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claing140

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claing140

Wednesday, Nov 09 2016

Thank you all for the advice! Since initially posting the question, I've already signed up, sent David my draft, and received his initial comments, which has established that I made the right choice. I agree with @jhaldy10325 about how insightful he seems and I'm definitely already feeling more confident just knowing I'll be able to constantly go back and forth with him to work out any and all issues to make sure the PS is as effective as possible.

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Monday, Nov 07 2016

claing140

Opinions from those who have enrolled in the Admissions accounts?

I am 100% a believer in 7sage's effectiveness for LSAT prep, but now that that's out of the way, I was wondering how effective people have found the Admissions accounts. And if you did use them for your application, which level did you sign up for and how do you feel it helped you?

I've been working on my personal statement and all other application necessities on my own, but feel like it might be best to leave no stone unturned and enroll professional help. Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

General · Thank you 7 Sage community!

claing140

Wednesday, Oct 19 2016

7sage is a life saver! I just tested for my first attempt in September and they took me from a 142 diagnostic to a 170! And was still unable to run through answer choices without hearing J.Y.'s commentary eliminating each option haha.

Admissions · should you put a heading on your personal statement?

claing140

Tuesday, Oct 18 2016

I was told to include the same information, but to add it as a header so that it falls in the 1-inch margin required by most schools and doesn't take away any space from your actual writing.

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PT146.S1.Q22

claing140

Friday, Sep 23 2016

Either way, detrimental effects are irrelevant to the argument, as the (flawed) structure of premise to conclusion talks only of the amount of PCB's found, not the effects of these found amounts.

Also, answer choice E doesn't say that PCB's are not detrimental until several years after exposure, just that they have detrimental effects on human health several years after exposure, meaning they could display those detrimental effects immediately after exposure and just continue displaying them even several years after.

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PT116.S1.P2.Q8

claing140

Monday, Sep 12 2016

It could be one that they think would be discussed, but it is not characterized by the passage, whereas the other four are the exact questions taken directly from the study.

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PT139.S4.Q11

claing140

Tuesday, Sep 06 2016

No where does it say that the plumbers don't find the test hard, it only says that most people who take the written portion of the exam pass it very easily. The flaw is not that it is assuming that because some people don't find it hard, that it must therefore not be hard; it is that it is assuming that since only one section of the exam (the written portion) is easy, that the entire test it easy, which is a classic part-to-whole attribution error.

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PT139.S4.Q2

claing140

Tuesday, Sep 06 2016

I had the same sort of method of reasoning as you did, but I don't think the word "excellent" had anything to do with it. The stimulus says:

"[Acrylic paints] provide everything that a good paint should provide (for house painting). ... Even acrylics, however, cannot correct such surface defects as badly cracked paint."

And from this, it is most strongly supported that it is not a requirement of house paints that they correct surface defects such as badly cracked paint.

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PT135.S4.Q26

claing140

Thursday, Sep 01 2016

It would be more like saying "Since the warriors have won the most regular season games in history, they are the team most likely to win the championship. Therefore, they will almost certainly be the champions this year."

Then to wreck that argument, you introduce Lebron James and Kyrie Irving :/

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PT129.S4.P2.Q8

claing140

Sunday, Aug 21 2016

I still need a little bit of help from someone in clearing up #8;

I know that the passage says "In achieving this understanding, [...] the humanities in fact profit from attempts at controlled evaluation."

But does that mean that humanists have profited from using the methods? It seems like the author is making his point for why this understanding of the two practices must be adopted and the combination of the two will be possible/probable in the future, so how do we know that it has already had this effect in the past?

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PT126.S2.P2.Q9

claing140

Tuesday, Aug 16 2016

Passage B specifically states "The impact of purple loosestrife on furbearing mammals is discussed at great length, though none of the species highlighted [...] can be considered threatened in North America."

So it definitely does mention them, and I believe that the combination of it constantly referencing the general argument made in passage A, which talks specifically about aquatic furbearers, along with the fact that the weed is found in the country's wetlands, is enough to conclude that passage B is also referring to aquatic furbearers.

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PT125.S1.P2.Q8

claing140

Monday, Aug 15 2016

Passage A says "Drilling muds are made of [bentonite and other] clays and polymers, mixed with a fluid..."

Since clay is one of the two possible classes of ingredients that make up the drilling muds, I'd say it's pretty safe to assume that it is an important constituent of the muds.

Even if you're still somewhat on the edge about answer choice A, once you get to E you should realize that it is at least less supported by either of the passages than is A.

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PT103.S3.Q17

claing140

Thursday, Jul 07 2016

I also don't understand how D is the correct answer for this one. The stimulus says "Since formal instruction is often a part of a good musical education"; the word 'often' obviously implies that it is not always a part of a good musical education, so how does the argument fail to consider that formal instruction might not always be a part of a good musical education, when it seems to be blatantly stated in the stimulus?

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PT103.S2.Q19

claing140

Wednesday, Jun 15 2016

I also chose answer choice B but for a different reason:

The only information we are given in the stimulus is about 'the self-expression sufficient for survival under normal conditions.'

Since answer choice Bis inferring about 'The self-expression required for survival', I chose it as the correct answer choice due to the mix-up between the sufficient and necessary conditions. Did anyone else do it this way as well?

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PT102.S1.P3.Q19

claing140

Tuesday, Jun 14 2016

The last paragraph of the passage states that "Intertribal activities ... reinforce native American identity ..., where this identity is directly threatened by outside influences." (The outside forces being Euroamerican society.)

Without intertribal activities, the native Americans would be missing something that helps reinforce their own identity against other identities (or helps to maintain the cultural differences between them and another group), meaning that it would be more difficult to do so. It doesn't matter if it becomes easier by 90% or by 1%; they had something helping them, now they don't, so it is not as easy as it was, meaning it is more difficult.

It is not reasonable to infer answer choice D because nowhere in the passage does it provide us with any reasons, assumptions, or inferences on why these powwows have come back. It only states that there has been a resurgence of powwows, that many sociologists believe that this resurgence means one thing, and that the author believes that the sociologists are wrong in that belief. For all we know, the powwow was revived after its hiatus, not in order to strengthen native Americans' sense of ethnic identity, but for no other reason than the tribes were bored and wanted to bring back an activity to help pass the time. Maybe they had a huge casino payout and can now afford the extravagant trappings necessary for a sweet powwow. We just don't know why they were brought back, so we have no reason to believe that the author would believe that either.

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PT108.S1.P1.Q1

claing140

Tuesday, Jun 14 2016

How do you warm up before going in to Reading Comprehension passages?

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PT101.S2.Q24

claing140

Wednesday, Jun 08 2016

This one upset me. I initially got it right, but got stuck going back and forth between A and E during the blind review. I ended up changing my answer to A, based on the thought process that, since they both had essentially the same conditionality, A fit more with the stimulus since it says that no Mathematical Propositions can be proven by observation, which led me to believe that the ability to be proven to be true and the act of actually proving it to be true could be considered different requirements.

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PT102.S4.Q18

claing140

Friday, Jun 03 2016

It's just whatever you're more comfortable with;

EP→NS

P→NS

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P→EP

is the exact logical equivalent of

EP→NS

~~NSp~~

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~~EPp~~

Both state that there is some group of things that do not experience pain, to which all plants belong.

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PT102.S3.Q4

claing140

Saturday, May 28 2016

I think where you got off track was here: "I assumed that if the diatom population remained unchanged, then that weakens effect that they did not increase. (C –> no E)."

The answer choice does not say anything about the population of the diatoms, only that they are a microscopic form of algae that has remained largely unchanged (maybe it's just that their molecular structure now is the same as it was during the last ice age, meaning it would be largely unchanged, for example).

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PT101.S3.Q23

claing140

Friday, May 27 2016

Where you got trapped was in thinking of the overall cost of using narrow floorboards, while the answer choice only gives the relative price of one single narrow floorboard. It could be that it would take 10 narrow floorboards to occupy the same space as just one wide floorboard, and if the wide and narrow boards cost $1.00 and $.90 respectively, then the comparative price would be $9.00 for narrow boards versus $1.00 for wide boards to cover the same amount of area, giving rise to the idea that they would be more of a status symbol.

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PT102.S3.Q21

claing140

Friday, May 27 2016

I did initially gloss over answer choice A a bit, not initially seeing the connection to how it would strengthen the argument, but luckily, the rest of the answer choices were all so irrelevant to the stimulus that it led me back to A and I was then able to see how that choice would block a potential competing hypothesis. Not the quickest or most effective way, but all of the lessons on eliminating obviously wrong answer choices has been a huge help for questions that might be initially tricky.