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General · PT June 2007.S1.Q17 (G3) - MBT

jwongemologist19

Friday, Oct 31 2014

I'll take a crack at it PJ, although I'm sure JY would do a better job at explaining questions. I think that you miss-translated a rule.

Freedom will make exactly two voyages to Martinique,

and at least one voyage to Guadeloupe will occur in some

week between those two voyages.

That means M - G - M. That Doesn't mean MGM all consecutive, which I think is what you were thinking it might be.

T M T G J M T - That is a way that you can get 3T's in there.

Hope this Helps.

General · How to identify "skip" questions

jwongemologist19

Friday, Oct 31 2014

If the question looks almost as long as a reading comp passage; then it is a good candidate to skip if you are having trouble with time management.

LSAT · PT70.S4.Q26 - people may praise the talent of a painter

jwongemologist19

Sunday, Nov 30 2014

I'll take a crack at it.

The Historical fact is a hypothetical. It is referring to if all people wanted was an accurate rendition of an object; then photography would have replaced Painting.

LSAT · PT68.S2.Q10 - people who are allergic to cats

jwongemologist19

Thursday, Oct 30 2014

I guess MSS questions "must be true" in the sense that they "must not be false"; but it also has to be supported.

LSAT · PT68.S2.Q10 - people who are allergic to cats

jwongemologist19

Wednesday, Oct 29 2014

From my experience, Most strongly supported questions do not necessarily have to be true under all circumstances. Usually you will have to gauge the pulse of the argument and go with the answer that is in line with the general thrust of the passage.

Let me go over the other answer choices with commentary, and then maybe it will help you with these types of questions. I am surprised that you got all the way to prep test #68 without really having a problem with these questions. I've had a Required Assumption question where the correct answer choice didn't necessarily have to be required for the argument to flow; but as you practice, you learn to feel more what the test writers are testing you on and you become more able to distinguish right from wrong where none of the answer really peaks your fancy.

A) Any particular individual will be allergic to some breeds of cat but not to others.

They switched cats and allergic people, trying to catch people off guard. What is supported is that any particular cat will be capable of provoking an allergic reaction.

B) CAT --> Capable of causing an allergic reaction in all type of allergy sufferers.

I suppose that this is the most attractive wrong answer choice. The Stimulus says: Although it is common for a given cat can cause an allergic reaction in some, but not all types of allergy sufferers. I guess people, when choosing this answer choice interpret that statement to mean that "There can be at least 1 cat that is capable to provoke an allergic reaction in everyone".

There is a distinction to be made between contradicting the stimulus and being supported by the stimulus. The answer choice B does not contradict the stimulus. It is perfectly possible for both answer choice B and the stimulus can be true. It doesn't mean that B) is the impression that the author wanted to make while writing the stimulus.

I'll give you an example. Let's say the Stimulus says something like:

I've overhead a Japorean Pre-law student say that modern science has taught us that many things are theoretically possible that were thought to be impossible before. The Japorean said that while before it was commonly thought that if you put a lump of coal in the fire, that it must surely burn; but now it is known that there is a small but very real chance that a perfectly burnable piece of coal will not burn when put into the fire.

A very attractive wrong answer choice would be something like:

B) There exists at least one Japorean that believes that there exists a piece of coal that will not burn when you throw it into the fire.

Just because someone believes that there is a very small chance that something could be, doesn't mean that they believe that they believe that it exists. I don't believe that unicorns can't exist, I believe that unicorns have the possibility to exist; but it doesn't mean that I believe that unicorns do exist. It's a form of over inference.

Another trap answer choice for these types of questions is when the stim says that "some are not" and the answer choice states that there is support that "some are". For example: Some Japoreans don't drink Diet Pepsi. This does not mean that Some Japoreans do drink Diet Pepsi.

A trickier form of this error is. "Some cats that I've seen are black cats."

A very attractive wrong answer choice would be, "Not all the cats that this person has seen are black."

It is possible that all the cats this person have seen are black and saying that some cats that this person has seen are black would not contradict the statement.

I was going to do the other answer choice explanations, but the previous one took much longer than I expected it to take. Let me know if this helps and if you have any additional specific questions about it. Since I'm done with my monologue, Time to Feed the Machine.

LSAT · PT68.S2.Q10 - people who are allergic to cats

jwongemologist19

Tuesday, Oct 28 2014

I guess I'll take a crack at it Peter:

Most Strongly Supported Question Stem:

Stim says: Cat -> Allergens in their skin and Saliva + spread it everywhere

Cat -> capable of invoking allergic reaction

Cat -> common to cause an allergic reaction in some, but not all

Since you didn't like any of the answer choices, I will skip explaining why B) is not supported.

C) is supported by the third premise.

C) says Cats (-S-) Not Identical Allergens

This is supported by: Although it is common for a given cat to cause an allergic reaction in some - but not all - people who are allergic to cats.

Granted that it is a tricky question and it wasn't written very clearly.

Let me know if this helps and if you need me to go further in detail.

LSAT · PT27.S4.Q02 - the average cable television company

jwongemologist19

Tuesday, Oct 28 2014

I'll take a wack at it Benny.

Strengthen Stim and it says: Cable = 50 channels. Fiber Optics = 100 to 150 channels for the same price. Conclusion -> Cable will be displaced by Fiber Optics (which are offered through phone companies).

The BIG gap is: Just because you have more channels, doesn't mean that they are better in every way. Fiber Optics might just carry low viewership channels and channels that are cheaper, like 150 reality show channels. Some of the other Gaps are: Fiber optics might not be available in places where there is existing cable. Fiber Optics might require other services that make the cost of service way above the cost of having cable. Stim also assumes that Cable will not adjust their plans and costs in reaction to Fiber Optics.

With that, let's go to the answer choices.

C) says, Cable television companies will respond to competition from the telephone companies by increasing the number of channels they offer.

That actually weakens the argument. The argument is saying that cable companies will be displaced by Fiber optics.

B) Says that the most popular movies and programs will be carried by both cable and Fiber Optics.

That strengthens the argument by plugging the big gap in the argument. If there is a lot of overlap in the channels that are available to both; then the argument is more strongly supported.

Hope this helps.

General · Can you diagram "is" and "because"?

jwongemologist19

Sunday, Oct 26 2014

I'm not sure what is being asked, but in the question stem, the "because" is indicating that a sufficient condition is being indicated.

To notate it:

Encouraging people to exploit personal relationships for profit --> Risks damaging those relationships --> Offering incentives is an unethical business practice.

Not sure if that answers your question, I can clarify further if it will help.

General · Preptest 73...ain't so special

jwongemologist19

Wednesday, Nov 26 2014

I agree. I found #72 to be MUCH harder than 73.

LSAT · PT52.S1.Q19 - educator: it has been argued that our professional organization

jwongemologist19

Saturday, Oct 25 2014

Not sure what is being asked so I will try to answer the sentences with question marks at the end.

1. Did anyone else make this mistake?

No, I didn't confuse the premise for conclusion; although I do sometimes get them confused on other problems.

2. Should I focus even more on IDing Premises vs. Conclusions?

Yes. On Psudo-Sufficient Questions, a lot of the trap answers will boost the premise alone or the conclusion alone. IDing the Conclusion I would say that most, if not all would agree is necessary. As for the premise, as long as you have a good paraphrase, you should be fine if you are averaging -2 on LR when timed and under test conditions.

3. I already avg -2 on LR but will focusing on a seemingly basic thing like PvsC help more?

I think it would. It becomes second nature after you practice for a bit, and doing this might help you get that -2 to -0. Yay!

Hope this helps.

General · Strengthen/Weaken Answer Choices with the word "Some"

jwongemologist19

Sunday, Nov 23 2014

I had some answer choices correct that had "some are not". I had one that I can remember that I got wrong because it said "many". Some people think "many" and "some" are interchangeable. I do tend to avoid answer choices of str and wkn with "some" in them but I make sure to not over look a "some are not"

LSAT · PT37,S4,Q24

jwongemologist19

Wednesday, Oct 22 2014

I'll take a crack at it Benny.

Robbert says: Speed limits ignored + Not enough police to properly patrol. Therefore you should put speed bumps to slow traffic.

Shelia says: That's a bad idea. People speeding over speed bumps might cause additional accidents.

B is correct because Shelia is asserting that even though the policy of speed bumps might slow traffic down, it might cause additional problems caused by the implementation of speed bumps (I.E. Going too fast over speed bumps and crashing into a building).

E is incorrect because she is not saying that the speed bump policy will have no net effect on the problems. I'm sure Shelia would concede that there would be less accidents of speeders hitting pedestrians in streets because of the speed bumps. Shelia undermines Robbert's argument by bringing up another factor for consideration (i.e. the number of accidents caused directly by the speed bumps).

For the Answer choice E to be right; Shelia would have to say something like: That idea is pointless. The amount of people being hit by speeding cars will be off-set by the amount of people being injured through speeding over speed bumps.

Hope that answers your question.

LSAT · PT60.S3.Q18 - activities that pose risks to life

jwongemologist19

Wednesday, Nov 19 2014

Well, the sentence has a semi colon in it and it does list the activity explicitly in the first half of the sentence. I'm sure you can see it as being construed as ...the risk of fatal injury to the motorcyclist (riding without a helmet) is acceptable because the motorcyclist incurs this risk willingly. The "thus incurred" referring to riding without a helmet. I think that it is in the realm of possibility for this to have a similar meaning to Activities that post risks to life is acceptable.

Answer choice "A" has more problems with it than just having no risk of life. It assumes that "lack of decision" is an activity. I guess you can say that at the very least, thinking about replacing or not replacing his car with a newer one might be considered an activity. In that light, I guess that Incurring a risk could qualify as an activity also. So maybe the Risk that the test writers are referring to is the risk of the activity of deciding whether or not to incur a risk to life. If that is the case, then I misinterpreted the argument as I was taking the PT (but got the question correct).

I hope this helps.

General · Have you received a 100% in RC?

jwongemologist19

Saturday, Oct 18 2014

If you are concerned about missing 1 and not getting 100% in RC; then maybe you should be the one telling us:

What your approach for 'marking' the passage? Any underlining? Boxing? Comments?

Have you developed any useful habits?

You believe led to your success in this section?

LSAT · PT57.S3.Q14 - food labelling regulation

jwongemologist19

Tuesday, Nov 18 2014

Question type is Must be False.

LSAT · PT57.S3.Q11 - many vaccines create immunity

jwongemologist19

Tuesday, Nov 18 2014

The word is in the conclusion so I'm not sure how subtle it would be. I think the argument and answer choice would work if the word permanent was not included in the stimulus.

LSAT · PT60.S3.Q18 - activities that pose risks to life

jwongemologist19

Tuesday, Nov 18 2014

I meant that the statement was subsumed in the answer choice. The Activity that poses a risk was Riding without a helmet.

Activities that pose risks to life are acceptable (Riding without a Helmet) if and only if ((--)) Gains net benefit (Not mentioned in answer choice) or Bears risks voluntarily (motorcyclist incurs this risk willingly).

Maybe it's the double arrow conditional that threw you off your game.

LSAT · PT60.S3.Q18 - activities that pose risks to life

jwongemologist19

Tuesday, Nov 18 2014

I think that if the risk is acceptable, an Activity within that risk is subsumed into it.

LSAT · PT60.S3.Q18 - activities that pose risks to life

jwongemologist19

Monday, Nov 17 2014

I'll take a crack at it Peter, I did this one this morning so I have it fresh in my mind.

You're just missing one thing. The stim says Activities that pose risks TO LIFE are acceptable.

It is not clear whether or not a door not being replaced is a risk to life, but "C" says explicitly that riding without a helmet does pose a fatal risk.

Hope that helped.

General · 157, 3.56 GPA with strong softs...February LSAT?

jwongemologist19

Thursday, Jan 15 2015

I don't think it makes a difference. A lot of schools hold your application for the Feb LSAT score. I think earlier the better; apply, then contact admissions and tell them to make a note that you are waiting for your Feb Scores. I have a similar situation; I am currently contesting a class that I never took that was in my transcript, so I just applied with a note saying that I am contesting something with the university right now and that I would send them an update of my transcripts once the procedure is over.

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Thursday, Aug 14 2014

jwongemologist19

Starting a facilitated LSAT study session over Skype this Sunday, 11am-1pm PST! #2

Hi, My name is Jo and I'm from Southern California. Lots of people had questions about a Sunday Skype session so I hope this post will clarify things.

I would like to go over PT #32 with an emphasis on the LR sections of the test. #32 has a good mix of LR questions. If everyone picks 2 or 3 questions that they had a hard time on, (assuming overlap) there should be around 10-15 questions to discuss.

There is room left for 3, maybe 4 more people and I would like to keep the score range in the 155-160+ range.

If you are interested, you can either email me: jwongemologist@gmail.com or you can message me on forum. Please include Score Range, where you are from, any prep test material you've done, and when you expect to take the LSAT.

Thanks for reading; if you have any additional questions, feel free to either post here or message me.

-Jo

General · Brain Supplements

jwongemologist19

Tuesday, Dec 09 2014

by Alpha brain, do you mean L-Alpha glycerylphosphorylcholine?

General · Best place to get reviews on test centers

jwongemologist19

Monday, Dec 08 2014

The Small, private Tier 4 Law Schools are usually the best I heard. I took mine at one and there were 2 seats for every student with a big desk.

General · Retakers, how do you feel?

jwongemologist19

Monday, Dec 08 2014

Dec 2014 went very smoothly for me. I took the Dec2013 and it felt very similar to the style and content of Dec2014 (which was a huge advantage since I drilled PT's 70-73 ad nauseam). I had LG as my experimental also which was a huge + (Last year I had RC as my Exp.). The second LR had a couple questions that I had trouble on, and had 1 question stem that I had no idea what they were asking for; but all in all I feel good about this one.

All in all, I'm optimistic about this one, unless the curve turns out to be -8 or something. I think taking it once before really cut down on the nervousness and the jitters. Not knowing what to expect the first time added to my anxiety; and it doesn't take much for your mind to lock up and lose all sense of time.

I would definitely recommend taking it again for those who are not satisfied with the score that they got. There was a huge difference for me in so many subtle ways between the first and second time taking the test. Knowing ahead of time the a lot of the issues that I would have on test day really helped me to minimize the anxiety/distractions and helped me to put everything into the test. For me, the difference between taking the test the first and second time, would be like the difference between taking practice tests with only 4 sections vs 5 or 6 sections.

Of course this is just my opinion and this was just my impression. I got lucky (LG experimental), and the proctor was good; but I think that it was the experience of having taken the test before really did help. I do realize that I might have to "eat crow" and to take back most of the things I've said once the results come out in January, but all in all, I am optimistic about this one.

General · Passages on Law

jwongemologist19

Thursday, Nov 06 2014

I agree. Examples and Explanations of Civil Procedure and Torts cured me of any apprehension of Law passages.

General · Scores are up!

jwongemologist19

Friday, Jan 02 2015

-12 max for 170