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Saturday, Dec 31 2022

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PTF97.S3.Q20 - Criminals released from prison on parole..

Can someone explain why AC C is right and E is wrong.

Option C states that "the proportion of arrests to crimes committed was not significantly higher for criminals under intensive supervision than for those under routine supervision." This statement is not an assumption on which the argument relies. Instead, it is a piece of evidence presented in the argument to support the conclusion that intensive supervision is no more effective than routine supervision in preventing criminals from committing additional crimes. The argument states that the percentage of released criminals arrested while under supervision is the same for intensive supervision as for routine supervision, and cites the fact that the proportion of arrests to crimes committed was not significantly higher for criminals under intensive supervision as evidence for this claim. However, this statement does not itself form the basis for the argument's conclusion.

Option E is an assumption on which the argument relies. The argument states that the percentage of released criminals arrested while under supervision is the same for intensive supervision as for routine supervision, and concludes that intensive supervision is no more effective than routine supervision in preventing criminals from committing additional crimes. However, this conclusion relies on the assumption that the number of criminals put under routine supervision was not significantly greater than the number of criminals put under intensive supervision. If the number of criminals put under routine supervision was significantly greater, it could be that the percentage of released criminals arrested while under supervision is the same simply because there are more criminals under routine supervision. In that case, it would not be accurate to conclude that intensive supervision is no more effective than routine supervision

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Wednesday, May 31 2023

Would denying the verb or predicate by negating it in instances of "presumes/assumes without justification/warrant be wrong if it failed to negate the alternative hypothesis and used language without negating necessary (GROUP 4)?

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PT119.S4.Q20
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Monday, Jan 30 2023

How is D right when it merely applies the modifier by including "that" gains a large readership? It seems to be modifying rather than both serving as equivalences of an "and" statement.

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PT112.S4.Q2
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Thursday, Apr 28 2022

In the grammar of English, "But so far" indicates a premise, sufficient, or necessary universal indicator in answer choice A?

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PT118.S1.Q14
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Tuesday, Sep 26 2023

Not only is AC (B) attempting to get you by making you assume as JY says "K" that it is already known to only pose a min risk thereby satisfying a necessary condition--which you can't assume bc only a min risk ~= w/out obvious side affects-- but I assumed "not-L" by thinking 10K kids have been given HGH w/out obvious side affects so, therefore, it is not likely to reveal important information about a med condition. The LSAT writers tricked me into making a novice assumption. Who am I to decide it won't sufficiently reveal important information also is 10k enough to assume anything, clearly not.

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Thursday, May 25 2023

Is it applicable to implicitly conclude should not receive award by the failure contraposing back de morgans of either A or B or C in Rule 2?

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PT143.S2.P3.Q20
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Thursday, Apr 20 2023

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B) It seems to me like it negates sufficient. If rational then... paragraph 1 and paragraph 2. Well by stating "Rationality cannot be reasonably attributed to pathological behavior" you are negating the If Rational portion of the conditional statement. Therefore, in turn, allowing them to be mutually exclusive. Thus, making Passage A stand and compatible with B.

D) I choose this answer but I can see how a duty is never mentioned in Passage A but through the LSACs tricky ways of phrasing these AC I fell for it even though I performed the strategy JY uses of reading A then B. Should've not been scared to eliminate after recognizing it's a mish-mash.

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PT138.S1.P1.Q1
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Sunday, May 19 2024

As a Mexican from Kansas this was a passage that hit home. Not to forget, it's PT 68, Fibonacci!

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Saturday, Sep 14 2024

When does it open again?

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PT118.S4.Q15
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Saturday, Feb 11 2023

I really struggled with D initially. I saw how I had intuitively under time conditions correctly picked A but changed to D for the reason that I thought it was irrelevant. Yes, all schools do this so what?

I came to the realization that in assuming that D is correct as a fact you imply the world in which one University has given students scholarships and enough to provide students where all/most/some keep their scholarships--[creating the assumption that tuition stays constant yet the university must find other revenues to accommodate for the lack thereof students losing their scholarships and at the same time some students finding it harder to afford if say all kept their scholarship so maybe just maybe increases prices/cost in other ways]--and @ the same time that all/most/some don't keep their scholarships [therefore making it just that some students--those that don't keep their $ able to afford] as JY mentions.

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Tuesday, Nov 08 2022

Kansas S/O

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PT107.S1.Q14
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Tuesday, Oct 04 2022

After doing this problem and then coming back to try it again I see why E is the correct choice. Most vulnerable because XYZ, (being cloud cover, or as the video says, obstruction by X, etc.) but why can't you easily just say "well let's look at the cloud cover/radar maps to see if this is true" as a natural response?

Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself but this thought process initially had me glossing over this answer choice. Any advice on why I consciously rejected this?

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PT157.S3.Q24
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Tuesday, Jun 04 2024

So basically,

C)

"For" introduces premise which changes the first sentence to the conclusion which in the stim it was the first sentence offered as premise.

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PT105.S2.Q10
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Sunday, Jul 03 2022

I choose C the first time but then thought reckless is not the same as accidents so I thought making the assumption was similar to apples and oranges that they are not the same.

This is why after BL I thought D was right because I thought it was attacking the support rather than the premise or conclusion. Can someone help me explain why it's not necessary to point out the flaw in the argument while it's descriptively accurate?

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