@kinameas1971 aww thanks so much for your kind words! :) hearing this definitely made me feel better. I've signed up for the November test but not sure how much I can improve in such short time. Even if I don't, I'll probably still apply for this cycle since I've already delayed a year in going to law school.. And 100% agree that this whole thing is painful lmao and can't wait for it to be over. I wish you reach your goal in November!

@ssbm100 Thank you for your thoughts! That's how I understood the stimulus as well and I don't think we need to understand it other way to answer this question correctly. I just wanted to make sure that if I was totally off on understanding this argument. good to know I wasn't. If anyone feels other way, please comment below!

@ssbm100 thanks for replying!

Here’s the link to the discussion:

https://www.manhattanprep.com/lsat/forums/q21-two-doctrines-have-been-greatly-t2249.html

I was mainly confused by ManhattanPrepLSAT1’s explanation.

#help

Question 18. I understand E is the best answer here by POE but I'm still not understanding why E is not illegal for Canadian and US common law. Paragraph 3, author talks about illegality of blackmailing lies on its triangular structure and the misuse of third party leverage. Wouldn't "public" be the third party leverage here and this would be considered illegal as a blackmail? Is it not supported because paragraph 3 is author's opinion rather than what is actually true for Canadian and US common law?

I eliminated D for following reasons:

no where in the passage suggests that what was the typical social status of the artists who produced these art. Yes we know that the art is "produced by and for political and social elites" but we don't know whether it was typical for these elites to produce the art themselves or it was typical for artists (not part of the elite class) to produce this art. Also, only thing we know of aristocratic and middle classes is that they are the social classes who were able to commission the art (meaning they ordered artist to produce art for them) and we don't know whether they produced art as well, so the passage doesn't lead us to infer that it was typical for the artists to be members of aristocratic and middle class. Most importantly, the passage doesn't mention anything about Taruskin's position about these two social classes.

Hope this helps! Open to hearing different ideas.

I felt like LR questions were more straight forward and less tricky than other PTs I took in 70s and 80s. I had 3mins in the end to come back to questions I wasn’t sure of.

RC is the one I cant really gauge how I did. I especially struggled with the comparative passage which I did last. I ended up guessing the last two questions on that passage.

LG felt pretty normal but I struggled with two questions on the third in/out game. Seemed pretty simple at first but had a lot of rules to track. Was eating my time so had to come back after finishing the fourth game.

Overall, I didn’t think it was unusually harder than I expected maybe because I was anticipating the worst haha.. it was my first real lsat so really not sure about my performance

What is driving you to assume overreporting is same as motivating yourself?

The argument in this question relies on a really subtle flaw - assuming what is reported as what actually happened in reality. These researchers take for granted the truth of the reporting. It could be that the participants overreported the number of hours they exercised when they actually didn't do that much. So answer choice D points to this flaw. Assuming watching identical twin as equivalent as watching oneself, D raises a point that one watching oneself exercise makes one more likely to overreport their own time spent exercising (rather than actually motivating one to exercise). I too got this one wrong but hope my explanation helps you understand little better!

I tried creating but it didn't let me register as a LSAT test taker - seems like we need to do it through LSAC. still waiting for the instruction but nothing. For May FLEX takers, how soon did you guys get the instruction for registering?

@dcstyles51317 Got it! Thank you :)

@gloverlandon747 Hi! if you don't mind, where in the LSAC website did you see that we're not allowed to use pen? Trying to find the specific guideline around that on LSAC web but can't seem to find. Thank you!

you explained it so well! thank you :)

Congrats on breaking 170! I've been on low 160 for few months now and experiencing plateau in my score.. my biggest issue is with RC section (struggling with timing and I tend to be stuck at passages for too long if I don't have a good understanding of it at first read). What was your RC score improvement journey like? would really appreciate to hear your tips on improving RC specifically.

You're amazing - love your motivation behind posting this and thanks for the helpful guide! :smile:

Question type: Principle

Context: effective test has been developed to predict fatal disease and person can now be warned well in advance

Premise: medicine is not yet able to prevent these disease and simply being informed can be quite harmful to some people

Conclusion: this raises question of whether such "early warning" tests should be made available at all

Main point: advance in medical tech/medince is raising a new question

A - advance of medicine fails to provide solutions to every problem. - this may be correct answer if this question was a MSS question because this cannot be disproven. however, for principle question, we need to find an answer that best illustrates the principle / theme underlying the argument

B - advance of medicine creates new contexts in which ethical dillemmas can arise. - I initally liked the second half of the sentence but eliminated this ac because I thought "medicine" was specifically referring to the medicine itself but it actually can mean more of a broad category of medical field. therefore, this is the correct answer as it captures the principle of this argument

C - medical tech continue to advance increasing our knowledge and understanding of the disease - this would also be correct if this was MSS question because argument does talk about this. however, it does not capture the main principle of this argument which is this new advancement in medical field raises other issue (ethical dillemma).

D - the more we come to learn, the more we realize how little we know - this is neither supported by the info in stimulus nor captures the main theme of the argument. it's not that the more we learn about the medicine, the more we realize how little we know about medicine. it's that by knowing more about one field, new/different type of dillemma can arise (doesn't necessarily mean that we know less)

E - the advance of technology is of questionable value - i initially chose this answer because I equivocated "advance of tech" as the effective medical test and that it is of questionable value because we don't know if it should be made available to people or not. However, compared to ac B, "technology" is a very broad term and argument is not necessarily stating that this effective test is of questionable value. we know this is valuable finding but we just have doubt about it raising ethical dillemma when made available to everyone. we need to understand the key point of this argument which is having more advance knowledge in one field can create new issue in other field of matter (ehtical).

Takeaway:

For principle question (best illustrates), I need to first identify what the theme/principle of the argument is and look for an answer that best captures this message.

Possible wrong answers in principle question:

1. it can be supported by the stimuli but does not capture the main point of the argument (answer choice A, C)

2. it sounds like it captures the main point but it goes little too far or talking about a different point (answer choice E)

3. it is not supported by the stimuli (answer choice D)

@nicolekiprilov642 thanks so much for sharing tips! that score jump is crazy, hope I can reach that point some day :0 I should really treat my RC review like I review my LR

Hi! congrats on improving on RC! I'm also struggling with RC at the moment.. if you don't mind, can you share some tips that helped you the most on your score improvement? and what your review process was?

interested if not already filled!