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Know someone who got it without any "not so optional" essays, so it clearly is not necessary.
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The other change in his method is that he now does all questions that add a premise first, and then returns to the "naked" must be true/could be true questions.
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I actually take Georgetown's Dean of Admissions at his word, that he believes that the GRE is just as good of an indicator as LSAT (meaning, they're both equally lousy indicators). I get the impression from what I've read that many admission officer…
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Since scores are relative to other test takers, who cares whether the test is easier. Unless you are saying that the pool of GRE test takers are weaker to begin with?
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If it was never true that increased consumer demand led to an increase in prices, then yes, the argument would fall apart, because one of the premises would be contradicted (but you wouldn't see such an answer on the LSAT, b/c the LSAT is not really…
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The cause over here is a premise. The argument is that the government is therefore responsible. The premise can be correct even if it is possible that consumer demand does not necessarily lead to gasoline prices increasing. The consumer advocate is …
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In our case, my point applies to "as a result," not the word "because."
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BTW, 56 2.25 is great question that brings out this point about "because" not always being an indicator for support for a conclusion. It's a crucially important point, and I recommend that everyone look at that question carefully, and internalize th…
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The argument here stipulated that in this case the increase was in consumer demand led to an increase. But that does not necessarily assume that that has to be the case. Perhaps in other cases, increased demand doesn't lead to an increase. Here "bec…
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When you are given additional information in a question, do you immediately draw the game board and just dive in, or do you spend a few seconds thinking about what the new information does to the game board?
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@LSATcantwin said: So any ideas on what to do in order to keep things fresh? Obviously I could take PT's in the 30's but for whatever reason I score significantly higher on early PT's than I do on later ones. That's great; you'll go into t…
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Why are you referring to them as "not so optional"?
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@"Alex Divine" said: @kimmy_m66 Doggone it, I really need to stop taking PTs in my boxers, lmao. Unless that's how you plan taking the actual test. There are not rules against that, to my knowledge.
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@lsatplaylist said: What do you think about this: "due to this fact"? I'd need to see the paragraph to get a better idea. Never, ever use "due to this fact"! Unnecessarily wordy; "Because of this" is much better.
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@"Paul Caint" It's not a question of big/small. Cognizant is just too stuffy.
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There is almost no situation in which "cognizant" is superior to "aware." Using more complicated words than necessary does not reflect well on the writer. There are style guides that give this as an example of overly fancy language that should be av…
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I write for a living, and this is a good rule of thumb: Never use a more complicated word when a simpler one will do. The purpose of a large vocabulary is to always have at one's disposal the perfect word to describe a particular situation. So, when…
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Congratulations! It's cases like these that make me so angry at those who try to discourage retaking the LSAT (LSAC, some T-14 websites) with the misleading argument that most people don't improve much anyway.
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I'll second was @akistotle said. There is still enough time to make strides with foolproofing.
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Not sure that the evidence supports this, but could it be that its a stamina issue?
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Is there a pattern, i.e., are you always doing better on the first?
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@"Cant Get Right" gave a class about this I think. It may have been recorded, in which case it should be available on Youtube.
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J.Y. once said that if the LSAT had come easy to him, he would have been a terrible teacher. Sometimes, those with an innate ability to do something at a very high level are so unrepresentative of the norm, that it is hard to learn how to succeed f…
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Maybe someone should try Gladwell's 10,000 hr rule for the LSAT.
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I requested it after pressing on the button, and received a waiver.
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Possible, yes. Probable, no. When you get to -2 per LR you are in the elite echelon. Getting from -8 to -2 usually takes quite a bit of time.
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Got it on Friday!
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There is probably never a case where you have to brute force. LSAC could not care less whether you have brute forcing skills. They want to see whether you can make inferences. That's why the games are designed so that it's really hard to finish them…
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This is what I've been saying for months: These LSAC people think they're giving an aptitude test (which is really the only way the test could be predictive anyhow), but they've failed miserably, b/c the test is eminently learnable, and in no way te…
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This paragraph, quoting the president of LSAC, is shocking and disturbing: Testy told me she too once took the LSAT, though she doesn't remember her score. Unlike many of today's students, she didn't spend months studying. "Honestly, I didn't even …