heads up - seems obvious - but some of these questions are really quick to grasp for some people but others struggle a little more so please don't feel discouraged in the comments of these lessons if you find it challenging. There is nothing you can't learn, if it hard today it will be easier tomorrow!
I kinda agree with them on how misleading the 2/5 rating for this is. The answer choice is so compacted with grammar that I got lost on the framework of the argument. I would give it 3/5--I got it right but def took time
Someone is owed a sincere apology for having been lied to by a person if someone else has already received a sincere apology for the same lie from that same person.
This is such ridiculous sentence lol. brutal to read when in a time crunch
For some of us this is easy, and for others it s a little bit harder keep on studying, we are all in this together. Focus and keep on going if we study hard enough all of this will become easier.
I watch all videos regardless of if I got them right or not because you benefit the most from learning why the wrong answers are wrong. Just like JY pointed out a few lessons ago you need to recognize patterns in the correct and incorrect answers to be able to discriminate between them. When questions become more difficult, this pattern recognition helps clarify a hazy situation where answers feel very similar to each other.
Adding to this however, I do see value in skipping parts of videos for the sake of time if I understand the concepts. Regardless, we all have different circumstances and what works for me may not work for everyone. Good luck! :)
I would previously be slower at reading these type of stimuli if I don't understand a word or would get stuck on some pronunciation. In this question, I ended up just changing Hagerle to H as soon as the narrator (me) in my head was saying it. I got through it so much quicker this way than if I didn't use this trick :)
@catintheLSAT I also use my cursor to follow the word I am reading. Sometimes I realize I am reading the stimulus but not actually ingesting what is in the stimulus. This would help breaking/simplifying the stimulus to follow the chain.
@jcilla Yes! Sometimes the principle is a broader application of a rule but it's totally fine for it to just be a restatement, as if that statement is valid then the argument itself is valid.
I think its making it so difficult to answer these questions is because I've wired my brain to make difficult assumptions and sometimes the most obvious answer choices in other LR questions are the wrong answers. But for this kind of question, simply underlining the 'rules' and looking for the answer that follows those rules makes sense even if it does seem obvious.
I understand why D is not as good an answer choice as C. However, one of the facts of the question is that Hagerle sincerely apologized to the physician. Given this fact, we know that Hagerle is capable of sincerely apologizing to someone for lying to them. Could someone explain why D is not correct based on this logic? Thank you! #help #feedback
I see where you are coming from, but that doesn't work. Hagerle may have offered a sincere apology to the physician, but that doesn't necessarily mean that Hagerle is capable of offering sincere apologies to anyone. For a hypothetical example, say I stole money from two people I thought were very rich. Later I find out that the first person was actually poor. I could feel bad and sincerely apologize to that person for stealing their money. But when thinking about the rich person, I could maintain that my actions were justified and not be anywhere close to wanting to offer an apology. Just kinda think of Robin Hood.
it sounds kind of stupid, but I just started going at the questions with more intensity and tried to belief in my reasoning more instead of second guessing myself. Often times up until this point when I do the practice questions I take my time to make sure I'm covering every thought and carefully evaluating everything which was why I'd be too slow.
I agree with this. Do what you can in a time frame that seems reasonable, but I definitely try to go with what my intuition is telling me. I then go back and take more time during the blind review. Because it simulates the choices I would make during the exam, but I can go back during the blind review to be more detailed in my reasoning.
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C was written by a potato trying to finish a 1,000 word count essay.
heads up - seems obvious - but some of these questions are really quick to grasp for some people but others struggle a little more so please don't feel discouraged in the comments of these lessons if you find it challenging. There is nothing you can't learn, if it hard today it will be easier tomorrow!
Love you for this.
HOW IS THIS ONLY A 2/5.
Agreed this question was brutal.
For real. Maybe I'm just bad at this question type, but I thought it was way harder than some of the 5/5s I've seen so far.
lol Im sorry but this is def a 2/5 difficulty. The answer choice literally outlines exactly what happened in the stim.
I kinda agree with them on how misleading the 2/5 rating for this is. The answer choice is so compacted with grammar that I got lost on the framework of the argument. I would give it 3/5--I got it right but def took time
Studying on Superbowl Sunday, God gives His toughest battles to His strongest soldiers.
lol, the Eagles were definitely not God's strongest soldiers then
#PSAr
Maybe not the most difficult to get right, but the dense language is definitely a time sink
Someone is owed a sincere apology for having been lied to by a person if someone else has already received a sincere apology for the same lie from that same person.
This is such ridiculous sentence lol. brutal to read when in a time crunch
For some of us this is easy, and for others it s a little bit harder keep on studying, we are all in this together. Focus and keep on going if we study hard enough all of this will become easier.
#feedback do you recommend we still watch all explanations if we got the question right?
I watch some of the beginning and then watch the correct answer part and the answer choice I almost picked.
I watch all videos regardless of if I got them right or not because you benefit the most from learning why the wrong answers are wrong. Just like JY pointed out a few lessons ago you need to recognize patterns in the correct and incorrect answers to be able to discriminate between them. When questions become more difficult, this pattern recognition helps clarify a hazy situation where answers feel very similar to each other.
Adding to this however, I do see value in skipping parts of videos for the sake of time if I understand the concepts. Regardless, we all have different circumstances and what works for me may not work for everyone. Good luck! :)
I think I love this section. If this was the entire LSAT, I would be going to Harvard BUT bc it's not we're sticking with a T4
I would previously be slower at reading these type of stimuli if I don't understand a word or would get stuck on some pronunciation. In this question, I ended up just changing Hagerle to H as soon as the narrator (me) in my head was saying it. I got through it so much quicker this way than if I didn't use this trick :)
Hope this helps someone too!
@catintheLSAT I also use my cursor to follow the word I am reading. Sometimes I realize I am reading the stimulus but not actually ingesting what is in the stimulus. This would help breaking/simplifying the stimulus to follow the chain.
@lawshosh Another thing I like to do is highlight subset words or conditional logic indicators if that helps anyone
I'm getting these right but it takes me like 2 minutes to like understand
and that's actually good :)
this one was confusing for me, I answered E initially but in the BR I got it right with C.
im taking extra time to figure them out, but its paying off. This one was tricky since the wording likes to be screwy
i overthinked on this one
I love these!
I have noticed that it seems like a paraphrase of restatement of the stimulus, is there any validity to this?
@jcilla Yes! Sometimes the principle is a broader application of a rule but it's totally fine for it to just be a restatement, as if that statement is valid then the argument itself is valid.
I think its making it so difficult to answer these questions is because I've wired my brain to make difficult assumptions and sometimes the most obvious answer choices in other LR questions are the wrong answers. But for this kind of question, simply underlining the 'rules' and looking for the answer that follows those rules makes sense even if it does seem obvious.
I understand why D is not as good an answer choice as C. However, one of the facts of the question is that Hagerle sincerely apologized to the physician. Given this fact, we know that Hagerle is capable of sincerely apologizing to someone for lying to them. Could someone explain why D is not correct based on this logic? Thank you! #help #feedback
I see where you are coming from, but that doesn't work. Hagerle may have offered a sincere apology to the physician, but that doesn't necessarily mean that Hagerle is capable of offering sincere apologies to anyone. For a hypothetical example, say I stole money from two people I thought were very rich. Later I find out that the first person was actually poor. I could feel bad and sincerely apologize to that person for stealing their money. But when thinking about the rich person, I could maintain that my actions were justified and not be anywhere close to wanting to offer an apology. Just kinda think of Robin Hood.
Hope this helps!
This helped me a lot, thanks for your post!
dub city I answered in 1:16
i got it right on BR but i didnt think it was C since it was so straightforward
Took a 50 second detour on the assumption train to B before I realized nobody said the guy who got an apology was owed one.
the bridge description really helps POE go a bit faster. Thanks for the tip J.Y.
I need to work on reading the answer choices more thoroughly... Definitely thought C said just "someone" not "someone else"
I was going back and forth between B and C, happy I chose C
im getting the right answers but im too slow. I wonder how I can speed up
it sounds kind of stupid, but I just started going at the questions with more intensity and tried to belief in my reasoning more instead of second guessing myself. Often times up until this point when I do the practice questions I take my time to make sure I'm covering every thought and carefully evaluating everything which was why I'd be too slow.
Try thai tea - more caffeine. Also drill, drill, drill.
Everything I’ve read and heard is with time you will get better with speed
I heard oolong tea is good too.
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I agree with this. Do what you can in a time frame that seems reasonable, but I definitely try to go with what my intuition is telling me. I then go back and take more time during the blind review. Because it simulates the choices I would make during the exam, but I can go back during the blind review to be more detailed in my reasoning.