The benefits of BR aren’t always obvious, but if you’re doing it for timed drills, that’s good at least. It may be a bigger or smaller part of how to get yourself unstuck, but it's always a part of best practices. However, if your study time is limi…
The first thing to do is to flip around how you think about the relationship between sloppiness and your decision-making. When you say, "trying to move quickly results in sloppy decision making," you've got that backwards. Decision-making is not a c…
I might call this a patch rather than strategy. Good strategy corrects problems. This accepts the problem and seeks to minimize its consequences. And that can absolutely be a part of your approach to the section. But I'd be much more interested to d…
I have not read "A System of Logic," but I trust it is comprehensive and wholly accurate. Mill ranks among the likes of Aristotle and Bertrand Russell as far as great thinkers who've contributed to Logic. He is widely considered the greatest intelle…
You do have consistent weak spots, you just aren't properly identifying them. Question type isn't very helpful beyond the earliest stages, so you've just got to analyze your errors better to figure out what the actual misunderstanding is. The most c…
There's a lot of factors, but the effect of testing anxiety is almost always the biggest factor. Under stress, we prioritize different values on the real test than on PT's. When we are confident in our answers on the real thing, we may take addition…
“What is the assumption?” is not a very good question. First, “the” implies that there is only one right answer to the question. That is rarely the case. While each LSAT question will have one right answer, that answer is almost always one of many p…
Actually, it’s pretty similar for now, though big changes to the logic games section are coming up. The test only went digital in either 2018 or 2019, so even that is a fairly new development. Things have certainly evolved some: RC is more nuanced a…
I wrote a fairly comprehensive introduction on time management in this thread a while back:
https://7sage.com/discussion/#/discussion/27356/finishing-a-section-right-on-time-v-early-and-doing-a-2nd-round
It's just an introduction, but I think it d…
@"Preston Bigley" said:
@"Cant Get Right" Thank you for your initial response.
You challenging the idea of RFS made me think of it in a more practical manner.
You helped me answer my own question, this is the better than any advice!
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TBH, I've never found reading for structure to be even the slightest bit helpful. It's one of those things that sounds intuitive when people say to do it, but when I've pushed back on it, it's just never actually made sense or worked in practice.
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This is a really good question. There is certainly a difference, and I think your follow up question does a lot to reveal the underlying misunderstanding. As stated, there is a difference between the author’s opinion and the main point. However, the…
I will kick things off on this one with a brief discussion/rant against pre-phrasing strategies. In short, pre-phrasing is bad and you shouldn't do it. To find out why--and what to do instead--come and see me this Thursday!
On my third official take, I had so much anxiety I was physically ill afterwards. I spent all day after the test on the bathroom floor--it felt like a really awful hangover minus the headache. So, I was feeling enormous pressure. In spite of such ex…
Just wanted to give an update for this week’s topic of discussion. I know “advanced LR” is a bit broad, so I thought it might be helpful to narrow now that I’ve developed more focus. I’m going to be putting specific emphasis on issues that have thei…
Language is so fascinating. This area of study is what I've most come to love about LSAT. Grammar includes two major sub-fields: syntax and morphology. Syntax is what we really need to study on the LSAT, and it's what we usually think about when we …
@hopexfaithx said:
@"Cant Get Right" Umm. I did study. Four months. 20-25 hours each week.
I’m not suggesting you didn’t. I’m just saying that if you hadn’t (and believe it or not, some people don’t) it would represent immediate opportunity …