I'm so annoyed I really was torn between both B and D

I think what I'm not understanding is the purpose of the negation. I think I understand the concept, generally, however, I don't know why I would need to do this? Is the goal to essentially say that the original claim isn't true?

So if the original statement is To be a Jedi, one must be able to use the force, then the negation is supposed to say, no that's wrong? You can be a Jedi and still not have the force?

What is the point of it? Aren't we supposed to assume that these are true?

4/5! Technically it was 3/5 because I forgot to answer one but I got it back on blind review lol. I just read too fast on one of them. I'm forcing myself to reply here so I can force pride in myself.

When I struggle with these questions, most of the time it's because I haven't correctly identified the conclusion. Or, I HAVE correctly identified the conclusion, but then my non-7sage brain is like i dont care if that's the conclusion, im going with E. But then when I get my shit together on BR, I end up w the right AC

I will score a 170+ RAHHHHHH

Pat-Gate 2024. Fuck you Pat. You think you can just walk into Walnut Lane with your stupid little face and get the special discount coupon from VideoKing and not be a member????

Why would it be wrong to graph it like

Anarchist novel and does more harm than good → permissible to ban

and

Subversive outlook and Wholesale Violence and Harms → permissible to ban

I just don't understand why we have SO and WV branch off when it seems like they should be sticking together especially if we are saying that it's permissible to ban them? That's why the AC's were confusing me, because other than D, they only had either 1, at most 2, out of 3 characteristics to ban when I graphed it that way. I know that D has the two or more characteristics thing but ugh it just doesn't make sense. #help

For question 3, does this mean that if you're translating the exception back into an embedded conditional, does that always mean you take the exception, negate it, and then put it in the sufficient, before the necessary?

For 4, is there something bad about automatically making the domain: Pet adoption center with 10+ years of operations and the rule: 50+ animals → supported by MF?

Because that's ultimately what we get after translating the embedded. Will I be missing something or not understanding the rules correctly for other similar questions if I do this?

okay guys this is just getting ridonculous this question is insane

It's questions like these that really piss me off because it just seems like the test picks and chooses when you can make assumptions and inferences. Neither of them explicitly state that they believe ESP exists either way, therefore I thought that I couldn't then make a leap that either of them are looking for evidence, so B seemed like the best answer choice as it relieves either of them from believing in ESP. It's just annoying that we are told every other question that we should have made a certain assumption and then be told that we can only pull from the stimulus in the next.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Okay no this question actually makes me so upset. Yes, I know. "The LSAT is never wrong". But lowkey this one is BS. Because for D, "It is a claim that is used as direct support for an intermediary conclusion, which in turn is used as direct support for the argument’s main conclusion." An INTERMEDIARY conclusion is a LINKING CONCLUSION in which "Because insects’ resistance to insecticides increases with insecticide use" LINKS to the MAIN CONCLUSION. You're telling me that B was a better answer than D??

stop, you love us??

I think I just don't like how the AC equivocates high quality books with books of intrinsic value

"Fuck yo couch"

Was this written by JD Vance?

Hey! I also work full time and I had found it super hard studying after work too, especially with a mentally taxing job. Because of that, I ended up switching my schedule to studying in the morning. Hear me out--it sounds like it's going to suck. But I realized that I don't have the mental capacity to do meaningful studying after work so I switched to mornings because I know that I have enough mental power. I'm gonna work while I'm at work anyways. I work M-F 8:30AM-5PM so my schedule has become wake up at around 5am, get ready for work, and then head to my local coffee shop that opens at 5:30AM. From 5:30am-around 8AM, I'm studying. I'm not too rigid with what exactly I study, but I always make sure to drill at least 10 questions every morning before I dive into content or refining my weak points. I have the ability to take unpaid time off so I take Wednesdays off to either take a full-length, blind review, or do heavy content watching days. I know that's not always possible for everyone to take a full day off, but you can still get a lot done in the mornings. And if I do have enough energy after my work day, I'll do some light studying, knowing I already did a good chunk in the AM. I also study heavy on either Saturday or Sunday, depending on what day I want to take off. It's definitely gonna take some discipline and habit building of a new morning routine but I feel like it's been way more efficient for me than how I used to study at night. Try it out for a week and see if you like it!

I know what "disseminate" means separately, but then LSAC uses words like it ripped a thesaurus from it's private cavities and is trying to get into Yale and then suddenly, I am illiterate .

There is crazy beef going on down here and it's really woken me up mid study session. Thank you lilian and isaac.

well jk i wrote something and the realized i was wrong lol

I literally sat on the right answer for so long cause I was like...mmm this makes too much sense to me rn.

I got this question correct but I spent longer on it than I wanted to. I think it's because I had a hard time figuring out what the author's conclusion actually was. I couldn't figure out if the conclusion was that "the asteroid wouldn't have a worldwide effect" or "the asteroid didn't kill all the dinos". I see now that the worldwide effect is a part of the assumption there but it took longer to realize that for me. I ended up picking E because it was the one that made the most sense.

I literally hate it here

i feel like a big stupid idiot. that's all, thank you.

fuck this question ???