Challenging questions but managed to get them correct. Particularly, Question 3) tripped me up between answer choice A and D. Answer Choice A MBT-Correct choice: If the textbook contains an essay by Lind, then Knight cannot be in because Knight forces Jones to be in, which would break our rule of not all three. Jones is free to be in or out. This must be true of all worlds.
D) Could be true. Incorrect answer choice
This example is definitely a crafted question that can "throw off one's overall test-taking pace during a simulated Practice exam"
Keep focus and keep practicing and reviewing LR questions. T-7 and counting!
I got all three wrong I am having so much trouble. I feel like im over thinking but also not paying close enough detail bc im narrowing it down but picking the wrong one
I got all three correct but speed seems to be a problem! Does anyone have advice for speed writing lawgic besides just practicing more? Also, any tips for remembering group indicators?
2/3. Second question felt like there were heavy assumptions and I didn't quite get the sense that the Prompt was telling me to assume that all information in the Stimulus was true. "But Yerxes is more qualified" is what I overlooked as an assumption. Really, I just overthought the whole damn thing and was like "well McG could have been an architect blah blah" instead of just taking the stimulus for what it was. A list of assumptions I'm supposed to follow through logically.
1/3 right, but I know what I did wrong! For the first problem in the first sentence, I goofed and switched the necessary and sufficient conditions in my implies statement, which led me to pick A. Then for problem 2, I forgot that with the unless, the SUFFICIENT condition is negated, not the necessary. These would have been such easy fixes if I had thought for longer, but I figured I should try to stay under time. However, I'm thinking that it's best to nail the concepts near 100% before speed-runnning through practice problems like these.
Can anyone explain for Question 2, why E is a better answer than B? I chose B, but was confused between B and E because they say the same thing, more or less.
This is how I’ve come to understand #1 after getting it wrong (please feel free to correct if my reasoning is flawed here):
IR = Inspire Revulsion; H = Horrific; T = Threatening; PD = Physically dangerous.
A. No, because not every T is necessarily for an H (based on the scenario). You could have T and PD, without the H.
B. No, because /IR does not mean /H (and subsequently /T). You can still have H, without IR (for another reason). IR leads to H, yes, but /IR does not necessarily lead to /H.
C. No, because /PD does not mean /T, which would mean /H as well (based on the contrapositives of the chains established). The fact that you have /PD doesn’t affect whether you have (or not) H, because T isn’t affected. You could have T without PD.
D. No, because to have /IR you’d need /T ~> /H (contrapositive of the first chain). If you know you haveH, which is necessary for IR, then the chain /T ~> /H ~> /IR (which is the contrapositive of the first chain we first established in the question) does not hold. Similar to the part in option (B), we have H, which means we may or may not have IR (we could have H from the IR in the first chain, or we could have H from another reason). But there is a possibility that we DO have IR.
E. YES ~> Say you have /PD. As established earlier, that does NOT mean /T. OK. Now, you have IR, which you know leads you to H, which leads you to T. So we have one chain being followed, and another statement (PD) does not mean that we don’t have T.
I got them all right, even on blind review. However, i was a minute 50sec over first question. 40 sec over second and 1 minute over third question. Will this just take tons of practice until i can do it without writing everything down everytime?
I went way over the time on all of them... really worrying!
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#2 correct answer choice was so sneaky
these messed e up 0/3 lol
Tried to beat the time and ended up with 1/3. Blind reviewed with no time pressure 3/3. Got the concept but too slow still. :(((
3/3 let's go!! I was slow on them but that's alright for now lol
2/3! Even though I got one wrong, I totally understand where I messed up. The video explanations are unmatched!
i got 0/3
3 separate times lmaooooooo nice
Why can't we build the skill first by practicing it rather than jumpt straight into a test question.
You gave us 1 video on this
For the first question how is the conditional chain supposed to look?
3/3? what the heck lol! I thought I got all of them wrong!
Challenging questions but managed to get them correct. Particularly, Question 3) tripped me up between answer choice A and D. Answer Choice A MBT-Correct choice: If the textbook contains an essay by Lind, then Knight cannot be in because Knight forces Jones to be in, which would break our rule of not all three. Jones is free to be in or out. This must be true of all worlds.
D) Could be true. Incorrect answer choice
This example is definitely a crafted question that can "throw off one's overall test-taking pace during a simulated Practice exam"
Keep focus and keep practicing and reviewing LR questions. T-7 and counting!
Good luck studying everyone and Oct exam takers.
I got all three wrong I am having so much trouble. I feel like im over thinking but also not paying close enough detail bc im narrowing it down but picking the wrong one
I got all three correct but speed seems to be a problem! Does anyone have advice for speed writing lawgic besides just practicing more? Also, any tips for remembering group indicators?
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3/3 first time around then 2/3 after blind review... what does that mean
I got 1/3.
2/3. Second question felt like there were heavy assumptions and I didn't quite get the sense that the Prompt was telling me to assume that all information in the Stimulus was true. "But Yerxes is more qualified" is what I overlooked as an assumption. Really, I just overthought the whole damn thing and was like "well McG could have been an architect blah blah" instead of just taking the stimulus for what it was. A list of assumptions I'm supposed to follow through logically.
3/3 but the first question took 12 full minutes lmao
3/3 but its taking me like 4-6 mins per question :0
I second guessed myself on 1, if I stayed I would have had all 3 right
1/3 right, but I know what I did wrong! For the first problem in the first sentence, I goofed and switched the necessary and sufficient conditions in my implies statement, which led me to pick A. Then for problem 2, I forgot that with the unless, the SUFFICIENT condition is negated, not the necessary. These would have been such easy fixes if I had thought for longer, but I figured I should try to stay under time. However, I'm thinking that it's best to nail the concepts near 100% before speed-runnning through practice problems like these.
There was a glitch that showed I got a 67% but only got one question right.
Can anyone explain for Question 2, why E is a better answer than B? I chose B, but was confused between B and E because they say the same thing, more or less.
This is how I’ve come to understand #1 after getting it wrong (please feel free to correct if my reasoning is flawed here):
IR = Inspire Revulsion; H = Horrific; T = Threatening; PD = Physically dangerous.
A. No, because not every T is necessarily for an H (based on the scenario). You could have T and PD, without the H.
B. No, because /IR does not mean /H (and subsequently /T). You can still have H, without IR (for another reason). IR leads to H, yes, but /IR does not necessarily lead to /H.
C. No, because /PD does not mean /T, which would mean /H as well (based on the contrapositives of the chains established). The fact that you have /PD doesn’t affect whether you have (or not) H, because T isn’t affected. You could have T without PD.
D. No, because to have /IR you’d need /T ~> /H (contrapositive of the first chain). If you know you haveH, which is necessary for IR, then the chain /T ~> /H ~> /IR (which is the contrapositive of the first chain we first established in the question) does not hold. Similar to the part in option (B), we have H, which means we may or may not have IR (we could have H from the IR in the first chain, or we could have H from another reason). But there is a possibility that we DO have IR.
E. YES ~> Say you have /PD. As established earlier, that does NOT mean /T. OK. Now, you have IR, which you know leads you to H, which leads you to T. So we have one chain being followed, and another statement (PD) does not mean that we don’t have T.
I got them all right, even on blind review. However, i was a minute 50sec over first question. 40 sec over second and 1 minute over third question. Will this just take tons of practice until i can do it without writing everything down everytime?
I went way over the time on all of them... really worrying!