I started this section off so poorly but I've really come around to understanding these questions! I intentionally spent more time in the video lessons and I feel much more confident now even if I still have to work on my timing/accuracy. The videos and written explanations are great!
Iv been rocking this whole section maybe a handful wrong but timing is off, im trying to understand it completely before moving on. What helps me especially with these principal questions is to see them at face value, do not overthink them. Dont even map them out, whatever the stim is saying will be directly corelated to the AC no need for fancy lawgic. Exp. this stim says that an organ that outlasts its body is useless, imagine a car right. lets say the motor is so strong that it outlives the transmission... the trans goes out before the motor does, so what good is that? your motor is running but the car cant get into gear and move... just like a useless thing. Now in the AC i am lookung for an option that says a componet doesnt need to be super strong or it will serve no purpose like the example I gave with the car engine. E is exactly like the situation I was talking about regardless of a car or not. Another example Ill give that doesnt pertain to cars is an iphone, lets say the made the iphone battery so strong that it doesnt die, now will all that extra battery power the screen starts to give out. Now you have a phone thats not dead but unusable b/c you cant see the screen. Hope this helps
Wow I got the previous questions right yet spent almost twice the target time to get this question wrong. For some reason, I didn't really see the part to whole relationship in the stimulus and instead interpreted the principle to be “given challenging/futile circumstances (no survival value), there is a process that reacts accordingly (the efficiency of natural selection).” And so I picked A bc I felt that the “unable to sell” lined up with the challenging/ futile circumstance and the “stocks them only when ordered” lined up with the process that reacts accordingly.
im so slow when it comes to abstract thinking and principles man, ill always get it right whether initally or blind review but i take like 40-1 min longer than i should because it just takes me a while to recognize the abstractness
I see how E shows part to whole but it's throwing me off that the stimulus' premise maps to E's conclusion and E's premise maps to the stimulus' conclusion. So far it has seemed like those typically parallel each other in these types of questions. What am I missing?
I am a little thrown off with the first sentence of the stimulus. Is there a typo with the apostrophe in "animal's" or am I just reading it incorrectly?
"...no survival value in an animal's having an organ..." is grammatically correct, because the apostrophe s on "animal's" indicates a possession, so it is basically saying "there is no survival value when an animal has an organ...". The animal possesses the ability to have such an organ.
Hey, big thanks for flagging this for us! I've corrected the typo. If you happen to come across any typos, please don't hesitate to let us know. Thanks again!
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I started this section off so poorly but I've really come around to understanding these questions! I intentionally spent more time in the video lessons and I feel much more confident now even if I still have to work on my timing/accuracy. The videos and written explanations are great!
this one felt a lot more complicated at first glance than the rating it has lol
how should I come up with part-whole from the stimulus? Can it be like whole-part? how can I order it...
Trusting my gut has helped me so much
Iv been rocking this whole section maybe a handful wrong but timing is off, im trying to understand it completely before moving on. What helps me especially with these principal questions is to see them at face value, do not overthink them. Dont even map them out, whatever the stim is saying will be directly corelated to the AC no need for fancy lawgic. Exp. this stim says that an organ that outlasts its body is useless, imagine a car right. lets say the motor is so strong that it outlives the transmission... the trans goes out before the motor does, so what good is that? your motor is running but the car cant get into gear and move... just like a useless thing. Now in the AC i am lookung for an option that says a componet doesnt need to be super strong or it will serve no purpose like the example I gave with the car engine. E is exactly like the situation I was talking about regardless of a car or not. Another example Ill give that doesnt pertain to cars is an iphone, lets say the made the iphone battery so strong that it doesnt die, now will all that extra battery power the screen starts to give out. Now you have a phone thats not dead but unusable b/c you cant see the screen. Hope this helps
I didnt get the last two questions until BR
It would be really nice if there's a list of the principles that LSAT has tested us on.
Find the general idea of the stim/ the message its trying to portray and then apply that idea to the answer choices. which ever fits best is ur answer
literally couldnt read the stimulus for the life of me for some reason
Wow I got the previous questions right yet spent almost twice the target time to get this question wrong. For some reason, I didn't really see the part to whole relationship in the stimulus and instead interpreted the principle to be “given challenging/futile circumstances (no survival value), there is a process that reacts accordingly (the efficiency of natural selection).” And so I picked A bc I felt that the “unable to sell” lined up with the challenging/ futile circumstance and the “stocks them only when ordered” lined up with the process that reacts accordingly.
im so slow when it comes to abstract thinking and principles man, ill always get it right whether initally or blind review but i take like 40-1 min longer than i should because it just takes me a while to recognize the abstractness
I see how E shows part to whole but it's throwing me off that the stimulus' premise maps to E's conclusion and E's premise maps to the stimulus' conclusion. So far it has seemed like those typically parallel each other in these types of questions. What am I missing?
The order doesn't matter when it comes to trying to analyze the structure of the argument to determine conformity. :) ignore the order.
Kind of shocked he didn't point out the obvious trap in B, using the same example in answer an conclusion
Dang I love these. Really just go with your instinct and what sounds most similar and youll get it. I try not to overthink these AT ALL.
Yeah when I follow my intuition i get them right more
@jacksbmitchell Yep!
I love these questions! They are fun because I do not even know what I am reading haha
@casti412627 lmao same
@casti412627 for real!
@casti412627 best part is that you really dont have to!
Took me three minutes to even understand the stim, but once I understood it I got it in 5 seconds after.
After reading the stim i wasn't able to abstract a principle, but E still stood out as a very attractive answer nonetheless!
I am a little thrown off with the first sentence of the stimulus. Is there a typo with the apostrophe in "animal's" or am I just reading it incorrectly?
"...no survival value in an animal's having an organ..." is grammatically correct, because the apostrophe s on "animal's" indicates a possession, so it is basically saying "there is no survival value when an animal has an organ...". The animal possesses the ability to have such an organ.
Does anyone have a list of all the general principles a question might be ?
^?!
YESS was going to ask the same!! #help
#feedback Shouldn't the title read "An Organ in a System"?
Hey, big thanks for flagging this for us! I've corrected the typo. If you happen to come across any typos, please don't hesitate to let us know. Thanks again!