Cleaver indeed

Heavily invested = use? LSAC can fuck right off.

I feel dumb for missing this one. I find this little tip useful though so you guys might too. For future reference:

Note how the stimulus jumps from investors and their confidence in the economy to general voter confidence in the economy. This jump helps make it obvious that there's some missing assumption between those two groups if one is mentioned in the premises and the other is mentioned in the conclusion. Putting it simply, keep track of shifting terminology / representative groups as there may be some association between them.

I took A to imply that fewer people -> fewer hours -> more pressure -> more injuries. Merp.

same :c

Questions like this are ridiculous. Xavier said he was "not surprised" that it went out of business. You can't, in full confidence, say that that implies something was risky. If anything, it can easily be argued that he knew it was going to fail.

Got absolutely demolished by this section. Brb jumping off a cliff.

I feel like if I had the ability to write on these exams, it would be a lot easier to keep up with what I'm reading.

Yeah fuck this question. Spent my luck on future exams by guessing correctly after 3 minutes of staring at it.

Silly me forgot to highlight the conclusion so I ended up choosing A over E. Whoops.

Reliance that is not necessary.

The defendant's acquittal shows that the prosecutor's judgement is flawed. The TV host unnecessarily relies on the prosecutor's authority to make his conclusion.

Didn't choose E because I didn't think evidence was explicitly presented... lol

Starting to get irritated by JY's casual and dismissive attitude towards providing a full analysis of each answer choice. Understanding why answers are wrong is critical.

This is fucking genius. Bless you and every subsequent generation down your family line.

The fact that these pattern of reasoning questions are at the end makes it less likely that I'm going to diagram each option, or at the very least do it properly. Hoping that continued practice makes the answer more obvious

I keep it at the back of my notebook for review prior to a practice test. This refreshes my memory on ways I can get questions wrong.

There's no set way to go about it. It's meant for you to learn from your mistakes and to make sure never to make those mistakes again so periodic review is helpful.

Same. I feel pretty confident about my answers then I get hit with a 2/5 or 1/5.

Seeing that close attention to semantics is the deciding factor for these obviously more difficult questions.

I agree, this one seemed pretty easy based on that logic. Although I think there's larger room for error with that logic as opposed to that of the better answer (B), which is corroborated by the fact that cutting a flower will undoubtedly cause it to wilt.

This small distinction makes it tough. I feel like this one could have gone either way.