LET THE COWS EAT GOOD

Yes please but an opt out option would be great. Right now I am having difficulty because I had taken sections on lawhub that are not automatically imported into 7sage. I had to create a document of the sections i've done on lawhub and 7sage to consolidate everything.

Cried hysterically after this question and the tears have flooded the motherboard in my laptop. Currently typing this through my Samsung fridge.

Here's how I got to the right AC.

In my head I drew out:

successful economy -> flourishing scientific community -> young people resolve to become scientist -> good communication between scientists and public.

A: Mistaken reversal.

B: draws a conclusion about the extent of flourishing and the number of young people. Not something we can support at all.

C: This is diagrammed as if a nation has a successful economy it needs to have scientists that at some point communicated well with public. This is the correct direction of the conditional statement I drew out.

D: kinda sorta, but there are many words in here that are either missing or exaggerated. "essential to any nation's economy", no we just know about successful economies. "most of the young people", no we just know that many young people. This AC is not better than C.

E: Success in a scientific endeavor?? Not supported.

Question tripped me up too but let me explain how I eventually came to the right AC.

A: Incorrect. There is no aesthetic principle being supported. The argument is stating that "an exact replica of the scene is not the only thing people appreciate". Author doesn't use the claim that people don't appreciate the efforts of abstract artists, only that they are dismissed as artistically worthless.

B: Incorrect. There is no appeal to an aesthetic principle. Argument only states that "people may dismiss as artistically worthless"

C: Incorrect. The "historical fact" is that if exact replicas were the only thing people appreciated, photography would have entirely displace painting. But, this "historical fact" is not being explained in terms of the artistic preferences of people. It's merely just stating that this would be a possibility.

D: Correct. The author is using the "historical fact" to support the notion that if people only appreciated exact replicas, then photography would replace painting.

E: Incorrect. Considering historical context is sort of on par but the author is not defending the artistic preferences of anyone. The author is just stating that if it were the case then photography would replace.

This question took more time than I wanted it to, but let me break down how I got it right.

AC A and B I immediately eliminated as it says "claim for which no support is provided". The claim is supported by the fact that these bacteria were quite complex, that is why the biologist reasons that they must have had a long evolutionary history.

That leaves us with C, D, & E. I thought C was okay but wanted to eliminate the other answer choices before solidifying my AC.

D: "that is not used to support any other claim" is the part of this AC that makes it wrong. This information does support the conclusion a lot.

E: "two distinct conclusions"?? I only see one conclusion and maybe one sub-conclusion to provide support for hte main conclusion but not two distinct conclusions.

That leaves us with C. The claim is provided with some support, which I pointed out earlier. This claim is then used to support the claim that "Earth must have appeared soon after the planet's formation". This then supports the conclusion of the entire argument, that "this suggests that life may be able to arise under many difficult conditions throughout the universe."

For Must Be True questions:

Correct Answers:

• Paraphrase

• Combination

Incorrect Answers:

• New information

• Exaggeration

• Opposite

• Shell Game

• Opinion vs. Assertion

A: Shell game. End of stimulus states that imitating these role models gives meaning and direction but also asserts that it is an important function of poetry in general. We are concerned only with epic poetry.

B: Combination. Most important function of epic poems is to transmit the values -> they do this by presenting heroic figures.

C: Exaggeration & New information. We don't know if they "Rarely ever set forth explicitly". They could never do it.

D: Exaggeration. "For many groups of people". We're talking just about those who read epic poetry.

E: Exaggeration & New Information. "Only epic poetry"? We don't know if it's only Epic poetry, stimulus just states that it is an important function of epic poetry.

Hope this helps a bit. Not every question requires this level of analysis in my opinion but it does help to talk it out until it eventually becomes natural.

Tripped up on this question but chose AC E.

After narrowing down to D & E and really honed in on the "fundamental principle of medicine" in AC D and did not like how strongly worded this part of the answer choice was. Never in the stimulus does it indicate that chemical composition and side effects are a "fundamental principle of medicine".

I was not completely comfortable with AC E either but after distinguishing the difference of "by analogy" and "from analogy" I knew that this was the correct answer choice.

Additionally, "attempting to undermine" was vastly stronger than what I felt Kathy was doing which was just trying to show a different side of what Mark hadn't considered. "Challenging an argument" made a lot more sense to me.

Tip: You are smarter than you think. Most of us are native english speakers and can get a good feel for moods, ideas, and language. When I first started, the fear of getting questions wrong and knowing that the test was a bit convoluted scared me into picking answers that didn't make complete sense to me. Use your intuition. You're a lot better at this test than you might think.

Qualify.... hm. I guess you learn something new every day. Idek know what to write in my WAJ... "read the dictionary?"

A (incorrect): The author is not making a case of the aesthetic value of anything. Rather the author is just talking about how artists have gained an interest in using old photography techniques and why.

B (incorrect): The point of the passage is not to talk about the process of creating the artistic photographs but rather why they hold aesthetic value to newer photographers.

C (correct): Yes, the authors main purpose is not to convince anyone of anything but rather to give an account of why artists are reverting back to old photography techniques.

A. Unsupported, we only know drastic shifts in climate result in migrations but we don't know what the primary cause of migration could be. It could be nuclear bombs.

B. Not all shifts in climate, only drastic shifts.

C. If drastic shifts in climate always result in migration then that means that the area has to have fairly stable climate. Otherwise, according to the stimulus, if its not stable, it will result in migrations.

D. Unsupported, we have no idea. Every place? A bit too strong too.

E. The intermingling of ideas is the necessary condition for the rapid advances in civilization. Every migration does in fact bring out intermingling of ideas but thats only the necessary condition. Just because we satisfy the necessary, doesn't mean the we have the sufficient.

POE down to A and E.

E cannot be correct because passage states:

"...ministers of African American congregations in Brooklyn had often acted as mediators between their communities and the government."

and

"Many of them also worked for major political parties and ran for political office themselves."

There is no indication provided by the author that these ministers had not been directly involved in civil rights activities.

Therefore the answer must be A.

Author is arguing that the tv networks advertisement won't effectively attract the sort of viewers like the program's producers favored.

You're essentially looking for something that guarantees that the producer favored ad will be more effective or equally as effective.

B: a thematically organized personal narrative of one's own past

"one's own past" is what made this incorrect for me. The only other good answer was C which is also what the passage indicates. 

"For Kingston, "writer" is synonymous with "singer" or "performer" in the ancient sense of privileged keeper, transmitter, and creator of stories whose current stage of development can be frozen in print, but which continue to grow both around and from that frozen text."

"She distinguishes her "thematic" storytelling memory processes [talk-story], which sift and reconstruct the essential elements of personally remembered stories, from the memory processes of a print-oriented culture that emphasizes the retention of precise sequences of words. [written literature]"

"And even if the new employee's activities appear suspicious, there is the further problem of distinguishing trade secrets from what may be legitimately asserted as technological skills developed independently by the employee or already possessed by the new employer."

Rather than forcing their personal histories to conform to existing generic parameters, these writers have revolutionized the genre of autobiography, redrawing the boundaries of this literary form to make it more amenable to the expression of their own experiences.

The goal is to undermine the idea that these writers revolutionized the genre of autobiography. The only answer choice that does this is AC D.

If there were already authors that incorporated mixed structure and multiple authorship, the author's claim that the Latina writers revolutionized autobiographies would not hold.

LSAT needs more questions about cats.

One of those questions where it really helps to read the answer choices before starting to map it out.

D is the only answer choice you can safely say has to be true without mapping anything.

If most new cars purchased last year were not from Regis Motors, you know the number of new cars purchased last year is greater than the number of new cars sold by Regis Motors.

Argument: Thompson is the best candidate because most people agree that opposition to higher taxes will make a better leader and Thompson is the only one in opposition.

B: Being opposed to higher taxes is not a sufficient condition for good leadership but what if it is a necessary condition to good leadership? For this reason, this AC would be destroyed.

C: He can have questionable opinions, but doesn't it destroy the argument?

D: This would strengthen the argument

E: This has no effect on the argument.\

A: If opposition to higher taxes isn't a factor contributing to good leadership than even if people agree it will make them a better leader, it would not matter. Therefore the politician's reasoning for why Thompson is the best person to lead this nation would not hold.

Point of dis/agreement test:

A: Don't know Liang's perspective, Sarah would partially agree.

B: Don't know Liang's perspective, Sarah would partially agree.

C: Liang would agree. Sarah has only stated that because they are able to purge themselves it should not be restricted, but we don't know how she would feel otherwise.

D: Liang would agree, Sarah would agree

E: Liang would probably agree, Sarah we don't know.

Winter = Coldest water at top

Summer = Coldest water at bottom

Change ("Turnover") = fall and late winter

Trout Found = Coldest water

Conclusion: Seek trout in shallow water (at top) when partially iced over in later winter.

My thoughts: What if "turnover" has already occurred and the trout are now in the coldest part of the lake, the bottom?

D is the only answer choice that addresses that.

If you picked E you most likely didn't fully grasp the authors perspective.

"To fulfill that need, the core value of beneficience....should be retained, with adaptations at the oath's periphery..."

The author is not proposing a full revision of the Hippocratic Oath. Rather, they have explained that the core moral principles still remain and are equally as important today. However, slight reinterpretations can be made and have already been made in some examples (cutting for the stone & surgery)

Main Conclusion: The choice between seeing a specialist or a general practitioner for necessary physical therapy will not affect one's chances of major improvement.

Sometimes you can attack the integrity of the study used to draw this conclusion however, keeping in mind the overall conclusion the author is making really helps in determining the right answer.

If it will not affect your chances of major improvement but like E says "specialists and general practitioners each tend to excel at treating a different type of injury", then the authors argument in the stimulus is severely weekend.

If E wasn't an answer choice, I feel like D could've been the right answer.

I've found that looking for wrong answers helps me the most in answering these types of questions correctly:

A: Author takes the opposite stance. "Civil liability is ill suited for this purpose"

B: Could make a case for this as the author mentions "corporations often assign a scapegoat" but is still weak. Does this make employees just as likely to be harmed by civil sanctions? Also the part where the author mentions this is where he is talking about critics who agree with criminal sanctions, so this wouldn't make sense anyways. (this is literally how I thought during the actual timed test)

C: This was my favorite but then I realized the portion of the passage that talks about this is purely just what theorists argue are the important features of criminal liability, not the authors.

D: More easily deterred from wrongdoing? This is what the other theorists argue but even then they say they're only "more responsive to deterrence". The author doesn't agree with this methodology either.

E: Yes this one is explicitly stated in the passage so this must be the correct answer. "...private civil litigation requires an identifiable victim..." P2