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Wednesday, Oct 31 2018

Thanks for the laugh! Really need this after getting a 1/5 in one of the LR drills. lol

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PT152.S1.Q24
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Thursday, Apr 30 2020

I interpreted A as follows:

"highlighting the differences": one is a work of art, the other one is not a work of art.

"things that are believed to have certain property": Warhol's Brillo Boxes because these are visually indistinguishable to the actual ones and may cause people to believe those are actually from Brillo.

"things that actually have that property": the product packaging of an actual brand of scouring pads. (aka actual Brillo boxes)

The problem here is that I assumed people believe Warhol's Brillo boxes are actually Brillo's boxes produced by Brillo. We simply don't know that. Perhaps people already knew that Warhol's Brillo boxes are simply replica. Thus, this AC cannot be correct.

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Saturday, Oct 27 2018

This is awesome!

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Sunday, Mar 24 2019

Hang in there, brother. I'm on the same boat as you. Aim for T14 and achieve your dream.

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PT139.S1.Q19
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Tuesday, Mar 23 2021

Am I the only one who didn't link up "habitat" and "eating behaviour" together? The earthworm could have lived somewhere else other than the leaf litters but likes to consume leaf litters. Damn it.

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Wednesday, Oct 23 2019

Thank you for being awesome.

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Thursday, May 20 2021

i am interested. Please DM me.

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Tuesday, May 19 2020

do we still have a zoom lesson today?

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Sunday, Nov 18 2018

Count me in!

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Sunday, Nov 18 2018

Had 3 LR. I think I screwed up big time....couldn't finish LR. sigh...

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PT102.S3.Q13
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Thursday, Nov 15 2018

I hesitated a bit on choosing A because I thought perhaps the company may have a lower chance of retrieving back the debts. So even though the company can retrieve back 15%+ from the long outstanding bills, the total amount of money they retrieve back could be lower than hiring the agency to do so due to their higher success rate.

However, we ought not to assume more assumptions other than the one in question. There are endless assumptions for us to make. In this question, the author's conclusion is only based on the premise that agencies pay back 15% to the company. So we should only form necessary assumptions based on this premise. The passage didn't mention who is better at chasing the customers.

Ex. Making a car is too expensive, so you are better off buying a car.

Necessary assumption: buying a car is less expensive than making a car yourself.

Unnecessary assumption: Driving a car that you made is more reliable and cost less gas in the long run and thus cost less in general. Well, I think if someone makes assumption like this one, they are bringing their outside world knowledge into the argument; thus it is not right.

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Wednesday, Jul 15 2020

I'm interested. From Vancouver.

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PT102.S3.Q22
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Saturday, Mar 14 2020

I knew the flaw, but couldn't find the answer to match it. Sigh....

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Thursday, Nov 12 2020

Have you tried Ellen Cassidy's way to do this type of question? Her method is like JY's SA method of building a bridge between two ideas. Her method is Phenomenon 1 ---- Resolution ----- Phenomenon 2. So, the resolution is like a bridge between the two phenomena.

For example,

PT 43 S2 Q10

I am trying to examine the stimulus with only logic and try to make sense of AC A.

Acceptance of criticism requires positive response.

A -> PS

Students are more likely to learn from criticism that they are more likely to respond positively. (I paraphrased it)

More likely PS --> More likely to L

SO, can I infer from the above that students are more likely to accept criticism only when students are more likely to respond positively?

More likely A --> More likely PS

becasue

A-->More likely A. One will accept that one criticism only when one is likely to accept that one criticism.

Assuming that one is logical and not some kind of robot programed with random allgorithem.

The same goes with PS. PS --> More likely PS. One will respond positively to the criticism only when one is likely to respond positively to the criticism.

If we chain up the inferrences, we get

A-->More likely A --> PS--> More likely PS--> More likely to L.

And because of the inferrences made above, we can say that one is more likely to learn from criticism when they are more likely to accept the criticism.

A) Students are more likely to learn from crticism that they accept than from crticism they do not accept.

Paraphrase: If one accept a criticism, then one is more likely to learn from it.

A--> More likely to L

if we negate this, then A--> NOT more likely to L. It will contradict with our argument. Therefore, this assumption is necessary.

Another NA I can think of is A->L. When one accept the criticism, one will learn from the criticism.

Please correct me because I am 80% not confident with what I wrote here.

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Saturday, Nov 10 2018

Nice, now I'm all motivated.

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PT152.S4.Q22
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Tuesday, May 05 2020

I have problems seeing the support from premise to conclusion, and I guess I disagree with JY's explanation on why C is wrong. Please do correct me if I'm wrong.

Premise: On average, people are only willing to pay 2/3 of the actual price of the gifts chosen by others (including friends, family, etc.)

Conclusion: Gift cards are more highly valued by recipients than are gifts chosen for them by others.

So, here is a scenario, one is willing to pay $3 on the gift chosen by relatives and close friends and $1 on gifts chosen by non-relatives and non--close friends when gifts are $3 (for the sake of demonstration and is in line with the premise). In this scenario, one cannot conclude that gift cards are more highly valued all the time. One can concludes that sometimes gift cards are more highly valued than the actual gifts.

I chose C) because I thought by pointing out that ,in the study, one could have been paying more or equivalent to the value of gifts given by relatives and close friends, it helps to weaken the support from the premise to the conclusion.

However, C) didn't specify how much more people are willing to pay for the gifts chosen by relatives and close friends. And because of that, there could be no one who is willing to pay more or equivalent to the value of gifts given by relatives. ex. $2.50 for a gift worth $3. Since the question stem states most seriously weakens, D) weakens the argument better than C) because it's less ambiguous than C.

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PT106.S3.Q15
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Thursday, Apr 04 2019

Initially, I chose A because I misread the word, "these" in line 3.

I thought "become aware of these"(line 3) means being aware that human beings' cognitive faculties are superior than other animals (lines 1-2) because I thought the word "these" is referring to the whole previous sentence. But no, I was too naive. "These" referring to more than one things that's why it uses "these" instead of "this". So, clearly, "these" is referring to the cognitive faculties embodied by human beings. The last sentence even gives us the hint.

If schools explicitely state on their websites that they only look at your highest LSAT score, will they care about your # of attempts or cancelations? Since there are no more restrictions on how many times you can take LSAT, I am wondering, let's say, five LSAT scores on your record is going to be deterimental on your application. Thank you in advance.

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PT107.S3.Q24
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Sunday, Nov 04 2018

Totally saw the flaw in the passage, but had no idea that Mr. Nance took retirement the other way around. According to JY, Mr.Nance's definition of retirement is to retire from all work and not just retire from QCC. How am I suppose to know?

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PT152.S4.Q18
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Monday, May 04 2020

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PT103.S1.Q9
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Wednesday, Apr 03 2019

Aside from laughing at Uranus, D is actually quite tricky.

D) is wrong. First of all, we know that Uranus is moving in an opposite direction of the sun (lines 2-3 away from the Sun). In other words, it is moving in a specific direction, not a random one. Now let's look at D, if the sun is exerting insufficient force on Uranus to make it not moving away, would Uranus or any planet in the similar position moves in the opposite direction of the sun. Well, we don't know. In fact, if we do, we are making up assumptions which is not good for answering LSAT questions.

In addition, even if the planet the sun exerted weaker forces on is drifting in the direct opposite direction of the sun on its own, we still didn't explain what is pulling Uranus (line 1). If you say: well nothing is pulling the planet, then you are contradicting the observation/phenomenon stated in the passage.

TL;DR

If you think D is the correct answer, then you are assuming 1) whatever the planet like Uranus which have weaker forces exerted on by the sun will drift away from the sun (not left or right), 2) nothing, and absolutely nothing is pulling Uranus away from the sun.

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Monday, Apr 01 2019

D) Anyone can file any kind of lawsuit with the bad intentions. Just because there are many people filing lawsuits against the company doesn't mean the statistic of 3.2 injuries per 200,000 hours is falsely stated by the manager. Since we don't know legitimate those filed lawsuits are, we can't say there might be more than 3.2 injuries per 200,000 hours. Therefore, this AC is wrong.

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