7Sage Changes and Updates

Alan Cheuk-2

A fellow 7Sager had a great idea of making a discussion thread to let you all know about site changes and updates, so here we go! JY and I will do our best to post the changes and updates we make to 7Sage here.

Jan. 13
* PrepTest 74 added to grader (no tags yet, but they're coming...)
* Fix for fullscreen videos in Android App
* Fix for notes in Law School lessons where there is also an exam prompt

Jan. 17
* Fix for iOS app - The "Next" button in the "Course" view should work consistently now. Sorry it took this long!

Jan. 20
We just added a new rule to the Discussion Forums:
"Advertisements or solicitations for services or products are not allowed."

Jan. 22
* Fix for iOS app - PDFs download properly again when viewing course through the app. Thanks to @Vendetta for bringing this to our attention!

Jan. 24
* Personal Statement 2 all drafts and commentary now available:
http://7sage.com/lesson/personal-statement-2-draft-1-read-and-evaluate/

Jan. 30
* Major discussion forum upgrade with behind the scenes improvements, and interface changes. If you notice anything strange, let us know!
* Fix: Video playback now properly defaults to your last chosen speed. It was showing your last chosen speed, but not actually playing the video at that speed.

Jan. 31
* Android app now has a series of introductory screens explaining what's in the app.
* Android app fix: After regisering, going to "Course" works more consistently.

Feb. 3
* iOS app - iPhone 6 and 6+ support
* iOS app - has PT 72, 73, and 74 logic games included
* iOS app - Logic Games screen now includes tags and section difficulty.
* iOS app - Bug fix: Grader PrepTest filtering works properly

Feb. 5
* Forums - You can now mention users with spaces in their name by using quotes, like @"Alan Cheuk"
* Forums - When you start typing @ mentions, a list of suggestions appears to the right to make it easier. You may need to clear your browser cache to see this feature.
* Forums fix - You can save profile changes even if there is a space in your name.

Feb. 9
* iOS app - Entering blind review in Grader is easier now because you can now also drag/tap the complete white space to the right of the answer choices to get to blind review (particularly helpful for iPhone 6/6+ and iPad).

Feb. 10
* Personal Statement 3 all drafts and commentary now available:
http://7sage.com/lesson/personal-statement-3-draft-1-read-and-evaluate/
* You can now use hastags. #sweet

Feb. 12
* Updated version of lesson for PT 67 Passage 2 (Nisa Shostak !Kung Woman)
http://7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-67-section-1-passage-2-passage/
http://7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-67-section-1-passage-2-questions/
* New all-sub-game-boards lesson for PT 36 Game 3 (Bus Window Aisle Seats)
http://7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-36-section-4-game-3/
* Updated set of grammar lessons on comparative statements
http://7sage.com/lesson/comparative-statements-general/

Feb. 19
* iOS App - The proctor pauses when it is interrupted by a phone call, alarm, Siri, etc, and you can press "Continue" to continue where you left off after you finish handling the interruption.

Feb. 20
* FireFox - PDF fix. Starting about a week ago, the first page of some pdfs were not loading, especially for one page pdfs. Fixed now.

Feb. 27
* Classes of lessons in Syllabus page now collapse/expand with buttons / in top right of each class, to reduce accidental collapse/expand of the class.

March 3
* Site backend and security upgrades.

March 13
* Redesign of website and forum. Please let me know if you spot any visual oddities

March 16
* Display of comments on the dashboard have been redone so that they should be easier to read and expand/collapse.
* Site dashboard now shows recent comments with "?" in them, rather than all recent comments

April 2
* Added a "User-Created Games" sub-category to the forums: http://7sage.com/forums/categories/user-created-games
* Made the discussion sample on the Dashboard more like the full discussion forum
* Long comments are now clipped, and expandable with more/less links
* Discussion forum no longer zooms out on on some discussions on mobile/tablets
* Added marker to show where the new comments in a discussion start when you've already seen some of the comments in a thread (marker doesn't show if there is only one new comment - unfortunate, but couldn't find a way around it)

Alan Cheuk-2

To kick it off, here are a few recent changes:
* PrepTest 74 added to grader (no tags yet, but they're coming...)
* Fix for fullscreen videos in Android App
* Fix for notes in Law School lessons where there is also an exam prompt

catatat123

Does this mean that PT 74 will be available to people with the current Ultimate + plans? Or will we have to upgrade to have access to that test?

jdawg113

@catatat123 generally new PT releases arnt added to current accounts. but itll be $6(for the 3 days) so not too big of a deal.

inactive

@catatat123 What @jdawg113 said. PTs after 71 aren't included in the Ultimate package.

jdawg113

tho a firesale on PT 72 would be cool :P

J.Y. Ping

All Logic Games for PT 74 are now up:
Game 1: http://7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-74-section-2-game-1/
Game 2: http://7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-74-section-2-game-2/
Game 3: http://7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-74-section-2-game-3/
Game 4: http://7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-74-section-2-game-4/

mpits001

What time will the full test be available on January 15th?

pannab

Hi guys! First off, thanks for everything you do! I was just wondering about the personal statement bundle. My syllabus says it's under construction, do you guys know when it might be ready and whether it will be accessible with existing plans? TIA!

Alan Cheuk-2

The full PT74 is available for purchase now.

joegotbored-1

Bought

bpnielsen-1

You guys are super efficient! Mahalo!

jdawg113

Would it be possible to look into getting together a directory of sorts for explanations done for the earlier PT questions used in the lessons? So if one were to come across the question again in drilling they wouldn't have to search the lessons to find that particular question

Alan Cheuk-2

@jdawg113 Thanks for the idea - I added it to our wishlist! May take a while...

In the meantime, there's a way to more directly go to the explanation for a particular question:

1. Go to http://7sage.com/logic-game-explanations/ and click on any game in the PT that you are looking for.

2. Near the bottom of the page, just above the comments, you should see a list of all the explanations in that PT that you have access to, including LR and RC questions.

I hope this helps!

Alan Cheuk-2

* Fix for iOS app - The "Next" button in the "Course" view should work consistently now. Sorry it took this long!

catatat123

Is it possible to buy tests 72 and 73?

Alan Cheuk-2

@catatat123 Yup you can get them right here: https://7sage.com/addons/

The Moose

Can we get an update on the iOS app for iPhone plus screen support? That would be great

Alan Cheuk-2

@The Moose For sure We've actually been working putting in iPhone 6 and 6+ support for the past bit, and it will come out after we finish testing and submit it to Apple for review (this may take a few weeks).

jdawg113

I meant more for like LR and that :P

aaron.naiditch36

Will the LG videos for PTs 72-74 be added to the mobile app at some point?

JSL17824

Can we speed it up on iPad/iPhone? That'll be great!
Thanks!

J.Y. Ping

@jdawg113, I amended Alan's response above to better address your question.

@aaron.naiditch36, LG videos for PTs 72-74 are already viewable on the mobile app. You have to click "Course" then navigate your way to the videos like you would on the web app. We will be updating the "Logic Games" section of the mobile app so you'll be able to see it there directly too.

@JASON LAI, that's a tough one.

J.Y. Ping

We just added a new rule to the Discussion Forums:
"Advertisements or solicitations for services or products are not allowed."

Thank you all for creating this wonderful community.

All the rules can be found here:
http://7sage.com/discussion/#/discussion/15/discussion-forum-rules

[Deleted User]

@j.y. just wanted to say thank you for helping me improve my logic game. I spent thousands on a company and would take 35 minutes to do one simple easy sequencing game. Now I do all 4 in 8 minutes or less (each one) because of everything you taught for free!!!

Do you guys have logic reasoning videos or notes online like you do for logic games?

joegotbored-1

@Roy - They do, but they're part of the paid service. Only the games are available for free.

Alan Cheuk-2

* Fix for iOS app - PDFs download properly again when viewing course through the app. Thanks to @Vendetta for bringing this to our attention!

inactive

Edited original post to have all changes at the top & sorted by date changed. More convenient that way.

jdawg113

would it be possible to work on some more problem set explanations? There seems to be a decent amount of problems without videos that would be really helpful

J.Y. Ping

Personal Statement 2 all drafts and commentary now available:
http://7sage.com/lesson/personal-statement-2-draft-1-read-and-evaluate/

Alan Cheuk-2

* Major discussion forum upgrade with behind the scenes improvements, and interface changes. If you notice anything strange, let us know!

Alan Cheuk-2

* Fix: Video playback now properly defaults to your last chosen speed. It was showing your last chosen speed, but not actually playing the video at that speed.

Alan Cheuk-2

* Android app now has a series of introductory screens explaining what's in the app.
* Android app fix: After registering, going to "Course" works more consistently.

Alan Cheuk-2

* iOS app - iPhone 6 and 6+ support
* iOS app - has PT 72, 73, and 74 logic games included
* iOS app - Logic Games screen now includes tags and section difficulty.
* iOS app - Bug fix: Grader PrepTest filtering works properly

devin.balut

About the 'difficulty' rating, how is it calculated? I see some questions 54% of people got right are 4 star questions while some 5 star questions have as much as 57% correct. So far what I've looked at fits certain % thresholds based on correct responses divided by answer responses where the 4/5 difficulty split is about 58% (ignoring skipped questions actually made the difficulty system consistent) but I haven't used that system on a lot of question and as I based it off one PT worth a questions the fact that it models that PT well might not actually mean that's how it's done.

Sorry I know this probably isn't the place for it (feel free to delete this post). Just curious. I'm doing some data gathering because I wanted to test if despite the LSAT having similar -x for varying levels of scaled scores if maybe people's claims that LR/RC was getting harder and LG was getting easier (other than oddball games) was true not just from a 'things are different' standpoint, but also from a percentile correct one. No worries if you can't provide that.

ddakjiking

^I'm actually interested behind the rated methodology as well!

Alan Cheuk-2

* Forums - You can now mention users with spaces in their name by using quotes, like @"Alan Cheuk"
* Forums - When you start typing @ mentions, a list of suggestions appears to the right to make it easier. You may need to clear your browser cache to see this feature.
* Forums fix - You can save profile changes even if there is a space in your name.

jdawg113

@"Alan Cheuk" You(and dev team peoples/however the site is run) are the man

Alan Cheuk-2

@ddakjiking and @devin.balut The difficulty rankings are somewhat based on % correct, but are also normalized against a variety of factors. For instance, a lot of 7Sagers take June 2007 as a diagnostic test before doing any prep. If we didn't normalize for that, then questions in J07 could be rated as more difficult than they actually are.

@jdawg113 Thanks!

devin.balut

@"Alan Cheuk"
Thanks for the quick answer. This is such a well run site it's insane.
Screw it I love you guys, I'm gonna buy a course for June's test this weekend - broke or not.

As for rankings I only noticed it because the discrepancy was within the same test (PT 42). Is the normalization also done between game sections? Makes a lot of sense for stuff like J07. Probably looked like the hardest test in existence before that.

Alan Cheuk-2

* iOS app - Entering blind review in Grader is easier now because you can now also drag/tap the complete white space to the right of the answer choices to get to blind review (particularly helpful for iPhone 6/6+ and iPad).

[Deleted User]

7sage should have a hashtag system where we can look up hashtags like on Instagram lol

J.Y. Ping

* Personal Statement 3 all drafts and commentary now available:
http://7sage.com/lesson/personal-statement-3-draft-1-read-and-evaluate/

Alan Cheuk-2

@devin.balut Thanks!
@royaimani There is a really rudimentary hashtag system right now, if you #tag, it produces a link that searches the forum for "#tag". I hope that helps!

J.Y. Ping

* Updated version of lesson for PT 67 Passage 2 (Nisa Shostak !Kung Woman)
http://7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-67-section-1-passage-2-passage/
http://7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-67-section-1-passage-2-questions/

* New all-sub-game-boards lesson for PT 36 Game 3 (Bus Window Aisle Seats)
http://7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-36-section-4-game-3/

* Updated set of grammar lessons on comparative statements
http://7sage.com/lesson/comparative-statements-general/

x3euny

Thank you! I love this website!

Alan Cheuk-2

* iOS App - The proctor pauses when it is interrupted by a phone call, alarm, Siri, etc, and you can press "Continue" to continue where you left off after you finish handling the interruption.

[Deleted User]

Can we have a "delete post" option? I think it's annoying you can only edit but not delete the entire post.

Alan Cheuk-2

* FireFox - PDF fix. Starting about a week ago, the first page of some pdfs were not loading, especially for one page pdfs. Fixed now.

Alan Cheuk-2

@royaimani You can edit your post so that it just reads "Deleted".

Alan Cheuk-2

* Classes of lessons in Syllabus page now collapse/expand with buttons / in top right of each class, to reduce accidental collapse/expand of the class.