For answer choice D, it's hard for me to say that "neglected" (ans choice D) means "hitherto unrecorded" (in the passage). Just because something isn't recorded, it doesn't mean that it's been neglected?!
@SofiaFuentes it seems like a necessary exercise we must all push through. as nice as it is to approach things at 100%, law school will not allow us that much time as we want to be comfortable.
A big challenge of the LSAT as well is the attrition, working through could help to build up those muscles to have the stamina on test day.
I get why D is right, but I have a difficult time eliminating C when it seems like changes in social customs refers to stuff like the increasing educational attainment levels of women, which did in fact change literary techniques. For example, the local colorists responded to those changes in social customs by increasingly romanticizing the past in their work.
i was really stuck in between d and c but what stood out to me was that I was looking for what generalization best summarized what the new women were doing, d sounded more close to it for me, d had "fictional" so i went with it
I disagree with Kevin Lin's analysis specifically on choice C. It's not the correct choice, but unless you can correctly diagnose why, you miss out on a lesson here. It's wrong because it's an absolute causal claim about a passage that describes a historical relationship without making a causal claim. Even if the text was more explicit about the relationship between the social changes and the New Women, C would be the wrong answer choice. It is, however, correct that there is textual evidence for social changes relating to both the LC and NW styles, so if that was what led you to C, good for you! Just pay attention to the strength of the inference here, it’s way too strong to say the passage discussed an inevitable causal relationship. The social changes around the freedom of women to enter education, professions, and politics are context for the entire passage, for Chopin, the sentimental realists, LC, and the NW. P1, the topic paragraph, sets the stage PRIOR, with sentimental novels with content = courtship and marriage, style = elevated romantic language. Then in the open to P2, we get, not a description of LC, but the new context that set the stage for the subsequent fiction, WOMEN ARE NEW. They are no longer just relegated to courtship and marriage. They now have the freedom to enter higher education, the professions, and politics. LC are described as feeling free to enter that world as artists, describe it as anthropologists, but then mythologize the limited world of marriage, courtship, and domesticity, suggesting a content that looks backward to the prior world described in P1. Chopin is also oriented to this change, unlike LC, who end up looking back with nostalgia to the old women, Chopin looks forward. The text frames this as rejecting the nostalgia towards the state prior to social change, and instead looking forward to the New Woman and what? freedom and innovation, which is implicitly, the social change. The New Women didn’t just describe it as an anthropologist, they embraced it in both form and content. I will admit, though, that because the entire passage is framed as OLD social conditions of WOMEN, large changes in their freedom leading to NEW social conditions for WOMEN, and the name of the literary style is SAME OLD WOMEN NOTHING TO SEE HERE, it’s probably way too big of a leap to think there is an inference that the style had something to do with NEW WOMEN. So I’ll give him that ;)
If you found that the thread of social change relating to the literary development all the way through the passage, you should congratulate yourself on spotting a theme in this spotlight passage that is not just restricted to one group, but if you chose C as the answer, think about how to identify when an answer choice makes a strong causal claim and when a passage doesn’t. The passage is exploring the changes and their relationships to each other, not arguing about a cause.
doesn't the word neglected imply that what they started writing about was always there in the past and they're just now getting around to exploring it? this is why C seemed like a better answer choice to me over D
quick question: if my blind review isn't correct in comparison with the video's analyzation of each answer, but I still got the question right, is there anything specific i should be worried about? Or if I keep studying, the right reasoning will come to me?
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C is wrong for the second reason he says, not the first; he has the causality backwards. C says nothing about writing CAUSING social change, it says social change CAUSES changes in writing style. We do have social change, its talked about in the second paragraph with the LC's commenting on how the roles of women is changing. Still wrong, because of inevitably is way too strong of a word, but I thought I would pop in to say that the logic he uses is 100% wrong.
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For answer choice D, it's hard for me to say that "neglected" (ans choice D) means "hitherto unrecorded" (in the passage). Just because something isn't recorded, it doesn't mean that it's been neglected?!
I picked D because it was the only one that related to the New Woman. Thinking about it any further was just confusing.
PSA:
hitherto - up until now.
Ex - Hitherto, my main contribution to the LSAT has been personally verifying that all five answer choices can, in fact, seem correct.
BOOM
studying after work makes questions like these REAL humbling.
@SofiaFuentes it seems like a necessary exercise we must all push through. as nice as it is to approach things at 100%, law school will not allow us that much time as we want to be comfortable.
A big challenge of the LSAT as well is the attrition, working through could help to build up those muscles to have the stamina on test day.
You're telling me all this time women have been conscious? Oh brother do I have some thinking to do.
thank you for believing in female consciousness
wtf................................... neglected.............................. hitherto..... until then........ help me......
lolllllll
C tripped me up ugh
Give me this question type any day pls! The confidence boost I needed to keep going
Just clicked that I actually read The Awakening by Kate Chopin in my highschool AP Literature class. It was fire, Kevin should actually read it.
I get why D is right, but I have a difficult time eliminating C when it seems like changes in social customs refers to stuff like the increasing educational attainment levels of women, which did in fact change literary techniques. For example, the local colorists responded to those changes in social customs by increasingly romanticizing the past in their work.
i am eatinggg these
i was really stuck in between d and c but what stood out to me was that I was looking for what generalization best summarized what the new women were doing, d sounded more close to it for me, d had "fictional" so i went with it
This passage is kicking my ass
I disagree with Kevin Lin's analysis specifically on choice C. It's not the correct choice, but unless you can correctly diagnose why, you miss out on a lesson here. It's wrong because it's an absolute causal claim about a passage that describes a historical relationship without making a causal claim. Even if the text was more explicit about the relationship between the social changes and the New Women, C would be the wrong answer choice. It is, however, correct that there is textual evidence for social changes relating to both the LC and NW styles, so if that was what led you to C, good for you! Just pay attention to the strength of the inference here, it’s way too strong to say the passage discussed an inevitable causal relationship. The social changes around the freedom of women to enter education, professions, and politics are context for the entire passage, for Chopin, the sentimental realists, LC, and the NW. P1, the topic paragraph, sets the stage PRIOR, with sentimental novels with content = courtship and marriage, style = elevated romantic language. Then in the open to P2, we get, not a description of LC, but the new context that set the stage for the subsequent fiction, WOMEN ARE NEW. They are no longer just relegated to courtship and marriage. They now have the freedom to enter higher education, the professions, and politics. LC are described as feeling free to enter that world as artists, describe it as anthropologists, but then mythologize the limited world of marriage, courtship, and domesticity, suggesting a content that looks backward to the prior world described in P1. Chopin is also oriented to this change, unlike LC, who end up looking back with nostalgia to the old women, Chopin looks forward. The text frames this as rejecting the nostalgia towards the state prior to social change, and instead looking forward to the New Woman and what? freedom and innovation, which is implicitly, the social change. The New Women didn’t just describe it as an anthropologist, they embraced it in both form and content. I will admit, though, that because the entire passage is framed as OLD social conditions of WOMEN, large changes in their freedom leading to NEW social conditions for WOMEN, and the name of the literary style is SAME OLD WOMEN NOTHING TO SEE HERE, it’s probably way too big of a leap to think there is an inference that the style had something to do with NEW WOMEN. So I’ll give him that ;)
If you found that the thread of social change relating to the literary development all the way through the passage, you should congratulate yourself on spotting a theme in this spotlight passage that is not just restricted to one group, but if you chose C as the answer, think about how to identify when an answer choice makes a strong causal claim and when a passage doesn’t. The passage is exploring the changes and their relationships to each other, not arguing about a cause.
Praying on test day that I get 3 RC sections and one LR section
@kyorofan20 Unfortunately I believe the only 2 combinations possible are:
2 LR/2 RC or 3LR/1RC
@kyorofan20 that could never happen, but it's a nice thought lol
doesn't the word neglected imply that what they started writing about was always there in the past and they're just now getting around to exploring it? this is why C seemed like a better answer choice to me over D
feminist political theory in college is paying off lol
quick question: if my blind review isn't correct in comparison with the video's analyzation of each answer, but I still got the question right, is there anything specific i should be worried about? Or if I keep studying, the right reasoning will come to me?
C is wrong for the second reason he says, not the first; he has the causality backwards. C says nothing about writing CAUSING social change, it says social change CAUSES changes in writing style. We do have social change, its talked about in the second paragraph with the LC's commenting on how the roles of women is changing. Still wrong, because of inevitably is way too strong of a word, but I thought I would pop in to say that the logic he uses is 100% wrong.
WE ARE SO BACK????? I TOOK A FEW DAYS BREAK AND CAME BACK TO GET THIS RIGHT LETS GOOOOO PARTY PEOPLE
#fuckRC