What I'm doing wrong, but it's like, I don't really get that get. Gotcha. So to me, the issue is that if you don't understand the gap, that means you don't really understand the argument. So I would slow down and focus on making sure you thoroughly understand the arguments.
You can paraphrase them or reframe them in your own words. How are you, for example, with necessary assumption questions? I'm OK with those. Well, yeah, I guess I'm OK with them.
I'm OK with the questions. It's just, I don't know, like, lately, like, OK, so I would say that. I have sort of improvement where we can finish it. I have, but I don't know if it's by chance, you know, like, I'm just getting the right, this by half the same as me getting the right or it's like, OK, I really got it down that.
Gotcha. Well, I mean, there's five answer choices for every else that question. So if you get something right, chances are it's not simply like alone. You probably understood something about it.
So I look at for the arguments that you get right, the questions you get right. Let's say it was necessary assumption. How could you reframe that stimulus and that answer choice to be a strength in question or a weekend question, potentially? You'll see this in some of the workshops inside the course that I've taught in the past, where I'll take the same signals and analyze it from a variety of different perspectives.
So the benefit there, one of them is that if there is a question where you're good at that question, Sam type, you can use your areas of strength and then apply them to areas where you're not feeling as strong because to me, I mean, there actually shouldn't really be a difference fundamentally in how you do with strength and or weekend or flaw or necessary assumption, because they're all cases where you have an argument containing a gap. It's simply a matter of perspective. That's one thing I'll say reframing question type. Another thing is I asked about resources or what you've done to solve this issue already because there's a ton inside the course on strengthening weekend questions specifically.
I mean, I could give you the theoretical overview now, but I don't see the point because you already will get a much deeper version inside the course than whatever I would give you in two minutes off the top of my head. I mean, I've done hour long classes, multiple going over strength and questions, weekend questions, the three or four overall categories. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, I know it was the for the weekend.
The answer, whatever the answer is, it makes the question. It makes the argument true. We're not mistaken. It's something that your class taught that with the question, if it's a weekend question, the answer does something to I don't know if it makes the argument valid.
Something tax, I can't remember. And don't go off what you're trying to what you may have memorized in the past because there's a dozen plus different questions, then types and it's easy to get a mixed up. Let's just take a common sense approach here. If you want to weaken an argument, that means you are weakening it.
You're harming it. You're making the conclusion feel shakier than it was initially proposed. That's it. So just like if you wanted to weaken a support beam for a house, I don't know why you would, but I'm just thinking of things you could weaken.
If you wanted to weaken a structure, maybe, uh, maybe you remove a leg or you remove, you remove a column. You're not making the entire house topple, but you are making it more likely that it would run a long time frame. So you're not the job of a weekend question step is simply that to weaken, to make it relatively less likely to make it relatively less strong. That's it.
We don't need to destroy it 100%. And we're definitely not looking to guarantee it. That'd be more like the opposite of what we're looking to do. For everything, everything that's about weekend, it would be the opposite for strengthen.
So to strengthen it, you might add an additional support beam or an additional column. You were making the conclusion relatively more likely given the initially proposed evidence. You don't have to guarantee it 100%. You're just making it more likely.
Now, do you pay attention more to the, do you pay attention to the conclusion and the evidence or you pay pay attention to just the conclusion? You're paying attention to both. I mean, because you're looking to strengthen the argument as a whole and the argument is a combination of the evidence and conclusion. That's what it consists of.
And so you'll see in the theoretical overviews inside the course and then the demo demos of the questions, I start off by talking about how different ways to strengthen your argument would include making the evidence more relevant to the conclusion. That's one way to do it. And so that's combining both in your analysis or if the argument is based upon a study or a survey, if you were to strengthen the way in which the study or survey was conducted, but to say that they did in fact use a representative sample or the survey questions were not heavily biased in some way. That would help the argument because you're saying that this is not only what did the survey exist because we already know it existed, but on top of that, it was actually a good survey.
Okay. Okay. I got it. I'm actually taking the outside tomorrow.
Oh, really? Okay. Cool. Well, this, I mean, I wouldn't say that in that case, I wouldn't do a super deep dive into all the workshops in the course or anything.
I wouldn't do dozens of questions between now and tomorrow. In fact, I typically recommend trying to take it, kind of take it easy the day before the exam, but this is at least some good food for thought. Is there, are you considering a potential retake in the future? I only ask because that would give you a longer horizon over which you could apply some recommendations I could give you.
So I'm looking to take my next, I mean, if I have to take it, I would do April. Okay. Right behind because I really want to get in this for like, I'm good with games. The game's I'm good reading.
I'm good. It's the arts, you know, arguments that's pretty much, it's really decision. Then we can question like a parallel question up there with that. Paradise and repair that question, which is really to be honest, I feel like it's all the same.
You know, we should then even the paradox so far. That's that's really the one. And that takes like two, you know, that's two parts alone. So even though it seems like, okay, you got everything else, which, you know, this, this part, it can be, you know, it could cause me on the exam.
For sure. I mean, yeah, you want to leave ideally, you want to leave no stone and turn, you want to have a confident understanding of each question type going in. And I would say between now and taking the exam tomorrow, I wouldn't do a whole lot. I would maybe meditate on what we've talked about in this conversation, just to let it kind of let it percolate a little bit.
I wouldn't do a ton of practice questions or anything. But if you do end up deciding to go for an April retake, you were speaking now in early ish March, you've got a month and a half until the April LSAT, because this year, the April LSAT is the very end of April. So you've got a good month and 20 days or so, so a month and a half over, which you could then do some practice LR sections. You could drill questions by type.
You could watch the previous classes inside the course on these different questions, then times do some of that reframing I talked about. But honestly, I would spend the next 24 hours or so or less potentially just getting properly set up with your Texas and for Proctor U for the online administration. So downloading the Chrome extension for Proctor U doing the system check, prepping your room for the exam. So making sure you've got your pencils and pens and your scratch paper and you've got the computer background in your room.
It doesn't have a ton of books or papers lying around because the security doesn't allow for that. I mean, how are you feeling in terms of the test day prep side of things? Oh, I'm pretty much. I feel good about it.
I have already have already downloaded Proctor U on the Google Chrome. So that's pretty much it said already. I got to get my website back to Google. Hope.
What is the core? Scratch paper. Scratch paper. Yeah.
Yeah, I was able to get that. And that's pretty much it. Make sure I have like some twizz list of nearby and other than that. That's about it.
Nice. You know, everything else is pretty much, you know, good. I did today. I'm doing like some questions to make sure that I am, you know, that I'm going to write, you know, the right path.
So I have been doing like some questions today. Fantastic. Yeah. I think doing so, keeping your head in the game a little bit, the day before is OK.
If that makes you feel more comfortable before test day and then definitely have some warm up questions ready to go right before you start. So the first question to doing that day or not, the actual ones that count and that you're you're in the game. And do you know, like, I have an idea, like what you think the exam is going to be like, kind of like sometimes you'll normally give an overview in terms of predictions. Yeah.
I'm not really big on predictions, just because no one knows for sure what's going to be covered on it exactly. But keep in mind the questions. The sections could be in any order. It's not always going to be games first and reasoning than reading comp.
They scramble it. You could get two of any section as well. So the experimental section could be any of games reasoning reading comp. So if you were to go for end of April as a retake, I would make sure that you've done practice testing every combination.
Sometimes people just do what's there by default in law hub and that's only one potential combination. Okay. I get to say, yeah, got you got you. Oh, yeah.
But I was expecting where it was like going to be two, two hours and one game and one reading. So I'd rather to read it than no. Well, yeah. So that's good.
That's good. That's good. That's good. That's good.
That we talked about it then because yeah, what you see in what you see in what you see in law hub is just an artifact of how the LSAT used to be when there were four sports sections now that there's three sports sections in one experimental section, then it could be that you could get two games or two reading comps as well. So just know that going and I know that it may not be ideal, but at least you're mentally prepared for it. And you never you don't know they don't take which one is scored. You know, they don't they don't not during the exam.
Oh, wow. I'm ready for it. Yeah, of course. Yeah.
I'm ready for it. You know, I'm trying to get to Kingi's law really. And that like is like the well, yeah, they are. But when it comes to public interest law, I'm really just trying to get to Kingi law school.
So I know they're I think they're meeting it once 50, not on the stadium. I think it's 150. So, you know, that's where I don't want to miss my goal point. I'm looking to go further.
And so we see with my, yeah, and I guess my statement. The I'm going to give a diversity statement as well as a personal statement. So, you know, for the school. So we see where it goes from.
Yeah. Yeah, definitely. Well, if you're looking for help with the admissions essays, personal statement, diversity statement definitely shoot me an email because I help out with the editing and revising and brainstorming on that stuff as well. If you're looking for ideas.
OK, cool. Thank you so much. I appreciate you. OK, thank you.