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There really are two fundamental skills to doing well in LR - argumentation and inference. To understand argumentation, you have to be really good at isolating the conclusion and evidence in arguments. When most folks miss in LR it's because they've…
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Few implies at least one. If we need to contemplate zero, they will say something like few or none.
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sufficient assumption questions all have if in them. Necessary assumption questions will have words like required, depends, or relies.
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Sounds to me like you're really close to pulling it all together. I'd keep grinding in LR for sure trying to strike the ideal balance between care and speed. I don't think you meant that you're struggling with PSA/SA anymore, but if you are, those s…
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No reason not to expect an improvement considering that the 161 looks like the bottom of your ability range.
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to negate a conditional allow the sufficient condition but deny the necessary. So the statement above is ~intended-->~pleasure; negate by allowing ~intended --->pleasure then see what happens.
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@benreimler1 how far are are away from your target score? What have you done so thus far to prepare?
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Wow. Let me get this out of the way, and please forgive me. Setting that tight of a timeframe for an initial LSAT study will all but guarantee you score below your true ability. The only exception to that is if you're one of the few true LSAT savant…
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I don't see any harm in including a couple of activities you participated in, particularly if you held some sort of leadership role. Be discerning, though, and don't overload. My instincts tell me that service activities are a bit more impressive th…
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@Boohered said: Moreover, a 159 is a score that some people fight for. Don't disregard that. Best of luck! LOVE this!!
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I think it's impossible to really answer this question without knowing what you did during your eight months of study and what you're going to do differently during these next two months. If you spent your eight months totally on your own, perhaps d…
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I really like what @MonkeyMammoth24 said. At some point, you do have to move on with your life. Part of that is leveling with yourself about your legal career. Do you aspire to sit on the Supreme Court, work as a US Attorney, or be a partner at a Bi…
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Congratulations, and thank you for encouraging all of us URM/BIPOC folks who are in this struggle. Good luck in your cycle.
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I'm a tutor, so I really hope that this advice is not self-serving, but the answer to your question is that yes, it's time to do something different. It's hard to study completely on your own, even with a resource as deep and useful as 7sage. If you…
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I'd go back to PowerScore ViewSTAMP, try to get that down as well as possible and ride that into this test. It's too late in the game to learn any big new strategies. By the way, as a fellow tutor myself, I was shocked to read about this don't read …
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Please do yourself a favor and write the "why x" statement, particularly if you're applying to places like Penn, UVA, Berkeley, and Michigan. You'll want to make sure you convince them that you're actually interested in attending law school there as…
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There aren't any magic bullets in this whole thing. What works for one person may not work for another. The one thing to be cautious about though is hopping around with resources when you aren't getting instant results. LSAT mastery is won over time…
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Logician really hit all the relevant points excellently, so I won't recapitulate just to put my own English on it, but I will offer this: the only, and I mean THE ONLY, meaningful output of any of this LSAT prep stuff is right answers for you on the…
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Definitely agree with the advice here to not include a GPA addendum. Grades pretty much speak for themselves. It is always better to show that your grades are not necessarily indicative of your academic potential or seriousness by showing how succes…
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Well, you asked a lot here. Let me try to answer some of it. First, you should take your first PrepTest right now so that you can establish a baseline for your performance and also get enough initial exposure to give more context to the things you'l…
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Totally want to join in the chorus here. If you can only take a few practice tests, make the most recent ones the ones you take, and reserve the most recent released PT for the last PT you take before you take the real one. Also, just in general, ta…
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You should see your biggest improvement between your first cold diagnostic and the first PT you take after you've completed some LSAT preparation regime (7sage CC, etc.). That usually is six to eight weeks. Score moves of between 10 and 20 points ar…
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You will definitely not lose anything by waiting another year. More time (assuming you use it wisely) can only benefit you in the form of a higher LSAT score, better admissions results, and (yes this matters too) another year of interesting life exp…
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PT slippage is a strong sign of burnout. As counter-intuitive as it is, this is probably the time to take two days completely off from the LSAT and then jump back in with a section, not an entire PT, slowly building back up to a PT. Remember that yo…
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I don't see how it couldn't mean a great deal. By being able to hit that score in a PT you've shown that your capable score range right now includes a ridiculously high score. That should give you great confidence. I suggest continuing doing what yo…
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I think if you want to keep things close, I'd check with a tutor and see if they have some students they know in your situation who might want to link up. Don't worry, there are plenty of tutors out there who are happy to interact without trying to …
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In my opinion, the ideal time to take the test is when you are ready (i.e. scoring slightly above your target score). That could very well be November, but it might be later. I would suspect that the programs you're applying to are much more flexibl…
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I find a couple of things to be pretty typical of people who are hitting a wall in LR. The first is that they do not systematically digest arguments by forcing them into their own words. Some call this active reading, but whatever you call it, to be…
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Oh my goodness, please take a break. There is a huge difference between taking one day off when you are aware of your mental fatigue and taking an entire week off from studying. I love what @csharm002 said: think of your brain as a muscle...you do n…
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Reality is reality, right? If you can't get more than one PT in in a given week, then that's okay. The biggest thing that you need to have is daily exposure, and particularly, daily exposure under time-pressure. Your BR/Correction work aside, you ha…