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I was doing moderately well with the cc until I hit Sufficient Assumption questions. I cannot for the life of me figure them out. I know they are supposed to be freebies but I stare at them without having any idea where even to start mapping out the stimulus. Does anyone have any tips or tricks to really being able to conquer these questions?

Thank you!

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Hi everyone! I finally received my first 100% on a timed LG set. Before, I would consistently get 100% under blind review, but was unable to perform under the clock. If anyone is struggling to close the gap between BR and timed LG score, message me. I am willing to tutor someone for free in LGs. My best LG type is In/Out.

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Hello everyone,

I was wondering, could any of you guys point me to actual LR Preptest questions that have circular reasoning as the flaw? i.e. - any questions that have "presupposes as evidence the conclusion that it is trying to establish." Preferably questions from before Preptest 39 would be really great! Thank you so much.

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Wednesday, Jun 24, 2020

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Strengthen Q

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Whenever we are given [P→C] argument. I tend to see [C→P] as a correct strenthening answer choice. I understand that such answer choices try to a create connection between P and C, but isn’t this a negation flaw?

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So in almost every PT I've taken, I do better on the first LR section than the second one.

I'm talking 3 wrong answer choices in LR1, and like 6-8 wrong answers on LR2.

is LR2 harder, am I just burnt out by section 3, or am I just insane?

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I have an incredibly difficult time understanding a stimulus that is science-based or involves numbers. I found that PT5.S1.Q12 gave me an incredibly hard time due to not understanding the stimulus. I ended up having to draw out pictures, to truly understand what the stimulus was saying (https://ibb.co/5GKKtHY). Once I drew it out I was able to figure it out. Under timed conditions, I know that I would not have had time to draw it all out.

I am wondering if anyone else has had trouble with quickly understanding a science/number-based stimulus, and if so what you all have found to be the most successful way to overcome this?

Thanks in advance!

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Hello,

This may have been touched on in the explanation videos somewhere but I must have overlooked it or something..

For LR, how do we use subscripts? Some of the explanation videos began using them and they appear useful so I would like to begin implementing it but I am not sure how it works, any clarity would be greatly appreciated.

Here is a link to an example video (question 3): https://classic.7sage.com/lesson/quiz-on-drawing-valid-conclusions-with-translations-2-answers/

Only roses are red. Only thorny things are red. There's a red thing in the flower garden.

Red->Roses

Red->Thorny things

Red (Subscript) Flower Garden ?

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Not to come off dumb...in regards to LG-what does JY mean by memorize the sets? I am just beginning the LG section and he says this in the first couple of logic set questions we review. Does he mean literally write it over and over without even having the stimulus up? Or does he mean just drilling the same logic game over and over until you're under 5 minutes. I'm sorry just confused and want to do what he is telling me to do lol

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In questions where it is appears that there is a Sufficiency/Necessary issue, are there examples of questions where the SA/NA answer is a trap? I find myself spending way too much time trying to decipher if the stimulus is mistaking sufficiency for necessity or mistaking necessity for sufficiency even when there is only one Answer Choice involving SA/NA.

Does anyone have an example where the distinction matters? My gut tells me to recognize the cookie cutters where you can find them and move on.

For example in PT 80 - Sec 4 - Q16, I knew B was right but for some reason was thinking the order of SA/NA in AC B matters (even though it does not) which made me think that maybe there was a sneaky trap (though I knew there really wasn't).

I go -1 or -2 on LR so don't think this really a foundations issue, more of a confidence thing. Thanks for any thoughts!

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During my drills, I was really confused by the following sentence that I made up myself.

(I knew it might not make sense in scientific terms, please bear with me.)

"All genetic material is contributed by every female gamete."

Thanks!

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Hello 7 Sage community,

Is there anyone that would be willing to work on reviewing LR sections from the 50's and 60's?

I am looking for someone to verbalize reasoning structure with to help build good habits. I lose mental discipline sometimes and get lured into AC's that isn't affecting the heart of the reasoning in critical arguments. My tutor forces me to articulate this when reviewing and I've found it helpful to find holes in my approach.

Please let me know if interested. My schedule is flexible.

Thank you!

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I got 7sage mainly for logic games. And between now and my exam, I dont have time to go through the entire LR curriculum so Im wondering if theres any specific topics i should study in particular? I already have a solid LR foundation and do relatively well on LR sections but if theres any popular "must study" topics in the curriculum ill definitely check them out.

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Hi,

The answer here was B, but I chose D. Can anyone help explain to me why B is right and D is wrong? For context:

Here was my reasoning for why I thought D was right:

I thought that passage A would agree-- on line 13, he describes an argument that explains that progressive taxes make rich pay more, he never disputes that fact, and later on in the last paragraph, he even implies that progressive makes rich pay more by talking about how progressive gives rich more incentives to try to cheat the system than flat tax would.

In addition, I thought passage B would disagree-- on line 34, he says that progressive treats all taxpayers equally.

Here was my reasoning for why I thought B was wrong:

I knew for sure that passage B would agree on this issue (line 56). However, I wasn't sure if passage A would agree or disagree since in the last paragraph of passage A, it seems that passage A is saying that MOST rich people in flat tax systems (line 27-- denoted by the word "usually") pay the same as people in progressive tax systems. In addition, the fact that rich people in flat tax systems, without any apparent tax dodging, pay about the same as progressively taxed rich people, shows that they would normally pay less had the progressively taxed rich people had not dodged. Thus, this COULD mean that SOME rich people in progressive tax systems still pay more than rich people in flat tax systems, making passage A a bit ambiguous on this issue.

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Thanks!

Best regards

Admin Note: https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-72-section-1-passage-4-questions/

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I am trying to develop a system for figuring out when a full game board in needed on LG. I am struggling to get my time down while still getting the games right.

One idea I had was to try and go ahead with the questions as fast as possible and if I identify the need for a game board after a question or two, to spend a few minutes building out game boards and then go back to the questions. These feels a bit messy though

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

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Question about chest-playing programs.

I'm confused as to how this method can be used to compare chess-playing programs - to get the question right it seemed like you needed to know that you are only comparing one chess playing program to itself (there is no second program you are comparing to)? I'm having a hard time understanding how/why you would compare 1 chess playing program to itself run on two different computers.

Any insight?

Admin Note: https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-79-section-4-question-25/

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I'm currently floating around mid to high 160s and I'm trying to consistently get into the170s (I'm taking the flex in July so I have about 3 weeks left). I'm drilling my weakest LR question types but I feel like it's not as productive as it can be. I make problem sets say for NA questions with a blend of Medium, Hard, Harder NA's from old exams and I do them untimed really trying go through each question (out of 15 fo them I get about give or take 2-4 wrong) but I haven't really seen an improvement in my LR scores, it's only been like missing 6 on average to missing like 5/4 on average now per LR section. Do people who have been in similar situations have any advice on improving and getting consistently -2/-3 on LR sections? Should I not be doing these drills untimed? In addition I also do timed LR sections btw but been really trying to get NA's and Weaken questions on lock.

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Hi,

So the correct answer here was B. According to JY, B is right because the argument requires an assumption: that in order for direct mail advertising to not be bad for the environment, it needs to replace those who would normally buy something through car rather than getting new people to buy stuff. However, I didn't see this argument flaw because I didn't know how we could assume that direct mail advertising was bad for the environment at all-- after all, the stimulus only tells us why normal shopping is bad, and doesn't tell us that direct-mail advertising creates paper waste or anything like that. Creating paper waste or any negative effect of direct mail advertising in real life seems to be a scientific fact, and I thought that LSAT doesn't want us to create assumptions regarding scientific facts. As a result, the argument actually looked pretty sound to me, and none of the answer choices looked any good to me.

Can anyone explain to me how we are able to assume that direct-mail advertising is worse than not buying at all when the stimulus never seems to tell us that (thus making B correct)?

Thanks!

Best regards

Admin Note: https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-72-section-2-question-25/

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