"IMPROVED" being in quotes is cracking me up lol. A bit of levity in a dire/irritating situation, but we will get through this! Thanks for the update @Kevin_Lin

@movnelson17 Necessary assumptions do strengthen the argument because it provides the necessary/required conditions for the argument to exist!

However, lol, I still picked C for similar reasons to you. My thought was that this AC defended against a possibility of scholars conducting research in public libraries and swaying the public library inventory/general public to be more pro-electronic book format.

crying shaking throwing up lol i misunderstood the 95% DNA match as meaning that J Turtles and P Turtles have 95% identical DNA. So every J turtle and every P turtle in the world are 95% identical in their genetic makeup.

Re-reading the stim and it seems more like out of Xthousand samples taken from both groups, 95% of those taken samples were a match.

I eliminated D because I thought that was just trying to incorrectly undermine the given premise instead of undermining the argument reasoning. I said "the P Turtles can't have 95% of their DNA match J Turtles and then also have 95% of their DNA match A Turtles, 95% + 95% is impossible! D is obviously so wrong!" alas alas.

the right answer being AC A hurts my feelings lol. I was so sure that libraries purchasing fewer books = bookstores having less profits! Do libraries not purchase books from stores for the public to use? I learned this is not the case; libraries purchase books from wholesale suppliers and publishers. Makes sense now that I've stopped to think about it! But I would've missed this question on test day from my own faulty outside knowledge.

@Gregmjr answering since i see no one else has answered! What helped me here was thinking that part of strengthening the argument involves ruling out alternate explanations. We want to get to a place where the author's argument, stress Causes insomnia, is the only possible explanation PERIOD. So we seek out an alternate explanation, specifically to rule it out and increase the chance of the author's argument being The One True Explanation!

@TBlack05 LOL I will follow him into the hot springs of this exam I sure will

@MichelleGukhman I thought I knew how to read at my big age and yet, here we are lol

@greycaboose i love coming to the discussion comments b/c 8 times out of 10 someone else has my question and someone else has answered it! So I try to answer a question whenever I can haha. Only when I feel confident about my answer though; no need to mislead or confuse of course.

did you lift this from my bullet journal diary entry lmao - i feel SO similarly. A bit of panic for the August test coming up. I have letters of rec writers...but only 1 has actually written a letter. I don't have a solid school list (the price of CAS and school apps is killing me and i feel like i need to apply broadly but with what money?!?!). We'll simply have to get through this

@PennJoon2025 The use of the word "or" also allows for both! I struggled with this but there's a lesson in the core curriculum about Inclusive Or that will help. So AC D saying "every pet is F or P" is still fair game and in line with the stim's original argument layout.

@monmon ;as;afja;lsdfkjalskfjal;sdfjk I re-read the stim. I completely missed the premise saying that 89% of REPORTERS voted for the incumbent! I thought this was a premise sharing that the incumbent received 89% of votes total. Sigh sigh sigh

Yikes. I correctly eliminated A, but D was my (incorrect) answer choice...I thought that the crux of the argument flaw was a Reverse Causation situation.

The conclusion: reporters ALLOWED the personal biases reflected in the voting pattern (89% in favor of the incumbent) to AFFECT their news coverage. The author concludes that it's the voting results/pattern impacting the coverage.

This seemed like a flaw on the grounds that the author does not consider that the reporters' coverage bias is what impacted the 89% voting pattern.

AC D says "Voting behavior is not impacted by coverage"...which seemed to support my flaw pre-phrase...alas.

Train of Thought is chef's kiss! I was wondering if there would be any RC drills. I'd love to see more of these RC skill-builders for SURE!

@Stas1973 bless you

@AlexandraFriestman the number of times a level 2 question has completely kicked my ass is humbling! everyone's going to find some questions "harder" than others mhmmmm!

I'm not quite in the same boat, but I'm in the same harbor lol. I'm taking the exam for the first time in August, but I've also scheduled for September because I just have a feeling that the first time won't be my best time. My plan is to take a week off after the August exam to lay the groundwork for my essays and materials, then get back to studying for September's exam. After September's exam, I'm all in on material preparation. I've been loosely brainstorming whenever inspiration strikes of course, but yeah - I won't really focus on essays until I've made sure my LSAT is as high as I can get it!

@GDatria715 that's what it's all about!!

@Stannis agreed! I had a similar note with Flaw Hunter - when there's a clean match it makes the final set way too easy because the last items standing clearly all go together. It'd be cool to see some non-flawed statements thrown in (for Flaw Hunter), or some additional challenge squares, or an odd number of squares or something for Logic Links.

Really enjoying these skill building games. Being able to systematically train these skills without burning through practice questions has been a game changer!

Oooo yes – I'm playing the Logic Link one right now - "A fresh puzzle every day. The daily puzzle is the same for everyone and gets harder as the week goes on—Monday is gentle, Sunday is brutal. Share your grid to compare with your study group, or open the archive to play any past day. Want a tough one? Grab a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday." – it'd be lit to have this for the other games too! A more communal experience! Like Wordle

i guess i'm a gamer now haha. For Argument ER - I've played it several times over the last few days and have gotten A LOT of repeat "patients" and I'm wondering if there's any kind of generator schedule or timing in place that will keep new questions coming in? Should I just chill on practicing with this game and check back in a few weeks?

upvoted! being able to sort by "last seen" would be very helpful. I'd much rather see questions that i haven't visited in a while at the top of my review

This is why i keep my wrong answer journal as a Notion dashboard! It's been helpful for me -- I'm sharing it as a suggestion for you if that's helpful

@dragon7 it's vintage haha practice test 14 must've been at least 10 years ago