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Hi everyone, in my haste to beat the clock during my diagnostic test, I failed to circle a lot of questions that I was unsure of so I could BR later. Would you recommend I BR the entire test?
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mmutanuka860
Saturday, Mar 02 2019
You can click on the "Q" on the far right under "NEXT" to pull up the question and answers
mmutanuka860
Sunday, Aug 26 2018
Thanks for your feedback!
mmutanuka860
Saturday, Jul 30 2016
1. My name is Mambwe Mutanuka. I currently work for a non-profit healthcare system as a Director of Contracts. I have a MBA and I am finally pursuing law school after years of considering it. I moved to the United States from Zambia as a college student.
2. My LSAT score.
3. (i) My story of growing up in Zambia and immigrating to the United States. (ii) To describe how after years of considering law school (from a very young age), and after working in a field that is closely related to law, I have concluded that it is my calling and I don't want to regret not pursuing a career in law.
I struggled with this one too so I did some outside 7Sage research and found this explanation on another blog. It helped me out. I think the key is "aesthetically better vs. aesthetically pleasing"...
Explanation:
The conflation of relative qualities with absolute ones ("aesthetically better" vs "aesthetically pleasing") is a commonly tested subject on the LSAT, and test takers should always have it in the back of their minds whenever a comparison between two things is made in a stimulus. That is what is being tested here, not as a flaw, but as a necessary assumption to make the argument work. This leads to a powerful prephrase: in order for us to know the abstract impressionist paintings are "pleasing," rather than just better (but still bad!), we have to assume the preschoolers' paintings are good enough that anything better is automatically above the "aesthetically pleasing" threshold.
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So if the child paintings were bad (aka displeasing), the AE paintings would only be "aesthetically better" in comparison. In order for the AE paintings to be "aesthetically pleasing", they can't be compared against child paintings that are displeasing as that would result in AE paintings being only "better".
Definitely a tricky question.
(I should credit PowerScore for the explanation. Don't worry 7Sage, you're still the MVP)