"Keeping of government secrets" DOES NOT EQUAL "concealing information"

@tausaf2053.A. Ausaf

Thank you!!

@nicolelaurencarrier567 This is fantastic news! Thanks so much for sharing! :)

@ahirth100379 Thanks so much! You're gonna kill it next month!

@yeasm22s753 Sounds like you are definitely burnt out. Take some time off and do something you enjoy. Every time I've taken a week off I've gotten a new high score on my next PT! Sometimes it's the reset our brains need to come back stronger!

Keep your head up everyone! Remember this: progress, not perfection!

@aaronbenjaminwilson70 Thank you! I'm trying to stay as positive as possible. Same here! RC is my worst section and I had an experimental RC with RC being the hardest of the three sections. Part of getting a high score is luck. We need the cards to fall in our favor and play on our strengths! We still have plenty of time before the October exam to improve. Let's keep the mindset that we are going to crush October (regardless of our score on Friday)!!

Hi there!

I would take October. Don't rush into another test before you are ready. The less times you have to take the test, the better! Also, October is still early. You would get your score back end of October/early November and still be able to apply early decision for some schools if you'd like. Also, I've heard from numerous admissions officers that applying before Thanksgiving is still considered early in the cycle.

Best of luck to you. You got this! Keep fighting! Always remember- progress, not perfection!

Nicole

DINOSAUR,

I absolutely agree with this! Thank you for posting. I think that the LSAC writers are trying to punish people for simply following patterns. We see corroborating data sets as correct answers for many questions, so what better way to trick students than by staging a question that is a corroborating data set imitator? We must be able to distinguish between a true corroborating data set answer and an answer that is merely giving us another correlation.

Nicole

Hi there,

I had the same thought. Then I realized that this is an MSS question. AC E doesn't have to be true. Answer choice E is the most supported by the stimulus. It is correct simply because there is more support for it than any other answer choice. Try looking at MSS questions like this: This is a fact that I am going to accept and not question too much as long as this fact is supported by the stimulus. Your analysis is exactly why this isn't a MBT question. It doesn't have to be true because if everyone else's income increased by less than your income increased, we cannot say conclusively that you won't get more satisfaction. The important thing is to know exactly what your "job" is for each question type so you don't get too wrapped up in overthinking.

I hope this helps!

Hi there!

I had a 144 diagnostic and I recently scored a 172 on a PT! There is hope everyone. Never give up!

This is incredible! Thanks for sharing your story!

@nataliehberg153 Thank you so much!!

Thanks for highlighting this crucial point. Awesome explanation!

E is tricky to understand because it’s a comparative statement with modifiers attached to each statement. E must be true. It must be true that at least some of the theories tested over time and found useful are less useful than ones that have not been fully absorbed. This is because we know that common sense is always progressing by the gradual replacement of more useful theories. AC B is wrong. Of the useful theories, we can’t prove that the older ones are generally less useful than the newer ones. What if most of the theories never actually got replaced because they were too good to be replaced? The oldest ones could be the most useful and it could be the newer ones that get gradually replaced by more useful ones to aid in the continuous progression of common sense.

I would like to add to JY's description for why answer choice D is wrong. Notice how it says damage. Damage does not necessarily imply death or a lessoning of the plankton population. Maybe the damage is minor and they simply got ill? Either way, answer choice D is flawed for a plethora of reasons, this being one of them.

Hi there,

I agree that answer choice C requires making a bad assumption. However, the other answer choices are way worse. There will be many times on the LSAT where multiple answer choices require making assumptions. It is our job to pick the most reasonable assumption.

A.) Okay, so the cash prizes weren't enough to motivate them to make a significant effort. This doesn't help explain why the people with cash incentives were ranked lower than the other group though. Was the other group more motivated? Less motivated? We don't know.

B.) Yes, we must make the small assumption that creativity=good. However, with this small assumption, this answer choice provides an explanation for why the incentives group was ranked lower than the other group.

C.) This doesn't differentiate between the two groups. Since this would be the same across both groups, it doesn't resolve anything.

D.) Okay, but which group had more realistic stories? Again, this doesn't differentiate between the two groups and doesn't resolve anything.

E.) This also puts the two groups on a level-playing field. They both didn't know about this thing. Okay, but that doesn't explain why the incentives group was ranked lower.

Hi,

Yes, the LSAC takes into account both grades for repeated classes. On my transcripts, since they were from different schools, you can see my original grade in one class and the new grade that was redone at a different college. If the original grade is no where on your transcript though, I don't know how the LSAC would find out about it. If they can see both grades, they will definitely count both as they did with my situation. However, if there is no trail of the repeat class, I don't think they would know about it since they only evaluate what they are given. Even though it only shows one grade on your transcript, is there any evidence that you've retaken the class (such as the same class listed again for another semester with no pervious grade showing)?

Thank you for this! Very helpful.

I was between ACs B and C. AC B is incorrect because it tells us that the students were already good at writing automatically before the writing lessons, but it doesn’t strengthen the correlation between writing automatically and improved composition skills. AC C is correct; it strengthens the correlation by giving us a more complete spectrum. The stimulus is focused on kids who improved the most. AC C is telling us that in general kids who showed greater improvement in writing automatically also improved in their composition skills. This shows that the correlation doesn’t just pertain to the small subset of students who improved the most, it pertains to students in general.

This question is close to an MSS question. The correct AC is supposed to illustrate the stimulus. I was between C & E. The word “manipulation” seemed too strong to me. However, C is wrong because it says, “even well thought out plans can fail”. Is it failing though? We don’t know. Customers are complaining of inconvenience, but they could still be shopping there anyway. AC E says, “manipulation of customers can have unwelcome consequences”. Manipulation is illustrated by forcing customer to walk past other products to get to the staples. The unwelcomed consequences would be the alienation of customers. This is much more supported than C.

I got this correct in BR. I realized that C was the much stronger AC over A. AC A is telling us that there is a weaker correlation between these two things. Okay, but how much weaker? We don’t know. It could be only slightly weaker. This is telling us that there still exists a correlation. AC C is much stronger. It helps one of the main premises in the argument. Okay, so most of the studies only had people without insomnia, and in many of the studies, only a few were affected by melatonin. AC C says that of the studies with insomniacs included, only non-insomniacs were significantly affected. This is a much stronger AC because it strengthens the argument that melatonin doesn’t necessarily help insomniacs.

Hi there,

This is for anyone who had the same thought as tekken:

Yes, in the real world, increased faculty salaries would most likely be offset by raising tuition fees for students. However, we have to stay on topic and use what we know from the stimulus. Even though we can make answer choice A work with the previous assumption, we would have to make this unwarranted assumption when there is a much smaller (and better) assumption in another answer choice. Answer choice D has us making a much smaller assumption that is more in line with the argument. We have to remember to stay on topic. Students who previously could afford tuition when they first enrolled can no longer afford tuition. For D, we have to make the assumption that some of these students did have grades that dropped and thus, they lost their merits scholarships. If this story is true, this provides a resolution to the phenomenon. This is a much more reasonable assumption to make because it tells a story that is in line with our main topic- students no longer being able to afford tuition. Answer choice D is something that is more likely to directly affect a student's ability to pay tuition (as opposed to faculty salary increases).