I was gonna choose B until I saw it said ONLY IF. How do we have any reason to believe that collaborations between authors are the ONLY factor in books selling well? Maybe take some time to understand the authors thought process (that because her last collaboration worked out that a next one will have the same result) and then re-read B and C critically. Anyway, I hope this helped some:)

I'm up for a study partner as well! Feel free to message me.

I was definitely missing some conext from the stimulus (was probably burned out). Anyway, reading your comment and reading he question again helped clear up what I missed. Appreciate the reply!

#help I choose D because A specifically says it will help improve design modifications. The stimulus just told us that input to designers doesn't tell them how to fix to improve the feature, only why it wasn't rated highly. So I'm guessing A is right because of the careful wording COULD CONTRIBUTE to successful design production.

I'd love to join a study group as well! Staring into a computer screen alone for 2-3 hours a day is becoming really mundane lol.

I got 27 right but only by eliminating others choices. When I read qualify I interpreted it as something that would be justifying the second paragraph or adding credentials. kind of scary to think how differently words on the LSAT can be interpreted.

Pretty sure I only got this right because I'm a passionate vegetarian lol

From what I've heard is the LSAC factors in any grade you've ever gotten in college, this would include study abroad.

lol anyone else feel like watching explanations for questions you got right just ends up confusing you?

I don't use math at all when doing these kinds of questions. Im sure J.Y. is going to get into this concept later, I forgot what its called (maybe negation reversal Idk). Anyway theres a tool you can use to check if your assumption answer choice is right. Knowing that half of the aluminum in group M is from group L and that group M had double the cans of group L, we would assume that all the material from group L was recycled into group M. When checking if you answer is right you can negate it and see if it would cause the conclusion to NOT logically follow from the premise. So for answer choice c to be negated we would add not, all of the aluminum in an aluminum can is NOT recovered when the can is recycled. Since we know materials besides aluminum is negligible (not worth considering) it wouldn't follow that group M has double the cans of group L when 50% of group M's aluminum came from recycled materials from group L.

I realized that this wasn't the best question to use this technique with but I hope this helps you be more sure of assumption questions. when the correct answer is negated it should break a bond between the premise and conclusion.

or worse.. to the annex