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Cant Get Right
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This case was just decided, if anyone is interested to know what "and" means. In a 6-3 split decision, the Court has ruled that "and" means "and." Very bad news for tens of thousands of low-level drug offenders sentenced under the statute in questi…
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@gam121800 said: The best advice I got f when trying to start these consistent study habits is to just tell yourself you are going to study for ten minutes and if it’s really just a bad day then you will give yourself some time off. But more o…
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I think PT's are overvalued. Don't get me wrong: They're highly valuable and very important. But as tools for learning the test, they're very blunt instruments. The most important part of taking a PT is not the PT itself. It's not even the blind rev…
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How do you know what the conclusion is if you haven't read the stimulus?
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Congrats on the 170! While that's an incredible score that will open lots of doors, a retake would certainly not "just be for vanity." There is a huge difference between a 170 and a 173. Every point matters until around about a 175. I retested a 17…
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One thing people often forget is how central a role active reading plays. It's the first lesson in the CC for RC for a reason, but it so frequently gets set aside. And active reading does not just mean to pay attention. I see that characterization o…
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This happened to me first time I scored a 180 on a PT. The 180 was exciting. It was proof of concept that my studies were proceeding effectively and that I was on the right track. But I had the same heightened anxiety for the next PT. Here's what I …
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If you keep getting the same results, you need to do something different. How are you studying? Whatever the answer, it is clearly ineffective. I agree with above comment that clause-by-clause breakdowns are very helpful. Both in the AC's and in th…
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You cannot blind review your PT after you've checked your score. This is not a question of the ability to recover the test; it's just the very concept of the blind review. Your performance is the exact thing you're supposed to be blind to. Once you …
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@"Cant Get Right" said: You do a problem set of 10 questions. You are fairly aggressive and end the drill with exactly 90% confidence on each answer you chose. I grade the section for you and inform you that you missed one question in the set.…
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Pens are brash. Pencils evince humility and are better suited for those who err and improve. I like the Staedtler Norica. Or if you prefer something a bit showy, the Palomino Blackwing is an excellent option.
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You’re asking great questions! Instead of starting with the methodology though, start with the objective. What are you trying to accomplish? Maybe the most obvious sort of objective is something like “average -3.” But that doesn’t tell us much. What…
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There's a lot I could say about this, but let's start with a pop quiz: You do a problem set of 10 questions. You are fairly aggressive and end the drill with exactly 90% confidence on each answer you chose. I grade the section for you and inform…
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How long we spend on the passage read is the upshot of many smaller decisions throughout the passage. So maybe you read a sentence like, "The sky is blue because ozone is blue, and there is a thin layer of ozone in Earth's atmosphere." If you unders…
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I think the best way to jump back in is to just take a PT and see what goes wrong. It will probably kick your shiny metal ass, but that's a good thing because it tells you where your soft spots are. Use that information to develop a targeted study p…
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Congrats @Constantine ! You've been around these forums a long time and have given a lot of help to a lot of folks. So happy to see you land so well, and best of luck in law school!
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@cdaughe1 said: I do recognize I sometimes waste time by checking answers in the passage when I am fairly confident in my memory however, I can't seem to trust it (as every now and then I check to find out my memory was wrong). So what if yo…
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The CC is designed to be worked in order, so do the lessons in the order presented. Beyond the ordering of the lessons though, there are better and worse ways to go through it. You are going to come across some things that are really easy and intui…
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You're at the hardest plateau to break. Part of the reason you're seeing inconsistencies is because the difficulty within a given test is not evenly distributed. Sometimes the LR will be really straight-forward and the RC will be killer. So an even …
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Sounds like you had a really rough lead up to your test. Hate to hear all that, and it's very reasonable to think that such a horrible series of events could affect your score. If admissions don't go well this cycle, though, the answer to your quest…
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Sort of a trick question, so if there don't seem to be many obvious answers, that's why, haha. Sorry about that, but it just recalls a problem I dealt with for nearly a year that really held me back. I obsessively tracked my progress but to no purpo…
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What do you plan to do with a better idea of how you're scoring? Your specific plans for that information make a big difference in the best way to proceed.
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P is in the sufficient, so let's start there. It has two options, in or out. When P is out, the sufficient triggers. When the sufficient triggers, the necessary must follow, forcing L to be in. That's necessary to prevent them from both being out.…
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A tip for doing half sections: Split it by doing even/odd numbered questions instead of the whole first or second half of the section. That way you get a fairly even distribution of easier questions and curve breakers with each half instead of a sig…
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Really great analysis on the role of “could” here. It seems like an inconspicuous word, so pinpointing it is hard. From there, I think you’ve mostly got it though. Conclusions that establish probability/possibility rather than certainties are tricky…
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C would be correct if the question were asking about the author's attitude towards Bearden's art. But the question is more targeted than that. It's asking about the author's attitude towards Bearden's technique. Remember from the first line of the p…
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This is a fun one. Very formal logic heavy. The first thing to recognize is the exact relationship of the elements in the stimulus. We get one sufficient condition: Alice will volunteer and two distinct necessary conditions: Bruce volunteers O…
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“Will” is not a conditional indicator. It is a modal auxiliary that can be used in four ways as a part of a verb phrase: a future prediction, a present prediction, a habitual prediction, or a volition. It usually indicates tense, such as the future …
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Not everything should be represented conditionally, and this is a great example. To be clear, anything can be represented conditionally, so the option is always available. For example, let's consider famous lines from two iconic American novels, Th…
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If something other than a lawyer can even sometimes tailor a will to particular circumstances, then in those instances, a lawyer would not necessarily be worth paying for. Thus, a lawyer is not always worth paying for. It's the "always" that creates…