow of this book was a challenge but and also this book is written in a manner that required identifying tons of referential nouns and also drawing out inferences.

I recommend this book for those who did not major in English or History and are struggling with understanding complex passages. Just read during your break or before going to bed!

Is 7Sage no longer supported in Safari? I keep getting a 507/Bad Gateway message while all other websites work just fine.

I was stuck between D and E and I finally chose D because it looks like more reasonable than E.

But I still don't get why D is right and E is wrong and see what's the difference which makes them a right/wrong answer between them.

Can anyone explain me why D is the answer and E isn't?

Thanks!

One day I jotted down "How many do you NEED?" on the front of an envelope. I was asking myself how many LSAT's I really needed to understand the general structure of an LSAT. The reason I need to answer this is because I am debating two different ways of taking practice tests. The first way is the way I've heard JY advocate, which is , as I understand it, circle questions you don't feel 100% sure on and come back to them until you understand how they work (or something like that).. the blind review. I did this and realized there were many questions I THOUGHT i had gotten right and so hadn't circled but had gotten wrong. I only found out such a question was wrong once I had graded the test, and so already knew the answer and so lost the ability to find it myself...

Because of that problem, I decided to just blind review the whole thing, and the logic games section I did, well, over and over again on clean sheets. After I did that, I wanted to see how it would feel to take the LSAT again. I knew that it wouldn't give me an accurate score, but I felt like it would be a good exercise in what it would feel like to perform at a very high level, to maybe learn how quick you need to be in the actual scenario etc.

So yea, took LSAT, blind reviewed whole LSAT, then took LSAT again. That took me a solid week. So this story is a long-winded means for a question I have... Is it better for me to take the WHOLE test 3 times (The second being a blind review), or is it better to merely take the circled questions again and move on to the next test?

If it's better to take the test 3 times, then that makes me think that I might do better to closely study a small number of LSATs, instead of quickly studying a large number of LSATs.

My intuition says closer and slower is always better, but I just wanted to get some perspective....

Thanks for your ear and please respond!

I have been drilling games for months now, using the fool proof method. My score was beginning to increase (last pretest I got 14 correct in the games section) I just took pretest 61 and absolutely did horrible in the section. I froze, was unable to see inferences, and only got 9 questions right! Also, my RC score, usually 19, dropped to 14. The RC section seamed harder than usual. My LR sections greatly increased ( think this is because I took this test 6 months ago. Overall I got 155 with an aim of getting 160 this june! I need to improve my LG, I think thats the way to secure the 160. Any tips? Should I drill full sections? I think my weakness is when I do sections not individual games. Please help. I need to develop a study strategy for this last month that does not kill my mood. I usually tend to freak out and drill like crazy and end up burning out. I am so close to the 160...Is RC harder for the recent lsat's?

This has been my section distribution:

PT 55 PT 56 PT 61

RC 19 , 19, 16

LR 20,16, 22

LR 15, 15, 19

LG 9, 13, 9

152, 153, 155

Hello fellow 7sagers!

I would like to organize a group prep test. Basically, get together in a quite area and take the test as a group to simulate testing conditions.

If anybody is interested let me know ASAP so I can begin looking for a good place.

Thanks!

Hey guys/gals,

I'm a very serious undergrad preparing for the June 2014 lsat exam.

Let me know if anyone is in my local south florida area and wants to get together daily/ multiple times a week either in person or online (google hangout) to study by doing the same LSAT tests, problems, comparing our answers/logic, etc.

my info is cgrosinger@gmail.com

i am looking forward to getting started asap.

good luck studying!

Has anyone tired the RC tutoring from "Graeme Blake- "a tutor form 7sage ( you can find him under the resources tab and sub-tab tutoring ). It suggest people do at least one hour with him specifically in regards to RC. Im just wondering if anyone tried this. If so what they thought? I need get my RC score up! lol. I have gotten my LR and LG scores to consistently to reach the bare minimum of what i want them to be. But my RC section is lacking in this consistency and i n general accuracy. I'll do anything to improve my RC correctness by like 35% lol!

Thanks to future respondents

Jake.

Hey guys,

There used to be an add-on option where you could just buy the materials for each section (LG, LR, RC), but now I don't see it. Is it coming back or gone forever?

Hi fellow 7sagers,

As a review tonight I decided to write down steps I take for weakening questions. I’d appreciate any response to this question I have... PLEASE! It’s been bothering me for the past 2 hours. I realize that this might require going to the videos that I refer to below – so I thank you in advance for your time spent!

For Weaken Qs, we are taught to attack the premise-conclusion relationship; that is, the support for our conclusion. So I tried to come up with an example:

If the Premise/Conclusion is: TV sales increase, because Survey A indicates so.

A trap answer choice would be ‘Survey B indicates otherwise’ (right?) because sure, Survey B is a contradiction, but our premise about Survey A still holds true and we can’t doubt its validity since it was given to us.

This is corroborated by a video explanation I watched, PT 60 Section 1 Question 13 (in short – there’s an answer choice (B) saying Survey X says some dangerously out of scope stuff – but our premise is about Survey Y saying whatever to support the conclusion.)

BUT I was watching the “Serious Medical Condition – Weaken Question” video lesson and in that question, Answer Choice (A) serves as a perfectly acceptable weaken-er! But it is another one of those ‘in another study....this was shown...” !!

So does that type of answer choice weaken the argument? Help appreciated!! Thank you :)

http://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-62-section-2-question-17/

I feel like i am almost there with S.A. questions.

Thank you J.Y.!

But I had some major problems diagraming the conclusion of this question.

Can someone please help?

Premise: For W/O health, happiness is not obtainable. Lawgic translation: negate sufficient

OH-->HE

Conclusion: One should never sacrifice ones health in order to acquire money …. ?!?!?!

thats as far as i got with this question.

Please help!

Thank you in advance!

Is anyone else getting a "502 Bad Gateway" message when trying to access the site? I've gotten it a few times now, always been able to load it eventually but it can take awhile.

Hey everyone! I'm just wondering if there are some people from the PHX area that are taking the June LSAT that are willing to meet up for maybe 2-4 hrs weekly. It doesn't even have to be that long, but just a couple of people getting together to discuss tactics (lol, i feel weird saying this about a test) and their best practices. Let me know please. Thanks!

Hey guys, Alan and I are both in Vancouver so we're hosting a Meet & Greet here!

April 29th, Tuesday, 6:30pm - 9:30pm

Everyone's welcome!

RSVP here

P.S. The one in NYC was a lot of fun. Thanks again to the New Yorkers for coming out!

I'm averaging -15 on LR, -6 on RC and -4 of LG. Clearly LR is my biggest issue right now. Should I be drilling only LR sections so my LR score "catches up" to my other sections or should I just keep doing full tests?

I'm about 6 raw points away from my target score for June.

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Can someone give me some feed back on this? The reasoning denies a conclusion in order to show a premise is false. Is that an acceptable method of argumentation? I know that conditionally, if A->B, then negation B = negation A, but does that hold true in this argument? Namely, the argument intends to show that the premise in sentence 1 is false by showing that the conclusion it supports in sentence 2 is false. Is that a valid form of argumentation? Would really appreciate some help on this point; i will clarify if my description is not descriptive enough.

Life is stressful right now. I now I'm not ready for this life changing exam. I will continue this course and hope to get some tips and hints from you guys to help me for September

My lsat analytics graph won't show the blue color of the bars, so no mater how many pretest I do, the chart remains white and empty. I was wondering how to have to have it colored in.

Any help form anyone?

Thanks.

The deadline for the June 2014 LSAT is May 6th for the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean! Register soon if you're still intending on taking it for June! Just a happy reminder for my fellow 7sagers!

http://www.lsac.org/jd/lsat/test-dates-deadlines/2014-2015/us-canada-june

Hello fellow LSAT warriors!

I began to notice that I got really good at LR but my confidence was not reflecting during timed conditions. Today I took two LR sections from PT 47 using two different strategies. The first, I took my time with each question until I was very sure, rarely skipping! I only got 14 our of 26 correct!!!! I attempted 19 Questions.

In the second LR I tried to be very fast. I read the stimulus, and once I saw what I thought was the right answer I quickly moved on(this was very hard for me because there is always that voice in the back saying what if you mis read, this feels to easy). Second, If a question seemed to convoluted or complex, I skipped, even if it was a question in the first 10 Q. In this section I got 19 out of 26!!! I attempted 20 questions. I got lucky once!

In summary I think moving fast, in the sense that you quickly pick you answer, and if you hesitate ask your self if this is a question that you can understand in the next minute, if not pick you best answer and move, if yes, re read the stimulus briefly and make the best choice!

What do you all think? I think my mistake was doubting my self and that was causing valuable time spent in a questing that I was still going to get wrong!