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Would you classify the stimulus as a set of premises or an argument?
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meaganwilliams948023
Wednesday, Feb 24 2021
Some college students prefer to take the exam in the Fall after their final exams. There are usually a few weeks between Fall and Spring that students utilize for test prep. It varies. If your diagnostic is around a 159-161and your dream school's median is 155, you probably wouldn't need too much time to prepare. There are also pre-law programs that almost guarantee admission into a pre-law student's undergraduate law program (i.e. 3+3). The LSAT is typically required, but maybe the program doesn't put much emphasis on high scores. My undergraduate school did this to maintain/protect the law school's median GPA, as they were getting a lot of splitter applicants. Maybe people don't care about taking the LSAT during an admission cycle. If I were PTing around my goal score, I would take it when I'm ready, even if that meant taking it in the middle of someone else's application cycle. I don't think it matters when you take it if you aren't applying during that cycle. Are the people you are referring to taking the LSAT during their cycle?
meaganwilliams948023
Wednesday, Feb 24 2021
I don't think it matters too much. Law schools want more insight into your academic capabilities. If you have an excellent relationship with any of your professors, they should speak on behalf of your punctuality, maturity, etc. Also, it doesn't have to be an engineering professor. My university required a writing course to graduate, and those classes usually had 18-30 students. Due to the small class size, I built a great relationship with my instructor. Please don't underestimate the power of your TAs as well. I mean, they're probably grading your work.
In short: Reach out to Gen Ed instructors and TAs (Graduate assistants).
meaganwilliams948023
Sunday, Feb 21 2021
I think that the use of "either one, or two or three" is meant to distract us from the lack of a combination. In the stimulus, we're given three options but the third option was a combination of option A and option B. So to answer your first question, I don't think "either one or two or three" is meant to exhaust every and the only scenarios but perhaps, to get us to conflate the number of detectives (those sneaky test writers!) with the number of relationships established in the question's causal relationship. I didn't diagram this question. Instead, I created a general rule in my head and looked for answer choices that violated my rule. For example, my first rule for this sounds like "this thing can be triggered by A, B, or a combo of both." Then I'll eliminate answer choices. If there's anything left over, I'll create a new rule. Another rule, "example A doesn't change so B affects it to an extent". I really like these questions. You can treat it as if it's a logic game acceptability question. It's similar to setting up your game and eliminating the scenarios that violate the rules. I hope this is useful!
meaganwilliams948023
Saturday, Feb 20 2021
Thanks! I have a wrong answer journal but I didn't include an analysis. I can see how that would be more effective.
For those who initially struggled with LR (-5-7 a section), did you get better with more exposure to the test? If not, how do you overcome a weak LR section?
meaganwilliams948023
Friday, Feb 19 2021
I definitely agree. If you're interested it's Season 4, Episodes 1-2 of the Revisionist History podcast. It's worth a listen! I've also attached a link to the reference doc from the podcast: https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1342&context=facpub
I'm done with the April exam. It's been a week. How do I start studying again without scores? Anyone else struggling with this?
meaganwilliams948023
Monday, Feb 15 2021
It seems like an under-confidence error. Challenge yourself to predict the correct answer before attacking the answer choices during the first 10 questions. You might see a change in accuracy
meaganwilliams948023
Thursday, Feb 11 2021
I work full-time and it's rough. It depends on the job. My job requires a lot. I typically take work home with me and it's not ideal. I'm giving myself more time to study for the LSAT than someone with zero obligations. For example, let's say 6 months of studying is enough time to achieve 165+, I would give myself 1-1.5 year(s). In short, it's possible. Give yourself a longer timeline to achieve your goals.
RC is my weakest section. I plan on drilling RC passages every day until I get a better grasp. Right now, I usually miss 1 or 2 questions per passage. How many passages should I drill in a single day? Should I aim for 4 passages since there's only 4 on the test or should I drill more?
Stimulus
I fell into a trap and selected 'D' as my answer choice. After reviewing the question again, I realized that I made an assumption when choosing 'D' as the answer choice.
A) "Businesses generally greatly underestimate the risk of future accidents". This was easy for me to glance over because I was looking for a STRONG weakener. However, the correct answer choice doesn't have to be super strong to work. This answer choice works because it demonstrates the "it will probably won't happen to us" mentality. These business may meet the sufficient condition of "values their profits" but there may be an alternative reason or an explanation for their lack of environmental safeguards. If this is true, the conclusion doesn't follow. Therefore, A is the correct answer choice.
B ) We don't know if preventing accidents are long-term or short-term, so what?
C) Business sense is NOT equal to profit. NEXT.
D) This is tricky. "Businesses treat fines that are levied against them as an ordinary business expense". If you're like me, you made an assumption if you selected this answer choice. You probably assumed that businesses wouldn't install safeguards because the cost of the fines are worked into the budget. However, this answer choice could actually strengthen the argument. If businesses meet the sufficient condition of "Values their profits", avoiding accidents could improve their bottom line. Then there's a reason to install safeguards.
E) What does this have to do with their profits???
Thanks for coming to my TED talk. Please critique or provide your reasoning.
I originally chose 'D' as my answer choice but after reviewing it, I can see where I went wrong. The stimulus describes a theory that had been rejected due to lack of proof/reasoning for the occurrence of the event. The stimulus goes on to say that the theory is now accepted despite not having reasoning/proof. But we accept this theory because we can see the event through observation( because of our technological advances).
A) This answer choice mentions the "aim of science". We are not concerned with the "aim of science".
B ) This answer choice mentions a "mathematical description". The stimulus only says "force". We can't assume that "force" and "mathematical description" are related. Or even technology. If we accept that "science has become far more accurate at identifying underlying forces", our stimulus wouldn't make much sense. It could be weaken because they didn't accept Wegner's theory on the basis of force.
C) Eliminated. Technology and measuring instruments are not the same. Even if it were, the theory isn't harder to work out. The author never mentions this phenomenon.
D) "Employing statistics and the laws of probability". No.
E) "When the event a theory postulates are detected" or when we can observe an event..."the theory is accepted without even an explanation" Yes. It is the correct answer and it matches the example in the stimulus.
Please critique or reply with your line of reasoning.
meaganwilliams948023
Thursday, Feb 04 2021
A 10 point fluctuation is a lot. I would move it to April.
There are free resources that you can find with a quick google search. I wouldn't recommend purchasing a book unless you plan to take the LSAT more than six months from now. I don't understand your struggle as an ESL student, but I am a grade school English teacher. I've noticed that ESL and native speakers struggle with main and subordinate clauses. During the few months that I've invested in LSAT studying, it seems like the LSAT writers tend to use subordinate clauses to throw a lot of irrelevant information your way. Take this with a grain of salt.