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Hi everyone!

I'm getting excited (gotta stay positive!) for next Saturday and I'm mapping out my plans for this coming week. I'm going to take a PT in the 80s tomorrow, BR it on Sunday, and then spend maybe an hour or so each day until Friday (which I'll take off) drilling weaknesses. What's your week looking like?

Hello,

Like others I am trying to decide whether to take September (see score and make a decision on retaking or not) or just go for November completely.

Background:

Goal: min 170

Highest PT: 165

AVG on last 5 PTs: 158

Studied for about a year and half now (on and off)

Lately, I've started a new job and have pushed myself so hard these last six months that by August I was burnt out. I practiced just not productively reviewing or reviewing the next day after.

Any idea if I should take it solely November or take it September (then decide)?

hi Sagers!!

for those of you taking the lsat next saturday i am right there with you!! let's make the most of this weekend amirite?! war paint ON

I have been reading about doing a mental warm up on test day. I like this idea because I definitely think I need to get the part of my brain i have reserved for lsat stuff pumped up, focused, & ready 2 GO. I have read a few past blog posts on what people do & have found these helpful. One user suggested reading 1-2 articles, an easy LG section and a few questions from a LR.

I have never done this for my PTs and I think it will help me feel more relaxed! I wanted to do it tomorrow before a PT. All comments, suggestions, personal routines that have worked in the past welcome :)

Hi all!

The LG game section has always been my best one during PTs and I always get max 1-2 wrong. However, during my actual recent LSAT for some reason I totally messed the section (as in I got more than half wrong!!). I think it was a combination of nerves and because the games are becoming slightly more weird/less traditional in the recent LSATS.

Did anyone else experience this struggle in their LSAT experience? At this point I feel like I almost maybe overstudied the games and whenever a rule feels new or different now I freeze and mess the whole game up. I also feel like being nervous affects my games section the most because its easy to mis diagram or something?

Please let me know if you went through something similar and/or have tips to master the LG games :)

Thanks so much!!

I’m trying to drill inference questions in RC. Is it possible to pull up a list of inference RC questions/passages that have inference questions?

All of the tags I see in the question bank relate to the subject of the passage, whereas I can tell from analytics that each question is broken down by type somewhere on 7Sage. Thanks!

Anyone have any advice on how to close the gap between those two scores by November? Logic Games is the quickest to improve on. I have only done about 10% of the curriculum. Would it be better to jump right into practice tests or to finish the curriculum?

Can anyone please explain to me why the lower bound for ‘some’ is 1 and not 2? Is there no distinction in logic between a singular instance of something occurring within a set vs it occurring at least twice? Isn't it fallacious to conclude that 'some' things in a set possess a certain attribute from the observation of a singular occurrence of that attribute within the set?

For example, the sentence ‘some unicorns are fluffy’ would seem to imply that there are at least two unicorns that are fluffy. Same with the ‘some’ mice living in my home’ example from the lessons on existential quantifiers. J.Y. concludes that if we know that there are 'some' mice in the house, or 'some' unicorns that are fluffy, then we know that there is at least 1 mouse in that house and at least 1 fluffy unicorn. However, the plural forms of the nouns - ‘unicorns’ and ‘mice’ - are used in both of these examples, which would imply more than 1 of each entity. In fact in most cases that I can think of, the word 'some' implies a plurality of the noun that follows it.

If there were 100 unicorns in the world and 99 of them weren’t fluffy while only 1 of them was, could we really accurately conclude that ‘some’ unicorns (again, plural) are fluffy from this singular instance of fluffiness? What if that unicorn was an anomaly and turns out to be the only fluffy unicorn in the history of unicorns?

#help

I was wondering what have people done to improve their scores on the reading comprehension section. Ive heard the more sections you go through the more patterns one will learn. Has anything noticed some patterns in this section that seem to be reoccurring? I am still avg. -10 on this section and can't seem to improve my score. I am just not a fast enough reader and once i get to the last passage i feel like i am rushing to complete the questions. Please Help! :(

Hey everyone!

Does anyone have an example of the false dichotomy flaw? Trying to see a good example of this.

Thanks!

Hey everyone just a quick question,

How long does it usually take one to close the gap between their timed PT's and BR? I have been scoring mid 150's the past couple of tests with BR always being between 163-165. Should I target a specific section or just continue grinding along?

Timed Section Breakdown:

LR: -8 per section

RC -7 to -10

LG -7-10

BR Breakdown:

LR -5 to -7 per section

RC -6 to -7

LG -1 to perfect

Hi all,

Just wondering as I have seen other threads address this; how accurate are the 7sage preptest scores? I have been scoring consistently in the high 160s and when I did PT 82 I bombed it. Very shocking and scary as I am taking the September 2018 LSAT in less than 2 weeks and am scoring where I was scoring before I started studying.

That being said, I have seen other threads talking about the difficulty of PT 82, mainly the judicial candor RC passage so maybe this was a particularly tough PT???

Should I take the 7sage score as the 'real' score so to say or is it slightly lower than the official scoring chart that the official LSAC preptests give.

Thanks!

I only have a minor allergy to ragweed, but it's been hitting me pretty hard. I had to pause several times a section during my last PT just to blow my nose.

I sorely hope that my symptoms have quelled slightly by next Saturday as I don't want to be the guy sniffling throughout the entire test, nor do I want to waste my own time by constantly blowing my nose.

Has anyone dealt with this before? Should I take a pill the night before as I'm heading to bed and once again upon waking?

Good luck to everyone in the home stretch.

I take the Lsat in about a week. I haven’t scored over a 148 yet! I’ve been doing blind review, I’ve been through the videos which are great and really help. I’ve been studying since March. I’ve used a varsity tutors tutor who actually introduced me to 7Sage. I am very worried however. I just need to score a 150 to get into the school closest to home (University of Montana.) I know I am a very qualified candidate with a great resume and background, I know that I will will my way to graduation if I get my foot in the door, and i know that Law School is going to be tough, but I just cannot seem to put it all together when I take the this test. I really don’t know what to do. Am I crazy for doing this? I don’t want to ever doubt myself. I’ve taken almost 20 practice tests now, when does it click? I started this journey thinking that if I put the work in then I would be super successful. I have never worked so hard and diligently in my life but when I take this test all my practice and studying seems to get lost I feel tired like I have no control over my thoughts. Again I am worried and I guess I’m just venting, but this is a big deal to me. I had a really high paying job working as a finance manager at a big auto company and hated the fact that I wasn’t really helping people. I want this so bad I am willing to do what it takes but this is just so frustrating to work so hard and not see the results I want. Granted I am so much better than when I started but it’s crunch time and I need to get it together. I’m goimg to buck up and continue to study and practice up to the test and do my best. Whatever happens happens but I will not give up.

Hey everyone! What should be done on the day before the LSAT? I've heard that it's a big no-no to study, but wanted to hear your thoughts.

Additionally, what should you do the morning of?

Thanks in advance!

Hi,

How many PTs per day would you recommend following Pacifico's LG strategy?

Would it still be advisable to do 1-35 instead of maybe newer ones? Asking because P's post is at least 2 years old

This short interview reminded me of something many people discuss in the LSAT community: the difference between our practice and test day. Mr. Danaher is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu coach at Renzo Gracie's gym in Manhattan. In the past few years he has produced a crop of students that have transformed several aspects of the jiu jitsu game. One of his students won ADCC Gold in 2017 (the most prestigious no-gi tournament in the world) and something only ~8 American males have ever been able to do.

In the video, Mr. Danaher says we should look at test day (he talks about grappling competition day) much the same as we look at practice. That, if all along we have been practicing the way we should be, test day is essentially another practice. I've heard this before in the LSAT community: that had we been practicing properly, test day is basically another PT! To all those taking the September exam fresh or as retake, just remember: look at it like just another practice.

I realized that I tend to focus more and have greater confidence when I have a really sharp pencil. I also always start PTs or timed sections on even numbered minutes. What are some of the little idiosyncrasies or superstitions that you guys have when doing PTs?

Just took PT 84 and scored a 169. I know this is a really good score, but I was scoring higher previously (although some of them were retakes). I'm starting to get pretty scared that all my other scores were just high because some of them were retakes (although I hadn't seen them in a year and remembered none of the answers)

What should I do in the next few days not to lose confidence? I noticed that in the PT 80s, I'm definitely getting tripped up by some trickier LR questions.... :(

Is there any downside to primarily taking practice tests prior to 2007? Would practice tests from 1999 or 2002, for example, adequately reflect what I'll see on the November 2018 LSAT?

Hello! I was wondering if anyone had a step by step method for approaching MSS questions. For example, MP questions seem to have a structure to which you can follow to identify the conclusion and thus, get the correct answer...Any suggestions?

What is the correct way of translating 'not all' statements into lawgic?

It seems like there are 2 correct answers and I am not sure which one is the correct one to use in LSAT LR section.

For example, from PT 82, "Not all tarantula species have poison fangs."

Should I translate this as /T -> PF (because there are 2 conditional indicators all and not) or as T (-)some PF?

Thank you so much!

Any 7sagers out there with the elusive perfect score?

Hola 7Sagers,

I'm super struggling with this question simply because I feel like the answer makes a big jump. It almost seem like its a sufficient assumption question. I just don't see where the stimulus indicates where the public support in question indicates there was not any indication of public benefit.

Can anyone help?

Thank you!

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I've been having serious problem concentrating lately. I thought it might have to do with the fact that I'm not doing the questions timed, and found playing this video while working on questions kind of helpful.

It's a 1:30 interval timer, but the first beep is at 1:24, which is convenient.