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Taking the November LSAT and looking for someone to hop on Zoom and review questions together. If you're interested let me know. Took the October LSAT and got in the mid 160s, recently PTing in the low 170s.
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jackmarto29937
Monday, Sep 30 2024
Yup this implied biconditionality was the exact reason I got this one wrong...picked B even though I knew it was making up conditions. Should have known I was missing something important lol
jackmarto29937
Monday, Sep 30 2024
I think the logic here and the mix between stays within/exceed makes this challenging to get under timed conditions. This definitely threw me for a loop and led me to choose E and just move on. Now that I look at it, another way to think about the sufficient assumption here is to find the gap and block it: what if the museum can do the renovation this year and also not exceed the budget? D blocks that by telling us that if the museum renovates this year, then it will exceed the budget.
jackmarto29937
Monday, Sep 30 2024
Tricky thing here was figuring out what they were comparing: # of City X's residents who are patients in hospitals with # of City Y's residents who are in hospitals. D is irrelevant because even if it were true, that wouldn't explain why City X residents have a lower patient hospitalization rate than City Y residents (they would still be patients in hospitals, some would just be patients in City Y).
jackmarto29937
Saturday, Sep 28 2024
Wow that took a while but finally understood this question.
The conclusion that dioxin is unlikely to be the cause is supported by this premise: if the fish recover quickly when the dioxin is still present in their water, then it's unlikely for dioxin to be the cause. C weakens this line of reasoning (albeit in a sort of twisted way) by telling us that the dioxin is downstream in a few hours and not necessarily "in" the fish's water, meaning that since the fish are recovering quickly, it's now much more likely for dioxin to be the cause.
I was stumped on this one under timed conditions and ended up going with D. Good lesson for me to beware of specific word choice and these answer choices that say "some."
jackmarto29937
Thursday, Oct 17 2024
Trying to wrap my head around question 21. Just felt like A was such a jump that I could not choose it. Yes, the symbols are abstract, but does that mean that their symbols could just be replaced without loss of significance? Weren't those symbols (however abstract) still associated with their respective objects? I see how none of the other answers really do it for us, just trying to find any textual support.
Q22 was difficult too, but now I clearly see the alternative explanation posed by B. Totally read that over quickly and assumed it was essentially rephrasing Besserat's conclusion.
jackmarto29937
Wednesday, Jun 05 2024
can someone explain how A could be true? i must be getting messed up by the last sentence in the stimulus
jackmarto29937
Tuesday, Oct 01 2024
Besides using formal logic, there's another way you can get to answer choice B (I picked A quickly under timed conditions then chose B on blind review). Ask yourself: where is the gap in the argument? The big one that I can find is this: what if humans have other legitimate reasons for preventing or controlling the forest fires? Then can we really draw the conclusion that they shouldn't prevent or control them?
Answer choice B works well because it fills in that gap by telling us that protecting the forests and their ecosystems (which is the premise) is the only legitimate thing that needs to be considered.
I get why D is right, but not super happy with the assumption that least moral = immoral. Guess here that was a reasonable assumption to make but just feels like in any other situation that would be questioned since it seems to me one can be not completely morally upright but does that really mean they are immoral?