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Lessons · Formatting, Presentation, and Other Details

peterdavidmajewski848

Friday, Aug 16 2024

Just wanted to comment that the ALT and type 015 didn't work for me. I googled and it should be ALT and type 0150 on the numpad.

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PT140.S4.P2.Q7

peterdavidmajewski848

Saturday, Aug 03 2024

I had no clue what that entire paragraph was saying because I kept looking for a verb and did not find it lol

LSAT · Bombed RC on final PT before August

peterdavidmajewski848

Saturday, Aug 03 2024

You were probably just tired or burnt out. Happens to me a lot during studying after work. Make sure you're well rested for the test. I'm taking August as well. It's scary to think that some serious brain fog could roll in and ruin your test, but at the same time I strongly believe that the stress/adrenaline of actually taking the test will prevent that.

And on top of that, with RC the passages can vary so much, so you might have just gotten something you didn't really understand very well. Fingers crossed that on the test all of the passages are pretty straightforward lol. Good luck!

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PT128.S4.P2.Q7

peterdavidmajewski848

Tuesday, Jul 23 2024

I love how awful they were with the ridiculous convoluted movie inside a movie in paragraph two.

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PT104.S2.P4.Q25

peterdavidmajewski848

Friday, Jul 12 2024

I also fell for this but it starts with "If" so they aren't necessarily saying it's flawed, just that if there is a flaw it might be xyz.

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PT150.S2.Q3

peterdavidmajewski848

Tuesday, Jul 09 2024

Yeah I was like HOW did I get that wrong??? oh it says agree

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PT146.S4.P4.Q23

peterdavidmajewski848

Monday, Jun 24 2024

I've done this passage several times and I always get to that and go "no they never said that" or "well we don't know anything about the other parts of CFCs" and just choose some other answer. It's so obnoxious that sometimes we are supposed to assume and other times it's wrong.

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PT130.S3.Q15

peterdavidmajewski848

Wednesday, Jun 19 2024

Not the greatest explanation, but my thoughts are:

This is a most strongly supported question - looking at D and using logic, we can come to that conclusion fairly reasonably with the stimulus provided. We don't really have to make any big assumptions, we can very nicely draw it out and support it.

In order to support C - we need to assume that both having a mind clouded by illusion and having a tainted emotional outlook on life are self-deception. This is not really proven by the stimulus, and we do need to make an assumption.

Granted we can't google terms on the test, but per Google self-deception is "the action or practice of allowing oneself to believe that a false or unvalidated feeling, idea, or situation is true". We would have to assume that these people are ALLOWING themselves to feel this way. Are we allowing ourselves to have a mind clouded by illusion, or is that just the way it is? It could be either.

So, considering we can nicely draw out D and C requires an assumption, D is most strongly supported. I will say, I personally don't think C is THAT big of a jump but that's how I've reasoned this to myself.

General · [Recordings Available] A 2-Part Crash Course on 7Sage's New Method for RC!

peterdavidmajewski848

Monday, Jun 17 2024

Can you record the sessions and upload them? I have work during both of those times and could use the reading comp tips :(

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PT120.S1.Q24

peterdavidmajewski848

Saturday, May 25 2024

Ugh thank you for that explanation this question had me spinning LOL. I kept looking at all the answers and none of them seemed to do ANYTHING. The "much" part is critical here, which I did not pick up on. Great explanation.

LSAT · Discouraged

peterdavidmajewski848

Wednesday, May 22 2024

Think about it this way - you only have two data points. Maybe the second test you took had some topics you are not as strong on. Maybe your third test will be 10 pts above your first. There just really isn't enough data to conclude you have not made much progress. Keep working at it, keep reviewing, keep trying.

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PT135.S2.Q16

peterdavidmajewski848

Tuesday, May 21 2024

I missed the distinction of that part in the stimulus - it's saying that for people who have the same illness, their recovery time is about the same at either hospital. The stimulus did not say that they are treating the same people/illnesses. If they were to treat person A with x disease at one hospital and person B with x disease at the other, they would take about the same time. BUT that does not mean that in reality they have similar patient loads. One hospital could rarely treat x disease while the other could have their patients be 90% x disease.

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PT130.S1.Q18

peterdavidmajewski848

Thursday, May 02 2024

I know you probably are not studying for the LSAT anymore - but here is my take for anyone who sees this comment.

A: This simply isn't the flaw in the argument, and additionally if the long-standing major airline had the same amount of accidents as the new, low-fare airline, would that not reinforce their point that the major airline is safer? Unless the low-fare airline is flying a huge number of planes in comparison to the major airline, if they had the same amount of accidents it would probably reinforce that the major airline is much safer. If I drive 100k miles annually and you drive 10k annually and we both get into 2 accidents, who is safer?

B: As for B, the low-fare airlines have too short a record to draw a conclusion, but the major airlines have records long enough to draw a conclusion. So they don't BOTH have records too short to draw a conclusion, therefore this is wrong.

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PT101.S2.Q18

peterdavidmajewski848

Thursday, Apr 04 2024

I also chose this. Not sure if this is good reasoning but here is how I am trying to explain to myself that it is wrong. We don't know exactly how much more the wages would have increased. Maybe wages for the scientists increased 0.1% more each year than inflation did. In that case, it would make much more sense that the funding is inadequate because it has not been adequate for the past ten years, not that scientists are making approx 1% more than they did 10 years ago.

Just my thoughts. Not sure if that is a great explanation but maybe it helps.

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PT102.S4.Q7

peterdavidmajewski848

Thursday, Mar 28 2024

FOR REAL I felt the exact same way. I drew the graph but then I was doubting myself and I ultimately felt like it would have been easier if I had never learned any economics ever.

General · Studying and working 9-5

peterdavidmajewski848

Wednesday, Mar 20 2024

Work 9 to 5 in the office, stay in the office until 9 pm studying. If burnt out from work, go home and take the day off so the burnout does not drag into the next day. Generally will take a 20 to 30 minute walk once work is done to clear up any brain fog and give myself some outside time. Most of the time on the weekend I do something enjoyable (rarely do I study at all on Saturday or Friday night) but I make sure to get in a few hours on Sunday. It's not too bad but what I've learned is that if my brain says I need to stop, it's best to stop or change up a habit so I can study effectively and not feel drained. Office is a game changer when no one is around because it's spacious and quiet. Zero distractions and it's motivating. I am not an early riser so I don't study before work, just can't see myself doing that. It's VERY rewarding when my studying is done for the day and I get to drive home. Driving home and still having to study kind of stinks, but knowing I can go home and relax for like an hour or two and then go to bed is great.

Lessons · Skill Builder - Draw Valid Conclusions 1

peterdavidmajewski848

Monday, Mar 04 2024

This stuff is really hard but it's important to get it right. Keep working at it! :)

I will also note - be careful to not make assumptions that you can't make. In your above rule (which I will just note for clarity had the sufficiency and necessity swapped), you had

/J -> /S

And you used the fact that someone WAS J to conclude they are S. Your rule corresponds to someone who is NOT J.

In another example, let's say everything that is not purple, is not spiky.

/Purple -> /Spiky

If I were to tell you that something IS purple, what can you conclude? You actually can't conclude anything at all. If I told you something is not purple, then we know it is not spiky.

If we take the contrapositive of that we have

Spiky -> Purple

So in this case, if I told you something is purple, what do we know? Still nothing. If I told you something is spiky, then you know it is purple.

The only way to draw conclusions from these is left to right. If something is not purple, it is not spiky. If we take the contrapositive, we know if something is spiky, then we follow the arrow to see it is purple. We do not know anything about things that are not spiky, and we do not know anything about things that are purple. The arrow only goes one way.

Best of luck and keep trying!

Lessons · Skill Builder - Draw Valid Conclusions 1

peterdavidmajewski848

Thursday, Feb 22 2024

No, this would be incorrect and would mess you up. This is the sufficiency-necessity confusion. If you think about it - basically what 1 is saying (in normal words) is "All Jacksons are swimmers". If we put what you said above into normal words, we would get "All swimmers are Jacksons". The sufficient condition to be a swimmer is to be a Jackson, since they all swim. In your case, the sufficient condition to be a Jackson was being a swimmer. Hopefully that makes sense.

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PT105.S1.Q6

peterdavidmajewski848

Thursday, Feb 08 2024

I also fell into this line of thinking. From the first sentence we get that we SHOULD do what will make others more virtuous, and should NOT do what would make others less virtuous. From the second sentence we get that the less virtuous become more virtuous when they are praised, and that the more virtuous will become less virtuous when they are praised. At this point we know we should not praise the more virtuous, and we should praise the less virtuous.

The final sentence I basically threw out the window and then I chose E because I had thought that the last sentence was saying we should not praise the less virtuous because they do not deserve it. But what I think the last sentence establishes is that the more virtuous are deserving of praise, and the less virtuous are not deserving of praise. BUT the first part does establish that we should do what will make others more virtuous.

We should be praising the people who are less virtuous (despite the fact that they do not deserve it) as it will make them more virtuous and we should NOT be praising those who are more virtuous as it will make them less virtuous. Just because they do not deserve to be praised does not mean we should not praise them. We can (and should) still praise them despite the fact that they are not deserving.

I hope that helps and I also hope that is correct lol.

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Friday, Jan 12 2024

peterdavidmajewski848

Author's Attitude Questions - is "indifferent" ever the answer?

I've noticed that sometimes these questions have an answer that's something like "indifferent" when referring to an author's attitude on a subject in an RC passage. Is indifferent ever really the right answer? I understand that maybe very rarely it might be the answer, but I just feel like they almost never put a passage where the author is really "indifferent" even if they don't include ANY of the author's own opinions or any polarizing words. I have fallen for the trap too many times where I see a passage and pick indifferent because I don't feel like the author has really had much of an opinion, but I don't think it's ever been the right answer. Curious about other's thoughts. This is probably one of my worst question types lol

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PT147.S4.Q25

peterdavidmajewski848

Thursday, Dec 07 2023

I could be wrong, but maybe when they say "compare chess playing programs" they are referring to multiple versions of this test. Maybe they have two computers and they run chess programs A, B and C.

For example: they put program A on the slower computer with program A on the faster computer, and give both of them .5s to move. They find that program A on the faster computer beats program A on the slower computer 75% of the time.

Then they put program B on the same slower computer vs program B on the faster computer, and find program B on the fast computer only wins against B on the slower computer 55% of the time.

Finally they find program C on the fast computer wins 95% of the time.

Then they conclude that program C is the best because with the extra processing power from the better computer allows it to beat itself 95% of the time because it's the best at reviewing the most moves with that extra time it is granted (from the better processing power). They would conclude B is the worst because it wasn't able to give itself an advantage as often over the slower computer.

I picked (A) because I misread and didn't fully understand the "experiment". I think now that I get it it makes a lot of sense that the answer is C. I think the confusion probably comes from when the first sentence says this is to "compare". When we think of comparing, generally we would think 2 programs. I think THIS is just comparing a chess program to itself, and then you take THAT comparison and compare it to other comparisons to see what is the best.

I'm not sure if that's right or makes sense at all but let me know your thoughts :)

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PT147.S4.Q25

peterdavidmajewski848

Tuesday, Dec 05 2023

Totally agree - what a stupid experiment. That's like saying - I wonder if my Honda Fit would be faster if I switched out the engine for a V8 hemi? Why would you even need to test that? I wonder if my program would run faster if my computer is faster? Ridiculous LOL

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PT147.S2.P2.Q14

peterdavidmajewski848

Tuesday, Dec 05 2023

I was SO mad when I went back to read the passage again while reviewing and the FIRST LINE answered the question. So rude of them to do that. Not cool at all.