When are you taking the LSAT? The best way to improve your time is to take LR sections with the 35 min. time constraint as a hard cap no exceptions.

Am I also reading your post correctly that you got -15 in 1 LR section with a 50 min. time limit?

This is the perfect trap answer choice and it's incredibly frustrating. On PM Questions I feel that it is best to circle the correct answer and move on once you found a match in argument form amongst the answer choices. Otherwise you have to map out 6 arguments in total and it just turns into an enormous time sink.

Here, you have the LSAT writers taking advantage of that by putting an incredibly appealing answer choice right at the start in answer choice A. On the surface everything matches up incredibly well: a principle tells us that as A goes up, so does B; a premise follows telling us that X has more A than Y; from this we get a conclusion telling us that therefore X has more B than Y. All of this is identical to the argument we are given in the stimulus.

I just feel like if you don't dwell on the specific wording/implication of "as one gets... one gets..." then you are totally screwed. And I have no clue how to remedy this because almost always it is a complete waste of time to dwell that deeply on the minutia of each answer choice/stimulus.

Can someone explain how I can get better at moving quickly/confidently through these tests while still properly slowing down and catching the subtleties that come up on questions like these?

I know I wrote a novel but I just can't seem to improve on this skill no matter what I do and it's incredibly frustrating.

#help

Obviously I didn't even bother trying to diagram these lunatics while I was going through these questions but I am pretty sure that a diagram of their arguments would look like this:

Whittaker:

Premise: (A Medical Student drops out) → (That Medical Student never has a 2nd year)

Conclusion: there is no such thing as a medical student who drops out before their second year

Hudson:

Premise: (Hudson dies) → (Hudson never has 1 million dollars in his bank)

Conclusion: there is no such thing as a Hudson who dies before he has 1 million dollars in his bank. This can be reworded as "I cannot help but become rich."