It helped me to differentiate these two sets of concepts by thinking about their size. You can think about the concepts in the conclusion--- the "amount of food available" and "the health of a newborn"--- as larger, more inclusive concepts than those in the premise---"crop success" and "baby birth weight." The concepts in the premise are subcategories included within the concepts of the conclusion, but they are not solely what's encompassed by the concepts in the conclusion. As a result, these sets of concepts are not equivalent, as most answer choices treat them. For example, the concept of the "amount of food available" discussed in the conclusion includes "crop success" as a component, but it also includes additional sources of food such as meat coming from livestock and seafood. Similarly, the "health of a newborn" concept in the conclusion probably includes "baby birth weight," but also additional factors such as strong vitals. So, even though it's super tempting to assume these two sets of concepts are equivalent it's important to consider their scope. I just wanted to share my thoughts since I initially missed this question myself. Hopefully, this helps someone!

Looking forward to it! Thanks for doing this @

@ Thanks for letting me know! I thought that might be the case. Do you guys anticipate the July and August administrations being Flex exams as well? I know its just speculation, but I'm interested to hear people's thoughts.

This is fantastic! Thank you both so much!! I also really enjoyed hearing both of you discuss your LSAT journey on Sami's webinar last night. Thanks for all you guys do for the community!

This is awesome!! 7Sage is the best!

Does anyone know if the June LSAT is still going to be disclosed now that it's a Flex exam?

@ 7 sounds great!

@ My bad, I didn't see your post before I commented.

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I'm definitely interested in your session tomorrow if it's still open!

I can do 4, 6, or 7pm EST.

Awesome, 6 works. Thanks for doing this! @

I'm definitely interested in your session tomorrow if it's still open!

Confusing "is" for "ought" Flaw:

PT60S3Q16

"Takes for granted that preserving a currently endangered species in a habitat does not have higher priority than preserving species in that habitat that are not endangered"

@, this is a fantastic thread, and I wanted to make a contribution to help keep it alive. I am fairly confident the question listed above is committing the Confusing "Is" for "ought" Flaw since it derives a prescriptive conclusion from exclusively descriptive premises.

Excellent work! Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for doing this! I'm looking forward to attending!

I'm interested. Sounds like a good idea!

I think the reason answer choice C is correct is because it implies the economic indicators used as premises in the argument (little noticeable upward pressure on salaries and comparable unemployment with other professions) will remain the same in the future. The argument concludes something about the future state of the world (there will not be imminent and catastrophic shortages of engineers and scientists) based on its current state represented in current economic indicators. So to strengthen this argument we need to say something that implies this trend will continue and the economic indicators will not change in the immediate future, which is what answer choice C implies. By saying, "the number of students in university programs in science and engineering has increased significantly in the last five years" it suggests that when these students graduate there will be an equivalent increase in the total number of scientists and engineers as these students enter these professions, which in turn, makes it unlikely that wages will increase or that unemployment will decrease since the supply of labor will increase relative to demand. This is just my thinking, however. Hopefully, it's helpful

I would love to join the group! I am targeting the 170s and am currently PTing in the mid 160s. Also, I am on the east coast, as well.

In addition to J.Y.'s explanation, I think answer choice A can be eliminated due to the word "every" in the first sentence of the stimulus which says, "most workers do not have every item they produce judged for quality." This leaves open the possibility that most workers still have a majority of the items they produce judged for quality, just not a majority large enough to include every item. Since it is possible that the majority of the items produced by most workers are evaluated, and since we have no information from the stimulus about the relative difficulty between the workers' and freelancers' evaluations, we cannot conclude that one is more difficult than the other. We could only conclude this if we knew that most of the items produced by most workers did not receive an evaluation at all, but all we know is that not every item receives an evaluation. I think the reason answer choice A is attractive is because if you interpret the first sentence to mean, "most workers do not have most of the items they produce judged for quality" then answer choice A would probably be correct because any evaluation of freelance writers works would indeed be more strict than the majority of items most workers produce because they wouldn't receive an evaluation at all, so regardless of the difficulty of freelancers evaluations it would still be more difficult than no evaluation. But this scenario is prevented by the stimulus's use of the word "every" instead of "most." Hope this makes sense and helps someone!

Interested!

@ The virus game is PT 79, section 3, game 4. I'm not sure if I would spoil a PT just to foolproof it, but I would definitely prioritize taking that test sometime before you plan on taking an official lsat. Hope this helps!

175, GOD willing!

Awesome! Can't wait

I know one of the links was to episode 8 of the 7Sage podcast about how to manage nerves the week before the lsat. Unfortunately, that was the only link I was able to click before the message went away. Here's the link: https://classic.7sage.com/8-the-week-before-the-lsat-how-to-manage-nerves/

Good luck on the November lsat! We got this!

Not sure if this is a correct or helpful rationale for eliminating answer choice B, but I eliminated it because the word "all" in the answer choice isn't equivalent to the word "generally" in Waller's conclusion. Waller's conclusion is if ESP were real, then it would be generally accepted by the public. Since the word "generally" leaves open the possibility that it isn't fully accepted, it is still consistent with his conclusion to think that there could be a few remaining skeptics within the public. So, we cannot say that Waller agrees with answer choice B since this answer choice excludes the possibility that there could be any remaining skeptics by saying, if ESP were real then it could be demonstrated to the satisfaction of "all skeptics." Since answer choice B is making a stronger conclusion than Waller, we cannot say he agrees with it based on the information provided in the stimulus.

Love the encouragement and the quotes! Thanks for taking the time to post this. Having decided to delay a cycle myself, it really resonated.

Can't wait! Thanks for doing this!

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The November lsat administration wasn't disclosed, so the only information LSAC releases to you is your sealed score, percentile, and score band. So, unfortunately, you won't get a score breakdown by section or information about which questions you got incorrect. It's definitely a bit disappointing, but I don't think LSAC has administered a disclosed test since before the lsat-flex days which started early 2019. Hopefully, they will bring them back at some point though. Good luck with the score release today!