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Sunday, Aug 30 2020

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When stats are a premise

In a sufficient assumption question (and also, I could imagine the scenario w/ "which of the following would justify" questions or strengthen questions), if the stimulus contains a set of statistics, can the answer be "the stated statistics are correct"? It seems like this can never be the answer. I know that premises can't be directly attacked in a weaken question. So it seems that directly affirming a premise (and adding no other info) wouldn't be something that the testmakers would do on the reverse side.

General · Retake Preptests without deleting old data

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Sunday, Aug 16 2020

I would also like an answer to this. I'm not sure how to retake a test without deleting my data from the first take.

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PT144.S3.Q23

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Wednesday, Aug 05 2020

JY missed something in his explanation. Answer choice B is also wrong in the same manner that answer choice A is wrong. B says that influential people will oppose the law. The stimulus says these people will be adversely affected (or, negatively benefited). The distinction between being in favor of something and benefiting from something is a common problem with both A and B. Realizing this isn't necessary to fail answer choice B, but in my view it is sufficient.

LSAT · When stats are a premise

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Tuesday, Sep 01 2020

That question is different because the stimulus already included the phrase "if the stats are correct," so it wouldn't be merely affirming a premise to say "the stats are correct."

I can't remember my question but it was similar to this:

Restaurant owner: having too many ovens can confuse our staff, causing them to be slower. We have 10 ovens. A competitor across the street has five ovens and his staff are faster than ours. Therefore we have too many ovens.

SA question.

(A) The statistics quoted by the restaurant owner are correct.