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Hello,
I'm looking to tutor someone in NYC--someone new to studying or scoring below where they want to--to improve my own understanding of the test and get me to my goal score. I've taken a few PTs and have scored in the low and mid 170s. I'll buy you a coffee and pastry. I'm fun too! Pm me if you're interested.
Kindly,
Liam
The amount of support the text lends this AC is equal to how much a piece of string would help to keep an elephant hanging from my ceiling. Most portraits in modern art are abstract, so this is non-sensical
I am taking the LSAT for the first time on Thursday. I've been studying for eight months now. When I began studying, I was told by someone very successful whom I admire to treat the LSAT like it's a job. So I put off transitioning to a more serious job from what I'm currently doing so I could dedicate more time to studying, and do like he said. In hindsight that was a great decision. Now I'm confident I'll score somewhere that will open up scholarship opportunities, which are likely to save me more money than I could have made working a full-time job this year. Plus full-time jobs for people in their early twenties--which I'm assuming you are--with some notable exceptions, are horse: they're only sending emails and doing spreadsheets. Anyone can do those tasks without logical reasoning or reading comprehension skills, so, contrary to what most people think, they don't give admissions the impression you are professional or exceptionally smart.
All that being said, do like I did: talk to an impressive young lawyer and ask their opinion on the matter.
Scoring high on the LSAT requires perseverance, since it is a tough test. So the more I persevere, the higher I will score.
These stimuluses are so funny. I am going to laugh out loud in the testing center if I get one of these during the real test.
I like to think there is gradient of reasonability to assumptions that moves with the stem type. Must be true's value, for example, is on the low extreme, and weaken is on the high extreme.
Despite answering this correctly I don't think B is necessary. The conclusion can be essentially read two ways: to make reporting as objective as possible, having trained editors examine them for bias is necessary; alternatively, we should have trained editors look over the journalists' work for bias if reporting is to be as objective as possible. Only the second reading is normative. The negation of B is compatible with the first reading. Suppose you read it the second way: how can you say the aim is valuable? You can only say the means is.
@michaylarls I've effectively named these types of passages "mish mosh". I'll figure out the main idea from POE in the main point question. Hope that helps.
The explanations for the answer choices are good. However, I think it's most valuable to focus on the framework of the "Doing Business" report. It measures the ease of doing business in the minister's country versus the ease of doing business in others, for one thing; for another, it deals only with hypothetical businesses. Those two parts make it easy to eliminate answer choices A, B, and C. E is talking about something in left field while the stimulus is on the pitcher's mound. For a second I wavered between choosing C and D, and it was the notion that however easy it is to start a business in the minister's country will have to be compared with the ease of starting business in surrounding countries that inspired me to give it the boot.
@dustinbodnar12278 Yes. And I scored -2 overall. While I was completing this passage I figured they put a four star upfront to mess with us.
I am an artist and I never thought I would see a concise and knowledgeable art passage. What a relief it was to read this.
Does John's mother still drive him to work every morning? Can John make boxed Mac and cheese without burning the house down? Probably not if he disagrees with his friends on something as trivial as this.
The five star questions about art often go against artistic common sense. It's unfair to people like myself who work in art. Before you begin the test, it says the questions are based upon common sense. Not always apparently. Being an artist is resisting social pressure. This has been true throughout history, whether the public knew it or not. My intuition tells me it is more likely he was a subject of the painting than he was to surrender to any social pressure, and obviously many people here think similarly. Please have people who have studied art enough design these questions LSAC! I'd be interested in hearing whether those here with Econ backgrounds are similarly frustrated by some of the harder Econ questions.
This question is like rubbing my tummy and patting my head at the same time
@nickjackman123705 Agreed. I always try to understand the arguments well, even when I get them right. But it's taking me a while to make a lot of sense of this.
@dxyonna In this case and others, when the alternative answer choices must be incorrect.
I answered this question correctly by building a mental model that puts genetic mutations on the same level as traits. I imagined there are effects of traits and effects of genetic mutations, and if the former's negative force is at least great enough to cancel the positive force of the latter, then it is not favored. Seems to me a lot of people imagine traits are an effect of the genetic mutation. It could be; I don't know anything about science. What support is there for this imagination in the stimulus?
Which of these statements would the author not disagree with if it were opposite day EXCEPT: