I get all the practice questions right but I'm a couple minutes over each time

5/5, im on a roll

Interested

4/5 I got question 2 wrong:

"Whenever a Pokémon evolves, it becomes stronger in battle. This possibility is exciting to trainers, but only well-trained Pokémon are capable of evolving. Any Pokémon that doesn’t reach its full potential must have avoided training."

I tried to fit the idea that when it evolves it becomes stronger, but that didn't fit in the chain. Moving forward I have to be careful about not trying to fit everything in a chain, cause some premises wont.

Note to myself: Make sure sufficient conditions always go to the left. Regardless of dealing with negate sufficient or otherwise

"John can eat pumpkin pie or cherry pie"

Applying the concept "and/or", we know that John must eat either eat pumpkin pie, cherry pie, or both!

And/Or is the most common encounter on the LSAT

@SohaS Lemme try an example:

"John won't eat buffalo chicken cheese fries unless there's a mountain of guacamole on top"

Two Ideas: John won't eat his buffalo chicken cheese fries + there's a mountain of guacamole on top

Make first idea JWF (John won't fries)

Second idea MG (mountain guacamole)

Make one of them a negation (doesn't matter which) so then:

/MG > JWF

or

MG > /JWF

back to English:

1. If there is no mountain of guacamole on top, John won't eat his buffalo chicken cheese fries.

2. If there is mountain of guacamole on top, John will eat his buffalo chicken cheese fries.

Now think, which one matches the first statement. Remember our original sentence was "John won't eat buffalo chicken cheese fries unless there's a mountain of guacamole on top". Now which left side is more sufficient for the right side?

Winner: The second one. It's the exact same sentence! Read both aloud its pretty noticeable. The first one is not correct because it doesn't match the claim, it says something else. Plus- what if John was in a fries-eating contest worth a million dollars and all he had to do was eat his favorite fries without guacamole? Highly unlikely but it leaves the possibility where he WOULD eat fries without guacamole. Now I'm hungry for fries

Guys I gotchu. I figured it out. Basically every time we flip the contrapositive it worked for both claims before but now for Group 3, once you flip them, one of the flips won't be logical. When you get your translated sentences figure out which one makes sense.

"Blackouts will occur unless the heat wave abates"

We did the whole translation and now we have...

"If the heat wave doesn't abate, then blackouts will occur"

"If the heat wave abates, then blackouts will not occur"

Its basically an extra step of thinking which one makes the more sense. Like literally just think.... blackouts might still happen if a heat wave goes down. There are so many situations for a blackout, a measly heat wave going away doesn't guarantee that blackouts will not occur. For the others both translations worked and for this one only one of the translations works. I THINK.

(You can downvote me if I'm wrong I won't take it personally lol)

I got 5/5, hooray!

4/5 I got all the rest right but number 1. The two beginning commas triped me up

All people who go to Iv deli get BCCF, it is necessary for a healthy and happy life.

Step 1: All

2: people who go to Iv deli get BCCF… it is necessary for a healthy and happy life

1. Get BCCF > Happy life

If BCCF is not necessary for a healthy and happy life, then not all people who go to Iv deli get BCCF

If one eats a thousand donuts, then one must perform in the circus

TD>C

Nina did NOT perform in the circus

n^/C

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n^/TD

Therefore, Nina did NOT eat a thousand donuts

If one eats buffalo chicken cheese fries, then they must be my good friend Kileki.

BCCF>K

If one is NOT my good friend Kileki, then they must've NOT eaten buffalo chicken cheese fries.

/K>/BCCF

Valid contrapositive argument, false claim lol. We love forms!

@SohaS doing LSAT practice everyday will get you a high score. I'm doing LSAT practice everyday. Therefor, I will get a high score

Eating Buffalo Chicken Cheese Fries makes you a king. My friend ate Buffalo Chicken Cheese Fries. Therefor, my friend is a king.

Superset: Sports Gear

Subset: Football Helmet

It is necessary to label a football helmet under Sports Gear.

It is Not necessary to be a football helmet in the sports gear category, there are many other types of sports gear like scuba masks, tennis t-shirts, etc.

It is sufficient to have a football helmet in the sports gear category.

It is NOT sufficient to have a chefs hat in the sports gear category, because it doesn't meet the conditions of being in the sports category. Cooking is not a sport! (yet... lol)

@gurbytown Excellent example, I wrote this in my notes. Thank you stranger