Strengthen/Weaken questions are more subtle in that you sometimes have to make not so intuitive inferences to arrive at the correct answer choice. It's sometimes easy to skip over a correct answer choice thinking it's not relevant when in fact it is…
I've found exercising a couple hours before sleeping in the evening helpful when my brain is too worried about the test to sleep. It simply tires you out physically so that you're more easily forced to sleep. The fact that I'm tired after exercising…
Though it's more ideal to be able to not diagram on those questions, when I have the urge to diagram during timed, I sometimes diagram on the questions by underlining words and drawing arrows to indicate conditionality. Saves time.
If my memory serves me correctly, I believe I have seen at least one question where the correct answer choice does strengthen the premise. It still had to do with the premise. I actually think it has to be related to the premise in order to strength…
Congrats! Thanks for sharing what you've been drilling. I've been so bored by drilling so this is giving me motivation to drill those flaw and NA questions!
Interesting. It'd be awesome if the lsatmax watch is allowed but I'm not sure if it's worth the risk, given all the uncertain replies and the fact that we need to take some time to get used to whichever watch we're using for the test. Hmm...
@Rafae…
I do three different kinds of circles too. The key seems to be training yourself to know immediately what kind of circle the question deserves and having a rough idea of where to go to first after you have reached the end of the section. For that re…
Sorry this is not answering your question, but I can't resist the urge to say that I immediately thought of the riddled basin of attraction RC passage when I see the word "riddle" ...It's a sign I've been thinking about RC quite a lot lately haha
Another way to look at this is that "must" is applied to Jack while "every" is applied to Fred. Who must do something if something happens? Jack. Every color someone wears? Who? Fred.
@danielznelson May I ask which passage from PT32 you're planning on going over tonight? (The title of the post says July 20 but I'm assuming that's a typo right?)
It's also helpful to be immediately aware of the four different possibilities the moment you see correlation/causation, looking for aspects that could have similarities/differences in analogies for strengthen/weaken questions. Not exactly the same a…
@JustDoIt I thought you're on vacation. What are you doing here.
But it's probably because you came the time Vanessa wasn't here so she didn't add your name to the list.
@JustDoIt . There. Happy? =P
You can try the Manhattan forum! It's a forum where many have contributed different thoughts. Sometimes even for the questions where I have explanations from 7sage, I've found it helpful to see different perspectives. I just checked PT1. They have m…
I would check your analytics see which areas are your weakest. For a lot of people, this can be the flaws or the necessary assumption questions in LR. Then, visit the fundamentals in these areas. Sometimes we might feel like they're such basic level…
This is going to sound silly but I tie my phone (facing down) to a desk lamp that I place on a dictionary. Sometimes the weight of the phone can let the desk lamp drop, so I tie the lamp to my curtains above the lamp. It pretty much works like one o…
Side note: If you know by Aug 22 that you won't be ready for September, you also have the option to change the test date. I believe you have to pay an additional $100 to postpone the test date, but it's still better than having to pay for another $1…
Many, including myself, have felt this way. It's like we're constantly banging our heads against the wall but the wall is still as sturdy as ever. I know that feeling. I think everything said above is great - I just want to add that a place to start…
I actually have thought about this too, but I have not yet experimented enough with this because I didn't like having to keep the substitution question in mind before doing all the other questions. I'd rather get the lower-hanging fruits on the othe…
hahaha at least @JustDoIt made it eventually. I was wondering where he was the first ten minutes of the call.
Thanks @"Daniel.Sieradzki" for hosting the call!
It's certainly easy to start blaming ourselves for not being smart enough while feeling defeated because of this test. We need to remind ourselves that's not the case. We just gotta keep working towards our goal. Thanks Shireen for the post!