3: Big Picture Questions | How to Improve LSAT Reading Comp 

Thank you, we appreciate that! I'm obviously having fun, but yes they take forever to get out there, mainly because they have to be made on top of a full time schedule of teaching / tutoring. I'm happy you're liking them.

@@LSATLab Thanks for the hard work as well since I'm on a budget and I have done plenty of Zoom meetings regarding LSAT prep over an year now. I'm taking the LSAT-FLEX next month and Reading Comp is my weakest concept of the LSAT in terms of performance.

Hey Janhavi, Which college did you get

@@noamchomsky729 NALSAR university of law, got a pretty decent rank!

We're hoping to go back to producing them in a week or two, once the dust settles from the August test and from a huge curriculum project we've been working on the past six months.

@@LSATLab excited to hear that, thank you! :) will definitely sub and turn notifications on

Yeah, I know, I'm anxious to do the rest of them, too. We're a very small company (5 ppl in total, only 2 teachers) so we are spread very thin. We're hoping to soon have enough revenue that we can hire a 3rd teacher, which will then free up time so that we can work on making more curriculum stuff. If I had to guess, we'll get 2 more vids in this series up by the November test.

@@LSATLab sorry for being so pushy, I apologize and appreciate everything you’ve done for me so far. You guys are great people for making these videos free on RU-vid. Thank you

@@burning1ko , no worries! I was just explaining our conundrum so that you can make sense of the delay. I'm glad to hear you're liking them.

The "Source / Audience" questions sound like, "Given the style and tone of each passage, which of the following is most correctly going to describe the audience for each passage". "The passages were most likely taken from which one of the following pairs of sources?" (as you can see both of these are from Comparative passage sets. Source/Audience questions are very rare. Maybe 5-7 ever?) Primary Purpose vs. Primary Concern isn't really meaningfully different. Purpose, because the question stem usually ends with an infinitive, starts with a verb. Concern usually starts with a noun. But they both have some answer sets that are completely abstract, and others that are more dialed into the specific topic of the passage.

What do you mean by "that is what happened"? Where in the passage does it talk about his technical limitations? When I said "he was technically limited, but he transcended it", I was performing it in a hypothetical voice, then I said in my actual voice "that answer doesn't match up with anything". The *out-of-service* sound effect and floating question mark that accompanied that were meant to convey the feel of reading it and thinking, "Where does this idea come from?!" There didn't seem to be any part of the passage that talked about Gilliam struggling through technical limitations (which would be like, "Gilliam could never master the brush stroke or mix paints correctly. But that didn't hold him back ..."). Was there a part of the passage you thought we could match up with "technical limitations"?

@@LSATLab Ah, I think I see what happened. I thought when you said "technically, that meant like in regards to technology/computers". You meant he was "technically" as in "sort of, essentially, basically" limited. Is that right? Or am I completely missing the point

@@WaisNoah When the answer says that he was able to transcend "technical limitations", it's saying, "his ability to make art was limited by techniques / resources". A technical limitation of LSAT Lab is that you need to be online to use (most) of it. It relies on the technology of internet connectivity. If we were talking about a musician who is "technically limited", we would mean that he is lacking in technique ... he doesn't have the technical skills to play barre chords or to solo as fast as you're asking him to solo. A bball player might be technically limited by not being able to palm the ball, or to dribble left handed, or to make a 3-pointer. The technical limitations of a painter would either be not-knowing certain techniques (like they never learned how to do a brush stroke, or realistic shading, or global light) or by not having access to certain materials. "Although he only had twigs to paint with and palm leaves to use an his canvas, he transcended his technical limitations and still painted some beautiful paintings on that deserted island".

Agreed, but two things are going on here. This is lesson 1. Pedagogically, you usually don't want to start modeling a technique with the hardest example. The other thing is that we're only allowed to use what's on test 65, 71, and June 2007 (that's just LSAC's licensing deal). Since we're planning to do 10 or so lessons and we only have those three tests to pull from, we're going to exhaust all that material eventually. One of those is a fairly hard science one (the one about mirrors, if you've ever done that one before).

@@LSATLab fair enough 👍🏻

@@LSATLab That mirrors passage was a doozie! When do you expect your next video to come out?

@@CarnegieRochs3 hard to say ... we are a small team of two teachers and we've been so swamped with teaching / tutoring / website design recently that there's no bandwidth for making these videos. Realistically, I would guess late July / early Aug. I would love to be wrong in the "sooner" sense, though.

@@LSATLab awesome!!! Here’s to hoping that your company will be able to squeeze out some time before the August test! Thank you either way. Your videos have been super helpful!!

haha, it looks like you share my same non-sophisticated sense of humor. I don't usually record my own sound effects, but this one was a labor of love.