Thanks so much for this comprehensive and insightful post, @melisulusel212 !

Firstly Alice777, congratulations on your excellent blind review score! That's great news that you're getting nearly perfect on a consistent basis!

One of the best ways (if not the best) to improve your LG score is simply to keep foolproofing the same game (as frenchfyre just provided a link explaining the process) until you have mastered it by getting a perfect score. The most likely explanation for the variance in scores between timed and BR is because that you aren't yet that proficient with the games that you can replicate your BR score when under timed pressure.

Keep at it! Eventually through sheer repetition and practicing under timed scenarios as well as BRing, you will eventually see your score variation dissipate, as I have.

All the best, and feel free to message me should you have any further questions.

Ryan

Yes, this is what tripped me up about it as well. I ruled out answer choice C because I felt that it was contradicted by the stimulus, and I still believe that one could argue that. The only possible way would be that the "published accounts" was NOT something that was publicly acknowledge (e.g. perhaps it was private or restricted information). Still, its way too much of a stretch. It looks like this is a bad answer choice out of even worse ones.

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Congratulations on your success scottshimi!

Excellent and inspirational post, thank you!

Congratulations Jeff!

Note: so in actuality, E is wrong because of it’s a classic trap of “belief vs fact”, flaw. Just because I believe that I defeated LeBron James in basketball, doesn’t mean that I actually did. B is correct because of an alternative cause. Which is the time-frame explanation. Its delayed: so everyone who is getting skin cancer now, has nothing to do with utilization of sunscreen, instead its just due to a delayed effect.

- During the course of three decades, researchers kept a record of average beak sizes between wild and captive birds

- During this period, they notice the size of the former decreased significantly and the latter stayed the same

Resolve the Discrepancy

A) This is tricky, but just because someone is easier to capture and measure, doesn’t mean they were successful in doing so. There’s also no time period listed, eliminate.

B) No, this wouldn’t explain it, if anything it should be larger then, eliminate

C) This is tricky; but its definitive in the sense that during the study period, the changes favoured the survival of the wild birds’ group, so this would lean in the area of resolving the issue. Also, if they didn’t survive, then there’s no way that they would be able to be measured.

D) This would confound it even further

E) Doesn’t interact, so what if they measured it on more than one occasion?

Correct answer: C

Hello rpt802,

Have you performed any timed tests? Or maybe just timed logical reasoning sections? For many people who do not score what they want to in LR, it can often boil down to not having a proper skipping strategy. Spending too much time on questions that you're properly going to get wrong, is not a good use of timing, as you can better spend it on the ones that you will get right. For instance, some people when they do the test, allow themselves to skip two or three (of the hardest) questions. This takes some of the pressure off and allows them to focus more on the ones they will get right.

I've found there's some merit in reviewing any old PTs that you have done, via blind review, to help yourself recognize some of the consistent patterns that are the trend with LR questions. As Fact_or_Feelings has mentioned, looking at the core curriculum is an excellent way to help shore up any issues you may be having.

Using the problem set generator to help you drill strengthen/weaken questions on a repetitive basis can also help you.

Remember, the LSAT can be difficult, but its still a standardized test, it has patterns that you can most-definitely learn and this in turn will help you improve your score. I myself am still going through the learning process and I can tell you, that things do get better, it can just take time.

Please feel free to message with anymore information - we're all here for you!

@amipp_93 and KevinSage have explanation explanations for anyone who is wondering between A and D. The latter has a term "no more than", this also means that A is less than or equal to B. This results in NOT an equal punishment between A and B, but possible scenarios where A's punishment might be equal, or less than B, so its completely wrong.

Thanks to both of you for shedding light on this!

What I found that helped me with this question was utilizing analogies to help understand the correct vs incorrect answer choices:

A) Virus A has these specific symptoms; Virus B does not- yes a weakener

B) Some people who have the virus, do not have these symptoms (we already know that since its not listed as everyone has the stimulus (i.e. "many") - Not a weakener

C) Yes its a weakner if the vector(host) animals for virus A are not in the location of the outbreak

D) Virus A infects 1 in 5; Virus B affects 1 in 1,000. Its hard to believe that the virus that only infected 1 in 1,000 could be Virus A. - weakener

E) This is the same rationale as D: if virus A lasts 2 months for the infection and Virus B lasts 1 year, then its likely that the virus that lasted for nearly one year in country X, is virus A.

Putting it in your own words (the answer choices and stimulus) can really help you see what's right and what's not.

Yeah, the exact location is: PT 56 S3 # 25

Hi mellomel, do you mean the live mussels and the chef question? That is PT 56 S3 #25. The one you're referring to is the Byzantine Seal and is a strengthen question.

My explanation of answer choice A (I missed this during timed and BR):

You have a study, where you’re claiming that consumption of breakfast, ensures that workers become more productive. You point to an experiment, where workers onsite received free nutritious breakfasts before they started work. As a result, this group was more productive than the group that did not receive the free nutritious breakfasts. However, there’s a distinction between the premise of receiving the free nutritious breakfast, and consuming breakfast at all. Which is what answer choice A is getting at. In order to strengthen this, you need to ensure that the group that wasn’t productive did NOT consume breakfast on their own time (i.e. before their shift started). So the phrasing of it: “few workers in group B consumed nutritious breakfasts in the month during the study” {few did something = most did not (A—m-->-B). This would re-affirm the conclusion. For it was false, that would mean that most workers in group B did in fact consume breakfast and that would wreck the argument, that consuming breakfast leads to a more productive workforce.

I feel that what messed me up on this question, is that with answer choice A, I brought outside knowledge into analyzing the answer choice. I figured that by eliminating the symptoms, that wouldn't address the notion that the disease is necessarily gone - it could still be active in the person. However, the other four answers are way too far off.

Note to others: if you eliminate an answer choice because you believe its wrong, but then find other answer choices that seem even worse off, then its a potential sign that the least-wrong answer choice, could be your correct answer.

Note: while answer choice C, states that some people can tell about a waltz, some, means “at least one”, and could theoretically be all, or most, so “most people could tell whether any given piece of music” is a possibility. Stating that most people can’t, means that there’s a possibility that at least a few can, so that’s the best match.

As JY has stated, this questions types are similar to parallel reasoning questions.

D is wrong because the conclusion within the stimulus is a "qualified" (limited) conclusion. It is stating that One never needs gloves or mittens to keep warm. It does not state that sweaters and/or thermal undershirts provide the best solution, just that they provide A solutoin. This is a relative comparison.

Hi, I have a question about the phrase: "Handmade foundations are never found on wigs that do not contain human hair". I understand that the never is Group 4, but I always thought that the "not" would also be group 4. So wouldn't the "never" and the "not" be two cases of group 4s together?

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I now understand why B is wrong and E is correct. Because this is a “Must be True” and the question stem commands us to assume that everything above the stimulus is indeed true, that means that since Type B is more at risk of heart disease than Type A, then having some of type A shift over into type B would make their risk of heart disease increase. This makes E correct.

B is wrong because we know nothing about averages, also we have no idea what their starting numbers were.

Another way that B can be deemed correct, is that the answer choice overreaches, with the statement "any mathematical understanding". The stimulus only discusses algebra and geometry, not mathematics within the entirely.

With Most Strongly Supported questions, answer choices that discuss aspects that are outside a narrowly defined stimulus, with options such as (i.e. ANY, all, etc.), are typically incorrect.

After reviewing this answer choice, I was able to get it right. A) is a comparision of relative manner, as JY says, person B who is younger, could have a higher "wise" base than person A who is older. However, with answer choice D, the comparison is absolute: the older something is (C) --> the more rings it has. C is older than D, so it must have more rings.

Well said FutureLawyer77, I've been studying full-time now for more than a year and I completely agree; your score doesn't define you: its just a snapshot of a moment in time. Improvement is possible and probable. My score has gone up, just like countless others. Great job keeping at it, I'm sure with your positive attitude and tenacity, that you will achieve the goal that you need!

Congratulations Nickes29! All the best!

What messed me up about this question is that there are two completely separate conditional statements: Leadership and Following the Leader are NOT the same thing. Its important to recognize the nuances between words.

Hi Noise DoGood,

Like you, I also have an issue with answer choice B. However, after watching the video and performing process-of-elimination, I can see how would resolve the discrepancy if new information is provided that brings into question of the accuracy of the computer prediction.

That being said, I can see why its not the greatest answer choice, as in other questions, an answer choice like the above could be eliminated depending on the stimulus content, as attacking the premise/conclusion. This one doesn't exactly do it, as it doesn't say that computer models are NEVER correct.

If anyone has any further clarification to add, it'd be much appreciated.

Thank you,

Ryan

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