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PT155.S1.Q25
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TheBigFatPanda
5 hours ago

my dumbass didn't make the connection that hard covers and hardbacks are the same thing.

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PT114.S3.P2.Q12
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TheBigFatPanda
2 days ago

genuinely took me 2 minutes to realize wait, the whole point of the passage is that institutional authority can and do recognize well reasoned arguments.

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PT129.S2.Q17
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TheBigFatPanda
Edited 3 days ago

"So if YOUR magazine also published"

me:

seriously what the fuck is this question i spent like 10 mins reading this and still don't understand what is happening like who is You bruh, is You chinese?

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PT120.S1.Q22
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TheBigFatPanda
Edited 4 days ago

I don’t see how C weakens the argument whatsoever. Just because there are other countries making pesticides doesn’t mean the US wouldn’t be making the situation WORSE by making and exporting these banned pesticides. If the stim said something like “eliminating the banned pesticides would greatly curtail the danger to US citizens”, then I definitely see it. But as the argument stands, I don’t think it does anything against the conclusion that “this practice (of making and shipping banned pesticides) by itself still can contribute greatly to the detriment of US health. Assuming C is true, how much of the crops imported in with the banned pesticides are sprayed with the pesticides made in American vs from other countries? 99% to 1%? 50/50 split? We don’t know! Even if only 10% of the vegetables shipped in are sprayed with the banned pesticides that were originally produced in American vs 90% from other countries, this 10% could still greatly jeopardize American health. Moreover, the answer only says "other countries make and export these pesticides", we don't even know if they use it for foods shipped to the US. I know this is a most weakening question so the answer doesn't have to be a silver bullet, but there are just so many leaps in logic you'd have to do to make this work. If anything its actually B which might address this issue, because its closer to implying that only a small percentage of the US exported pesticides are the banned ones.

For instance consider the following

Weaken the following conclusion:

Stim: I use a lot of oil and salt when I cook, but because eating a lot of oil and salt can be bad, this practice can be really bad for my health.

C: Me cooking is not the only potential source of oil and salt in my diet.

You see how that does nothing to weaken my conclusion that the fact that I use a lot of oil and salt is bad? Yes its totally possible that I also go out and eat panda express, which has even more oil and salt, but this doesn't weaken the conclusion that using a lot of oil and salt when I cook can still be bad. You could say "well you only cook for 1% of meals you eat", which would weak my conclusion a lot, but just hinting at the existence of other sources of oil and salt does next to nothing

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PT101.S4.P2.Q12
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TheBigFatPanda
5 days ago

was checking my answers, this one almost got me

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PT123.S3.Q24
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TheBigFatPanda
6 days ago

At first I thought E had the relationship backwards. I was looking for an answer like "the parts determine the whole", as it is the evil in people that make institutions imperfect. But I guess this explanation makes sense too, basically saying institutions have no effect on individuals.

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PT135.S3.P2.Q13
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Tuesday, Dec 30 2025

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PT104.S4.Q24
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TheBigFatPanda
Tuesday, Dec 30 2025

I beg your pardon??? Role played in the argument by the UNSTATED ASSUMPTION????

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PT154.S3.P2.Q11
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TheBigFatPanda
Sunday, Dec 28 2025

I didn't like any of the answers here at first because the way passage B was describing false memories as having a real emotional impact worth talking about, I didn't feel super comfortable characterising them the same as the mistakes Passage A is talking about.

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Sunday, Dec 28 2025

TheBigFatPanda

Switching between RC and LR

Hey so I've recently been running into an issue where I perform a lot better on individual sections when I do them in isolation, compared to doing sections consecutively on a full preptest, and I feel a bit contributing factor to that is switching gears from RC to LR can be quite difficult for me. Recently I did a PT where I'd just finished an RC and moved onto the next LR sections, I literally spent several minutes blank staring at the first 2 questions. On the other hand, switching from LR to RC I feel like I'm forgetting to use basic RC skills like slowing down and doing low res summaries, and it didn't come back to me until later in the section. I think I'm going to try doing more LR and RC drills back to back to deal with this. Has anyone had similar experience/dealt with this before?

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LSAT · Difficult Questions
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TheBigFatPanda
Sunday, Dec 21 2025

go back to the basics for each question type and understand what you're looking for. fundamentally there's nothing different between a 1 star and a 5 star.

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LSAT · Wrong Answer Journal Notes
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TheBigFatPanda
Sunday, Dec 21 2025

why did you pick the wrong answer, why is the answer you picked wrong, and why is the correct answer right. if you cant write down each of these things then you haven't understood the question.

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General · RC Timing
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TheBigFatPanda
Sunday, Dec 21 2025

The key to a faster RC is literally just to be able to understand the passage better in a shorter amount of time. And the best way to do this ironically is to practice slowing down when drilling. Spend 4-5 mins in untimed drills before going to the questions, even if you finish in 3 mins force yourself to make low res summaries. The more you do this you'll find that your reading ability will actually get faster. Its like learning how to walk before learning how to run

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PT122.S3.P3.Q19
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TheBigFatPanda
Friday, Dec 19 2025

what is the author's intention for citing the evidence here? Is it to prove that women are capable doctors in ancient times? No the author doesn't really care about their effectiveness. He simply wants to prove that they existed.

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PT122.S3.P3.Q14
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TheBigFatPanda
Friday, Dec 19 2025

pointedly......

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PT127.S3.Q9
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TheBigFatPanda
Wednesday, Dec 17 2025

I picked B even though at the time of answer I thought hmmmm it doesnt have to be the case that independent stores just sell a completely different set of books, because I missed "has been to the detriment of book consumers" in the stim.

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PT127.S3.Q2
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TheBigFatPanda
Wednesday, Dec 17 2025

I went -2 on this section and but this one had me the most stumped because i couldn't for the life of me figure out the relationship between the company's current operations and what the food service industry has to do with it.

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PT132.S1.P1.Q4
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TheBigFatPanda
Wednesday, Dec 17 2025

I see why E is wrong, but I don’t think B even logically make sense. Yes this is MSS and the answer doesn’t have to be strong, and yes B says “unlikely to be useful” but that is just not enough to ensure that this is the only way you can use C14 to date earthquakes. This could literally be a LR flaw question if you assume this. Like consider this:

Q: C14 is usually used by identifying faults and measuring the amount of C14 left

AC: C14 dating is likely useless for dating earthquakes without identifying faults.

Flaw: illicitly presumes that because C14 is primarily used in one method that the method is the only way C14 could be used in this context.

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PT145.S2.Q10
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TheBigFatPanda
Monday, Dec 08 2025

Its easy to interpret C is talking about the water pollution as it is being treated in the plant, but its actually talking about the water pollution AFTER the treatment. Maybe my english is just shit but referring to this as "pollution FROM the water treatment plant" is ridiculously vague.

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PT145.S2.Q1
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TheBigFatPanda
Monday, Dec 08 2025

You see, my stupid ass didn't register that the trash incinerator is something else entirely from the powerplant.

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PT145.S1.P4.Q26
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TheBigFatPanda
Monday, Dec 08 2025

Yes I see why E is wrong, but for it to be wrong you'd have to either assume or have prior knowledge about the idea that the chicks are already conceived and therefore is a totally different scenario than the theory addresses, which I feel like isn't made very clear.

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PT131.S1.Q15
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TheBigFatPanda
Friday, Dec 05 2025

I'm confused at people saying that there's no such "fact" that D is referring to. The fact is that this new theory cannot distinguish between sibling species that would otherwise be distinguished. I think the bigger reason for why this doesn't work is because showing a theory to be incompatible with one fact is absolutely a valid reason to reject a theory, but the argument rejects the theory without properly demonstrating why this incompatibility is an issue.

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LSAT · LSAT and Argumentative Writing
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TheBigFatPanda
Thursday, Dec 04 2025

I wouldn't sweat it lol. I took the Feb LSAT earlier this year and took my writing section like 2 weeks after cuz i kept putting it off. Still got my scores on time

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PT130.S2.P3.Q16
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TheBigFatPanda
Thursday, Dec 04 2025

For some reason it didn't click with me that sale of land = real estate, i fear this career path may not be for me

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PrepTests ·
PT130.S1.Q24
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TheBigFatPanda
Tuesday, Dec 02 2025

For D, although there's a chance that it means the overall population decreased, it equally leaves open the door for the possibility that overall population has increased. E completely shuts this down, and it doesn't need the population to decrease to weaken the conclusion.

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