Anyone else hate it when you get a fairly easy passage with mostly easy questions, but the one hard question smacks you in the face? It feels worse than getting more wrong on a hard passage cuz it feels like you blew the one chance to prove yourself.

I need a better explanation for why D is wrong. Yes I see why C is unsupported. If this is LR, and the question stim said something like digitalizing copies is super simple and a lot of people do it. If you pick an answer which infers that making it even easier would mean more people would do it, you'd 100% get penalized for it. What if making digital copies is already like a 2 click process? And if it was easier would just be the same people doing it? we don't know!

You could go off the line "copying and distributing material is a relatively simple process" and say that inferring answer D is a slightly more reasonable inference than C. But this is an EXCEPT question, not a LEAST supported question, so we should only expect one answer choice is unsupported based on valid reasoning.

I went -5 on this section, 3 of them came from this passage.

Eileen Gray, sleep with one eye open. If i ever any of your stupid ass wood metal abominations I will ensure the UN has a few new suggestions for the Geneva Conventions.

you see, i didn't know what the fuck idiosyncratic meant

I picked A, but this is a terrible answer. The passage basically suggests social norm as a deterrent for copying, there's no consequence stated as it concerns for recouping damages for the comedian the joke is stolen from. Sanctions and whatnot to the transgressor does not in itself constitute any kind of "recoup of costs".

I think it meant to say social norms make it possible for comedians to continue developing comedic routine with less concern for costs than they would otherwise.

perhaps being a lawyer isn't for me

Don't really agree with the first part of the analysis for why A is wrong. If you look at the end of passage 2, "*two* recent court cases .... illustrate the problem [of the definition of tradition]". Clearly both the court cases are cited as challenges to the definition by themselves, regardless of the outcome of the first one. Just because the court decided to uphold the definition doesn't mean that the first case wasn't a valid challenge. In fact we have no reason to suspect there's any difference between the two cases that would make one a valid challenge and the other one not so, other than the outcome, which could just be evidence of the court finally coming to their senses.

Still though B is not general enough to summarize the passage like you said.

this paragraph could just be summed up as "try actually doing some research and touch some grass bozo"

if i got a 178 you wouldn't ever hear the words GRE from my mouth ever again

The inference made in the explanation for C commits a logical error. Lets put this into the perspective of an LR question.

Passage: Below glass transition temp -> behaves like solid

So: Above glass transition temperature -> does not behave like solid?

In an LR this would be a flaw question. Oldest trick in the book. While it is equally wrong to assume like AC C does that glass could still behave like a solid, I don't think the explanation we got for this is valid.

The foundation lessons are super underrated. The most important thing I've gained from just studying basic grammar is that it can help with referential phrasing. Basically this helps you see the ideas and words much more clearly in sentences, and no LR question with weird or abstract jargon will ever trip you up again if you master it. Would highly recommend.

Jeez I'm sorry to hear that man. Sounds like you've for sure got the chops for 170+ if you've been doing it for several weeks. Perhaps something on the test day? The nerves, didn't get enough sleep or coffee, or maybe some sweat next to you in the test centre kept making noises?

i got ragebaited by this passage so bad

Congrats!! For LR I find it really helpful to blitz through the first 12-15 questions as quick as possible, you have to be confident in your ability to do 1 to 3 star questions quickly. Since I started doing that I've never had an issue with running out of time at the end.

I've been having timing issues with RC though. I'm curious, how do you get better at RC and how do you manage your time?

Totally asinine logic, they could've put the correct answer for this as a flaw question on LR

C being right is based on some bad assumptions. Humans utilize the milk from cows. You wouldn't think if there were no cow milk there'd be less humans no? This on its own could be a flaw question bruv.

Bacteria A utilizes nutrients B which is created by Virus C. Therefore if there were no Virus C there would be less of Bacteria A.

How the fuck is E a more correct answer than C or D?? C is is apparently wrong because efficiency = greater quantity (not a great assumption tbh), but E is right because more variety =/= greater quantity?? They are both equally asinine assumptions.

Wtf do fire pits gotta do with this anyway? So what if they had more firepits, to traverse a cave you can't exactly lift the entire fireplace with you?

Im dying on this hill if i see this in an exam imma just skip.

Honestly i had no idea what D was saying i only picked it via process of elimination

I wouldn't sweat it lol. I took the Feb LSAT earlier this year and took my writing section like 2 weeks after cuz i kept putting it off. Still got my scores on time

For some reason it didn't click with me that sale of land = real estate, i fear this career path may not be for me

noted, next time i play with my nephew i will exclusively be chucking 90mi/hr fast balls

nah, i got this one right and i still think the actor not having a copy of the script is a weak assumption. still though, the question asks which answer is MOST supported. While C is not perfect it is stronger than the others.

For D, although there's a chance that it means the overall population decreased, it equally leaves open the door for the possibility that overall population has increased. E completely shuts this down, and it doesn't need the population to decrease to weaken the conclusion.

Definitely, at first it really threw me off actually when practicing, but its for sure necessary and it only took me like a week to get used to it. One thing that could help is to practice on a bigger screen from a monitor, which is also how they do it on the actual test (at least for me the last time I took it).

Please do my most recent one! I felt like I was on a generational run but Eileen Gray was out for my blood