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Jonathan Wang
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To me, you don't 'balance' accuracy in your reading - it is non-negotiable. Without a full and clear understanding of the text on the page, you are at the mercy of every trick in the book. This is especially true in LG and RC, where the questions ar…
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These are going to be great! Sami is wonderful. Can I come learn too???
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I never said it wasn't helpful; I said I don't see it as a huge loss in the grand scheme if you don't have prior work (and I even specifically noted it's not an either-or proposition). I addressed that specific point and my precise reasons for weigh…
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Well, if prior work isn't something you should have to be using anyway, and the better you get the less you need it, then it suggests that as you get better at the test the disadvantage to pen/highlighter (no prior work to crib off of) fades, while …
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I think you've misunderstood my point. Once you achieve mastery of the material, it honestly doesn't matter what you do. You can redraw diagrams, work over a pen diagram with pencil, eat a cheeseburger with one hand while diagramming with the other,…
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I don't see it as much of a cost. I haven't (personally) had to use prior work in a logic game for years, and my students don't seem to miss it much either. From a practical standpoint there are ways to get around that - simply jotting down your va…
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For games where you're not splitting, it's just a straight-up win, especially for games with large/complicated diagrams like grouping/chart games. For games where you're splitting, it doesn't eliminate the need for sub gameboards, but it does force…
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A pen would work even better. I'm guessing s/he's only suggesting to use a highlighter because that's the only non-pencil writing implement s/he's allowed to have in the paper test. I've had my students doing variations of this for years now and it…
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It was actually how the test was administered. In those days ("back in my day..."), you had to write small and write neat. Now that games are split across two pages (the change happened on PT66), this is no longer much of a concern. So just deal wit…
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It's like he doesn't realize that if he gets more time, so does everyone else. If that extra time helps him, it also helps everyone else. It's the exact reason why comparing your BR score to someone else's timed run is useless. The scoring scale con…
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Adam: [But couldn’t] there be a really conscientious hare, who’s fast, who executes, and is also careful on the back end? Malcolm: That’s like saying, can’t we have all basketball players who resemble Michael Jordan? We can’t argue for the p…
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Did you fully understand the question? If not, review it. Just because you happened to end up on the good side of a 60/40 or 70/30 guess doesn't make it any less of a guess, and counting on getting lucky on your 'leans' is a pretty terrible way to b…
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If you picked an answer choice completely randomly and it happened to be correct, would that be sufficient for you to just move on? Obviously not. So why would getting lucky and picking the correct answer while under timed conditions have any specia…
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I generally think it's right to say that it doesn't matter as long as whatever you do works for you, but I figured I'd add my two cents anyway: the more I work with biconditionals the less I like chaining them. My major problem with chaining is that…
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Good job dude.
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I use left-to-right slots and I think it's easier just because it's faster to draw and it maps better (in my opinion) to common sequencing variations like days of a week or spatial arrangements. I only use up-and-down when a specific diagram makes s…
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Negation test it and get a sense of the full meaning before you start relying on specific vocabulary. The negated version of (A) says that there are some workers that are paid significantly more than minimum wage. The core of the answer choice is ab…
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My greatest success story was a student of mine who went 136 -> 148 -> 172 in the space of about 6 months. Not typical by any stretch of the imagination, obviously.
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Ugh! SHHHH, you're giving away the secret...! (but really, good job)
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@username_hello said: thanks for following up! i think AC A in 48.4.23 attacks the premise. it's basically saying that correlation that we thought existed (a premise) -- it actually doesn't exist. A doesn't deny the premise at all. The premi…
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@LCMama2017 No, not gone. A combination of circumstances has caused my (public) writing to fall off a cliff, but I've been continuing to tutor and develop my own theories of the LSAT the entire time (and I chime in from time to time on various threa…
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OK, you asked for it. Wall of text incoming (hide!) I will never defend the notion that reviewing every question is always going to be the most efficient thing for you to be doing at any particular time, but I am 100% sure that it is always worthwh…
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I just retired my (EG-branded!) QCK+ in favor of my new XXL-sized mousepad, but I'm 100% on the SteelSeries mousepad bandwagon - that thing lasted me like five years before the fraying began.
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@"Tim Hortons" said: This is definitely one of the things about NA questions that I want to fix but didn't realize till now. I always felt uncomfortable dismissing an AC just because it seemed "too strong". Thank you for this; super helpful mo…
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I want to chime in here and say that it's one of my biggest LSAT pet peeves when people equate sufficient with strong and necessary with weak. Sometimes you need a miracle (so your necessary assumption needs to be a huge statement), and sometimes a …
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Pick something other than E and see what happens.
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pt50, you say? i might have to come see what y'all are saying about a couple of things contained in that test...
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"Until Bob tells you to stop, put pennies in the jar." So you're there, putting pennies in the jar per your instructions. According to the statement, the only way that ever changes is if Bob tells you to stop. You're obligated to keep on sticking p…
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@kvento said: Yeah but like @akistotle said, it later appeared as a real game in Sep. 2016. So, there could be some funky games from older experimental LG sections from earlier administrations.. right? I'm already nervous lol Right, but how …