It makes sense why the foundational lessons got down to the nitty gritty. Doing contrapositives, finding premises and conclusions, etc. are instinctual for me now. Feeling great :))
I got it right, but timing has been my biggest challenge. Learning that the stem has a clear mission and how to attack the stimulus with the stem, has significantly improved my time! It eliminates all of the unnecessary things that I shouldn't be thinking about.
@ChelsiSmith I totally agree with this. I am definitely moving faster on these questions than I was previously. Once you spot that conclusion I immediately start going through which answers match that.
Got it correct! Narrowed it down to two answers and then reread the conclusion and then picked the one! I spent a little long but I rather take my time to get it right then build speed!
The grammar messed me up ahaha. I got the correct answer in the end, however it took me so long to get there and understand what the stimulus was trying to convey. For me, it's easy to get caught up in irrelevant details or formal language in certain stimuli...
Something I am trying to wrap my head around is the little amount of time we will have on the Lsat to think through these questions and answer them when in the explanation videos it can take 5-10 minutes to explain the question and answers. Now granted, the explanation videos are going in depth to help us understand but I am wondering how were supposed to look at this question and comprehend all of the things discuss in the video within 2 ish minutes on the lsat. Sigh
I'm really glad J.Y. mentioned sidestepping the complexity of the argument. Thought I was getting ahead of myself with how formulaic some of the questions can be. I found the conclusion immediately then just skimmed the other answers. Hoping this strategy holds up.
I chose my answer too fast based on seeing A's "insincere" wordage. I now see D is the correct answer because it acknowledges the conclusion and the previous sentence's info which leads up to it.
This one was hard!! I got it wrong and in the BR I almost picked D but I felt like it was wrong because it was saying that the politician was insincere when the stimulus just said their criticism was insincere.
did anyone else have a hard time even understanding what the stimulus meant? anyone have any tips of how to understand stimulus' with more abstract, layered concepts like this one?
@tarayangg @Koala I'll definitely recommend the foundations module. You learn to break down each sentence by removing unnecessary confusing modifiers. Super helpful!!
I got it right. but I went 25 seconds over time. I think my biggest struggle I am consistently running into is time, and I hope I get some tips on this or it gets better naturally as I go on. For this one I was confident in my answer as soon as I saw it, but the verbal complexity of the stem and answer choices significantly slows me down in even getting to the answer choice I view as correct.
@GordonGianadda Hoping for more tips as well! Timing and confidence I had too but then I tend to read the other choices fully. I hope that as we continue to drill and practice we just know immediately what the answer choice is without having to go through the other answers or focus on the verbal language.
@sapalmeri Also, the wording, D says "is being insincere," making an assertion. A only says "should be regarded as insincere." The political scientist doesn't explicitly say people should regard differently.
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this is almost too easy and that can only mean one thing for sure....this is about to get so much harder
Got this one correct! Feels good. Slowly starting to catch on!
the feeling that you get when you get a question correct that J.Y. says is hard >
Woo. I got this one right on my first try.
God what a word salad. I'm sure a lot of questions on the LSAT will be like this. Good luck everyone lol. Ughhh
good job! You got this!
It makes sense why the foundational lessons got down to the nitty gritty. Doing contrapositives, finding premises and conclusions, etc. are instinctual for me now. Feeling great :))
I feel the same way! :) good luck to you!!
We'd appreciate a post like this back in the foundational lessons! :)
hardest one forreal
I might have actually managed to learn something, about 30 hours into the course.
@thr107 I am starting to feel the same!
I got it right, but timing has been my biggest challenge. Learning that the stem has a clear mission and how to attack the stimulus with the stem, has significantly improved my time! It eliminates all of the unnecessary things that I shouldn't be thinking about.
@ChelsiSmith I totally agree with this. I am definitely moving faster on these questions than I was previously. Once you spot that conclusion I immediately start going through which answers match that.
7sage is legit.
Got it right but timing sux
A main conclusion question has NOTHING on me.
this question make anyone else think about love island lol
@anniesuszek bro me
@anniesuszek LOLLL!!!
These conclusion questions are butter
I eliminated C because I did not like the word "confusingly"
Got this one right but solely because the other answer choices were so jumbled I was relatively certain (?) that they couldn't be correct lol
Got it correct! Narrowed it down to two answers and then reread the conclusion and then picked the one! I spent a little long but I rather take my time to get it right then build speed!
The grammar messed me up ahaha. I got the correct answer in the end, however it took me so long to get there and understand what the stimulus was trying to convey. For me, it's easy to get caught up in irrelevant details or formal language in certain stimuli...
@josephlidd22 same, looking for strategies to not get caught up by the grammar
Something I am trying to wrap my head around is the little amount of time we will have on the Lsat to think through these questions and answer them when in the explanation videos it can take 5-10 minutes to explain the question and answers. Now granted, the explanation videos are going in depth to help us understand but I am wondering how were supposed to look at this question and comprehend all of the things discuss in the video within 2 ish minutes on the lsat. Sigh
(got the question right so that's a plus)
I'm really glad J.Y. mentioned sidestepping the complexity of the argument. Thought I was getting ahead of myself with how formulaic some of the questions can be. I found the conclusion immediately then just skimmed the other answers. Hoping this strategy holds up.
Personally, since the LR lessons started, this was the hardest question for me. Had to really think for a second, but still answered correctly.
I chose my answer too fast based on seeing A's "insincere" wordage. I now see D is the correct answer because it acknowledges the conclusion and the previous sentence's info which leads up to it.
This one was hard!! I got it wrong and in the BR I almost picked D but I felt like it was wrong because it was saying that the politician was insincere when the stimulus just said their criticism was insincere.
did anyone else have a hard time even understanding what the stimulus meant? anyone have any tips of how to understand stimulus' with more abstract, layered concepts like this one?
@tarayangg Yes. I had to read it like 3 times lol
@tarayangg @Koala I'll definitely recommend the foundations module. You learn to break down each sentence by removing unnecessary confusing modifiers. Super helpful!!
I got it right. but I went 25 seconds over time. I think my biggest struggle I am consistently running into is time, and I hope I get some tips on this or it gets better naturally as I go on. For this one I was confident in my answer as soon as I saw it, but the verbal complexity of the stem and answer choices significantly slows me down in even getting to the answer choice I view as correct.
@GordonGianadda Hoping for more tips as well! Timing and confidence I had too but then I tend to read the other choices fully. I hope that as we continue to drill and practice we just know immediately what the answer choice is without having to go through the other answers or focus on the verbal language.
I was stuck between A and D, and ultimately chose D because of the use of "a politician" instead of A's "people"
@sapalmeri I had a similar thought process
@sapalmeri Also, the wording, D says "is being insincere," making an assertion. A only says "should be regarded as insincere." The political scientist doesn't explicitly say people should regard differently.