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LSAT · Test in 2 weeks - LOW pt scores Should i change my date

kgarciarojas721

Wednesday, Sep 18 2024

Probably stop studying, I was testing around 160s and a little higher and on test day got a 161. Let your brain rest, if anything just make sure you got a plan for test day, eat the right things get good sleep. But probably stop cramming in more drills and tests. It won’t be so helpful at this point. After your test you can reassess your study plan if you want to score higher based on your results. You got this let the work you’ve don’t go into effect.

LSAT · Question on chain inference.

kgarciarojas721

Sunday, Sep 15 2024

Most the As are C, over 50% of set A is B, and that means that if all b are c, then most your As which are Bs are also Cs. So 50% of your As are Cs too, possibly more because most is more than 50%. Why do you think the two conditionals are different, one just has an extra the logic is the same.

LSAT · Any Advice in Going from Mid 140s to high 150s?

kgarciarojas721

Saturday, Sep 14 2024

I would say make sure to have mastered core curriculum, and then to practice your accuracy on sections. If you only want to get into high 150s you should be striving to get at least 75% of all questions in a section. You should focus on getting all main conclusion, MBT, MSS, Argument part, SA, and most strengthening/weakening right. Don’t worry about timing but more so about getting those you know you can get right. Work on identifying when to skip a question and when not to.

Generally the first 10 of an LR are easier than the last few. So work on getting those right for sure. Note generally it won’t always be like this sometimes they throw hard ones in the beginning too.

Main point is focus on accuracy and getting questions right without time constraints, then work on speeding up once you have clearly mastered that and work towards getting as many as you can right without completely guessing. That should get you around the score you want

LSAT · Any Advice in Going from Mid 140s to high 150s?

kgarciarojas721

Friday, Sep 13 2024

Generally the first 10 of an LR are easier than the last few. So work on getting those right for sure. Note I said, “generally”, it won’t always be like this. sometimes they throw hard ones in the beginning too.

LSAT · I have a 100% failure rate on weakening and strenthening questions

kgarciarojas721

Wednesday, Sep 11 2024

Brother, you need to make sure you understand the arguments you read. You will not be able take any effective action on the argument if you do not know what the argument is. This may sound overly simplified, but without this first step you have no chance at weakening and strengthening because you have no basis for decision making or evaluating the answer choices.

If these question types are tough first work on main conclusion and most strongly supported questions, those build your recognition skills for arguments in general. It will help you break down an argument structure which can contain context, premises, and conclusions.

Once you do that you need to review and understand that premises are there to support a conclusion, it’s like a foundation to a house. The core curriculum has good lessons on this.

Then you will go into the typical ways arguments are weak, and learn how to expose them and by the same logic strengthen them. This is also in the CC.

DO NOT keep doing weakening and strengthening questions if you read the stimulus and are clueless after. There is a difference between reading a difficult stimulus and not having knowing what you should be looking for while reading. This gets built up through the CC and then through drilling and good review of questions after you get them wrong. Again make sure you have your concepts down first, because you do not want to just use up your practice material and get no real benefit from it.

Lastly, it’s normal to feel like you did at the time of making this post, many times we just do not read text the same way a logic nerd does. It takes time and adaptation, but that will happen for you. Trust the process!

Lessons · You Try - Slipped Discs and Back Pain

kgarciarojas721

Sunday, May 19 2024

A is wrong because it is saying that the author is stating based on the fact that some people do not have bulging disks and still have back pain that no causal relationship exists between the two. NO, that is not the mistake the author makes, he is saying there are cases where there is no effect, and yet the cause is there and based on that there is not causal relationship between bulging disks and back pain.

B on the other hand is addressing that yes there can be cases where there is no effect and still be a causal relationship. Maybe, alone the bulging disks do not lead to back pain, so that would fall under the subset of cases where there is no effect, yet a cause, but that does not mean that bulging disks do not lead to back pain. Perhaps, a bulging disk in conjunction with another cause it what leads to back pain. They could have taken different routes to stress this flaw, but at its core, it is pinpointing the flaw is that the absence of the effect does not exclude there being a causal relationship between the two things.

Lessons · Quantifier “Many”

kgarciarojas721

Sunday, May 05 2024

I see what you mean, but I think you're comparing two ambiguous terms here in their ambiguity. Where you can compare them and where they are not the same as one another is in their lower boundaries. "Many" is at minimum a large amount, and "some" at minimum is, not none, think at least 1(at least 1 technically does not capture it, but it simplifies the idea).

PrepTests ·

PT145.S4.Q20

kgarciarojas721

Wednesday, Apr 17 2024

bro this is what I call teaching, thank you PD

General · LSAT Frustrations

kgarciarojas721

Wednesday, Apr 03 2024

Maybe look at other factors outside of studying, sometimes what gets in the way is other things like too busy a schedule, social media, these things clutter your mind and you need to be able to think well and clearly. I hope you find some success moving forward with the test!

Lessons · Skill Builder - Negation 1

kgarciarojas721

Friday, Dec 29 2023

negation of some is none not all

LSAT · Is Justify the Conclusion the same as Sufficient Assumption?

kgarciarojas721

Saturday, Dec 02 2023

justify and sufficient assumption are one and the same, justify asks you to strengthen the argument to the point where the conclusion is a necessary condition, so the answer choice you find make the argument 100% true. the answer choice is sufficient in that it makes the arguments conclusion necessary, the answer choice you select should completely validate the argument.

PrepTests ·

PT138.S2.Q23

kgarciarojas721

Friday, Nov 17 2023

Genius!! Love you

Lessons · You Try - Beta-Carotene on Health - RRE Review

kgarciarojas721

Tuesday, Oct 24 2023

Hey J.Y., I wanted to ask about something you said at the end, that in RRE they do not 'typically' disprove one of the phenomena or paradox, but in this case, E seems to do that very thing. It is essentially saying the first study was wrong because the proportion of smokers who took a low intake was much higher than those who had a high intake and this discrepancy is what really explains the results of the first study. It is not a high intake that makes people less likely to die, but they had fewer smokers in their group so their results looked better, the low-intake group had a sample of people that skewed their results. So, the point of this is, that I want to clarify if the belief that RREs will resolve, meaning account for both occurrences/phenomena is more of a rule of thumb rather than an absolute characteristic of RRE? This is the first time I've seen one like this and I imagine there may be a couple more.

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Thursday, Oct 19 2023

kgarciarojas721

PTA.S1.Q20 - In the country of Boldavia, only 1 percent of...

Can someone provide some insight into why answer choice A is correct. I chose D because I identified the conflicting events/occurences to be the steadily increasing proportion of left-handers in newer generations despite the fact that overall-lefthandeness has remained constant.

The only answer that solved this for me was a decreasing birth rate. If less people are being born then despite there being a greater percentage of left handers in younger generations, for example as the question states 20% among 20 year olds and 10 % among fifty year olds, these greater proportions could still actually be equal to past proportions if the amount of 20 year olds born was smaller than the amount of fifty year olds born due to that decreasing birth rate. So the trend of constant overall and growing proportion in younger generations still works.

What I can see that would make this wrong is that is says a gradually decreasing birth rate, but if we are talking about 80 years, then idk how to gauge what would be considered gradual in that amount of time.

As for answer A, I am not seeing the resolution. I may be too built into my own answer, so anybody else please I would be happy to hear your perspectives.

PrepTests ·

PT149.S4.Q5

kgarciarojas721

Wednesday, Oct 18 2023

I am with you, my dude. The stimulus clearly says carbon monoxide does not make tuna harmful in any way, yet answer choice C shows how Tuna is directly harmful to people who eat it, by making is deceptive. (maybe it would still smell though, but that is not something we could assume).

The only reason I could think they did not choose B is because it does not explicitly explain the no harm from CM, but it's not a great answer. A rise in the number of people eating definitely would mean the chances of people getting sick would increase, and would not mean that the carbon monoxide harms people. Also, they have used this type of argument in the past many too that an overall increase could explain some weird contradiction.

If anyone has some good analysis that could explain why C was selected reply away.

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Lessons · Lesson 3 - Job Loss

kgarciarojas721

Thursday, Oct 12 2023

Why do you solve the answer choice before letting the student attempt to? Can there be a visual of the answer choices without any solving first?

Lessons · Skill Builder - Group 4 Translations

kgarciarojas721

Friday, Oct 06 2023

I whole-heartedly agree!!!!