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General · What's the flaw? And How do I attack this seemingly air tight argument?

cbarker3241656

Monday, Nov 30 2015

Are street criminals not able to commit crimes such as embezzlement or insider trading? What would happen if someone did that to a gang... do you think someone would sue someone for embezzling from their drug ring? (could be wrong in this... just taking a stab at it ;-)

General · Scores after course content v after PT test

cbarker3241656

Thursday, Oct 29 2015

Thank you all so much!!

General · Scores after course content v after PT test

cbarker3241656

Thursday, Oct 29 2015

My LG isn't too bad. Im slow with the boards, but get all the answers right for the first three games. Typically I can't finish the last board, but I am hoping that will come with getting faster. Its LR that is killing me. I am a slow reader so I have given up on the RC... I figure if I improve my LR/LG on the next text I can get the 7 point jump that I need.

General · Scores after course content v after PT test

cbarker3241656

Wednesday, Oct 28 2015

My post should read that I am all but done with the videos. It should not read that I am Not all done with the videos. Do you still think there is room for improvement based on taking a lot of practice tests to try to see where I'm not implementing the curriculum correctly, or should I repeat the curriculum and try to figure out where I went wrong that way.

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Wednesday, Oct 28 2015

cbarker3241656

Scores after course content v after PT test

I took a few PT tests prior to starting the 7Sage course videos. I am not all but done with the course videos and ready to hit the PT tests heavily. After the first test I did not see my score go up. My question is... after watching the videos, is it typical to see one's score increase only after BR of the PTs? I guess I am just worried that the videos didnt have a redounding affect, and am looking to confirm my thought that it will take many reviews of tests to implement what I have learned...

Thanks for anyone's thoughts ;-)

LSAT · PT 53, (Dec 2007), Sec 1, #3 (Please help me understand this)

cbarker3241656

Wednesday, Oct 28 2015

Thank you for helping me with your answer! I greatly appreciate the time.

I am still stuck though. I do understand how B functions as an answer; however, I think my question is now... how do I know when a weakening question is attacking the connection between the premises and conclusion or just attacking the premises themselves? It seems like two different objectives.

Thanks again for your help!

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Tuesday, Oct 27 2015

cbarker3241656

PT 53, (Dec 2007), Sec 1, #3 (Please help me understand this)

I don't understand how B is the answer. In the lessons regarding weakening, I was under the impression that we were to look for ways to weaken the connection between the Premises and the Conclusion. If the question states that "many human diseases are genetically based," then how does B not just attack the Premises? I mapped out ... human diseases (HD) are genetically based (GB)... HD -> GB. Then some of Cat's (CG) genetics are the same to humans (HG). ... CG(--s--) HG. Then I said Some of Primates (PG) genetics are the same as Humans .... PG (--s--) HG... the conclusion is humans have many diseases (HD) in common with Cats (CD) ...HD --m-->CD

I figured (albeit I now see that it was an incorrect conclusion... I just dont know why) that the question was trying to jump from some cats and some primates genes are the same as humans so therefore Humans have diseases in common with Cats. Answer C could provide a weaker link with the premise/conclusion connection by pointing out that a some correlation does not imply a most correlation.

Any help or guidance would be appreciated.