Someone said that this had "too much comedy." I disagree. If anything, the comic relief helps to demystify the LSAT. The LSAT is not this HUGE thing that only certain respectable people can do well on. We all can do it. Thank you for this video.
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This was the best way I’ve ever seen reading Comp be strategized in video form. I’m hoping to turn my 21/27’s into 27’s so hopefully now that I know what qualifies means I can land me a few extra. You guys are great!
Never did I think I would laugh out loud so much while studying for the LSAT. Thank you, Patrick, for bringing some joy to my LSAT studying! (And really helpful test-taking tactics!)
I love this new setup you guys have with the animations, funny commentary, all the while still explaining so well. Thank you! Visuals and the organization is so helpful for me. Thank you LSAT Lab! ❤️
Thank you for the feedback! I encourage you and any other student to let us know if the "fun" starts to get in the way of the learning. That would be self-defeating.
This took me an hour to get through with note-taking, and was an hour pleasantly spent- which is rare in lsat study lol. Also, extremely power packed and packaged in a digestible way. Best I’ve seen on YT. Thank you for the work you put into this!
Thanks a lot! We'll have another one up this week, and then hopefully we can crank out the more lesson-y ones more quickly, as they will take less time to produce than these absurdist conceptual ones.
I just want to say that I've found your videos to be incredibly helpful and am very grateful that they're free for everyone! Thank you Thank you Thank you
I love how you make it fun and enjoyable instead of serious and boring like most other LSAT channels. I’m comfortable with every section besides RC, and this helped a ton. THANKS!!
THIS VIDEO IS SO UNDERRATED!!! This is the best video that I have ever seen for reading comprehension. I am studying for MCAT and CARS is killing me but this video is literally gold and I am so happy that I found this before my exam. Thank you so much!!!!!!
Patrick, you're awesome. This was absolutely brilliant. Having a review at the end was really cool. This isn't just a great LSAT lesson, it's one of the best "lessons" I've ever watched overall... I'd say deserving of the educational equivalent of an Oscar for best writing, acting, animation, actor and picture! Can't even begin to imagine all the work that was necessary to put this together. The sheer creativity, production value, just wow!
I dont usually leave comments but this was just too great, thank you so much! I will probably be doing the "pivot word" dance in my head on test day lol
Thank you so much to the people who made this video! It was super helpful and it was the first LSAT video I’ve ever watched that made me laugh out loud!
Thank you! They take astronomically longer to make. :) Or at least the 1st and 2nd pancake did. But man-oh-man, can I feel 3rd pancake taking exponentially less time 🤞
I am so happy about this video. I have been studying for LSAT (only one week) and was so sad about my diagnostic results. This video is helping me grasp the "Big Picture" concept in ways that are well illustrated and thoroughly explained. 😅
Awesome, glad it's helpful! Don't let the test get you down too much. Your initial diag mostly tells you how well or how not-well your intuitive way of thinking is aligned to that of LSAT's. If you start off lower, it just means there's a big gap between how you're initially thinking of the material and how you'll want to think of it in order to optimize your score. It often takes people many months to shift their instincts to align more with LSAT's (re-aligning thinking is like steering an aircraft carrier), so have a lot of humor, humility, patience, and enthusiasm in the tank. :)
This was awesome! You guys are so talented! It’s probably outside of your scope, but given how important reading comprehension is to academic success I’ve no doubt there would be thousands of parents of middle schoolers and high schoolers who would appreciate these kinds of videos for their kids. Turn it into a curriculum and they would buy it for sure.
Jeeeez. You're right! That probably is the audience where my aesthetic most makes sense (and my kids'll be entering middle school in a couple years so I'll have free market research). Theresa, you just gave me the security blanket of thinking, "if LSAT Lab implodes, what next?" :) Thanks!
Absolutely! As a retired homeschooling mom, I would have happily purchased dvd’s or videos like this to help my kids learn and understand reading material better. Reading comprehension is vital to doing well in all other subjects. Your videos are organized, clear, entertaining, and fun. You ‘put the cookies on a lower shelf’ for everyone to understand, and that’s gold, parents want that.
thanks for the feedback. that's definitely a big concern in making a "fun" educational video. the learning is still supposed to be the centerpiece. what would you recommend .... less animation ... more time for screens to breathe ... or just don't use animation at all?
You get one million points for commenting on that. You're either the first or second to have ever noticed it (I may have dreamed the first comment). I knew at the time "this joke is just for you, and maybe six other people, Patrick" but no one is looking over my shoulder to offer notes on these, so I left it in!
@@LSATLab lol I love covert quips. Being of a um, certain age (just turned 44 and re-pivoting from finance to law) DS is right in my wheelhouse. I’m a fan of LSAT lab too. I’m trying to watch them all!
Very insightful and excellent explanations. Also, I think we can use answer choice elimination methods you taught in LR section to get rid of wrong options. Trap answer choices in LR are dissected deeply.
Hey, there .. we post as often as we can, but that can sometimes means weeks between posts (there's only two of us, and we still have to do a lot of teaching / tutoring / other work to keep the lights on). p.s. if you have a fee waiver, you can use LSAT Lab for free.
We're moving into a period during which we are able to produce these more quickly than has been the case for the past few months. The next one is ready to go. I'm about to post it now. Should be live in 30 minutes.
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Hi, thank you for this video, I found it very helpful. Clearly this passage was written by a “Problem Solver”. I’ve learned that the author types consist of 1. Journalists/Reporter, 2. Critique, and 3. Problem Solver. My question is... will this method of Chungking work for the other two types of author’s? Some passages don’t have clear cut issues of A. Having a problem, and B, offerings of a solution.
Chunking is something we can always do (in RC and real-life); it's just an attempt to self-summarize in a way that compresses and simplifies. But I think your question is, "Can we really always condense the Main Point down to 2 or 3 big ideas"? Yeah, pretty much! Of the five main frameworks (C.H.O.P.P. - Challenge Position / Highlight Noteworthy / Old New / Problem Solution / Present Debate), the one that is sometimes tricky is Highlight Noteworthy. Those are the passages that sound more like they're written by Journalist / Reporter (to use your terminology). Because of their straightforward descriptive style, you have to listen/look harder for moments of emphasis or for umbrella claims that get fleshed out, but it's still doable.
Have you ever heard a stand-up comic whose last joke includes a reference to something that was said earlier? That's called a "callback". In conversations with friends, you can often get a laugh by sneaking in a reference to something that was said earlier. in an RC passage, author's will say something in paragraph 3 that alludes to something they said in paragraph 1, but they won't necessarily use the exact same word choice. One of the ways we can tell if our comprehension is truly on point is if we understand these moments when an author is subtly referring back to something they said earlier in the passage. Let me know if that didn't make sense.
haha, congratulations you are genuinely the first and only person to have ever commented on that joke (which is one of my personal faves). let's go edit Duncan's wikipedia page to include his time spent dating Sniffles the Clown back in San Antonio.
If the main reason why you're here is trying to improve your ability to answer questions correctly, you might prefer the videos from episode 3 onward. The first two videos are specifically about improving our ability to understand and retain the most important ideas (and ideally a few subsidiary ones as well) in 2-3m mins. They're more conceptual and metaphorical and cartoon-laden. They're baiting people who don't have the attention span for reading comp into trying to have the attention span for reading comp. As the series progresses, the ratio of humorous tangents / serious LSAT question analysis slims down quite a bit. But at the end of the day, it's still an unabashedly silly style that isn't for everyone.
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