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@SardineConsul @MByayyy Exactly — and the flip side is just as mechanical: for every wrong answer you should be able to name the one reason it's out. If you can't, you haven't fully cracked the type yet. Elimination is the real skill.

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@notthemarsh That gap between your score and your ceiling is usually one or two question types, not a little of everything. Pin down which before the retake. Free diagnostic to find them: https://t.co/VTXX0tYm0o

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@miamibrando Smart to retake if it's below your ceiling. Don't restudy everything though — find the question type costing you the most points and target it. Quick diagnostic to spot yours: https://t.co/VTXX0tYm0o

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@copethyself A 174 means "off by two" isn't a studying problem — at that level the misses are attention lapses, not knowledge gaps. That's noise, not your ceiling. Dreams very much intact.

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@zottanii Draining usually means you're logging hours instead of targeting weak spots. Pick the one question type you miss most and drill only that for a few days. Less volume, more focus — it stops feeling like a slog.

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A 178-level distinction:

Mistaken Reversal: A → B becomes B → A.
Mistaken Negation: A → B becomes ¬A → ¬B.

Both are wrong. They feel different on the page.

Most students drill one and never see the other coming.

The LSAT uses both. #LSAT

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A trap I see constantly as an LSAT tutor:

The stimulus describes what happens. A wrong answer prescribes what should.

"Most doctors recommend X" is descriptive.
"Doctors ought to recommend X" is normative.

One word changes everything. That's where they put the trap. #LSAT

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A trap I see constantly as an LSAT tutor:

Students try to find alternative causes to weaken causal arguments.

But sometimes the answer is simpler.

If the cause happened after the effect — the argument is already dead.

Causation requires the cause to come first. #LSAT

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Hitting a plateau on the LSAT usually doesn't mean you need more practice.

It means you've mastered your current approach — and your current approach has a ceiling.

The score isn't stuck. The process is stuck.

Find the ceiling. Change the ceiling. #LSAT #LSATPrep

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Wrong answers on LR survive because they sound right, not because they are.

They're built from real words in the stimulus. They feel familiar.

The filter isn't "does this sound right."

It's "is this exactly what I need, nothing more."

Precision beats familiarity. #LSAT

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"Only if" does not mean what students think it means.

"You pass only if you study" means: pass → studied.

NOT: If you study → you pass.

Students flip it — and build wrong contrapositives from the start.

The direction is everything on the LSAT. #LSAT #LSATPrep

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Good LSAT students read the choices. High scorers don't.

They form an answer first — before the choices can pull them anywhere.

Students who look first get anchored to tempting wrong answers.

Prephrase. Then compare. The test can't trap what you already answered. #LSAT

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@ceqtarian @CGSCapital @legalesnupi totally!

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RC wrong answers sometimes swap one concept for a similar-sounding one.

Passage: “regulation.” Answer: “prohibition.”
Passage: “correlation.” Answer: “causation.”

Same territory, different claim. That gap kills it every time. #LSAT #LSATPrep

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Students try to weaken LSAT arguments by attacking the evidence.

That almost never works. Evidence stated as fact cannot be weakened.

The gap between evidence and conclusion is the target. Find what the conclusion assumes — and cut that link. #LSAT #LSATPrep

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Most LSAT students grind the wrong thing for months.

Step one isn't a course. It's knowing which skill is actually holding you back.

I built a free diagnostic you play like a game — fight a monster, find your weakest type.

https://t.co/VTXX0tYm0o #LSAT

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A 178-level distinction:

"Necessary" means two things on the LSAT.

Modal: this outcome must occur.
Conditional: this condition must be present.

NA questions test the second — not the first.

If you pick answers that feel like predictions, you're using the wrong kind. #LSAT

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Students think the negation of "all" is "none."

It isn't. "Not all" = at least one exception, not zero.

On the Negation Test, that difference determines whether an assumption is necessary.

Missing this one step creates phantom ties between answer choices. #LSAT #LSATPrep

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@shawteyduwop 5-7 years is great runway. LSAT rewards deliberate reasoning practice over time — you don’t need to cram. One focused prep push 1-2 years out and the skills are sharp when it counts. The PhD logic transfers more than you’d think.

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@damnyny True. What helps: romanticize the logic, not the hours. Every flaw pattern you can name in your sleep is a real, concrete reason to keep going. The recognition is the skill.