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PT159.S2.P3.Q20
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Rishabh Raj
Wednesday, Jan 07

I was between A and D and I guess the reasoning for A goes that if you can test a change to a theory (the 2nd theory’s alteration to the theory of gravity), you can also test the original theory itself (Einstein's)? 

D is just more unsupported. The 2nd theory only suggests that Einstein’s theory is wrong about gravity across distances, but we haven’t tested this out or have any evidence, so we can’t claim anything about the best available evidence (if it doesn’t exist) or whether the theory is in fact wrong.

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PT159.S2.P1.Q2
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Rishabh Raj
Edited Thursday, Jan 08

@Hanna Wallace I think I'd refer to what some of the other tutors above have said. The comic strip was written from 1937-38, so you can at least justify the 1930s part. And it's not unreasonable to assume that the musicians featured were featured in the not too distant past from this point, which would include the 1920s. Since this is isn't explicitly stated, just strongly implied, I'd say this is enough room. You aren't making some totally unreasonable jumps, like saying it was about musicians in the 1800s or 1950s or something.

Moreover, you have to compare this AC (imcomplete and imperfect as it is) to whatever else you chose. I'd really doubt that you could make fewer or more reasonable jumps to defend the other answers.

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PT121.S3.P1.Q1
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Rishabh Raj
Tuesday, Jan 06

@abramyansemail505 I'd disagree that either of those words show hesitation. Saying that the paintings were meant to do symbolize/do something doesn't indicate the author's attitude. That's just a description. You could agree or disagree with that description, but it doesn't show hesitation.

In some different contexts, "probably" might indicate hesitation but I don't think it does here. If the author was hesitant about accepting this hypothesis, they might've introduced doubts or a competing explanation with just as much, if not more evidence behind it. I think "probably" here serves more as being safely within doubt, saying that we don't know 100% for sure, but that among the options out there, this is the best one available.

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Rishabh Raj
Tuesday, Dec 23 2025

@businessgoose that's good to hear, I'm probably giving my memory too much credit lol 2 months is a long time 😅 quick question about the older PTs - are there explanations for some of the questions? written or video? I don't want to look through all the questions without having done them first to figure out whether there are explanations

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PT149.S2.P3.Q19
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Rishabh Raj
Tuesday, Dec 23 2025

Here's a way of reading AC A that I think is consistent with the passage and might help clear up some confusion I've seen some others have. I also interpreted A to say that the social norms somehow provide a direct, analogous enforcement mechanism like copyright has if someone steals your joke, ie the norms make the stealing comedian pay the owner of the joke back for whatever the joke is worth. But that's not how A has to be interpreted. It's saying the norms allow you to recoup the costs of developing a routine, and it doesn't specify that you recoup it by taking away from the stealing comedian. Here's a story that might help illustrate this:

  • You develop X joke, it gets stolen by comedian Bob

  • This AC is saying that the costs you had in developing X joke can be recouped bc of social norms. How? 

    • It is not that Bob somehow is forced to pay you for whatever the joke was worth because the norms have some enforcement mechanism

    • Instead the norms harm Bob. He’s shamed, ppl don’t work with him, bad rep, etc. His career tanks.

    • But after, you get to go on creating other jokes in the future and profit from them. The norms prevent anyone from being a dumbass like Bob and stealing from you. So you lost some costs when you made joke X and Bob stole it to make some money, but the social norms let you recoup those costs because you can make jokes Y, Z, etc in the future without those being stolen. The development costs are recouped, just not from Bob directly

Hopefully the analogy makes sense, but if it doesn't please let me know

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Rishabh Raj
Tuesday, Dec 23 2025

@LSATstudyer totally fair, I think there are a handful of questions where I specifically remember the right AC or at least some trap answers, but there are quite a few where I've seen the stim/passage but don't remember the question or answers. The LSAT does have its favorite topics to recycle lol appreciate the insight!

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Tuesday, Dec 23 2025

@gavinlitchford89 Thank you for the insight! Aside from blind review and obv looking at the question explanations, I haven't intentionally re-done any questions I've done before, including the ones I've gotten wrong. But I think I want to try this and see how it goes for the older questions I don't quite remember.

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Sunday, Dec 21 2025

Rishabh Raj

🙃 Confused

Running out of PTs/sections

Hey y'all, I've been studying with 7Sage for a while and was wondering if anyone's run into a problem with running out of material to use and how you've gone about practicing in that context. I'm not sure if my analytics are publicly visible but if anyone's able to check, it might clear up the problem I'm facing.

From a combination of doing full length PTs as well as timed sections, I've now used up 23 full practice tests out of the 59 ones available. But of the ones remaining, I've used quite a decent chunk of them for drills, so none of them are 100% fresh. The freshest I've found are around 80% fresh, but most are only 50-70% fresh, with a few sub-50%.

Given this, I've kind of hit a cross-roads with what PTs and even timed sections I can do. I worry that if I take any of these remaining tests as full PTs or even just as individual timed sections, there's a good chance I will have already seen and done numerous questions on the test, and therefore my scores won't actually be reflective of my true performance on an actual PT.

I see 3 options, each with their own pros and cons.

  1. I bite the bullet and just use these tests as full PTs or sections, regardless of how fresh they are. While there are going to be questions I've seen and therefore I might have a slightly inflated score as to how I'm doing, at least the questions will be representative of the modern LSAT and I'm sure there's still great value in doing the questions I haven't seen in the setting of a timed PT specifically.

  2. There are a set of older bonus PTs (PTs 7-18, A, 21, 23, and F97?) that the PrepTest pool settings have specifically disabled that I could use. On the one hand, there's obviously no problem of having seen these questions before because I haven't even touched them. But the reason these tests are disabled is because 7Sage says they're not necessarily representative of the modern LSAT. 1 huge gap is that there aren't any comparative passages on RC and lord knows I could practice those. I might also be wrong about this, but I don't think there are explanations for these questions, which might make review tougher.

  3. I ignore PTs and sections entirely. There are still plenty of modern LSAT questions in the settings I have that I haven't touched, and I can still drill these by making Frankenstein LR or RC sections if needed. Of course, these drills won't be structured like the way an actual section of a PT would be, where difficulty starts low generally and ramps up. These sections would have random difficulty interspersed throughout. This would also only be for individual sections, since I don't think the drilling tool lets you construct a whole PT's worth of questions. The individual questions would be fine to use, but I worry that I'd be losing practice in the context of the specific PT in the lead up to my January test.

Also not sure how important this is, but I did take PT 159 when it was first released by LSAC. No experimental, no explanations, but for all intents and purposes, I have done most of that test, even if it not necessarily on 7Sage.

Any insights on how to handle this? I'm probably overthinking things and maybe there isn't a huge difference among these options. There could also be some hybrid or totally out of the box options I haven't considered. Interested to know anyone's thoughts!

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PT149.S3.Q24
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Rishabh Raj
Friday, Dec 12 2025

@nathanbrowny2 it's not a super strong strengthener but here's a rough example I kind of came up with during the test that might help:

This is a scenario that could be consistent with the hypothesis in the stim (actual number hasn't gone up, we're just reporting more).

1950s - 20 small, 10 medium, 10 large tornadoes. 40 total.

Today - 20 small, 10 medium, 10 large tornadoes. 40 total.

The total number of tornadoes is 40 both times. Let's say in the 50s we were really bad at detecting tornadoes and could only detect medium and large ones, so we report 20 tornadoes (10 + 10). We can't even detect the small ones, so that's 0.

Acc to the hypothesis in the stim, our technology improves since the 50s and we can detect more tornadoes now. Today, we catch all 20 small tornadoes, but also the medium and large ones from before. We're now at 40 total tornadoes.

On first blush, it looks like the amount of tornadoes has gone up by 2x. But it's only the reported tornadoes that have gone up. The actual amount has been 40 tornadoes in both eras all along.

C comes and basically strengthens these randomly chosen numbers I've picked out by confirming that these are the numbers based in reality. The number of medium and large tornadoes has stayed the same (20). The difference in reported tornadoes has been in our detection of the small tornadoes that have been there all along.

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PT145.S1.P4.Q21
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Rishabh Raj
Friday, Dec 12 2025

@CathyYao I'm not a bio major or anything so I don't know the particulars, but I think in general, transcription is pretty close to copying. If you were to "transcribe" an interview, you'd be copying down what the speakers said in the interview into words on a page. That's more or less what seems to be happening here. The DNA is copied over to RNA, but it was a slight typo/error in it, which is the mutation that helps the immune system

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PT126.S1.Q18
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Rishabh Raj
Tuesday, Nov 25 2025

@WrongSaint Love this analogy, gonna remember it and put it in my wrong answer journal

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Rishabh Raj
Tuesday, Nov 11 2025

Is the video by Prof Epps gone? :( #help

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PT130.S2.P3.Q15
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Rishabh Raj
Monday, Oct 20 2025

I'm probably reading into this too much, but the only thing that gave me pause here was that the A reads "any work entitled to intellectual-property protection can be expressed in physical form" while the passage says "every copyrightable work can be manifested in some physical form."

It felt like to me that those 2 things are different, so I initially thought it would be a trap answer of sorts and there would be an AC that phrased things better. But no answer comes close. But is it just reasonable to assume those 2 things are the same when they aren't? Or am I wrong about these 2 things being different?

#help

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Rishabh Raj
Wednesday, Oct 15 2025

@m_k_a_a_a boo me on this if you want... but highkey, do not do this.

Not only can ChatGPT make mistakes in summarizing info, but taking information like these lessons that you might be unfamiliar with and breaking them down into something easier for you to understand is legit a skill the LSAT tests you on. There isn't going to be a ChatGPT-like resource for you on the actual exam, and not having this skill for a complex RC passage or LR stimulus will hurt you on the test. And hell more importantly, this skill shows up in plenty of situations in law school and beyond.

Developing this skill, as tough and frustrating as it is, and learning these lessons on your own is the smarter thing to do for your own skills and improvement than shortcutting your growth with ChatGPT

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PT150.S1.P4.Q23
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Rishabh Raj
Tuesday, Oct 14 2025

@luigig280952 almost a year later but thank you for the explanation! putting B in the context of the passage like that really helped solidify why it was wrong :D

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PT150.S3.Q19
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Rishabh Raj
Tuesday, Oct 14 2025

@IanWoodruff I think you're right, but one thing the LSAT tests us on sometimes is having to make assumptions for imperfect answers, which you're allowed to do only if all the other answers are flat out wrong.

You're right that not all urban areas are major cities, but I think you can say that major cities are urban. So if A tells us that power plant pollution is going to be away from major cities, it'll definitely be away from at least some (possibly quite a few) urban areas and thereby help "reduce urban pollution." The right AC doesn't have to completely prove Henry's point or totally eliminate all urban pollution (We'd have to talk about more than just major cities for that)

But when you compare the impact that A has on the argument (limited, but some) to the other arguments (virtually none or entirely irrelevant), A is just the least bad answer. It's frustrating, but so it goes.

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PT127.S2.Q24
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Rishabh Raj
Thursday, Aug 28 2025

@dmvadmva could be worse. somehow guessed this right on the actual take despite it reading like a foreign language, and then after taking my sweet time on BR and using the power of my rationality, chose the least popular wrong answer. 

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PT127.S2.Q14
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Rishabh Raj
Edited Monday, Nov 17 2025

@Aliza GGG I made the same error as well but this is how I think it could work:

Acumen basically means skill. Even if you haven't started a business before, you could reasonably gauge your skill based on things like how well you've done in business classes, what other students/profs say about you, etc even if you haven't started a business yet.

Does being skilled at business mean you're likely to start a business? Or, to look at the other end of things, does not being skilled at business mean you're not likely to start a business? Not necessarily.

I think you can think of the Dunning-Kruger effect as a counterexample showing that skill and likelihood of starting a business aren't related. Someone low in skill could be overconfident (arrogant, delusional even) in their abilities and be likely to start a business (kind of like how a remarkably high amount of people, men especially, think they could win a point of tennis against Serena Williams in a match, despite their skills being no match for her).

On the flip side, someone high in skill might know things about the business world that might deter them from starting a business (ex: most businesses fail, you should only start a business if you have certain things in place, even skilled entrepreneurs fail). This skill might actually deter people from starting a business rather than encouraging them to.

So it might be too big of a jump to say being skilled = likely to start a business on both ends.

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