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Nice view of the Carquinez Bridge on my hike this morning. Enjoying the peace and quiet.

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LSAT Tip: Practice tests are overrated. The real learning happens between those tests, in what you read, and how you review, and what you listen to. It's in your willingness to try something different. Don't just practice. Study, change, and learn.

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Be like Lulu. Take time to enjoy the sunshine.

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#LSAT Tip: When an argument uses conditional premises (if/then statements), but then draws a causal conclusion (one thing leads to/produces/promotes/etc. another), use causal reasoning tools to pick apart the argument. The argument is causal, not conditional.

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Artichoke hearts are delicious. They are reward at the end of all the hard work. Dipped in melted butter with a little salt and pepper, they are pure comfort food. But I have a memory of eating them cold as a kid, with thousand island dressing. Anyone else try them that way? I think I liked it.

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#LSAT Tip: Don't take the test before you're ready to get a score that will get you into a school you want to attend. If you're not ready for that, postpone. Don't use up one attempt for practice. Don't use the excuse that you already paid for it and don't want to waste the money.

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January #LSAT scores are out today. Congratulations to everyone who met or exceeded their hopes or expectations! To those who did not, take a breather and then reset. This isn't the end of the journey, just one step along the way.

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#LSAT Tip: Get yourself a study partner who looks at you like this.

submitted 125 days ago • 1 comment

#LSAT Tip: Assumption questions are about flaws in the argument. The author assumes the argument isn't flawed. They overlooked an alternate cause? They assumed there wasn't an alternate cause. They failed to consider that this could be an exception? They assumed it's not an exception. Etc.

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#LSAT Tip: There are a number of common flaws that are used as wrong answers much more often than they are the right answer. High on that list is the overgeneralization, where the evidence is about only a few instances of a thing, and the conclusion is that all the cases are like those few.

submitted 132 days ago • 1 comment

This #LSAT Tip is for the non-traditional students out there, the ones who've been out of school a while and maybe looking for a career change: Do it. You're not too old. One way or another, if all goes well, some day you'll be 85. You can be 85 and a lawyer, or 85 and not a lawyer. Your choice.

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Let's go Tigers! Very proud of the history of this great institution.

submitted 134 days ago • 2 comments

Can't believe it took me this long to figure out that the way to ensure that my doctor's office will return my call promptly is to get in the shower!

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The January #LSAT is underway, and testing will continue through Saturday. Good luck to everyone around the world taking this test! Remain calm, breathe, and do what you practiced. If you do that, you win.

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January #LSAT is this week. If you know someone taking it, be supportive. Test-takers: pace yourself. Accuracy > Speed. Remember to breathe. Don't second-guess, don't overthink, keep it simple, and be confident. Easier said than done, I know, but you have to try.

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When you're stuck between two answers, it's not because they are both good. It's because there's something terribly wrong about one of them that you are missing. Find what makes one of the answers wrong, rather than trying to see what makes one of them better than the other. #LSAT Tip of the Day.

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#LSAT Tip of the Day: Read. Read the news. Read about science. Read about law. Read about humanities. Read novels, and essays, and poetry. Read everything.

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First #LSAT Tip of the New Year: Don't grind practice tests. In fact, most students don't need to take more than about 10 to 12 total PTs before taking the real thing, if that. It's what you do BETWEEN those tests, and how you learn from them, that really makes a difference.

submitted 154 days ago • 1 comment

You know you're getting old when the most exciting development of the new year is that your new prescription meds have arrived!

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Don't take the #LSAT before you're ready, and plan on taking it at least twice. There's no hurry! If you aren't ready in this cycle, then wait until the next one.

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Today's #LSAT Tip: The correct answer to a Most Strongly Supported question doesn't absolutely have to be true. It's just the only answer that has any support from the stimulus. It's like Strengthen in reverse. The stimulus strengthens the answer, and does not strengthen the wrong answers.

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Today's #LSAT Tip: When going through answer choices, if you hesitate over an answer, just skip it and go to the next one. Never cross out an answer unless you're certain it's wrong, and never waste time double-checking an answer before you've finished reading them all. Confusion = Contender

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#LSAT Tip of the Day: In RC, the answers to Organization questions will all sound similar. Here's what makes the wrong ones wrong: Something missing Something extra Wrong order

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#LSAT Tip of the Day: "Many" does not mean "most." Many is a vague, subjective large amount, and that amount could be a relatively low percentage of whatever is being discussed. Most means more than 50%. When you have evidence about many, do not assume that means more than half!

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#LSAT Tip of the Day: A Point at Issue question is not necessarily asking about the main point being discussed. The point on which the two speakers disagree could be a minor detail. It's usually something more central than that, but it doesn't have to be.

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#LSAT Tip of the Day: When the question stem includes the phrase "which of the following, if true," then you must simply accept all five answer choices as true. It doesn't matter if they sound implausible or even ridiculous. They are true, full stop! But only one does what you need it to do.

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#LSAT Tip of the Day: When asked to select the answer with which the author of the RC passage would most likely disagree, that doesn't mean they would agree with the other four answer choices. Those might be things that could go either way, because we lack sufficient information.

submitted 179 days ago • 1 comment

Had to take a break from hanging up Christmas lights on the house to buy something from the ice cream guy driving by. Christmas in California is a little different.

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#LSAT Tip of the Day: Study conditional reasoning (if/then arguments) using whatever resources you have. It's a big component of the LR section, and if you don't know how to recognize it and deal with it, your score will suffer. Skill with conditionality is not sufficient, but it is necessary.

submitted 181 days ago • 0 comments

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Love Hard is a great Christmas movie. Jimmy O. Yang is national treasure.

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The Star Wars Holiday Special was ahead of it's time. Weed wasn't legal back then.

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Today's #LSAT Tip: Don't spend time trying to figure out why an answer could be right. That's usually just rationalizing something that is probably a wrong answer. Instead, ask yourself what makes the answer wrong. If you can't find anything wrong, then it's probably right.

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LSAT Tip of the Day: when you're trying to resolve a paradox, ask yourself what could have caused this situation.

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