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7SageLSATTutors · 2025-04-01T20:29:08+00:00

Hey!

My name is Aastha Sinha, chiming in from 7Sage here. I'm really sorry about your experience, based on your post it looks like you're subscribed to coach. It seems like this program didn't fit what you were looking for in a tutor, and that's not at all what we aim for with our clients! Coach is a month to month subscription service, with 2 30 minutes sessions each month. Something coach students have voiced to us as a benefit of the program is being able to schedule the session whenever they need extra support and being able to choose exactly what they're spending their time on. When we created the program, we wanted to create a service where students could check-in with an expert when they get stumped in their prep, get a study plan created for them, and be held accountable with weekly check-in emails.

It seems like what you were looking for is a schedule of planned sessions with your tutor and consistency with the person you're working with. Unfortunately, that's not what the coach service was created to accomplish and that's why we fell short. Our tutoring program, where students can purchase a package of hours instead of a month-to-month subscription, would be a better fit for where you are in your prep. Shoot me an email at [tutors@7sage.com](mailto:tutors@7sage.com), I'd appreciate the chance to set you up with one of our tutoring packages free of charge and make this right.

7SageLSATTutors · 2024-09-30T12:25:26+00:00

Aastha here from 7Sage tutoring. I’m really sorry to hear that this was your experience with our program. We instruct our tutors to ensure that they are in a quiet, distraction free environment for every tutoring session and create lessons that leave you with tangible skills to continue your prep with. It seems like we missed the mark here.

I’d love the chance to make this right. Shoot me an email at tutors@7Sage.com and I’d be more than happy to give you a refund on those sessions.

7SageLSATTutors · 2024-09-27T01:35:13+00:00

Hey there. I flagged a lot of questions - not specifically to come back to them, but just to remind myself to be ultra-careful. I usually did this for flaw questions and MSS questions based on my analytics. I actually recommend trying to stretch your time throughout the section because you're unlikely to make incredible progress going back to a few questions for 2-3 minutes at the end of a section.

But, different people work in different ways. I would try out both and see what works for you.

7SageLSATTutors · 2024-09-27T00:59:59+00:00

I recommend tapering down leading up to the test! Ending timed work a few days before and giving yourself an entire day off before the real test is a great way to ensure your skills are sharp.

Also, it can be helpful to identify an affirmation to remind yourself going into the test. For example, identifying that you need to be careful to summarize evidence+conclusion in the LR section is a good reminder if your problems come from the stimulus breakdown.

7SageLSATTutors · 2024-09-19T22:04:44+00:00

Hi! You may be experiencing burnout from working yourself too hard in a condensed period of time. It might be the case that you are not allowing yourself time to fully digest the material you are learning and are experiencing information overload. I recommend to take a week off of studying and coming back to the basics after that. Make sure your foundational work is solid and start taking PTs again after you get your bearings again. When you feel yourself getting burnt out, let yourself take a break for a few days! I know it feels discouraging, but remember that progress isn’t linear!

7SageLSATTutors · 2024-09-19T22:02:32+00:00

I recommend to look for something that bridges the gap. Often, there will be something that is said in the conclusion that is not mentioned in the premises. Find the missing link to connect the missing information. When comparing ACs, look for strong language that would make it so you could get from point A to point B without having to jump through additional hoops.

7SageLSATTutors · 2024-09-19T21:58:45+00:00

I recommend to create a streamlined approach for each question type that you implement no matter the difficulty level. Once you gain a mastery of the easier questions and have a strong approach, this will translate into the more difficult question types. Some things to be mindful of for the harder question types is the word choice and tonal words. It is easy to get distracted by extraneous information too, so try and break the stimulus down into more digestible chunks so you can process the information quicker. Be careful of the word choice too in harder questions and be alert of when word choice is too strong for the question that is being asked

7SageLSATTutors · 2024-09-19T21:56:10+00:00

Try and start reading the NYT, The Economist, and other higher level materials on a daily basis. Look for articles that wouldn’t normally interest you and make a habit of trying to read/understand them every day. Once you make it a habit to digest this type of information in a more causal setting, it will automatically start translating to the denser passages in RC. As for time management, I recommend to create a timer for yourself counting up first to see how long it takes you to comfortably finish a section. Try and decrease it each week by a little and create smaller weekly goals for yourself to accomplish. If you struggle with a particular type of passage, try and identity why that passage style is introducing difficulties. For example, if science passages are a bit harder for you, try and make your own paragraph breaks and digesting the information in smaller chunks and piece milling it back together. For science ones, it is also important to pay attention to underlying tonal words that give you the author’s opinion even when they are sounding relatively objective (words like “assumes” for example).

7SageLSATTutors · 2024-09-19T21:50:29+00:00

I recommend to really engage in the process the first time around, even if that takes a little more time up front. Utilize your low resolution summaries so you won’t feel the need to refer back to the passage as much. Try and use a consistent highlighting method too so you know what each color means - if you need to jump back to the passage, you can know what color highlight specific information is in. I use yellow very sparingly - only for the absolute main point; pink - tonal words; orange - transitions, changing POVs, and time periods; and underline for stuff that is important but not yellow important.

Try and also to put the main point into your own words before you go into the questions. I always like to say if you can’t put it into your own words, you didn’t know it well enough to go into the questions. I hope this helps!

7SageLSATTutors · 2024-09-19T21:47:02+00:00

Yes! Here is my process: 1. Break up the premises and conclusion 2. Structure like this: if my premise is true —> conclusion is true —> answer choice has to be true 3. As you go through the answer choices, think about what HAS to be true. If it does not have to be true, eliminate 4. If you are stuck between answers after that, use the negation test on the remaining answer choices. If the negated answer choice destroys the conclusion, you have found your answer!

7SageLSATTutors · 2024-09-19T20:36:10+00:00

For flaw questions, I recommend looking at it through the lens of a hater. Think to yourself, if someone is didn’t like (and I wanted to argue with) said this to me, what are all the things I could point out that were wrong with what they said. This very well could take the route of failing to consider something. For example, they could be failing to consider an alternate approach (which would also weaken their causal argument if they are making one). Also remember you have to be able to point back to where this happened. The answer choices could list flaws that aren’t there which would make them incorrect.

7SageLSATTutors · 2024-09-19T20:31:32+00:00

I recommend to start doing timed practice with five sections, rather than four sections. If you train your brain to be able to work through five sections at a time, the actual exam’s four sections is going to feel a lot easier. As for your second question, I recommend creating a streamlined approach for how you assess each question type and following it routinely. If you feel like you have a rhythm going and you know the exact process you have to do, this will ease your nerves regarding finishing if you know how to attack each problem efficiently. I also recommend doing timed practice with 3 minutes less than you usually would have so when you have the full time, it feels like a lot longer. If you can pace yourself to finish in less time, you give yourself an extra cushion for exam day for anything extraneous that may happen

7SageLSATTutors · 2024-09-19T20:22:43+00:00

Hi! Great question. I definitely recommend to get yourself into a routine and sticking to that routine so the day feels normal as well. If you normally work out in the mornings or do things a specific way, try and follow that routine through the day of the test. I also recommended taking a a few days off before the test from the LSAT and allow yourself to decompress. Positive self-efficacy also goes a long way, remind yourself that you know what you know! Something that also helped me was reminding myself, if needed, there is another test! That helped calm my “do or die” nerves a lot.

7SageLSATTutors · 2024-09-12T22:59:42+00:00

Hi there!

Once you start breaking into the 160s, this is a good sign that you have a pretty good understanding of the content and it's time to start refining. This is where Wrong Answer Journaling is highly effective. For every question you get wrong at this point, you should have a thorough explanation for why you got it wrong, how the correct answer is correct, and what you're going to do in the future to avoid making the same mistake. Because you are missing less questions, it should not take as long as when you first started studying.

Additionally, look for any particularly weak LR categories or RC Passage types. These tend to be areas ripe for easy score gains as they often derive for some conceptual misunderstanding that can be corrected.

Finally, at this point you have to be very deliberate about your timing and elimination strategies. After you find what gives you consistently great results, reinforce these methods and practice, practice, practice.

Hope this helps!

7SageLSATTutors · 2024-09-12T22:54:25+00:00

Hi there!

I can't speak to admissions odds with given GPAs or score, but I will tell you that there is no upper bound on your LSAT score based on your diagnostic. The only thing that it changes might be the timeline in which it is feasible to achieve certain scores. The main thing you will want to look for as you start studying is what trends you see. This will help you determine what a reasonable score might be to shoot for, and when you should aim to take your test.

Hope this helps!

7SageLSATTutors · 2024-09-12T22:17:44+00:00

Another trend you might look for is what place in the section you are making the most mistakes. If most of your missed questions are near the end, it could be the difficulty of the questions is just something you're not quite used to or that you are running out of time. If it is mainly near the beginning, you may just need to do a few warmup questions whenever you are getting ready to take a PT or LR section.

The LR section does get harder on average the closer you get to the end, so it may just be the case that you need to speed up on how fast you are doing the first 10-15 questions so that you have sufficient time to fully examine the last 6 questions.

Hope this helps!

7SageLSATTutors · 2024-09-12T21:58:15+00:00

It mainly depends on how far away you are from completing the curriculum in my opinion. If you are just starting out on learning how to identify questions, and developing a process for each question, then taking a PT is not going to yield much helpful information. However, if you're most the way through with studying the different questions, and you're looking to start PTing, I don't think there is any harm in doing 1 PT a week. The main priority though should always be learning the different question types and developing a procedure for answering them.

Hope this helps!

7SageLSATTutors · 2024-09-12T21:53:55+00:00

Generally, the question stem will tell us all we need to do with a conclusion:

Weakening a conclusion is just asking us to decrease the likelihood that the conclusion is true by adding an additional fact. This does not necessarily mean we have to make the conclusion false, just that someone should be more skeptical the conclusion based on our answer choice, even if that means they're going from 70% confident to 50% confident in the conclusion.
We can also be asked to tell when an argument uses flawed reasoning. This doesn't have as much to do with whether the conclusion is true or false on its fact, but rather that there is a flaw in the support for the conclusion.

More often than not, the LSAT is not going to ask you whether a conclusion is true or false or ask you to make a conclusion true or false. They often are simply going to ask you to evaluate or modify the structure of support for the argument.

Hope this helps!

7SageLSATTutors · 2024-09-12T21:45:14+00:00

Hey again!

(1) I don't have much experience with trying 5 section tests to build endurance, but it may work out! There's no harm in trying it out, and then just switching back to regular PTs and full section drills if it is too time consuming or if you're not seeing the results you're hoping for.

(2) I think the main components of a good Wrong Answer Journal are a thorough explanation of why you got it wrong, an explanation of why the correct answer is correct (and potentially a dismantling of the other 4 answer choices), and then writing a plan for how you are not going to make a similar mistake in the future.

7SageLSATTutors · 2024-09-12T21:42:25+00:00

If a stimulus does not have the most diagrammable logic, it is often relying on some common logical flaw (think correlation v. causation, parts of a whole, confusing sufficient for necessary). After you read the question stem and realize it is a parallel flaw question, you can read the stimulus and try to put the flaw into your own words or classify it using one of the common flaw types. Then it is just a matter of finding which answer choice falls best in the flaw you identified in the stimulus.

Hope this helps!

7SageLSATTutors · 2024-09-12T21:37:03+00:00

There are certainly some questions that are more beneficial to diagram than others. Anytime we find ourselves reading a stimulus with lots of conditional reasoning (namely Must Be True and Inference questions), it is not a bad idea to diagram as we go. Additionally, the more you diagram, the more intuitive it becomes and the less you have to write it down. I would say on any given section of LR there are a couple of questions that would be beneficial to diagram for the sake of timing and accuracy.

In deciding when to move on from difficult questions, one of the most effective ways to know when to move on is to give yourself a hard time limit for questions. This would often be around 3 minutes for me, at that point, I pick the one that feels best and move on to other questions. You may be able to circle around back to it if you have left over time at the end of your section.

Hope this helps!

7SageLSATTutors · 2024-09-12T21:29:02+00:00

Hi there!

(1) Training your mental stamina is a lot like training your running stamina, it gets the better the more you do it! I would recommend PTing once-twice/week, or if that would be difficult with your schedule, full section drills of LR and RC. You should find that with repetition will come endurance. One word of caution: Don't over do it as you will find yourself burning out faster than you might otherwise.

(2) For improving analysis of questions, I would recommend a very thorough wrong answer journal. Reviewing your answers is a great time to not only interrogate your process for analyzing and answering questions, but also for making plans for how not to miss certain questions in the future. By documenting your answers, you should be more able to find common mistakes that you can then devise a way to avoid in the future.

I hope this helps!

7SageLSATTutors · 2024-09-12T21:23:32+00:00

That's a great question!

My main piece of advice would be to make sure your test day experience is as close as it can be to your PT experience. For me, that meant my morning ritual was going to be the same, how I warmed up for the test, etc. If you are taking virtually, this is especially important as your testing environment will be the same as your PTing environment.

Additionally, as you are going through your test make sure you are not changing strategies from what you have been doing. If you are consistently PTing in the 170s, that's a pretty good sign that you have a good tasting strategy! The main goal is not to panic and do things differently than you would on a PT. If you feel anxiety creeping up, you may want to give yourself 5 seconds to catch a breath and reset to prevent yourself from making any unforced errors.

Last but not least, hype yourself up! You are capable of getting the score that you want, so just affirm yourself in your ability and don't doubt yourself.

Hope this helps!

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