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All 40 of John's friends know someone who has smoked 40 cigs for 40 years who is also very fit and well and John does NOT know anyone like this, yet he knows he is NOT unique. The correct answer is E, some of John's friends are not telling the truth. However, if John is NOT unique, wouldn't that mean that the majority of his friends also do not know someone who has smoked 40 cigs for 40 years who is also very fit and well. Since he is NOT unique, wouldn't that entail that he is not a rarity among the group that does not know someone like this? And the majority do not as well, since he is not a unique case. What am I missing here? Am I overthinking or putting too much importance on the word choice of "unique"?

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Hello everyone,

I have been studying for the LSAT for about 4 weeks now. I study 6 days a week, about 6-8 hours a day, and I feel like I'm not making any progress. I take untimed drills because I just do not feel ready enough to answer 5 questions under 5 minutes, but I continuously get a 3/5 or 4/5 on a good day which usually takes me about 10-12 minutes to complete today, I received my first 0/5 on a drill, and I'm just feeling super discouraged that after 4 weeks of studying I feel like I see no difference in my performance and I'm almost starting to feel a little dumb, and I'm starting to question my career choices please share your experience with me and how you overcame this feeling. Also, is performing under timed conditions something that will eventually come to me over time, or should I worry about the fact that after 4 weeks, I still struggle with time so much?

Thank you in advance!

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I'm really struggling, and I have been all summer, with following a daily study routine. As many of you can relate to, I have classes Mon-Fri, and I also work part-time. When I have an overwhelming week, the first task I scale back is LSAT Prep, but I know this is hurting my performance because it results in an inconsistent cycle of insufficient study time.

What does your daily study schedule look like, and how did you manage to make it a habit? Any feedback is appreciated.

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Posting this again in the discussions to gain more traction because I'm really not understanding this one.

This question still doesn't sit right with me, and I find the explanations to be less than sufficient even after perusing the comments. The stimulus provides us with this condition: to produce the rankings of how easy it is to do business within a country, the World Bank assesses how difficult it is for a hypothetical business to comply with regulations and pay taxes. However, we don't know what factors are in play when assessing the difficulty of compliance. The premise that follows provides a semblance of an answer to that by saying that the government has dramatically simplified tax filing for small and even midsized businesses, leading us to the assumption that simplifying tax filing lessens the difficulty of regulation compliance, therefore leading to another assumption that businesses will comply with regulations more if the simplification of tax filing reduces the difficulty of complying with regulations. I believe that's reasonable. The conclusion then says that the country's ranking will improve, further supporting that second assumption. With this line of thought, here is how I approached the questions.

A) Completely useless. Who cares about the rate at which new businesses are formed?

B) This directly plays off the assumption I made while reading the stimulus. If the simplification of tax filing decreased the difficulty of regulation compliance, then more businesses would comply with regulations. If the answer to the question B poses is no, then the minister's conclusion doesn't stand because the simplification didn't make it easier to comply with regulations. If the answer is yes, then the conclusion works.

C) We see this type of answer choice all the time. Who cares about other regulations? We're looking specifically at one type of effort that can be made to decrease the difficulty of regulation compliance. Even if tax filing was the most trivial of tasks, it would still lessen the difficulty of complying with regulations. Useless answer.

D) I don't understand why we need to care about the size of the business mentioned in the stimulus. Are small and midsized businesses not businesses? The conditions for assessment deal with hypothetical businesses. Small and midsized businesses are businesses so they should be included when considering businesses in general. I feel like you can use much of the same reasoning for answer choice C to get rid of D. Even if the midsized business was smaller than the hypothetical business, given that it still is a business, why can it not be used as a comparative point? Why does size matter at all in this scenario?

E) Useless.

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I just took a pretest and had gotten 25 wrong. How should I review or go over the ones I got wrong. What excersise should I undergo to make sure I have gotten a proper understanding as to why I got these questions wrong and how can I improve. Also should mention the ones I got wrong were specifically in LR & RC I'm -0 in LG.

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I am looking for any recommendations and alterations of my strategy I came up with.

I am going to drill 15 questions of easiest-medium difficulty and try to complete before the target time. I want to give myself more time for the hard questions, so I want to be able to get easy questions done as quickly as possible.

I was also thinking of putting the question stems that I have the most difficulty in for the drills. I believe this will allow me to practice for said questions while increasing my speed.

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Hi there,

I was working until November 2019 in a law firm and got one of my bosses to write me a letter of recommendation back then. She sent the letter directly to LSAC and it is uploaded on to my account.

I had planned to study for the LSAT sooner, but I was in an accident and spent most of 2020 and 2021 in physical therapy. I started studying this year as I do some part time consultancy work alongside. I got one of my professors to write me a LOR last month.

I wanted to know if the LOR from 2019 would need to be updated again when I apply (Which I think most likely would be this cycle or the next depending on when I can manage a good LSAT score). Both the LORs are already uploaded on to my CAS account.

I was in physical therapy and did not work for 2020-2021. I would think that it'd make sense for the first LOR to be dated 2019, right when I quit my job; as also because the bosses would have a better picture of what I was working on back then and the feedback given by clients would be relevant as of that date?

The letter is already uploaded on to CAS, so it would also be a pain to ask my boss to update and resend the letter to LSAC - Although I am on good terms with her but wouldn't want to ask for a favour unless absolutely necessary.

Most grateful if someone could confirm this for me. Thank you!

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My PT has gone from 156 to 161 to 168 and finally today I hit 171, I'm putting all my time and effort into studying for the October LSAT and hard work is paying off. Absolutely thrilled and this only serves as extra motivation to keep working hard.

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When taking a PT, should we take the exam as 4 sections or "simulate modern" and only test ourselves using 3 sections so we can get an accurate score? I know that the actual exam will consist of 4 sections - 3 real sections and 1 experimental. What would be the best way to prepare?

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Hi all! Hope I can get some guidance. As of today I have only requested 2 LOR, one from my current boss and the second from my past professor and tutor. I think these two would hit my work ethic and my academic record. My question is, should I request a third one from another person? Maybe someone I see as a mentor? To have a LOR that represents my personality? Any advise would help, thank you!

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I know the option for "incorrect when last taken" is available in the auto drilling mode, but please add it in the custom drilling mode as well. It would be great to choose a specific set of question types, from a specific range of tests, then drill ones I got wrong. Currently, there is no way to accomplish this task efficiently with either the main drilling choices or custom choices.

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Hi there,

I recently took the LSAT for the first time back in August this year and am now preparing for the November LSAT, I originally took the Princeton Review course but now switched to 7Sage to primarily for the video explanations feature and blind review help. I was wondering if anyone thinks I can realistically see an increase of 5-10 points on the next test? I plan to spend 21 hours/week (3 hours/day), the only thing I'm worried about is that I am in my final year of university with a full course load and am also applying to law school at the same time. Does anyone have any tips or tricks they think could help me? Anything is helpful!

Thanks.

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"not a problem in well-ventilated house but it is in well-insulated house" implies that a well-insulated house is not a well-ventilated house, hence D, correct? I picked E because I mistakenly read the well-ventilated as well-insulated in that a well-insulated house with a houseplant would have fewer toxins in the air than a well-insulated house without houseplants.

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Also, is the actual LSAT done like the program we use on 7sage when drilling/prep testing? Where we can highlight, underline, "X" out wrong answers, etc?

I'm looking for a strategy of writing/making notes because I cannot remember the whole passage on one go...

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I have graduted from university with my bachelors and now I am currenlty studying for the LSAT. Last week I sought out an evaultion for ADHD, was subsequenlty diagnosed, and then provided with a prescription for adderall. Will this negativley affect my Character and Fitness questionare for the mental health category??? (depending on the state I end up in)

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So when I was taking the test it asked me to take a picture of myself then take a picture of my ID. Then it prompted me to complete a checklist of a room scan. I wasn't sure what to do because my camera showed it was recording with the red light on top of my surface pro but I could not see anything but the checklist while I was showing the room. (Such as imagine taking a video on your phone but only seeing your home screen) So I had no perspective of what I was showing. Did I miss a step? Was I supposed to scan the room when I took a picture of my ID? I am genuinely confused

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