Hi everyone!

I took the September 2017 LSAT prepping with the Powerscore texts... I wish I had come across this site prior to purchasing those texts based on all the great reviews and after making use of the free content; the methods used and the explanations of the logic games seem like they may have more of an impact than just self-study with the Powerscore texts. I only prepped for 3 months with those texts and got a 144. I realize that 3 months of study was nowhere near enough time for me, so i'm just trying to come up with a new game plan.

My question is, if I were to purchase the starter course, what are your thoughts on if it would be enough content to solidify the strategies on tackling the sections? I have a lot of PrepTests already, as I purchased those separately on the recommendation of the powerscore self-study site. Money is kind of tight, as I am studying in Brazil and earning BRL which is worth less than half the USD, hence why I am looking at the starter course.

Also for anyone who has used powerscore or other study materials before coming across 7sage, what are your thoughts on content overlap?

Thanks guys, good luck in your studies. :)

Hi,

I was wondering if you could buy more explanations to test. I have the practice tests already but wanted to buy the explanations if that is possible.

Thanks!

Can anyone lead me in the right direction for help with diagramming quantifiers? I’m using a company called LSATMAX and for some reason it’s just not clicking for me. I feel as if for both sufficient & necessary conditions and quantifiers that i will have to go back and find better understanding for both. I use it correctly for most must be true questions but not for questions dealing with “most closely parallels”, “flaw questions”, “must not be true questions “ i actually haven’t even gotten to those sections yet to drill any question types from “parallel reasoning” or “flawed”. I also have powerscore and LSAT trainer for after i finish the core curriculum as well, but for now i need help with quantifiers.

Hello all! How difficult do you all think it would be to increase an LSAT score from 162 (official score) to 166 or higher by the November test date? I know it’s only 4 points, but I really need it and am considering quitting my job to study full-time so that I can get it.

Hi everyone. Just sharing my positive experience so far in case any of you find it helpful.

I received an unsolicited fee waiver from UCLA on 8/20, but with the new cycle approaching and considering that I am planning to apply to a whopping 21 schools, I decided to send out requests to each of the schools this morning.

Michigan and WUSTL promptly granted me fee waivers.

I'm interpreting Yale's response as "Yes you can have one but we have to wait until our applications open in October."

The remainder of the schools have either not responded yet, responded that they don't grant merit based, that they don't grant solicited waivers, or directed me to a formal application process. Almost all schools that did not grant me a fee waiver suggested I apply for need-based.

I have come back to this question a few times and I still do not fully understand 1. Why D is wrong and 2. Exactly what C is saying.

This is my understanding of the stimulus and answer choice D: The more sunlight that is reflected back into space, the cooler the atmosphere. Snow and Ice reflect more sunlight back to space so the argument concludes that earth's surface covered with snow/ice would be cooler. So if D is correct and the atmosphere derives most of its heat from passage through the sunlight through it AND if snow/ice reflects more of that sunlight back to space than land without snow/ice, wouldn't this strengthen the conclusion?

I am not really sure what I am missing here. None of the online explanations seems to click with me so any help/feedback on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

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https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-79-section-1-question-10/

I just noticed that the problem sets in the CC have images instead of videos for the individual questions. I really liked the video format to help with my timing for completing the questions. Plus, the new images are much larger and don't fit within the computer screen. Is this a permanent change?

Small question, I mostly just dont want to get an infraction. When the Proctor says "turn the page, read the instructions, and start working now" can you turn the page as soon as he starts saying turn the page, or perhaps after he completes that instruction, or do you need to wait until he says now? it's probably only 5 or 10 seconds per section, but hey, 30 seconds overall could amount to an entire mark! When do I turn the page?

I know that the scholarships, the dream school, and the dream career should be motivation enough itself, and that routine studying should be just that, a routine, a habit. Still, I have off days. Sometimes it feels like the progress I'm making is too incremental, and others I am simply inexplicably unmotivated. Am I alone? What advice do you have?

To ground myself again, sometimes I take an hour or so to work on my essays to remind myself of the why of it all.

I was thinking about taking a postgraduate course before applying for law schools to see compensate for a low gpa, this way i can show that I can do the work and my low gpa was an isolated situation in undergrad. What do you guys think?

What are the chances I can improve from a 155 average to 160ish by November? Working a full time job.

I took a diagnostic in June at 150.

Games are my biggest down fall (50% average)... possible?

As stated in the title, why would we write rules for logic games on the first page of a game, answer one question, and then waste a minute or so re-writing them on the next page? It seems to me that it would be a faster approach to write all the rules on the second page from the get-go, answer page 1's question, then dive straight into page 2's questions.

I suppose that the time taken to write the rules might take long enough to negate any time benefit, as you have to flip back and forth. Either way, you have to flip back and forth at some point, so the only time saved would be on the initial time spent writing the rules, not time spent flipping back and forth between pages.

EDIT: After testing this out a few times, I noticed I was more prone to error in writing rules down. So that is definitely one concern with this approach of writing rules straight onto the second page.

Did anyone notice how many naysayers there are as you get closer to applying ... fascinating.

How would one write "A then B or C but not both"?

I usually use "A -> B/C not both" when solving games, but I was wondering if there is any other way to rewrite this statement.

According to our conditional translations, I think the statement could also be written as A -> (B(-)/C), but it looks very weird...

Can anyone help? Thanks :)

My diagnostic was a 143 and I wrote the June 2017 LSAT and I got a 150. I then wrote the February 2018 LSAT and I got a 157. I plan to rewrite in November to bring up my score. Do you think it would be possible to score a 160+? I'm just starting to study for the November 2018 LSAT intensely this week. Ideally I'd like to score a 165, I'm just wondering if that is even possible?

Hi everyone,

I’m so excited to welcome our newest editor, Boris Fishman. We think that the value proposition of any admissions consulting package lies largely in editorial feedback—after all, you apply to law school by sending things you wrote—and Boris is an absolute prodigy of narrative and language. He’s written two widely acclaimed novels with a memoir on the way, published essays in just about every journal of note I can name off the top of my head, and (for heaven’s sake) edited the U.S. Senate Report on Hurricane Katrina. His job application taught me how to do my job better.

I’ve pasted his full bio below.

Boris Fishman holds a BA in Slavic Literatures and Languages from Princeton University (summa cum laude) and an MFA in fiction from New York University. He is the author of the novels A Replacement Life, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and the American Library Association’s Sophie Brody Medal, and Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo, which was also a New York TimesNotable Book of the Year. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the *New York Times Book Review, Travel & Leisure, *the London Review of Books, New York Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, and other publications. In an earlier life, he was on the editorial staff of The New Yorker; co-edited the U. S. Senate Report on Hurricane Katrina -- where he engaged with prose by lawyers for the first time -- and was the recipient of residencies and fellowships from the New York Foundation of the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, among others. HarperCollins will publish his next book, Savage Feast, a family memoir told through recipes, in 2019. He teaches in Princeton University’s Creative Writing Program and lives in New York City. Please see www.borisfishman.com for more information.

Hi all,

I am very worried about my GPA not cutting through for Law school admission. I have been studying really hard for the LSAT and plan on writing this November 2018. My fear of rejected from law schools just kicked in as the date approach near. I am beginning to think that my GPA isn't strong enough and regardless of all other factors that may count to being accepted I might not make it.

Also, I am at a disadvantage because I am a visible minority without permanent residence or citizenship, just an immigrant working towards getting her PR next year. I currently work full time hours as a legal assistant.

Any advice or uplifting words? they will be appreciated :)

Apologizing for the essay in advance but ...HI guys, I think I've posted regarding this topic before, but as the test date draws closer this issue is becoming more pressing for me. I did a PT last week and I got a 150, I've improved overall in RC and and LR, but I want to add I got this score while COMPLETELY bombing the LG section (I'd rather not say what I got but I pretty much failed). I know my issue is not one of understanding, because I BRd the LG section first just to see what I would have gotten if I had answered like I know I can and my overall score went up to a 158 (18/23 after BR on LG). My goal is a 160 and I feel like this section is the only thing holding me back from achieving it. I don't know what else to do at this point, I've done hundreds and hundreds of LG questions, and done so many timed LG sections I've lost count. Like I said I know that I understand it but I just can't do it under timed constraints and I know it which causes me to panic during the PT. Do you guys have any suggestions of what else I can do? I've practiced so much and I feel like its not really helping because like I said i DO understand it, I just feel like I can't do it on time. I'm open to tutoring, or just about anything at this point.

Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

I get confused when there's a double negative in a sentence. For example, "No duck doesn't like water."

Normally, I would diagram this:

/D --> W

Because I would negate the second term ("doesn't like water" becomes "does like water") and the sufficient condition would remain the same (no duck).

But when I think about it in English, I realize that the double negative cancels each other out so it's like saying, "All ducks like water" which would be diagrammed:

D --> W

Any suggestions on getting past this hiccup?

Thanks!

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Hi everyone!

I’ve been plateaued in the high 150’s for the past 5/6 PT’s. My goal is to get a 165 in November, but seeing myself plateau has been really discouraging.

I’m pretty solid on logic games, my RC can use some improvement, but what’s really been hurting me is LR. Specifically, flaw questions and level 5 difficulty questions, regardless of question type.

So my question is, what has helped you the most to break into the 160’s? What have you done to consistently stay there?

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you everyone in advance!

Hey everyone, I’ve been MIA the past couple months. I took not getting into any school pretty hard and had to do a lot of re-evaluation of my life. I took on a second job and have been working 70 hour weeks.

Today, however, I got an e-mail from Northwestern School of Law offering me a spot off of their waitlist. I accepted the spot and will be flying out to a Chicago within a week to start my 1L year at NU.

I had to come back to 7Sage to express my deepest thanks to everyone in this community. From JY, to @"Cant Get Right" to every single person I worked with through this process on the forums, thank you so much for everything you have done to make my dream of attending a T-14 Law School come true.

For everyone out there still struggling and climbing that mountain, don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t. If you work full-time you can make your dreams come true. If you have a bad gpa, you don’t have work experience, or you are struggling with the LSAT, push through. Your hard work WILL PAY OFF. Do not listen to the plethora of naysayers that will haunt you along the way. Stay positive, stay motivated and keep your goal in sight. I promise you if you do that, and never give up, you will eventually be where you want to be.

I can’t describe how much this community means to me, and even in my absence I’ve still thought about each and every one of you. Again thank you 7Sage from the bottom of my heart.

I know everyone recommends reading the magazines The Economist and the Atlantic for improving reading comprehension.

But it seems philosophy majors should have a distinct advantage in reading dense abstruse passages. Should I be reading philosophy books on the side to improve reading comprehension?

I am quite confused why number 5 is D. D and C seem almost identical in pattern, what makes D more right?

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Can you guys share your tips for higher accuracy with BR?

I'm PTing in the low-mid 160's and am only seeing a 6-7 point increase on my BR. I really want to aim for 180 BR in order to see improvements with my actual scores. I spend anywhere from 1-3 days going over my PTs slowly but still do not see that much of a difference. I also admittedly input my PT answers to see how I did before beginning my BR, is this not advised?