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Flaw Questions: Steps to take when you cant see the flawHi All, I had the chance to do an LR question again for a recent tutoring session and noticed a few things that could be helpful for your prep. O…
... missed it in the first read is remember “the reasoning ... many times to cope with a potentially hard-to-understand stimulus, where ... knowing what steps to take and then knowing when to disengage. The ... if you are going to attempt another read, make sure you ... -
Flaw Questions: Steps to take when you cant see the flawHi All, I had the chance to do an LR question again for a recent tutoring session and noticed a few things that could be helpful for your prep. O…
... missed it in the first read is remember “the reasoning ... many times to cope with a potentially hard-to-understand stimulus, where ... knowing what steps to take and then knowing when to disengage. The ... if you are going to attempt another read, make sure you ... -
Reading slow and ADD/ADHD for LR.Hello all, For the longest time I was hitting around -10 in LR while still understanding the review and having a higher BR scores of -3/-4 per se…
... well. When I'm in that zone I go -0 to -2 ... . Super hard to read slowly and deliberately though ... zone? I've tried to force myself to read slowly, but even then ... just solely focus on the stimulus and the argument presented and ... -
Help Comprehending StimulusHello everyone, I've noticed that one of my main problems (other than timing, which I hope will come with time - pun intended) is not understandin…
... not understand the language when they get to what you're ... It's hard to ask for help when you don't ... important vs unimportant in a stimulus, understanding sufficient/necessary and contrapositives ... what is important and how to read stimuli. That will come in ... -
A huge Thank You to JY and 7Sage!I got 173 and I hope JY can see my post, because I couldn't do it without the curriculum and the blind reviews. I also hope JY still remembers me, si…
... _A Self-Training Guild to LSAT_, Powersocre, Manhattan, ... to learn the curriculum. For example, I didn't know when I read ... a stimulus, I should first ... important to do so in order to get to the ... me to listen and watch videos when I learn ... -
LR: tips to hit -0Hey Everyone, I just scored a 16-high on the November LSAT (with a small proctoring issue), and am signed up for the January exam, hoping that ano…
... the stimulus is asking. Unlike LR, you have to pay ... very very close attention to every single word in the stimulus ... . My panic also clouded my ability to retain ... passage. When you read, you want to be like trying to anticipate things ... -
How do you typically approach an LR question?I'm really curious to know some of y'all's process. Mike Kim talks about prioritizing the right information, not necessarily ALL of the information i…
... work for everyone. I used to read the question stem first as ... difference *for me* was to read the stimulus first. I found that by ... I had found the conclusion when I hadn't, but because ... they NEED to have a goal in mind when tackling the stimulus and ... -
PT1.S4.Q12 - A recent study found that snoringI found this one very tricky. As for AC A, I think I understand that AC A meets the target by introducing a third party, stress, that could be re…
When I read through AC D one ... know from the stimulus. Compare AC D to the first sentence ... of 100 smokers snoring. To use a slightly more intuitive ... stand.
Remember when you're reading through these ... We're being asked to weaken the argument not ... -
When you begin a question, do you first identify what type of question it is?By type I mean MBT, Sufficient Assumption, etc. Just curious if you guys first identify it, then solve the question in a way that is unique to each t…
... of the stimulus, I knew I was ready to be ... few points overnight. But when I tried it out ... know _how to use the question stem to read the stimulus to my ... stimuli ... keep in mind when we learn things on ... not a mindless commitment to details at the expense ... -
Posting on Behalf of a 7Sage User: Struggling with retaining what I've learned. Any suggestions?<strong> [I am posting on behalf of a 7Sage user. Please feel free to leave your comments below. Thank you for your help!] </strong> My biggest ch…
... strategies. It's much easier to recount things in categories. So ... read the question stem first. Practice reading the stimulus carefully and attempting to ... at the question stem. When you read a flaw stimulus, you will ideally ... -
Posting on Behalf of a 7Sage User: Struggling with retaining what I've learned. Any suggestions?<strong> [I am posting on behalf of a 7Sage user. Please feel free to leave your comments below. Thank you for your help!] </strong> My biggest ch…
... read the question stem first. Practice reading the stimulus carefully and attempting to ... at the question stem. When you read a flaw stimulus, you will ideally ... down in trying to remember the best approach to the question stem ... -
Careful Reading DifficultyHey everyone, I was wondering if people had any tips -- What I've found I struggle with the most is close-reading on the LSAT, specifically Logical …
... , conclusion indicators, words used to transition from context to arguments (but, although ... people provide is to slow down when reading the stimulus, especially on harder ... the answer choices, not when you read the stimulus. Once you finish the ... -
Weaken QuestionsI am struggling so hard in these. Does anyone have any pointers?? I feel like I'm so close sometimes, then during BR I change my right answer to the …
... not fully understand the stimulus, making it difficult to identify the correct ... , implications, or irrelevant facts. When I read these ACs I usually just ... , neutral, or irrelevant to the argument.
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PT2.S2.Q21 - One method of dating the emergenceI chose correctly during the actual PT but picked wrong during BR. I'm having trouble finding the conclusion in the passage to find the correct infer…
... can be fairly confident when you read stimuli such as this that ... it's going to ask you to ... />
AC A: The stimulus tells us nothing about what ... genetically similar two species are to each other, the more recently ... -
PT2.S2.Q21 - One method of dating the emergenceI chose correctly during the actual PT but picked wrong during BR. I'm having trouble finding the conclusion in the passage to find the correct infer…
... be fairly confident when you read stimuli such as ... this that it's going to ask you to ... /> > AC A: The stimulus tells us nothing about what ... similar two species are to each other, the more ... and raccoons diverged 30 to 50 million years ago ... -
Stimulus or Question Type First?hi all! Happy Friday!! Ellen Cassidy (EC) from Loophole is a strong proponent of the former but some disagree. I have been studying for about …
... usually read the stimulus first, but am trying to make it a habit to read ... an annoying, abstract, hard-to-understand stimulus only to realize that it was ... time rereading the stimulus and trying to understand it when I didn't ... -
PT3.S2.Q18 - Ian Ragnall's articleI got tricked. I did not pay enough attention to the words. I chose option answer E, but it says "most articles" whereas C has "Ragnall's" which is m…
... ." This is referring back to Ragnall's conclusion. This ... reject flaw, which is when the author asserts that the ... in this stimulus, the author is merely pointing to another possible ... you. At first when I read the stimulus and read the answer choices, ... -
Always choose wrong AC pf 2 ACs in LR...Please Help!I have noticed a pattern for a while where I often am down to two answer choices in LR and whenever this happens I typically choose the wrong answer …
... my own methods to cope with the situation when I'm down ... -to-two.
Like ... for your attention - makes you read answer choices very literally and ... for you to notice: this is not relevant to the stimulus in that ... -
PTF97 S3 Q16 - Zebra mussels a nusiance. MSS Question**Hi All,** This is my first post, so if I make any major "faux pas", please let me know. This post is regarding a MSS question on PT Feb 1997, Se…
... AC.
Another way to read this AC would be: "If ... out this premise from the stimulus: "**Since** the mussels feed ... and should be taken seriously. When the LSAT overlords wrote "even ... the mussels? Or assuming that when the LSAT writers said " ... -
Flaw LR Questions Tips NeededHello everyone! I am consistently getting flaw or descriptive weaking questions wrong. No matter what I do, I just cannot improve. Does anyone have t…
... on test day, but when there are 2 answers like ... answer is meant to be written to sound good, that ... aspect of the questions to heart because it will ... you will be able to read them and tell right ... steps in understanding the stimulus and eliminating the wrong ... -
PT93.S2.Q19 - No new course will be approved for next year’s scheduleWas anyone else completely stumped on how to even go about this question? I’d love to be able to discuss it._
... anyone else.
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E) Similar to B, we don't know ... br /> I misread the stimulus and thought the first ... mistake. When coming back to skipped questions, need to read the stimulus carefully for ... -
Advice for getting to -0 on logic gamesHey guys, Sorry if this seems a bit naive but I'm hoping there's a bit of 'secret sauce' to help me get over this plateau I've hit. I'm taking …
... , the best order is read stimulus and rules, then write ... takes you five minutes to perfect. It feels less ... question type, and then when I get the final ... by getting you used to working with that time ... then incrementing it up to increase your confidence--at ... -
Help: Time IssuesI know mine is not a unique problem, but I am wondering if anyone has advice. When I have the time to slowly go through each question, I have great a…
... changer for me with regards to time. When I identify the question ... what method to take when I am looking at the stimulus.
to read the stimulus from the pov that ... -
Weakening QuestionsFor some reason, I am having a lot of trouble for weakening questions in LR. For me, it is just intuitively hard to wrap my head around and go throug…
... to support a conclusion strongly, head into the answer choices. When I read ... an answer choice, I think to myself "Does ... conclusion when taken directly with the other information in the stimulus?" Usually ... -
Necessary AssumptionsHi guys, I went through the curriculum for necessary assumption questions and I am still not showing improvement in any of the PTs I am taking. I was…
... fit together to lead to the conclusion?”. When I approach ... stimulus. But again, I don’t try and pre-phrase. Then, when ... I get to looking at answer ... br /> Read stimulus and identify premises and conclusion
Repeat to yourself ... -
PTA.S1.Q11 - Building a space station...I was wondering if anyone could explain why the correct answer is A, considering that there is no mention of robots in the stimulus. How was that a n…
... looking for the answer choice, when negated, that will absolutely obliterate ... missions to explore to mars. Therefore, given the info in the stimulus, we ... more correct, it would need to read something like
"The space ... -
PT13.S4.Q19 - Alternative MedicineSo I understood that to weaken the claim against alternative medicine in the stimulus, I needed to find an answer showing any evidence that alternati…
... Most of the stimulus is pretty irrelevant to the question, and ... to refute, so we have to weaken this sentence. When I first read the stimulus ... the point of the stimulus seems like they're ... receive (and chooses to receive according to the stimulus).
No improvement in Timed, Massive in BlindWondering if anyone has had this experience: I started studying for this test seriously around mid-June, and plan on taking it in September. My diagn…
... say spending thirty seconds to read the stimulus, taking a look at ... choices and then deciding to skip is not a ... goal for myself not to spend more then 1 ... question (give or take). When I have hit that time ... skipping those and trying to get to the questions that ...I have a 100% failure rate on weakening and strenthening questionsIt seems like I am incapable at doing the strengthening and weakening questions. I read the answer choices and just think that none of them make sens…
... time upfront with the stimulus. When you master the stimulus, the questions become ... you to actively engage in this manner with the stimulus as you read ... it. You never want to read passively.
Goals for Timed SectionsHello, I was listening to a 7sage podcast and the hosts mention having clear set goals that you establish before taking a drill, timed practice test,…
... unanswered when the time runs out.
Questions to ask yourself to ... /> What does it mean to read the stimulus carefully? Not glossing over words ... /> What does it mean to understand the stimulus completely? Details? Argument structure ...
