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General · Asia LSAT digital or no?

hwsuh92149

Tuesday, Jun 25 2019

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Not going to happen for years. LSAC emailed me back.

That is such a disappointment... I was writing in this comment an extended complaint about circumstances concerning the transition (ex: their 'collaboration' with Microsoft; July exam being half-and-half) but at one point I was reminded of how TOEFL transited from PBT to IBT way back when. Then I realized there's no point of complaining; it is what it is...

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Monday, Jun 24 2019

hwsuh92149

Asia LSAT digital or no?

So I noticed on LSAC website it says the LSAT is going full digital starting in September “in North America”. And I just called LSAC to ask if Asia LSAT’s are going to be digital in October and they just replied ‘cannot confirm at this point’. So I’m just really wondering if I should start getting familiar with digital format or just stick with paper format. I’m really hoping it goes digital in Asia too since being able to keep track of exactly how much time’s left has been really helpful when I tried out a few if the PT’s in digital format. Any ideas on whether or not Asia LSAT’s will be digital too?

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PT144.S4.Q23

hwsuh92149

Thursday, Jun 13 2019

The right A/C for this question is really odd. Usually, if not always, the correct A/C's don't require much assumption for the A/C to be the correct answer befitting the stimulus. But this one seems it's a little more far-fetched than regular correct A/C's. Jay says D is correct b/c 'people are going to put out less recyclables into the regular trash since it's easier to remember when the pick up's are'. So the volume of recyclables actually being recycled will increase. But who is to say that on regular days, without the proposed new program, people have been throwing out recyclables into regular trash to begin with? And how that amount is substantial enough to cover the added costs to make the program cost-effective? Seems to involve a lot of assumptions to make the A/C correct. I was down to C and D, b/c A was irrelevant; B wasn't Weakening enough b/c of 'might' and the cost wasn't the main rationale, the volume of trash was; E was a ST answer but also irrelevant b/c again the main rationale is the volume of trash, not cost. Both C and D required some level of assumptions to make them correct. But now that I look at C again, it says that 'volume ... is less than what they accumulate during two weeks', which would actually ST, or at least it is consistent with the editors' argument that the volume would remain the same. I was distracted by the 'saving time' portion of the A/C and tried to rationalize it when I should have stricken it as wrong answer choice with the same rationale that I used to strike out B and E. And as Jay said, it's still twice as many pickup's, so the 'saving time' also isn't Weakening enough. But during timed test, I didn't see how D would relate to 'volume of trash' so resorted to C even though I didn't feel comfortable with it either. I guess at the end of the day, D is the right choice not b/c it's 100%, but it's the MOST Weakening A/C out of the five.

I've noticed that in contrast to the PT's before 60's, where the right answer choices were often hidden behind convoluted language, the right answer choices in 60's and 70's, while they're certainly easier to read, seem to require the test takers to take an extra step of 'inference' instead. I'm not too sure which is worse for the test takers, but I'm personally struggling through these 70's b/c I'm so used to the thinking method where I had to rely solely on the stimulus to choose the correct A/C. Lately I've been getting more questions than I would like wrong b/c of similar situations to this question where I do narrow down to two A/C's, one of them the right one, but end up choosing the other. Even after choosing the right choice initially w/o POE, sometimes if it doesn't seem 100%, I tend to resort to the wrong one. It's getting really frustrating, any advice? #help

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PT144.S2.Q18

hwsuh92149

Wednesday, Jun 12 2019

This is an attempt to help myself and those who may be still be confused even after watching the explanation like I was, even after reading Powerscore and Manhattan Prep. The Main Premise (the last sentence) is saying that when Rumors Popular, it was the case that 'no change actually occurred (CO)' but 'more likely to remember (MR)'. Conditionally represented, RP→ (CO + MLR). To clarify, I just want to visually represent the idea that when RP, both CO and MLR are observed, not necessarily that RP triggers both CO and MLR to occur. But the author implies that this should not be the case under normal circumstances (when RP) and thereby argue that either of the analogous cases should not be trusted. Conditionally represented, RP→ negated (CO + MLR).

In other words, the author believes that when RP, it cannot be the case that CO MLR are both observed, so one of them cannot be observed. So the author has to assume that CO→~~MLR~~. Or MLR→CO. Because to believe otherwise would mean to believe that CO→MLR, which contradicts the argued case of negated (CO + MLR). Took me awhile, but it finally clicked after having had dinner and played some league.