As a lot of other comments are saying, this stuck out as SA to me. I got it wrong twice... here is how I mapped it while reviewing.

Prem:

Leg. Disc. > Boost Funding

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Concl:

LERGB > Boost Funding

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What is the connection? How did the premises trigger the conclusion?

A: LERGB > Leg. Disc

Successfully connects the premise to the conclusion. If LERGB leads to Leg. Disc., then Boost Funding. This makes sense if you think about the concepts as well. A LERGB would lead to the legislators discovering it, but legislators discovering something won't lead to it being least efficiently run.

B: Leg. Disc. > /Reduce

This brings in a new concept. Reducing funding? We don't know about that.

C: LERGB > Boost Funding

This is just a restatement of the conclusion. Whatever.

D: Boost Funding > LERGB

This is the conclusion, but backwards. It also doesn't make much sense when thinking about the concepts; If boosting funding made the service ~less~ efficient, then why would they continue to boost funding, assuming the legislators prefer efficiency?

E: LERGB have the most $$$

This answer choice involves a percentages/numbers mix up, which is a classic LSAT trap. What we do know from the stimulus is that LERGBs receive a boost in funding. An example of this: Let's say that a small town's controlled substances review board is run more inefficiently than any other bureaucracy in the country. It receives $10,000 in annual funding, and its funding is boosted 10x to $100,000. Huge boost! However, This is still not the most funding of any government bureaucracy... for example, the federal dpt of war has a budget of $1.5 trillion. This is why E is wrong.

@willdhorn This helped me a lot. The key term in Willett's argument is "this idea," referring to the zoning regulations that were the same 10 and 5 years ago. While the zoning regulations are new in the sense that they have been re-introduced, they contain the same content.

That is why C is correct; something new could have happened to make the same zoning regulations -- that have been rejected before -- relevant on the third time introducing them.

Koch curve

I'm not sure if this is supposed to be mapped, but I did.

Premodern General Theories = PGT

PGT -> painting & sculpture

PGT -> /music

Answer choice D is correct because it maps out to

PGT -> /music.

As it goes with no & unless being paired, "no" gets crossed out and "unless" becomes an arrow. Answer choice D then becomes,

"PGT of art achieves its purpose -> music is not art" aka, PGT -> /music

@EmeryBeals

/intermittent practice and explanations -> harder to deepen understanding

Every single person I've spoken to doesn't like the change.

One of my friends even emailed them to complain and they sent a response explaining the changes. LSAC claims that the new "hide" function is built like it is "due to the underlying structure of the new test driver platform" ... not that I know much about coding but that feels like an excuse.

My friends have also theorized that this is LSAC's strategy to combat score inflation.

You're not alone in thinking it's annoying, if it's any consolation. Unfortunately it's just another thing to manage when dealing with the test :/

A trick that may work for people is thinking about this chronologically/left-to-right.

If A > B, then A has to be true before we can conclude that B is true.

If A is false, who knows anything about B. We haven't gotten there yet.

If B is true, great, but we haven't heard about A. We don't know anything about A.

@Oblivion I made the same error. Yes, I think that's right -- if the second statement had said "commercial airline pilots" instead of people, you could draw the conclusion that commercial airline pilots -m> enjoy flying.

Tiger: Not all fruits can be eaten in the form that they are harvested. For example, pineapples have a spiky exterior and must be sliced before consuming.

Disney: Having big lips is considered attractive. Many people with big lips receive botox injections to achieve this look. Other people have had big lips their whole life because of genetics. Sarah has big lips and has never received botox injections. Therefore, she must have big lips because of genetics.

Detective: Jordan lives alone. The sink is empty and the dishwasher is running a cycle. Jordan's hands are pruny as usually happens after he loads the dishwasher. Jordan must have loaded the dishwasher.