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Proproctor says in the rules that you cannot have paper or pens on your workspace, but I thought you were allowed 6 pieces of scratch paper... please help! Test is in 2 days...
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nicolesteinberg133
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nicolesteinberg133
Sunday, Jun 08 2025
don't let it beat you up! parallel is usually only 1-2 questions per section :)) you got this!
nicolesteinberg133
Saturday, Jun 07 2025
oops meant All Most / Most but same idea lmao
nicolesteinberg133
Saturday, Jun 07 2025
The way I did this one correctly and quickly:
First wrote a simple map of the stim.
All A are B.
Most B are C.
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All A are C.
Then headed to the answer choices and realized all of them had the first sentence as the conclusion, so I skipped the first half and started with the premises.
As I read each answer choice, I was barely even reading the words - I was just replacing the premises with "All A are B. Most B are C" in my head. As soon as I noticed the premises weren't matching up with what I was saying, I moved on!
For example, I read A as:
All A (legislators) are B (politicians).
Most A (legislators) are C (run for office).
And stopped right there - this already doesn't match the argument form I matched for the stimulus.
Hope this makes sense lol
nicolesteinberg133
Friday, Jun 06 2025
https://www.txst.edu/philosophy/resources/fallacy-definitions.html
here are a couple but there are honestly so many - as long as you can get used to knowing where they are/how to spot them you'll be good!
nicolesteinberg133
Friday, Jun 06 2025
hope it went well!! bet you crushed it
nicolesteinberg133
Thursday, Jun 05 2025
not sure how helpful it is but I responded to someone else's thread with my take on this!
nicolesteinberg133
Thursday, Jun 05 2025
to me, it's more so that the initial conditional setup was inaccurate.
The stim gave us:
If life exists → there is water
We have water.
Therefore, there is life.
This initial setup is where we go wrong - life probably also needs food, habitats, prey, etc. aka there are more factors that are necessary for life to exist. Sooo drawing the conclusion that simply because there is water, we know for sure that there is life ignores the fact that other necessary conditions may need to exist for this conclusion to be true.
Not sure if that makes sense but hope this helps lol
nicolesteinberg133
Wednesday, Jun 04 2025
I would say that the "information in the passage" refers to looking at the passage as a whole, which, when zoomed out, continuously fights back against the comments of the critics. If you were to read answer E as if it were to be true, you would be saying, "the information in the passage states that novels don't have autobiographical elements." After reading the passage, this feels inherently off, since we know that the critics are the ones who believe this. The information in the passage tends to take this information and other information from the critics and negate/rebut it.
Hope this helps!
nicolesteinberg133
Tuesday, Jun 03 2025
thank you so much!! I appreciate these tips
nicolesteinberg133
Monday, Jun 02 2025
starting to feel realllllyy defeated with RC after getting like half of the questions wrong in this section :,) any advice
nicolesteinberg133
Friday, May 30 2025
it's worded pretty horribly but my takeaway is
the critic offered a conditional premise (if no policy change → recession), and used that to show that the economist failed bc there was actually growth instead of the predicted recession.
the economist responds by saying yea... but there was policy change so obvi there wasn't a recession
Answer choice A (buried in the grammar) basically just says the conditional argument that the critic used didn't follow through / didn't end up happening so the critic's argument is busted.
Not sure how much sense that made but hope that helps lmao
nicolesteinberg133
Thursday, May 29 2025
this is super helpful thank you!!
nicolesteinberg133
Thursday, May 29 2025
yea that helped! thank you!!
nicolesteinberg133
Wednesday, May 28 2025
I'm getting these right but I still don't have a good mental framework. there's usually a guiding sentence or rule that I'll say in my head as I approach questions but I can't figure one out for NA - anyone have something simple they use? #help
nicolesteinberg133
Tuesday, May 27 2025
the way I looked at this one:
the only thing I know about NOT getting the award is not having an exemplary record.
I can't justify Penn not getting the award unless I can confirm that he doesn't have an ER.
Saving a life isn't required for getting the award, but it guarantees it. Maybe you can also get the award if you save a kitten from a tree or even if you like win a scavenger hunt or something trivial. All I know is that if you save the life, you've got it; I don't know about any of the other potential ways to get the award.
A: Penn doesn't have ER. that's all I need. he can't get the award, no matter what. Franklin has ER and saved a life, he's got it!
nicolesteinberg133
Saturday, May 24 2025
was having a hard time finding the assumption in this one but realized that that meant I probably already assumed it. that's what led me to E!
There were no gaps in the language anywhere else - everything else seemed straightforward. We of course are programmed to think that we should do anything to reduce accidents, but that is still an assumption.
nicolesteinberg133
Saturday, May 24 2025
If I'm super confident in my answer and the answer matched my prediction, should I still be reading the rest of the options? I feel like I'm only half reading them when I'm super confident and don't get anything out of it anyway.
nicolesteinberg133
Friday, May 23 2025
is it wrong that I eliminated E after reading "Kayapo" because I assumed that it wouldn't have summarized the whole passage as asked in the stem?
nicolesteinberg133
Thursday, May 22 2025
would it be wrong that I simply looked at the verbs used and quickly eliminated ABDE?
I didn't think that the author showed respect or admiration/appreciation. the author was definitely neutral toward experts, so I just jumped at C (and read it to confirm the whole thing sounded right) #help
nicolesteinberg133
Tuesday, May 20 2025
are you guys watching the whole video if you confidently got the question right?
nicolesteinberg133
Monday, May 19 2025
another LSAT program I've seen suggested to find the assumption made in the argument (the assumptions used to connect the premise to the conclusion) and test the answer choices against the assumption.
so for weaken questions you'd see if the answer choices destroy the assumption; for strengthen you see if the answer choices make that assumption more likely to be true.
tbh these weaken/strengthen vids on 7sage have been the first to have me really confused so maybe the method above might be more useful? or does this method even work? lmk
nicolesteinberg133
Saturday, May 10 2025
It means that the rules you'll make only apply to that category. So the domain of the Frequent Viewers Club means that the following rules only apply to members of that club
nicolesteinberg133
Saturday, May 10 2025
We'd start by kicking members of the Frequent Viewers Club up to the domain. Meaning - all of the following rules apply only to those who belong to the club.
So:
10+ videos → original VK
10+ videos → Main Street VK
We know Pat has met the 10+ videos condition. If he had to follow the above rules, he would have to go to Main Street. But, he's heading to Walnut Lane.
Thus, we know he must not belong to the domain that we set.
So, Pat doesn't belong to the Frequent Viewers Club, but he is still using the coupon.
Some people who aren't viewers can still receive the coupon.
did this one pretty fast and didn't even read D.
skimmed the stim and grasped onto the conclusion saying "likely," so I knew the conclusion couldn't be definitive.
A B and E all had conclusions that said "will" or "will not" so I immediately got rid of them.
C had no temporal language, so it couldn't be parallel to D.
and that was it!