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@Kevin_Lin Yeah the taxi example makes sense, but I guess I am still confused for the actual LSAT questions, when to include outside assumptions or not, sometimes I assume something from outside the text and I get the question wrong, other times I do not assume things outside the text and I get the question wrong. I'm having a hard time to see what is "reasonable" to assume. I don't get how to evaluate reasonability
Does anyone else get confused on number 5?
I am having a hard time to understand when we need to make assumptions. Up until now I kept hearing, you need to only focus on what is in the text, not assume outside biases. However, in this question, we are being told to make an assumption? I understand the assumption made, but what I do not understand is when to make them.
Is there any sort of guide on when we have to assume outside things, and when we only stick to the text? I don't know when I should do which one, pls help!
If Some A are B and Some B are C, we can’t conclude that Some A are C, that is invalid
Lets say 3/10 A are B, and 4/10 B are C. We can’t conclude Some A are C, because what if the 3 A that have been moved to the B bucket are different then the 4 B that are moved to the C Bucket.
Imagine 7/10 A are put into the B bucket. Then 51/100 B are put into the C bucket. We can’t conclude the 7 A’s were also part of the 51 B’s that went into the C bucket. The 51 B’s could be just B’s that are not also A’s. We see that Most A’s are B and most B’s are C. the problem with these statements is that if the “most” part is true, different buckets have different sizes, so we can’t compare them and say most A’s are C’s.
This is how i thought about it
If all A are B, and Some of B are C, then Some of A are C is not valid.
If all A are dropped into the B bucket, the some B that are dropped into the C bucket might not include the A’s that were in the B bucket.
This is how I thought about it
Hello, whenever on the 7sage site I get 1 question at a time, I always do blind review if i did not get it correct the first time.
However, I have a problem when i get multiple questions, since I don't want to blind review if i did not know which questions I got right or not. Is there a way to blind review multiple questions but only do it for the ones that the system knows I got wrong?
3/3! still need to improve on timing but happy im understanding the concepts on the questions i was tested on :)
hey guys just a word of encouragement, the way the 7sage system is designed is that it gives you challenging questions based on your historical success at each type of question. If you didn't get any, or only a few right, don't be discouraged. These are the questions that you struggle with the most, so it's the most important to really try to watch every explanation video and make notes about what you could improve on. The biggest jump in points will always be improving your worst questions. So keep going, you got this, future lawyer!
Thank you 7 sage, all the training up until this question really has been helping, i really see it now. The answers just seemed so much easier to eliminate, and I had good reasons for eliminating them, still need to get faster but one of my fastest questions!
this helps me a lot, have run into this problem on some of my lsat questions before (I am working on recognizing and not falling for this trap)
Ex. The boy often eats cereal for breakfast, but doesn’t mind other food too. (in this case, the sentence could be re-written as “the boy often eats cereal for breakfast, but dosen’t mind non-cereal food too)
@WeepingWillow I guess we actually don't know if the cat likes milk.
I thought this too, but based on the text we only know that the cat likes to drink milk. It is possible (although unlikley) that the cat likes to drink milk, but does not like milk. We don't know anything about if the cat actually likes milk itself, but just the act of drinking it.
@JocelynZamora777 I was the same. I intially chose E but changed it to A before i submitted.
E is incorrect because it is stating that the sentence "This photographic evidence indicates there is a warm sea beneath europa's icy surface" is not support for a subsidiary conclusion, but is a subsidiary conclusion. the premise for this conclusion is "photographs show an area of europa , a moon of jupiter, where the icy surface appears to have bukled as a result of turbulent water moving underneath".
The reasons this is would be because, how do we know there is a warm sea beneath europa's surface? The claim "there is a warm sea beneth europa's surface" is a conclusion. But what is supporting it? How do we know there is a warm sea? Well, the "photographs show an area of europa , a moon of jupiter, where the icy surface appears to have bukled as a result of turbulent water moving underneath" this premise here demonstrates photographic evidence that is then used to conclude that there is a warm sea. But the point about it being a warm sea isn't the final argument. Once the author establishes there appears to be a warm sea, and why, the author then concludes that this is thought to be a primary factor in devt of life, and thus a reason to beleive life may exist on europa
hope that helps, it makes more sense in my head lol
@AdamUpdike same, i found it quite fun. def happy that I can see real feedback that i am improving from the exercises!
@Rabee same, I didn't realize the importance of the comma to seperate the concession and the premise. I thought it was one or the other cause it was part of one sentence
Just wanted to share i got all 5! And my learning is paying off, but i didnt get all 5 on some of the other ones so im quite happy
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For number 4, how do we know the chemicals will restore?
Maybe im jumping ahead, but there would be an assumption that in addition to not affecting the original dyes, the checmicals will "restore it fully" or something like that. That part is missing?
@JDTR1992 Yes same, the challenge is finding the "best" or "strongest" argument, not just one that is valid. There are multiple valid, but only one "strongest"
@Kevin_Lin ah ok, that makes much more sense. I don't know which questions I'm able to assume or not, ill try to make notes of that, thank you!