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Did over half of the PT’s in the 140-150‘s and tried some older PT’s in the 100s and 110s, and they felt easier. Generally scored better in them too. Has the LSAT gotten more difficult over the years lol
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Stylo
Thursday, Jan 8
Where's the support for "contemporary" in (A)? That's what tripped me. In passage A, it only says "SOME cultural critics." We have no idea if they're contemporary or if they're from some bygone era.
Stylo
Edited Friday, Apr 17
I got this question right not because I felt good about (D) but because all others felt so much worse, and I think that's how you should approach this instead of going through mental gymnastics to justify the "1920s and 1930s" part. Where does the "1920s and 1930s" in (D) come from? All the justification attempted in the comments below seem tenuous, and you just have to go with (D) here on the basis that others are evidently, obviously wrong.
This period is not mentioned in the passage anywhere, and the fact that Ormes's comic strip that featured prominent black musicians was published in 1937-38 doesn't automatically mean that African American artists enjoyed great success and recognition in that decade and the one preceding it. For all we know, it could have been a nostalgic love letter to times two or more decades before that or whatever.
Being a fan, I knew that Duke Ellington rose to prominence in the 20s, but that's outside knowledge the test shouldn't require test takers to have. I had no idea what time Cab Calloway was situated in anyways.
Stylo
Edited 2 days ago
Love when an RC passage is on a subject I'm interested in and would have read even if I weren't studying for the LSAT
(A), (B) - Sophocles's Antigone
(C) - Likely Euripides's Medea, though the description applies to Aeschylus's Oresteia too.
(D) - Aeschylus's Seven Against Thebes
(E) - Sophocles's Oedipus Rex
While I got this one right, I still had reservations with (A) because a proponent of the biological species concept (so a lumper) could still agree that there are considerably more bird species in the world today than are currently recognized even if they think that some (or even many) species currently categorized as different should be "lumped" together.
For one, they could think that there are a lot of bird species out in the wild that people never identified or discovered yet. The number of new species they would bring in once identified/discovered could considerably offset the number of species that decrease due to lumping.
But, (B)-(E) are either blatantly wrong or something that we really have no idea at all what lumpers would think about, while (A) has at least some leg to stand on (though not definitive).