I can not say enough how helpful you guys at LSAT Lab have been for my studying for the LSAT! Genuinely great videos all around. Thank you guys so much!
I've never had so much fun or laughed so much while studying for the LSAT! If anything, its helping me stay interested in the passage even if its boring. RC is a game for me now... I'm looking for that PIVOT
Yeah we took the Mary Poppins maxim of "spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down" and thought ... "What if it were a BUCKET of sugar, tho?" I heartily encourage the game-ification of RC. I think that helped me a ton when I switched out of trying to passively read it and into thinking of myself hunting down "power pellets" in a sea of Pac-Man dots. Whether or not I was vibing with the topic of a passage, I felt like I could still "beat this level" by solving for the Most Valuable Sentences.
Taking the LSAT in a few days...I've been studying for months and this is by far the best reading comprehension resource out there...and it's FREE?? Incredible. Thank you so much!!!
After months and months of studying through various LSAT courses/materials, these RC videos are hands down the most helpful/understandable resources out there. Wish I had found these in the beginning of my studies! Many thanks
This channel is such a great tool for the LSAT. It's really helped me out a lot. You've broken it down in a comprehensive way that's easily understandable. Thank you for making this.
I discovered your channel like two days ago and its great! Been studying for a while but it's really helped in my approach to studying already, got my test soon so I'm glad I found you.
Hey, Lyth, glad it's been helpful. It's cool that there are so many different, valid ways to talk about this material that even if we've been studying (or teaching it) for a while, we can still find that our understanding can have new clarifying moments.
Your videos have saved my life! Thank you so much for this!! It's fun and interactive and presents the material in a way that I can really digest! Keep it up!
i am giving lsat india which is for undergrad law schools in India made by the same people that make LSAT.(yes. In India, law is a ug course of 5 years you can do it pg also) and this is so very helpful. THANKSSSSS!!!!!!
oh my god these videos are just so so helpful ...so to the point and engaging...i just love your work lsatlab...thank you so so so very much for all the great efforts you are putting for us aspirants
why don't people like videos when it has more than 10k Views :( ... but well anyways... THANK U SO MUCH for the series ... I am writing an exam in my country which RC;/CR section and this video is helping me tons!
I really wish i began my prep with lsat lab 2 years ago. I don't think i would have had to put off studying as much as i did. You guys make it fun, also your subscription service keeps things fresh with the classes during the week and the 1 to 1 tutoring. Fk, you guys are great. Only if... would have probably saved a year :(
Thanks for the great feedback! If it makes you feel better, 2 years ago we barely existed and certainly did not have the site we have today, so get rid of those regrets. :)
@@LSATLab haha that soothes the pain. Good to know. But still, the other prep companies better watch out. I think you guys have something really special here. Affordable, high quality, and a system that will help people stay focused. Keep up the plugs at the end of the videos for people to check out your webpage, I found it fresh and very sleek and I bet others well too. I've used 7Sage the last 2 years and it feels dated and so idk 10 years ago? Keep up the great work and thanks for the free content!
Yeah, so far just the 2 (there's also like a 5 minute teaser video, but it's not worth much). The 3rd episode is almost done, but we've been consumed with classes / tutoring / and other student support for the past month, so I haven't been able to make any time for video creation, but we'll definitely have the 3rd video up by the end of next week. Thanks for watching (feel free to Subscribe, if you haven't already, because I think that means you'll get notified any time we post a new one).
I’ve noticed that I get about the same amount right with the chunking and framework method (maybe a bit more right) but I’ve found a substantial improvement in my speed, which was holding me back before. I spend way less time reading and bogging down in supporting evidence, much like the 3 paragraphs on each autobiography in the example.
Yeah, the Big Picture reading would only directly affect our score in terms of accuracy on Big Picture questions, but it could indirectly affect our score by spending time/brainpower a little more efficiently. The next six lessons are all on questions types, so they will cover more right/wrong issues that may directly impact accuracy.
One question, when I was doing the last passage of this video, I put New Vs. Old as my framework. Why would this framework be considered incorrect? Thank you. Great video by the way.
Thanks for posting - these are really helpful and the animations are fun haha. I'm excited to see the videos that target question types. Will those be up soon? I know these must take forever to make but they're very much worth it - and greatly appreciated!! thanks!
Yeah, we're going to hopefully get those up once every couple weeks (I'd say one per week, but I would be lying to myself). The question type ones will be less cartoon absurdity, so less fun, but not take as much time to produce.
hey Patrick, 18:10 you are comparing personal history and own experiences and then you say that they are the same, i think you overlooked the fact that the last Paragraph starts only with "rather than forcing their personal histories" so opt B should be out, isn't it?
The full thought there is "rather than forcing their personal histories to conform to existing generic parameters, [main clause]". Based on the tension created by that introductory clause, what would you expect the main clause to say? There are potentially two ways to resolve that tension: 1. they kept the existing parameters, but ditched their personal histories 2. they kept their personal histories, but ditched the existing parameters The main clause says that "they've revolutionized the genre, REDRAWING THE BOUNDARIES of this form (genre), to make it more amenable to the expression of their own experiences". So that tells us that they went with option 2. They kept expressing personal histories, but ditched the existing parameters, redrew the boundaries (i.e. parameters), thereby revolutionizing the genre. Does that make sense?
I think it's worth experimenting with, because a lot of RC advice varies quite a bit from person to person. But I will say that for me, one of the plateau shifts I got in RC came from REFRAINING from marking up the passage / jotting down notes. In a sense, making myself accountable for retaining the big ideas was the catalyst for several helpful behaviors: - if I don't understand a sentence and I think it's important to the big picture, I am now more insistent on sticking with it, breaking it down into bite sized pieces, dumbing down the language, and thinking of concrete real-world or hypothetical examples so that I can better process it. - since the memory of those key sentences starts to fade as you continue reading, you realize your grasp on those is slipping, so you periodically stop to remind yourself of the big picture ideas. Essentially, by not writing stuff down, I'm forcing my brain to do more good Big Picture reading habits, such as prioritizing which claims matter the most (usually by thinking about what framework I'm using to organize the big ideas) and dumbing down the meaning of the text into casual / conversational language that is easier to understand. We're much better at remembering conversations we took part in than we are at remembering articles we read. :)
Hello LSAT Lab, I found your page a few months ago and I have watched all of your videos on youtube. Do you have more videos on your website with the premium plans? Unfortunately I scored a 141 on my first practice LSAT so I need to do a lot more studying. I hope getting on your paid platform can help my score. Thanks for the videos keep up the good work!
Hey, Dan. Yeah, there are well over 100 videos on the premium plan, but they are class recordings (90mins), not these 25 min lessons. They do include a lot of more niche topics not represented in our UA-cam videos (Anti-Causal, Quantifiers, Challenge Position passages, Substitution questions, etc.) If you go to our Videos page, you can see a list of the various topics: lsatlab.com/my/videos.php Thanks for watching!
We'll be dealing with more of that in future lessons, as we zoom in on question types and trap answer patterns. Only these first two videos in the series have been finished at this point (it takes a while to make them, and the two of us who make them are super busy with classes / tutoring / working on the website, so they're trickling out over time).
No, not discontinued. There's a new episode getting uploaded tomorrow or Friday. The delay between uploads is just because these take a while to produce, and it's just me (Patrick) working on them. Meanwhile, I'm also teaching classes, writing explanations, tutoring, and making curriculum resources for the site. So for many months of 2021 there was no time to work on it. And then when there is time, it's just crumbs of time, so it takes a while to have enough crumbs to finish off the video. We hired a new teacher recently, though, so we're hoping in 2022 I'll have more time to make videos. :)
I can not say enough how helpful you guys at LSAT Lab have been for my studying for the LSAT! Genuinely great videos all around. Thank you guys so much!
I've never had so much fun or laughed so much while studying for the LSAT! If anything, its helping me stay interested in the passage even if its boring. RC is a game for me now... I'm looking for that PIVOT
Yeah we took the Mary Poppins maxim of "spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down" and thought ... "What if it were a BUCKET of sugar, tho?"
I heartily encourage the game-ification of RC. I think that helped me a ton when I switched out of trying to passively read it and into thinking of myself hunting down "power pellets" in a sea of Pac-Man dots. Whether or not I was vibing with the topic of a passage, I felt like I could still "beat this level" by solving for the Most Valuable Sentences.
I’m not even taking the LSAT but this video has been so helpful for me improving in CARS for the MCAT
Taking the LSAT in a few days...I've been studying for months and this is by far the best reading comprehension resource out there...and it's FREE?? Incredible. Thank you so much!!!
Good luck on your test! (thanks for the kind words)
The February 20 lsat? Me too!
@@I.C.Weiner6969 Yes! Yay! Good luck!!!
@@annasaab394 good luck to you too!!! Ahh so nervous!!
Well how do you think you did?!! I’m taking it in April
This is the best channel ever bro Like as a educator.... This is how learning should be a mix of fun and productivity ! awesome job!
You could easily be a voice actor 😂 I'm learning and having fun, thank you!
This is amazing. Way underrated form of prep. Thank you!
After months and months of studying through various LSAT courses/materials, these RC videos are hands down the most helpful/understandable resources out there. Wish I had found these in the beginning of my studies! Many thanks
That's so great to hear, thanks! (Can't wait to finish them one day, haha) Good luck next week!
This channel is such a great tool for the LSAT. It's really helped me out a lot. You've broken it down in a comprehensive way that's easily understandable. Thank you for making this.
I am studying for the MCAT CARS section, and this is so helpful. Thank you.
I discovered your channel like two days ago and its great! Been studying for a while but it's really helped in my approach to studying already, got my test soon so I'm glad I found you.
Hey, Lyth, glad it's been helpful. It's cool that there are so many different, valid ways to talk about this material that even if we've been studying (or teaching it) for a while, we can still find that our understanding can have new clarifying moments.
I'm recommending this resource to others. Excellent explanation.
Thanks! Glad you like it.
Your videos have saved my life! Thank you so much for this!! It's fun and interactive and presents the material in a way that I can really digest! Keep it up!
Amazing help, cannot thank you guys enough for all the videos and hard work put into these.
i am giving lsat india which is for undergrad law schools in India made by the same people that make LSAT.(yes. In India, law is a ug course of 5 years you can do it pg also) and this is so very helpful. THANKSSSSS!!!!!!
oh my god these videos are just so so helpful ...so to the point and engaging...i just love your work lsatlab...thank you so so so very much for all the great efforts you are putting for us aspirants
Awesome! That's super gratifying to hear. Glad they're helpful.
How does this not have more likes? This is brilliant.
A high level approach! Thank you dude!
Have been waiting for this video for the longest time. You guys are doing great work, keep it on!
why don't people like videos when it has more than 10k Views :( ... but well anyways... THANK U SO MUCH for the series ... I am writing an exam in my country which RC;/CR section and this video is helping me tons!
I really wish i began my prep with lsat lab 2 years ago. I don't think i would have had to put off studying as much as i did. You guys make it fun, also your subscription service keeps things fresh with the classes during the week and the 1 to 1 tutoring. Fk, you guys are great. Only if... would have probably saved a year :(
Thanks for the great feedback! If it makes you feel better, 2 years ago we barely existed and certainly did not have the site we have today, so get rid of those regrets. :)
@@LSATLab haha that soothes the pain. Good to know. But still, the other prep companies better watch out. I think you guys have something really special here. Affordable, high quality, and a system that will help people stay focused. Keep up the plugs at the end of the videos for people to check out your webpage, I found it fresh and very sleek and I bet others well too.
I've used 7Sage the last 2 years and it feels dated and so idk 10 years ago? Keep up the great work and thanks for the free content!
Love the Tropico 5 soundtrack
AH- MAAZING!!! Thank you for these videos!!!
THIS PREP IS AMAZING!!!!
Thanks for posting, have been waiting to see this update for a long time
Thank you for your great work!
these videos are pure gold. Thank you so much
(especially 1:38 hahah!)
I love the singing part, can we get a rap on the Reading Comp framework. Thank you Patrick
Thank you for making the study process way easier. there are only 2 videos for reading comprehension? I just want to make sure I do not miss any.
Yeah, so far just the 2 (there's also like a 5 minute teaser video, but it's not worth much). The 3rd episode is almost done, but we've been consumed with classes / tutoring / and other student support for the past month, so I haven't been able to make any time for video creation, but we'll definitely have the 3rd video up by the end of next week. Thanks for watching (feel free to Subscribe, if you haven't already, because I think that means you'll get notified any time we post a new one).
This is great stuff!!! thanks! you're the best
I’ve noticed that I get about the same amount right with the chunking and framework method (maybe a bit more right) but I’ve found a substantial improvement in my speed, which was holding me back before. I spend way less time reading and bogging down in supporting evidence, much like the 3 paragraphs on each autobiography in the example.
Yeah, the Big Picture reading would only directly affect our score in terms of accuracy on Big Picture questions, but it could indirectly affect our score by spending time/brainpower a little more efficiently. The next six lessons are all on questions types, so they will cover more right/wrong issues that may directly impact accuracy.
One question, when I was doing the last passage of this video, I put New Vs. Old as my framework. Why would this framework be considered incorrect? Thank you. Great video by the way.
Keep em coming! Love it
Thanks for posting - these are really helpful and the animations are fun haha. I'm excited to see the videos that target question types. Will those be up soon? I know these must take forever to make but they're very much worth it - and greatly appreciated!! thanks!
Yeah, we're going to hopefully get those up once every couple weeks (I'd say one per week, but I would be lying to myself). The question type ones will be less cartoon absurdity, so less fun, but not take as much time to produce.
@@LSATLab Great! Thank you so much! looking forward to it!
thank you for this video it helped me!
hey Patrick, 18:10 you are comparing personal history and own experiences and then you say that they are the same, i think you overlooked the fact that the last Paragraph starts only with "rather than forcing their personal histories" so opt B should be out, isn't it?
The full thought there is "rather than forcing their personal histories to conform to existing generic parameters, [main clause]".
Based on the tension created by that introductory clause, what would you expect the main clause to say?
There are potentially two ways to resolve that tension:
1. they kept the existing parameters, but ditched their personal histories
2. they kept their personal histories, but ditched the existing parameters
The main clause says that "they've revolutionized the genre, REDRAWING THE BOUNDARIES of this form (genre), to make it more amenable to the expression of their own experiences".
So that tells us that they went with option 2. They kept expressing personal histories, but ditched the existing parameters, redrew the boundaries (i.e. parameters), thereby revolutionizing the genre.
Does that make sense?
love the videos! Question, would you suggest writing the big ideas down as you read or try to hold it in your head? Thank you!
I think it's worth experimenting with, because a lot of RC advice varies quite a bit from person to person.
But I will say that for me, one of the plateau shifts I got in RC came from REFRAINING from marking up the passage / jotting down notes.
In a sense, making myself accountable for retaining the big ideas was the catalyst for several helpful behaviors:
- if I don't understand a sentence and I think it's important to the big picture, I am now more insistent on sticking with it, breaking it down into bite sized pieces, dumbing down the language, and thinking of concrete real-world or hypothetical examples so that I can better process it.
- since the memory of those key sentences starts to fade as you continue reading, you realize your grasp on those is slipping, so you periodically stop to remind yourself of the big picture ideas.
Essentially, by not writing stuff down, I'm forcing my brain to do more good Big Picture reading habits, such as prioritizing which claims matter the most (usually by thinking about what framework I'm using to organize the big ideas) and dumbing down the meaning of the text into casual / conversational language that is easier to understand. We're much better at remembering conversations we took part in than we are at remembering articles we read. :)
Hello LSAT Lab, I found your page a few months ago and I have watched all of your videos on youtube. Do you have more videos on your website with the premium plans? Unfortunately I scored a 141 on my first practice LSAT so I need to do a lot more studying. I hope getting on your paid platform can help my score. Thanks for the videos keep up the good work!
Hey, Dan. Yeah, there are well over 100 videos on the premium plan, but they are class recordings (90mins), not these 25 min lessons. They do include a lot of more niche topics not represented in our UA-cam videos (Anti-Causal, Quantifiers, Challenge Position passages, Substitution questions, etc.) If you go to our Videos page, you can see a list of the various topics:
lsatlab.com/my/videos.php
Thanks for watching!
These are so helpful
Yes this is really awesome
I love you patrick im ur #1 fan
Awww, thank you, you're my #1 Pham.
@@LSATLab PATRICK ARE YOU FLIRTING WITH ME????🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭
You turned the plate of raw vegetables into a slice of pizza! Amazing
Stealing that marketing copy, thanks. :)
Ngl if i see a pivot, im gonna start dancing XD
Sorry where can I find how to scrutinize every word on every answer choice?
We'll be dealing with more of that in future lessons, as we zoom in on question types and trap answer patterns. Only these first two videos in the series have been finished at this point (it takes a while to make them, and the two of us who make them are super busy with classes / tutoring / working on the website, so they're trickling out over time).
hi, this series really improved my RC.. but it's been so long since the last video came. So, is this series discontinued? :(
No, not discontinued. There's a new episode getting uploaded tomorrow or Friday.
The delay between uploads is just because these take a while to produce, and it's just me (Patrick) working on them. Meanwhile, I'm also teaching classes, writing explanations, tutoring, and making curriculum resources for the site. So for many months of 2021 there was no time to work on it. And then when there is time, it's just crumbs of time, so it takes a while to have enough crumbs to finish off the video. We hired a new teacher recently, though, so we're hoping in 2022 I'll have more time to make videos. :)
@@LSATLab oh I see! Looking forward to watching the new video whenever it comes :)
Where have I been all this time?
24:23
No because in the middle of test, if I see a pivot i am going to get up and dance
If your moves are tasty enough, the Prometric proctor legally has to allow it!
marry me LSAT Lab man
Deal. But you have to pick one of the Framework spokespersons to be the officiant.
@@LSATLab Got hutch on line 1
Okay, that was the perfect response. This farce just became a dramedy.