Well i guess I don't know much about cars or highways, because I picked A. I thought if most of the people working downtown are actually using the highway to get to and from home, this would increase commute time (bc more cars), whereas before, the cars were all spread out in different routes to get home because there wasn't one highway leading them there. Isn't that how traffic works?? I have no idea.
The whole point of keeping the moths is that they are going to do something about all the unwanted immature trees - that's the idea of the argument. We have too many immature trees in this specific forest and the moths are going to eat some of them and restore some kind of balance.
AC B and C contradict that understanding. And I think the remaining two are very easy to eliminate.
MP is the easiest Q type out there and i usually breeze through it, and I didn't get wrong the "harder" questions in this set, but I got this one wrong. This is called overthinking and anxiety. The first sentence through me off, and i didn't know what to do with all the conditional sentences.
The beginning of the LR section is always more difficult for me because I am so worried/ anxious and it takes me a while to get into the zone :/
Validity is the name of the game in SA Qs.
Validity is irrelevant in NA Qs. That's why JY says the basic assumptions e.g. "I am alive", don't do any work. I think it's important to emphasis here that these assumptions do do work, but not in terms of creating a valid argument. The work the necessary assumptions do is a more "humble" kind of work, like laying the foundations on which everything else must rest on. With them in place you can get a valid argument or you can not, it does not matter.
When I think about NA Qs, I think of them as very similar to MBT Qs. Take the Ps and the C in the stimulus - well, what must be the case for this argument to get going? If you take it away (negate the assumption), it is like the taking away the foundation for a house of cards - everything else will collapse. And that's how you know it's necessary.
I just want to say, in addition to what everyone else is saying, DO NOT CANCEL YOUR SCORE. I was this close to canceling me score the first time i took the LSAT because I had thought i had done so absolutely terrible, but then i decided not to. Good thing i did because i had ended up scoring in the high 160. I have no idea how. I was so sure i had gotten in the low 150s. By the end of that exam, i was crying - i couldn't tell you one question or one game i had done or what the readings were about. My mind was absolutely blank.
When i was debating to cancel the score or not, i thought to myself: good of bad, i am going to use this score to motivate me. And it worked out. You might have thought you did horrible, but you can't accurately judge how you are doing in such a high pressure exam. It could be that everyone else just did way worse than you.
So, final point; DO NOT CANCEL YOUR SCORE - whatever it turns out to be, use that as a motivator to do better next time.
Hi all, just looking for some advice on which GPA to list on my resume. My transcript GPA is 3. 759, which i have always just rounded up to 3.76. My LSAC GPA on the other hand is 3.77. It's such a marginal difference, but i think it might make a difference for some. Any ideas on which one to list on my resume/when asked in other parts of my transcript?
I thought the exam I got was fairly easy (compared to PTs I had done). But since it was my first try, and I was incredibly nervous, I don't think I did as well as I could have. The thing is that I don't know how it will be scored. Will it be by accuracy? If i think i got say 15 wrong/ 75 total (i.e. 80% accuracy), is there a way to estimate my converted score? Anyone know from the May exam?
Is C a necessary assumption for the argument?
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I think JY makes a mistake in interpreting AC B: the two attitudes AC B refers to are 1. doubt in receiving an unsigned letter and 2. acceptance of anonymous sources in the news. So that part, i think is accurate. The reason why i think AC B is wrong is because the AC does not clarify which is first. Is the doubt first? If yes, then it would be correct that this attitude is better justified in the second scenario of sources in the news. But if the first attitude is acceptance, then it is not correct. So the uncertainty is what makes AC B incorrect, not the fact that it picks out the wrong attitudes.
I picked AC A because I thought (as JY did) that it's not weird for historians to have certain prejudices etc., because their subject matter is of course, very different from the physicist. So when the author was saying that here are some examples of them not being objective, I thought the author was mistakenly applying a standard of objectivity that is possible for physicists but not possible for historians. At least the standard of objectivity for historians has to be a bit different than that of physicists, just given their subject matter. But upon review, I picked AC D, because if A was not correct, then i knew D had to be. But i didn't see it at first :(
I got the right answer but I kept tripping up: The stimuli says that the recommendation is that all manufacturers will adopt this feature, and if that's the case, it still won't have the impact we want it to. For AC D to make sense, it has to be the case that the kids don't care about the risks and are going to chose some other headphones. But it seems that the rec is for ALL manufacturers to adopt this feature. So, i just kept going over in my head about what support D was giving and started doubting myself.
Sometimes you don't even know why an AC is correct, but you just eliminate all the others because you know they are wrong, and you just pick the remaining AC. That's what i did with this question.
I thought E was so ridiculous that I just automatically crossed it out. I know that we are not allowed to let outside knowledge, except for commonsense assumptions, to influence how we respond to the questions, but it's difficult to turn that off sometimes. I read E and thought: that's so stupid - when does that happen? :(
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Had a nightmare the night before the exam that i was taking the LG section of the test and they asked me to fill out an excel sheet with my game board and I had to input my answers in certain boxes. I kept thinking that i couldn't do this in 35mins ??!
Turned out that LG went great today. Last game was the hardest but I had like 17mins to do it. I'm hoping i got them all right.
RC was the hardest section i think, even though it's usually my best one: book editing, economic theory, evolution comparative passage, and lawyer relationships. It was the first section and my anxiety was at an all time high.
LR was average difficulty i would say. Looking back on it, i know i got one logic heavy one wrong. I kept thinking back on it after the exam, and pretty sure i got it wrong.
But we'll see on Oct 23rd!
I'm so mad that in the rush of doing this timed, i completely missed the logical indicator "must" and read "preceded by" and thought "oh yes, tech innovation leads to econ growth" because tech innovation precedes econ growth. So I wrote tech innovation ----> econ growth. Damn!
I am so mad. I read this too quickly, and although I know i shouldn't do this, I saw the "but" and what followed after and immediately thought, "main point!". I spent less than 40 secs on it. And then in blind review, I was reading it and I was like: wtf did i do? I clicked on E so quickly, because it was not hard at all - i just rushed too much. Honestly, learning how much time to give each question at the expense of other questions, is the ultimate skill for LR.