Is there a way to know the analysis on this question and questions where JY walks us through? I want to be able to see what PT this came from and the level of difficulty, because this definitely felt like a lv 3 or 4.
My understanding is that C is more relevant than D. The stimulus mentions sweets and candies, not physical exercise. So it's just more logically what will complete the sentence.
The author is attempting to make an analogous argument with reference to an unstated principle--one that is up to us to identify.
The first sentence, "Swimming pools should be fenced to protect children from drowning, but teaching children to swim is even more important", lays the groundwork for said principle.
In essence, the author is asserting that, though x may be important to y, z is even more important. This principle, she states, can be applied in more ways than just drowning prevention.
She analogizes it to soft drinks and candy. So, if we were to frame our answer in the same exact structure she establishes in the first sentence, the "most logical" answer would be C, because it completes the analogy.
I always think of principles as rules. They are rules that the entities and facts within the passage must accord with. They can also support prescriptive conclusions. Every person should be kind(principle/rule). I am a person(fact). Therefore I should be kind(prescriptive conclusion). Hope that helps!
Should I be watching these full breakdowns if I am consistently getting the answers correct in the practice questions and when I look at the question before watching the video?
I have been, and Im wondering the same thing. After reading the stimulus I was able to draft what I expected the potential answer to be, and then hunt for it. I was correct, but I watch the videos anyway because I like how it's pointed out how the other answers are wrong. That's something I need to work on for those questions that aren't as straightforward and require process of elimination. If you get no value from watching, then maybe not?
@alexasmith015 I'm in the same boat but remember, the bulk of learning comes from understanding WHY the wrong answer choices are wrong so I've been watching the videos to make sure the reasons I thought the wrong choices were wrong were in line with how I should be thinking about the question.
Off topic subject. On average, how long do you guys study for? I try to do at least an hour every day but juggling my coursework with this is challenging. I'm taking the LSAT in June. How are you guys holding up?
I work full time, so I get it. I try to study 5-6 days a week. Weekdays for 2 hours and 3-4 hours on Saturday and Sunday. It's tough. I always feel guilty for skipping days but breaks are needed. 12-16 hours a week
I'm taking it a second time in April, and probably do about 6-10 hours a week. It is really hard to balance with schoolwork, but I've been trying to do more intensive studying on days with less classes, and do quicker drills on days with more classes and use those to catch up on schoolwork. I've found it helpful just so that I can devote more brainpower and time to the LSAT a few days a week rather than being exhausted and trying to study.
in the same boat here. getting to the point in the semester where its starting to get harder to balance studying for LSAT every day with keeping on top of assignments and studying for midterms etc. Some days i definitely study longer than others. I try to do about 1-2 hours a day but unfortunately find myself in the past week or two having to skip some days because I have school work to do :/
This question is great to also mention how two answers may seem identical in a sense but there's always something about one of those answers that has less assumptions. With C we are talking about making better nutritional choices against sweet commercials on TV. With B we are talking about physical exercise and health with sweet commercials. Which would make the most sense to you. Of course it would be the nutritional choices against sweet commercials because we are talking about that same set (food).
For people like me who write down the "review" portion of every lesson, copy and paste the transcript of the lesson in ChatGPT and ask to format a review for information pertaining to MSS questions (or whatever is being covered) and not pertaining to the specific question itself.
#feedback It would be helpful to have a difficulty comparison with the average LSAT q on these. I get a really good handle on these example q's in the lessons, but do not want to be overconfident when approaching real drill sets :)
Can someone please clarify to me why B is not also an equally appropriate answer? In my understanding, both answers B and C serve to "protect" children from "some form of harm" whether the harm is unhealthy foods or deceptive television advertisements.
The more simplistic takeaway, from what I can understand, is that the argument isn't about television. Television is moot, and meant to distract. The actual argument is about the kids!
What would be the equivalent of learning how to swim/ engaging with the dangerous situation in a healthy way or completely ignoring it being turned away from it? Knowing advertisement are false would be closer logically to the gate around the pool than swimming in the pool safely.
My understanding is that B is talking about television when our focus is on children and that they should be taught to protect themselves from possible harms of unhealthy food. Example, children should be taught how to swim.
B is doing the opposite where the swimming pool should be designed to protect children not caring if children know how to swim.
We also don't know if the television advertisements are misleading. We don't know if they are advertising their products as "healthy". Advertisements might not even talk about harm or benefits of soft drink and candies.
As J.Y stated in the video, the reason he explains at great lengths every detail of the stimulus and the answer choices is to deepen your understanding of LR as a whole. The main goal at this stage of your LSAT journey is to understand how to solve MSS-MC type questions, not answer them with speed. However, with knowledge and understanding, speed can and hopefully will follow with practice. Speed should simply not be your main concern right now.
Hope this helped!
P.S. Don't worry about the timer on the drills that follow many of the lessons, it should be used later after you actually understand the question types of LR
In the lesson, J.Y. says “All soft drinks and candies? No – the soft drinks and candies advertised on television shows directed towards children.” This being the case, it seems to me the reason that B is wrong is not because it is about television advertisements but because B talks about “deceptive and misleading,” and the stimulus does not do this. But what if B were something like, “that television advertisements can lull one into making poor choices”? B would then align with the fact that we are talking about soft drinks and candies advertised on television.
That's a good point, but understanding the analogy they're making here will help clarify. The analogy was between the potential danger of swimming pools and solutions to protecting kids. 1). put a fence around it, good choice. 2). teach the kids how to swim, even better choice. "advertised on television" is just extra information about the real issue: soft drinks and candy. Just like how you can have a pool at a rec center, a private or kiddie pool etc., the way the danger (the pool) is presented doesn't change the fact that the pool, in any form, is the true issue. So, candy and soft drinks, whether from the grocery store, a friend's house, home pantry etc., is less relevant than finding solutions to teaching kids how to "swim" or "make nutritional choices." Hope this helped!
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who else taking the june lsat...i feel behind
@yam same here. Time is moving to fast and too many lessons to get through..
@yam I’m taking mine in august. This is all new to me.
@yam happy april 1st we got this
@AndreCarter i rearranged my plan and am doing august now too...good luck to us both
@yam same
OOhhh this was a good one. I would've gotten it wrong because I was thinking about television.
I hope the LSAT is this easy lol
@LawyeRell took it in april, unfortunately it's not :((
I almost thought it was D, but then I had to remind myself to not use outside knowledge
"i like normal buts" freaky ahh
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
This video was the best explanation of any question I've seen. At least for me, it was the perfect explanation.
Thank you!
Is there a way to know the analysis on this question and questions where JY walks us through? I want to be able to see what PT this came from and the level of difficulty, because this definitely felt like a lv 3 or 4.
@Sam it is PT 135 S1 Q4!
can somone clarify why D is wrong. I know he went into detail but I am still a little confused
My understanding is that C is more relevant than D. The stimulus mentions sweets and candies, not physical exercise. So it's just more logically what will complete the sentence.
The author is attempting to make an analogous argument with reference to an unstated principle--one that is up to us to identify.
The first sentence, "Swimming pools should be fenced to protect children from drowning, but teaching children to swim is even more important", lays the groundwork for said principle.
In essence, the author is asserting that, though x may be important to y, z is even more important. This principle, she states, can be applied in more ways than just drowning prevention.
She analogizes it to soft drinks and candy. So, if we were to frame our answer in the same exact structure she establishes in the first sentence, the "most logical" answer would be C, because it completes the analogy.
I hope this helps!
What's a good general working definition of the word "principle" throughout the LSAT?
I always think of principles as rules. They are rules that the entities and facts within the passage must accord with. They can also support prescriptive conclusions. Every person should be kind(principle/rule). I am a person(fact). Therefore I should be kind(prescriptive conclusion). Hope that helps!
this really helped me 😊 thank you!
Should I be watching these full breakdowns if I am consistently getting the answers correct in the practice questions and when I look at the question before watching the video?
I have been, and Im wondering the same thing. After reading the stimulus I was able to draft what I expected the potential answer to be, and then hunt for it. I was correct, but I watch the videos anyway because I like how it's pointed out how the other answers are wrong. That's something I need to work on for those questions that aren't as straightforward and require process of elimination. If you get no value from watching, then maybe not?
@alexasmith015 I'm in the same boat but remember, the bulk of learning comes from understanding WHY the wrong answer choices are wrong so I've been watching the videos to make sure the reasons I thought the wrong choices were wrong were in line with how I should be thinking about the question.
Off topic subject. On average, how long do you guys study for? I try to do at least an hour every day but juggling my coursework with this is challenging. I'm taking the LSAT in June. How are you guys holding up?
I work full time, so I get it. I try to study 5-6 days a week. Weekdays for 2 hours and 3-4 hours on Saturday and Sunday. It's tough. I always feel guilty for skipping days but breaks are needed. 12-16 hours a week
I'm taking it a second time in April, and probably do about 6-10 hours a week. It is really hard to balance with schoolwork, but I've been trying to do more intensive studying on days with less classes, and do quicker drills on days with more classes and use those to catch up on schoolwork. I've found it helpful just so that I can devote more brainpower and time to the LSAT a few days a week rather than being exhausted and trying to study.
in the same boat here. getting to the point in the semester where its starting to get harder to balance studying for LSAT every day with keeping on top of assignments and studying for midterms etc. Some days i definitely study longer than others. I try to do about 1-2 hours a day but unfortunately find myself in the past week or two having to skip some days because I have school work to do :/
This question is great to also mention how two answers may seem identical in a sense but there's always something about one of those answers that has less assumptions. With C we are talking about making better nutritional choices against sweet commercials on TV. With B we are talking about physical exercise and health with sweet commercials. Which would make the most sense to you. Of course it would be the nutritional choices against sweet commercials because we are talking about that same set (food).
got it right but i felt like i was on a roller coaster trying to read the stimulus
Not gonna lie...just the word childrearing messed me up lol
Same
"I like normal buts" 😅
@robertadida4 I was about to say, I might be 5 years old but that was hilarious to me too xD
For people like me who write down the "review" portion of every lesson, copy and paste the transcript of the lesson in ChatGPT and ask to format a review for information pertaining to MSS questions (or whatever is being covered) and not pertaining to the specific question itself.
#feedback It would be helpful to have a difficulty comparison with the average LSAT q on these. I get a really good handle on these example q's in the lessons, but do not want to be overconfident when approaching real drill sets :)
if you click answers below the video, you will see the difficulty of the question
Ive done a few prep test prior to doing these LR courses and I'm seeing so many questions that I've done.
everytime i see ur comment i think of earl sweatshirt lyric about courage the cowardly dog
Hi twin lol
Can someone please clarify to me why B is not also an equally appropriate answer? In my understanding, both answers B and C serve to "protect" children from "some form of harm" whether the harm is unhealthy foods or deceptive television advertisements.
The more simplistic takeaway, from what I can understand, is that the argument isn't about television. Television is moot, and meant to distract. The actual argument is about the kids!
What would be the equivalent of learning how to swim/ engaging with the dangerous situation in a healthy way or completely ignoring it being turned away from it? Knowing advertisement are false would be closer logically to the gate around the pool than swimming in the pool safely.
The stimulus says access to sweets not access to television. So the subject that is parallel to the pool is the sweets.
My understanding is that B is talking about television when our focus is on children and that they should be taught to protect themselves from possible harms of unhealthy food. Example, children should be taught how to swim.
B is doing the opposite where the swimming pool should be designed to protect children not caring if children know how to swim.
We also don't know if the television advertisements are misleading. We don't know if they are advertising their products as "healthy". Advertisements might not even talk about harm or benefits of soft drink and candies.
Normal buts 🤭
lol
@luebbertaj151 Kim kardashian doesn't have a shot.
how do we do all this with time constraints
honestly, i think it's going to come down to intense repetition to identify a pattern so doing this rly fast becomes like second nature
Slow is smooth, smooth is quick.
As J.Y stated in the video, the reason he explains at great lengths every detail of the stimulus and the answer choices is to deepen your understanding of LR as a whole. The main goal at this stage of your LSAT journey is to understand how to solve MSS-MC type questions, not answer them with speed. However, with knowledge and understanding, speed can and hopefully will follow with practice. Speed should simply not be your main concern right now.
Hope this helped!
P.S. Don't worry about the timer on the drills that follow many of the lessons, it should be used later after you actually understand the question types of LR
thank you for this comment :)
#help
In the lesson, J.Y. says “All soft drinks and candies? No – the soft drinks and candies advertised on television shows directed towards children.” This being the case, it seems to me the reason that B is wrong is not because it is about television advertisements but because B talks about “deceptive and misleading,” and the stimulus does not do this. But what if B were something like, “that television advertisements can lull one into making poor choices”? B would then align with the fact that we are talking about soft drinks and candies advertised on television.
That's a good point, but understanding the analogy they're making here will help clarify. The analogy was between the potential danger of swimming pools and solutions to protecting kids. 1). put a fence around it, good choice. 2). teach the kids how to swim, even better choice. "advertised on television" is just extra information about the real issue: soft drinks and candy. Just like how you can have a pool at a rec center, a private or kiddie pool etc., the way the danger (the pool) is presented doesn't change the fact that the pool, in any form, is the true issue. So, candy and soft drinks, whether from the grocery store, a friend's house, home pantry etc., is less relevant than finding solutions to teaching kids how to "swim" or "make nutritional choices." Hope this helped!
It should be noted that the domain for the principle in the stimulus is "childrearing."
So is the strategy for these questions to not look at the answers first, and "guess" what the right answer is ? #help#feedback
For all question types, anticipating the right answer choice is the key to not getting tricked