If anyone here is looking for another trick, I find highlighting has helped as an intermediary for diagramming. A gets yellow. B gets pink. C gets orange. D gets underline. You have to practice a lot of conditional logic questions but eventually you get better at it and you can see the diagrams in your head. I am trying to get to the point where I do not need highlighting as I know it is a crutch too.

IT WORKED

someday plz come back and tell us what you are doing with your life I love your comments so much ty ty ty

Okay! The comments helped me. I wrongly assumed she HAD to vote for somebody SO I was down to C and E.

Shoot my issue here was that I put the some relationship on the wrong side of the arrow. Hopefully that’s a mistake I will only make once. If anyone has any tips of how to nail that more confidently please let me know.

JY is so right here, I pre-phrased and then selected A immediately and felt confident, then I read the ACs and was like oh shit maybe I missed something and then changed my answer and got it wrong

I learned something new!!! I think I kind of knew this already, but that actually is cool. And yeah, no way I would have gotten this right haha I remember reading C and being like what are you even talking about. But that's also because I was rushing at the end and did not closely read the part where it says "at precisely the same location" -- I figured we had to have more context about why we decided its their ancestor and not just a fluke. It is fascinating how the LSAT writers put these little tidbits in that seem innocuous but end up being critical info.

LOL thanks Kevin

OH MY GOD ME TOO

Sometimes it just floors me the audacity of the LSAT to suddenly be talking about seawater ballast tanks lolol

Like if you are here during the 2025 tariffs

Question 19 made me notice something about myself, so thank you, Question 19! Maybe you do this, too: I gloss over subtext whenever my brain starts realizing that I am about to get to the main point, the good stuff, the controversy, etc. I totally glossed over the "that of gender offers a framework..." and only internalized the author's skepticism about gender studies. I feel like they did that on purpose. Had I internalized author of A's nuance when contending with gender studies as a framework, E would have been MUCH more attractive.

This is such a good example of why finding the premises and conclusion EVERY TIME and nailing your understanding of it is so important. I went into ACs thinking we were working on "why is it that Shakespeare could have written the plays" not "other people are motivated by snobbery." Then my alarm bells went off and I was able to pick D, but my alarm bells shouldn't have been needed here had I just internalized the REAL conclusion first.

lol I literally switched from B to D and patted myself on the back for avoiding the trap answer ...........

I did not choose D because D felt like a too-good-to-be-true answer choice, a trap that is too cute by half and must somehow be wrong. lol whoops

I hope you are a lawyer now ilysm

This question really preyed on my desire to get through it quickly. More evidence to the claim of the LSAT being a reading test. The string of sentences and my speed reading made me feel I was cascading towards a sub conclusion. When I saw C I knew I wanted it to be right. It felt good and I blissfully picked my trap wrong answer and moved on. Through this process I will learn to slow down and focus on one sentence at a time. Asking each sentence, “are you receiving support? Are you giving support?” might help.

This is such a great explanation from Kevin and I feel like I now better understand RRE questions, and I thought I understood them pretty well! Then J.Y.'s following explanation really solidifies it, of easy RRE questions "popping" versus hard RRE questions making the WRONG ACs "pop". I love this one-two punch for the five star questions. Thank you both so much. #feedback

This was the only five star LR question I got right on this test ..../quiet sob.

Came here to make myself feel better before launching into my wrong answer journal and understand why I somehow got this one right. I think it's because picking apart argument by analogy is more intuitive for me.

Staying for the "what the f-?"

That makes me feel better. I got almost every single five stars question wrong!

8 years later: This was a very helpful approach for me. I am going to remember this! Thanks!

Is there any way to do a search of all the comments Kevin has made!? If I study them, maybe I will win the LSAT lottery.

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That is a good trick!

That helps! I got it right but it took me a much longer time! I think your intuitive approach of immediately looking for the gap is exactly the skill I need to build. Thanks!