u/CodeAgile9585

Hello! I’ve been working on my personal statement for about 4 months and I chose to open up my personal statement with a reference to the anime I watched as a kid, I didn’t go into depth but tied it to how I want to be a hero for others through law alongside two important experiences that I went through during my years at my undergrad. Is that all right? I’ve received varying opinions towards this personal statement and I feel as if the anime part is authentically me

My RC has been staggeringly improving, my accuracy has increased to the point where i’m 90%-100% on easy to hard passages, but my LR struggles, I feel like i’m still stagnant even though my avg is -4, -6. I feel like I may be overthinking it but I really want to really UNDERSTAND this test, I want to deeply understand the processes of LR to the point where i’m not making mistakes anymore, just like how I understood RC.

For those that made this leap, what did you do?

On the recent developments the only thing this character has done is heal his lackeys, go toe to toe with Loki, the fingers he cut off of Gerd, healed immediately in a couple of chapters, Zoro and Sanji are back into the mix after being BLASTED by someone that has been alive for 800 years+

Oda is about to fumble Elbalph and it’s not looking good. There’s 0 stakes and 0 tension with these characters just lore and powerscaling bs.

Hello! I'm a pretty frequent poster in this sub and I wanted to share my advice and strategies for RC that got me from a -12, -13 to a -3, -4, I'm no LSAT guru or tutor but I feel like this can help people as much as it helped me.

• Stop overcomplicating RC
  • At its core, RC is simply can you read thoroughly and slowly and then use what you read to answer questions, think about it, when you eventually become the lawyer, you're meant to be and you're forming a case, you are not going to pull random facts without a source or support backing it and that is exactly what RC tests you on, your ability to use the passage as your foundation and answer questions based off of that foundation.
• The passages in RC are actually real
  • What I mean by this is, when you shift your attitude on RC from, this is just another hurdle stopping me from achieving my goal score to this passage actually contains real information from studies, papers, etc. and is actually giving you new information it'll help with retaining the point more. For myself I saw that I got better at RC when I realized that I'm actually learning something new here, and I'm walking away from this passage with information that I can tell my friends.
• If the answer isn't stated or supported, it isn't the correct answer
  • You need to be mean to these answer choices, it's either stated or supported, if you choose an answer, you better make sure that you can back it with a sentence or a paragraph from the passage, if you cannot point to where you got your answer from, then it is the wrong answer. Just like a lawyer, when you eventually get to the point of making arguments, you better be sure to back it with support. This isn't LR, there's less flexibility with RC, meaning, every right answer in RC is backed by support or stated in the stimulus, you cannot reason with the wrong answer in RC, you simply just didn't comprehend it thoroughly enough.
• Sentence by Sentence, rather than Paragraph by Paragraph
  • Every sentence has a meaning in RC, stop rushing to make a low-res summary and then miss a KEY point in a sentence because you're trying to make a summary. That is why I embrace a sentence-by-sentence style of tackling RC because each sentence holds weight.
• Active Reading, Active Conversation
  • Active reading, you need to be interacting with the passage, draw connections from your own experiences in life and bridge it to the passage, talk to yourself through it, "Is it interesting? Is it fun to read, wow this is new information." Doing this was how I was able to have a better feel for the passage, because I would actively remember how I felt when I would dissect these sentences.

Hopefully this advice can help people struggling with RC, I understand that RC can be extensively daunting but fearing RC gives your mind the power to make mistakes because of a lack of confidence. RC is meant to be fun, it's meant to teach you new information about the world alongside being timed to think fast and draw connections. Again, my advice isn't a 100% best thing to do, Im not a tutor but this is what helped me grow.