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PT110.S3.Q13
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Yesterday

I got the answer correct but primarily by rejecting any answer choice that had a "most" claim since the question only made some/many statements. Is that a fair approach?

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PT118.S4.Q4
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Thursday, Jul 9

I had a strange struggle on this question. I chose AC A simply through POE and by the end I was stuck between A and D. The problem I had with D was that the "free installation" does not apply to accessories installed after the time of purchase. So I felt that it did not address the problem of installing accessories at home. I see now that even though it does not apply to all accessories purchased after, even addressing the accessories needed at the start does weaken the conclusion because maybe it lessens the tier of obstacle from widespread to less. I saw A and felt maybe it would help people better understand but the word "purpose" is a great way to trick test takers. Good takeaway is that in order to weaken, it does not have to address every possible example to be satisfactory, even addressing some works.

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Hi, I have been studying the LSAT for quite a few months now, and I have built my score from a low 145 to a nice score of 164 at my best, and an average of 161. Especially my past few PTs have generally been around the low 160 area. My problem is when I test sections, I typically have strong scores like -4 being my worst in LR recently and having common -4, -3, and -2. Yet on full PTs, no matter the beginning or ending of the exam, I do fairly worse. I'm talking closer to -4, -5, -6. I'm not exactly sure why this is, but I have some guesses, like the scary feeling of taking a full test compared to a section, but honestly, I am not too sure. This is also corroborated by the fact that, unlike sections where this practically never happens, sometimes on recent PTs I completely bomb sections. I'd love to hear any advice or thoughts on how to approach this, because my room for improvement feels less on the fundamentals and understanding of questions and more on the psychological / consistency side. Thanks for any comments in advance!

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PT143.S1.Q15
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Friday, Jul 3

@mikeross-jr I did the exact same thing. Thanks for the comment.

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PT136.S2.Q12
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Thursday, Jun 25

@nnglara1211 Wow I did not spot that and that is exactly the mistake I had. Thanks for the comment.

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PT136.S2.Q12
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Thursday, Jun 25

@MayaVM Because the moss contributes more oxygen than rainforest and the practice farmers use remove the sphagnum moss, it reduces oxygen in the atmosphere significantly.

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PT131.S4.P4.Q23
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Sunday, May 10

@jwn1060 Yeah this makes a lot of sense. I had the same problem as OP. Thanks for the explanation

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PT119.S2.Q24
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Monday, May 4

@breezyprabahar944 Not exactly. D is correct because although the Cup is the earliest known instance of an alcoholic beverage does not mean that it IS the earliest. What we know and what is true can be incorrect. For all we know, maybe there is another cup somewhere we haven't discovered that really shows alcoholic beverages were produced 3000 B.C.

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PT102.S2.Q3
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Sunday, May 3

Ya know, although this question was not hard due to POE, answer choice A is not a great answer. When initially reading the stimulus and AC A, I believed that every time someone loses weight, their cells will dump cholesterol, rather than only one time. In the stimulus it says "when a person loses weight, their fat cells decrease leading to more cholesterol." When first reading this, I thought it implied that this happened every time someone lost weight, otherwise they would have written when a person BEGINS to lose weight. Still got the question correct and realized this mistake after a 2nd pass of the stimulus, but it is another odd example of LSAT trickery.

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PT131.S2.Q20
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Sunday, May 3

@zakariaJannane What in the argument points out that they had a small sample size? If anything, "various manufacturing locations" points to a reasonable size.

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Saturday, May 2

@KSki I had the exact same criticisms.

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PT147.S4.Q11
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Saturday, May 2

@fsantos60321314 Yup! I totally overlooked the suggested part and then crossed E out when answering the question. In BR i caught my mistake. I have to read more cautiously.

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PT147.S3.P2.Q11
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Saturday, May 2

@BrooklynHope I also thought it was referencing the current regulations not the proposed. I still do not know how the question is implied for the proposed regulations.

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PT143.S3.Q23
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Sunday, Apr 19

@long.john had the exact same problem lol

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Thursday, Apr 2

Finished. Every. Lesson.

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Monday, Mar 30

Yeah I did not like this question. I read D and remembered that scientists were interested from discovering major craters on the moon and an "analysis of rock samples." I just do not understand how anyone just concludes that D is supported???

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Friday, Mar 27

Jobs Not Finished.

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Friday, Mar 27

I just totally misread the order of premise and conclusion and thought part to whole not whole to part. So I crossed out B and C instantly and selected between A, D, and E. Whoops :/

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Edited Wednesday, Mar 25

@LSAT1011 It also does not confuse necessary for sufficient. The argument is saying a sufficient conclusion. If you read labels, you have healthy behavior. If it was confusing necessary for sufficient, it would claim to have a healthy diet, it is NECESSARY to read nutrition labels.

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PT104.S2.P1.Q3
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Tuesday, Mar 24

@SarahHolmes754 same question

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Thursday, Mar 12

@DanielNahum It is because in E the instrument E only talks about relating to the hospital / public places. It is saying these public places can have 2 purposes but the reading is saying the public places has one purpose and the workers there (not the same "instrument," which by the way is a very vague description of public spaces compared to the other answers) have a different purpose.

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PT144.S2.Q16
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Sunday, Mar 8

Wow, speeding through this question worried about time I just totally missed the "citizens would like to see." Answer is fairly obvious after that.

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Friday, Feb 13

Wow, I really understood this. The answer was so obvious to me with the exception of C, which I quickly realized did not strengthen the argument.

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Friday, Jan 30

3/5 and 5/5 on BR. I swear once I get to BR and really try to read it again, my brain explodes like what was I thinking it was so obvious!

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Saturday, Jan 24

I can't believe I evaluated every answer exactly the same as the video :)

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