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bellaflaherty73

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bellaflaherty73

Tuesday, Nov 08 2022

You can do it on the admissions page! They have an option just for this where you purchase for an hour.

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PT153.S4.P3.Q14

bellaflaherty73

Sunday, Oct 23 2022

I was literally looking for a comment about this. Thought I was the only one. Totally bombed the passage because I didn't realize Author A even had an opinion, let alone is in favor. I still don't even really see it and it's concerning me a bit.. #help

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PT146.S2.Q13

bellaflaherty73

Sunday, Oct 02 2022

Very helpful, thank you!

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PT150.S4.P2.Q11

bellaflaherty73

Saturday, Oct 01 2022

Good to know it wasn't just me

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PT152.S3.P2.Q11

bellaflaherty73

Friday, Jun 10 2022

Something to add: We are supposed to infer (D) from lines 33 - 40 combined with the last sentence of the passage (lines 53-58). JY really said it best - the way the author admonishes Bordwell gives us a huge clue as to the author's opinion. I got this right but I stood on this question for awhile. I think what really helped me is POE - the other answers just aren't supported.

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PT155.S1.Q19

bellaflaherty73

Wednesday, Jun 08 2022

The difference between this LR section versus PT 91's LR section is stark. I can't even believe these tests are supposed to be similar. The RC section and games sections were pretty similar but this section is significantly harder.

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Monday, Jun 06 2022

bellaflaherty73

Mobile Hotspot on Test Day

Has anyone used a mobile hotspot on an official exam recently? I used a hotspot when I took the exam in June 2021 and I had no issues. I don't think I let my proctor know that but my phone was in sight of the camera the whole time. I'm retaking the exam this Saturday and I just read over the rules and it says that we can't use a hotspot or VPN...I don't know if this is a new rule but I'm not really sure what to do because my WiFi does not pass the internet speed test but my hotspot does. Anyone have any insight?

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PT153.S2.Q17

bellaflaherty73

Sunday, Jun 05 2022

I had a really hard time understanding B but I totally get it now. The conclusion is saying that humanizing vampires is unfortunate/ bad. And then the next sentence says: overall, this trend toward moral complexity is good. So I see this sentence as saying "But it's not always bad that we humanize characters because this overall trend is good. So don't mistakenly think that I'm saying that humanizing is overall bad." Therefore, the author is drawing limits on the conclusion by saying that it's not always the case.

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PT157.S4.P3.Q18

bellaflaherty73

Friday, Jun 03 2022

Re: #18 - I must really be missing something because I thought the passage was saying that if they are not interbreeding, then they are the same species. That's exactly why I chose (C). I kinda see the reason why I'm wrong but damn the wording in the passage is so confusing. I'm curious if other people had this issue.

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PT142.S1.Q16

bellaflaherty73

Sunday, May 29 2022

The hardest thing I find about flaw questions is that I don't even understand / follow the argument so I can't see the flaw and then I realize later on that the reason it was so hard to follow is because it's flawed !!!

To be able to contain your confusion and figure out what the argument was trying to do (but where it ultimately failed) is a whole new level of mastery.

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PT158.S4.Q15

bellaflaherty73

Saturday, May 28 2022

The way I confidently thought this was an SA question even during BR... Definitely only read the second half of the question

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PT158.S2.Q22

bellaflaherty73

Saturday, May 28 2022

My issue with these parallel questions is that I tend to focus on the structure too much. It felt wrong to pick (C) because it didn't lay out conditions like the stimulus did. It just had one. Is it just me or have these modern LSATs make these parallel questions harder by purposely making the correct answer a different structure yet still the same reasoning?

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PT158.S2.Q20

bellaflaherty73

Saturday, May 28 2022

I also see (D) as introducing reverse causality which seems pretty common to me on the LSAT. (D) is saying that repressors' sociability (or the desire for sociability) causes them to repress emotions. But we want to know why repressing emotions causing sociability.

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PT158.S2.Q18

bellaflaherty73

Saturday, May 28 2022

I get where you're coming from. I thought that too. But the point is that they just observed this data. They did not manipulate it in any way (i.e., they did not randomly assign them to an experimental group or a control group) and that shows that whatever conclusion is made from this is weak.

When I first started studying this article really helped me understand the issue with observational data and how to tell whether we are looking at an observational study or an experimental one.

https://towardsdatascience.com/observational-vs-experimental-study-543425a3b3c8

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PT158.S2.Q15

bellaflaherty73

Saturday, May 28 2022

That's a really good point. I automatically assumed it was positive.

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bellaflaherty73

Thursday, May 26 2022

Thank you so much for sharing!! I was able to schedule as well. Good luck ya'll!

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PT131.S4.P1.Q3

bellaflaherty73

Sunday, May 22 2022

Agreed. I don't think Q3 was fair. But Passage B does say a vague statement about parallel models generally. So I guess we just need to assume that climate is included in that.

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PT131.S3.Q19

bellaflaherty73

Saturday, May 21 2022

I just had a lightbulb moment. I see what JY was getting at, and he's definitely right, but this is a million times easier to understand if you think about this whole "different worlds" explanation in terms of conditional rules because the way JY is saying it makes it seem like we need to make these crazy assumptions.

This entire argument is made of conditionals. So obviously in the first sentence, this necessary condition does not follow if the sufficient condition is not there. The author is NOT making a statement --he is not saying that this ALWAYS happens. The author is just saying that if X, then Y.

So what (E) is doing is saying to the author"well okay. but if babies DO understand all the words they utter, then understanding a word can't always involve your crazy definition." Which is entirely true.

Lesson - remember that conditional statements are not facts. They only hold true when a sufficient condition is brought about.

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PT131.S3.Q19

bellaflaherty73

Saturday, May 21 2022

obsessed with this explanation. thank you

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PT131.S3.Q19

bellaflaherty73

Saturday, May 21 2022

Whoever made this question is lunatic

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PT131.S2.Q22

bellaflaherty73

Friday, May 20 2022

I picked C and I want to add another point to JY's explanation as to why C is wrong that might help someone. My thought when picking C was "oh great this is showing that there actually was a true increase and it's not like A was always productive." But this is completely wrong because we are dealing with a comparison. The stimulus didn't give any numbers -- it's not like they said "Workers in Group A made 600 products and Group B made only 400 products." That's definitely something where we NEED to know the baseline because what if Group A was always more productive?

But the argument blatantly said that Group A's productivity increased. It's also the same idea when dealing with percentages. If the stimulus said that A's productivity increased by 40% then who cares where they started? The bottom line is that it explicitly stated that there's an increase so we don't need to question the baseline.

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PT155.S3.P1.Q2

bellaflaherty73

Saturday, May 14 2022

Nope! LSAC confirmed that it's allowed

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PT155.S4.Q21

bellaflaherty73

Friday, May 13 2022

The way I confidently chose C

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PT155.S4.Q8

bellaflaherty73

Thursday, May 12 2022

first thing i noticed too!

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PT155.S2.Q26

bellaflaherty73

Thursday, May 12 2022

this question is the reason i have trust issues