I am going to go through my books, including the Trainer, completely and then go into drilling, looking back at my books as needed (which will probably be quite frequently, haha).cavalier2015 wrote:for those who use the trainer, how are you matching up lesson 6 and 7 to the cambridge packets?
I'm not. I am waiting until I completely finish the trainer because it is not about breaking up questions into categories but rather developing a mindset. It is not like Manhattan LR in which chapter 1 is NA, 2 is SA, etc. I think that breaking it up like this would miss the point of the trainer. I mean c'mon, Mike has pretty much included 90% of LR question types by chapter 9.cavalier2015 wrote:for those who use the trainer, how are you matching up lesson 6 and 7 to the cambridge packets?
Welp, just realized I failed the blind review by checking my answers already. Going to erase them and then do the blind review tomorrow...politibro44 wrote:Drilled 58 SA today. Missed 13 overall, but my timing was pretty good.
Going to review all the ones I missed and those circled next using the blind review method.
Before I drilled I reread the trainer section on SA and also the MLSAT LR section on SA. It was helpful.
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I am right there with you on the bolded, my friend. I am hoping that I/we will "put it all together"- meaning understanding the task in the question stem, identifying the flaw for those types of questions, going through the answers and picking the correct one- in the drilling stage when we drill problems like crazy.cavalier2015 wrote:thanks for the help. i think that makes more sense.
i might be getting ahead of myself, but do you guys find yourself finding it hard to categorize flaws according to the types (and subsets) that Mike has laid out. I understand that this is something that Mike actually doesn't want us to do but I am starting to think this might be helpful in answering questions. I find myself using the "Taken for granted" method and most of the time I end up accurately finding the flaw but find myself spending a lot of time on the answer choices. It's hard for me to "match" the flaw to the answer choices or make the jump as to what might strengthen or weaken the support. Am I just being really dumb and need to spend more time early in the book, or work through it?
Louis1127 wrote:I am right there with you on the bolded, my friend. I am hoping that I/we will "put it all together"- meaning understanding the task in the question stem, identifying the flaw for those types of questions, going through the answers and picking the correct one- in the drilling stage when we drill problems like crazy.cavalier2015 wrote:thanks for the help. i think that makes more sense.
i might be getting ahead of myself, but do you guys find yourself finding it hard to categorize flaws according to the types (and subsets) that Mike has laid out. I understand that this is something that Mike actually doesn't want us to do but I am starting to think this might be helpful in answering questions. I find myself using the "Taken for granted" method and most of the time I end up accurately finding the flaw but find myself spending a lot of time on the answer choices. It's hard for me to "match" the flaw to the answer choices or make the jump as to what might strengthen or weaken the support. Am I just being really dumb and need to spend more time early in the book, or work through it?
For example, there are like 250 NA questions! Yay! Cav2015, you haven't drilled yet, right? I haven't drilled yet (or even finished one of my books) yet, so I am not overly concerned at my/our situation at this point.
If you are still missing a significant portion of questions I really wouldn't be worried about doing them timed yet.politibro44 wrote:Drilled 58 SA today. Missed 13 overall, but my timing was pretty good.
Going to review all the ones I missed and those circled next using the blind review method.
Before I drilled I reread the trainer section on SA and also the MLSAT LR section on SA. It was helpful.
I've felt the same way as you guys, Cav and Louis. I just finished the first part of the LR in the Trainer (Chapter 9?) and while I feel fairly confident identifying argument flaws and answering them accordingly, the matching drills that Mike includes have taken the most time for me. It really made it easier to write out flaws under each question and then compare the similarity.cavalier2015 wrote:thanks for the help. i think that makes more sense.
i might be getting ahead of myself, but do you guys find yourself finding it hard to categorize flaws according to the types (and subsets) that Mike has laid out. I understand that this is something that Mike actually doesn't want us to do but I am starting to think this might be helpful in answering questions. I find myself using the "Taken for granted" method and most of the time I end up accurately finding the flaw but find myself spending a lot of time on the answer choices. It's hard for me to "match" the flaw to the answer choices or make the jump as to what might strengthen or weaken the support. Am I just being really dumb and need to spend more time early in the book, or work through it?
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I've done games where it's taken me as long as 30 minutes to figure it out. Now I can do some of those same games in less than 5.Gamecock15 wrote:Got my LSAT Trainer in the mail today! Can't wait to start working on it. It looks so pretty.
Ordered it on Amazon and it was shipped from 45 minutes away. What a waste of USPS.
Question for those of you who have been working at this quite a while: When you first started going through logic games, how long did it take you to do each one? I got an old copy of the LGB and started going through that. It suggested 8 minutes 45 seconds per game, but on my first tries I was spending a good bit longer than that (which, I expect that I'll get a lot faster after working at it). Right now it just seems impossible, though.
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C4271066 wrote:Anyone else besides me and All Star here from the December exam ready to hit the books once again?
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