Hey all, I'm in an odd spot with reccommendation letters. I have an old military supervisor and an advisor at my current undergrad insitution that have written really solid letters, but I just cannot seem to get one from a professor. My whole time in undergrad, I've never had the opportunity to take two classes from the same professor. Also, the professors I've gotten to know and who I could ask have a policy aginst writing a letter for anyone unless they've taken two or more of their classes. Law schools really emphasize that applicants should get a letter from a professor if they're still in undergrad, but I'm pretty much stuck without one. Is this something I could write an addendum to explain, or would that make the situation look even worse?
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I still can't see why B is right. Just because you ate a wider variety of plants doesn't mean that you used some in totally new ways. If some people to the west ate plants 1, 2, and 3, and some other people to the east ate plants A, B, and C, a culture that eats 1, 2, 3, A, B, and C still isn't doing anything new with them. The fact that this culture ate a wider variety of plants doesn't do anything to support the notion that they did something new with them.
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I came across a question (PT58, S2 Q19) that had a question stem like the one above and JY's explanation raised a question for me. Does a passage only provide support for the author's arguments? In this passage, the author is refuting a legal theory, so is it wrong to say that the passage is providing support for the opposing theory in any way?
P.S. I would've asked under the passage, but the last comment was 10 months ago. I guess I'm the only one with this problem lol.
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Try highlighting the conclusion to the other person's argument, and look for the AC that says "X is not the case."
Grain-of-salt tip: oftentimes, the real conclusion will use words like "unfounded" or "erroneous". Correct AC's often use the word from the stimulus or a very close synonym, from what I've seen.
This is an important comment, we see words of the same type as "enable" all over the PTs. Being enabled to do something and necessarily doing it are two very different things, even though they can point to identical subject matters.
I see two primary types of wrong answer choices to main point questions (I'm assuming you're asking about whole-passage MP questions, not MP paragraph questions).
The first one has been mentioned by others, the factually incorrect choice. These say something that maybe the author has disagreed with or expressly denied in the passage, or (the more difficult ones) will say something that the author didn't mention, but it's possible that you assumed it. Rarely, also, factually incorrect MP AC's will mix up the passage in an incorrect order (using point A's premise to support point B's conclusion).
The second one becomes blatantly obvious once you start looking for it, so luckily they make up like half of the wrong AC's. See, in MP-passage questions, any wrong AC that fully explains one paragraph is wrong. If you read factually correct information with an accurate explanation of the author's opinion, but it is limited to the information in only one paragraph, it is totally wrong.
It's not a good idea to select the most general of the answer choices, but that's how it often ends up because wrong AC's often capture enough detail to either tell a lie about the passage or recapitulate a whole paragraph.
Underrated response. There's something missing between the premise and the conclusion. We have no reason to believe that most inefficient bureaucracies receive a funding boost; all we know from the premise is that when inefficiencies are found, legislators throw money at them. So, the right AC isn't right because it connects the "efficiency" idea to the premise, rather, it connects the "most commonly discover" idea.
You don't have to know anything about the lottery to get this question right; Sandy explains how the process works. Only one sequence of 5 numbers will be selected, and you get your own sequence of five numbers. Let's say that the numbers are 1-99, and you pick a sequence of 5. If my math isn't terrible, your odds are 9.087*10^295. Those odds are always your odds, no matter how many people buy tickets or get the right number.
If you use narrower floorboards, you'll need to buy a lot more to cover the same square footage. AC (B), by saying that narrow boards are "not significantly less expensive," it says that the price of a A SINGLE wide floorboard is either similar to or less than A SINGLE narrow floorboard. The comparison also controls for length, so you definitely need to spend more money on narrow floorboards, on a per-square footage basis.
I just got my date/time for the June LSAT. You should look through your email inbox now and then for something from the LSAC, they will tell you when they plan on sending out the scheduling email to schedule a test date/time. Once get that email (probably around noon, 2 weeks before the test timeframe,) it should be in the form of step-by step instructions telling you to follow certain links.
That was all context. Now for your question; yes, that is correct. When I clicked the link in the scheduling email, ProctorU's site auto-filled the institution block with the LSAC's name, so I just had to input some information about myself. I'd recommend downloading their Chrome extension before all of that. You don't need the extension to schedule your test, but you need it to test your computer equipment right afterwards.