i will risk it too... for the sake of science

I got the question right, but by process of elimination because I thought that 'either or" meant that both things, it being unpopular to students or faculty could both happen as a possibility- I thought the logic was too easy otherwise.

What happened to inclusive or? How can we tell when OR is inclusive or exclusive??

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it took me so long to wrap my head around 'disagree' if it was in the sense of one of them agreeing and the other disagreeing to the statment, or the both of them disagreeing to a statement which would have meant that they agree that they each disagree and so I figured that disagree meant that one agrees and the other disagrees

when I read "earth, the skin of the world" i knew the lsat writers lost it lmao

the exact reason I eliminated AC A was the exact reason why it was the correct AC. nice. love this for me. feels so good!

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I got the right answer choice using a similar method because I was struggling in putting the stim into logic.

Came here hoping to find an explanation using logic since that is what we have been practicing....am confused as to why this explanation didn't use logic?

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does anyone know where the lesson on how to identify between necessary assumption questions and sufficient assumption questions

the prep getting to me bc I was laughing way too hard at all the sass

what a strange question to require the assumption that those of Indian ethnicity eat Indian curries.

sacrifice a chicken and dance around in circles before my lsat hopefully that will help

Is there a stronger reasoning why E is the incorrect AC

I was between C and E but chose E because I thought the critics concerns were dismissed because the author study was held in higher regard

Could the key word be that E said "authors study" when really they were not praising the authors study but the author themself, hence why C is the correct AC because it says 'focuses its attention on the study's author rather than on study itself

This is so frustrating im so sorry. They will not give you the accommodations for the next lsat unless you can prove it is their fault and not yours. Find anything that can prove your case that you submitted before the deadline. How do you know that your request was received? Can you try to find an email or screen shot of this with the date clearly shown?

i completely missed AC A because i didn't understand that the second week was the second occasion of testing . yikes

I was confused why A does not weaken- let me dumb it down

AC A is actually agreeing with the argument that environmental factors don't do much to contribute whether a teenager will play a sport, bc AC A is saying that teenagers are more likely to participate in a sport if they just are born and blessed with athletic ability

Some siblings are blessed w being good at sports and some are not, and its THAT which influences if they participate, not the environmental factor.

It would be weakening the argument if it said something like 'Even if one sibling is more athletically inclined than the other, if both siblings are raised in a household where family life encourages playing sports both siblings will play sports" which weakens the arg but saying family life is the strongest influence on playing sports

Something that tripped me up was the world 'many', I falsely translated 'many popular novelists' to mean 'MOST popular novelists' and that made me eliminate the correct AC off the bat.

Remember that 'many' is a subset of 'some' and has lower bounds, it means at least 1 and at most all. Most speaks of a range, 51% -100%.

Some = many, several, at least one, lots, not none

Most = a majority, more than half

I feel like this reminder is easier to explain why D is correct, because if you read the argument as "some popular novels have stylistic elements commonly associated with journalistic writing" it becomes pretty obvious that the flaw is neglecting to account for how many unsuccessful novels have journalistic writing

i chose AC d and JY made me laugh so hard im not even mad abt it

This took me a while to make sense of, hope this can help.

I chose A, but this is why C is correct

The premise is suggesting that Zebra finch and Dark eyed junko could have had the same ancestor who had H virus and passed it on to them respectively. Then it says that the H virus in Z and D are in the same location of chromosome.

This is why AC C is so sneaky.

If its true that the virus gets inserted in a random spot, and if it were true that Z and D were infected separately (not from a common ancestor) then Z and D would have the virus in a random spot and NOT the same location.

HOWEVER Since they DO have it in exactly the same location, that is indicative of them having a common ancestor with the virus, which infected the common ancestor and was passed on to each of them, respectively, in the same location when the species diverged.

AC C: If virus inserts itself into chromosome (=/= not inherited), it occurs at a random spot.

Since the stim tells us that Z and D have the H virus in the same location, it is likely that they were not inserted the virus (chances of it being random and randomly appearing in exact location is slim). Thus this piece of information strengthens the inference that they have inherited the H virus from the same ancestor instead.

I was upset about getting this question wrong but the picture of the grouse made it worth it

Is this the strategy for approaching passages that have 2 parts? Read passage A first and go to questions eliminating AC choices based off of only passage A?

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making this a MBF that requires logic where every other answer choice is a CBT is really the cherry on top of a shit sandwhich thanks lsat writers

Can someone explain what the first sentence means because my brain is just not getting it

I'm reading it as 'the interest rate for a bank to borrow money has to be higher than the interest rate it gets from loaning money to a large company."

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BUT that contradicts with ac A and Im so over it help please