I understood this as:

If CA --> 2Days

Mail - most - (not) 2Days

So it'd be: Mail - most - (not) 2Days --> (not)CA

This used to happen a lot to me, but it's gotten better and what I do now is when I'm between 2 answer choices I focus on the wording of both answers. I compare the strength of language of the answer choice to the stimulus and in general try to find a word or so in the answer choice that makes one more likely to be wrong.

For this argument: Most bars that serve wine also serve fancy cocktails. All bars that serve fancy cocktails play loud music. Therefore, most bars that serve wine play loud music.

Can the conclusion also be some restaurants that service wine play loud music?

[ Serve Wine Loud Music]

I thought the implicit promise was referring to the teacher and the student's conversation not the student's conversation with Jeanne.. smh

In the same boat! I feel like my score hasn't gone up and has only come down in the last month. Got a 158 and now am getting 156 on the last 3 PT's I took. I'm starting to do only 1 PT a week at least for this week and focusing more on drilling/patterns in the question types and answers.

Took this PT recently, so we're trying to resolve: how is it possible that these wolves were introduced to reduce the moose herd and prevent destruction of the vegetation, but the moose herd continued to grow? So C is the correct answer to this paradox since if the wolves are only killing those moose that are weakened by disease, and this disease can be spread to other moose, it shows that because the wolves are only eating the disease-inflicted moose there is an increase in the herd. If the disease were able to spread to the other moose, then chances are the herd would have decreased. However, it is not able to spread to the other moose because, well, the wolves only eat the ones with the disease. They can still prey on wolves that are healthy too, but in my opinion, that is an assumption that would not be relevant in helping resolve this paradox, since the answer choice has to give an answer of how the population of moose is still growing which is because the wolves are preying on the moose which are disease inflicted, which could spread to other moose, but is not because they're being eaten; thus, the population is increasing.

Hope this helps a bit!

@ Don't be discouraged! I'm in the same boat, have been getting 158 and even 156 a couple times. But I think what has started helping me now is drills of wrong question types. I used to do wrong answer journals and all that, but honestly that didn't help me much. Instead, I started noting which types of questions I am getting wrong on practice tests then started drilling them. For example, if Necessary Assumption, Weaken, and Strengthen are what I missed the most on my PTs, then I'd drill NA and Weaken 1 day from level 2-5 then the next day I'd drill Strengthen from level 2-5. And I wouldn't switch levels until I was getting my 3 question drills all correct 1-2 times. This helped me see patterns and the specific things I was struggling with. Hope this helps!

@ Thank you!! Took a couple days off and I actually am seeing it much better now!! I definitely started overthinking every answer choice and came to a point where I thought 3 answer choices could be right, not anymore though:) Thanks for the tip!

I'm in the same boat! What I've been doing is really acting like I'm interested in the passage and in my mind saying "wow" and "omg why'd they do this" etc and am making it seem more interesting. This has definitely helped me stay more engaged. I have also been making low-res summaries. Going to start doing drills to get faster though.

So I am still comprehending this, but I see that A is correct because when the author says something is "mistaken", they are essentially saying, "While the text states if A, then B, that is wrong and it is if A, then not B". So what must be true/assumed is (A) that indeed, "if A, then not B" because if we negate it then that would wreck the author's conclusion of it being mistaken because it won't be then.

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I created this discord for October test takers, but September ones can also join or anyone else! I'm studying about 6-7 hours a day and am looking for a group that can keep each other accountable and call/zoom a few times a week. Goal score is 170, or at least high 160's.

Interested!

I know the November LSAT is coming soon, but I definitely recommend taking 1-2 days off and honestly, reduce studying slightly then taking a Practice Test maybe on Monday or Tuesday. I used to do 8 hours of studying 7 days a week and saw a spike in my score and then I continued that and my score just kept going down and never went up.

I took a break and reduced my hours of studying because honestly, I am only getting good studying in from hour 1 to hour 5, after that I'm just forcing myself to study and am not understanding things properly. I reduced my time and that has helped a lot!!

Hello, might be repeating what a lot of people have already said, but spending time on the passages has helped me a lot! I spend about 4.5 minutes on the passages understanding and making sure in my mind I'm connecting all the sentences and saying "Okay, so first this happened then this, and now we're talking about this, etc".

When I do this then I'm able to fly through a lot of the questions! Also, make sure in the answer choices NOT to make assumptions or think "this was kind of said in the passage, maybe it's right", DONT do that! All the answer choices will come from the passage, not from your assumptions. If between 2 answer choices sometimes I use the search feature for key words and if that doesn't work then I compare the 2 answer choices and look closely at wording.

Hope this helps a bit!