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LSAT · PT86.S1.Q16 - Am I understanding? because Im a bit confused on why it is not A

mauricesfrediere86

Thursday, Oct 21 2021

The answer is B because the entire argument falls apart if you're looking at hideous paintings by children because of the last sentence that states that the paintings are not just "more aesthetically pleasing" but also (this is a shift in the argument in the last sentence) "are aesthetically pleasing". If the argument remained, as it was in the first sentence, simply that the paintings are more aesthetically pleasing, then b wouldn't be necessary. But because it concludes with "are aesthetically pleasing", they need to not only be better than children's paintings, but the assumption has to be that they have to be better than children's paintings that aren't complete eyesores as this establishes both the original argument "more a.p. than children's paintings" and the secondary one, that they are aesthetically pleasing.

The answer is not A because it doesn't actually matter if people are any better at judging paintings in relation to each other rather than on their own. The argument is still valid if people are equally adept at judging a painting's quality on its own and when compared to another painting. You probably fell on this one as the right answer choice because it makes intuitive sense that people's opinions would be more valid when comparing but that's not a necessary assumption.

LSAT · ⚖ Official June 2022 LSAT Discussion Thread ⚖

mauricesfrediere86

Friday, Jun 10 2022

this is only tangentially related but do we know if they're ever going to disclose a test again? It's been two years and some newer PTs would be really nice, plus it'd be cool to take one where we're able to see how we actually did on the real test.

General · What’s The Best Way to Reset During 10 Min Break During LSAT?

mauricesfrediere86

Thursday, Sep 09 2021

why do they care if we drink coffee during the test lmao

Study Groups · Achieving LSAT score of 175

mauricesfrediere86

Friday, Feb 04 2022

I'm pting at 172 and BR up to 175 most of the time. I'm hoping to bump up to 176 on the actual LSAT and my path to this point was to master logical reasoning (as a concept, not a section) and get to -2 on LG. Go through the core curriculum here and drill LR until you're able to identify question types just by the passages and predict answer choices 90% of the time. On 20 or so out of the 25 LR questions I know exactly the answer I'm looking for before i look at the ACs. I found the core curriculum for logic games to also be very helpful and it's the kind of thing that you just have to practice a bunch to make sure you're charting out all the games correctly and quickly. My personal path from this point forward (tentatively taking March LSAT) is to get LG down to -0, as I'm only missing ~2 problems because I run out of time, and eliminate the ~1-2 LR stupid mistakes I'm averaging per test. When I do those two things in BR i've gotten up to 175-178. That in combination with drilling some more RC and hopefully knocking one missed answer per section would put me pretty firmly at 175/176 in 5 weeks. I will say that it's way easier to get to 170 than it is to get to 175, so start now, get through the core curriculum in the next two months and then practice test and drill a lot.

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Wednesday, Feb 01 2023

mauricesfrediere86

LSAT expiration

I took the LSAT in June 2022 and hit my target score (ty 7sage), I've been planning on attending law school with the post-9/11 GI bill after serving in the Army for 3 years. Long story short, the application process takes forever and I'm worried about my score expiring before my Army contract is up. Does anyone know if my June 2022 score would be good if I were to matriculate in August 2027? It's more than 5 years but less than 5 full testing years. The 5 testing years for the application cycle that'd lead into 2027 would be: 2026-2027, 2025-2026, 2024-2025, 2023-2024, 2022-2023. But I see on the LSAT website that July 2017 scores seem eligible for current applications which would indicate six testing years including the one coinciding with the application cycle: 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023. Any guidance would be appreciated.