@AndrewWhite510 61% got the question wrong. Quality rage bait brother lol

Why A is correct: The stim says that it is guaranteed that a tap in a healthy maple of 12< will not harm the tree. So if it DOES harm the tree, it must not be healthy. Duh. It is simply the rule.

Why D is incorrect: It is possible some smaller trees won't be harmed too! This is an unsupported conclusion. All we know is that if it IS 12 or more, it will not harm the tree.

Systemic advice for myself: I had good instincts to disregard all the extra crap they placed at the end to try and distract me from the actual argument and the crux. I did fail to see that unhealthy and healthy is a binary per the rule.

Why I initially rejected A: I used common sense instead of paying close attention to the guarantees of the stim. Obviously, in the real world, a tree could be harmed by tapping and not be rendered unhealthy in general, or perhaps the user makes an error and harms a healthy tree. But that isn't the world of the stim!! THE STIM IS GOD

Why is accepting the view that a nebulous "anyone" knows something not an example of accepting a view as authoritative without establishing its authority? #help

@AF2187 this guy parallel analogies. Hell yeah.

I have trouble skipping questions. I really do not like how it feels. Some questions are deceptively hard. Some questions are deceptively easy. If I push the door open on any mindset that says "damn, this one is hard, that is okay, I'll come back later," I don't trust my nervous self to know where to draw that line come test day.

I draw confidence from the linear progress of advancing through the test, and if I get to question 20-25 and I look back at a line of answered/not-answered questions that resembles swiss cheese, I will for sure freak out. I prefer to give each answer a very strong "college try" and come back later if I have time just to look at it again. I am a 170-175 scorer and this is what works for me.

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@dedolence Yeah can we get a tutor to respond to this? I had the same issue. I guess we should just infer/assume binaries like this in some cases on the LSAT, if that is all the stim explicitly calls for?

@Pleasant_Supermarket_631 Is that necessarily misreading the question though?

I guess the LSAT didn't believe they/them could refer to an individual back then.

@jpalange701 I got it wrong for the same reason. But I think the bottom line is that it is still doing LESS work than options D and E if you really think about it.

D and E are making massive and absurd leaps proclaiming that huge groups of drivers are perfect and pose zero danger to the public, even if on their face they sound reasonable. The answer choice we are looking for provides the MOST support, not perfect, airtight support. The trickiest questions I have been seeing on LR often require you to identify the smallest "leap" you can make, rather than handing you a "leap free" answer choice.