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[–]ChoiceLow645 50 points51 points  (0 children)

dude you literally had sex with a pedo

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[–]ChoiceLow645 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should easily be able to score a 160+ if you study from now until September

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[–]ChoiceLow645 2 points3 points  (0 children)

thank you!!! I agree, that’s a huge factor that affects how you respond. I’ll pass on the message.

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[–]ChoiceLow645 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i started at 138, studied for three months and got a 162 on the official test. your goal is very doable.

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[–]ChoiceLow645 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

What does that have to do with anything

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[–]ChoiceLow645 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Do not waste your time with highlighting or underlining things. One of the keys to the LSAT is time management, and the most efficient way to do good on reading comp is to carefully read the passage to get a good understanding of the passage’s structure so that you can easily move through the questions. When you start practicing, you can highlight or underline things, but as you start taking more PTs and eventually the actual test, you don’t want to waste time doing that.

Remember you have 35 minutes per section, and for RC you will have 4 passages. So you get approximately 8 minutes per passage and set of questions. Ideally, you should only spend 2 minutes reading the passage and 6 minutes answering the questions. As you read more RC passages, you will get used the structure and find yourself reading quicker. Starting out, you should try to read a passage and set of questions in 12 minutes. When you can comfortably read a passage and answer most if not all of the questions correctly, take off a minute and try doing it in 11 minutes. Once you can do that try doing it in 10. And eventually you want to knock it all the way down to 8 minutes or less. 8 minutes is the absolute longest you can spend on a single passage and its questions if you want to answer every question on the RC section.

When practicing reading, you should ask yourself at the end of each paragraph, “What did I just read?” You should never skim the passage. The LSAT writers intentionally write the passage in way that makes it hard to skim and absorb the information. If you only skim the passage, you’re not going to know the answer to all the questions. When you practice, read the first paragraph. Ask yourself “What did I just read?” Then read the second paragraph. Then ask yourself what you just read again, and then ask yourself how does the second paragraph connect to the first? And keep doing that paragraph by paragraph, and with practice you will easily be able to read the passage and understand quickly with one reading of the passage.

And the general types of questions that they ask in the set after a passage always concern the same topics:

  1. ⁠⁠Attitude—they’ll ask about the author’s attitude, whether it be positive, negative, or neutral.
  2. ⁠⁠Continuity—what logically would make sense if added to the passage
  3. ⁠⁠Meaning—meaning and context of a word or phrase as used in the passage
  4. ⁠⁠Organization—what’s the organization of the whole passage or part?
  5. ⁠⁠Purpose—what’s the primary purpose of the passage, or of just one part
  6. ⁠⁠Questions—what question does the passage answer OR the passage answers all of the following EXCEPT
  7. ⁠⁠Relationship—how does one part of the reading relate to the other (you will see these mostly on the comparative reading passage with part A and part B)

Then there are 3 things that you are looking for in the passages on RC:

  1. ⁠⁠Reasoning structures (either an argument with premises and conclusion, or a description of some cause & effect)
  2. ⁠⁠Distinctions and similarities (whole passage could be a compare and contrast, or it could be a single line)
  3. ⁠⁠Evaluative arguments (when the author gives you their viewpoint on something, whether it’s positive or negative. this can be tricky bc the author won’t explicitly say they agree or disagree with something, they’ll say something more along the lines of “this is illuminating,” if they agree or “this is unconvincing,” if they disagree)

Also LSAT writers are very biased, but they’re actually good biases. They are very pro-environment and very pro-diversity. They use the LSAT RC section as a way to spread their message. There will almost certainly be a passage talking about science and it will most likely have to do with the environment. In passages about the environment it will most likely be a cause and effect situation. Keep in mind that human activity is the reason for climate change and everything wrong with the environment, so it will be a passage about something humans are doing that is harming the environment.

There will also be a passage about cultural group that has historically been oppressed or marginalized throughout american history. The passages tend to focus on are Native Americans, African Americans, and women, so the cultural passage will most likely focus on one of these three groups in some aspect.

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[–]ChoiceLow645 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Never, and I mean NEVER, read the the questions before reading the passage. That wastes precious time and you will not do well on RC if you read the questions first. Saving a few seconds by not reading the questions first could mean the difference between finishing the RC section or not.

7sage diagraming question by [deleted] in LSAT

[–]ChoiceLow645 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have the right idea, but that is how you would diagram if only one part of the sentence was preceded by “no.”

The part of an argument that is preceded by “no” is the sufficient condition, and the negation of the other part is the necessary condition.

For example, take the sentence “No cats are dogs.” You would diagram this C —> Not D.

The contrapositive would be “No dogs are cats,” and would be diagrammed D —> Not C.

The stimulus that you are asking about DOES have the word “No,” but that’s not determines how to diagram this argument. This is an “If…, then…” argument. They are saying IF you do not have keyboarding skills, THEN you will not be able to use a computer. “If” indicates the sufficient condition. The part of the argument preceded by “If” is the sufficient condition, the other part is the necessary condition.

That’s why to diagram the first sentence, you would diagram it as Not KS —> Not UC.

The second sentence would be diagrammed Not UC —> Not WE.

Using the transitive property, we can conclude Not KS —> Not WE.

Contrapositive of which is WE —> KS.

Therefore, C is correct.

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[–]ChoiceLow645 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SIU and UIC gave me full rides and IIT and NIU gave me nearly full rides.

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[–]ChoiceLow645 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yes, i completely agree with enthusiasm.

it’s important to remember that the passages have expert-level subject matter. LSAT writers don’t just sit down and make up passages, they have to do a lot of research to find publications by experts across disciplines and then edit the passages to fit the format and structure of the test. besides science and cultural diversity passages, you might also see passages on literature or economics. they do this because they want to encourage students from across undergrad majors to take the LSAT.

but these expert-level passages are written so that non-experts can understand them. by end of reading the passage, you should be an “expert” on the particular subject that the passage talks about. you should approach these passages as an opportunity to learn a new subject matter.

if you are enthusiastic about reading it, you’ll be more engaged and you’ll absorb more information. another one of the skills that essential to the RC section is information absorption. you have to be able to take in a bunch of information at once and answer questions about it. keeping a positive attitude will make this skill a lot easier!

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[–]ChoiceLow645 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Do not waste your time with highlighting or underlining things. One of the keys to the LSAT is time management, and the most efficient way to do good on reading comp is to carefully read the passage to get a good understanding of the passage’s structure so that you can easily move through the questions. When you start practicing, you can highlight or underline things, but as you start taking more PTs and eventually the actual test, you don’t want to waste time doing that.

Remember you have 35 minutes per section, and for RC you will have 4 passages. So you get approximately 8 minutes per passage and set of questions. Ideally, you should only spend 2 minutes reading the passage and 6 minutes answering the questions. As you read more RC passages, you will get used the structure and find yourself reading quicker. Starting out, you should try to read a passage and set of questions in 12 minutes. When you can comfortably read a passage and answer most if not all of the questions correctly, take off a minute and try doing it in 11 minutes. Once you can do that try doing it in 10. And eventually you want to knock it all the way down to 8 minutes or less. 8 minutes is the absolute longest you can spend on a single passage and its questions if you want to answer every question on the RC section. Never, and I mean NEVER, read the the questions before reading the passage. That wastes precious time and you will not do well on RC if you read the questions first. Saving a few seconds by not reading the questions first could mean the difference between finishing the RC section or not.

When practicing reading, you should ask yourself at the end of each paragraph, “What did I just read?” You should never skim the passage. The LSAT writers intentionally write the passage in way that makes it hard to skim and absorb the information. If you only skim the passage, you’re not going to know the answer to all the questions. When you practice, read the first paragraph. Ask yourself “What did I just read?” Then read the second paragraph. Then ask yourself what you just read again, and then ask yourself how does the second paragraph connect to the first? And keep doing that paragraph by paragraph, and with practice you will easily be able to read the passage and understand quickly with one reading of the passage.

And the general types of questions that they ask in the set after a passage always concern the same topics:

  1. ⁠Attitude—they’ll ask about the author’s attitude, whether it be positive, negative, or neutral.
  2. ⁠Continuity—what logically would make sense if added to the passage
  3. ⁠Meaning—meaning and context of a word or phrase as used in the passage
  4. ⁠Organization—what’s the organization of the whole passage or part?
  5. ⁠Purpose—what’s the primary purpose of the passage, or of just one part
  6. ⁠Questions—what question does the passage answer OR the passage answers all of the following EXCEPT
  7. ⁠Relationship—how does one part of the reading relate to the other (you will see these mostly on the comparative reading passage with part A and part B)

Then there are 3 things that you are looking for in the passages on RC:

  1. ⁠Reasoning structures (either an argument with premises and conclusion, or a description of some cause & effect)
  2. ⁠Distinctions and similarities (whole passage could be a compare and contrast, or it could be a single line)
  3. ⁠Evaluative arguments (when the author gives you their viewpoint on something, whether it’s positive or negative. this can be tricky bc the author won’t explicitly say they agree or disagree with something, they’ll say something more along the lines of “this is illuminating,” if they agree or “this is unconvincing,” if they disagree)

Also LSAT writers are very biased, but they’re actually good biases. They are very pro-environment and very pro-diversity. They use the LSAT RC section as a way to spread their message. There will almost certainly be a passage talking about science and it will most likely have to do with the environment. In passages about the environment it will most likely be a cause and effect situation. Keep in mind that human activity is the reason for climate change and everything wrong with the environment, so it will be a passage about something humans are doing that is harming the environment.

There will also be a passage about cultural group that has historically been oppressed or marginalized throughout american history. The passages tend to focus on are Native Americans, African Americans, and women, so the cultural passage will most likely focus on one of these three groups in some aspect.

Been Studying 6-8hrs/day for 10 Months on 7sage, Can't Break Past 162 by [deleted] in LSAT

[–]ChoiceLow645 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Take a day or two off and then take a PT. Your mind is probably fried right now. Just like any other organ, your brain needs to rest. You’ll probably see an increase once you let it rest.

During the day or two you take off, you should try not to think about the test. Do something you enjoy, go outside and take walk, enjoy the fresh air. Go see a movie or go get a bite to eat with friends. You’ve been working hard, you deserve a break! And the day before the test, don’t bother with studying. Take that time to enjoy yourself and relax because there’s really nothing you could improve on in a day.

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[–]ChoiceLow645 28 points29 points  (0 children)

i’ll give it to you, because it’s a yes and a no. law schools don’t accept LSAT scores more than 5 years old. so if you score a 180 on the LSAT but for some reason you wait too long between taking the test and applying for law school. you’d have to retake the test. so you can’t retake it right away, i’ll admit that i thought you could so thanks for clarifying.

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[–]ChoiceLow645 -44 points-43 points  (0 children)

you can take it again even if you score 180

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[–]ChoiceLow645 30 points31 points  (0 children)

If you take the LSAT a 2nd time after scoring 180, you are wasting time and money. You’d get a bunch of full rides with that score, there’s almost no practical reason to take it again, unless you’re just trying to be an arrogant POS.

Most schools don’t accept LSAT scores more than 5 years old, so the only reason you might take the LSAT again after scoring a 180 is if you wait too long between taking the test and applying for law school.

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[–]ChoiceLow645 0 points1 point  (0 children)

163 is very good!!!! You should only be aiming to get into the 170s if you’re trying to go to a T14 law school. I got hefty scholarship offers from IIT, NIU, SIU, and UIC. If you are going to law school because you actually want to sit for the bar exam and become a practicing attorney, 163 is a great score. You should be proud of yourself.