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PT152.S3.P1.Q5
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ivytlee433
Tuesday, Nov 07 2023

I disagree with this. Events that are really damaging or ruinous could be catastrophic even if it occurs slowly. Even National Geographic considers droughts catastrophic: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/resource-library-catastrophic-weather-events/.

I would say what's wrong with B is that it says "only" something as a catastrophic. The passage doesn't say this. It says "most likely", so there is a chance that something non-catastrophic caused their migration. Maybe they were tracking the migration patterns a particularly beautiful group of butterflies?

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PT152.S1.Q19
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ivytlee433
Tuesday, Nov 07 2023

I thought the two different state of affairs was referring have a book versus not having a book. Which I don't think is wrong. Technically that is two different state of affairs, but not the two it meant. So not sure what future me should do with this.

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PT155.S3.P3.Q19
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ivytlee433
Saturday, Nov 04 2023

My take is away is that I'm gonna take the l on a passage like this cause 19 and 22 are not it for me.

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PT155.S3.P3.Q18
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ivytlee433
Saturday, Nov 04 2023

How can you determine that for C, they're skipping the initial research step? Since they're researchers, doesn't that imply that whatever they're doing is research? Maybe the first step to their research project is synthesizing?

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PT134.S4.P4.Q26
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ivytlee433
Friday, Nov 03 2023

So I thought of 26 this way using the following quotes:

"assigning art to a 'shameful destiny'" - Making the goal of piece of art be a political statement is a "shameful destiny"

"literary work must stand or fall on its artistic merit" - Literary work needs to be able stand on its own and be literary work for literary works sake

"artistry is quite simply the ability to write well" - If literary work is going to be considered "art" it needs to be well written, that's all. So, the goal should first be to be your best self.

Therefore for any piece of literary or whatever to even be "art" it needs to be good just as it is first (awww!), then it can go on to do whatever it wants.

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PT134.S4.P3.Q14
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ivytlee433
Friday, Nov 03 2023

Wait what. For question 14 there are absolutely people skeptical of evolutionary theory! There are so many people out there who don't believe in evolution.

I mean this may not change the answer to this question, but saying that everyone believes in evolutionary theory is just not true. #feedback

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PT146.S4.P4.Q23
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ivytlee433
Wednesday, Nov 01 2023

23 - How do we know which element is the most damaging? It doesn't say that chlorine is the most damaging?

And 26 - It doesn't say that chlorine is the only element that damages the ozone? So why would D be right? So what if the element doesn't share a property with chlorine, what if it's just a different element that also damages the ozone??

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PT146.S4.P3.Q22
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ivytlee433
Wednesday, Nov 01 2023

I don't get why B is right for question 22? It doesn't mention the envelopes, so I thought that it could be something the villagers did in addition to whatever they did with the envelopes? #help

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PT146.S1.Q20
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ivytlee433
Tuesday, Oct 31 2023

How do you know that the referential phrasing is to the accessibility piece? Because in the first part the "but such modernizing" refers to the aesthetic part? Would that make more sense because usually when you repeat a phrase that the other person said you're referring to the same thing that they were referring to. #help

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PT155.S1.Q10
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ivytlee433
Sunday, Oct 29 2023

I mean I guess I see what he's saying about C not being as direct, but I think that his argument that parents would teach kids about dental hygiene is that strong. We've seen that sex education in schools reduces teen pregnancy, so the implication that it doesn't matter whether schools educate on dental hygiene is not one that I'm buying.

#feedback

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PT155.S1.Q21
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ivytlee433
Sunday, Oct 29 2023

I do not understand this explanation at all. How is the failure of reaching heating not reachable? Is that just the contrapositive? Rfr —> cool or lux contrapositive not cool and not lux —> not rfr

#help

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PT138.S3.Q18
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ivytlee433
Friday, Oct 27 2023

#help Doesn't the phrase "So once the company has moved" imply that there's a change once they move? Implying that they don't have over a 30 minute commute currently?

Like if I were to say "my favorite color is red. So once I move my favorite color will be red", that would be weird? You would expect me to supply some sort change in the second half of that sentence. "I am hungry. So once I eat, I will be hungry." That would be so weird for someone to say??

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General · ⚠️ Don't Update Your Mac Before the LSAT This Fall!
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ivytlee433
Tuesday, Oct 17 2023

Wow... this doesn't seem okay. What if someone is unable to borrow, bootcamp, or purchase an external hard drive? This seems like something they should have to address or make accommodations for on their end.

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PT150.S2.Q21
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ivytlee433
Monday, Oct 16 2023

I get why B is right, but I'm confused as to what sentence about humans adds to the argument. Even if that sentence was removed, wouldn't you still need to assume that affection sometimes needs to be reciprocated in order to be willing to provide protection? Couldn't you argue that protection is a sign of affection? #help

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PT150.S1.P4.Q21
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ivytlee433
Sunday, Oct 15 2023

Does the sentence "the principle effect of cooking considered to date..." not imply that this is an accepted theory? I read that as such.

#help

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PT150.S1.P2.Q8
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ivytlee433
Sunday, Oct 15 2023

If 59% of people got question 8 wrong, then it's a bad question. If I wrote something and most people who read it didn't understand it, then I would rewrite what I wrote.

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PT118.S1.Q22
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ivytlee433
Friday, Oct 13 2023

I don't understand why "lack of rain" is such a large stretch/assumption, but a drought isn't? If you have really finicky plants, like all the crops I've tried to grow, it just takes like 1 afternoon of too much sun or not enough water for them all to die.

#help

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PT116.S2.Q16
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ivytlee433
Wednesday, Oct 04 2023

I thought E was stated in the premise already? "Such regions often experience an influx of new residents, and a growing population encourages businesses to relocate to those regions". So we already know that natural beauty will lead new businesses, then why do we need E? #help

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PT128.S2.Q19
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ivytlee433
Wednesday, Oct 04 2023

I don't understand what he is saying of the two "signaling in different directions" and one being "real crime" versus the other being "not the reality". For people to report a crime would they need to have the "impression" that the crime they experienced was a "real crime"?

I also don't understand where E says that there is over reporting. It says that a greater proportion has been reported, but what if that is because there is more crime happening? How would that then resolve the discrepancy? I'm not following where we were supposed to pick up that people are over reporting on crime versus accurately reporting on crime, but still having the impression that there is less crime? #help

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PT158.S1.P3.Q15
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ivytlee433
Monday, Sep 25 2023

Question 15 was a bad question

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PT103.S4.P1.Q4
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ivytlee433
Saturday, Sep 23 2023

For question 4, I thought the author explicitly said that both national service and taxation require sacrifice? In the passage it says "Implicit in such a context is the concept of shared sacrifice...Thus, each of us must bear a share of the burden to ensure that the community is protected".

Is it because of the word "different"? Like if it just said "required degrees of sacrifice" would that make it right? #help

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PT128.S4.P2.Q8
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ivytlee433
Sunday, Sep 17 2023

For question 8, doesn't answer C require an assumption that approval of a character means that character ends up happy and disapproval ends up unhappy? How can we assume that?

Just because a character doesn't end up happy doesn't mean the creator "disapproves" of that character. There are a lot of stories where great characters meet unhappy endings because it's a reflection of life. Also, what does it even mean when it says approve or disapprove of a character? Like the author agrees or disagrees with their choices? Or doesn't or does like them as a person? You could assume that any character that makes it into the end product was "approved" in someway by the author for a specific purpose?

Can someone help me understand this answer? #help

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PT145.S2.Q22
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ivytlee433
Monday, Sep 11 2023

The answer choice stats show that 49% picked B versus 46% that picked the right answer. If almost half the people who answered this picked the same wrong answer, then it's a bad question.

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PT145.S2.Q14
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ivytlee433
Monday, Sep 11 2023

Wait, wasn't his explanation for C an explanation on how it's a good answer?

Isn't his explanation a flaw in the argument? He says "blah blah blah, well if you're assuming all these things why are you so hard on pollutants. You don't even know if they're the ones that are causing most your cancer". But isn't that the point? That the flaw is that you're attributing this pollutant to the cause when you don't know what the cause could be?

#help

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I've been reading some suggestions to simulate a modern test for the practice tests, and then "take an extra section" from an older test to simulate how the testing would feel day of. But how do you do this?

Do you make a drill with it limited to "Tags and Preptests" then only check off 1 prep test and then check off all the item tags? What do you do then with the drill difficulty slider? Wouldn't the drill difficulty slider not be in effect if you do this because you're just taking all the questions from a section so you can't control the difficulty?

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