Not seeing why B is more academic honestly. Academic is not synonymous with dense. JY basically says B its harder to understand therefore it is more academic. Good academics can make their points easy to understand. I chose E and don't think that JY's reasoning that the plural of ideas makes this AC wrong. He rejects Whorf's whole school of thought. I doubt that this was just one idea. In fact the first paragraph refers to his "fantastic claims" (not the plural). Help me better understand why I am wrong.

#help On Q8 I chose C but then switched to D. I actually thought the first clause of AC D was suggested by the passage when it says "possible future environmental changes" and "it is likely to have a number of dramatic effects on water levels." To me these statements suggest that the threats are in the future and have not yet caused significant damage to rivers. I thought C was wrong because it did not include any of the optimism of the final paragraph in which the author describes solutions. Please help me understand why I am wrong.

Why was this one so much easier for me than the double passage writing one? I probably have more background knowledge in the other one and this legal passage is supposed to be way more difficult. Sometimes these difficulty ratings confuse me.

I chose B because all the other answer choices seemed terrible and I interpreted "people from history" as other real people who were contemporaries of the artist who did the self-portrait. Therefore, another artist could have included him among other contemporaries in the battle scene. Not sure this makes any sense in retrospect but I just didn't think that D was right because it assumes that the artists followed etiquette. Now I know that weakening questions do not need to kill the argument and be free from assumptions.

#help On Q11 I correctly chose D on timed test and then switched to A on BR. I decided that, though the family makes sculptures for the five ethnic groups it does not say that it makes masks specifically for each group. Seems like a stretch to me... I did not seem great to me either but since it was more complex I was less sure that it was wrong. Thoughts on how we know they made masks for other groups and not just other types of sculptures?

#help The only one I got wrong on this one was Q20 and I burned a lot of time on it. Any advice for these questions that are asking you to make an inference based on minor details that could be listed anywhere in the passage?

I found this tough because I was thinking that the 60% stat was what made the conclusion so weak. I thought the correct answer choice had to make that 60% somehow more convincing but C didn't so I overlooked it...

#help Q26 - I narrowed down to C and E and chose C. I don't feel completely satisfied with JY's explanation and would like some further insight. In AC C I interpreted "the point" as a time point not a location. At this point in time new "information is present." Where did the new information come from? The sperm because it just entered. I interpreted this new information as the polarity signal.

AC E seemed wrong to me because we don't know if the polarity in the fruit flies occurred prior to fertilization. Yes, the signals were inscribed in the egg prior to fertilization but this does not necessary mean that the inscribed signals were being acted upon and creating the polarity prior to fertilization. Any one else following my thought process here? Why am I wrong?

#help for Q21- How do we make the leap from a mystery being "tempting" to scientists will try to figure it out in AC C? People resist or act against temptation all the time. In fact, one of the most common uses of the word temptation refers to something that is attractive but illicit and should be resisted. For these reasons I did not think it was fair to assume that the author was saying that scientists (generally professionals known for their rationality not impulse) will give in to the temptation. In fact, in the very explanation of this question JY himself uses the word "tempting" to discuss answer choice A. Just because it was "tempting" does that mean we chose it?

#help For question 6 is was stuck between AC A and AC D. I knew AC A appeared limited in scope but I ended up eliminating all others including D because they appeared factually inaccurate. I decided in the end that D was inaccurate because it said "whatever gender differences are present will emerge unconsciously in any case." Doesn't she imply that some will be revealed "consciously" in some cases? Doesn't this make this clause of AC D inaccurate or am I missing something.

#help I only got -2 this section but for some reason still feel unconvinced about this one even though there were many harder questions. AC D seems so weak. "At least some..." Which "some"? Maybe it is the same children that already have access to daycare? In this case subsidizing day care would do nothing to improve the well being of all children. This is so weak that I ended up eliminating this answer choice. I found AC A much more appealing than others. I also thought it seemed off because it talks about "interest" not "improvement" but since the other choices seemed so bad I ended up going with it. I see people saying that it is a reversal of the conditional logic but this confuses me... Isn't it saying that if a society doesn't subsidize child care than it doesn't take an interest in the well being of children. I can assume that a society that doesn't take an interest in the well being of children is not working to improve the well- being of all children. Thus, we must assume subsidizing childcare is necessary for being a society that seeks to improve the well being of children. I am clearly missing something here. Please help.

Has anyone had any luck getting their answers back? If so, how? If not, what did you do so that the PT was not a waste of time? Did you just try to remember what you put initially and select those for he BR? Is there away to reopen the initial test and try to remember and then do a full blind review? I have reached out to tech support several times and have not gotten any useful guidance. With two weeks left before my flex date this is extremely frustrating. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Has anyone had any luck getting their answers back? If so, how? If not, what did you do so that the PT was not a waste of time? Did you just try to remember what you put initially and select those for he BR? Is there away to reopen the initial test and try to remember and then do a full blind review? I have reached out to tech support several times and have not gotten any useful guidance. With two weeks left before my flex date this is extremely frustrating. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Hey Theo, I just checked and it appears that the answer choices I selected have not yet been restored. Can this be fixed or am I going to need to scrap this practice test? Thanks for looking into this for me.

This happened to me today. It seems like there is some tech glitch because a lot of people have been posting about it. I hope they can resolve it ASAP and restore our answers because this is very frustrating and disruptive for those of us taking the flex in a few weeks...

This just happened to me too and I posted about it. I hope it is resolved soon and we do not have to retake another pretest...

Hey! I did a last minute hail Mary application cycle this past year using my GRE (I hadn't taken the LSAT yet). My understanding is that they definitely care way more about the LSAT if you have one. I also had a very strong verbal and weak math. I was hoping they wouldn't weight the math equally but they do since they both affect their USNews rankings. The ETS converter is NOT used by law schools. They average the percentiles of verbal, quant and writing and compare to their median LSAT scores. So, if your LSAT percentile is better than the average percentile of your GRE sections I would say no reason to submit. If the average of your GRE percentiles is higher then submit.

Hey Christina, I am a LCSW and I am now applying to law schools. I do not think that you need any specific degree to do macro social work. The MSW is a great degree for several reasons. One reason is its flexibility - you can do clinical work with it or some kind of macro work (non-profit management, policy etc...) That being said I think there are many more avenues for arriving at the macro side of things. To do direct practice or clinical work you really need the MSW or some other clinical degree. To do macro social work it really doesn't matter what degree you have. I think a JD would enable you to get almost any macro social work type job. Having the dual degree cannot hurt but I do not think its necessary and may not be worth the extra time/energy/money. But, if you are on the fence about law vs. social work, the MSW degree is definitely way cheaper and less academically stressful to get. Hope this helps and let me know if you have any other social work related questions!

This sounds really stressful. Sorry you had to go through this. Im confused though. Is this for LSAT writing? I thought this could be completed anytime... I just completed by October Flex and still have to do my writing section.

Even though we all got different versions of the test are we all curved the same? How do they know that one person did not have a harder test than the next person?

What is the best way to determine my flex scaled score based on an estimate of my raw score? I took the test today and I was interrupted by my proctor during my first section (LG). It really threw me off and I think I significantly underperformed on this section. I am frustrated because I think I did pretty well on the subsequent sections (LR then RC). My guess is is I probably got -4 to -6 on LG when I normally get -2 or fewer. I think I got my normal range for LR which is between -1 and -4 and probably normal for RC which is between -2 and -5. I don't know whether it's worth asking for a retake. Overall I think I am somewhere between -7 and -15. I've been averaging 170 on last 10 PTs. Anyone have some wisdom for me? Thanks and my condolences to everyone else on here who had a poor experience with Proctor U.

I just did the lesson where he told us not to attack the premise in weakening questions so I eliminated AC B and went with A even though I knew it didn't really make sense. I am frustrated.

#help Can someone explain further why C is so irrelevant? I guess it doesn't spell out the link between cracks and earthquakes but that seems like common sense, doesn't it? To me C is relevant for the following reasons. If ice is melting in Sweden, it is likely also melting in Canada which is at a similar latitude. The ice melting causes a change in pressure on earth's crust, cracking of the crust and then causing severe earthquakes in Canada. These are the same circumstances that the author is arguing caused the earthquakes in Sweden. Thus this information strengthens the argument by showing the chain reaction that the author is positing. I am not saying that it should be the correct answer but clearly if everyone else thinks this was a comically stupid answer choice I am doing something wrong.

AC D for Q5 is pretty weak... I get JY's explanation of how AC D analogizes the putting together the tape of instrumentalists recordings at the end, but it is also quite incongruent in other ways. Themes in a photo project are not analogous to a "base script" of music. To me one is much more loose and the other is more prescriptive. Taking pictures separately is also so different than improvising together. I can see why the others are also not analogous but A and B did not seem that much worse than D. Tough question.

#help I selected C after about 1:55 (target time) but then lingered for another 60 seconds because this question made by brain hurt and I didn't trust myself. I got the question right in the end but it took me nearly 3 mins. I need to learn how to avoid this post selection lingering. Anyone have any good advice for this?