Agreed. I think the hardest thing about a question like this is that if the stem were to include something about the answer being "implied," then we would have been able to say it helped with dating. He said that this part in the passage was laying out a necessary condition for life, and so it is not so far-fetched to say that understanding the LHB marked the beginning of life (since no life could have survived during) helps to date the LHB. It sucks when the test makers pull this!
@EACWORLD agreed. I quickly eliminated it because I couldn't find any support. D also implies the astronomy research should provide info about earth, which seems narrow and unsupported.
this makes literally zero sense, how does this relate to the scientist's interests at all? maybe it could be the reason, but there is nothing in the passage to indicate that.
This gave me some encouragement though as Kevin says he was questioning D at first then by process of elimination settled on D lol. I felt dumb as I got it wrong but then felt validated that at least D was not the clearest choice answer at first.
I originally had E but switched to D after rereading the first half of the opening sentence of the passage --
"A vigorous debate in astronomy centers on an epoch in planetary history"
Referencing planetary history, and since the moon is not a planet, it would then make sense that scientists are interested in studying the LHB because of its relevance to our planet
For these question types, I tend to just ask myself "why do I care?"
Great, so the Earth was likely also struck. And?
For A to be right, and for the authors PURPOSE to have written that as being support for a particular theory, some theories would have to have been against the Earth being struck, and others for the Earth being struck, and so this sentence would differentiate some theories from others (as ones the author supports).
In this case, they all agree that the Earth was struck, and no one opposes that or even argues anything about that, so it can't be that the author wrote this as support for one theory or another.
For D, when I ask "so what?" I realize the author follows this with stating that this would potentially have profound consequences on Earth's history. Ooooh okay, so this makes sense, explaining why scientists would want to study it!
I'm a little confused because this seems like an assumption we would have to make with not much info to go off of. It goes against certain LSAT rules, like yes we as readers would be interested but that feels like we are bringing outside information to the LSAT.
Yeah I did not like this question. I read D and remembered that scientists were interested from discovering major craters on the moon and an "analysis of rock samples." I just do not understand how anyone just concludes that D is supported???
#feedback #help I chose E because while the video explanation states that this piece of info doesn't support dating the LHB, I would disagree. I feel as though it could be read and interpreted as, since we know this sort of vigorous bombardment would lead to a lack of life on a planet, we can assume that this happened 4 billion years ago as life on Earth did not start until 4 billion years ago. I realize that these are indirect assumptions, but I thought more of than not, we have to apply these indirect assumptions.
I did the same! But I think it was too big of an assumption. As Kevin said, we already know the date, and that isn't in doubt. So there's no need for additional support.
I thought for sure that the correct answer is E man. Since life also started about 4 BYA (I think?), I thought it was just clarifying that time frame was likely when the event came and went. I guess I overthought it/brought too much outside knowledge into things.
Sometimes my intuition and logic seem so spot on, like when I get an abstract question / answer like this one correct. But then other times I miss on much simpler question / answer combos and it makes me question everything lol
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how the fuck did i get this many wrong after literally having kevin babywalk me through the entire passage
Answer choice D seems so far-fetched.
Glad I am not the only one.
Agreed. I think the hardest thing about a question like this is that if the stem were to include something about the answer being "implied," then we would have been able to say it helped with dating. He said that this part in the passage was laying out a necessary condition for life, and so it is not so far-fetched to say that understanding the LHB marked the beginning of life (since no life could have survived during) helps to date the LHB. It sucks when the test makers pull this!
@EACWORLD agreed. I quickly eliminated it because I couldn't find any support. D also implies the astronomy research should provide info about earth, which seems narrow and unsupported.
this makes literally zero sense, how does this relate to the scientist's interests at all? maybe it could be the reason, but there is nothing in the passage to indicate that.
The question that makes the least sense to me so far...
@Faye agreed
I feel like this is one of the ones where the correct answer is the least bad, but not an actual good answer. It's consistent but that is about it.
This gave me some encouragement though as Kevin says he was questioning D at first then by process of elimination settled on D lol. I felt dumb as I got it wrong but then felt validated that at least D was not the clearest choice answer at first.
"don't overthink it. don't agonize it."
thank you Kevin, I will be saying this to myself during every question from now on
How is answer choice D supported at all in the passage?
@HilarySackor I know, terrible question
D was the one that I was positive was NOT correct. Make it make sense…
I originally had E but switched to D after rereading the first half of the opening sentence of the passage --
"A vigorous debate in astronomy centers on an epoch in planetary history"
Referencing planetary history, and since the moon is not a planet, it would then make sense that scientists are interested in studying the LHB because of its relevance to our planet
That is a great catch!
how tf are we supposed to infer that from just this much context?
lol this question and answer is just an opinion...
For these question types, I tend to just ask myself "why do I care?"
Great, so the Earth was likely also struck. And?
For A to be right, and for the authors PURPOSE to have written that as being support for a particular theory, some theories would have to have been against the Earth being struck, and others for the Earth being struck, and so this sentence would differentiate some theories from others (as ones the author supports).
In this case, they all agree that the Earth was struck, and no one opposes that or even argues anything about that, so it can't be that the author wrote this as support for one theory or another.
For D, when I ask "so what?" I realize the author follows this with stating that this would potentially have profound consequences on Earth's history. Ooooh okay, so this makes sense, explaining why scientists would want to study it!
Yea this one killed me
The answer MAKES NO SENSE WHAAAA
honestly I'm still convinced it's e since it shows it had to end before life on earth started because d just doesnt convince me
I'm a little confused because this seems like an assumption we would have to make with not much info to go off of. It goes against certain LSAT rules, like yes we as readers would be interested but that feels like we are bringing outside information to the LSAT.
Yeah I did not like this question. I read D and remembered that scientists were interested from discovering major craters on the moon and an "analysis of rock samples." I just do not understand how anyone just concludes that D is supported???
#feedback #help I chose E because while the video explanation states that this piece of info doesn't support dating the LHB, I would disagree. I feel as though it could be read and interpreted as, since we know this sort of vigorous bombardment would lead to a lack of life on a planet, we can assume that this happened 4 billion years ago as life on Earth did not start until 4 billion years ago. I realize that these are indirect assumptions, but I thought more of than not, we have to apply these indirect assumptions.
I did the same! But I think it was too big of an assumption. As Kevin said, we already know the date, and that isn't in doubt. So there's no need for additional support.
I thought for sure that the correct answer is E man. Since life also started about 4 BYA (I think?), I thought it was just clarifying that time frame was likely when the event came and went. I guess I overthought it/brought too much outside knowledge into things.
I locked in on this so quickly.
wtf
got it in BR but there was no way i would've gotten it on the real thing
Ouch
guys RC sucks
Sometimes my intuition and logic seem so spot on, like when I get an abstract question / answer like this one correct. But then other times I miss on much simpler question / answer combos and it makes me question everything lol