Does anyone know why the correct answer is D?

With the April LSAT only a week away, I wanted to wish everyone who's taking it the best! I'll be taking it for the third time on the 14th and am getting pretty nervous lol For anyone who feels similarly, don't worry, think about all the time you put into your preparation, it will carry you through to the end!

Hi Friends,

I built an app for myself that randomly generates arguments in the different valid and invalid forms we learn in the curriculum. The actual text is business and financial jargon; I tried to mirror the LSAT in terms of content. Anyway, if this would be useful, I can put it in the cloud so others can play with it!

I recorded a demo in the link below.

https://www.loom.com/share/519db74df8ab4eb781c6b95b72e85050

I am barely getting these questions correct and i am about to give up. Could someone please tell me your methods for approaching these questions cause negating isnt working for me.

I have been missing -4 pretty consistently on LR for a long time. I started around -6, been studying for about 3 months. I know I can get my LR down to -2. Anyone been in this situation have any tips?

Looking to help out a few people who are finding it difficult to improve in Logical Reasoning. If LR feels like your cryptonite and is bringing down your overall score, dm me.

Hi all! I am really struggling to understand why B is incorrect. I know now that D is the right option, but I'm not sure how to structurally identify why in other LR sections. I'd appreciate any help/explanations!

Does anyone how I can improve on weaken questions? I really having a tough time with them.

I understand you have to weaken the support the premise gives the conclusion, but how? Am I questioning the premises? Is there something I'm looking for? Do I say, what if it's something else?

How do I weaken the support? In what ways???

Why is D correct when it says opposing views are discussed 'briefly". #help

why is it not required to block out that Mayor Drabble could repay her debt to Lee immediately in some other way? Why is the temporal aspect more important by the stimulus? Was stuck between A and E. #help

Does anyone write down the board for the acceptable situation question 1? I feel like this could potentially help on future questions to show a could be true answer or something similar. Or is this too risky in case you get it wrong?

I encountered a question with an answer choice that said something like "companies are no more likely to do X if B than if A"

This feels like a riddle to me, and I am not exactly sure what relationship is established here. My best guess was that this means that if B, then X is either the same level or less likely than if A. Is that correct or is there a better way to interpret this relationship?

I came across a question (PT58, S2 Q19) that had a question stem like the one above and JY's explanation raised a question for me. Does a passage only provide support for the author's arguments? In this passage, the author is refuting a legal theory, so is it wrong to say that the passage is providing support for the opposing theory in any way?

P.S. I would've asked under the passage, but the last comment was 10 months ago. I guess I'm the only one with this problem lol.

Does anyone know of a good way to practice dissecting the different parts of an argument in a question stem? For example, J likes to highlight, circle, label P for premise & C for conclusion, call out context & referential phrases, key words like thus, therefore, etc. I feel like I need practice with this. Does anyone have any suggestions? Do you print out a bunch of questions and practice that by hand? Is that a helpful thing to do?

Hello, I have been struggling with my timing and accuracy on reading comp.

When I move slow throughout the questions and passage, I tend to do much better with the questions (obviously). I will usually get all the questions right for easier - medium passages/questions, and only 1 wrong for harder passages.

My biggest problem however is that is takes me awhile, and usually in the 35 minutes I can only get through 3 of the passages. I have attempted speeding up my reading / time in questions to reach all 4 passages but my accuracy in questions severely drops in where I may get 2-3+ wrong per passage.

I have gotten much better at low res summaries, and I find that method helpful especially for structure questions.

What is the best way to speed up while maintaining accuracy? I have read previous discussion forums in where people only focus on the 3 passages and leaving the 4th passage for guesses. I have experimented with this method and i usually do way better in terms of accuracy (getting around 18-20 correct, vs 12 - 15 correct). I do recognize I sometimes waste time by checking answers in the passage when I am fairly confident in my memory however, I can't seem to trust it (as every now and then I check to find out my memory was wrong).

Any help / recommendations is recommended, thanks!

Hi

PT 76 S2 Q19 AC (D) is not a flaw because the author does not presume that the argument it cites is the union leaders' only argument for their view while PT 25 S2 Q12 AC (E) is a flaw because a reason not mentioned in the stimulus is not considered.

Both of the arguments do not contain phrases such as "the only reason why..." and yet they seem to give me contradictory responses. How do we know when premises are the only reasons why the author comes to the conclusion in an argument where there is no mention of the reasons being the only reasons?

hey fam - I'm trying to push myself to keep my low res as abstract & structural as possible and less content based. I have a few keywords I listed as a usual "word bank"(listed below) but I am hoping to get help on other words that are better at capturing more nuance that I can have as go tos when working through cookie cutter & totally new passages.

Current Word Bank:

Background (Bg) / Context (ctx)

Support

Oppose

Apply

Main Point (MP)

info/data

Example (Ex), counterexample (c-ex)

Info / application

Any tips/additions appreciated!

Hi guys, I went through the curriculum for necessary assumption questions and I am still not showing improvement in any of the PTs I am taking. I was wondering if anyone has any helpful tips when tackling these types of questions.

Thanks.

Hello, everyone!

Taking the LSAT in April, and I'm not feeling too good about it. For me, it seems like time is the real problem. For Logic Games, I can complete just about any game with 100% accuracy, but it takes me ~10 minutes per game. That's not going to cut it. If I skip (guess) the hardest question out of each group, I can cut my time down by a couple of minutes -- but that feels to me a lot like dropping 4 questions. Probably not the best tactic.

If I am being honest with myself, I think that it takes me a bit too long to identify an inference or the effect that one of the rules, in combination with another rule, has on the game. Practice is the only way to get better at this, I imagine.

But are there any tips, tricks or techniques for cutting one's time down on these games? Thanks in advance! You guys are the best, and good luck to everyone!

I keep getting stuck on where to put the slash in a conditional diagram that has "no" or "none", has anyone figured out at tip that helps them? Also is without a sufficient or necessary indicator?

How do you differentiate between SA/PSA questions that bring up principles versus Principle questions?

Does anyone know how to translate this?

Thank you

I’m having difficulty understanding how the answer is C. I chose B as it has the same logical structure and reasoning. What am I missing?

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Could someone please explain why the answer is B?

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So I feel like I know what I’m doing but when I look at a new game I’m totally stuck. It seems like everything I thought I knew flies out the window. Especially for in and out games. I read how people say these games are repetitive but to me they all seem so different. How do I get to this “repetition” stage. I’ve practiced games on here over and over. It’s the new ones I’ve never seen that give me a hard time.