If you see an answer (like A) that is immediately right, in that it conforms to your diagram, should you just pick it and move on? As soon as I read A and looked at my diagram, I knew it was right but psyched myself out trying to map out the other answer choices.
For anyone who thinks the foundation lessons are too easy or straightforward, please don't skip them. During my first LSAT, I skipped them because I thought everything was straightforward and got this question wrong. This time around, I'm going through the foundations in depth and got this right (just went four seconds over the time limit)
I got it right on the blind review, but I think it's because I focused more on the order and structure of the passage rather than just looking first at the answer choices. Fully understanding what you are reading first in order help's you figure out an answer choice that's 100% correct/provable.
I mapped out the question correctly into lawgic but failed to understand the answer selections for how they would map out on the lawgic mapping. Need more practice with understanding the answer selections.
I picked D because that made the most logical sense to me. It's going to be hard to ignore my logic and use the lawgic. Hopefully the longer I do this, the easier it becomes.
Got it right in 4:43. It feels great, but I realize I wasted time.
I chose answer A within 2 minutes, but continued to diagram out. Looking back, and considering the time pressure of the LSAT, I'm thinking if I spot a right answer I should move on immediately.
Is this wise, or does this increase my chance of making a stupid mistake?
I understood "if" as it could happen but might not, so chose a...why I did that I have no idea considering all the lessons have stated simply if-then, but I understand now. Hoping I won't have to draw everything out every time so I can get faster :)
got it with -50s! got lucky with the order of ACs i think. only looked at A and didn’t need to see the others because A must be true.
this one’s quick because once you picture the chain, negating the necessary condition on the far right negates everything before it, which is what makes A true without even considering what the statement actually means.
for timed tests like this, these questions need to be answered without investing as much in understanding the content. so doing a sort of ignorant logic, mental chaining, and reading answers against that mental image is a good way to save time.
Struggled again because I applied my own logic (aka "Why can't inspired musical performances and sophisticated listeners be independent?"). Need to learn to take what is stated as truth.
Great Question with tricky answers. Made me 2nd guess myself, but often I'm finding just building that intuition of the Sufficient --> Necessary chain is the most important. Just knowing how a condition is being treated, and being able to feel when the question swaps it from a sufficient to a necessary condition is helping a lot. Nothing substitutes practice and memorization!
To practice more questions like this one, is there somewhere on 7sage I can practice, or do I need to review the previous lessons?
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I can't believe I got this right :0
Writing down the lawgic really helped. Lets go!!!
If you see an answer (like A) that is immediately right, in that it conforms to your diagram, should you just pick it and move on? As soon as I read A and looked at my diagram, I knew it was right but psyched myself out trying to map out the other answer choices.
For anyone who thinks the foundation lessons are too easy or straightforward, please don't skip them. During my first LSAT, I skipped them because I thought everything was straightforward and got this question wrong. This time around, I'm going through the foundations in depth and got this right (just went four seconds over the time limit)
I got it right on the blind review, but I think it's because I focused more on the order and structure of the passage rather than just looking first at the answer choices. Fully understanding what you are reading first in order help's you figure out an answer choice that's 100% correct/provable.
I mapped out the question correctly into lawgic but failed to understand the answer selections for how they would map out on the lawgic mapping. Need more practice with understanding the answer selections.
I picked D because that made the most logical sense to me. It's going to be hard to ignore my logic and use the lawgic. Hopefully the longer I do this, the easier it becomes.
I did not get it right but after seeing the explanation I think I understand. Can I get more practice with this somewhere?
Got it right in 4:43. It feels great, but I realize I wasted time.
I chose answer A within 2 minutes, but continued to diagram out. Looking back, and considering the time pressure of the LSAT, I'm thinking if I spot a right answer I should move on immediately.
Is this wise, or does this increase my chance of making a stupid mistake?
I understood "if" as it could happen but might not, so chose a...why I did that I have no idea considering all the lessons have stated simply if-then, but I understand now. Hoping I won't have to draw everything out every time so I can get faster :)
Got up and danced after getting this right.
I hope that Lawgic becomes more intuitive as it keeps slowing me down
Idk if anyone could relate but I knew why A was correct but not why some of the other ones were incorrect.
33 seconds over this time, better than a whole minute!
Got it correct with only +4!!
got it right but it took me 8.5 minutes so at what cost smh
got it with -50s! got lucky with the order of ACs i think. only looked at A and didn’t need to see the others because A must be true.
this one’s quick because once you picture the chain, negating the necessary condition on the far right negates everything before it, which is what makes A true without even considering what the statement actually means.
for timed tests like this, these questions need to be answered without investing as much in understanding the content. so doing a sort of ignorant logic, mental chaining, and reading answers against that mental image is a good way to save time.
i got it wrong and i completely understand why now. is it finally clicking??? i hope so
what is the diffenece between answer A and answer E???/?
Struggled again because I applied my own logic (aka "Why can't inspired musical performances and sophisticated listeners be independent?"). Need to learn to take what is stated as truth.
One thing that has helped me is watching lessons and then drilling SA and NA-type questions! Eventually, it will all make sense.
I'm eating my words now... I guess there is a good reason for Lawgic.
Great Question with tricky answers. Made me 2nd guess myself, but often I'm finding just building that intuition of the Sufficient --> Necessary chain is the most important. Just knowing how a condition is being treated, and being able to feel when the question swaps it from a sufficient to a necessary condition is helping a lot. Nothing substitutes practice and memorization!
Only took me 10 minutes but I got it
To practice more questions like this one, is there somewhere on 7sage I can practice, or do I need to review the previous lessons?