I forgot under timed condition that I was supposed to make the conclusion valid for this question and I thought "will" in (D) was too strong. Hopefully I don't make the same mistake moving forward.

I didn't see how instinct and noninstinct were the only 2 possibilities, which made this question way harder than it needed to be, ended up spending too much time on this and got it wrong in BR and still didn't make sense. I get it now.

I'm going to name my first kid JY if I get a high LSAT score

I didn't pick it, but I just realized that they added (D) to trick people who might've thought that "displace" has something to do with location... these sneaky buggers

"not true" and "inability" in the same sentence tripped me up. I notice they do this a lot like they will say "we don't disagree that a decrease is unnecessary" .... this type of one-directional flow and then a completely opposite direction flow of the same sentence is really tough to understand when you have like 1.20 per question, give or take.

Does LEAST MSS function the same way as EXCEPT MSS questions?

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(B) is also tricky because they say the owls eat the rodents, at first I didn't see how that could weaken it, but I kept it as a possibility because it was close to my pre-phrase. I realized after eliminating the others that I read the stimmy too fast that I missed the last few words where it says "and other rodents" and then I was able to make that connection. These last creators really know what they're doing and how to send people for a ride :/

Here's as simple as I can explain it, hope it helps:

First guy: "Research studies are done only in groups that only have male. And that is not enough, the research studies should also include females too" (which is fair to say, right, like if studies only have men you'd wonder why don't they have women too)

Second guy: "When doing research, having male and female is not appropriate for studies because having that balance would have no place in science" (so he's basically opposing having females in studies to have a male/female balance because having females wouldn't do anything for science... crazy argument right)

In other words, you can think of the first guy supporting male/female studies, and the second guy doesn't support male/female studies because they are not appropriate for science.

The correct answer choice directly weakens the second guy's argument because (E) simply says "well, actually having only men in studies gives you results that are not adequate for science" ... well that directly weakens what the second guy is saying.

At first, I read (A) as saying "decreased" instead of "increased", let's say it had said decreased, would that weaken the argument? #help

I was stuck between (B) and (D) and I ended up choosing (D). The reason is that for (B) I thought that when it said "powerful gravitational force" in the AC, I questioned it by saying "how do we know that gravitational force is enough to pull the planet", and so I crossed it out and chose (D). This technique of questioning answer choices helps me eliminate wrong answers, but in this case, it made me cross out the right answer. Does anyone else do this?

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I understood answer choice (D) to mean "the cod fish feed on the seal's food, so the seal's have nothing left to eat so they just eat the cod"... it worked out in the end because I selected it, but I thought all the others were not weakening in any way. My main take away from this is that (E) seemed like a classic trap answer because it's something we are used to seeing "maybe this thing occurred before this thing" which is a classic way to weaken something... but they worded it in a way that would strengthen the argument.

The only reason I picked (B) is because it was talking about non-mammals, but on the LSAT and future questions like this, is it acceptable to have that as the only reason to pick an answer?

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This one was tough, when I eliminated the ones I could and got to (E), I thought I made a mistake eliminating the other ones because it felt too strong and only contained information about artificial fibers. I ended up choosing (E). The process of elimination was helpful in this one.

The thing that helped me the most was, and I'm not entirely free of that problem, yet, is that I visualize what I am reading. For example, for that one question in this set about ocean temperature warming by 26 degrees up to 60m below sea level, I created a mental image of the entire stimulus happening, and that way at least I had something to reference going into the answer choice. I also read the stimulus under my breath, not really aloud, but in a whisper - that helps me go faster because I'm more aware of what I say "aloud" (whisper), than just reading a stimmy in my head. The answer choices are just 1 sentence each so they're easier to just "understand".