This question type is so frusturating because many of these questions my intuition is right, but I cannot for the life of me explain why they're right, they just feel right in my head. My head is doing some kind of processing but I cannot explain or write out the reasonings. Then there are the ones my inuition don't pick up and I feel lost.
I feel like I am backtracking in my progress. I started studying a month ago, everything is new to me, but now I feel like nothing is making sense and I feel stuck. I don't know what to do, and I plan on taking the exam in Sept.
@karlee448 for me personally, these videos don't help, they tend to confuse me, especially because they prevent you from reading the question and its answers in the same order as when taking the lsat. instead, I attempt the question (using the show question button at the top) on my own and if I get it right I skip the video entirely. if I'm confused at all, I read the analytical explanations for the answer choices. and if I still don't get it then, I may watch the video!
Sharing my tactic here: I quickly eliminated D because it says, 'ANY substance... WILL eventually BE DISCOVERED.' However, based on the stimulus, it's not necessary for every substance to be discovered. Even if just some are discovered, the argument could still hold.
@BenPocheron This is a good heuristic. However, I would caution that the correct answer to a SA question can sometimes be sufficient to make the argument valid. In other words, the correct answer to a SA question is not always a weak answer - the correct answer can also go far beyond what is strictly necessary (and it will be the correct answer, assuming all the other choices are incorrect).
@AudreyGilmour Thank you very much for your comment. However, I don’t think I stated any reasoning about strong or weak answers for this question.
To rephrase my point: imagine you are the author of the argument, say, a scientist, and you are presenting the argument (the stimulus) to an audience. Would you, as the scientist, have in the back of your mind the assumption that “any substance of medicinal value (...) will eventually be discovered (...)”? Of course not, that would be far beyond what the scientist intended. Such an assumption goes well outside the scope of the argument. Again, if you negate D, the argument still holds perfectly.
A simpler way to explain this (in my mind) as to why A is the correct option is to pay attention to the wording of conclusion of the stimulus: "types of medicine".
To produce (different) types of medicine, it would be necessary that there are substances of medicinal value contained in the plants not yet studied by scientists that differ from those there were already studied / discovered.
i either just automatically get it in like seconds (super rare) or im staring at it for ages contemplating my life and then baffled with what the correct AC it actually is after i just did not understand any of them anyway
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time to get my real estate license.
@dannieliancynthia693 lmao
When JY gets to your answer choices and says “oooookayyyy…” yk you’re cooked
This question type is so frusturating because many of these questions my intuition is right, but I cannot for the life of me explain why they're right, they just feel right in my head. My head is doing some kind of processing but I cannot explain or write out the reasonings. Then there are the ones my inuition don't pick up and I feel lost.
Is it just me... or is it getting harder at figuring out what the underlying assumptions are in these arguments?
@cwferrari I agree
Literally J.Y.:
@WilRothman lol
sneaky qustion 😈😈
He lowkey made it way more complicated than it needs to be...
@mrrobotjeremy yeah, I try to retain what will actually help me score better on this test.
im gonna freak out
When he is explaining choice E, would anyone be able to let me know the lesson where he discusses descriptive vs prescriptive words
@Jake. Wondering this as well, he started using these terms in lessons without a dedicated lesson in my study plan
I did think of this assumption first. Hell yeah.
I feel like I am backtracking in my progress. I started studying a month ago, everything is new to me, but now I feel like nothing is making sense and I feel stuck. I don't know what to do, and I plan on taking the exam in Sept.
@karlee448 same :/
@karlee448 for me personally, these videos don't help, they tend to confuse me, especially because they prevent you from reading the question and its answers in the same order as when taking the lsat. instead, I attempt the question (using the show question button at the top) on my own and if I get it right I skip the video entirely. if I'm confused at all, I read the analytical explanations for the answer choices. and if I still don't get it then, I may watch the video!
@jddaph Yeah, sometimes i feel like the explanation videos are rushed. I will try reading the analytical explanations if I am confused, thank you!
@jddaph omg i had no idea there was a show question option... i wish i knew this earlier
Dude I genuinely can't believe I got this one right. I went so deep into my mind palace for that
I would definitely get this question wrong
i quit
Necessary assumption questions are the devil i actually have never felt this dumb in my life
''should'' - for NA is always or almost always wrong?
Sharing my tactic here: I quickly eliminated D because it says, 'ANY substance... WILL eventually BE DISCOVERED.' However, based on the stimulus, it's not necessary for every substance to be discovered. Even if just some are discovered, the argument could still hold.
@BenPocheron This is a good heuristic. However, I would caution that the correct answer to a SA question can sometimes be sufficient to make the argument valid. In other words, the correct answer to a SA question is not always a weak answer - the correct answer can also go far beyond what is strictly necessary (and it will be the correct answer, assuming all the other choices are incorrect).
@AudreyGilmour *Sorry, I mean a NA question, not SA!
@AudreyGilmour Thank you very much for your comment. However, I don’t think I stated any reasoning about strong or weak answers for this question.
To rephrase my point: imagine you are the author of the argument, say, a scientist, and you are presenting the argument (the stimulus) to an audience. Would you, as the scientist, have in the back of your mind the assumption that “any substance of medicinal value (...) will eventually be discovered (...)”? Of course not, that would be far beyond what the scientist intended. Such an assumption goes well outside the scope of the argument. Again, if you negate D, the argument still holds perfectly.
A simpler way to explain this (in my mind) as to why A is the correct option is to pay attention to the wording of conclusion of the stimulus: "types of medicine".
To produce (different) types of medicine, it would be necessary that there are substances of medicinal value contained in the plants not yet studied by scientists that differ from those there were already studied / discovered.
When he reads the answer choices, I understand it better LOL
Crazy that I got this right and everyone else is complaining, meanwhile the last 5 questions beat me up...
me rn
I do better on the video questions than the actual practice ones
That answer choice felt like it was a paraphrase from the gist of the argument which i guess makes sense? IDK maybe I am having a stroke LOL
@edward.ratkoczy same this lesson is gonna put me in the er
FernGully: The Last Rainforest movie prepared me for people like you...
You've got incredible movie references
I am just old :)
NA is terrible
i either just automatically get it in like seconds (super rare) or im staring at it for ages contemplating my life and then baffled with what the correct AC it actually is after i just did not understand any of them anyway
I think im gonna give up lol