![]() Keep in mind that she doesn't recommend doing this on the actual test but this section of her book is very powerful. After reading her book, I did the drill on two sections and got 52% and 57% correct without reading the stimulus. In fact, in her chapter on eliminating wrong answers, she describes a drill (called a party trick) where you eliminate answer choices without even reading the stimulus and shows that you can eliminate 4 answer choices and pick the correct one on over 50% of the questions. She also has an excellent section on how to recognize wrong answer choices quickly in LR (also helpful in RC) that really helps save time and increase accuracy. The translation drill in Ellen's book is very helpful. LR is half the test and having two perspectives really helps to get the extra points. I found 7 sage and Ellen's book to be very complementary. I'm sure there will be a lot of review of things I already know as I go through the book, but the first chapter itself I think is a huge supplement to 7sage, and it would be great if JY eventually added a lesson on how stimuli are written in the beginning of the CC! JY definitely mentions referential phrasing, and takes apart sentences all the time, but it was never so clear to me personally how the stimuli were designed to be so hard to parse / how I should be reading them in order to avoid misinterpretations. Upon review, and thinking about Ellen's first chapter on grammar, I felt like a lot of what I've been feeling over many LR questions kind of clicked! Every time I come across a stimuli I have to wade through like a swamp, I get really irritated, but I never really thought about why the stimuli were so hard to get through. I decided to put the book aside and just do a LR section (retake), and found myself getting tripped by a lot of difficult questions. I thought the first section on how the LSAT stimuli are designed to be hard to read was really interesting, but then kind of felt like I already knew the rest of the stuff about "relationship between premise and conclusions" etc. Update - just got the book and read the first couple of chapters. Also, I love her chapter on how to spot incorrect answer choices. Basically these two drills teach you how to understand the stimulus better and how to prephrase better. The notable things in the book are what she calls the translation drill and the CLIR drill. So, I think this book is not just for beginners. ![]() The last few points are the hardest to get. I am aiming to get down to -1 consistently and her approach is key to that. Most of this improvement was just from the material in the book though I have done about 10 hrs of private tutoring with her to get the fine points of her system. 7 sage helped me to go from about -8 per LR section down to -4 or so (after about 20-30 PTs) and Ellen's book, within a few weeks, helped me to go to -2 to occasionally -1 per LR section. I have been using her LR approach ever since and am seeing significant improvement. I bought the book 2 months ago and was so impressed that I called Ellen and set up private tutoring with her. ![]() ![]() Next to JY's 7 sage, I found this book to be the best resource I have used to improve on LR. ![]()
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