I thought of it like this: reading the stimulus and seeing the missing link as "we need our specialized suppliers to not go bankrupt" (in order for us to stay in business.) then looking for specialized suppliers not going bankrupt/ staying in business in the necessary condition in the acs. "only if" indicates necessary, so re - reading it and making sure it translates to something along lines of we need our specialty suppliers to not go bankrupt in order for us to stay in business. AC E does this.

@SamaraAngel agree! this totally tripped me up

I think what confuses me here is the "as much as" in the application, because it seems like the application is not arguing that reading itself is bad but reading as much as she does is taking away from social situations. This paired with "it takes for granted ANY decrease in the amount of time a child spends interacting with others detracts from that child's social development" (d). Maybe I over analyzed but it feels like the application isn't arguing ANY decrease, it's arguing "as much as." This really threw me off. Can anyone help explain here?

Besides this brief language gap, this was the style of answer choice I predicted

The language on this is weird but E is the opposite of what we want. it makes it less likely that the fixed-profit contract would go over what is initially predicted, since it says that they exaggerate the cost to make it look like they're taking a smaller percentage as profit.

D was not ideal but it can do some resolving-- if people are reviewing their billings but only for when the contractor's profit varies w cost and NOT for when its fixed-profit, there could be more mistakes, unnecessary wasteful expenditures, or a number of things going on that the customer isn't seeing and will not see. having reviewal by the customer creates an added pressure for the contractor's whose profit varies w cost since they could be checked / or if they are checked they can then fix the mistake (thus potentially making their end costs lower) while the fixed-profit contractors don't have the same double checking mechanism / pressure of having the customer review their costs potentially leading them to having more cost overruns

I chose A but I still do not understand why D is wrong. If she only took one week last year, wouldn't she have 2 weeks carrying over? How is this answer different from A?

Also I don't get the explanation for why D is wrong in the video or written explanation-- why would it be 4.5 weeks? Also even if it was 4.5 weeks, she can apply for "up to half" so she still could've used just 1 week instead of 1.5?

I love these! Definitely more please :) Thank you Kevin and Jy!

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Hahaha this is so true and so sad

Hahahahaha this literally made me spit out of my coffee

Thank you so much!!

Hi Kevin! Thank you for your lessons! A few quick Qs for you:

- Is this more of a drill or should we be making low res summaries on the actual LSAT too?

- And about how long should we aim to spend on the summaries?

-And then how long on actually reading the passage?

Are there any questions where we can directly attack a conclusion or premise? Or are we always looking to exploit the gaps between the conclusion and premise(s)?

literally me rn

Is there a baseline for when we should use/ or eliminate prescriptive answer choices for certain answer types?

Same for descriptive answer choices

I got this right based on POE but I kept thinking the right answer would include something like "there has been legal precedence where hail damage was covered by the insurance policy"-- does legal precedence just not matter or if there was an answer choice that said something about it, could it have been better than B?

I have a question about this too!

Question-- due to current events. For the 7sage predictor, do you think that URM will still be a thing in this year's admissions? Or should we be calculating without?

I love the motivation breaks! We should have more! Haha

That would be so nice haha