It reverses the relationship presented in the passage.
The passage indicates that structurally, glass is not arranged in a fixed crystal structure like a solid (which may imply it's structured more like a liquid), but behaves as a solid below the glass transition temperature.
What (A) claims: Glass behaves like a liquid, even though it structurally has properties of a solid
I think most of us (including me) carry a false assumption to this task: "It's reading, for fuck's sake. I've been doing it forever. What is going on, here?"
But in fact we are learning to play an instrument -- piano, french horn, take your pick. This is not the reading we have always done. It's a new skill. And just as with learning an instrument, it has two unfailing properties:
1) takes regular frequent patient practice, which if done,
is anyone tripped up on "under its own weight." Isn't gravity pulling mass towards mass, so glass would flow downward under its own weight and also under the weight of every atom on top of it in the atmosphere ........?
damn I am dumb ofc the glass will melt if it gets heated to its transition phase, when reading the questions that was the only one that sounded right, I read the question wrong as the passage states not suggests thats why I got it wrong, I spent 2 mins on this question becuase none of them made sense come now to think its becuase I read the question wrong
My new LSAT mantras are now: "Stick with your gut, your gut is right" very dissapointed that I gaslit myself into thinking the testwriters were trying to trick me
Chose C bc I was thinking that the reaching the transition temperature was when the glass went past the lower threshold, thus behaving as a solid even though the structure was actually amorphous. The ‘even when’ portion to me was commenting on how crazy it is that glass will appear as a solid yet not be solid atomically, EVEN WHEN HIT HITS THE THRESHOLD.
You’re gonna look at me and tell me that IM wrong? Am I wrong?
The glass wore a crown and came down in a bubble dawg.
Okay, so I will say that now I'm on the second implied question for this passage I think I can maybe see how or why I should've been able to assess that (A) was crossable and (D) was definitely the answer. Can we just assume that correct answers on more difficult Implied RC questions often require test takers to interpret the passage more holistically? Is this something which is just generally true of implied questions? Even though this questions seems to suggest that we refer to a specific part of the passage, does knowing that this is an implied question give us any cues that the correct answer likely utilizes disparate parts of the passage to make an inference?
Before I hit the submit button on my attempt I literally made this note: "if the answer is actually (D) then thank god test takers can dispute questions for most test sessions." So I chose (A). I haven't watched the video yet, but during my attempt I knew that if (D) was actually right, I could anticipate what the reasoning therein would be. That said, I also had a pretty strong hunch that if (D) was right then the explanation for (A) being wrong wasn't gonna cut it for me. Watching the video now. Let's see.
Fun fact for trivia night: for glassblowers to get glass up to transition temperature talked about, they have to put it inside of what is called a "glory hole" lmao
This is probably the hardest RC question I’ve ever seen—to those who read this, keep on truckin & don’t be discouraged!
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its genuinely SO fucking hard to do an RC passage if its the most boring thing you ever read.
I laughed at (D) when doing this question. Laughed at it...
They're evil for this one
I am going to pray that my lsat doesn't have a passage or questions like these cause brooooo
Another possible explanation of why A is wrong:
It reverses the relationship presented in the passage.
The passage indicates that structurally, glass is not arranged in a fixed crystal structure like a solid (which may imply it's structured more like a liquid), but behaves as a solid below the glass transition temperature.
What (A) claims: Glass behaves like a liquid, even though it structurally has properties of a solid
I think most of us (including me) carry a false assumption to this task: "It's reading, for fuck's sake. I've been doing it forever. What is going on, here?"
But in fact we are learning to play an instrument -- piano, french horn, take your pick. This is not the reading we have always done. It's a new skill. And just as with learning an instrument, it has two unfailing properties:
1) takes regular frequent patient practice, which if done,
2) yields great results.
Today I learned that a millennia is 1000 years. I thought it was a lot longer than that
is anyone tripped up on "under its own weight." Isn't gravity pulling mass towards mass, so glass would flow downward under its own weight and also under the weight of every atom on top of it in the atmosphere ........?
I wish the LSAT was just RC.
damn I am dumb ofc the glass will melt if it gets heated to its transition phase, when reading the questions that was the only one that sounded right, I read the question wrong as the passage states not suggests thats why I got it wrong, I spent 2 mins on this question becuase none of them made sense come now to think its becuase I read the question wrong
starting to feel realllllyy defeated with RC after getting like half of the questions wrong in this section :,) any advice
how did i get this right
That comparison between glass and cheese he made in the first paragraph video is really coming in clutch here.
My new LSAT mantras are now: "Stick with your gut, your gut is right" very dissapointed that I gaslit myself into thinking the testwriters were trying to trick me
Chose C bc I was thinking that the reaching the transition temperature was when the glass went past the lower threshold, thus behaving as a solid even though the structure was actually amorphous. The ‘even when’ portion to me was commenting on how crazy it is that glass will appear as a solid yet not be solid atomically, EVEN WHEN HIT HITS THE THRESHOLD.
You’re gonna look at me and tell me that IM wrong? Am I wrong?
The glass wore a crown and came down in a bubble dawg.
I'm too scared of wasting time on questions that I speed through and get them wrongggg
goated feeling getting these right, then seeing the curve
Okay, so I will say that now I'm on the second implied question for this passage I think I can maybe see how or why I should've been able to assess that (A) was crossable and (D) was definitely the answer. Can we just assume that correct answers on more difficult Implied RC questions often require test takers to interpret the passage more holistically? Is this something which is just generally true of implied questions? Even though this questions seems to suggest that we refer to a specific part of the passage, does knowing that this is an implied question give us any cues that the correct answer likely utilizes disparate parts of the passage to make an inference?
Before I hit the submit button on my attempt I literally made this note: "if the answer is actually (D) then thank god test takers can dispute questions for most test sessions." So I chose (A). I haven't watched the video yet, but during my attempt I knew that if (D) was actually right, I could anticipate what the reasoning therein would be. That said, I also had a pretty strong hunch that if (D) was right then the explanation for (A) being wrong wasn't gonna cut it for me. Watching the video now. Let's see.
CMON MAN THAT WAS HARD AF ( got it correct)
I love this topic
Fun fact for trivia night: for glassblowers to get glass up to transition temperature talked about, they have to put it inside of what is called a "glory hole" lmao
Only because of Kevin did I have a chance at this question
chance --> Kevin
Trying to make Kevin not necessary 🥲
This is probably the hardest RC question I’ve ever seen—to those who read this, keep on truckin & don’t be discouraged!