hardest question north america

both b) and c) are terrible answers in terms of "weakening". Both require assumptions to 'seriously' weaken the argument, but B) definitely requires more assumptions, making C) the best answer.

b) assumptions well explained by J.Y.

c) modern writer = ancient writer

all these lsat nightmares tho... this is like a mental therapy session forum haha

hardest question in this section along wiht #18

I don't understand why LSAC would add the "unless" part. By adding that part, now they added another element "correct or incorrectness of Grime/Company Pre's saying".

And thus, for the conclusion to be valid with (C), you would also have to assume that what the company president and Grimes said is correct.

i can tell you for sure that it's not difference in level of difficulty. I got destroyed in PT 51(especially LR sec 3. I even remember the section number: that's how hard i got rekt), while doing much better on other ones.

surprised so many people got this right. I immediately chose A and moved on lawl

I had 3 LRs. I remember the first LR section, because it was the easiest and more importantly question 17 or 18 started on the last flipping page(last 2 pages), which is highly unusual. Normally the last page would start on question 21~23 with 4~5 questions.

Basically the last 2 pages had like 8 questions in total

・the rate of 450 times/second ---> the ring has a radius of 49km.

・The can ring maintain an orbit so close (49km) to a black hole —> the black hole was spinning

the phrase "can best be explained" = "only explanation". Therefore, making your diagram above correct.

If we don’t make this faulty assumption, I don’t even think we can get to the correct answer lol…..

The stimulus is not concerned with why HE correlates with prosperity. The author seems to take it for granted and already understands it. His wonderment begins at the second sentence when he introduces the correlation to unemployment. In other words, his real question is why HE can ever correspond to unemployment. And Choice A is the only answer that addresses this issue. >

you just answered the question so perfectly...

You're absolutely right that answer choice A is the only answer that explains this "wonderment" a.k.a paradox.

And that's all you need to do in paradox questions. Just find that "wonderment" and come up with an explanation of it.

Forget about all the correlations, you don't have to strengthen any correlations.

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Plus (I'm not trying to make excuses for myself) the girl sitting next to me kept reaching into her pocket for m&ms during the test! She's not supposed to eat anything while taking the test, is she? But anyway, her chewing and cracking the packet distracted me a bit. Should I have said something to the examiner?

That must've been so annoying. I can't believe people are so selfish and irresponsible about making noises. I could deal with coughing or sneezing(cuz theyre unintentional), but hearing stories like these annoy me so much because I know how mad I would be if I were in that situation. Even small random noises can all of a sudden blank you out and being angry makes you lose focus for like 20~30 seconds, which is a valuable time enuff to read a whole stimulus in LR question.

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I had RC, LR, LG, LR, LG. I generally get -2 to - 7 on RC, but this RC seemed historically difficult. When the 5 min warning sounded, myself, and many others, quickly flipped to the final passage (judges). To be fair, the games were unusually straightforward too.

a lot of ppl have been saying that. So don't worry too much :smile: , since lsat is scored in relative , not absolute.

Thank you so much!

Now it makes sense to me :smiley:

can't believe they just used vigorous and strenuous so interchangeably like that lol. Searched the dictionary and they can be synonyms but depending on how you apply it could be different meanings Strenuous "hard, difficult". Vigorous "energetic, happy". Anyways nice vocab quiz from lsac

you have time to cancel upto 1 day before the test day so that nothing will show up in your record as if you never even registered for the test(which is a good thing to do if you know you won't do well).

On the other hand, if u cancel AFTER taking the test or during test day, it will show up as 'canceled' in ur record.

The former is obviously better than latter but either way you can't get your money back as far as I know.

#7 tho..

i thought (d) was trying to draw some kind of analogy between 'behavior' and 'emotion' or sth else. Totally crossed out (d) without even a second thought.

You're pretty determined in taking the test already, so it might be kind of disrespectful to say this but I think walking into the exam with an attitude that's anything other than "I'm ready" is not a good idea.

but for (C) to be right, you have make an assumption(which isnt supported by the stimulus) that the "certain family" is involved in mutton, sheepskin, or other business....

Where in the stimulus does it mention even slightly, that the "certain family" is involved in selling other things?

1:39 j.y. if ure an idiot im a paper

Answer choice (B) makes some small assumptions that we get punished in LSAT for doing sometimes.

Maybe skilled practitioners are overextending when kicking in order to avoid injuries that are even worse than hip,knee,or lowerback injuries? we dont know.

Maybe if the beginners don't get used to overextending, they will get fatally knocked out by the opponent during real matches? In that case, we can't say that avoiding to overextend will reduce injuries.

I still chose (B) cuz all the other choices are soo terrible, but I spent a good amount of 2minutes overall on this question.

I only use mechanistic approach for these questions. I never try to actually understand the underlying intuitive 'reasoning' or the 'flaw' until maybe the very end when i have 2 contenders cuz it's just too time consuming. So these questions are actually more like parallel "structuring" to me rather than reasoning.

I get rid of answer choices by comparing the premises and conclusions based on:

(is,are,must be) vs. (can be, most likely, probably)

all vs most vs (some,many,few)

Negation

logical structure(like A->B->C)

I always start out by comparing the conclusions first because cuz thats the easiest to spot and then move on to comparing the logical structure after that.

If everything above(1,2,3,4) are equal between stim and answer choice, but the question stem is 'flawed reasoning', read the argument again. If it sounds to good and smooth to be flawed, it's probably not flawed and therefore not a correct answer.

Some of my mistakes I wrote down in my note:

Order of premise and conclusion don't have to be exactly the same as the stimulus.

They try to trick u by switching around the element's order by saying 'B if A' into 'A only if B', vice versa. So it looks like the order is reversed, but the logic is still A->B.

'Since' is not always a sufficiency indicator, it could be used simply as a premise indicator.

Hope this helps

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Estimates for the curve?

as someone who took the sept test as well, this one is probably standard -10 curve. Nothing unusual.

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I had 3 LRs the order was LR RC LR LR LG and had questions about

-mayor getting re-elected

-black/white camoflauge

-Greek charachter reading a tablet from an oracle

-disagreement about how companies considering... should go about it

I confirm the mayor election (was this the one about the bill with regards to the election?), the black/white camouflage, Greek tablet, and I'm pretty sure the companies one, too.

all the Q's u mentioned are real;

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had three LRs, i remember one was hard... it had 26 questions and a question about an ancient greek charachter reading a tablet that asked to reject one of the statements? Was that experimental?

Some PLEASE tell us this was experimental?

greek tablet was real... im sorry :(