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leahsingleton201698
Tuesday, Jun 30 2020
Can someone explain why E isn't the right answer choice? #help
leahsingleton201698
Monday, Jun 29 2020
11: Can someone explain why D is wrong? I took this from the statement in the first paragraph that T believes art is "produced by and for social elites."
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leahsingleton201698
Friday, Jun 26 2020
PSA: You can sign up now for July FLEX. If you go to ProctorU's website and click sign in, you can enter your email and choose "forgot my password" and it will send you a new password. I just did this and was able to log in and confirm a time.
leahsingleton201698
Friday, Jun 26 2020
LSAC will give you up to a $125 refund if you book a hotel room. You just have to email them and ask
leahsingleton201698
Thursday, Jun 25 2020
I'm in a similar situation
leahsingleton201698
Monday, Jun 22 2020
In the stimulus, I read the second sentence as saying that some minimum amount of meat and dairy are required to protect from OP. This lead to me being confused in AC E because the vegetarian does not have this minimum amount of meat required.
#help Is there another reason AC E is wrong?
leahsingleton201698
Thursday, Jun 18 2020
JY's rule of thumb is to split when there are less game boards than questions remaining (questions that give you an additional rule/guidance count less). If I'm not sure whether I should split, I take a look at the questions. If most of them are very open ended (no additional premises), that's an indication that I should split. If not, it may not be necessary.
leahsingleton201698
Wednesday, Jun 17 2020
This is super helpful, thank you!
leahsingleton201698
Monday, Jun 15 2020
Can someone help me to understand the difference between answer choice D and answer choice E? #help
leahsingleton201698
Friday, Jun 12 2020
Does anyone know when they'll send out the email to sign up for time slots?
leahsingleton201698
Thursday, Jun 11 2020
Can someone #help me to understand why Q17 isn't answer choice D? In the explanation, JY mentions that passage B does not believe that the claims from passage A are vacuous. My understanding from reading passage B was that passage B is accusing passage A of vacuous claims -- the main point from passage B seems to be that evolutionary psychology could be true but that it also could not be.
leahsingleton201698
Monday, Jun 08 2020
The first time I read this question, I mistakenly chose E because I did not properly separate the premises from the conclusions. Choice E states that tradition and individuality as evidence for his arguments. However, tradition and individuality are not premises, but they are the conclusion.
leahsingleton201698
Monday, Jun 08 2020
When reading this the first time, I mistakenly understood "lead poisoning will be eradicated" to mean "lead poisoning as a result of lead paint will be eradicated." With this mis-reading, I choose incorrect answer choice E in an attempt to bride the gap between children and lead paint. However, during blind review I realized that even if every home with lead paint had children living in it it still would not necessarily eradicate all lead poisoning. Thus, I came to answer choice C.
leahsingleton201698
Thursday, Jun 04 2020
How do you know when to draw out implicit premises in questions like this? #help
leahsingleton201698
Thursday, Jun 04 2020
Argument: Because class size doesn't affect grades, smaller class sizes (and more individual teacher attention) don't necessarily mean that students are more engaged in learning process.
A: The school type isn't necessary for the argument.
B: The first time I read this, I choose B because of the scenario in which a teacher spends all their time with one student. In this scenario, the hypothesis that smaller class size makes students more engaged would be incorrect: regardless of smaller class size, the teacher spends all her time with the one student and doesn't engage with individual students. However, this is not the correct answer choice because it does not have to be true. In another interpretation of this answer choice, a teacher could unevenly spend time between students but could spend more time with them (although unevenly) in a world with smaller class size. In this world, the answer choice would be incorrect because it doesn't relate to student engagement.
C: This could be true, but doesn't have to be true. Even if the same number of teachers stayed, students could still not have an engaged learning process.
D: This is correct because it connects the premise about grades to the conclusion about student engagement. If we negate this answer choice (grades are not correlated to student engagement), then the argument falls apart.
E: This is totally unrelated because we're talking about student engagement and not about parental support.
leahsingleton201698
Thursday, Jun 04 2020
Conclusion: The rehabilitation effort was not worthwhile.
A) When reading through this the first time, I mistakenly chose answer choice A. In this first go, I understood answer choice A to be saying that the otter population in other places had not changed; therefore, any harm to the otters must have been a result of the oil spill. Looking back, I realize that this is unrelated to the conclusion, which is talking about the efficacy of the rehabilitation efforts.
B) This question answer choice implies that it is possible for all of the otters to have been found. Thus, it calls into the premise that not all of the otters were found. This is important because it means that the rehabilitation efforts could have been somewhat successful: 18% is a much better success rate than whatever the smaller percentage that could have been otherwise possible is.
C) We're only talking about the success rate of otters that were affected by the spill, so this isn't necessary.
D) once again, we're only talking about otters.
E) This is subjective -- we have no information about what cost the author would consider to be effective.
leahsingleton201698
Tuesday, Jun 02 2020
I signed up for the July Flex after they announced that it was Flex, but the registration still required me to put in a testing center. Am I automatically registered for Flex or do I need to opt in? I haven't received any communications from LSAC.
leahsingleton201698
Tuesday, Jun 02 2020
@rochishatogare811 has been a great LR tutor for me! I like how her style focuses specifically on my weak areas so that we can go over the most meaningful topics.
leahsingleton201698
Thursday, May 28 2020
@shalin234 said:
so 'the week of July 12th" does that mean we could have up to the 18th to take it?
I called LSAC today and they told me that the test will be administered on Sunday (July 12) and Monday (July 13)
leahsingleton201698
Tuesday, May 12 2020
Those who signed up for the May test -- what were the time slot options like? Were they all weekdays during regular working hours (EST)?
I believe I will be ready to take the July LSAT, but can't take a full Monday off work so I'm planning to take the August test due to the Saturday test date. Wondering if I should reconsider my plans if July is offered after work hours/on a weekend.
leahsingleton201698
Tuesday, Apr 28 2020
In my mistaken choice of answer choice D, I think my error was in the scope of the question. Instead of asking about all people, this question is specific to the volunteers that are mentioned. Within the population of these volunteers, they were not able to look at the packaging of the cola; therefore, it is impossible to generalize based on packing since it was not included in the test condition.
leahsingleton201698
Tuesday, Apr 28 2020
I think a necessary assumption could be that all group members have the same taste preferences as each other. That being said, I think the key here is to identify the question type and respond accordingly. While you're not necessarily wrong, RRE questions call for one resolution that is present in the answer choices, and we have to choose the best that we're given. I'm also not sure how your identification of this flaw could be translated into a resolution rather than a necessary assumption.
leahsingleton201698
Tuesday, Apr 28 2020
When I first read this question, I identified a gap between organization and efficiency that needed to be filled by the answer choices. During the time crunch of the PT, I mistakenly identified A as the correct answer choice by skimming and finding these key words. When reading it more carefully during BR, I realized that A only reinforces the confusion in the problem. While answer choice A could have been close to correct for answer question type, this question reinforced the importance of a methodological approach to LR: looking at the stem first and then moving forward with anticipations and elimination.
Thanks @leahsingleton201698!