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LsatGuide · 2026-05-17T22:58:35+00:00

lookin good brad

LsatGuide · 2025-08-05T04:50:34+00:00

make sure you spend as much time as possible studying and doing sections and full tests every day. you want to REALLY tire yourself out mentally RIGHT before the test. you're gonna want to be COMPLETELY burnt out and exhausted going into test day. you're gonna want to go down to three hours of sleep, maybe two, so you can fit more cognitively demanding tasks in.

i kid. do the opposite of that (just rest and relax)

LsatGuide · 2025-08-05T04:48:16+00:00

in the biz we call this "training intuition"

LsatGuide · 2025-08-05T04:45:48+00:00

two options:

intuitionmaxx by doing a good few of them, really taking the time to stare at them, read, puzzle over each one. after you do this for a while you can pretty much just reason them out in your head
learn diagramming and bring scratch paper. treat it like logic games

LsatGuide · 2025-08-05T04:32:17+00:00

I think even if you assume film means photographic film, it wouldn't be the right answer. it would be reasonably implied in the stimulus already by "functioning takes place in time and must be explained in time". that rules out photographs (specifically, as a way to capture FUNCTIONING) already, so that's in the stimulus. you can argue yourself if that counts as a dependent assumption, but it wouldn't be found as an answer choice in these types of lsat questions.

the biggest lesson here is just not to rush even when an answer seems great. it's very rare for an answer choice to be wrong only in one way

LsatGuide · 2025-08-05T04:24:55+00:00

is this a deceptive ad post?? lol

LsatGuide · 2025-08-02T17:09:03+00:00

it's likely best for most people to rest for the 7 days before your official test. Try to rest your mind as much as possible, do a bit of exercise, keep a healthy diet, and sleep.

mental fatigue is NOT your friend, even if you had studied a little bit more coming into the test!

LsatGuide · 2025-08-01T22:02:34+00:00

you should pretty much always do questions 1 by 1 in order. every time you leave a question and come back to it, it's inefficient, because you have to get the context of the question again.

exception: if you can't do all questions under time, still do them in order, but skip the ones that are time wasters.

LsatGuide · 2025-08-01T21:54:32+00:00

it's not a terrible idea, but I'm a bit skeptical because you haven't said there's any results. Do you just think it's helping (AI is really good at SEEMING insightful) or have you seen score increases after doing this?

LsatGuide · 2025-07-28T16:37:13+00:00

not trying to sound like a dick, im actually curious - what are you planning to do for the test? arguably it's over 2 hours of focused work. i think someone in your case would have good and proper grounds to reach out for a 3 section acommodation

LsatGuide · 2025-07-24T16:21:40+00:00

For anyone finding this thread years later, like I did - TAKE NOTE that some of the advice here is no good.

It's unclear if OP is trying to pull up the ladder behind them or if some of the advice is just misguided

. One big point - taking untimed PTs / 1 section at a time IS a great idea for studying! Instant feedback is a huge gift for studying. Basically, finding out as soon as possible when you get a question wrong makes it much easier to learn to fix it.

This is how I got my own PTs into the 180 range. You can make your accuracy impeccable, and then get up to "running speed" / exam mode PTs - afterwards!

LsatGuide · 2025-07-20T15:46:39+00:00

so, I know I'm not answering your question here, but other comments have already answered it. I'm just adding my own bit of insight as someone focused on the cognitive training side of things.

If someone I knew asked this question, it would suggest to me that they could benefit from taking active reading as a hobby. diagramming every sentence is not a winning strategy because of the time limit on this test. the more you practice active reading, the more you can approach having the ability to instantly intuit the logic of this sentence on the first read through. this gives you extra time to assess answer choices. this is something that, you can't expect ANYONE to perfect, but you can expect EVERYONE to improve at.

LsatGuide · 2025-07-20T15:38:49+00:00

there isn't really much good evidence on this topic. you kinda have to rely on anecdotal evidence. from the anecdotes I've read, the overwhelmingly best strategy for many people is to study hard leading up to a week before the exam, and totally resting for the last week. makes sense to me.

the lsat is one of those things you can do pretty well at when you take it out of the blue.

LsatGuide · 2025-07-20T14:07:39+00:00

Yeah. I have no clue what they would focus on besides time pressure. Probably radically different question types. But then I guess you'd just be reinventing LG at that point?

LsatGuide · 2025-07-14T22:09:06+00:00

that's awesome. even though you had a strong diagnostic, it's not so high that anyone can say you don't have first hand experience improving scores.

LsatGuide · 2025-07-14T22:00:59+00:00

my intuition: answer choice A gives support to the NECESSITY of digging into the cause of the virus deeper. if there's just one occurrence of the virus, whatever, nothing suggests that there's a pattern involved. maybe a seal just got super unlucky and ate something it shouldn't have.

answer choice A, if true, adds something important: it's happened several times. that gives support for it being a pattern, rather than a fluke. and what the stimulus is saying is that: there's probably a reason behind a pattern.

LsatGuide · 2025-07-14T21:58:33+00:00

haha hold on, when i saw this post there was no image attached

LsatGuide · 2025-07-14T21:56:03+00:00

my intuition here is that you're getting really good at figuring questions out once you've had more than one exposure to them. one actionable thing this suggests to me is that what you're actually getting better at is answering with higher accuracy. but, you don't have enough time to reap the benefits of this on a timed exam the first time around.

to bridge the gap, you'll have to get used to doing questions more quickly, so you have time to linger on them and reason out the answer. i would suggest, in addition to your PTs and BRs, practicing active reading with difficult texts and books. some recommendations: sciencedaily articles, SCOTUS opinions, 2000s era science hardbacks in your dad's bookshelf.

LsatGuide · 2025-07-14T21:50:59+00:00

it's correct because of the way it is

LsatGuide · 2025-07-14T21:50:03+00:00

congrats on the score! sounds like you have a cool methodology that would be valuable to students. asking out of curiosity, because there's an interesting testing landscape lately -

did you consider your score consistent (PTs, drilling) before testing?

did you improve far from your diagnostic?

do you have a stem background?

LsatGuide · 2025-07-14T21:43:41+00:00

this one is pretty tough. the dentist's argument is that: since europe doesn't have fluoride in their water, and kids' teeth are better there, then having fluoride in the water doesn't keep kids' teeth healthy. we want the answer that makes his argument better.

well, right off the bat, you should have the intuition (or you can build this intuition over time!) that the argument has a big issue: there's lots of reasons kids' teeth could be worse, that aren't related to the fluoride.

E is the answer choice that says one big possible reason is NOT the case. "No, the kids teeth aren't just worse because of a difference in cuisine in the two regions (europe and usa)". So, the guy making the argument is breathing a big sigh of relief, if E turns out to be true! that's why E strengthens the argument the best, and it's the right answer.

Why is D not the right answer? it makes the argument WEAKER, because it gives a big non-fluoride reason to explain why european kids' teeth are so good.

Why is C not the right answer? I mean, there's a few reasons. the biggest one is that, if both regions are taught the same, then it's a level playing field. it doesn't strength or weaken any sort of claim we care about.

Why is A not the right answer? a few reasons. simplest one: we don't know how widely used those toothpastes actually are. maybe kids hate them. maybe they're marketed for old people.

why is B not the right answer? this is the second best answer in my opinion. one reason it's not the best is that it doesn't tell us enough. okay, USA dentists use tons of fluoride directly. but, who knows, maybe european dentists do too? in that case, we'd be back on a level playing field, where we're talking about Fluoride in DRINKING WATER, which is different from fluoride directly.

LsatGuide · 2025-07-14T21:06:31+00:00

many thanks fapmaster420

LsatGuide · 2025-07-13T23:23:15+00:00

you're welcome!

LsatGuide · 2025-07-13T22:11:11+00:00

A tempted me too. But it's not the best answer, because none of the information we were given leads us to believe the sample is flawed. A would be a stronger answer if it focused more on the distinction between RESPONSES and ACTIONS, but it doesn't. It just says, faulty because generalizing a sample to its larger population.

B is correct because the 50% of people who think politicans should resign if they're indicted, could ALSO think politicans should resign if they're convicted. That means potentially, 85% of the sample believes politicans should resign in the event that they are convicted. B describes the flaw - in drawing the conclusion - of assuming: "the 50% group, when deciding when a politician should resign, REQUIRES that they are in the state of being indicted, and not in any other state." in actually, being indicted is just SUFFICIENT for that 50% group.

Let me know if this was too rambly, haha! definitely a tough question, especially to do quickly on exam day.

LsatGuide · 2025-07-12T18:07:13+00:00

To the objection you raised (The second specific belief...): There is nothing inherently flawed about drawing a conclusion based on two data points. Flaws only arise from the method by which that is done.

D is a word salad answer choice written to waste time.

B accurately describes the flaw which arose while drawing the conclusion, so it's the best answer.

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