hardcore agree with you for 5. especially the word "national" had me thinking the answer choice had to mention the government in some shape or form, that's why I got rid of B

Go figure I get the 1/5 difficulty wrong and both the 5/5 difficulty ones right

I'm no LSAT genius but I got this right timed through POE. After thinking it through right now here is my process if it helps.

Diagramming the stimulus:

Officials justified -s- Keeping gov secrets > Abuse of power > Compelling reason

Officials NOT justified -s- Keeping gov secrets > Abuse of power

Officials conceal keeping a secret > Greater opportunity for abuse of power

a) In most cases in which govt officials conceal info from the public, they are not justified in doing so - we don’t know anything about “most cases” so this can’t be right

b) In those cases in which govt officials have a compelling reason to keep a secret, doing so does not facilitate an abuse of power - if you reduce this down to conditional logic, we don’t know anything about “if you have a compelling reason to keep a secret.” That’s only ever put in the necessary condition. So this answer is out

c) A government official who justifiably keeps a secret should not conceal its existence without having a compelling reason to do so - if we reduce this to conditional logic, it says “if justified in keeping a gov secret” (which we know can sometimes happen according to the first conditional statement) then you have to have a compelling reason to do so. Which follows from that first sufficient indicator

d) Government officials who conceal information without a compelling reason are thereby guilty of an abuse of power - if we reduce this to conditional logic, “if government officials keep a secret” only leads to “greater opportunity to abuse power,” which is not the same thing as abusing power

e) Govt officials should keep info secret only if doing so does not make it easier for those officials to abuse their power - “if keep secret, then should be made harder to abuse power” is not a conditional statement found here

did anyone else read this and decide to take the L on it

Lsat be like: don't assume that "evaluated more strictly" and "judged for quality" are the same thing... but do assume that "workers" = "freelance writers" when everything in the stimulus points to them wanting to separate those two groups smh.

So would B be right if it said "doesn't behave indifferent" instead of "not indifferent?"

seriously

#feedback So the word "assumption" doesn't always mean an unstated assumption? That is why I eliminated D. Now I see that C is too strong with the either/or, but when I'm doing timed drills the word "assumption" was an immediate red flag to me. Should it not be?

Am I crazy for thinking that if there are more cops on the streets, the crime rate would rise because there are more police out there to catch more violent crimes? I chose B because having harsh punishments for some crimes seemed like a deterrent to commit violent crimes. I thought it was more solid reasoning than E despite the "some" in there. Please help.

How is E not strengthening the conclusion? If consultants told you "this is what you have to do to expand the company," how is that weakening the conclusion "they are attempting to expand the company?"

So when the second speaker says "I agree with your overall conclusion, but disagree about one point" you immediately go to attack the conclusion?

I chose D because it specifically attacked one of the premises and didn't mention the cost that the conclusion did. I understand why it not saying "latest closed furnace" is wrong but given the nature of the second speaker's rebuttal I assumed we were not supposed to attack the conclusion. Why is this interpretation wrong?

Can you please go into more detail about why B is incorrect? The way I see it, there is a new idea/conclusion that's being presented in the last sentence of the stimulus that isn't present anywhere else (the costly/ changing the character of science). The way I see it E is a subconclusion for B to work.

Yo, as all of these other questions have asked, does the paragraph above Let's Review mean that the conclusion from "only count dooku" is correct or not? Count dooku is a jedi is correct?

Question 2: "He cannot kill both Arya and Sansa."

Is it not /a > /s because Arya and Sansa are both immune from being killed?