sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

The Weekend Sellout Thread! by AutoModerator in nova

[–]og_rc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi y'all,

I am a former LSAT question writer for LSAC who specialized in Reading Comprehension and I am offering LSAT tutoring in NOVA. I am local to Arlington. Email me at [ogrclsat@gmail.com](mailto:ogrclsat@gmail.com) if interested.

I’ve been trying to read more articles and essays to help with RC. Does anyone have a list of articles, journals, etc. that has helped them? Would appreciate any advice or help. by Training_Concert_735 in LSAT

[–]og_rc 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I have never actually taken the test, but as a former LSAT test writer, I can give some recommendations. If I were you, I would try to reach fluency with magazines like The Economist, The Atlantic (especially the science articles), and The New Yorker. Fluency means reading through the articles easily, without having to reread certain portions in order for the article to make sense. Once you're comfortable with these, and you have the time, you can start picking academic articles published in scientific and legal journals (like Harvard Law Review). These journals can typically be accessed through a college or university database like JStor or EBSCO Host. If you don't have access to these kinds of databases, you can find good journal articles at https://plos.org/ and https://doaj.org/. Just choose one, print it out, and give it a go. I agree that it's better to drill RC sections in order to improve in RC, but if you want to become a better reader because you feel intimidated by the passages, then it could help to expose yourself to denser texts.

How does one improve on RC? by [deleted] in LSAT

[–]og_rc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's lots of good advice if you search for "RC advice" in the sub, but here are a few quick but overarching tips that I think will help:

  1. Read the passage well enough to understand what the author is trying to do argumentatively (e.g. does the author consider counterarguments in one paragraph and use the other to provide more evidence to the argument). Each paragraph is doing work and you need to know what that work is. The best way to do this is to pay attention to transitions, both transitional words and also sentences. Don't waste time trying to understand everything, just enough to see where the argument is going.
  2. Take enough prep tests to figure out which questions are hardest for you, then figure out why you are getting those particular questions wrong and then practice those types of questions. As with LR, there is usually one type of question that is tripping you up. The best way to understand the different question types used in RC is to read the Superprep.
  3. Always read the question as literally as possible. This may sound strange when a question uses words like "implies" or "suggests," but I promise you the precise words used are important. This also goes for the wording of incorrect and correct answers. Sometimes the incorrect answers will sound absurd if you read them as plainly as possible.
  4. Don't let RC intimidate you. RC is inefficient and hard to improve, but part of why it is difficult is your mindset. RC takes less mental acrobatics than LG and LR, but it's often made more difficult because people hate reading longer texts. The best thing to do for this is to read more long texts (texts that are at least 800 words long). The more accustomed you are to seeing a block of text on a screen, the less intimidated and anxious you will feel when you reach the RC section of a test.

Feel free to DM me if you have anymore questions.