Just wanted to tell ya'll good luck as you get closer to your test date! You got this! :)
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Ooof I struggled too with overthinking about whether should not play = wrong. I then additionally confused myself because I got into the issue with ACs saying "someone" and not "that person" (and somehow totally overlooked "you"). Lots of pretzeling happening on this question for me. I got it wrong but I do see where the other answer choices helped with the process of elimination.
Thank you so much! Looking forward!
I saw B as strengthening Anna's argument. Without the information from answer choice C (saying that the royalties are cut in half) we're assuming the royalties stay the same, meaning that it would be more expensive to go with the new format since they need to be replaced more often. If they bought these new tapes as replacements for the old ones, they would need to replace those replacements more often thus costing more royalties.
I'm interested!
My thought on getting rid of E: if anything we could assume the artist's ORIGINAL intention was green since the first layer was green and later changed to red.
That fact from the stimulus (green being under the red) helped me get rid of E.
I've learned frow watching JY that the very first step (what he called step 0) is to read the question stem. I've been forcing myself to read the question stem first, identify the question type, THEN read the stimulus and ACs. So far it has been helpful to catch the "except" or "least" notations. If I wait until after I read the stimulus my brain doesn't feel like it catches the whole question stem.
This makes wayyyy more sense than JY's explanation.
First of all, I am not going to have time to diagram out the potential cost and fee structure of a video store (then assuming that the salaries and other non-mentioned aspects figure in when the stimulus and AC doesn't mention that) when you are correct and this helps! Anna's argument does not mention the cost the customer pays or the final cost to rent a video as she talks about the cost the store pays.
I got hung up on this because Anna said "most of the price consists of royalties" which at first glance does sound like C, but as you pointed out, the AC specifically mentions the final cost to the customer.
I get that JY was trying to illustrate exactly that but - rather than wasting time drawing out detailed diagrams I think recognizing that language is more important.
@cbran052272 said:
Alright guys I went ahead and started a GroupMe - if there's a more preferred option, let me know
https://groupme.com/join_group/63079671/gwZJlnRE
I keep getting an error when I try to validate my phone number :( I'll keep trying!
Hii I'm planning January tooo! So far I've been hit or miss with my study schedule, It's rough with the scheduler on this tool, as I have a full time job as well and can't dedicate 40+ hours a week. I'm trying to do about 2 hours every other day.
It would be nice to have an accountability/study buddy.
Hi, I am so sorry you are struggling with the weight of all of this. Fear not, you absolutely can do this! Try not to put too much stress on yourself, if not the January test, there are others shortly after that too and so many people have taken the LSAT multiple times.
I am willing to be a low-key accountability buddy and could benefit from it too. I have been struggling keeping up with my weekly study hour goals and could use maybe even a quick call once a week or so to just say "hey, have you been studying!?". If anything, maybe we could help each other on areas we get stuck on, I find teaching to be a valuable study tool.
Any which way - just know you can do this!
Oops, nevermind. I've decided to give myself more time and go for the January 2021 test.
I can't think of a specific example at this moment but I'm pretty sure I have run across at least one situation where leaping to assume a word means "wrong" (AKA an AC making a moral judgment without explicit language in the stim) was incorrect.