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- jiangziou
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Vinny Gambini
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Old RC PT1-40?
Is Cambridge RC by type PT1-PT38 still good as practice material? Are the articles/questions still similar as the ones in recent years? Thanks!
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Atticus Finch
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Re: Old RC PT1-40?
It is way better than nothing, but the style of RC has definitely drifted.
You'd be fine cutting your teeth on those old ones until you feel like you can be as successful as possible, and then save the modern ones for the final 4-6 weeks of studying.
The overall passages are pretty similar. The real drift has come in terms of how LSAT writes correct / incorrect answers.
If you train yourself to support every answer you pick with a line reference and to disprove every answer you reject by citing something that is specifically broken with it, then you will still be building the important skills.
On older tests, almost all the correct answers feel adequately supported by the text. Nowadays, some of the correct answers are not ADEQUATELY supported, but they are still MORE supported than any other answer choice.
You'd be fine cutting your teeth on those old ones until you feel like you can be as successful as possible, and then save the modern ones for the final 4-6 weeks of studying.
The overall passages are pretty similar. The real drift has come in terms of how LSAT writes correct / incorrect answers.
If you train yourself to support every answer you pick with a line reference and to disprove every answer you reject by citing something that is specifically broken with it, then you will still be building the important skills.
On older tests, almost all the correct answers feel adequately supported by the text. Nowadays, some of the correct answers are not ADEQUATELY supported, but they are still MORE supported than any other answer choice.
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