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General · Realistic improvement by June?
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bukaokoye450
Sunday, Apr 14 2024

Depends. How consistent is your LR score? If you can figure out how to consistently get LG to -1 or -2, RC to -5, and LR to -2 in less than a month and a half, then I think your chances of scoring a 169 in June are high. LG is easiest to get down: do as much foolproofing of games as you possibly can, from PTs 1-35. RC may be doable if you are willing to put in the work. I would suggest doing at least 2 passages a day until maybe the week of the June test and then you'll just do passages you've already seen before for confidence building. Going from -4 to -2 on LR will require really looking at your analytics and drilling those question types that you are dropping. Have you checked that out? What are your worst question types? For every PT you take from now on, try to make a habit of implementing a strategy for attacking those questions on LR that give you issues, whether that is NA, PSA, or whatever. Also, check out the explanation videos JY makes for the relevant question. I hope what I'm saying here makes sense. If not, PM me.

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PT149.S4.Q12
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bukaokoye450
Sunday, Apr 14 2024

AC D doesn't strengthen because certain specializations in the sciences and engineering being oversaturated with respect to the rest of the field does not entail that there are in fact plenty of scientists and engineers. It just entails that there is an uneven distribution in the respective fields. I agree with you though that AC C is really problematic. I chose it but primarily because it was better than the rest of the answer choices.

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General · Is this a good LSAT study schedule
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bukaokoye450
Tuesday, Aug 01 2023

Perhaps it's a good thing to mix it up like that, but I personally tried to learn the foundational stuff first in the most timely manner possible. That meant going through the whole core curriculum in about 5-6 weeks. Then, I started drilling whole sections of either LR/LG/RC or full PTs, blind reviewing them, and watching explanation videos of stuff that was not initially clicking for me. When I'm not drilling, I'm alternating throughout the week between LR, LG, and RC -- doing timed and untimed sections, troubleshooting recurring issues that I'm having, doing/blind reviewing questions from short drills, and so forth.

Hopefully, this helps!

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Hello!

So, I plan on taking the September test as things presently stand. I'm done with the core curriculum, and I plan to take my 2nd PT this week. Looking to form a group of about 4-6 people, and I'd like for those interested in joining to (i) have a goal of scoring 165+, (ii) have already completed the core curriculum, and (iii) be committed to meeting at least 4x a week to go over PTs, drills, and whatnot. If you're interested, I'll send you a PM (please be looking out). Again, I'm looking to keep the group relatively small for the sake of productiveness.

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Study Groups · Study/PT review group for September test
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bukaokoye450
Tuesday, Jun 20 2023

Interested! Will be done with core curriculum later today. Do you have a discord or something that people are supposed to join?

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Study Groups · September 2023 LSAT Study Group
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bukaokoye450
Thursday, Jun 15 2023

I'm interested. Who do I send my info to?

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LSAT · Confused about conditional logic: Translating "not the only"
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bukaokoye450
Wednesday, Jun 14 2023

@dzxu88233 said:

Would the translation be BOTH "Some natural disasters happening in the country (DHC) are the tornadoes in the area (TA)" as well as "Some natural disasters happening in the country (DHC) are not the tornadoes in the area (TA)"?

When I read the statement, I think, "Oh, so tornadoes are included in the natural disasters happening in the country, but other natural disasters are also happening."

Both DHC (-s-) TA, DHC (-s-) /TA sound correct to me.

I really do think that, "Some natural disasters happening in the country (DHC) are the tornadoes in the area (TA)" is the proper translation because there is strictly speaking only one 'not' in your original sentence, i.e., the one that negates the group 1 indicator 'the only'. However, I can totally grant that the sentence, "Some natural disasters happening in the country (DHC) are not the tornadoes in the area (/TA)," is implied by this translation. Open to hearing others' thoughts on this!

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LSAT · Confused about conditional logic: Translating "not the only"
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bukaokoye450
Wednesday, Jun 14 2023

@jhemquintana624902 said:

"The only" is a sufficient condition indicator, like "all," "any," "every," etc. When I see "not the only," I translate it to: "not all." "Not all" is just the negation of an all statement.

"Not all" translates to, "some...not."

"The tornados in the area are not the only natural disasters happening in the country."

So, "Some natural disasters happening in the country (DHC) are not the tornadoes in the area (TA)."

DHC (- s -) /TA

So, when you negate a group 1 indicator like "the only" or "all", it turns into "some". That's why the proper translation would be, "Some natural disasters happening in the country (DHC) are the tornadoes in the area (TA)," which can be diagrammed as DHC (-s-) TA.

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LSAT · Confused about conditional logic: Translating "not the only"
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bukaokoye450
Wednesday, Jun 14 2023

I don’t think this sentence needs to be translated. But if you wanted to translate, it would be, “Some natural disasters happening in the country are the tornadoes in the area.” As you can see, the meaning of the sentence isn’t improved by translating (at least not in my view).

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Study Groups · Study Group - September LSAT
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bukaokoye450
Tuesday, Jun 13 2023

Interested! Someone please PM if a group has been created on some platform

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Lessons · You Try - Slipped Discs and Back Pain
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bukaokoye450
Monday, Jun 12 2023

I think it would be helpful if all of the flaws that we will typically encounter were discussed at the beginning of this module, as I believe it was in ccv1. #feedback

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Lessons · You Try - Tropical Storms - MC Review
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bukaokoye450
Monday, May 29 2023

Got it right on BR, but I hate that I didn't initially recognize that this was MC Review and no longer MSS review.

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Lessons · Skill Builder - Negation 1
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bukaokoye450
Wednesday, May 24 2023

To me, it's not obvious that #5 is a conditional statement. It seems more like a plain jane comparative statement. Am I missing something? #help

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LSAT · Help with Flaw Type Examples
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bukaokoye450
Tuesday, May 17 2022

Thank you all for doing this! Bumping

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PT109.S4.Q7
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bukaokoye450
Monday, May 16 2022

I'm not sure I agree that B and C are 'logically on par.' I also chose B when doing this problem set timed but switched to C during blind review. My reasoning was that it couldn't be the case that a shopping bag on the sidewalk falls under 'a sidewalk being in need of repair or maintenance.' Here, the test-makers are relying on our common understanding of the meanings of basic terms like 'repair' and 'maintenance.' It follows that the city of Grimchester isn't liable for a person being injured after tripping over a shopping bag on the sidewalk (because we know what it means for a sidewalk to be in need of repair or maintenance). A fortiori, B is incorrect.

C, on the other hand, involves a case where the sidewalk is in need of repair or maintenance. Hence, Grimchester is liable for any injuries that occur on that sidewalk, given what the law is. However, given the principle in the passage, Grimchester should not be liable for the injury that did occur on the sidewalk in question since the city only learned of the need to repair that sidewalk minutes beforehand and, therefore, was not negligent in failing to fulfill this need. So, C is correct.

I think I agree with you that the question is ridiculous in the sense that it requires the reader to make certain assumptions. But I don't think that the assumptions the test-makers are requiring us to make for this question are ridiculous in any way. They seem pretty ordinary, at least in my opinion.

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PT106.S2.Q19
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bukaokoye450
Sunday, Apr 24 2022

I really need someone to break this one down for me because I'm simply not getting why it's D, though I see now why it can't be C. #help

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PT104.S4.Q14
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bukaokoye450
Sunday, Apr 24 2022

Omg, the 'not approved' got me. I thought the percentages were 50% for the first censor and 25% for the second censor rather than 50% for the first and 75% for the second.

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Study Groups · Study group for the Fall exams via Zoom, goal 170+. Afternoons/Evenings
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bukaokoye450
Friday, Apr 22 2022

I'm interested if this is still happening

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PT102.S2.Q4
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bukaokoye450
Wednesday, Mar 10 2021

Did anyone else choose A and then switch to E? I had a tough time picking up on this question's dialectic, and I switched to E because it seemed to supply a premise against microprinting rather than for it.

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PT111.S1.Q12
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bukaokoye450
Friday, Jun 21 2019

I originally chose B, but on blind review, I switched my answer to A although I knew that A was too strong of a claim (with the universal quantifier 'all'). My reasoning for this was because B is ultimately prescriptive and introduces a prescribed way of behaving, viz., being cautious when using gene splicing. However, the passage is descriptive of gene splicing and while it does introduce evaluative terms like 'undesirable' it still does not prescribe how gene splicing should or should not be used. Could someone please offer a better explanation for why B is the answer choice? #help

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