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@TheDeterminedC I like the skipping if you don't know the flaw strategy. I don't miss flaws very often any more, but I'm going to try skipping before AC's next time one trips me up.
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What @grantfollis said. And if I was BR'ing this question, the takeaway I would want is what prephrase should I have had before going into the answer choices. E is attractive because it's abstracted, but D sticks out with a solid prediction going in…
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Make sure to push it back against the first part of the setup paragraph "four two-day workshops." So it's saying that every piece is doubled. Push that together and you get rule #2 to get the double-layer setup, and the consecutive pieces are placed…
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I'm in a current grind of RC studying and can struggle with this as well. How is your general RC performance? Are you struggling to finish all of the passages? How much does your accuracy suffer when you feel like you're rushing? That might help peo…
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I hit -0 the first time in the 20's but still got the occasional -6 and usually -2/-3. -0 became regular in the 40s.
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Definitely both. Always worry about accuracy first and the speed will follow. The better you know the material, the better your process will be. And that process is really what you're fool proofing. How do you decide when to split game boards? How d…
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Don't sweat the age. I'll be in my 30's when I apply in the next cycle. Early in my prep I heard a law school grad say they've met a lot of people who wish they had taken more time before law school, and literally zero who say they wish they started…
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NA is a great question type to do lots of untimed practice with. It's definitely good to have strategies when you're down to contenders, but your goal should be to know what you're looking for before you get to AC's. (For tougher questions the negat…
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@tringo335 I kept printed copies of CC games printed out and organized by type as I worked through the CC, and made notes about which ones really bothered me the most. I started the fool proofing method with those, and transitioned from the CC into …
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I used a stopwatch counting up on individual questions (never a full problem set) to help me gauge which question types might need to be revisited sooner. I would only consider doing that if you know it won't make you feel rushed, though. You defini…
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I think The LSAT Trainer has a super helpful section on flaws. On top of that (and probably more importantly) do you save the questions you miss? The more you revisit those same questions post-BR (until they seem painfully obvious to you), the more …
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@LivePumpkin said: Do you all notate a lot in the RC sections? I do not. Way early in my prep I overdid notations (thanks to the Bibles) and then shifted to really making zero marks on the passage. Currently I make a few on maybe 1 or 2 pass…
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@AllezAllez21 said: Reading through a passage in 2:30 is really fast. I would slow down. 3:30 is still a quick read. On average, you've got 8.5 minutes per passage, but that means more like 10 minutes for the hardest passage. I would not hesit…
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Jkatz's skip advice is golden. It's amazing how much easier some questions are with a bit of space. This sounds like just the underlying struggle with LR. It's easy to think it's a specific issue because 1) we feel more frustrated when we ALMOST ge…
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Hi there! I started my study with the PowerScore Bibles, and was absolutely lost on this question. I understood conditionality okay, but had no idea how to apply the lessons to actual questions. For me it started to click during the 7Sage CC in the …
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I think it depends on what you mean by worst. If you are only missing a few per section, then maintaining LG is probably okay depending on what score you want. But if it's like -10 or more per section you probably need to get a better handle on ba…
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There are some questions where you can't help but remember the answer. I stayed away from doing a game several times in a day unless it was a game that REALLY threw me off, that minimized those questions I think. But my overall process that seemed t…
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I'm interested in this answer too. I've relied a lot on The LSAT Trainer's question classification system, but haven't really related every question type to an LR category. I struggle with opinion questions in RC more than most others and would defi…
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This is a little off topic from the dull/sharp pencil thing (I do like the dull pencil idea, though). I bubble after every 2 pages as well, but I do something else that seems to save a bit of time (maybe just for me because I get a little paranoid a…
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I think (but am not sure) that your formulation leads you astray in that both years are starting with 100. Not that your example is not helpful to sorting out the right answer, but it is only a piece of the puzzle. Let's stick with your numbers for…
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Hi there, I think the trap in Answer Choice B is the text in the stimulus "any given individual molecule of substance." However, this is only telling us that any molecule that activates a receptor cannot activate more than one. Nowhere in the stimul…
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This question made it into my "return to frequently" pile, and I was actually just reviewing it again the other day. It is a pain of a stimulus for sure. For me the trick to this one is not letting it divert your attention away from what the actual …
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Thank you!