u/AssociateAny5979

Hi everyone,

This is a quick update that literally no one asked for, so sorry if this is annoying. But if people are interested, I can keep responding to this post every once in a while with RC encouragement and thought processes that are helping me.

Yesterday, I made a post when I was feeling really down and scared about RC. Thank you so much to everyone who commented. It’s funny how much strangers on the internet can make you feel less alone and remind you that we’re all kind of a little community here.

With everyone’s encouragement, I sat down yesterday and did Practice Test 18 RC. I never looked at the clock. I never panicked. I did not care at all about what I scored (crazy mindset change for me). I just told myself that this was going to be the start of a new chapter for me.

I got to the end, finished all the passages (somehow, for the first time ever), and got a -1!!

I’m not saying this means everything is suddenly going to be easy. I’m sure my scores will keep varying, and there will still be bad days and good days, easier and harder passages. But it honestly felt like a sign that once I finally embraced the demon way on RC and committed to facing the thing that was scaring me, I got a little hint that I was moving in the right direction.

So I’m choosing to keep going, and this is your sign to choose to keep going as well! We are all going to make fantastic attorneys, and I am proud of us all for doing things that are hard!!

ps. For anyone who reads this and finds LR harder than RC and wants the inverse encouragement, you got this!!! When I first started studying, LR was my worst section (-13), and now I have an average of -4.

Hi guys!

To preface, Reading Comprehension is usually my worst section on the test. I normally get around a -7, either because I don’t make it to the last passage or because I rush to get there and end up making a bunch of mistakes along the way.

I know my problem is that I can get a -7 either way, which can be pretty discouraging (although I try to remind myself I can guess on the passage I don't get to). So, this is my quest to start consistently getting perfect passages and become more comfortable with getting a -7 because I didn’t get to a passage, rather than getting a -7 because I got a bunch of questions wrong.

Because it’s my weakest section, I also have a really hard time sitting down and actually studying for it. Whenever I practice, I fall back into the same bad habits I’ve been working hard to overcome (especially reading too quickly). Sometimes studying Reading Comprehension feels so intimidating because I know it’s something I struggle with. Because of that, I find myself wanting to take the easy way out and avoid practicing it altogether.

So, I’m trying to change my mindset. Instead of focusing so much on my score, I want to focus on building better habits: slowing down, actually understanding the passages, and learning to recognize when I’m rushing or making mistakes.

Hopefully, over time, I can get to the point where a -7 feels like a good -7 because I ran out of time, rather than a -7 caused by careless mistakes throughout the section.

If anyone else has struggled with RC in a similar mindset type of way, I’d love to hear what helped you! But I am also making this post to hold myself accountable!

Are LSAT Demon tests A, F, and H different from all the other practice material? What's up with the naming convention?

Hi all!

Sorry if this is not the right place to ask this but I’m on a gap year (as I am applying to law school) but dream of being a prosecutor. I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for job opportunities that are public interest/ similar to the environment of a prosecutors office. I feel like their are not that many options or jobs open for people with just a BA but if anyone has any recommendations or suggestions I would appreciate them :)

Hi,

Lately, while taking practice tests, I've encountered something I hadn't seen before. A Logical Reasoning stimulus will contain multiple flaws, and then there will be two consecutive questions that both use that same stimulus but ask about different aspects of it.

I've been studying for quite a while, and I had never come across this until recently. Now I've seen it twice, so I was curious: how common are these paired questions on the LSAT?

Hey everybody!

The other day I was doing a reading comprehension passage, and I got a question wrong because the answer choice said that the author enumerates something. At the time, I didn’t realize that just meant that the author went about explaining their position via a list.

I know that reading comprehension uses a lot of words in passages that aren’t entirely problematic, even if you don’t know them, but I’m wondering if anyone’s picked up on the meaning of words to describe ‘organization’/ what an author actually has done.

For example, once I understood that introducing a qualification means that the author is critiquing, I found those questions much easier!

Edit: Also, according to an Ask button response (although this makes no sense to me): Criticism just means analysis

Any advice for actually slowing down? I know the wisdom is “slow down to speed up,” and I’m really trying to take that to heart. I try to actively read, paraphrase, break sentences down, connect ideas, and summarize as I go, but I just keep reading way too fast.

I know obviously it takes time to break bad habits, but does anyone have advice on how they were actually able to slow themselves down?

I try really hard not to move on until I feel like I have 100% understanding of the passage, but clearly I don't because I struggle by the time I get to the answers and don't feel like I am enough of an expert

Hi everyone!

I've been thinking about this while doing practice questions, so I figured I'd ask. I'm pretty comfortable with the difference between some, most, and all, but I've come across a few terms that I'm having trouble categorizing, and I haven't heard the team talk about them. (If I'm wrong about that, please let me know!)

Do mainly, primarily, and for the most part all indicate more than half, but less than 100%?

Does anyone have any advice for supported questions? I understand the whole "soft must be true" idea, but for some reason I still struggle with them in both LR and RC. I feel like I end up drifting away from the information that's actually in the passage, and I have a hard time choosing between two answer choices because I'm never sure which one is more reasonable versus which one is actually better supported by the text.

Any tips or strategies that helped you improve?

Hey guys, I'm hoping somebody can help me. I've been a long-time subscriber and listener of the Demon, and I've really tried to take everything to heart, but all of the reading comprehension advice seems so abstract (that's a complaint for another day)

I've spent a lot of time trying to practice it, but I think the main point, in particular, is what throws me off because it all feels so fluffy. I know the common advice is to ask yourself, "Why did the author write this?" or "How would you describe what you just read to a friend?" I also know that you're supposed to come up with your own prediction of the main point beforehand and that it's not supposed to be just a summary.

But I feel like all of this advice assumes that eventually I am going to understand what the author was trying to tell me if I just keep practicing, but it is not clicking. I keep getting the questions wrong, and every time I use the Ask button to find out why, I get the same advice: I have to figure out what the author was trying to tell me.

The problem is that I can't figure out what the author was trying to tell me.

Any advice?