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lawrencew00125
Tuesday, Oct 29 2013

It's possible that was by design. Often times if there is an 'easy' section, other sections will be harder to compensate. LSAT writers are smart, if you're doing poorly on 1 section and well on the other 3 and your score is constant, it might just be that's they way they made it.

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PT106.S1.Q3
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lawrencew00125
Friday, Apr 19 2013

For answer (c) if we take a set to be 'possible outcomes for 1000 coin flips' and each member in the set to be a possible outcome [eg. 1000 heads, 1000 tails, 999 heads + 1 tail, etc], then (c) seems quite parallel to the flawed argument presented as 1/2^1000 is unlikely therefore it will never happen.

A seems like a better answer but I don't see how (c) is wrong on it's own.

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Friday, Oct 18 2013

Basically they have different categories for applicants. For instance, for a university there categories for general, aboriginal, access [university affected by some sort of disadvantage], mature. To qualify for the mature category I have to have 5 years of non-academic experience, ie. I have to be out of university for more than 5 years. The universities are trying to promote diversity and so whereas the general category's median is something like a 163/3.7, the mature category median is 156/3.0. So my mark is not technically boosted, just that the median for my category is lower, thus I have a better chance of getting in.

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Friday, Oct 18 2013

lawrencew00125

Later Score Lower Than Older Score.

My June LSAT was right on the median for the schools I want to get into but my GPA is pretty low so I wanted to do the October LSAT to increase my chances. A week before the October LSAT I found out I qualify for the 'mature' category for many of the law schools I was applying to which would put my June score from the median to significantly better than the suggested median and my GPA right where it should be. In essence, there was no real need to write the October LSAT. But since it was too late to get a refund, I had studied for months already, I didn't think my score would go down since all but 1 of the 15 PT's I had done since June had been higher than my June score, and the schools I was applying to use the highest score, I figured, what the heck let's just do the October LSAT. Turns out that wasn't the best idea as I'm pretty sure I did worse than my June score.

I completely messed up LG, which is normally my best section, and all the other sections seemed harder for me than usual. I didn't cancel my score because all the law schools I'm applying to say they are taking my highest score but now I'm thinking it will look bad even if they don't officially count it. My question is, how bad will it actually look? The law schools I'm applying to are in Ontario Canada if that makes a difference . . .

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lawrencew00125
Wednesday, Jun 05 2013

There should be other LR lessons like argument part, method of reasoning, principle, etc.

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PT132.S4.Q7
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lawrencew00125
Tuesday, Oct 01 2013

I'm still not sure why answer choice A is wrong and what mistake I'm not seeing.

For myself, I thought, how are beaks being measured? In answer choice A it tells us they are 'captured and measured'. So if birds are captured and measured, and smaller-beaked birds are easier to capture and measure, wouldn't that possibly skew the average beak size toward smaller beaks? Choice A suggests to me the beak size of wild birds did not change, it's just the records were skewed due to more smaller-beaked birds being caught since they are easier to catch. And this could 'explain the researcher's findings'.

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