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@saraheq1 thanks for the heads up about that video - I'm putting it on my LSAT to-do list! I time myself by page turns on LR - when I fill in the bubbles - and every five questions. My goal is to make it to the last two pages in 20-25 minutes. My n…
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I don't think there's a clean answer to this unfortunately. After doing dozens and dozens of LG sections, one of the goals is to learn when you're just spinning your wheels on a game, as well as how much time you typically spend on games based on 1)…
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Congrats!!
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Congratulations!!
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I see where you're coming from. In my reading of it, though, "species" is a referential phrase referring to "bacterial species" - the relationship is established as well as it needs to be in the first three words of the premise. The specificity is r…
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Always once. You never know when he's going to drop a glowing nugget of logic game brilliance.
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It sounds like you might have a Sufficient Assumption answer in mind rather than strengthen. The correct answer does only tell us that there's a correlation, but that correlation is more information than we had before on the link between textbook in…
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I had a similar experience on some early post-CC sections. I immediately started BRing the entire section. I don't think I'm ever going to be 100% rid of overconfidence mistakes, and doing the whole section just eliminates the risk of not BRing a mi…
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@ATLsat_2019 Yep! I haven't seen the PT24 one - I'll check it out before June! The music LR questions I've run into have definitely caused me to go into over-analyzing mode. The LG about saxophone auditions was a much more pleasant experience haha
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Had that experience on LR questions so I know the frustration. The only RC passage that hit super close to home for me was the Arnold Schoenberg one. It's such a niche topic I think I lucked out. They relied a lot on the music terminology being what…
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I did the RC Bible before 7sage. If you're entirely new to the test, it's nice to have such a thorough breakdown of parameters that matter like POV, tone, etc., but for me the process they lay out is way too cumbersome. I won't say I didn't get anyt…
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Probably not with that little time. If you struggle with RC, you might get a bit of help on how to attack passages. Your last month is probably better spent on reinforcing what you've already got from 7sage.
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Definitely not memorizing. Watch his setup, and as soon as he makes a choice that you didn't, pause to the video and see how far you can take it from that new position. If it's a game that really threw me, I like to have a second clean copy ready to…
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I did the Bibles, then 7Sage, then picked up the Trainer after seeing lots of good reviews in these forums. Like others have said, it's a solid compliment to the CC - at least in LR and RC. I did the whole book, but I can't say it did much for my LG…
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Even more glad I did that digital LSAT for a free one now
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It took me about a month and a half. I would aim to do a new LG section at least every other day, then review it the next. I kept a stack of games that needed more than the just the second day review on my desk and started my day doing 4+ of those, …
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I didn't take a months long total break, but I fell into a really light study routine from November through January. Same thing you described happened. My LG score plummeted when I came back to timed sections (went from -0/-1 to as low as -7). Reall…
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On average you're going to find questions rated as more difficult towards the end, but that doesn't mean they're going to be difficult for you or that the easier ones early on are going to be easier for you. I've found a couple of 1 or 2 star questi…
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Whoa! Thanks, 7sage!
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@jkatz1488 said: When it's conditional logic, I'll map it out it if I can't keep track of it. As I've become more and more comfortable, I'm mapping out less and less. I used to have to skip these questions too and save them for my second round…
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Yeah! My impression is you might benefit from laying off full PT's for a bit. Do a section per day. Review the day of or the next day. Focus on missing fewer per section rather than stressing over the the score of the whole PT. Again, I'd do them wi…
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You say your BR takes you days - are you only BRing after the full test? Are you always sitting for full timed PTs? I gained a lot of ground when I started doing a single section and reviewing it right after or sometimes the next day. (Generally I d…
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That is definitely frustrating to see such a big gap. The good news is your BR score seems to say the comprehension is there (definitely keeping aiming for the 179/180 range, though). It looks like the plan you laid out at the end is pretty solid.…
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That's awesome! I didn't do a fully scored PT for a long time after the CC, but my score only got better on LG and dropped in both of the other sections afterwards (they've more than rebounded since). It can take months and months to really reap all…
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I wouldn't read too much into it. Focus on the average, and assume the 171 and 164 are outliers. If that average drops from 167 down to 165, then dive in and see what specific scores are trending downards. Maybe it was just a single tough game or a …
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@"Adam Hawks" I was still in a stage of prep where I was not going full force on a PT schedule. I had that schedule fairly mapped out (and am in the midst of it now). During that RC grind, I didn't want to burn any tests that I had included in that …
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You can do it either way because there are only two rows (or columns if you set it up that way for some reason). I do it as a double layer sequencing board just because that's how I would likely interpret it on a similar game in the future. The fact…
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I started to see the most improvement when I just started doing a few things. 1) In general - more timed RC sections. As it was my worst section I was hesitant to just dive in early on. When I was hammering RC hardest I was doing at least a section…
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I've learned that my accuracy goes down when I feel the time crunch even if I know I have enough time to finish. So I started getting super aggressive with skipping in LR/RC so I could be sure to finish the last question by the time 5 minutes remain…
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I finished the CC in April, and started getting -0/-1 in September I think. Keep up BRing, practice skipping strategies (VERY important - made a huge difference for me when I started skipping right away if a stimulus didn't make sense), and I would …