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Jonathan Wang
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This is right on the mark, and I'm glad you shared your experience with everyone. I tell my students this on a regular basis, but I think it naturally resonates more coming from a peer/colleague/fellow recent-test-taker. And, don't forget the best …
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Don't bring your phone. Don't even think about bringing your phone. If you get caught with it, on or off, you're done. Some proctors will let you leave your phones with them, but they are breaking the rules by doing so. In my view, not a good idea t…
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LSAC offices are closed from 12/24-1/1 for the holidays, so stop wasting your time and go enjoy the season!
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Any time they ask you a weaken/strengthen/flaw/SA/NA, the argument is by definition not valid. They can potentially be valid otherwise. Remember that they can always "just" ask you to find a main conclusion or identify an argument part instead of a…
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In hindsight, it looks like I attributed too much intent for this addendum to Danielle and not enough to her advisor. Her post is indeed just asking whether she should write the thing, not actively asking how you'd put one together or otherwise sayi…
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Addendum to the above, again to the original poster - it sounds to me like you've already bought into your own hype, so to speak. Your entire post operates under the assumption that you're better than your LSAT score, and so your low score is proof …
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Correlation is not causation. The LSAT is correlated very strongly with law school performance, much stronger than UGPA, but that doesn't mean every person who scores well on the LSAT is going to do well in law school. On a very large scale, the LSA…
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Full disclosure: I'm biased. Though I'm not actively involved in 7Sage's business operations, I'm good friends with JY, featured in some instruction in the course, and had at least a small part to play in the course's development. That being said, …
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Just like all big commercial prep companies, your experience with TestMasters will largely depend on the instructor you get and how good s/he is at conveying that curriculum. It's not that JY or I have a brilliant never-before-seen methods of tackli…
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It was not my intent to "chew you out", and if it came across that way I apologize for that. I'll leave it up in its original form for others to decide exactly how big a jerk they think I am, but know that it wasn't my intent to just be mean to you,…
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"I feel that my poor performance is that I am looking for a solution that doesn't necessarily have an exact answer." No, your problem is in the above quote. Rather than work on the skills you are deficient in, you are blaming the test. Your stateme…
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How dare you badmouth Mountain Dew Baja Blast?! Everyone knows that The Holy Drink sends peoples' IQs soaring, as well as making them incredibly handsome during the period of consumption. You are officially out of the family. OUT OF THE FAMILY. On…
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You know as well as I do that it's "chattels", Alan. Or maybe you don't, which might then lead to a conclusion or two about your performance in real property back at good ol' HLS ;-)
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The contrapositive is not the same as the negation. Never forget that. The negation changes the meaning of your statement; the contrapositive's express purpose is to keep meaning the same. The negation is one step in taking a contrapositive, but the…
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Regardless of what the 'best' way is to do things, you won't fix this in six days. If you're dead set on taking the December, DO NOT change what you're doing five days before test day - all you'll do is confuse yourself. What you're doing now may no…
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The original post acknowledges that there are no guaranteed shortcuts, but I want to make that point crystal clear, and also add in that even entertaining these shortcuts can be destructive. If you are using shortcuts like these in lieu of evaluat…
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LSAC rates the difficulty of every question in the SuperPrep book, so you can look to that book if you want to start putting together a general idea. To my knowledge there are no official difficulty ratings for any other published question.
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First - the LSAC needs the February LSAT to carry exactly the same weight as any other administration, implying that it will be created, equated, and otherwise treated exactly the same way as any other test. Because you're not directly scored agains…
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You actually do have to see the flaw to strengthen or weaken. Whether you do it consciously is one thing, but the fundamental idea there is simply not up for debate. If you don't know what's wrong with an argument, you have no basis for strengthenin…
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You should be fluent enough in conditional logic to not have to write down any contrapositives for simple conditionals (e.g. A -> . You can get away with writing down contrapositives for complex conditionals (e.g. A or B -> C) if you struggle …
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It's potentially enough time, but 164 to 170 is a big leap that some people never make, so don't be shocked if you cut it close or maybe don't even get there. If LG is your problem then that's pretty doable; if your problems are in RC/LR it'll be to…
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Yeah, I recorded most of those at a time where I didn't have a nice audio setup like I do now. Sorry about that. I promise that any future videos that come from me will have much better sound quality.
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You're meant to print the PDFs out double-sided. They're formatted specifically to ensure that if you print the whole test out double-sided, both the LG and RC sections will be on facing pages exactly as they'll appear in the test booklet.
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If you know in advance what the gap/flaw in the stimulus is, such that an answer choice can 'remind' you of it, haven't you already prephrased it on some level? And if you don't know in advance what the gap/flaw in the stimulus is, how on earth will…
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Sorry if this sounds harsh, but you need to stop worrying about timing your application and start worrying about your ability to handle simple sequencing games. It doesn't matter when you submit your application if you don't have a score that gets y…
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As other posters have said - do not, under any circumstances, take the September 27 LSAT. I also question why you're so dead set on applying to law school within this cycle; "because that's the plan" is not a good reason. Three months is doable for …
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I'll leave it to JY to decide whether he wants to share his personal specifics (though I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you), but I'll say this - I don't think he would call himself a natural. Even if he was, it wouldn't be something to boast abo…
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Definitely the money. Eventually, came to the same conclusion that I did the first time around - not worth it. I may not make 160k/yr as a tutor, but I also get to enjoy my life.
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One thing I've learned from a lot of my law school friends is that they rationalize their misery, so you can't really ask what they think about their jobs and expect an honest answer. I recently had two friends move from big law firms - one to an in…
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Don't beat yourself. That's it. Stay calm (meaning do whatever it takes to get rid of the "shock factor" before you even think about attempting anything, no matter how long it takes), make sure you understand the rules, diagram as best you can, an…