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alexroark5
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I'm also in DC and aiming for plus 173
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Diagramming varies per person. Some people are able to hold more in their heads confidently than others. Certain questions types generally require diagramming more often than others (sufficient assumption questions vs. main point questions). The bes…
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hey @DEC_LSAT sufficient assumption questions usually rely heavily on conditional logic. I would visit all the lessons on conditional logic. Once you get a mastery command over these principles, sufficient assumptions questions should generally beco…
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5 min and 10 minutes could not be a big difference. It could just be one question that really stumped you and you just decided not to move on (possibly because right now you are not timing yourself, which is completely ok if you are in the fundament…
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I think the larger issue they want to focus on is that if 999 people named the bible and only 1 named orwell, then it would be that orwell didn't really influence a significant amount of people. On the other hand if 501 people named the bible and 49…
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I think the best thing you are doing for yourself is being comfortable with a long term timeline. Slow and steady is the ideal way to go for many people
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@claudiaschiff94 Best piece of advice I can give is use the old tests (pre-PT 35) to get really, really solid on the fundamentals of each section. Do not burn through valuable, "modern" PTs. When you do start taking simulated practice tests under re…
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Thanks Jonathan!
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If you know you aren't applying until next cycle, I would wait until you are consistently scoring a couple points above your target score. This claim I am about to make is entirely unfounded, but I am willing to bet that most people on test day scor…
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Remember that the curve for all PTs are pre-determined prior to the tests being administered. All LSAT questions were, at one time, experimental questions. And each question's level of difficulty is determined by the percentage of students who get t…
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Let me try to be more clear. Stimulus: BHR (Brick houses on river street) F (front yard) HRF (Houses on river street that have front yards) 2 (have two stories) Premise: BRH --> F Premise: HRF ---most--> 2 therefore: BRH -most-> 2 JY s…
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@nicole.hopkins actually a significant amount of thati information is from powerscore
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LR Cheat Sheet Part 3 Resolve the Paradox Questions General: • Most stimuli do not contain a conclusion and will contain language of contradiction • The correct answer must conform to the facts of the stimuli Incorrect Answer Types: • Explains on…
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LR Cheat Sheet Part 2 Cause and Effect Reasoning General: • Causality occurs in either the conclusion (reasoning is then flawed) or causality occurs in the premises (no causal reasoning error exists, although argument may be flawed in some other w…
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Right, I undestand that its invalid reasoning. But JY equates Most houses on river street have front yards with being the same as most BRICK houses on river street having forn yards. Does that make more sense?
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@DumbHollywoodActor Generally, meaning take a few older ones, then take a newer one, take a few older ones, then a new one. I think you misinterpreted the way I meant generally. This way, you are not wasting all the new ones as you are continuing to…
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GENERALLY, you want to work your way from older to newer. However, that being said it is a good idea to mix in some newer ones far enough before test day so that you can begin to familiarize yourself with the subtle differences.
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@mirandalpm The key to speed while minimizing a decrease in a accuracy is practice. The more you practice the faster you will get. Unfortunately practice alone is not sufficient. You need to practice in a way that is productive. And in order to pra…
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@mes08 I would always read all the answer choices. You never know when you've been trapped! Reading that last answer choice might make you aware that you've been duped. On most questions you should be able to eliminate the wrong ones very quickly an…
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@nicole.hopkins don't worry, it's completely normal to lose some speed after having taking a week or two off. Trust me though, the speed will come back quickly
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@Checkmate it is much more difficult to come across gains once you start scoring higher up in the percentiles. Going from 150 to 160 is a lot easier than going from 165 to 170. The good news is that it's not as hard to maintain your level once you g…
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I would argue that the question stem and the stimulus are equally important to answering questions correctly.
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whatever game snakes and lizards was... (somewhere in the late twenties early thirties I think)!
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I would say it is a no brainer to upgrade now and get all the pdfs forever! muaaahhahahaha (evil laugh)
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yeah to clarify it's not meant as an attack on you @blah170blah. I've screwed up on tests from every set of ten haha. I've just found that it was more because I still had weaknesses to account for and not necessarily that the tests were harder in th…
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I personally read the stem first, and then read the stimulus. However, I'm not convinced that the issue of whether or not it is a better strategy to read the stem first vs second is so clear-cut. I think powerscore does bring up some legitimate con…
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I found that the curves on the test (in terms of how many you can miss and still get a certain score) became slighlty less forgiving as the test became more recent. Presumably this is because people have gotten better at studying for the exam (which…
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@nordeend I have had this same question and a former manhattan instructor on TLS who went to columbia law had a very insightful response. Below is our discussion. I hope it helps! Hi Christine, I just wanted to ask your opinion on this matter. I h…
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Practice taking 5 or 6 sections of older tests without stopping. After that, 3 and then 2 will be a breeze
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no, bring your own watch