Hi, so I recently took a PT on LSAC Lawhub to get used to the format. I want to transfer my answers over to 7Sage so that I can get the analytics, see explanations, etc. in the usual post-PT format. I'm sure there's a way to do this, but I can't find out how. Does anyone know how this is possible?

Hey y'all just in a bit of a rut and need some clarification from my 7Sage peeps. When the term "unless" is used in a logic game rule with other groups things get kinda dicey for me quick.

For instance in an In/Out game if there is a rule which combines the negation of a player via the group 4 "not" or "cannot" group in the conditional I can't for the life of me get it down who gets negated and ends up in the sufficient. Example:

"cannot select J unless W is also selected" . Question: Do I negate J to /J via cannot, then negate my negation of /J again via "unless" to end up with: If J --> W ? Is this correct?

I thought I had this mastered until I took PT 87 Game # 3 (Double layer Sequencing)

"Hanbock cannot be shown earlier than the third week unless Ibex is shown in the first week"

Who gets negated, how, and ends up in the sufficient? Sorry if this is painful for those who have mastered LG conditional logic. Thank you for your help!

-Drew

So I just took PT 88 (flex style)...and it was rough. Like we're talking I knew it was so bad, I didn't even bother with BR and will just redo each section individually tomorrow. I'm not discouraged, just a little concerned about how I managed to fall apart that aggressively. If anyone is willing to sift through my reflection and offer advice, I'd appreciate your words of wisdom. Harsh, gentle, and every tone of advice in between is welcome.

3 things I probably did wrong RE: the timing of this PT (which I took at the time I'm scheduled to take the test for real btw):

Actually taking the test:

TLDR; I messed up the logic games so badly that I knew there was no salvaging my score after that. And it showed in the RC section...LR I somehow managed to recover enough to only get -5 :)

All week, I've been doing individual logic games of all types and difficulties, most of them for the first time. I was finishing them quickly and fairly accurately (-0 or -1). I thought I had finally developed a strategy for paying extra careful attention and not making sloppy rule misunderstandings. Yet today, I did worse than my diagnostic. I somehow managed to misread a rule in every single game and couldn't recover.

This definitely started to leak over into the LR section, which is unfortunate because I was able to hit a personal best in my drills this week. But I still was able to implement my skipping strategy and I even stopped and closed my eyes for like a whole minute. My attitude was not great, but obviously I kept it together enough to get -5, which is about as bad as I'm hoping to do worst case scenario on the real test.

I thought I had made a recovery, but the lingering effects resurfaced in the 2nd RC passage. The passages were all actually quite easy to understand, but I think I just mentally checked out because I knew this test was a wash.

The big question

I guess if there was one piece of advice I absolutely need, it's how to stay mentally engaged after royally screwing up. I consider myself a good test taker and I've never gotten that deflated mid test, even on tests where I knew I wasn't up to par on the material. I always found a way to salvage some scraps, but just didn't have it in me today for whatever reason.

Like I said before, I'm not discouraged because I made some sick gains in my drills this week and was really feeling myself all week. It just didn't click during this PT. But with only 12 days to go...yikes

Also, if you read through all of this, you're a hero and deserve all the success in the universe.

It's been a long while that the word "last" has no meaning to me anymore, every time I see the word "last", I actually see lsat.

OMG.

So I am currently in the process of fine tuning some of my strategies and doing some last minute drilling before the June exam and was wondering if there is a reliable way to determine passage difficulty for RC. I feel like if there is a method to assess the passage difficulty, I could improve my RC score a little bit just by being able to focus on the easier passages first. If anyone has any tips/recommendations I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!

I can't understand why the first (and not the last) sentence would be the MC. I note that several others posted comments with the same confusion with that question, it really was a hard question for a Q3!

If you were one of the geniuses who breezed through this one, I'd appreciate some insights!

Admin Note: https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-58-section-4-question-03/

Hi All! Apologies if this has been asked before, but can someone clarify how many dates we have as options for the LSAT Flex for each month? For August, I understand it starts the week of the 14th and you sign up when it opens a week and a half prior to that, but how many days do we have to choose from? Thank you!

Hi all,

Back for the April 2021 flex thread there was a really helpful comment a user wrote about which LG's he did prior to the test that made him feel really prepared. If you're one of those that feels LG is your greatest strength, I think this may be one last beneficial step just to lock it in. I plan to do it at least and hope it helps. I wanted to list the user's name for reference but it got cut out of the picture I took so feel free to look back through the thread and you should find it easily. A lot of people were saying how some of the April games threw them off but this person said he felt extremely prepared doing these hard/unusual games prior to testing.

Here's the list:

PT2 games 3 and 4

PT7 game 3

PT15 game 2

PT21 game 4

PTF97 game 4

PT25 games 2 and 3

PT 79 game 4

PT 88 games 3 and 4

All credit to him!! Just wanted to re-share for the upcoming test in case it could help. Happy studying everyone!

A couple months ago, I was getting somewhere between minus 3-7 per RC section and now I've seemingly lost my groove as I've been getting minus 10+ on more than a few occasions. Has anyone else experienced this? Tips/advice?

I am looking for a study group for October November testers who are willing to study minimum twice a week and that are committed to this fully.If anyone is interested, please let me know.

Hi everyone,

I have been studying since November and am signed up to take the August LSAT. For a long time I was super consistent but now I can feel my study motivation dropping. I am interested in finding someone (or a group of people) to study with to hopefully reignite my motivation. I am currently scoring between 169 and 171 on my PT's. I live in Hawaii so schedule wise people on the west coast would probably work best. Please let me know if anyone is interested!

Hey everyone

I have been having trouble with MBT questions in specific.

Can you offer your tips and hints to how you handle them? Do you find writing out logic to help or waste more time?

My last couple of practice tests have been REALLY rough for RC. I can read and understand the passage pretty well in around 4 minutes, but spend way too much time on inference questions (both author agreement/disagreement and general inferences about the passage questions). My RC scores have been tanking my overall score, I'm consistently -0 to -2 LR, -0 on LG when I finish the section but sometimes don't get to the last 2-3 questions. I was at a solid -3 to -5 with RC for the majority of my studying up until now, usually just from not finishing the last few questions, but recently my uncertainty with these inference questions is killing my score. I can usually only get it down to 2 or 3 answer choices, I overthink them for 2ish minutes, and then invariably choose the wrong answer. Looking for tips on how to answer these question types more confidently, especially when 2 or 3 answer choices can reasonably be supported by information in the passage. How should I be quickly assessing which statement for which there is more evidence that the author would agree with it?

If anyone has recently taken PT87 and remembers passages 1 and 2 from the RC section, would be interested to hear your thoughts/approach on the inference questions - especially question 6 from passage 1 of PT87! Or in general, if anyone has receded severely in RC - how did you get your score back up? Any and all help much appreciated

Hi everyone! This might be a silly question, but I could not find it in the FAQs section of the LSAT. Am I allowed to fold my scratch paper in half for the exam? I don't have a lot of desk space, so I'm trying to save some room.

I'm keeping this short and sweet because I just want to give a testament to 7sage and get that sweet sweet dopamine release from voicing my accomplishment!!

I started out with a diagnostic of 152. 1 month ago I started taking blind tests and after taking 3 - 4 I was averaging around 158. For the last 3 weeks I have been taking roughly 3 practice tests a day, 4 days a week. Last week I was averaging 168 but hadn't broken the 170 barrier. I just finally hit 172 actual, and then 175BR (I don't ever blind review tbh, I just went to finish the last 2 questions on LG that I didn't finish)

I'm not sure if this means i'm in a position to give anyone advice honestly, but if anyone has any questions for me, feel free to ask - I can give you my anecdotal advice!

I just logged into my syllabus and saw a message saying my LSAC Prep Plus subscription is expiring. Do I need to renew it to keep using my Ultimate 7Sage course? Please advise. Thanks

Just logged in via proctor u and you can start scheduling!

The early bird gets the worm :)

Hi guys!

So on every PT my analytics show the red bubble glaring at me containing Flaw. I've been practicing for the last month strictly doing problem sets on flaw questions, and I have the PowerScore bible that I re-read from but I still get them wrong!!!! I'm frustrated because I get a decent chunk of them right, but then I will be easily fooled on other questions. It's my highest bubble and the one that will not budge. I know if I get them under control I can comfortably get my goal score. Taking in June and have a lot of hope I can still improve. PLEASE any advice to quickly master? I think my knowledge is there, and I'm aware of the patterns but still mess up. Ugh, the test stress is hitting me, but I need to just keep my eye on the prize- LSAT is such a mental test. Anyways, if anyone has major tips/suggestions specifically about flaw questions please bequeath me with your wisdom. Thanks in advance.

I'm preparing to take the August exam and I want to stimulate the experimental section- what's the best way to do that? If I don't click 'stimulate flex' will that count my score with two LR sections?

I'm considering quitting my job to focus solely on studying for the August exam and then start applying to new jobs right after. I'm studying 1.5 - 2 hours during the work day but I feel like I still have so much potential left and not much time (been studying since March 2020). The new project I've been assigned is mentally draining and I'm very lucky to have been able to save money over the past few years to be able to afford not working for a few months but I'm worried the stress might make it a counterproductive decision. Has anyone decided to temporarily quit and focus on the exam? If so, did you regret it or was it worth it?

I recently posted on here about help and I was told to check my trends. 7sage is very helpful in showing trends based on PT's and what we need to work on...

For LR I need to focus on Flaw, Strengthen, and RRE. Desperately!! I have no idea how to attack these questions, I have not improved. I know if I get a handful more questions right on LR I will be at my goal score.

For RC I need to focus on inference and analogy.

Please any tips or strategies for any of these would be so appreciated :)

My Mac Mini M1 with 8gb of RAM failed the ProctorU equipment test 2/3 times because my RAM usage exceeded 95% capacity even though I had no other applications open. This seems like an issue with ProctorU's software, as the M1 chip should be powerful enough to handle the test. Does anyone know how to fix this? I recommend you test your equipment if you also plan to use a M1 Mac!

Why is B not the correct answer? How can D be justified?

Not sure how to tag admin and sorry if this is a bit nit-picky but I just noticed that the comparative art passage on PT88 is only labeled as an art passage, not comparative, so it doesn't come up if you sort RC passages for comparatives when making problem sets.

For people with time and a half, does "duration of test" say 163 minutes? / people without accommodations, what time duration do you see for yours? Just trying to confirm that ProctorU has my accommodations. For some reason it says I don't have any accommodations under my test rules, but the 163 minutes is time and a half +5.5 minutes..? Just confirming the 163 minutes isn't including check-in and everything?