This is my score progress since I started 7sage. My struggle has been almost entirely with the logic games. I have a Ph.D. in the humanities with a strong philosophy background and I adapted to reading comprehension and logical reasoning fairly easily. I had to study but I can get -1 or -2 on LR and consistently get -0 on RC. Logic games, on the other hand, has been my bête noire. I started out taking half an hour to get an easy game right. Sometimes I spent 40 min on a medium game. I spent hundreds of hours struggling to improve on this section and tried book after book to no avail. This prep course got me to a -6 to -9 range. I started getting maybe 5 points max on this section. The games were hard for me because they are like nothing I have had to do in my academic journey. They are made up for this test and they are a skill that dies with this test, as far as I'm concerned. I want to give everyone this message that if you suck at one section, you can still get an amazing score bringing yourself to mediocrity or a little over mediocrity on that section even if it takes you hundreds of hours to go from being terrible to mediocre on that section. Strengthen your good sections and power through the bad ones. You can still potentially get a 170 or higher even if you are bombing one section.
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"unacceptable alternative" would have been a better way to phrase it. I read "implausible alternative" to mean "an alternative that cannot happen/is not practically possible." I was left feeling like no answer choice was great and I wanted one to state more directly "false dichotomy."
I crossed off A initially because Chapman does not say explicitly that heckling shouldn't be tolerated. Yes, it's implied but I got used to the LSAT being willfully obtuse. Technically his statements are descriptive and not normative (a distinction the LSAT also tests). I also read "it's usually only fun for the heckler" to mean that the performance is not entertaining to anyone but the heckler usually. Given that Chapman also calls heckling a "distraction" from the performance, I took these two statements together to mean that Chapman thinks a heckled performance is not entertaining.
I had no trouble finding the flaw with the argument, but I have trouble translating and catching the similar answer choice. Ultimately, I got it correct, but I spent a lot of time asking myself questions like does "usually" mean "most"?
I chose E. My understanding of why I got this wrong might help you out.
I made an assumption, which added a link in the causal chain, like this:
Anticancer Drug → /Angiogenesis → /Vital Nutrients → /Cancer and /Fat Cells
I realized C is better because it does this:
Anticancer Drug → /Angiogenesis → /Cancer and /Fat Cells
Make as few leaps/assumptions as possible.
I got -2 on this section and this is one of the questions that messed me up. Chose D.
I was utterly lost because this was in the 'weaken' section. Now that I watched the explanation I realize that this is not a weaken question. This is a very specific strange type of question stem. I avoided C because it strengthened the argument by providing yet another reason why the hard track is faster.
Thank God. I lost almost ALL my points on that section. I would get -0 or -1 on RC and LR and then -12 on LG. If one of my good sections replaced LG I'd have like a 178 instead of a 165.
One thing I didn't like about A is that it said "ordinarily" she uses dozens. It's possible that sometimes she uses only one, two, or three sketches. That was also the same reason I didn't like C because C still leaves open the possibility that she sometimes used materials like those used in Sonora. I guess I would like A more if it said "Barajas always used four or more sketches."
Reasoning in a verbal format is a totally different skill set than what is required for LG. Manipulating symbols and picturing puzzles in a visual format is entirely different from arguing using language. You can be quite brilliant at writing arguments and totally incapable of doing these puzzles.
Didn't tyrants use the same tortures over and over?
I spent so much time pondering if "provided that" was indicating sufficiency or necessity. The only thing that helped me was knowing that this argument can't be valid.
Would have been 5/5 on my first run except I read 24 too quickly and didn't see the "most." Ack!
I got the right answer but I still felt that the LSAT shouldn't assume 'equity' and fairness are synonyms. This is actually highly debated. There are many who would argue equity was not fair.
Bordwell's definition itself is not obliged to define the musical as classical. The author's point is that Bordwell offers a definition (classical film) that cannot accommodate the musical. The author points out that Bordwell attempts to fit the musical into that category but it doesn't work according to his own definition of the genre. In other words, he is at odds with his own definition, warping it to fit something it shouldn't fit. Bordwell feels obliged to fit it, but his definition is not obliged to fit it. Terribly worded answer choice.