immediately reading A made the most sense bc the wording was pre exact so i just skimmed the others. I'm surprised at how fast i got that :') usually i am terrible at CausR Inf questions but this one i answered with -00:19 on timing!
why is it everytime the other answer I hesitate on is the correct one during Blind Review! I picked C initially but now I see the "If" indicating a hypothesis.
How do I stop second-guessing myself? I chose A immediately after reading the stimulus, but then I overanalyzed every answer choice and wasted a ton of time. I still ended up picking A, but a question that should’ve taken under a minute ended up taking 2:39. So frustrating.
I feel like I got to the fact that B is incorrect because the stimulus doesn't tell us anything about the state of what the ocean was like before phosphorous doubled. Is that correct? It seemed like J.Y.'s explanation contradicted my reasoning.
@cwferrari You are correct. B has two reasons why it is incorrect. The main reason you listed and J.Y's comment. Nowhere in the stim does it mention most.
I don't know if it's good to do this, but for POE I tell myself "can we know this from the info provided" and if it's not, I eliminate it. It's been working and I'm meeting the time on most (or fairly close).
A) Yes - the stimulus states and follows this
B) No - fish might have not have been able to survive prior regardless - we don't know
C) No - bacteria could be on the ocean floor because of some source other than agricultural runoff - we don't know
D) No - we don't know how much runoff poured out to double the phosphorous - could be .5x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x - we don't know
E) No - we know bacteria eating plankton consumes oxygen - we have no idea from the stimulus if that could be a general rule happening elsewhere
I'm treating the stimulus as the entirety of the information we need and if an answer choice mentions something not in the stimulus, it's out.
@colincy And if the correct answer choice wants you to infer something that is not in the stimulus, you compare with all the answer choices that are from the stimulus?
i'm having a hard time going from growth of plankton to decaying of plankton. i saw it as a contrapositive, so i was trying to map it out oppositely. any help?
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1/1 had answer soon as I read passage
gosh my timing is so BADDD, but got it right
didnt even read the rest, A makes sense, we choose A. Im down to take the risk
immediately reading A made the most sense bc the wording was pre exact so i just skimmed the others. I'm surprised at how fast i got that :') usually i am terrible at CausR Inf questions but this one i answered with -00:19 on timing!
On these questions (and even level 5 difficulty) im getting them all correct, but im going way over time. I am writing them out, but should i stop?
I went overtime because the passage was pretty complex, but I'm happy that I chose the right answer!
trying not to overthink. picked A but my mind kept thinking that A was too obvious.
over the allotted time but I actually got the answer right and did not doubt it
it's so easy to over analyze and overthink inference and MBT type questions REEEEE
Wait does this mean that every single time we see a "properly inferred" question stem, we should expect to see some sort of chain reasoning?
@23houg I believe it is not every time, but it is a common thing that the LSAT does!
why is it everytime the other answer I hesitate on is the correct one during Blind Review! I picked C initially but now I see the "If" indicating a hypothesis.
boi how is that a 3-star!! I swear some 1 stars are more difficult than this question
These makes sense to me
Is three the lowest difficulty a question can be? I feel like I never see lower than three lol
@SusanLeifker 1 star is lowest
Correct with (-00:22)
bruh I thought A was a trap answer because it was too obvious/basically stated word for word
@ujustgotlittup basically these are "so what you're saying is" and that's what we're trying to figure out
I think I finally understand what answer choices to avoid. Got it right and under the time limit!
@MarieChavis congrats!! I only got +0.05 !!
How do I stop second-guessing myself? I chose A immediately after reading the stimulus, but then I overanalyzed every answer choice and wasted a ton of time. I still ended up picking A, but a question that should’ve taken under a minute ended up taking 2:39. So frustrating.
Bamboozled by E squad
@CollinEsquirol We simply do not know if it's inversely or directly proportional.
Is it safe to say that you can't draw a conditional conclusion from a causal relationship?
@NyahStewart Yes (assuming the causal statement doesn't say something like "X always causes...")
A one-time event or series of events doesn't prove that something is inevitable or guaranteed.
I feel like I got to the fact that B is incorrect because the stimulus doesn't tell us anything about the state of what the ocean was like before phosphorous doubled. Is that correct? It seemed like J.Y.'s explanation contradicted my reasoning.
@cwferrari You are correct. B has two reasons why it is incorrect. The main reason you listed and J.Y's comment. Nowhere in the stim does it mention most.
@amhuynh It doesn't mention most but it does mention few, and you can assume most is the opposite of few.
This was an easy one for my #realenvironmentalsciencegeezers #environmentallaw #unemployablewithoutaJD
@CeciliaBurton1 lol its why I'm going into environmental law
I don't know if it's good to do this, but for POE I tell myself "can we know this from the info provided" and if it's not, I eliminate it. It's been working and I'm meeting the time on most (or fairly close).
A) Yes - the stimulus states and follows this
B) No - fish might have not have been able to survive prior regardless - we don't know
C) No - bacteria could be on the ocean floor because of some source other than agricultural runoff - we don't know
D) No - we don't know how much runoff poured out to double the phosphorous - could be .5x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x - we don't know
E) No - we know bacteria eating plankton consumes oxygen - we have no idea from the stimulus if that could be a general rule happening elsewhere
I'm treating the stimulus as the entirety of the information we need and if an answer choice mentions something not in the stimulus, it's out.
@colincy And if the correct answer choice wants you to infer something that is not in the stimulus, you compare with all the answer choices that are from the stimulus?
@colincy this is the way I eliminate answers as well. I eliminated B quickly because you can't necessarily assume that based on the stim
i'm having a hard time going from growth of plankton to decaying of plankton. i saw it as a contrapositive, so i was trying to map it out oppositely. any help?
@msfro It was not a conditional logic stimulus. It was an informal one. No contrapositives.
Does anyone else get it where their computer glitches and it doesn't allow them to scroll up or choose an AC?