Also check this out as it'll help you switch over to the newer format:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sczox8uJgD6yFSIkgr9q8ode0hhNtoMItFeBb3WkbTE/edit?pli=1&gid=157460206#gid=157460206
Yeah there's a solution for this already - you have to take PTs and drills in "current format" not the "obsolete format".
Choice B: what if the discounted tickets a year ago were 60% off and today they’re 5% off? If the average discounted price in constant dollars is the same as it was a year ago, and you have more discounted tickets to go around since 90% of the tickets sold today are discounted tickets (versus only 50% previous year) which bring the average price people pay down, therefore affirming the conclusion that on average people pay less today than one year ago.
Stimulus: Typically Caligula is thought of as a cruel & insane tyrant as Emperor. But some modern historians are challenging this bc we have limited documentation about his cruelty and history about him was written by his enemies.
Q type: Strengthen. Either via added premise or by strengthening a given premise.
A: This provides further speculation. It doesn't say why there is less documentation. What if a fire in the library section where historical records of his time were kept is the reason we don't have as much documentation? What if there was a paper shortage so records weren't kept as much? We don't have the answer.
C: This answer choice provides (1) he was normal for his time and also points out that (2) other rulers were accused of doing the things Caligula is accused of but can be attributed to being considered a cruel ruler.
So (1) maybe he did these things and he was normal for his time. Or (2) opens up to maybe he did not do these things and rulers that are considered cruel are written about in this way.
Either way it helps bring about the modern historian's challenge of the traditional view.
Earlier estimates using distance date certain stars older than the universe, impossible. Astronomer's method estimates they're much farther than that. Farther away = brighter.
Conclusion: So conflict between older estimate and age of universe resolved.
Prephrase: we need something that ties age with distance
C: The brighter a star, the younger. Tags up with farther away = brighter = younger.
D. This doesn't resolve the paradox of age and the new method resolving it.
For example the LR Section Review live class says:
Do you want to cover logical reasoning questions and also timing strategy? If so, this is the class for you! Each week, we will review specific questions on a particular LR section before going through the questions. Check out the notes each week to try the section in advance before joining the class!
But where do you find those?
Stimulus
Conclusion: BumbleB are better at pollinating some things than Honey B.
Support: Because BumbleB visit few plant species in small area and HoneyB go further and visits many plant species.
Answer Choices
A. HoneyB wider area than BumbleB -> HoneyB less efficient than BumbleB at any one of those species.
This is a pretty broad statement. We are only talking about some plants like cranberries that BumbleBs are more efficient at.
B: Correct - this would make sense. Because the fact that BumbleB visit few plant species is key part of what makes it more efficient (along with being in a small area). We know that HoneyB visits many species and BumbleB visits few plant species.
C: We don't know this, it generalizes all bees. We only know of BumbleBs/ HoneyBs. It's also contradictory to the stimulus. Broader area =/= smaller amt of species.
D: We don't know the likelihood of visiting. We just know the efficiency and the style of pollinating.
E: The stimulus isn't drawing comparison between a specific plant in a cranberry crop. It's about plants in general. As Adam Tyson on the Powerscore discussion stated: The proportional relationship between "likely to visit" and "efficiency" isn't supported.
You could have less than half (ie not most) old houses have 3+ apts which could still get you to twice as many apartments as old houses. Meaning it doesn’t require most houses to have more than one apartment, could be just that some old houses have so many apartments that the ratio is 2 apartments to 1 old house.
Stimulus: Taking vacations reduces exhaustion at work. So taking many short vacations a year will be more effective at reducing exhaustion than few long vacations.
Problem: short vacations are not the same as long vacations.
A: the problem isn't that each short vacation has the same effect, problem is that short vacations do not have the same effect as long vacations.
B: we don't care about other methods of reducing exhaustion bc that isn't what the office manager is discussing. The scope is specifically short vs long vacations. The scope is not all methods of reducing exhaustion.
C: problem isn't that each person has different needs in reducing exhaustion
D: problem isn't about total amount of time - because the stimulus is dealing with the same amount of time just how it's divided up.
E: Correct - bc the stimulus doesn't recognize how the effect of a long vacation is different than short vacation on exhaustion.
I felt that they were harder in that they were less formulaic and trickier.
E: showing that (brillo boxes being considered art and not reg boxes) would be impossible if it was correct that (appearance alone determined art)
sigh
All the experiment established was that the expert paintings were better but we can’t make the leap that that also means they are aesthetically pleasing on just this alone.
If the children’s paintings were aesthetically displeasing, then the bar is so low being better doesn’t do anything to establish that the expert’s paintings are aesthetically pleasing. This is why AC B must be true. Without it we are not able to adequately make that assumption.
Hendry:
Most employee strikes should be legally permitted. Exception: Uni faculty. Faculty strikes harm students.
harm customers -> /legally permitted. ; legally permitted-> /harm customers
Since Hendry believes that most strikes should be legally permitted, then he must also believe that most of them do not harm customers.
Menkin:
IF TRUE: “harm customers -> /legally permitted”, we’d never have legally permitted strikes!
Menkin is implicitly stating the sufficient assumption to his argument. To make it be true that you'd never have legally permitted strikes, you have to have "all strikes harm employer's customers."
Agree with this.
Sales tax being a regressive tax is not at dispute here. The pool of money of money that is collected from sales tax is unchanged.
If B said: Road maintenance will be primarily funded by an increase in local sales tax..." then it would've been correct. But the policy change doesn't result in an increase in burden when the tax is paid as it always has been.
D is correct because the policy change would increase the impact on low income people if they generally have older cars that are not protected from damage in the way newer cars are.
In LR: to read the question first, then isolate the conclusion. Game changer. By knowing the question type you know if there is even a conclusion in the stimulus or if the answer choice should be the conclusion.
Hi,
I'm trying to figure out how I can see what the difficulty rating of a section is without taking the entire PT. At this point I've only seen the rating under Analytics after taking the PT. But I want to be able to review the difficulty of the section and then decide to take it so I can target harder sections for my drills. The resource doesn't have to be specifically on 7sage.
Thank you,
As someone from an area with a lot of ticks this one made my skin crawl and i could not focus in the timed section. Still got it wrong in BR though ;/
@matthewcsorrels859
Thank you! That is very helpful!
(also not the best at using this platform so please don't mind any errors)
I work full time and have been studying since spring of this year. Since I work, my pace is much slower than ideal (10-15 hours per week).
I need a pretty solid LSAT score since my GPA was like a 3.5 so I keep pushing my test date back. I may apply this year but keep thinking about pushing to next year to give myself better room to study. I am signed up for November but will see how I progress in the next few weeks of studying.
However, I get nervous thinking about waiting a year if large changes by LSAC are coming to logical games. Worried about the sunk cost of studying for something that may get taken off.
Are there any updates on when LSAC is planning on the change? What is the general consensus?
Thank you
It helped me to put this in my own words, so i translated the stimulus as:
"It is ridiculous to say that you can’t criticize someone for being critical. People naturally assess each other, but it’s wise to not be too judgemental. Because judgement isn’t inherently negative, it’s judging them even before getting to know them."
Which allows me to see how the first sentence is support for the lead up to the conclusion being judgemental.