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iluvcandy07280
Tuesday, Oct 30 2018

PSA: watch this show!

I lol'd at this, thought about my life, and lol'd some more

I signed up for the November LSAT yesterday and couldn't choose the test center I would have liked to, which has good online reviews from previous LSAT takers with respect to desk space, lighting, room size, etc. So I signed up for a location that I couldn't find any reviews for: Junipero Serra High School (in San Diego, California). It looks like the July LSAT was offered there, and the upcoming September one is being offered there too.

Have any of you have taken the LSAT there, or are going to in September? I would appreciate any information/insight you have on this test center!

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PT134.S1.Q6
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iluvcandy07280
Monday, Nov 26 2018

I chose A) because I didn't read carefully enough - the "before" in the AC makes this one wrong. It doesn't matter if they weren't well known before 1953; the stimulus is talking about 1953 onwards.

I pre-phrased a stronger version of E) but thought "many" was too weak, so I picked A) because I thought it was getting at the same thing. It was, but the "before" makes it wrong. Ugh

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PT151.S4.Q24
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iluvcandy07280
Thursday, Jan 17 2019

This question was intuitive for me, but the more I'm thinking about it, the less I like it.

I don't like how strongly worded B) is. From the stimulus, all we can really infer is that the steam is one possibility. Can't another be that the iodine and cesium came from the spent fuel rods, while the tellurium came from the steam/some other method that wasn't discussed (indirectly from the plant's core).

I know that it's a MSS, not a MBT, but even with that it seems too strongly worded b/c it only seems to be 1 possibility.

Am I wrong in thinking this? #help

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PT132.S2.Q3
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iluvcandy07280
Friday, Nov 16 2018

I thought of this more as a PSA question, but yeah it obviously also strengthens

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PT151.S4.Q4
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iluvcandy07280
Wednesday, Jan 16 2019

Ugh, I misidentified the conclusion as the third sentence. Thought it made sense as the conclusion during timed b/c when I read this sentence, I was like "well why is it that the relationship to art has changed over time?" And then I thought the final sentence helped to answer that question, thus rendering it as support.

Can anyone help explain to me why my thought process wrong? #help

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PT146.S2.Q21
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iluvcandy07280
Tuesday, Jan 15 2019

Can someone go into more detail as to why C) is wrong? I thought it matched part of the principle that had to deal with "waiting to make a decision until a test is completed"

#help

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iluvcandy07280
Friday, Dec 14 2018

I have one for red herring:

PT 67-4-21: https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-67-section-4-question-21/

"It does not address the neighbor's claim that pesticides used by the farmer are spreading onto her land"

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PT139.S4.Q14
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iluvcandy07280
Wednesday, Nov 14 2018

#help

I truly don't understand how we're supposed to see that the last sentence of the stimulus: "We can conclude that no one fundamentally desires anything except pleasure" supposedly means that: pleasure is the reason we want things.

I really am trying to figure out how to arrive at that implication but I'm at a loss.

I got this q wrong b/c I couldn't work out the flaw. And b/c I'm still having so much trouble seeing it, I feel like the only way I could get this q right would be through POE.

If anyone has any insight as to how to arrive at that understanding I'd really appreciate it.

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PT137.S4.Q8
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iluvcandy07280
Thursday, Dec 13 2018

this question is trash

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PT122.S4.Q25
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iluvcandy07280
Friday, Oct 12 2018

omg lmao @ JY's explanation of C

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PT131.S1.Q24
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iluvcandy07280
Friday, Oct 12 2018

What is a good time for this kind of question (with respect to its difficulty, etc)? Is ~1:45 an alright length of time to take to comfortably finish the section under time? #help

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PT136.S4.Q23
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iluvcandy07280
Tuesday, Dec 11 2018

I eliminated A) for another reason, because of its mention of the word "owners" -- Alex only brings up investors, which aren't necessarily the same thing as owners. Is that also another correct way to eliminate A)? #help

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PT148.S4.Q25
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iluvcandy07280
Friday, Jan 11 2019

Doesn't D) contract the stimulus? D) says that fossils exist in Australia but aren't we told in the stimulus that "closely related species [of iguanas] exist in the Americas, but nowhere else" ????

I'm confused. Trying to see how it doesn't contradict. #help

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PT148.S4.Q18
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iluvcandy07280
Friday, Jan 11 2019

Can someone go over why C) is wrong? I found it attractive b/c I thought the argument was assuming that both the left and the right were wrong, when it could be the case that one of them was correct in their characterization. So C) was attractive b/c it suppressed the possibility that there could also be additional critiques aside from the left and the right.

:/

#help

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PT148.S1.Q12
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iluvcandy07280
Thursday, Jan 10 2019

Can we also say that A) is wrong because it only eliminates the potential for additional predators, but still leaves the paradox of the wolves being potential predators up in the air? So even if there aren't other predators, as A) suggests, the fact that wolves are likely still moose predators is still "unresolved"? That's kind of how I eliminated A). #help

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PT120.S4.Q14
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iluvcandy07280
Monday, Oct 08 2018

Doesn't A) contradict a premise? I thought "the practical joker" in the first sentence heavily implied there was only one joker. What am I missing? #help

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PT136.S2.Q19
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iluvcandy07280
Friday, Dec 07 2018

seems weird that this is a SA and not a PSA since there is still a gap between the premise and sub-conclusion that isn't addressed by D)

why is this a SA? #help

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PT136.S2.Q11
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iluvcandy07280
Friday, Dec 07 2018

wtf is A) even saying

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PT144.S2.Q1
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iluvcandy07280
Monday, Nov 05 2018

So there's no live commentary for section 2? I'm seeing a live commentary for all the questions from the other sections, but not for any of the section 2 questions. Just wanted to make sure that I'm not missing something #help

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PT128.S4.P1.Q1
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iluvcandy07280
Friday, Jan 04 2019

I really really don't like the correct answer choice for #1... C) felt incomplete because it's completing the missing "genetic" element, which is why I eliminated it. :/ Didn't like any of the answer choices for #1, but I panicked and just picked E) and moved on

Is C) just the right AC because it's the least wrong? #help

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PT140.S3.Q19
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iluvcandy07280
Sunday, Nov 04 2018

I think if you're having trouble "clicking" and finding the assumption in this argument, what you can do is negate the conclusion and try to see how getting to the negated conclusion is possible. whatever makes the negated conclusion possible is what the necessary assumption wants to block. that's ultimately how I got this one, because I saw that the way to believe that some of the purchased trucks were diesel was to have them sold before "last year" - so the necessary assumption assumes the opposite of this is true

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PT141.S1.P3.Q21
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iluvcandy07280
Wednesday, Jan 02 2019

I read the explanations below, but I'm still not crystal on why E) is wrong for #21. The author only says that "most adults understand and recognize the [advertising claims]" in line 41. Most is not all, and most implies that few don't understand the claims for what they are. So... :/

#help

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PT135.S1.Q14
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iluvcandy07280
Sunday, Dec 02 2018

lol I didn't know what "policyholder" was referring to - at first I thought it referred to the actual company's view, so I wasted a bunch of time on this question for that reason, even though I eventually got to the right answer by seeing that B) is only only AC that even attempts to match the necessary condition

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PT135.S1.Q21
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iluvcandy07280
Saturday, Dec 01 2018

Ugh, concepts of relative vs. absolute with respect to the word "hasten" here really fucked me over here. I was between A) and D) and ended up picking A) just because I wasn't sure whether or not the whole --slowing down global warming, but doing so at a lower rate than you would with using grass-- that D) implies actually meant that you were hastening global warming.

I guess, if you think of it relatively speaking, in that situation you are hastening? Since we're positing that the grass would have been planted there otherwise? And so even if the trees are slowing down global warming, since they're slowing it down less, it's still hastening it? :/

Idk why I'm having so much trouble with this, feelsbadman because it seems like no one else did

#help

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PT141.S1.P1.Q2
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iluvcandy07280
Tuesday, Jan 01 2019

Is it really feasible to do this passage in 5-6 minutes? Am I just super slow or something? I spent 7:23 on this with bubbling, but JY's video on this passage says to do this in 5-6 minutes :/

#help

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