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PT144.S4.Q10
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Thursday, Mar 11 2021

Even though I understand why E is correct, I still seem to have issue with D.

Aberration by definition means deviating from the norm. And I thought Jung-su's statement actually tells clearly that he thinks abstract art will not be aberration, when he say "abstract art is part of the artistic mainstream".

Can someone weigh in and help?

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PT144.S2.Q20
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Tuesday, Mar 09 2021

This question tests on our ability to address the trend of declined graduation with chemistry degree. E is the only answer that provides a potential reason for it. None of the other answer choices reflect a change over the years when the graduation rate declined, and therefore are incorrect.

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PT143.S3.Q5
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Wednesday, Feb 24 2021

I was in between A and E.

The reason I did not choose A was my questioning of how will the homeowner pay for their mortgage if they stay unemployed? With this thought, I definitely brought in outside information into the LSAT world.

E. I thought maybe people are so wealthy that they just bought the house without having to apply for the loan, and therefore no need to work. Again, I was thinking outside of LSAT world.

Again A addresses the discrepancy based on this question alone, by pointing to the difficulty of obtaining a job after owning a property, which makes perfect sense within the lsat world.

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Wednesday, Feb 24 2021

Thank you very much! I look forward to it!

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PT146.S4.P4.Q23
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Tuesday, Feb 23 2021

#23 was a little tricky for me.

A. We only know that M and R observed freon gases, but we did not get the experiment details or if their observation was a result of an experiment or theoretical calculation;

B. Line 34 referenced the scientist's estimation of the accumulation of CFC in atmosphere, however the data was obtained in 1974. We don't know about the concentration/accumulation of CFC in 1987;

C. M did testify, but we don't know which year;

D. we know nothing about non-chlorine chemicals;

E. Chlorine was the focus among CFC constituents, line 28 supports how Chlorine devastates the ozone layer.

E is the correct answer

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Wednesday, Feb 17 2021

No news is good news I think.

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PT101.S2.Q14
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Thursday, Feb 11 2021

To get this question right, it is important to distinguish social drinkers vs heavy drinkers.

I somehow put heavy drinker as a subset of social drinker, which led me eliminate A.

This question is another lesson that teaches me to never bring in our own assumptions into the LSAT world.

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General · For those disappointed with their scores
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Thursday, Feb 04 2021

I highly appreciate your post @! Choosing this path is already a hard choice, why settle for the lower score if we can still improve??

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I wonder if there is any January test taker who is still on the road to take Feb LSAT?

I considerably under-performed myself in January test (I caught a cold on test day and had a terrible migraine during test), and plan to take Feb or April the latest.

I have been PTing around 165-170 prior to the test, and my goal is to reach170 the minimum in my third take.

I am looking for just a couple of people who is committed to take Feb LSAT, and probably meet couple of times during the week discussing questions or strategies and support eachother.

If anyone is in the same range and interested, please PM me.

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PT141.S2.Q12
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Wednesday, Jan 27 2021

Premises: chairperson did not consult any member

conclusion: chairperson should not release the report.

To derive the conclusion, I was looking for a conditional statement that tells me, "to be justified in releasing the report, it has to be the case that certain number of members have been consulted."

A was very tricky for me, I did not see it directly addresses the prerequisite as members being consulted. But if the prerequisite is that the members giving consent, then the necessary condition can still be negated based on the premise (members are not consulted);

D gave me an impression that there is a conditional statement, where the necessary condition happens in two step. 1. members consulted. 2.members agreed. However the entire sentence is actually a "hypothetical" statement (noticing "would have...had they"), where I cannot apply the premise there. Therefore, A is correct.

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PT144.S3.Q20
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Monday, Jan 25 2021

This is a flaw of subset versus whole. The customer who switched and saved may well be the people who purchased very expensive insurance before and that is why they gained saving by switching to “Gecko”. But what about the customers on the entire market? Maybe majority of them already have the insurance rate equivalent to or even lower that what Gecko offers.

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LSAT · Anxiety taking over :(
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Friday, Jan 15 2021

I would be lying if I do not have spiking anxiety, music helped me a lot. Try your favorite music, take some time walking in the nature, and try to be at present with yourself.

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General · Nervous about the LSAT Saturday?
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Thursday, Jan 14 2021

I’d also say all the inputs on this long thread is very inspiring and reassuring, anyone who felt anxious of the test might want to read it. I am very thankful that I found this community :)

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General · Nervous about the LSAT Saturday?
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Thursday, Jan 14 2021

I had just found JY’s post (written seven years ago), it still speaks the truth to me as I am preparing for January LSAT. I have been getting above or below 170s in my PTS and hoping to break the 170 on test day!

Wishing everyone peaceful days leading up to the test day, and wishing me myself good luck!

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PT154.S2.Q25
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Sunday, Jan 10 2021

I think there is one more reason why C is incorrect. Babson didn't specifically comment on the scenario where social custom does not support "such a practice" (paying $1 tip for reading on line), therefore we actually don't know whether he believe in C or not.

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Wednesday, Dec 30 2020

Hi I potentially can join either session tomorrow, Pting at 170 on the 80s now.

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PT154.S4.Q24
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Wednesday, Dec 30 2020

I was definitely going for AC that states the higher level of cortisol is due to innate ability of people rather than the result of traumatic experience. However I did not read B the way it should be, sigh

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General · Thanks 7Sage! Non-Native Speaker (Chinese) Success - 162 (July) -> 176 (November)
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ciacduan968
Thursday, Dec 03 2020

@ so thrilled to read your post and big congrats!

Your journey reminds us all that LSAT is not simply a language test, instead it tests more on critical thinking and analytical skills. I know how much hurdles will there be for non-native speakers as I am one of them and still working on it. However you story proves again that regardless of our background and education, with great effort and diligence, we can conquer this test!

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LSAT · Cancel (July'19)-> 158 (Oct'19) -> Cancel(Oct '20)-> 171 (Nov '20)
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Saturday, Nov 28 2020

Your journey is definitely inspiring! I was thrilled reading it! If I could ask, which PT ranges were you prior to Oct 20 test and btw Oct 20-Nov 20 test? I took my Nov test which is not ideal to me, wondering how much I can improve before the Jan one :smile:

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LSAT · Help with May-FLEX LR Q24
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Tuesday, Nov 10 2020

In this question, the conclusion is that "there is POSSIBILITY that the drug will end up in food supply". Noticing how weak this conclusion is.

Given the possibility of pollen from drug producing crops distributing to nearby field, it is undeniable that it is possible that the genes get into crops nearby; B is simply saying if this situation does not occur, then the drug will not be present in food supply. but what if it does?

Same with E, there is always possibility that the scientist will differentiate the drug producing crops from regular food supply crops, however does it affect the possibility that the drug "would" be present in food supply?

D is correct because it is the crop part where drug is harvested is simply different from the part where food supply is being produced from. I know someone would wonder what if there is cross contamination when people harvest the part for food supply but happen to bring in the drug supply part? Well in LSAT world, we simply do not bring in outside world knowledge into the argument.

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PT114.S3.P2.Q11
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ciacduan968
Wednesday, Nov 04 2020

6/6 correct, I am thrilled!

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Study Groups · January Flex Study Partner(s)
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Thursday, Oct 29 2020

I am taking both November and January, let’s chat!

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Wednesday, Oct 21 2020

Very much appreciated!

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PT126.S1.Q24
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Saturday, Oct 17 2020

This question is tricky in the way in how the conclusion is being phrased. “Following the advertised diet, you will be sure to lose weight.” Note that this is different than concluding “if you want to lose the most weight, you must follow this diet”.

The flaw in the former conclusion lies in over generalization from people who lost the most weight to all people who follows the diet. Apparently all people in the study followed the same diet, and there would be people who lost the most weight comparing to the rest of group. But there would also be people who did lose weight or perhaps even gained weight. How can we conclude that everyone who follows the diet will surely lose weight? D addresses this fallacy.

The Flaw in the latter conclusion would be precluding other causes that might also contribute to weight loss. And in that case C could be right.

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