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PT145.S3.P3.Q17

sabquinn96895

Friday, May 31 2024

For Question 17, I thought B was correct because the passage says "martian asserts it's merely a conditioned reflex".

Thus in saying their vocalizations may be a product of evolution to help their fellow species, that this was support for that view. It seems like that is a reason why we should think it's a conditioned reflex.

#help

General · LSAT JOURNEY - Seeking Advice Urgently

sabquinn96895

Wednesday, May 29 2024

Agreed with the above reasoning. For sure just go for the August LSAT. Also, don't waste precious study time on LG when you could just focus on the 2 sections and be even more prepared for August.

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PT123.S1.P4.Q22

sabquinn96895

Wednesday, May 29 2024

How the heck are we supposed to learn from our mistake on Question 22? Like I can't conceive of a way to prevent getting this wrong. No explanation is convincing, it seems very arbitrary that D was the "best" answer.

If anyone has a way to classify this mistake, to learn from it, or to make use of it in any way other than just saying "well that's a bad question" lmk. There's no guarantees we won't be given a similarly terrible question on our actual exam..

#help

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PT140.S4.P2.Q13

sabquinn96895

Thursday, May 23 2024

Come on, that was a very bad explanation for question 13. You can't just say D is right because the passage says so and then cross out the others without a legitimate explanation of why they are wrong. Obviously there was good reason to choose those other answers given the insane score distribution for this question.

Why are A and E wrong? I really haven't found a satisfactory explanation that can help me avoid the mistake in the future.

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PT151.S3.Q22

sabquinn96895

Saturday, Mar 23 2024

We should riot to ensure LSAC gets it together and doesn't leave us with absolute duds like this. At a certain point, questions that require such a depth of analysis to avoid the trickery cannot be said to fairly test a student's understanding of logic/reasoning. At ~1:30-2:30 mins/questions, getting the correct AC on this question hinges on chance.

Moreover, with so many undisclosed tests I'm concerned at how often the LSAT can give BS questions and no one can challenge the fairness? When we study for a year just to go up 2-3 points, I'd argue that missing a point because of truly unfair question is a big deal and something we have a right to inquire about.

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Tuesday, Jan 23 2024

sabquinn96895

How to maximize 7sage's Website utility?

I think the strength of 7sage lies in the analytics/drilling features. The ability to drill LG's by type, to create your own practice sets by Q type of LR, or to look at all level 5 science passages, for example, are all incredibly useful tools to hone in on our weaknesses and easily practice them. Seeing what we miss most on our PT's via the analytics, and being able to make notes on each question while doing BR is a straight up blessing. I was making excel sheets and google docs with question types I missed and notes on them and needless to say discovering 7sage has saved so much time.

I keep finding new useful features, but there's so many things that I have no clue what they do and no clear way to find out. It would be nice to know because perhaps I'm missing features that would save me even more time, for example, it would be nice to star certain RC passages/questions from my drills to come back and review later instead of having to write them down in a separate notebook and go back and fourth between the site and my physical notes.

My hope is that people can start posting their favorite less obvious functions, or tell me about little discoveries you've made on this website that have made reviewing/studying more efficient or convenient? Also if anyone knows where to find a super comprehensive tutorial on all the features that are available on this website, and what all the functions means on the answer review page that would be great. It has explanations about what some features mean when you hover over (like what score bracket got a question right) but many functions don't have that explanation and I suspect there's a hoard of things that I might find useful that I just haven't noticed yet.

Admins, if you see this you guys should consider making a concise but comprehensive video (for our attention span's sake please 25 mins max) that explains ALL of the features a student might want to use. If you've taken the time to add it to your site then you must think we'd want them- so tell us where they are and how to best use them!

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PT141.S2.Q21

sabquinn96895

Monday, Mar 18 2024

I don't understand why A doesn't have to be true and JY, as usual, totally glosses over it. Can someone help me understand why A is wrong? I see why B is correct but isn't A just taking the nexeccary and sufficient and conjoining it? Doesn't it have to be true that A students attended every class, since if they didn't attend every class they would be below a B-?

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PT152.S2.Q22

sabquinn96895

Wednesday, Jun 07 2023

I’m confused- why can't it be the case that the premise is functioning as a specific example to support a general conclusion? So perhaps in some remote places when currency collapses they revert to their original bartering system, but it’s not claiming what the conclusion says which is that bartering came before currency for all of civilization.

Maybe it’s known via oral tradition that bartering was the original way in these communities, so when he says in the premise that it reverted, it's not because he is assuming the conclusion that bartering comes before currency in general, rather he’s just stating in these specific cases we have bartering before currency, and because of that we might think it models what happened with civilization as a whole. #help

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PT116.S3.Q14

sabquinn96895

Tuesday, Sep 05 2023

I'm confused on this one because while C is definitely more plausible than the other choices it's, in the strictest sense, not what the author said.

We can infer that the author was challenging the study about the plays reinforcing the stereotype because he immediately placed the conclusion "but only a small minority..." after the sentence introducing the study, and because that's the most plausible explanation for including that point. However, this is all implication, subtext, inferring, etc.. The author never explicitly says that he thinks the study is wrong. He simply offers a related point, and we are able to infer ourselves that it can affect the validity of the study's claim. So, on face value, his conclusion says nothing about whether or not the operas had an influence.

The reason this is confusing is that on other questions, that is precicely what makes an answer choice wrong- e.g. it's something that is so obviously implied when you combine the actual words used with the context of the entire passage, but because it wasn't the actual words used in that narrow conclusion, it ends up being a trap-answer choice because despite being the overall point of the passage, it goes a step too far in extrapolating what the author is saying.

Why is this permissible to do on this MP question, but wrong on other MP questions?

#help

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PT152.S4.Q22

sabquinn96895

Monday, Jun 03 2024

I was thinking that D didn't work because we were talking about paying and D is about selling. Because of this it opened up the possibility that it's not that the gifts are more valued than the gift cards, it's just that bias that we will do less to acquire something but we do more to avoid losing it. So I eliminated D thinking that it was still consistent with people valuing a mug and gift card differently, it's just that people don't want to part with their things once they have them, but it doesn't mean they would value getting a mug over a gift card in the first place?

I thought that C could weaken because if people are willing to pay more for gifts chosen by friends/family, maybe that shows that it's because they get them things they actually want because they know them well (so people are willing to pay full price since it's something they want vs. a random gift)?

Can someone explain why this is wrong. #help