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PT120.S1.Q10
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damianrostoski194
Saturday, Nov 14 2020

Author undermines how? "The increase in govt services may coincide with the decrease in volunteerism. The increase in govt. services did not necessarily cause the decrease in volunteerism. The decrease in volunteerism may indeed cause the increase in govt. services."

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A: wrong because author claims there may be some causality

B: no counterexample here

C: no generalizations here

D: correct, author shows an alternate explanation through a reversal of the causal relationship

E: irrelevant

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PT120.S1.Q7
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damianrostoski194
Saturday, Nov 14 2020

Terry: Anyone can make mistakes, of course, but the persistence of the error makes me conclude that the company is deliberately avoiding paying up,

What violates this principle? (I should've simplified this as a MBF in my test which i didnt).

A: Is the right answer because Terry already understands incompetence can be part of the issue to a point ("Anyone can make mistakes, of course,"), rather what Terry cites as his principle is that notwithstanding some errors, repeating bad customer service (errors) can make one infer there is deliberate behavior on behalf of the company. (Or in other words, Terry agrees with the sufficient condition, but denies the necessary condition by saying it's deliberate behavior).

B: Terry might agree with this, and this does not violate his principle.

C: Terry might agree, and this does not violate his principle.

D: This is not necessarily a stimulus with a principle on morality, although it may be implied, and Terry might even agree mitigating circumstances are relevant to some degree.

E: C: Terry might agree, and this does not violate his principle.

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damianrostoski194
Saturday, Oct 24 2020

Interested, thanks!!

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General · Got 177 on PT (first 170+) -- Is this a real reflection of my abilities or am I just lucky?
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damianrostoski194
Monday, Oct 19 2020

@kostyaterekhov110 said:

You need to look at average of last 3-5 PT.

As of 51 PT it’s not hard one. I took it a few weeks ago and scored 178. But when I went up for lite 50th and early 60th it got much worse for me

Interesting, what do you PT on average, Constantine? And yes I would agree PT51 is not a hard LSAT, if you look at the way 7sage rates its LR/RC/LG question difficulties, in comparison of difficulty to PT50-80s, PT51's LG was on the easier side, its RC was a bit harder than average, and its LR was a bit easier than average.

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I burned out at the beginning of October, a week before the October LSAT Flex Exam(!), my mind would go numb and "reject" looking at anything LSAT related, so I withdrew my exam registration and took 15 days off to rest. I was disappointed, but at the time I knew it was the right call, and I'm registered for the November test anyhow. (FYI I also scored 160 on the July Flex test - an under performance - so getting 177 is a massive shock to me).

Before the October test date, I was PT'ing on average 164-165, with a personal best of 166. So 15 days of rest has gone by and I wrote the PT51 yesterday and scored 177!!

So I'm wondering, was I just incredibly lucky? Or was that a real reflection of my abilities? Of course I will find out the answer to this on my own in the coming 3-4 weeks from PT'ing, but I'm curiously wondering if there are any people out there with a similar experience of making a massive jump in test scores and making that 170+ consistent?

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