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@hrjones44 kudos to you! And bravo for telling people your journey. I'm in the same boat. Keep at it!
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I'm 10 years removed from grad school (though I have been an SAT tutor for the past few years). I started studying 4 1/2 months ago with an initial diagnostic of 141. Since then, I've gone through the 7Sage Curriculum, perused the LSAT Trainer, glan…
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Just be careful @"Quick Silver” . You’ll find that Manhattan uses examples from PTs 36-45 in the book. I actually had to put my book down because I was skipping entire sections to avoid reading a passage that I was destined to take at a later date. …
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Sounds like performance anxiety because I’m pretty sure you got your fundamentals down. Do you meditate?
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@blah170blah enjoy it. It’s been a long time since I had only one thing to do, and that time was when I was on my paternity leave from work for 2 weeks, and that one thing to do was staying awake all day and all night to take care of infant twins. I…
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Sorry. I did PT 38 this weekend. Blame @amanda_kw. Her brilliant explanation in T's Progress Journal scared me off doing a later test until I’ve got my fundamentals down (which I equate with a BR 180). But I plan on hitting the Group BR hard and hea…
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5 PTs? Plus 5x 3 extra sections!? Whoa! You're an LSAT Monster!
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@"Jonathan Wang" Would you recommend any other sources to learn formal logic in addition to 7Sage? I love what JY has done here, but I feel like my understanding of why Logic works the way it does is a little insufficient.
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Will do 60 next week. I do 1 PT/2weeks
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Agreed, the Cambridge packets give you a good number of problems to drill, but in terms of curriculum and understanding fundamentals, LSAT Trainer and Manhattan LR and RC are great supplemental strategy guides. While there will certainly be a good …
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I, too, will be there for PT 60 next Saturday!
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@nicole.hopkins Enjoy Amish Country!
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@blah170blah a well reasoned argument, as I’d expect.
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The Blind Review/Blind Answer explanation (Typing out explanations for all 52 LR questions) of PT 36 took up almost all of my time last week. I improved from my diagnostic (141) to (154) and my BR from 153 to 167. This week, I’m spending time obse…
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Me too. @"Dillon A. Wright" , I'm sure though, is on it
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To add, I just read in the Manhattan answer explanations that a good way to think about negated necessary assumptions are flaws that "fail to consider" something (rather than "take for granted" which is usually my fallback for thinking about flaws) …
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Careful. What you are asking, on a public forum no less, is for one of us to commit copyright infringement. Not the best way to start a legal career.
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@blah170blah I so needed to hear that it’s taken over a year for you to get to where you are. While I’ve improved 13 points from my initial diagnostic, I’m nowhere near my goal score (Heck, my BR score hasn’t hit my goal score). Your post reinforces…
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I think @"Nilesh S" is using it.
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How's your BR score?
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Wow! Impressive. I’ll keep an eye out for that. Once again, thank you.
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RE:Primary. Is that a concept/trend that you’ve just picked up or does any “educational source” discuss it. i’d love to understand the framework for it. Shoot. Yes, I totally talked myself into (C) because (E) felt too perfect (again, I have this …
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by the way, HUGE THANK YOU! Also, I kept thinking that (E) was a Sufficient Assumption too. Am I right about that?
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(E) was my front runner. But for some reason, I kept looking at the negated version of (C) (The primary concern in a legal system is NOT to administer punishments that are just.) and thinking. Well, that would wreck the argument. Hence, my paralysis…
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And thanks @blah170blah and @nicole.hopkins for your speedy replies.
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It’s weird. I get it from a theoretical standpoint (SAs fill the gap, NAs don’t have to, required, but not helpful, necessary but not enough, negation test will wreck the argument, etc...). But once I have to apply it to a question (like PT 36, 1, #…
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@blah170blah did you get that from Manhattan? Right now, I’m BR-ing PT 36 s.1. #20 (been staring and thinking about this question for over 30 minutes now. At this rate, I’ll never find out my score) and I’m paralyzed because I’m worried the answer I…
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I'm interested. Thanks
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Gotcha. Yeah, I totally misunderstood. Cool, that’s my plan. Thanks!
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Thanks @alexroark5 ! I have a follow-up question. GENERALLY, why is that? I’m not saying that to be difficult, honest. I know it just seems like conventional wisdom, but what does one actually gain by completing them in sequential order?