i hope this section knows that it has singlehandedly demoralized my studying this past week. something about getting five questions wrong in a row just makes me not want to open my laptop. L-O-L
Just an observation, its so funny how differently peoples brains work.
The comments on this one show a lot of people maybe had trouble with this question. I have gotten wrong answer after wrong answer for two days now in the SA section and I'd come down to the comments where people would say "got this one right away!" or "this one was easy!" - that type of thing, and always beat myself up wondering how everyone was getting these so easily!!
Well for me, it was this question that was a "duh obvious answer" type of question. I answered it in 41 seconds without a second thought after struggling to find the right answer for days. something with this one just clicked immediately and I'm curious what the difference between this one and the previous ones are for me - something that I will try to find out for myself to better understand the ones I have trouble with.
Anyway, all of this to say if you're having trouble with some sections and not others, and see other people succeeding in the things you struggle with, its important to not beat ourselves up but instead recognize that there are certainly sections which we may feel are easy that are hard for others and vice verse.
We all have different strengths and discovering the areas which you can put more time towards and improve on is important to our overall success on this godforsaken test.
Did this take me 14 mins? Yes, but it's one of the only I got right on the first try for this set of lessons. Celebrate the wins. Honestly, what really helped was pausing this lesson and reviewing the foundations; if things are not making sense, don't keep doing hard questions. Sometimes, you have to go back to move ahead.
guys I couldn't do these for the life of me, then I went and did SA drills on easiest, easy, and medium mode and it makes more sense now. go drill the easy questions then come back
to whoever is feeling discouraged bc of these SA questions, just know that more than half of these highly intellectual individuals on here................are as equally struggling
For anybody struggling: I got this in about 2 minutes by just drawing it out without any formal logic or diagramming. If you draw it out you can see that there would be more etching tools used for engraving only if the distribution of pin and bladed were equal. Basically, if the "pie" of etching tools was cut in half, with "pin" on one half and "bladed" on the other, then the statement would be true, as all of the "pin" tools would be used for engraving (half the pie right there) and then at least 1 of the "bladed" (use of the word "some") tools would be used for engraving. 50+(at least 1)=more than half are used for engraving. Hope this helps.
I’m having to remind myself that at worst there’ll only be a handful of these questions on the real test, hope we get lucky with the selection come the real test lmaooo
For this question we have two subsets of etching tools, bladed and pin tipped. We know that some bladed etching tools are used for engraving, and that ALL pen tipped are used for engraving. The conclusion states that there are more etching tools used for engraving than not (most). Well I can immediately think of a reason that would be wrong, what if there are only like 5 pin tipped tools and 100 bladed tools? That would immediately cast doubt on the conclusion. B, however, states that there are an equal amount of both tools. Let's say there are 10 of each. Well ALL pin tipped are used for engraving so there's 10 engraving tools right there, and SOME (at least one) bladed ones are used for engraving, which would give us at LEAST 11 engraving tools out of 20.
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i hope this section knows that it has singlehandedly demoralized my studying this past week. something about getting five questions wrong in a row just makes me not want to open my laptop. L-O-L
upon further review, im so mad at myself for getting this wrong
The MULTIPLE level 5 questions in a row was pure madness
nah i feel u bro
Has me questioning everything fr
Just an observation, its so funny how differently peoples brains work.
The comments on this one show a lot of people maybe had trouble with this question. I have gotten wrong answer after wrong answer for two days now in the SA section and I'd come down to the comments where people would say "got this one right away!" or "this one was easy!" - that type of thing, and always beat myself up wondering how everyone was getting these so easily!!
Well for me, it was this question that was a "duh obvious answer" type of question. I answered it in 41 seconds without a second thought after struggling to find the right answer for days. something with this one just clicked immediately and I'm curious what the difference between this one and the previous ones are for me - something that I will try to find out for myself to better understand the ones I have trouble with.
Anyway, all of this to say if you're having trouble with some sections and not others, and see other people succeeding in the things you struggle with, its important to not beat ourselves up but instead recognize that there are certainly sections which we may feel are easy that are hard for others and vice verse.
We all have different strengths and discovering the areas which you can put more time towards and improve on is important to our overall success on this godforsaken test.
Good luck everyone. <3
Thank you for this, I'm really struggling with the SA section (because my formal logic is struggling), and this helped me feel a bit better :)
This is really helpful! On the same boat! I was so wrecked through this section and this is the first time that I am finding it obvious
Great message. Thank you for sharing. A positive mindset is half the battle in staying persistent in this process of learning the LSAT.
same lol!!
@Nathanmaxwellfowles Thanks for this!!
Guys i wanna die. I wasn't able to get a single SA Q. right.
Dear lord please only give me one easy sufficient assumption question on my lsat
Yea these are completely throwing me off lol
Amen
Did this take me 14 mins? Yes, but it's one of the only I got right on the first try for this set of lessons. Celebrate the wins. Honestly, what really helped was pausing this lesson and reviewing the foundations; if things are not making sense, don't keep doing hard questions. Sometimes, you have to go back to move ahead.
Honestly, I read the question first as it popped up in the video beneath then hit start lol. Don't worry we got this.
i find this type of LR impossible to understand
guys I couldn't do these for the life of me, then I went and did SA drills on easiest, easy, and medium mode and it makes more sense now. go drill the easy questions then come back
I think it's time for bed after that one
Nvm the pain is back hahahahahaha I will never find joy
to whoever is feeling discouraged bc of these SA questions, just know that more than half of these highly intellectual individuals on here................are as equally struggling
OMG ANYONE FOLLOWING MY SAGA OF COMMENTS IN THIS UNIT I AM PROUD TO SAY I FINALLY GOT ONE RIGHT THANK THE LORD
nope. not a chance on that one
sufficient assumption is the worst.
These recent questions are like sandpaper to my brain folds.
For anybody struggling: I got this in about 2 minutes by just drawing it out without any formal logic or diagramming. If you draw it out you can see that there would be more etching tools used for engraving only if the distribution of pin and bladed were equal. Basically, if the "pie" of etching tools was cut in half, with "pin" on one half and "bladed" on the other, then the statement would be true, as all of the "pin" tools would be used for engraving (half the pie right there) and then at least 1 of the "bladed" (use of the word "some") tools would be used for engraving. 50+(at least 1)=more than half are used for engraving. Hope this helps.
this is exactly what i did and i found it a lot less confusing
If we are struggling with these kind of SA questions what should we go back and review?
I would like to know this as well
This question reeks of logic games
Dude I suck at conditional reasoning.
idk why I am just not getting the SA questions. None of the other question types have felt this difficult :/
@ariannazuwa798 try watching this video, it was what finally made SA make sense to me.
math in da LSAT fo today
Ngl probably gonna have to skip these. I do not get it at all.
I’m having to remind myself that at worst there’ll only be a handful of these questions on the real test, hope we get lucky with the selection come the real test lmaooo
For this question we have two subsets of etching tools, bladed and pin tipped. We know that some bladed etching tools are used for engraving, and that ALL pen tipped are used for engraving. The conclusion states that there are more etching tools used for engraving than not (most). Well I can immediately think of a reason that would be wrong, what if there are only like 5 pin tipped tools and 100 bladed tools? That would immediately cast doubt on the conclusion. B, however, states that there are an equal amount of both tools. Let's say there are 10 of each. Well ALL pin tipped are used for engraving so there's 10 engraving tools right there, and SOME (at least one) bladed ones are used for engraving, which would give us at LEAST 11 engraving tools out of 20.
5 minutes .. not sure how I'm gonna be able to get my time down
Wow I am actually confused :)
this lesson's making me feel so stupid
I have never been so frustrated during the lessons, than I am right now. Need a big break rn.