I feel like these questions should be so easy, but I'm not doing as well on them as I thought I would be. I am reading the stimulus and identifying what each sentence's role would be, but the answer choices are so friggin awful
I thought the first sentence related to the AMOUNT that jazz singers use their voices (duration) and the second sentence related to HOW they used their voices.
It took me a two minutes just to decide what I thought the conclusion was. I had to really think through the support structure. Ultimately this is what helped me:
So jazz consists largely of voicelike horns and hornlike voices. → The best jazz singers use their voices much as horn players use their instruments.
This doesn't make sense. Jazz consisting largely of those kinds of voices tells us nothing about what the BEST jazz singers do. The best jazz singers could be in the group that DOESNT do that, we just don't know.
The best jazz singers use their voices much as horn players use their instruments. → So jazz consists largely of voicelike horns and hornlike voices.
I still really don't like this, but it does make more sense than the previous option. While we don't get an example of a jazz horn player (I tried to fill in my own, shoutout Louis Armstrong and Chet Baker), the argument DOES give us an example of one of the great jazz vocalists. Based on that we get an argument structure where the middle of the stimulus presents the minor premises supporting the first sentence, which in turn supports the final sentence.
I was still not 100% confident on this one, but I did get it right
Accidentally typed my notes in the reply box instead of the notes section so enjoy my notes everyone!
I missed this question because I didn't notice/understand the difference between "Much as" and "As much as" as used in the passage. If the latter was the case, D, which I chose would be correct because the frequency of usage isn't supported, but seeing as it's the former, C is in fact supported...
Whoops, perhaps fuck, as some might say. All good though. Happens to the best of us!
I chose D because the Billie Holiday evidence doesn't support the fact that the best jazz singers use their voices much as horn players use their instruments. It has nothing to do with the frequency at which either party plays the instrument, only how one jazz singer conceptualized their voice. So, I interpreted it as an unsupported premise. I don't see the connection between the "evidence" referred to in the correct answer and the excerpt.
I've been finding that taking the few seconds to underline the excerpt in the stim and highlighting the conclusion helpful. It just helps me visual the parts of the argument a little bit better.
Can someone explain how they determined that the last sentence is a conclusion and the first is only a major premise? J.Y. kinda just said they were what they were without explaining why and I can't create the link in my mind.
I got the answer right and understood that the final sentence was the conclusion. Still, I spent time deliberating on whether the first sentence could have been a conclusion on its own rather than a general statement in my BR. Is there anything that separates the final sentence from the first making it not a general statement but a conclusion? #help.
Never mind, I think I got it. The first sentence in a way gives support to the last sentence where whereas the last sentence doesn't give support to the first sentence, making the last sentence the main conclusion as it only functions by receiving support, not giving it.
lsac trying this hard not to write "horny voices" smh
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This is the first section I have actually felt confident on. Needed this confidence boost as I cram for the Jan LSAT lol
I feel like these questions should be so easy, but I'm not doing as well on them as I thought I would be. I am reading the stimulus and identifying what each sentence's role would be, but the answer choices are so friggin awful
skimming really is my worst enemy... "much as" doesn't mean "as much as" T_T
I mistakenly took 'much as' to mean as much. like many people in these comments...
I thought the first sentence related to the AMOUNT that jazz singers use their voices (duration) and the second sentence related to HOW they used their voices.
If a statement begins with so, is it always the conclusion
Finally got one thank you jesus
so jazz consists largely of horny voices?
finally a win
Getting LSAT questions wrong makes it feel like a Gloomy Sunday.
It took me a two minutes just to decide what I thought the conclusion was. I had to really think through the support structure. Ultimately this is what helped me:
So jazz consists largely of voicelike horns and hornlike voices. → The best jazz singers use their voices much as horn players use their instruments.
This doesn't make sense. Jazz consisting largely of those kinds of voices tells us nothing about what the BEST jazz singers do. The best jazz singers could be in the group that DOESNT do that, we just don't know.
The best jazz singers use their voices much as horn players use their instruments. → So jazz consists largely of voicelike horns and hornlike voices.
I still really don't like this, but it does make more sense than the previous option. While we don't get an example of a jazz horn player (I tried to fill in my own, shoutout Louis Armstrong and Chet Baker), the argument DOES give us an example of one of the great jazz vocalists. Based on that we get an argument structure where the middle of the stimulus presents the minor premises supporting the first sentence, which in turn supports the final sentence.
I was still not 100% confident on this one, but I did get it right
I miss identified the conclusion. Yay!
Accidentally typed my notes in the reply box instead of the notes section so enjoy my notes everyone!
I missed this question because I didn't notice/understand the difference between "Much as" and "As much as" as used in the passage. If the latter was the case, D, which I chose would be correct because the frequency of usage isn't supported, but seeing as it's the former, C is in fact supported...
Whoops, perhaps fuck, as some might say. All good though. Happens to the best of us!
that was much harder than a 144 question IMO.
i messed up the conclusion. unfortunate :(
I chose D because the Billie Holiday evidence doesn't support the fact that the best jazz singers use their voices much as horn players use their instruments. It has nothing to do with the frequency at which either party plays the instrument, only how one jazz singer conceptualized their voice. So, I interpreted it as an unsupported premise. I don't see the connection between the "evidence" referred to in the correct answer and the excerpt.
@2:00 whoa there bud!
I've been finding that taking the few seconds to underline the excerpt in the stim and highlighting the conclusion helpful. It just helps me visual the parts of the argument a little bit better.
I imagined Satcmo 's voice as well. that helped me understand the passage lol
I'm feeling unmotivated by how I keep overthinking :/
THE LEGENDARY HORNY JAZZ SINGER I AM DECEASED
Lol I read "much as" as "as much." what an L
Can someone explain how they determined that the last sentence is a conclusion and the first is only a major premise? J.Y. kinda just said they were what they were without explaining why and I can't create the link in my mind.
I got the answer right and understood that the final sentence was the conclusion. Still, I spent time deliberating on whether the first sentence could have been a conclusion on its own rather than a general statement in my BR. Is there anything that separates the final sentence from the first making it not a general statement but a conclusion? #help.
Never mind, I think I got it. The first sentence in a way gives support to the last sentence where whereas the last sentence doesn't give support to the first sentence, making the last sentence the main conclusion as it only functions by receiving support, not giving it.
lsac trying this hard not to write "horny voices" smh