Let me answer your questions in turn.
"How are we supposed to know what leads to decreased vulnerability in cancer?"
1a. You're supposed to know this through causal reasoning. If X gives rise to situation Y, and we want to decrease Y from happe…
The passage doesn't state that reducing stress helps weakened immune systems. The passage states that (1) support groups are good because they reduce patient stress and (2) a weakened immune system increases vulnerability to cancer. The assumption r…
I'll add a Fourth. Foolproof games! Spend a weekend literally foolproofing 30-40 games of different types (possibly the games on the 7Sage curriculum).
There's no right or wrong way to go about studying. If you're okay with taking a gap year, then do that. People have scored 170+ while working full time jobs and raising children, though, so it's not as if studying for the LSAT while going to uni an…
These were my worst questions when I took my diagnostic, but have quickly became one of my favorites to do. On my most recent PT, I got no strengthen/weaken/etc. questions wrong. Here's my strategy.
First, I identify the premise and the conclusion,…
For easy SA questions, I do the logic in my head. Often times, on easy ones, you'll get something like:
If the bank closes late on Saturday, then they open early on Monday. The bank closed late last Saturday. Therefore, John will get bagels for the…
Six hours of hardcore studying 5x a week, give or take one hour. Some days I'm feeling inspired and pull an eight hour session. Other days I feel burnt out, and do only four. In addition, I usually spend about an hour before sleep each night reviewi…
If your two main issues are (1) Must Be True and (2) Parallel Reasoning, it seems likely that you're having trouble with questions that test your knowledge of conditional, i.e., formal, logic. You may be able to answer a decent number of questions o…
That's fine. The important thing is to understand the strategy first. With practice, timing will follow.
I faced this as well. When I first started, it would take me as much as five or ten minutes past J.Y.'s estimates to finish a Logic Game. Over …