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basedvulpes · Post by **basedvulpes** » Fri Oct 31, 2014 5:03 pm

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Pneumonia · Post by **Pneumonia** » Fri Oct 31, 2014 6:01 pm

Waste of time. Just study the passages. They're intentionally beyond any one persons range of comfort, so you're better off getting used to the tricks that they throw at you by dissecting each passage

BP Robert · Post by **BP Robert** » Fri Oct 31, 2014 8:32 pm

There's a good deal of truth to this^

If, however, you're set on brushing up on some fine art (which, who knows, may help in some small way on the LSAT and will surely be enriching outside the test) I'd recommend you scope Oxford's Literary Dictionary. It's a good starting place.

Best luck,

Blueprint LSAT Prep

hopeboaltberkeley · Post by **hopeboaltberkeley** » Fri Oct 31, 2014 9:54 pm

I'm not sure it will help you at all with LSAT reading comp, but I hear Susan Sontag is enjoyable as far as literary theory goes. I'm not as interested in that though.

gatesome · Post by **gatesome** » Fri Oct 31, 2014 10:03 pm

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aesth ... #ArtRevWor (Art as revelation of the world)

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume- ... sHumMorThe (Beauty and Taste in Hume's Moral Theory)

appind · Post by **appind** » Sat Nov 01, 2014 6:29 pm

Interested as well for introduction to all humanities, social sciences topics. Looking for material for familiarity with major visual/literary art movements from middles ages to modern, philosophical movements, women's history in various ages places (england, europe, mexico..) etc.

RC question
"He did not, as many people had hoped, speak at length about studies"
Sentence ambiguous? People had hoped he would speak about studies or not?

banjo · Post by **banjo** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 11:01 am

I've recommended the Bryn Mawr Classical Review in the past and have gotten some positive feedback. It's a site full of free academic reviews of books published in the field of classics and ancient history. Here's an example: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2013/2013-01-03.html. They're much more difficult than the average RC passage.

mornincounselor · Post by **mornincounselor** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 10:21 pm

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Pneumonia · Post by **Pneumonia** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 11:55 pm

LSAT structures are elementary too; there are only like 3 of them. They're just purposefully obfuscated. I know I'm parsing hairs between a structure that is simple and a structure that is simple to recognize, but that just reinforces the larger point that really the only thing that will make you better at reading comp besides a 4 year immersion in the classics is just practicing with and dissecting the passages themselves.

banjo · Post by **banjo** » Mon Nov 03, 2014 1:18 am

mornincounselor wrote:
banjo wrote:I've recommended the Bryn Mawr Classical Review in the past and have gotten some positive feedback. It's a site full of free academic reviews of books published in the field of classics and ancient history. Here's an example: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2013/2013-01-03.html. They're much more difficult than the average RC passage.

It depends on what you mean by difficult.

The structure of that article you posted seems much simpler than what we often find on an RC passage. I mean the author is very clear with their voice and at the end of the first paragraph she explicitly lays out her main point: "This procedure makes it difficult to do justice to the subtleties of individual contributions, but this price must be paid if a complete review of interpretative possibilities is being aimed at. Crivelli’s book is bound to become a standard reference in Plato scholarship because of its comprehensiveness, philological rigor, and philosophical clarity."

Then it goes paragraph by paragraph through the chapters of the book, each beginning with "Chapter x . . ."

Throughout she explicitly tells us her opinion: "That seems to me a reasonable decision, given . . .";

Sure her words are high level vocabulary and she is speaking about concepts which are difficult to understand, but the structure, the thing the LSAT is really testing us on, seems elementary.

The RC section tests more than structure. It tests your ability to intuit tone, grapple with abstract/unfamiliar concepts, and keep a number of viewpoints straight. While the example I gave earlier tests language/concepts more than structure or tone, other reviews are complex structurally or tonally. Skim these two:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2003/2003-01-26.html
http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2001/2001-09-06.html

I also agree with Pneumonia that the structure on RC passages is not really that hard. It's definitely not what trips people up, at least in my experience as an occasional tutor (not for any company).

Finally, just so you know, I don't think reading dense classics articles is necessary to get a -0 on the RC (I got a -1 and didn't read many of these at all). But if you're burning through practice tests and just want some complex humanities material on the train or something, these are decent.

appind · Post by **appind** » Mon Nov 03, 2014 1:34 am

BMCR is useful, thanks banjo

Anything similar for various arts/lit movements not part of classical literature or athenian theater that can get one familiar with various humanities/social sciences topics used in lsat?

Any reading comp/lr practice similar to what highly difficult math/phy olympiad tests are for science majors? mcat doesn't count as its rc is longer but not necessarily harder.