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PT139.S4.Q21
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jimbob
3 days ago

@AliMerhi think you’re looking at it through the lens of the diagram only instead of the concept. You need to be a little looser with your grip on the diagrams here—diagrams aid our understanding but you can’t ignore what’s going on in the question. The idea of you need A+B for C to happen is not broken. There’s no exceptions to a logical statement (which is what this is), that’s the wrong way to think about it. If some text says “A+B->C” then you better believe that is still true…no matter what. It’s even true in this question. You can’t look at this question and think “Noo this breaks the rules!”

Example that may help:

Imagine you’re walking around in a blank empty room of nothingness. Like SpongeBob in that episode before time/fuuuture. All you have with you (You’re SpongeBob) is your precious A+B->C rule in your hands. All you know is that rule. All you know in your being is that if A+B->C. You’re frightened.

Then someone (Squidward) comes along in this white room of nothingness and says to you “Hey here’s a new rule that I just made, it’s called A->C.”

Now assume that you and squidwards rules BOTH apply!! Both!!! At the same time!!!!

Then……...A happens.

Remember that both your A+B->C and Squidwards’s A->C exist as “rules” that apply.

But wait…. A just happened…and not B…

Well, what we DO know from this is that becuase A, then C.

Why? because of Squidwards rule.

This does NOT mean that all of the sudden your rule of A+B->C is broken and there’s exceptions to the laws of physics and everything’s terrible. No no. Just reread what happened. You had your rule, A+B->C. It’s a good little rule. All that happened was a new one came along (Squids) and A happened.

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LSAT · Feedback on "Fast Track" Lessons
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jimbob
Monday, Nov 10, 2025

This but for test-taking strategy -- timing as a skill needs more love

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PT137.S1.P1.Q7
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Saturday, Oct 25, 2025

If you missed this question carry on

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PT119.S1.P4.Q22
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Monday, Oct 20, 2025

This is the hardest passage I've done. Worse than all the famous hard ones

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PT121.S2.P3.Q17
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Monday, Oct 20, 2025

Satisfied. Crazy

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PT123.S1.P3.Q15
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Saturday, Oct 18, 2025

AC C is trickiest bastard here by a long shot. It makes complete sense to me that C is correct given P1, but in P1 it is comparing renewable to fossil and where their varying level of efficiency will fall, and in C is comparing solar in rural vs solar in urban. Fucked

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Hey, in the latest update to the UI the feature where you could see when you selected a certain AC during the time you were taking the question was removed. The time bars you see after you take a drill/section are all grey, instead of having green or red to mark when you selected a correct or incorrect AC.

Not having this feature makes me record my sessions so that I can manually collect this data myself -- Please please add it back to the UI ASAP please as I'm sure it was just a mistake.

Thanks

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PT134.S2.Q7
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jimbob
Monday, Oct 13, 2025

@ktzulric805 Same fuck this question

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PT115.S2.Q15
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Monday, Oct 6, 2025

@jimbob I chose E because I thought it was telling me that the citation analysis method of gauging quality was going to be worse/bad because if E is true, then the citation figure would be erroneously inflated by colleagues doing what E says. And this would in turn hurt the analysis method. I see now that it's a step too far to assume that, given A exists

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PT115.S2.Q15
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Monday, Oct 6, 2025

Print this question out with the title: Why you need to read questions literally. AC E is solid as hell yet A is better. Damn

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PT117.S1.P4.Q25
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Thursday, Oct 2, 2025

Understatedly hard question here imo. I chose D because they were using the word "conveniently" ironically (barely, ever so slightly. One definitely could argue they weren't.) and they already classified the proponents as "acting ironic" in some respect in P1, so I matched them. POE is realistic timed solution here because other uses are all nothing burgers

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Admissions · Retake or Apply Early
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Tuesday, Sep 2, 2025

Reddit better for this kinda stuff

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General · Do you use/refer to Accuracy and Expected accuracy in Priorities by tag?
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Tuesday, Sep 2, 2025

@David_Busis Sweet -- also if you guys could cache selections when creating drills that'd be huge. It's a PITA to make a drill and then walk away for a few moments and it goes away. I think this could be a low lift high impact add. Also a quick bug report for you is that when you are looking at a results page (finishing a PT or section), and you click on just the flags, or if you resort the list by difficulty, etc, then the bar charts do not dynamically change, only the figures around them do

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General · Do you use/refer to Accuracy and Expected accuracy in Priorities by tag?
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jimbob
Tuesday, Sep 2, 2025

Can be helpful but are susceptible to overweighting. For example, I got 1 MBF wrong and no matter what it will remain as high priority forever. Also they should change programmatically as you do more drills (i believe they only take into account PTs. For example, if I am rapidly improving and taking more tests, the value of these stats goes down. Is it helpful to see the breakdown by question type? Yes. But it'd be more helpful if they were updated to account for changing skill levels/expertise.

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PT139.S4.Q21
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Thursday, Aug 7, 2025

@KMK I think my own difficulty with this question stems from the fact that we have an ingrained truth that when A + B --> C, you need both A + B for C to happen. This question is not concerned with this. It is not saying that A + B need to happen for C. I hope the below helps:

Please forgive me for this football metaphor but it works for me:

If you're down 4 points with 1 second on the clock and you score touchdown as time expires, kicking a PAT doesn't matter--the game is already over. You scored 6 points. You won.

Let's ADD this to the premises:

"Score a touchdown --> Win the game" -- [remember we're adding b/c we're down 4 w/ 0:01 left]

And now let's look at a conclusion...(and try to imagine reading this conclusion already knowing the premises)

"Touchdown + PAT -> Win the game"

Now imagine turning to the person next to you at a game where your team is down 4 points with 1 second left and you scream in their face: "Woo!! All we need is a touchdown and a PAT to win!!" They will look at you all confused and say, "No, we only need a touchdown." But you are not wrong because your statement includes a touchdown, which we know from the premises wins you the game on its own. The refs could still make the team do the PAT and add the extra point on, but it doesn't matter--what matters is the team won the game. In other words, the fact you added on the PAT doesn't matter to what you said because you included "touchdown" in your statement to the person next to you.

Going back to the question--

The premise (AC A) is: "If the book is important (touchdown) then it will get published (win the game)"

Great. Knowing this, a conclusion could have:

"Important (touchdown) + well written (PAT) --> published (win the game)"

But you now know that you don't need the well written (PAT) part. You already know its getting published (you won the game) because of the premise (AC A) above!

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