I would recommend taking a day off from the LSAT if you have been ramping up on practice lately. You don't need quantity , you need quality practice now. To go from 150s to 160, you need to have a stronger understanding of core LSAT question types and the correct answers. Review the 2 or 3 question-types that are your "highest priority" on 7sage and figure out a strategy on getting more of those questions correct.

If it's necessary assumption, try the loophole's strategy and 7sage's "negating the answer choice to see if it destroys the argument" strategy. Pick the one that works best for you. If you can increase your accuracy on some of the most-common question types, you can increase your score to 160 in the coming weeks.

A is worded in a confusing way. It means not taking the full weight of a the package into account when you are trying to figure out how much the pens inside weighs apart besides the box it arrived in.

I initially picked A thinking the commissioner was taking a project to be certainty. However looking back, the commissioners tone matches the uncertainty of the projection like"would yield savings, we will be able" . So B is a stronger answer.

If you negate D as "Those whose endeavors are not regarded as governed by fate will be seen as possessing nobility" it destroys the argument. This is because

p1: Modern lit is not a tragedy unless the protagonists are nobles that endure calamites.

P2: It is impossible for modern lit to be a tragedy because people don't take The belief that human endeavors are governed by fate seriously.

C; Modern lit is not a tragedy unless these two premises happen.

C is literally the two premises of the argument happening, a noble protagonist is having his/her endeavors being regarded as governed by fate.

The answer we are looking for is why does the farmer dry corn differently despite knowing the best way. C comes close by explaining that "the best way" is not the only one. A does this better by explaining that the farmer's circumstances do not favor doing it the best way.

so A answers the question better.

A works better than C because, if A is negated then the whole argument falls apart. If none of the landfills have bacteria that degrade household cleaning products, the argument does not follow.

Originally picked C because I was focused on the connection between humans and the vapors. But it’s not as important a premise in this argument.

Key is noting that the caffeine is what irritates the stomach, and darker roasts of coffee are roasted longer. A is a classic "loophole"

ugh. A is wrong because the phenomenon that the argument tries to explain is that "emotion is not non rational". The spiel about language lacking.... is context or a supporting claim. so the example of joy is an example that supports another claim that supports the conclusion. Not direct support for the conclusion.

A is the strongest counter argument to the "has short olecranon so must be predator" argument. I chose B the first time, but even if there are additional reasons, B does not break the argument like A does.

I am in a similar spot and I am also taking the September lsat. This would be nice

B makes the conclusion a bad one because most of the parents being previous educators makes the experiment a bad sample size. The general public will not have similar backgrounds as educators.

First, the critic said centuries. Then the following sentence hides the inclusion of "decades". I only caught that on my second review lol

The survival advantage of the flagellum is only relevant if it helps the bacteria swim. I incorrectly focused on the "few, many, or all" parts but the quantity is not as important to this argument as the swimming is.

@rydlerjune Same lol

@kaylancarlson The conclusion of her colleagues' argument is that interest rates should be lowered to stimulate economic growth. However the economist's own conclusion is the last sentence. Making the distinction between the conclusions helps to show why C is the correct answer.

Key is to recognize this as an SA question rather than NA

Basically an Inference question and D is the most inferable from the passage. "in most cases" ruins A.

This is such a terrible question. However, I see that the relationships are suppose to go from cattle economy helps Zim's population and I picked D thinking athletic helps sports so wrong order of operations. I also didn't know what irrigation is.

D works better to weaken the argument than C because, "not uncommon" is so broad it could mean 2 or 3 out of 100 painters. Meanwhile D works better because the conclusion violating social norms is more convincing.

Taking note of the fact that the conclusion relies on human activity being a 7-day cycle is key to getting this answer correct.

A is a better answer than D because only one shortcoming of modern journalism is addressed in the stimulus so "shortcomings" overreaches. A is good because it essentially restates the the first sentence, though I didn't initially pick it because I thought "sometimes" was too weak.

@Holly33333 This explanation really helps. The question step is saying the meaning is most closely related to which concept, not necessarily which word. The forward looking behavior is more related to rehabilitation as an option, than the rational arguments. I think most of us that got this question wrong were focused on the definition of the word as opposed to what "forward looking" references.

There's no audio on this lesson for some reason.