Not sure if this will help anyone out. But before looking at the answers I ask myself, What is it that I need to explain or resolve. I write what I think it is out and then look at the answers.
Try to practice recognizing the apparent paradox between the premises/premise and conclusion. For this one example, this is indicated by "yet," meaning despite one thing happening, the seemingly opposite happens. Some of them are more difficult to recognize than others, but most of them are somewhat apparent. I found it helpful to write it out as "X happens, but WHY does Y happen?" Hope this helps!
1. My biggest help was mentally putting a "because " after the question's stimulus and then filling the blank with each answer to find which made the most sense.
2. Typically, you are looking for a word with multiple meanings in the stimulus; 'recorded' for this question doesn't imply that there are more tornados, only that there were more recorded; therefore, just as many could have been occurring. Thus, the answer will give a solution to that.
3. I have also noticed for some of the harder questions in this group, they like to switch the chicken for the egg. So they will say, 'They did their hair because they look great,' one of the answers will imply, "No, they look great because they did their hair."
I am going to reiterate "Red Pepper Flow's" comment below, but I just want to add some encouragement!
This stuff is hard! BUT you're doing great! Sooo many people don't event make it this far and study for the LSAT. You CAN do this! It will get easier one day at a time!
I always just ask myself personally "does this explain the conflict between the issues?" and it helps me steer clear of answer choices that just give add on, unnecessary info
I'm now starting to get it - I think what helped was not getting too sucked into the discrepancy and just understanding what it was that I needed the answer to. It made E that much more obvious.
am I the only one who really struggled with this question? at first, none of the answers looked right. I had to remind myself the right answer isn't always the ideal answer lol
Yeah the phrasing about "detect" versus record was a little tricky at first!
If you can make the right explanation in your head from the stimulus, there will be an answer that feels like that's it! Trust yourself! You can do this!
I think that's the right mindset to have! You're only going to get better at this with practice. But you switched your mindset the way you were taught. Nice work!
I was looking for an answer choice that gave us a different reason for why tornadoes were occurring more so this just fully broke my brain. :) And it hurt extra seeing the difficulty be so low. :) yippee
@MontrealAllen I read it like this…. We are talking about the ability “record annually”. For me mentally I realize that it was either a three ways. One it was either by the concept of technology advancement, advancement in science as a whole for weather, or by word of mouth, which for this day and age of 1953, it would be more likely. Hope that helps.
I feel like these 'difficulty' ratings have far more to do with where the question landed in the test than the actual difficulty. This did not feel like a 2 difficulty it felt trickier than that because A is the most popular trap answer and when you are crunched on time you are much more likely to just go with your first impression. I would guess that if it was in section 4 question 25 instead of section 1 question 6 a lot more people would be getting it wrong. Still, don't think it would be a four or a five, probably a 3, but all the fours and fives I've seen have been near the end of sections where a good portion of people are probably guessing anyway because they ran out of time.
Does anyone know if they take test order and answer order into account when assigning difficulty or is it just based off the number of people who got it wrong?
In my mind, A is incorrect because it is talking about before 1953 and we are talking about things that have happened since 1953. is this correct to assume?
I am skipping through the correct answer thinking it is assuming something naive. Can someone help give a strategy to improve this in better explaining the ACs concerning the stimulus?
I was really sucking at these questions up until 2 questions ago. What I do that helps is write down a "why" question. So i wrote "why are there more tornadoes even though the factors remain unchanged?" i do this to simplify it for me even tho the explanations are great overanalyzing questions is what confused me. Instead I just simply find the answer choice that correlates best with the my "why" question. Less is more in this section for me personally.
I did the same thing by asking where the problem lies and finding the solution in the ACs but I am not asking the right question regarding the stimulus to narrow down ACs. Thank you for being so helpful!! much appreciated.
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need glen powell
You know you read the stimulus too quickly to get to the answer choices when you think it's asking about the intensity of TOMATOES
this gave me a good giggle
real
I'm finally starting to predict the answers before reading the answer choices. I didn't even think it was possible.
"The fastest LSAT taker in the west."
Needed this W after the last two questions!
ain't no love in Oklahoma
Not sure if this will help anyone out. But before looking at the answers I ask myself, What is it that I need to explain or resolve. I write what I think it is out and then look at the answers.
For example: If unchanged why 3x reported?
I haven't gotten a single question right in this section. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated...
Try to practice recognizing the apparent paradox between the premises/premise and conclusion. For this one example, this is indicated by "yet," meaning despite one thing happening, the seemingly opposite happens. Some of them are more difficult to recognize than others, but most of them are somewhat apparent. I found it helpful to write it out as "X happens, but WHY does Y happen?" Hope this helps!
I was having the same problem,
1. My biggest help was mentally putting a "because " after the question's stimulus and then filling the blank with each answer to find which made the most sense.
2. Typically, you are looking for a word with multiple meanings in the stimulus; 'recorded' for this question doesn't imply that there are more tornados, only that there were more recorded; therefore, just as many could have been occurring. Thus, the answer will give a solution to that.
3. I have also noticed for some of the harder questions in this group, they like to switch the chicken for the egg. So they will say, 'They did their hair because they look great,' one of the answers will imply, "No, they look great because they did their hair."
I am going to reiterate "Red Pepper Flow's" comment below, but I just want to add some encouragement!
This stuff is hard! BUT you're doing great! Sooo many people don't event make it this far and study for the LSAT. You CAN do this! It will get easier one day at a time!
I'm proud of you :)
I always just ask myself personally "does this explain the conflict between the issues?" and it helps me steer clear of answer choices that just give add on, unnecessary info
I'm now starting to get it - I think what helped was not getting too sucked into the discrepancy and just understanding what it was that I needed the answer to. It made E that much more obvious.
I thought that tornadoes read as tomatoes for the first read through and was thoroughly confused
@HopeEvans Same!
Twisters movie anyone?
instantly thought of it lol
am I the only one who really struggled with this question? at first, none of the answers looked right. I had to remind myself the right answer isn't always the ideal answer lol
Yeah the phrasing about "detect" versus record was a little tricky at first!
If you can make the right explanation in your head from the stimulus, there will be an answer that feels like that's it! Trust yourself! You can do this!
I think that's the right mindset to have! You're only going to get better at this with practice. But you switched your mindset the way you were taught. Nice work!
i got it wrong, but the answer made sense....we're getting there slowly but surely.
I was looking for an answer choice that gave us a different reason for why tornadoes were occurring more so this just fully broke my brain. :) And it hurt extra seeing the difficulty be so low. :) yippee
rip flying buffalo
Anyone else just take it to be true that there was a 3x then get thrown by the answer choices and go back to read the stimulus and see "recorded"?
Finally some good news
This just stressed me tf out and I still don’t understand how E was correct
@MontrealAllen I read it like this…. We are talking about the ability “record annually”. For me mentally I realize that it was either a three ways. One it was either by the concept of technology advancement, advancement in science as a whole for weather, or by word of mouth, which for this day and age of 1953, it would be more likely. Hope that helps.
the teacher is so funny to me yall lol he makes this fun
Got it crazy fast all of these RREs have come really easy to me idk why. I feel like recorded was the keyword I locked onto here
How could I have got this wrong... dang
@PatrickBonna dont wory, happens to us all
Reminder....all answer choices are to be deemed true. As readers we are looking for the one that will explain the paradox/difference!
I feel like these 'difficulty' ratings have far more to do with where the question landed in the test than the actual difficulty. This did not feel like a 2 difficulty it felt trickier than that because A is the most popular trap answer and when you are crunched on time you are much more likely to just go with your first impression. I would guess that if it was in section 4 question 25 instead of section 1 question 6 a lot more people would be getting it wrong. Still, don't think it would be a four or a five, probably a 3, but all the fours and fives I've seen have been near the end of sections where a good portion of people are probably guessing anyway because they ran out of time.
Does anyone know if they take test order and answer order into account when assigning difficulty or is it just based off the number of people who got it wrong?
In my mind, A is incorrect because it is talking about before 1953 and we are talking about things that have happened since 1953. is this correct to assume?
exactly!
I am skipping through the correct answer thinking it is assuming something naive. Can someone help give a strategy to improve this in better explaining the ACs concerning the stimulus?
I was really sucking at these questions up until 2 questions ago. What I do that helps is write down a "why" question. So i wrote "why are there more tornadoes even though the factors remain unchanged?" i do this to simplify it for me even tho the explanations are great overanalyzing questions is what confused me. Instead I just simply find the answer choice that correlates best with the my "why" question. Less is more in this section for me personally.
I did the same thing by asking where the problem lies and finding the solution in the ACs but I am not asking the right question regarding the stimulus to narrow down ACs. Thank you for being so helpful!! much appreciated.
finally on the board