I had an experimental LR section and the question stems initially threw me off - I can see LSAC changing up their Q stems a bit to make it slightly more trickier/time consuming but I think the fundamentals will remain the same.

@jhaldy10325 I'm really sorry to hear about your loss, Josh... rest in peace Mandy.

yay Sami! great idea.

Agreed sorry for the barrage of personal questions towards the end but was very insightful.

Interested as well!

I can meet up in dtla as well! I am currently working in dtla right next to the public library.

Yay so glad to hear and also happy to meet a fellow kombucher!! <3

hello, while reading the stimulus, I personally was agreeing with the argument up until the conclusion re "painting has none." The conclusion about music is supported by the first sentence about music having a temporal order/dimension. However, when I read that painting has none [referential phrase meaning painting has no order/dimension], I knew that is where the flaw would be. Looking back at the 2nd sentence (premise given for painting), the only support is that painting has "no particular path." No particular path is not equivalent to no path.

An example to illustrate this idea could be a painting of a road leading up to a beach. The artist may have drawn the road for the viewer to follow the road and end up at the beach. Or maybe the viewer starts off at the beach and then follows the road to leave/go home. Or you don't even have to use the road in the first place and just see the painting as a whole to take you on your own imaginative journey. So it could be that the artist did not intend for the viewer to follow a specific path when viewing the painting - the intention of the artist was for the viewer to take their own imaginative path, which is not a particular path, but nonetheless a path.

Hopefully that did not confuse you more, haha but helpful to think of your own examples as well.

It's possible LSAC may also make the LSAT more challenging to have people take the test multiple times. Really unsure how to feel about this change.

It still would be insufficient since it still wouldn't necessarily give us a valid reason for why we should direct efforts towards children. What if there are other even better/easier methods?

@ianmatthewharris949 said:

@ifty2nd443 insomnia has been a lifelong friend of mine. it took me years to develop a routine that keeps it at bay. some typical tricks:

don't eat right before bed, especially junk food.

go to bed even if you're not tired yet and leave the screens out of reach.

i typically read a book till i fall asleep, but i've also found that podcasts are helpful. the trick with the podcasts: they can't be too interesting. baseball analytics work better than ambien for me.

if you wake up in the middle of the night, then do not try to go back to sleep. this might sound counterintuitive, but the stress of trying to fall back asleep will keep you up. instead try staying in bed reading a book or listening to a podcast.

good luck!

There is a podcast specifically designed to help you fall asleep - "Sleep with Me | The Podcast That Puts You to Sleep."

I have used it on occasion and so far, it has helped me knock out.

Hi @sharon100459, thanks so much for your thought-out response! I agree that my anticipated flaw may be just attacking a premise and not exactly the support bw the premises and conclusion, but just for future references - when coming across a likelihood argument, should we understand that the argument has already taken into account the total amount or should we be wary of the given percentage?

I will take any RC help I could get - plz count me in!

The statement reads as "not sterilized and sealed" which can be broken down to NOT[sterilized and sealed]. When you distribute the "not" to each component, DeMorgan's law translates the "not-and" to just an "or." So the 3 final components becomes "/sterlized, OR, /sealed."

I think we're used to using DeMorgan's law for contrapositives since we do it so often on the LSAT, but the theory can also be used to read negated "and/or" statements in general.

hello, the passage states that the learned students are generally confined to humanistic/literary writings in Latin (15-17). On the other hand, intellectual historians are interested in the whole range of law, theology, and science (intellectual history) - which the learned students lacked.

Also, in the last paragraph, line 53 "few students of English intellectual history are trained to read the sort of Latin in which such works were written." If you read the paragraph, you can use referential phrasing to refer "such works" to "difficult piece of late Renaissance science" (52).

How much is less? What if 0.000000000001g is not more effective than 0.5000001g.

I'd like to please be added as well!

Hi, I think B is incorrect bc Arjun does provide evidence for his denial, which is his example. I think evidence here is just taken to mean "is there evidence - yes or no?" whereas your interpretation of evidence seems to be on a scale of how strong Arjun's evidence lies in actually denying Yolanda's conclusion. Arjun does not provide any valid evidence against Y's argument, which is why this is a flaw question, but he still does provide some evidence that he thinks weakens Y's argument.

I was just checking out Headspace this morning and would love a free month if any further comes up! Thank you!

Yes! Sup down to schedule a lunch date soon. Ya know where to find me

Congrats Hazzzel <3

I think JY read a/c A incorrectly. A is wrong bc we don't know what "most people" will continue to do. As stated in the same preptest of Section 2, #12,

JY states "even if" should be read as an "and" - not as a conditional statement.

I'm interested! I'm aiming for the Feb exam as well and am currently in the PT phase.