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To a large extent yea
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Once again, unless it is a particularly brutal game/question/passage, assuming that I have left enough time in between taking the section the first time and taking it a second time, I find that I don't remember the passage and questions hardly at al…
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Another way to avoid the problem of using up PTs for experimental sections is to use repeat sections for your experimental. Yea, you'll know which one is experimental, but it won't matter, because it's practice and the point is to build up stamina.…
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I couldn't disagree more (respectfully, of course). Why train for a 10 mile marathon by running 8 miles when you practice?
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I type out explanations for myself like what Phillip Kraft does (he posts them on the LSAT page of reddit). It really helps me see where my mistakes are.
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Generally, I agree that the hardest passage is either the third or fourth, but there are exceptions. The Puerto Rican code switching passage was second and it was by far the hardest in that PT.
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I'm with Christian- I don't think there are necessarily "trends". A large, general trend is that games are a little bit more open-ended than before as a general rule in that there are many possible worlds. It just seems to me (in my opinion) that …
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My diagnostic was somewhere in the low 140s. I am now PTing in the low 160s, and I'm not stopping there. Take as long as you need.
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LSAT Blog did multiple interviews with a former test writer. They were pretty informative and I enjoyed reading them.
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Eh, whatever it was, he maxed out his LSAT score. He took every PT. He probably reviewed the right way. He might not have even taken one. Just maxing out your score is the important thing.
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Thanks so much for the input. I am going to try xuianyi's method and see how it goes. It seems really intuitive.
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I think PT 68 Game 4 is a great example of where logic games can play to your strengths or weaknesses. There are a couple of baby inferences to make up-front, but other than those (and they don't help you hardly at all), there is a TON of plug and …
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You're going to have to dig deeper. Digging deeper will allow the forum to help you and it will allow you to figure out the best thing to do going forward. Are there certain sections that are lower? What's harder? On LR, is it harder to follow t…
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Miguel, you are on the right track, but your last post seems to suggest that you're translating English into conditional logic incorrectly. Christian Wayne explains the contrapositive perfectly. Just to clean it up into a few lines: "No candy is …
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Above poster nailed it. Just to put it in slightly different terms: In both SA and PSA questions, there will be a gap between the premises and the conclusion. Correct answers to SA questions will completely fill the gap: they will FORCE the concl…
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STOP TAKING PTs!!!!! You do not understand the concepts the LSAT is testing. So do NOT take another PT for at least a month or two. Go through each problem slowly. Go through the games slowly. Go through LR questions slowly. You have plenty of…
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Sometimes on questions like these where the argument is super-complex, instead of trying to tell myself the flaw in my head, I just go into the questions with the ARGUMENT, rather than the FLAW, in mind. So on this weaken question, we know this is …
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Where are you stuck at? I ask because being stuck in the 140s is much different than being stuck in, say, the low 170s. Also, yes, studying for this test w/ an 8 to 5 job will suck, but it can be done. I am doing it now. But you CAN do it. You …
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You should see the assumption. If you can't analyze the argument and see how the premises don't NECESSARILY lead to the conclusion, then you need to blind review problems (starting with easy ones) until you are good at it and/or look back at the re…
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While I haven't taken every PT yet, I can't remember where the LSAT tested the negation of "most" in a question. I am guessing that you are talking about a necessary assumption question. The negation test can help with these, but I would encourage…
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Hi Joe, BR works well for either of those options. The closer you get to test day, the more PTs you'll want to take. But BR works really, really well for individual LR sections, RC passages, or logic games.
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I find that doing the easier questions first boosts my confidence, and confidence is really important (in anything in life, really). Personally, I wouldn't like doing the end of the section first because it would likely throw my confidence off. Bu…
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I honestly don't think it's that big of a deal. Sometimes I just find myself doing some underlining and bracketing automatically/naturally. I say do whatever works for you.
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Great study session this afternoon. I definitely want to continue these sessions, especially with LR. One thing I took away from today was that study sessions seem to be really effective for LR. LSAC has a way of wording arguments so that sometim…
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Hey, I am showing that PT 20 LR sections are questions 1 and 4. Is this one about Marianne and chess players or Tom and employers? I only did a quick search of which problem it is before I dig through my packets and find it.
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Let me know how your RC drilling goes, Grace!
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I'd be happy to do that, tutorinla! I can pick one of the games from 2007 (haven't looked at those in months) or I could pick a gnarly game from one of the superpreps that I just got in the mail today! I'm betting there's a tough game in there... …
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@tutorinla I have been studying for a good while, and I am currently PTing around 160ish (although I started WAY lower than that). Breakdowns are all over the place. I usually miss around 6 per LR section, and I am hitting LR review really, reall…
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Also, I should go ahead and disclose this: I have a pretty noticeable southern accent. You may find it endearing or you may find it annoying, so just be prepared