This was interesting for me. I originally chose B - thinking that well if "ALL" devices cause radiation, surely there are other devices on the plane that emit radiation, and not just the stuff that passengers bring on board. I viewed E similar to why A strengthens. Listening to this explanation, it makes sense now. E asks us to make an assumption - as JY says it just doesn't strengthen the argument if you look at the answer closely.

Late comment, but what kind of conservative are you looking for? Social/Religious conservative? Political/ideological conservative?

Just something to think about.

:)

This was confusing to me. Interestingly, on my diagnostic that I took a year ago (and forgot about) apparently I got this right. However, after viewing some of the lessons, my thinking process had me choosing E instead of A.

Maybe I'm overanalyzing, but I didn't like either answer. E bothers me, because of the assumption that is made about the level of reduction that will be made - we don't know what the environmental impact is of gas cars vs coal power plants - there isn't enough information to say one has more impact than the other. Following the same logic pattern, I don't like A either. We don't have enough information to know that the car getting it's energy from electricity generated by coal or nuclear power plant is worse for the environment than the car getting it's energy from gas. Reading thru these comments and getting ready to watch the video - it seems like the conventional wisdom is "A" is the correct choice, purely because it isn't as specific of an answer as E is. It just feels contrary to what I've been concentrating on the past few days, which is pushing to analyze only information presented in the passage, and suppress any outside inferences or extraneous information (and thus zero in on an answer).

Both of these are great, thank you!

Ended up calling LSAC directly - they said fill out as much as you can and putting in a space doesn't make a difference.

I started out using the Ticonderoga HB #2 for drilling/note taking, after reading that mechanical pencils are banned. I switched back to whatever crap mechanical pencil I could find in my drawer - currently some cheap BIC thing. Will switch back to the Ticoneroga's for doing practice tests - just got sick of the pencil lead breaking my my bag and being stuck without a sharpener.

For standard pencils, i'm Ticonderoga or GTFO. No-name pencils are either impossible to get sharp or impossible to erase (looking at you, crappy Staples brand pencils!), and I end up breaking them in half and tossing them out wherever I find them. And honestly, for mechanical pencils, this BIC is boss. I've had the Zebra ones, and find them uncomfortable. Plus, I always manage to lose them.

And now I've wasted 5 minutes of my life writing about pencils instead of studying :)

@ You're not kidding. I've managed to incorporate the analogy of Jedi using the Force into my common parlance. :S

@ There have been times where I've watched explanations for questions I got correct, only to learn I got the answer right for the wrong reasons.

Yep, this is what I'm most afraid of. Will definitely make a point to stick with the explanations for every question.

Good call. When I work through these questions, I do them timed, and am also ensuring that I am finding reasons not only to chose the right answer, but also negate the wrong ones as you mentioned. You reasoning makes sense as well - will stop doing this. Last thing I want to do is shoot myself in the foot; I want every advantage possible.

I will say - the Logical Reasoning curriculum is incredible. I pulled a LR section from test 7 and drilled under timed conditions - and I absolutely crushed it (-2, timed). Much better than my performance on the diagnostic (June '07). I'm seeking to maximize my time figuring out logic games (was hopeless on the diagnostic) and speeding my my RC.