Dear 7sage,

I am, yes, still deciding whether to take the dang test tomorrow, and I'm trying to gauge the effects of taking it again to get a higher score, as I am willing to potentially cancel to wait until I am in a higher range.

Currently my knowledge of school views on re-takes is as follows:

—Yale: looks for people who can score high on their first take; won't necessarily average, but might. Since individual faculty get to exercise their opinions, and some faculty might want elite test-takers, not getting your top score first might really ding you if a faculty member objects to it.

—Everyone else in top 20: basically will take your highest score, although multiple scores can factor in to the application

—Everyone else: presumably top score

Can anyone color this further, preferably with official policies? I understand it is not super clear — I am just curious what the opinions are and why people hold those opinions.

Thanks for any insight.

Hi guys,

I am just start up and prepare full time for the September exam. As i start the lesson, do we have to go through all the question explanation video for the preptest or the problem test? or it is okay just to watch the explanation for the question we are wrong or confused about? which works better？

One of my biggest problems is that I do not read fast enough and sometimes I tend to skip over words that make or break answer choices. Partially I blame my ADHD for this. But regardless I need to improve. If anyone has any advice please share.

Hey friends!

Tomorrow it's my first time taking LSAT. I just printed my ticket and realized my hair is way longer than I took the photo. In the photo, I had a short bob with a bang, now it's around my shoulder and I decide to tie my hair up tomorrow. Would this be problematic? Would I be deny entrance? Since on the information sheet, it says "the uploaded photo must match your appearance on the day of the test (with or without beard).

Hello All,

Before I go any further, best of luck to all of my fellow 7sagers who will be taking the test tomorrow! The reason I am posting here is that I have a question about pencils. Throughout my preparation I have been Dixon Ticonderoga #2 HB "soft" pencils. According to LSAC, for the test we need "No. 2 or HB wooden pencils". My question therefore regards the classification of the pencil as soft. Does anyone know if this is an acceptable type of pencil. I believe that the softness or hardness of a pencil is in regards to the texture of the graphite, but I have been unable to determine that conclusively. Thank you in advance for your help.

I was freaking out because I thought the test was not at 12:30pm despite what my ticket said. I thought perhaps they did not indicate for PDT, but it is 12:30 PM in June all over the country, right?

Also, my ticket is printed in black and white. Is that okay, or does it need to be in color because of the photograph?

I have finished fool-proofing the first 20 games in the set but I regularly come across games that give me problems. I have improved, don't get me wrong, but my scores on full sections are still wildly inconsistent. My best section ever I was able to get -2 and finish all of the games in time, but just yesterday I got a -7 on a full section. Is this type of variance normal for someone who has fool-proofed around 20 games or should I restart from game 1?

thanks :)

So I've been studying for LSAT for almost a year now.. and I thought after all the studying, I would naturally be seeing at least a few point increase in my scored full PTs.

But today I took my last ever fresh PT and saw a whopping 10 point decrease from my average scores around 6 months ago (173~174). Given that I took this test in the actual testing site on the day of exam, it is probably an accurate reflection of how I can score under timed/high-pressure conditions.

The really frustrating thing is that.. when I BR questions from past papers (I've taken all the published PTS ranging from 1~82 at least once, most of them twice), I understand fully how to read and approach the questions. Although obviously inflated, I'm able to score almost -0, -1 on LR sections that I have seen before (after having months of rest in between the original and retake). So I thought that I really had a firm grasp of basic logic, as long as I had sufficient time and clear mind when solving the problems. But when I encounter new sections, as shown by today's test scores, my average incorrect answer ranges from 4~5 per section.. :( I felt confident before this test that I had mastered pretty much all the fundamentals of LR, but now I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong..

Looking at the questions I got wrong.. most frequently I miss key words in the stimulus, or just simply have no idea what the stimulus is saying, or become flustered by complex conditionals/inference questions. Some questions.. I was pretty sure that it was the answer, but it turns out it was completely wrong.. So the reasons vary a lot

I also bombed the RC section, getting about 4 more wrong than what I usually score.. Bombed one passage (the last one in the section), got 4 wrong out of 8 on it..D: This kind of performance has actually never happened to me on an RC before.. so I'm a bit shocked about my RC too. Perhaps it's due to the fact that I haven't reviewed any RCs for almost 3 weeks now (I hyper-focused on LR - though that doesn't seem to have been that fruitful..) .. so maybe I've lost my LSAT reading habits.. :S Just lost for words.

Anyway, long story short.. I'm really frustrated, the exam coming up in about 2 weeks will be 4th and FINAL LSAT ever and I honestly don't know what I should do during the next few remaining days. I really need a score higher than 170 (currently 167 highest) so I'm reaching out for help/any words of wisdom to overcome this hurdle that stands in front of me..

Does anyone have any advice/comments on RC cookie cutters? Would love to start a discussion on the various cookie cutters on passages, right AC's, wrong AC's, etc.

Some I can think off the top of my head is cookie cutter wrong AC's are often way toooo strong, the phenomenon/hypothesis in science passages, etc. Thanks!

I'll keep this short... if you're an early bird and are taking either one of the summer exams, try to head to bed a bit LATER these next few nights. Reason being... things don't kick off (on exam day) until 1pm, so being bright-eyed and bushy-tailed (at 8am) won't work this time around.

Has anyone found themselves BR'ing a few questions from right to wrong in RC?

Any advice on this? Thanks.

Hi,

I finished a course with PowerScore a week ago and after coming across 7 Sage video explanaitions I decided to enroll in this course to help me with the remainder of my prep. (Currently I am studying full-time and am planning to write the September LSAT. my average PT score is 154)

I was wondering if you have any recommendations about what study plan I should follow in these 3 months given that I have already studied PowerScore's core curriculum?

I have started writing 2 PTs a week and have started doing blind reviews after each PT. but one instructor told me that I should only write one PT a week since more than that would be a waste of PTs. Is that true?

Can someone please be kind enough to explain to me why the answer is (c)? I was able to eliminate only (a) and (b). I thought (c), (d), and (e) were all valid. I think I am missing something here.. Please help! Thank you so much.

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Hey y'all!

Does anyone know if we're allowed to have gum in our ziplock bags during the test? (To chew during break).

Thanks and good luck to all June test takers!!

#help

I've been over the LR CC twice now and also have tried to incorporate various suggestions I've found on the discussion forum to get better at LR and nothing works, I seem to be getting worse. In desperate need of help! I vary from -3 to -7 on LR and I really want to improve it to a maximum of -2 before my June (24th) attempt. Any clue as to what I should do?

So I'm working through the CC right now and I'm currently in the Intro to Grouping Games: In/Out Games section. So as I've been going through these games I have been fool proofing ones that give me difficulty, which is most of them actually. So what I was really wondering is if I should not move onto to another set, game etc. until I fool proof the prior games. It seems that sometimes i'll be fool proofing and do about 7 copies of a game and master it then I move onto another game in the section and I get stuck again. I'm just wondering if moving on further down in games without fully mastering games is actually hurting me. But I do have to keep moving forward is basically what I'm getting at. I can clarify what I mean as well. Any advice here would be greatly appreciated.

Does anyone have a blank copy of the spreadsheet Pacifico used to keep track of his LG progress?

Thanks in advance

On my second PT (PT 71) I got a 161. I was feeling good, though understanding I needed improvement, but overall still feeling good about the progress I'm making. Then I move on to PT 72. Ummmm....holy hell. That RC section was ridiculous. I mean, I understand the difficulty varies from test to test and section to section, but it seemed like 72 was almost anomalous in its difficulty. I looked it up online in different forums and it seemed like that was the general consensus. Did anyone else take this PT?

Hey everyone,

So, I'm working through my analysis of this question since, yes, I got it wrong on my last section drill, and I'd be interested to hear some of all you smart people's thoughts on the question/choices. For context, it's a MBT. As I read it, the contribution law outlined in the stimulus could be translated logically as,

Contribution of $100 by a nonresident who was not a former resident ---> contribution must be registered with the city council

The author notes that no nonresidents contributed to a particular candidate's campaign. So, from my understanding, the sufficient condition outlined in the stimulus is failed (but not necessarily the necessary condition). So, when I glanced at "C," I immediately thought that they were trying to tempt me with a mistaken negation, purporting that it must be true that no contributions to the candidate's campaign needed to be registered with the council. The thought that popped into my mind was, "Well, but there could be other reasons why a contribution might need to be registered with the city council." But, in this case it seems that I and the LSAT writers are not of one mind. :P

Is part of my misunderstanding rooted in that it introduces the particular law in question as "The law..." rather than "A law..."? Should that indicate to me that there is only one law and, thus, only one reason for registering a contribution with the city council?

Love to hear you're thoughts!

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Advice needed!! D:

So tomorrow I have an opportunity to take a mock exam in the exact venue that our actual LSAT will be taken in.. BUT I have only ONE fresh PT left (this is my fourth take...). Should I use this opportunity to simulate test conditions and see how I do, and finetune/focus on my weaknesses till 24th June (international test date)? Since I've already studied for so long I have a feeling that I probably won't dramatically increase my scores in the next few weeks... OR the other option is to take the last exam maybe a week later after which I would have had more time to review.. what do you think would be best?!

(Also I think my biggest weakness is dealing with high pressure situations.. my scores fluctuate terribly depending on how confident I feel.. so I am leaning towards taking the fresh one tomorrow in the testing site so that I can get used to the environment.. But of course! your input will help me finalize my decision!)

Thanks!!

why C is correct?

my understanding is that "when people show signs of having a heart attack, EKG is used", so the "cases in which no heart attack occurred", they probably not use EKG, so it's out of scope, because the conclusion is about "Interpreting EKG data".

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Hi,

I'm studying for the July LSAT in Washington DC and wanted to see if there are any other future lawyers in the DC area that would like to start a local study group? Self-studying is great but there's always something you just can't figure out and it would be so much better to be able to just ask someone next to you without waiting for a person.

Please let me know if you would be interested and what your availability is. If there's enough interest hopefully we can get something going.

Ben

Can someone explain the concepts of referential phrases. I have now watched the video twice and I am still not understanding what it is.

You are on the last question, of the last logic game, of the last section of a five section timed practice test and you realize, with less than a minute left, you misunderstood one of the rules...

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I am in a situation where I can choose to take the LSAT at a hotel in my hometown, or take the LSAT at my undergrad university in another city. I am wondering if anyone has taken the LSAT at a hotel before and can give me some insight on what the environment is like. Are all the test takers in one large ballroom or do they split us up into smaller sections?

Thanks