After a bombed reading comprehension section on my last practice test, I'm doing some reading comprehension drills and trying to evaluate myself and my methods.

This evening I drilled from practice test 31. Not even half way through the third passage, I thought, "Who is this hoe?" (the author the passage was discussing). On the fourth passage, about philosophers advocating subjectivity or objectivity, I realized I was drawing on past philosophy courses and personal reading, comparing what I was reading to knowledge and beliefs I already had. I bombed the questions for this passage and in going through them, argued against the correct answers (angry at LSAT again). Again, each time I had to say, "Fine. I see where you're coming from."

Then I had something of a eureka moment: in general, I've been reading very defensively and evaluatively and thus closing my mind off to a set of interpretations of the core subject matter, any one of which LSAT can subtly amplify and design the questions around.

PowerScore said to read "aggressively" but I'm not sure that was the right word to use. I now think the right mindset might better be described as actively receptive.

Maybe in logical reasoning, the defensive/evaluative mindset is where you need to be, but in reading comprehension you have to relax a little and be more receptive.

Has anyone else had a similar experience or, at least, found they needed to consciously shift their mindset between section types?

Is there a lesson or webinar on how/when to use subscripts in conditional statements?

I see JY uses subscripts in some of the questions, but I often find myself using regular conditional arrows for the same questions.

If there is no lecture, could someone please break it down for me?

Thanks.

I am studying for the December LSAT this year, currently on the last practice test I took I got a 145. The last test I took was a few weeks ago, but now I am a little more than half way through the 7sage LSAT curriculum and I think I am understanding concepts much better and have improved on LR at least. I am wondering if it would still be possible to score a 150-155 on the December test. I am studying a lot and hoping to focus on PTs starting next week or the following week. I am in a 3+3 program and I need a 155 to get automatic admission. I also can take it in Feb again but I do not really want to do that since I am still a full time student. Anyone have any advice? Does this seem possible? I am nervous and a little lost!

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Hiya,

So initial diagnostic was about a 152, averaged around 155s and up on PTs. BR got me to around EDIT: 165s

I'm at 11h of the CC out of the 98h. My test is December. I cannot postpone as I have a waiver, whcih would mean I'd have to pay for this test, then the charge of rescheduling which I cannot financially do. What do you guys think I can reach with about 30h of weekly studying? (45h I could push it to as I understand virtually all of what he says at a 1.7x speed). Any other tips?

Hey all,

I was wondering what you all thought of this. My GPA and LSAT makes me competitive at a few schools - not a shoe-in but pretty dang competitive. Specifically, I'm thinking of sending a round of applications out to Georgetown and Cornell as soon as my letters of rec are completed (in 1 week). I'm really really confident in my letters and my personal statement. I'm slated to take the December exam to make me competitive for higher ranked schools, but I kinda wanna just submit some apps now so I can hear back from some places earlier than February.

Should I do it?

https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-31-section-3-question-23/

would it be a good way to think alternative to JY's explanation that answer choice B is wrong merely in having few as the existential indicator rather than a universal indicator as in the stimulus and correct answer choice C...

i just find JY's thinking perhaps like the flip side of a coin to be a tad bit confusing....

any thoughts?

:)

Currently I'm living abroad in Spain and studying for the LSAT... so given the time zones, I'm never able to watch live webinars.

I was wondering.... are any additional webinars going to be uploaded anytime soon under 'Resources'?

Does anyone have a successful strategies in tackling this difficult question type? I always get them confused by one another and inevitably chose the wrong answer choice.

So guys I have been consistently scoring a BR of 160 or 159.

This is my BR score right now

LR -7/-8

LG - 2/-3

RC -5/-6

What do you think I should focus on improving on? I really want to increase my BR score to at least 165 within a week. I have been studying full time and have gotten my score up from a 145 to 157 timed.

I need to focus on timing soon so that I can hit 168 on the December test so that I can ultimately get my target score of 164+

Help!

So I kinda make up my own rules

One rule that worked for me and saves me a lot of the time was

Not .... without/until sentence

Whenever I noticed this type of sentences I automatically remove not and make whatever condition that follows without .... a necessary condition. It conforms to the group 3 and group 4 rule so nothing new.

So sentence like

A is not feasible without or until B

Is always

A -> B

My question is about making a rule about

only A when/if B

I think it is safe to say that I can always translate this sentence into

A only when B

1.I only study when I feel urgent

These two sentences are exactly same I think.

If a certain verb follows only and then when pops up ( only a when B) what only would refer to can be none other than whatever condition that follows after when.

Would there be any contradiction or perhaps a counter example?

Thanks

How does law school admissions calculate GPA? I went to a community college and transferred to a 4 year school. I was told the grades i took at community wouldn't matter, but is this true?

Long question! Thought it would be helpful to keep everything organized in one place to hear the thoughts of folks as the questions below all seem to have a common thread and could help the next person.

Not all works of art represent something, but some do, and their doing so is relevant to our aesthetic experience of them; representation is therefore an aesthetically relevant property. Whether a work of art possesses this property is dependent upon context. Yet there are no clear criteria for determining whether context-dependent properties are present in an object, so there cannot be any clear criteria for determining whether an object qualifies as art.

There is no genuinely altruistic behavior. Everyone needs to have sufficient amount of self-esteem, which crucially depends on believing oneself to be useful and needed. Behavior that appears to be altruistic can be understood as being motivated by the desire to reinforce that belief, a clearly self-interested motivation.

As a political system, democracy does not promote political freedom. There are historical examples of democracies that ultimately resulted in some of the most oppressive societies. Likewise, there have been enlightened despotisms and oligarchies that have provided a remarkable level of political freedom to their subjects.

Climate and geology determine where human industry can be established. Drastic shifts in climate always result in migrations, and migrations bring about the intermingling of ideas necessary for rapid advances in civilization.

I recently emailed back a forth with the admissions office at UofM, and I thought the correspondence might be useful for those of us retesting in December.

Tldr; Apply as soon as you can, if you improve your score they will reevaluate you for both admittance and scholarships.

Me:

My question is about the process of applying now and then potentially updating my application if I do in fact raise my LSAT score. I would like to apply as early as possible both for admission and to put myself in the best possible position for scholarships. Is there any disadvantage to applying and then updating vs simply waiting to submit any materials until my application is complete?

UofM:

Thanks for your e-mail and your interest in Michigan Law. I would encourage you to submit your application as soon as you can. If you submit your completed application before the December LSAT scores are released, because you have a score from a previous administration, we would consider your application to be complete and we would begin to process your application and place it into our queue for our reviewers. It's possible that our reviewers could be ready to consider your file before a December score became available. If our reviewers were inclined to admit you, then they would do so without waiting. If they were considering a negative decision, then they would know to wait for your December score before finalizing that decision.

Me:

I do have one follow-up question. When would scholarship allocation be decided? At the same time as admittance/denial, or later? Would this follow a similar system of being evaluated initially based on my score on record and then adjusted later if my December score becomes relevant?

UofM:

All our admitted students are automatically considered for merit-based scholarships, and yes, this does typically occur a bit after the admissions decision is made (scholarship decisions generally start rolling out in January while admissions decisions have typically started coming out earlier than that). We do also have a mechanism to consider any updated LSAT scores for scholarship decisions, even if we made a previous determination.

I am just finishing up the logic games section of the core curriculum. I have not taken a cold diagnostic yet and have tried a couple times, only to realize I know nothing about the vast majority of the stuff on the actual exam. I only know principles that were taught. Should I continue to go through the syllabus and finish so that it actually makes sense? I feel like I'm just guessing on my diagnostic and I don't know how much help that score will serve me. Thanks!

I took the Sept. LSAT and wasn't pleased with my score. I'm hoping to raise my score from a 158 to at least a 163. Is this even possible? My routine so far is to take a preptest, blind review, and then go over the questions with JY's video answers. It takes me about 2-3 days to do this but I don't want to burn myself out at the same time.

My scores range from:

LR: -7 in each section

RC: -7/-8

LG: -5/-7

I'm having trouble with Necessary Assumption questions so I've been reviewing the core curriculum as well.

Any advice on how to approach the next 4 weeks would be greatly appreciated!

I have started to consider taking the GRE after receiving my September LSAT score and consistently getting similar scores on practice tests I have recently taken. I have had difficulty improving on the logical reasoning portion of the test so it was no surprise that I scored a 145. Based on a high GRE practice test score, which I took before reviewing any material, I feel that I could score in a higher percentile than I would if I were to retake the LSAT. However, could the presence of a very low LSAT score on my application overshadow my potentially high GRE score and a 3.8 gpa?

https://classic.7sage.com/lesson/hallstown-groceries-pf-question/?ss_completed_lesson=1143

while i agree AC b is incorrect...still seems to be a perfectly valid argument to me....anyone care to parse this one with me?

validity of answer choice B

Has anyone received accommodations for a specific date and then decided to postpone? I don't know if I will be approved yet, but I am strongly considering postponing until June. I just don't know if the accommodations will automatically cary over to the June test, or if I will have to apply again.

I understand that those who took the September LSAT got a copy of the exam while those who canceled their scores, despite taking the exam, do not get a copy. Is this a policy with LSAC that’s worth questioning or should I just not even bother?

Sorry for the curt title, not enough room for politely asking for advice :P

Anyways

I emailed her a month ago, and she only responded now. Furthermore, she said she could only write one after January.

I already got two LORs from other professors so I don't exactly need it. That being said, I'd still like to have it just in case. How should I respond?

How do I determine goal time per game during foolproofing? JY sometimes mentions them in his explanation videos, but when he doesn't should I just assume it's ~8.5?

Even better, does someone have a spreadsheet of these?

Just wanted to get your opinions on what PTs I should do.

So I took the September exam (cancelled). and to prepare for the September exam, I used PTs from 50s to 70s (I have a couple of PT in 70s that I haven't done, only a couple). Now I am taking December LSAT and have been doing PT's in 30s and 40s because these are the ones I haven't done when I was prepping for my September LSAT.

For the last month, should I just redo some PT's in 50-70s instead of going for older PTs that I haven't done yet?

I am finding older PTs to be pretty different from the recent ones, so I am thinking it would be better to redo the recent ones.

I am a senior at an "average" college, and I have a 3.99 GPA. I am a transfer student, so my combined GPA is a 3.8. I am aiming for a 170 on the LSAT, but I wouldn't be surprised if I wound up closer to a 165. Anyway, I am concerned that I won't get into schools that look for decently high LSAT scores unless I score well above the median score... like maybe I will need the 75th percentile score to get in without scholarship. I'm just wondering if anyone else has had this issue or if anyone has any thoughts on it.