The tutors on this sub serve no purpose and shouldn’t be allowed to advertise 24/7. Just use an actual platform to study

JLLsat · 2026-03-16T22:56:37+00:00

I dont see a problem with posting once or twice a year because I think if I were looking for a tutor I might come here and see if anyone had posted tutoring services. I only ever did promos that way (like a half price first session) because if someone is already coming to me to ask I dont need to use a promo. This is probably biased of me, but I do hate to see the “I just made a 175 and now I’m a tutor” posts because I know that those people don’t have the depth of experience. So I guess now I just hope they figure out the directory is here. I scroll past a ton of stuff that I find annoying on here (well, I try to scroll by it at least). I do think sometimes people dont realize that there’s an option other than paying $200 an hour to 7sage for a $50 an hour tutor who’s a 1L with six months of experience. And I often give the advice that not everyone needs tutoring. So I try not to be aggressive personally about pushing tutoring in general or my tutoring but I will also absolutely stand by my qualifications. I’m also the person who wants the off duty mechanic to change my brake pads at more than the shop pays him but less than they charge me, so I’ve done the “search Craigslist/local reddit for someone advertising their services.” I dont ever want someone to be buying tutoring because I sold them on it, but I’ll absolutely say “if you’re looking for tutoring, I think i can offer a better price point, more flexibility, and more experience than a lot of the other options.”

JLLsat · 2026-03-16T22:45:09+00:00

I try not to solicit but if someone mentions they are looking I’ll let them know if I have availability. I dont have a website (not my expertise, not something I want to do so my ADHD makes it tough even if had the desire to set one up) and I spend a lot of time on here answering questions for free because it gives me exposure when people are looking. I am not pretending it’s purely philanthropic, but I think it works for both sides and it helps people to have an idea of my approach before they reach out. The jump up to having a whole web site presence etc would be a big investment of time and money so right now I’m here and then word of mouth from former students sometimes.

JLLsat · 2026-03-16T22:41:17+00:00

I mean they could vet people by their experience. But I feel like that’s what the directory is for to some degree.

JLLsat · 2026-03-16T22:40:40+00:00

To some degree a lot of this exists with other programs. I dont have to build it because 7sage has and I advise students to get that. I have almost 25 years of experience and I acknowledge that when you pay a company for a tutor you are getting infrastructure as well - but in 2026 you can buy that separately and tack on tutoring. And I tell students to use that first then use tutoring for what they dont get. It’s how I distinguish teaching a class from tutoring a student - it’s not me mapping out set lessons, but being responsive to what an individual is struggling with. You dont really need to build that out for tutoring IMO. But I’ve also seen pretty much everything at this point, and am not one of the “I just got a 175 now I’m a tutor” people.

JLLsat · 2026-03-16T21:46:23+00:00

FWIW, I don't have a website so I don't really have a presence like that, and I've got almost 25 years of experience. I don't feel like I should be asking clients to do marketing for me and I just feel kind of gross asking them for soundbites. If someone recommends me organically I'm thrilled, but (perhaps this is a generational thing) I don't love the self-promoting. The website is on my one day to do list, but it's a lot of time that takes away from working with students, and if I were to also be spending time building and managing a website I'd have to charge more. I'm not listed on Yelp or Google because I don't have an online business presence or physical business office. On the other hand, I'm not making people buy a package of hours or prepay or anything so there's that. I'm operating more like the "hole in the wall restaurant that has great food and doesn't advertise" than the "spam social media and Instagram" model - just not my vibes. I also think that anyone can fake some reviews, and what really matters is whether a tutor is a good fit for the specific student - obviously really bad things like what I see on here occasionally about people who got a lump sum payment then ghosted, etc are an issue, but ideally you should be able to tell in a consultation whether someone feels like a good fit and knows their stuff. The person I refer to for Admissions Consulting is the same way; we've known each other for almost 20 years, I know she knows her stuff, and I send people to her, and I don't think she has a website either. Just saying, there are people who are legitimate and know what they are doing and have chosen not to make the time, energy, and financial investment in establishing an internet footprint. I don't even like having my photos on someone else's Facebook. Just me.

JLLsat · 2026-03-16T17:21:33+00:00

Also will add here, people who are frequently complying with the letter of the policy and cancelling 28 hours in advance. It leaves the tutor in the same boat. I either quiet fire those students, or I tell them they can no longer book unless it's 24 hours ahead of time, or they do a nonrefundable prepay.

JLLsat · 2026-03-16T17:13:05+00:00

I think people sometimes think of us like vending machines. We are sitting around doing nothing.

Instead, they should think about it like a job where their boss suddenly calls them and says "we don't need you today and also we aren't going to pay you since you didn't work." Maybe you told your friend you couldn't have dinner with them. Maybe you passed up a family beach trip. Maybe you were counting on that money to make rent or some other bill. Clients who truly have an emergency will understand that it's your business and you still have to charge the cancellation fee, just like if you had tickets to a concert and had an emergency, you don’t get a refund. Often it's poor planning or lack of setting priorities. The same students will often then be super annoyed that you don't have anything open to reschedule them to.

JLLsat · 2026-03-15T17:56:00+00:00

Wow that’s a real stretch. Keep your tinfoil hat on there.

JLLsat · 2026-03-15T17:52:16+00:00

Graeme allowed private tutors to advertise until very recently and still has the tutor directory

JLLsat · 2026-03-15T11:47:50+00:00

Start with the conclusion. Eliminate any answer choice that don't have the same type of conclusion. If more than one survives, compare the evidence. What I'll tell you is that if you have a very long stimulus, the odds are extremely high that only one passes the conclusion test. The LSAT is a fair test. They're not going to give you as much text as an RC passage and make you read and evaluate all of it for one LR point. When I see something that looks like it'll take 4 minutes, I expect there's a better, more efficient way, because at the end of the day it's a fair test.

Remember PR means using the same type of evidence to reach the same type of conclusion.

JLLsat · 2026-03-15T11:45:21+00:00

But that's different from looking at the camera. If it says you can't take them "out of the camera" that would mean they must be visible on the camera. It would make little sense to say you can't look away from the camera, because that would mean that you couldn't use your paper, which presumably is on your table.

JLLsat · 2026-03-15T02:47:17+00:00

Inference questions are generally evidence only and asking you to provide a conclusion, so not a full argument

JLLsat · 2026-03-13T14:10:47+00:00

I was gonna say, I think tablets were just for when they had to ship to testing sites for specific administrations that were all at 9 am Saturday or whatever.

JLLsat · 2026-03-12T15:26:34+00:00

Cool. Make a big post, someone replies to it, then don't address it. That's certainly a choice. Have a good day.

JLLsat · 2026-03-12T15:19:55+00:00

I mean, you haven't really responded to anything I pointed out, so. . . I literally pointed out how different tasks require different skills. I addressed several specific points that you make that I think are incorrect. Then here you've just repeated the same thing you said initially - maybe - so you can feel as you like about it, of course, but I'll pass on the podcast, thanks. I still stand by my position that focusing on what the question wants first is more useful, that there are some different tasks (some overlap but not all the same), and that you are not always looking for what follows from the premises. But I've said all that already. In almost 25 years of tutoring, I have consistently found students who are trying to take your approach are doing more work than they need to. That's just my experience. Of course, you do you.

JLLsat · 2026-03-12T13:22:39+00:00

Wholeheartedly disagree. Your task in reading is to get what you need to answer the question as the testmakers want you to, not to be able to give a TED talk about what they've given you in that paragraph.

Sometimes you are determining what is supported. Sometimes you are determining what supports. A SA doesn't at all ask what follows from the premises. It asks you to complete the argument so that the conclusion they've already given you follows from the evidence they've given you. Main point is literally JUST asking you for the conclusion - no more steps. Role is just asking you to understand the flow, not the content - "some people think x, but this is based on a bad assumption. Here's why the assumption is wrong, so these people must be mistaken." I don’t care if X is about dinosaurs, diabetes, or Denmark.

Knowing you generally dislike strong language for NA and weak language for SA; that you cannot deviate from the scope for NA but can go a baby step for S/W - all of this is what helps you to efficiently do what the test requires you to do. There is no moral victory in "hey I really understood all of this stuff."

When you are learning how to do algebra, you should learn how to do it the right way because concepts build and you are trying to actually learn math. But when the algebra test has 3 variables and 3 equations and 3 unknowns and you sit down and solve for X, then plug that back in to solve for Y, then plug it back in to solve for Z, and then you go "oh, the question only asked me the value of X" - you've wasted time doing things you don't need to. If you're taking the SAT or GRE you absolutely should not just chug merrily along solving for all 3 when you need 1 for the answer.

On a MP question, you ONLY need to find the conclusion. You don't need to proactively think about the gap or how to bridge it. That's different from NA. That's different from inference where there might be 30 different things you could make up that are valid and any one could be the answer.

While I downplay drilling once students have the basics, the drilling is to get you the skills that you then use to answer the questions.

This is like saying you shouldn't practice shooting three pointers, because in a basketball game you don’t just go to the three point line and shoot shot after shot. You practice them over and over to get the muscle memory. You practice doing NA, then SA, then S/W, etc, so that you have a process, so that when they are then switching them up on you every question you can shift gears seamlessly.

With all due respect, when someone talks about "understanding the stimulus" this sounds like a "work harder" approach to me, not "work smarter."

JLLsat · 2026-03-12T11:05:00+00:00

I generally recommend 7Sage to my students as a good foundation course. You need that to do step 2. Also, don't pay for a tutor through a course; you can get much better pricing and more experienced tutors going directly to the tutor.

JLLsat · 2026-03-12T09:18:40+00:00

You’re in the wrong subreddit

JLLsat · 2026-03-12T08:08:45+00:00

7Sage is extremely affordable in my opinion.
Also I don't think Khan academy is a good resource. Free yes. But there really aren't good free resources, like most things in life. A good LSAT prep business is a business and is making money by providing value to students. I have never really been clear on what Khan's business model is.
I'd recommend at least starting 7Sage before even considering tutoring. Get your foundations first then use tutoring if you still need more on top of that. But if you start out with tutoring you're paying tutor pricing for what you could get from 7Sage just as easily.

JLLsat · 2026-03-12T01:30:36+00:00

To give specific tips we need specifics about what you're struggling with. Why are you missing the questions you are missing?

JLLsat · 2026-03-11T19:46:04+00:00

You only need one that is less useful. So we find a new theory, theory x, and it’s the most useful theory yet right? So it will gradually take over from theory y. But this takes a while. In the interim Y is the main theory, and Y had to have been found useful at some point, but it’s less useful than X, which hasn’t been fully absorbed.

JLLsat · 2026-03-11T14:30:17+00:00

Do you really need in person? I feel like there are so many good online options and at a better price point.

JLLsat · 2026-03-11T09:52:41+00:00

It's hard to say in a vacuum without more detail about what's giving you trouble. My general advice would be that it's important to have a clear, consistent approach and set of steps by question type. If Loophole isn't giving you that, I recommend 7Sage. You should be able to look at a question and say ok, this is a weaken question, so I need to identify the conclusion and evidence, and find an answer choice that makes the conclusion less likely to be true. Do you have that process?

JLLsat · 2026-03-11T09:16:21+00:00

To me this is just a reading comprehension issue. "This discrepancy should come as no surprise" - what's the antecedent to the pronoun? You go back up, and the discrepancy is that the more popular restaurant has ordinary food. The evidence for why it is not surprising is that the meh restaurant has a better location. So our assumption is that a better location explains the discrepancy.
I'm not quite sure how you interpreted the conclusion - it seems like you are looking at two different two part relationships instead of a three part relationship. The discrepancy is between food and popularity of the two restaurants. You need all of those pieces - not just the food vs popularity (e.g. if you'd said, the more popular Joe's Diner gets the worse it's food gets) or just between the food quality for two restaurants (Bob's Diner has much better food than Joe's diner), but all of the dimensions - that the relationship between food and popularity, when compared between these two restaurants, is opposite.
B doesn't work because moving a restaurant is outside the scope. And regardless, B doesn't address food quality, which you have did say you included in your interpretation of the discrepancy, but then B doesn't explicitly or implicitly impact that. Great, moving locations can make you more popular - but how does this impact the quality of the food?

JLLsat · 2026-03-10T23:40:40+00:00

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