I am glad you officially told me not to say the name. Been doing this when reading books for years. I also like to make them more crude to help me memorize. So this would be a pissypants dinosaur.
My only fear is when I become a lawyer my clients see my notes and wonder why I have them listed as Mr. Ragu and not his official name: Raghunandan Venkateshwaran Harikrishna Sharma. Come on Ragu.. give me a break here. :)
I did too until I realized that there could be more utility in treating these questions as just "okay, time to just absorb the best I can JY's method of eliminating answers one by one so I can get the types of answer choices and tricks of the testmakers." And then I get to actually put them to practice in the "DIY" question because I feel like I'm applying what I saw in the prior videos.
Something I've noticed in question regarding animals, is that the "trap" answer almost always goes from a specific animal subclass (mammals/reptiles/birds) to all animals. Whereas the right answer stays true to the animal subclasses mentioned in the stimulus.
Hey, I'm in the same boat as you. SA questions were mad easy for me compared to this. Best tip I got for you is use the negate strategy, because if the wrong answer is negated, then the argument in the stimulus falls apart.
i got e correct , but once i watched the video it is much more compelling that if we were to negate c that it would genuinely shatter the argument... i know that it doesn't go by the rulebook of structure etc etc but it is quite annoying that if you do the negate rule e is actually way weaker and c would make a ton more sense
I'm confused why E is correct. Yeah, they talk about the similarity of fins and wings, but don't we then have to assume that birds hunt their prey over long distances? I mean I guess they do, but I don't KNOW that.
@RyanAlexander ik its been a minute since u commented this but...
with these questions i always think whats missing/ why can't this arguement connect?
the arguement here is that they prob hunted over long distances, and then it mentions the long and thin fins.
what the heck do fins have to do with the long distances? thats ur answer, ur answer is what bridges the arguement together no matter the level of support
With the answer choice, change it from "is/isn't," "does/doesn't," etc. You can insert it into the argument between the premise the answer choice connects to and the conclusion. Try to imagine the question in this form without overthinking. In the case of the correct answer, the conclusion cannot possibly follow.
I remember in the beginning JY said one way to distinguish necessary assumption AC's is to negate the answer and see if the stim falls apart, but also that he doesn't recommend we ever use this in practice.........
@breezyprabahar944 in theory yes. the correct answer for necessary assumptions, if you negate it the entire argument of the stim falls apart, every time. the reason i think JY doesn't recommend using it all the time is its slow to go through every AC and negate all of them. but i'd still say this technique a useful tool to have in your bag, especially for checking if an answer you picked is right.
@kimwexler Do you remember that New York animal question. The one where the rule was you can keep a pet if the building is more than 10 stories and you haven't kept it openly and notoriously. I think you can go back there. It was right after kick the premise up take domain part and around embedded conclusion in the grammar lessons
@SaulMcGill i dont personally like the negate suggestion. it makes me more confused. the thing thats been helping me is asking "is this really necessary"
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"How the hell do you pronounce this?"
JY: Proceeds to pronounce Plesiosauromorphs perfectly
you might be my favorite commenter
I am really not having a good time.
"WHO CARES?"
live. love. lsat
Jay: I'm not even going to bother trying to prnounce this dinosaur
first try
"Plesiosauromorphs"
Yeah.. dont worry about the pronunciation... proceeds to pronounce it perfectly lolll
I am glad you officially told me not to say the name. Been doing this when reading books for years. I also like to make them more crude to help me memorize. So this would be a pissypants dinosaur.
My only fear is when I become a lawyer my clients see my notes and wonder why I have them listed as Mr. Ragu and not his official name: Raghunandan Venkateshwaran Harikrishna Sharma. Come on Ragu.. give me a break here. :)
your comments are always so funny, I love them
JY was so sassy with the wrong answers on this one lol
"Jesus....who cares" hahaha
The negation rule is really saving my life. These necessary assumption questions are a breeze.
1st. Identify the conclusion and premise.
2nd. Go through the answer choices and find which one is necessary through the negation rule.
I do the negation rule in my head. This question only took me a minute to get it right.
I like the negating the answer strategy. It works every time. Just sometimes it takes longer.
How would you negate E in this instance?
The shape of a marine animal's fin does NOT affect.... which would render the supporting premise of the main conclusion irrelevant.
I HATE that we cant see the actual question choices before he tells us the answers.
I did too until I realized that there could be more utility in treating these questions as just "okay, time to just absorb the best I can JY's method of eliminating answers one by one so I can get the types of answer choices and tricks of the testmakers." And then I get to actually put them to practice in the "DIY" question because I feel like I'm applying what I saw in the prior videos.
@marlencmillan563
Something I've noticed in question regarding animals, is that the "trap" answer almost always goes from a specific animal subclass (mammals/reptiles/birds) to all animals. Whereas the right answer stays true to the animal subclasses mentioned in the stimulus.
I am really struggling with the necessary assumption compared to suffiecient assumption, anyone have any tips.
I'm the opposite lol...
I'm also struggling...
Hey, I'm in the same boat as you. SA questions were mad easy for me compared to this. Best tip I got for you is use the negate strategy, because if the wrong answer is negated, then the argument in the stimulus falls apart.
I finally got one right!!! GUYS I'M SO EFFING SCARED RN
C. Was wrong for me because it spoke about caloric requirements. We don’t care how many calories it needs to eat.
D. Said most marine animals but I thought it was wrong because what marine animals are we talking about?
A. Wrong because common ancestors? Where do we know that?
B. Cool but? If they were the only one who cares?
i got e correct , but once i watched the video it is much more compelling that if we were to negate c that it would genuinely shatter the argument... i know that it doesn't go by the rulebook of structure etc etc but it is quite annoying that if you do the negate rule e is actually way weaker and c would make a ton more sense
I have gotten one right. This is a freaking level 2, what the heck
plesiosauromorphs looks like a drunken made up word
I'm confused why E is correct. Yeah, they talk about the similarity of fins and wings, but don't we then have to assume that birds hunt their prey over long distances? I mean I guess they do, but I don't KNOW that.
@RyanAlexander ik its been a minute since u commented this but...
with these questions i always think whats missing/ why can't this arguement connect?
the arguement here is that they prob hunted over long distances, and then it mentions the long and thin fins.
what the heck do fins have to do with the long distances? thats ur answer, ur answer is what bridges the arguement together no matter the level of support
Can someone explain how negating helps us to determine if the answer choice is correct or not? I just don't understand how to do it...
i like your name
With the answer choice, change it from "is/isn't," "does/doesn't," etc. You can insert it into the argument between the premise the answer choice connects to and the conclusion. Try to imagine the question in this form without overthinking. In the case of the correct answer, the conclusion cannot possibly follow.
is there a way to do these problems before the lesson? or is the purpose to not answer beforehand? #help
I search for the question on Google before starting the video. It usually works
they should add this feature
I remember in the beginning JY said one way to distinguish necessary assumption AC's is to negate the answer and see if the stim falls apart, but also that he doesn't recommend we ever use this in practice.........
is it concerning i use it all the time.
@TheBigFatPanda has it helped you identify the right answer everytime?
@breezyprabahar944 in theory yes. the correct answer for necessary assumptions, if you negate it the entire argument of the stim falls apart, every time. the reason i think JY doesn't recommend using it all the time is its slow to go through every AC and negate all of them. but i'd still say this technique a useful tool to have in your bag, especially for checking if an answer you picked is right.
@TheBigFatPanda That makes sense thanks!
where can i review rule application reasoning? i think thats why both NA and SA questions are so hard for me.
@kimwexler Do you remember that New York animal question. The one where the rule was you can keep a pet if the building is more than 10 stories and you haven't kept it openly and notoriously. I think you can go back there. It was right after kick the premise up take domain part and around embedded conclusion in the grammar lessons
Maybe i'm just being obtuse, but I feel like negating each answer choice to see if it breaks the argument takes too much time.
@SaulMcGill i dont personally like the negate suggestion. it makes me more confused. the thing thats been helping me is asking "is this really necessary"