Hi 7Sagers,
I am a low-income, first generation (citizen and college student), Cuban-American woman. Does this count as URM? I have read in several places that Hispanic URMS are only counted as Mexican and Puerto Rican.
Thank you!
When negating answer choices for necessary assumption, what part of the statement is negated? In other words how are double negatives done?
A helpful example would be if someone could negate this please..?
Ex: Last year, at least some people responding to calls in the editorialist’s country wish to be perceived as unwilling to watch television news programs.
My two body paragraphs were complete. Yet, I did not finish my conclusion. Will this be to my disadvantage?
In terms of difficulty, does anyone know if taking the test Friday vs Saturday changes anything? I am taking it tomorrow the 15th!
Again, I did not choose this AC bc up the assumption of that value=quality seemed like a far leap to me.
I ended up not choosing D because I understood “higher levels of environmental pollution” attempting to trap us into assuming this leads to cancer. ._.
Under time constraints I correctly chose C, to then later change is to A under blind review. I was completely thrown by this question because I approached it as a weakening question, when in reality it seems like a strengthening question.
the grammar on answer choice E is atrocious.
good luck to everyone! I'm a Saturday test taker!
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I attended a PowerScore crystal ball and essentially what they said was PT 1-35’s RC was much more similar to modern tests, hence much more helpful in gaging your skill for test day. Therefore, I still complete the 40s, 50, 60, and 70s RC, but I am not using them as an indicator for what I should expect to see on a real LSAT. So I still completed them for the practice, but I also did all of the “harder reading comprehension” drills under the core curriculum for better practice. Powerscore also said that modern RC has much less specific question types like “on line _” and is shifting to more abstract, closer to LR type questions, with an emphasis on author’s opinions, implications, and inferences. Again, more practice is NEVER worse but place an emphasis on 1-35 and mainly 80-90s for harder/similar to modern RC sections. Unfortunately, 40-Mid 60s has notoriously easier RC than modern day …
@ For the second half of your question, based on personal experience … From preptests 36-44 I was doing really well on RC. Since my test is coming up on the 15th I switch to preptest 80 and up to get a better sense of what a modern test is … and was shocked at how poorly I did on RC. Then I attended the Powerscore, CrystalBall Seminar and they spoke about the changes in RC so my answer discrepancy made much more sense.
Good luck to everyone!
I was averaging between -5 - -11 on RC until I changed my methodology. I have always actively read in the sense I highlight, annotate, and mark anything I find important. However, I watched a few youtube videos and LSAT gurus on how to improve on RC and most say to ditch the annotating. RC is not testing us on memorization of facts, names, dates, etc. I completely changed my methods and instead I read it once through with minimal annotations (annotate if its a theory, hypothesis, opinion etc.) and answer the questions without looking back to the passage... Huge difference. I noticed my confusion lay in going back and forth from the question stem/answer choices and the paragraph. Also, trap answers will be answers that make logical sense, but pertain to information not in the passage. In other words, it will trick you into assuming and deducing right answers. Not to mention, PTs 1-35 have harder RC because it was changed in the 90s to fairly easy passages. So I saw RC scores in the PTs 45-60s get really high and then dropped again in the 70s to current. So I abandoned older PTs RC sections because they are drastically different from modern tests. Last point, when doing comparative passages, JY says to read passage A alone and see how many questions you can answer like that and then read passage B.
Best of luck! Youtube, JY live test taking videos, Powerscore, and Reddit have great resources on how to improve!
My issue with this question is that the production (when and how) of pheromones is never mentioned. The stimulus states, “evaporate” … meaning they have been produced and then disappeared “without a trace”. Whereas, answer E states they are inefficient due to their inability to trace their tracks. Terrible question.
Ah! I had negated it as
Last year, at least some people responding to calls in the editorialist’s country DID NOT wish to be perceived as unwilling to watch television news programs.
Isn’t it a larger assumption jump for AC E than AC D. D forces you to make the assumption that these war trophies were actually used. In my opinion, not a large mental leap.