I thought the first sentence is C.

Go China!

Well...Never mind.

I am a Messi fan, so I support Argentina.

I would say Group D is a very dangerous. Argentina have some superstars (and a lot of Messi fans) but Croatia have a more balanced team. And Iceland... we know what they can do from lsat UEFA Euro.

I wonder it there are other gaps like "we dont know if aspirin has some side effect that off set the advantages"?

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Don't quite understand why Q15, choice A "The necessary elimination of software pattern" is wrong...I feel that it is the main point of passage B.

By the way, what is main point?

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I feel that "usually" is not where D got wrong.

If we change C to "There are some people who are not incompetent to practice particular specialty complete the evaluation program of the specialty", it is still necessary.

Where D (and E) are seriously wrong is that, they equal "6-10 years medical training beyond a university degree" to "complete the evaluation program of the specialty".

You may not become competent in your medical specialty if your spend 6-10 years by just hanging around in a hospital for nothing. And that's not our medical education system's problem.

So I think D is too strong.

I think "grand" may not be the key issue.

Average payoff (AP) of a lottery=praise/tickets sold

cost (C) of the tickets=...well, the price you paid for the ticket.

So AP<C means this investment has a negative value. This calculation already takes the odds into account.

The argument is reasoning by analogy, so we are looking for the aspect that the analogy fails apart. E gives that. Often, I found that in these kind of question, we are looking for a related aspect that not mentioned in the stimulus.

I think there are at least 2 logical weakness in this argument. 1, survey issue. The survey might be a misleading one. 2, over generalization. Draw a conclusion from what is true of a single novel to all novels. Have to stay open to all possibilities.

I am kind of lost here. Is appealing to authority while telling his don't so is a person's "character"? I thought it is just a self-contradict behavior.

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Thx for the post!

I think the key here is not that B is way too strong. C used "most", which is also strong. I think, to add difficulty, the LSAT writers did this intentionally. They know people will be wondering between B and C, and will try to solve problem by eliminating the one that is "too strong" under time pressure. So they make them both look strong.

The key might be that, the conclusion is a comparison. Enhancing the facility in operating machine is something can be off set by other advantages (such as strong in literature), but expertise in tech that is required in job market is not something that can be off set by others. B did help in answering "why tech majors are not good in job market", but it doesn't answer "why tech majors are not winning in comparison with literature majors".

I don't get the JY's explains about D...Is he saying that D might not happen? But why does that matter?

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Based on what you've stated above, I recommend that you try doing a series of argument-part drills. >

Both of you recommend argument part questions. And I think method questions will also help. I revisited JY's "How to approach method of reasoning questions" and he mentioned that those questions are very important because they trend to have the most complex reasoning structures. Will drill both of them.

As you state above, you often neglect to circle questions the questions that you are getting wrong. This might have something to do with speed - the faster you go the more likely you are to fall in to a trap.>

But I am still not quick enough to have a full 2nd round...

Thank for replying! @ohnoeshalpme804

As for your issue with argument part type questions, take questions you've already done before and make them into an argument part question. Choose a random sentence from the stimulus and describe the role in the argument. Try not to be superficial and go beyond stating that it's premise or conclusion. Go into the details and try to expand your vocabulary use that way. See how many different ways you can describe the role of a sentence. Do this with 4 or 5 questions everyday and see if that helps you become more fluent in it. You can do this with any question type, weaken, strengthening, sufficient assumption, etc.>

It 's such a good idea! Will try.

I think a big issue is that I am not familiar with reading for structure. And for those curve-breaker questions, there are trap answers that sounds relative but actually not addressing the gap. So now I am drilling LR questions and ask myself to identify every question's structure. But for those easy question, I can get right even if I don't have a firm catch of the reasoning structure. And because I am not fluent in identifying reasoning structures, I actually slow down myself in doing easy questions by this seemingly overthinking process.

Also, have you done any untimed LR drills? If not, try it and see how that affects your score and whether you still more over-confidence errors. Is so, what are the results like?>

Yes I have done a lot of untimed drill. I used Cambridge package of LR from PT 1-20 and 21- 40 for drill. I have also finished 7sage's LR problem sets. Average speaking, I get 1 error out of every 20-30 questions. But I remember a lot of them and it is untimed. I don't think I'm much slower than I was during timed sections, but obviously I don't suffer from time pressure when it is untimed.

Thanks for replying! @nikitamunjal950

If C says "felt" instead of "displayed", does it strengthen the argument?

I think yes, because then C become a "control group". But I would say D is still way better, because it explain the working mechanism of this sound-changing thing, which establish the causal relationship, and this is stronger than merely adding an "control group".

Thoughts?

I feel that E is a flaw for almost all wrong arguments in LSAT...

I chose the right answer, but find D is super attractive. I made the right call to move on in the test (I smell that it is a trap answer and A is a cookie-cuter right answer), but now I am still wondering about D.

I understand that D is not necessary, my question is why lt looks so attractive to me comparing with other trap answers & how LSAT writers come up with this type of trap answer...

These questions may sounds unnecessary, but I don believe asking them can help me better understand the core of LSAT.

Looking forward hearing any thought about them.

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I thought "harmed by diseases"="get ill"...

I really don't get why language is innate(which means 100% occur in every society) → money occurs in every society.

It says that money's university is matched by language, but it could be that 90% of the society have money and 100% have language, so all money is matched by language while not all society have money.

Please point out where I got wrong.

Can I say that this argument is "circular contradicting"?

criminal actions, like all actions, are not responsible for crimes→it is environment that responsible→law-abiding majority's action create such environment→some actions is responsible

Please point out if I am wrong. Thanks!

I am about to start to work for one of the big 4 in China. My first concern after reading this is that, the busy season is coming... how do you balance the test preparation and work?

@akikookmt881 Just checked the date, it is changed back. Well, not too bat.

@ji330 Ugh...I just saw the day is changed back to 17th. But the location is really changed. You make me want to postpone as well :neutral: