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Jonathan Wang
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You get overconfident, then underconfident. It's not a question of feeling like shit about yourself going into test day necessarily, it's a question of properly calibrating your mental state so you're not swinging wildly up and down like the stock m…
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@"Seeking Perfection" said: You can feel free to take the Nickelback linear algebra exam for me. I struggled through Calc 3 and 4.0'd it recently enough to take the 96 hours and run rather than studying math for many many times longer. And who…
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Only in places like 7Sage would this exercise be considered "fun"
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If you do (and I think you should, albeit at a lower priority level than the 'normal' games), you need to make sure you're not just memorizing the steps of the particular game, and instead figuring out how you should tackle it when starting fresh. "…
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Test date change deadline is 1/9, so you have about a week to figure out whether your momentum is going to translate to actual score gains or if you'll spend all that time just trying to play catch-up to the position that you were in before. Importa…
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How many of you bought a spare copy of an LSAC publication for the express purpose of mangling it when frustrated? Be honest.
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I don't love TLS. I think a lot of the good information gets somewhat counteracted by the brazenly blanket statements and the undercurrent of elitism, and therefore often gets lost in the shuffle. But, I also have found that a lot of the people who …
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Sure, it bothers me that I cannot intuitively understand the reason that the translation works every time, but at least I can trust myself to translate it correctly, quickly, which I think is key to getting through the LSAT. Not being able to i…
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I think the moral of the story is to practice with diapers from the start.
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@"Grace..." said: Wow, @"Jonathan Wang" Did you study the violin?? Sarasate, Wieniawski, Kreutzer, Sevcik, Wohlfahrt.... A pleasant surprise to hear those names in this LSAT community, especially from you. I practiced them very diligently as w…
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This is easily my favorite post in recent memory. Practicing etudes, although boring at times, helps my techniques, which ultimately helps me perform my concertos much better. The etude bit is spot on. You'll never be forced to perform any etu…
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To answer your question directly - no, not typical. But the better answer, in my opinion, is that it doesn't matter if it's typical, it only matters that you fix it. Only you can tell whether you missed those questions due to anxiety (or some other…
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If you were one of my students and went 152 -> 160 in one month, I'd immediately put that into the 'major win' category. Double digit improvement in a one-month timeframe is very rare, and is not even necessarily a function of time (which is cert…
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Your focus should pretty clearly be on LR, as you're missing the most questions on the section that appears twice. If you're only getting 35-36 questions right in LR, you can more or less forget about a 168; -15 is already more than your entire allo…
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As I understand it, schools are forced to report your LSAT score if you have one. So yeah, it'll likely tank your application - Harvard, Columbia, and Northwestern historically haven't been too keen on 145s. Plus, though we obviously have no empiri…
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When I was a 1L at the age of 21, one of my classmates was a 32-year-old Korean dude. Met him at orientation. You know what we called him? Our friend.
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How much Destiny 2 did you play in the leadup to the LSAT, and do you think you could have unlocked the mystery box if you'd played more?
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Who arranges these things? Can I do one too?
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I don't want to speak too much for JY, as he's quite capable of speaking up for himself. That said, when we were working on PreProBono together/in the early days of 7Sage, our mutual question on biglaw was always - "why?" I don't think either of us …
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How can you answer a question about a piece of reasoning if you don't know what's being claimed and why?
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@uhinberg said: Quickly browsing the games is anyway a good idea. Sometimes, it is clear that the third game is the hardest, and it might be a good idea to leave that for last. As an aside, I was thinking: If LSAC really wanted to test An…
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How can you tell what's important and what's not in an argument without reading and understanding the whole thing first?
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Inconsistency stems from poor fundamentals. Scoring lower when you slow down means you're not getting questions right even when you have extra time to think about them, and that's very very bad. Put it this way - if you answered questions with a 100…
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Oh dear. "Legendary" overshoots the mark a fair bit, though I don't mind the compliment
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Yeah you don't want a prep course, you want the proctored tests. Various test prep companies (I know Manhattan does this) offer free proctored tests, usually as a promotion for their course, but you can usually ask to bring your own test. Or, find y…
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"Looser" is not the correct term. The answer choices are as tight and objectively/independently justifiable as ever - they're just not as cookie-cutter as before. None of the things dzn mentioned above (and a lot of that is in fact happening) make …
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ATTA BOY TIMMY! GO GET EM!
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I don't think I've ever seen it, but I don't know if that's because it doesn't ever happen, if I'm wrong and it does actually happen, or if I'm just going senile and don't remember either way. That's why if anyone has an example, I'd love to have a …
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We need to distinguish between directly attacking a premise and "knocking out" a premise in the colloquial sense. Directly attacking a premise means denying the truth of the statement. "Knocking out" a premise, at least if I'm understanding your us…
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I would love to see an example of the LSAC attacking a premise to weaken an argument, if anyone finds one please PM me the citation.