Completely agree, which is why I eliminated AC C under timed & BR. I also take issue with timid being the negation of "bold." I felt there's a strong argument there for those terms being separate concepts. Not a fan of this question, lots of assumptions involved....

Don't have the time to spell it out, but I think the flaw is that you can't take the contrapositive of a Some statement, which is what the original argument does. Better explanation here IMO: https://forum.powerscore.com/viewtopic.php?f=1443&t=35479

Thank you!!

Me reading Q7 AC C thinking it makes perfect sense and J.Y. in the video: "No. Just NO!"

Hi, if you re-read the passage it never says/implies the animals are already dead at the time of the preserving event. The author/LSAC assumes you will draw the conclusion that the creatures were buried alive (by the sandstorm or sandslide, the two competing hypotheses). This would be similar to how ancient civilizations have been buried alive with volcanic eruptions (e.g., the city of Pompeii). Definitely a built in assumption since it's not explicitly mentioned (wouldn't be the first time in RC unfortunately), but it's not stated in the other way either. The other problematic part of AC C is the mention of the stable dune field. This is briefly mentioned in the final paragraph as evidence for an additional implication but definitely not the article's main focus/point. Hope this helps!

Late but might help others. Going back to the first paragraph, according to the author GNP basically equals the domestic production of goods ("produced... in a nation"). (If you know econ, GNP technically includes production of a country's citizens overseas, but alas the passage only implies domestic). So AC B of Q4 is correct since it shows that increasing GNP (aka focusing on increasing domestic production) leads to improvement of human indicators. This is what the political economists said all along, and the author has been trying to argue against for the whole passage -- so a clear counterexample.

I have the same question ^ It seems a jump to assume judges are excessively removed just from the "appearance" bit. #help

Late here but for others: "cookie cutter" means a classic recurring answer choice type that LSAC uses. So cookie cutter here means classic flaw types in LR -- for example, AC D is one classic flaw type: cause-effect confusion. To your 2nd question, they are definitely not always wrong. The correct answer, AC A, is in fact sufficient-necessary confusion, which is also a "cookie cutter" type question (which in the video JY says LSAC loves to use). You should learn these types well to be able to quickly eliminate/choose them as ACs when they come up in LR!

interested as well!