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jrgomien464

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PT131.S3.Q19

jrgomien464

Wednesday, Aug 07 2024

The thing that was getting me on this one though is the fact that it says if some babies understand all the words they utter. I felt like that was too strong and didn't choose it because even if babies understood some of the words they uttered wouldn't the conclusion in that answer still be true? This is what is confusing me.

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PT131.S3.Q16

jrgomien464

Wednesday, Aug 07 2024

This is what I was thinking too. I was going between D and E but ultimately chose D for the same reason you did. I feel like all the causes of gum disease are not common knowledge, therefore how do we know that there isn't some other thing causing gum disease?

I was looking on other sites for explanations and I think the consensus among others for the reason E is correct over D is that E is supposed to be interpreted more generally. I was thinking of it as: enzyme levels are restored to normal (assumably they originally had high levels) → no gum disease. However it seems that other people think it's supposed to be interpreted more generally: enzyme levels are normal → no gum disease.

I really don't like this question and it seems like a lot of people are generally agreeing that the wording is vague and confusing (that is, more vague and confusing than the LSAT normally is) and aren't really satisfied with the explanation. Personally, I'm hoping that the LSAT has improved since they published this test and there aren't questions like this that really seem like the answers can be interpreted multiple ways.

Here were some of the other explanations I was looking at:

PowerScore discussion board: https://forum.powerscore.com/viewtopic.php?t=13994

7sage's video (comments) for the original PrepTest it was on: https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-59-section-3-question-16/

Admissions · Should I cancel my score?

jrgomien464

Friday, Aug 02 2024

I would keep. Schools will think you did much worse than a 165 if you cancel it. 165 is a good score. Especially for your first test.

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PT153.S4.P4.Q27

jrgomien464

Monday, Jul 29 2024

Also, oftentimes it feels a little demeaning to have my answer scoffed and for the explanation to say "what???"; I am already embarrassed that I'm getting this question wrong, I don't need the explanation to laugh at me. The least you could do is be respectful and think about how it would feel to have an answer you put talked about that way.

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PT153.S4.P4.Q27

jrgomien464

Monday, Jul 29 2024

For question 27 answer C, the author DOES talk about some sort of universal laws of history? I am confused why you are saying that the author does not. Look at lines 50-53, the author is saying that we should look at history in term of laws that constrain history rather than laws that predict history. Given that, doesn't it make sense that the author should believe that all human experience has some things in common so that we can establish the laws that constrain? For example, no human is able to fly with wings. Couldn't that establish a law that constrains history?

I just have overall been quite disappointed with some of the answer explanation videos. I feel as though they either purposely leave some sort of reasoning out or are not actually looking at the stimulus/text enough to see why one would be drawn to these answers in the first place. In so many videos I have watched, JY just looks at the answer and goes "What?? This is obviously wrong. It doesn't say anything like this. Let's cross this out" when in reality the text DID say something like that. I have been missing around 1-3 questions per section and I have been struggling to improve that because every explanation video I watch about them my answer is just crossed out because it's "obviously wrong" and is given no more reasoning than that. How am I supposed to improve if no one will show me why my answer is "obviously wrong" and instead just brush it off with no explanation? It's getting really frustrating.

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PT102.S2.Q16

jrgomien464

Tuesday, Jul 23 2024

I totally understand why E is correct and I did end up putting that in my drill, but a big issue for me is that I could not 100% say why B wasn't the answer for this question. I feel like this explanation didn't really address why B isn't the answer and just brushes it off for a reason that it doesn't really fully explain. Why don't you care that they aren't attempting to change existing structures? Isn't that a key point of the prompt? If they don't care about changing political structures, doesn't it follow that they don't care if Joe Schmo, an important agent of change, is alienated? If they really are not attempting to change anything why would public understanding of their theories be important, they could just be publishing to impress their fellow academics or to advance their career. I feel like in a lot of these question explanation videos I have been watching, I am still left with questions that are completely not addressed because the explanation just brushes it off and says "oh we don't care about it!" But why don't we care about it? 10% of people chose B, and I assume a large number of people, like me, were considering it because they simply couldn't prove it wrong. I feel like a more detailed explanation for why the compelling answer is wrong, both in this question and a large number of others, is much needed because frankly this video didn't really answer any of my questions. #feedback

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Thursday, Jul 18 2024

jrgomien464

Drill results need to be added to analytics!

Your drill results should be reflected in your analytics. Potentially, they could come with a checkbox to include them, so users could continue to view analytics for just PrepTests, or decide to include the results of drills in their analytics along with the Preptests.

I find it hard to accurately judge which questions I struggle on the most since the analytics only reflect questions taken in full PrepTests. If you are getting a question type wrong in drills and right in PrepTests, why should that data be left out? Adding a checkbox to include drill results would be the best of both worlds. You can see what you are getting wrong generally, with drills and Preptests, while also still being able to see only the types of questions you struggle on in actual testing environments.

I understand that this is potentially something that could be harder to code on the site (really I have no idea, I don't know anything about computer science), but I think this could make the experience of using 7sage much better and lead to more accurate analytics if it has the option to include all the questions a user takes, whether drill or Preptest.

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PT141.S2.Q15

jrgomien464

Sunday, Jul 14 2024

I don't think this is a particularly good interpretation of why A isn't correct. I think you are misinterpreting the double negative in A in a way that is extremely confusing. I found a better explanation on a different site that is much more concise and I really do think you are misinterpreting the negative. It's saying that the consultant is failing to recognize that, without the campaign, sales could have been lower. It's not saying that he thinks that without the campaign, the sales would have been higher or unchanged? I just feel like this explanation can be done way better because honestly watching this video made me even more confused. Again, I think you need to re-examine the double negative. LSAT Hacks has a good explanation that was magnitudes shorter and less confusing.

Lessons · Sets, Supersets, Subsets, and Membership

jrgomien464

Tuesday, Jul 02 2024

You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you