Not sure why I got this one wrong. I think it was a symptom of reading too quickly and stumbling through the stimulus. D seems fairly obvious.

The businesses are the ones wasting paper, not the individual who throws it out.

"If anyone else wasted this much paper..." I did not catch this as a context change, as C addresses. It seemed to be too close to the original. However, the subject is no longer the businesses but rather any individual.

B is what I picked. But the stim never talks about wasting paper becoming more widespread. Perhaps if it said "if we all wasted this much paper" this would be a better answer?

Picked D. But last years' averages dollar amount of raises is irrelevant.

Picked A since I thought the undiscovered evidence of more non-scratched blades would weaken the conclusion that the first site's sickles were used to harvest grain.

A is incorrect since we do not care about the undiscovered sickles. They are irrelevant to the present argument. Moreover, these sickles could've been used for other purposes unrelated to grain e.g. rituals/display

Weaken questions often seeking an alternative explanation. Something else caused the scratches - B affirms this.

I understand A being correct....however, I'm still not understanding how D is wrong, as in objectively wrong.

holy wording wtf

purports: claim or express, or give appearance of doing something - especially if falsely, unproven, dubiously

"most" ≠ "nearly all" this is where I went wrong in choosing D.

"most" just means greater than 50%. does not equate to "nearly all."

"some" can mean anything from at least one all the way up to all. so it can encompass "most."

Okay. "Usually" implies "most" on the LSAT.

Necessary assumption questions gonna be the end of me RIP

12/15 raw, 15/15 BR - I take too long

something about "misguided" didn't sit well with me. that's why I picked D.

Unfortunately, I fear this question could be difficult to answer under the clock. B and D are very close.

9/14 then 12/14 on BR. These are tough.

C is incorrect. Does not involve divulging information about one's client before the opposition does. In fact, it is responding to the opposition - so not stealing thunder.

11/14, then 13/14 BR just took way too long hehe...

@heewonjkim good choice. i think when starting and getting used to the question, you want to focus on accuracy.

took me forever, but i got 4/5 right. then 5/5 BR. first one screwed me up because I didn't diagram when it could've helped me.

whole to part reasoning is flawed.

stimulus:

premises: the collection (whole) is the most valuable ever assembled

conclusion: (parts) cannot afford any of the works

looking for the answer that has the same premises to conclusion, whole to parts logic.

Premises to conclusion.

Picked D first. Incorrect. It goes parts (members are old) to whole (company is old).

Picked E on BR: Incorrect. It also goes parts (atoms) to whole (molecule).

C, correct. It goes whole (paragraph) to parts (each sentence).

@Jack99 ah, okay did not know that lol. glad they're keeping us ready for it.

well I got it incorrect, but I went through my wrong answers to hopefully avoid these mistakes next time.

7Sage why you keep changing the layout of the questions? I can't find how to submit the question and my timing is going up :(

difficulty aside, y'all are hilarious in these comments

Important to note the family's average income may have decreased OR it may have remained the same. I always forget it may have remained the same.

my three classes of data science in college is paying off