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silkiestangel850
Thursday, May 01 2025
If you're scoring in the 170s definitely STOP looking for clarity within the difficulty of qns and focus instead on the qns you are getting wrong because those are YOUR 5 star difficulty qns, although they may be labeled as 1/2 star. There's obviously HUGE (that's what you need to see them as to improve) gaps in your understanding of SOME passages since you're not scoring 180 and since you apparently keep making the same mistakes. And those "traps" you keep "falling for", you just aren't reading carefully enough on ALL passages to conclusively prove the wrongness of the 4 wrong answers and you also probably do not know clearly what you're looking for in a correct answer. If you "fall for a trap", you most definitely did not understand something in the passage and you also allowed yourself to pick a wrong answer. But how do you understand the passage better? Start with the mistakes you have already made in your understanding, keep reviewing them, and make a promise to yourself to that there is only ONE correct answer and all the others are wrong and for good reason, and so should never be picked. If this means literally spending 5 mins on a qn you think is 1/2 star, do it because that's what a complete understanding may require of YOU for that question.
Also since you're in the 170s, stop taking notes that you're not going to read or live up to by making the same mistakes. I'd rather you just not make that mistake again instead of writing about it. Making a mistake should be enough to make you not want to do it again. If you're writing about it, and then making the same mistake, who are you fooling? Yourself. The way you know you understood something is when you don't even have to refer to notes to do it right. Just like during the LSAT, you know you understood the passage when you pick the correct answer on your first pass through. If you cannot tell what the correct answer is, usually then you have to go back to the passage, which ultimately means you did not understand something in the passage. And it could be that there's a phrase you did not grasp or just did not spot the main point.
silkiestangel850
Tuesday, Apr 15 2025
This is what I thought too but the answer still goes too far by saying "exclusively" guitar. The explanation in the question is the main idea. The author's explanation/main idea is that Miles was hated for the stylistic changes not necessarily only using electric guitar. The guitar thing was only given as an example of the main idea, an example of the stylistic changes. And B does does a better job of capturing all the stylistic changes the critics hated, not just one.
silkiestangel850
Monday, Apr 14 2025
I wonder how A is right although it starts its chain from sophisticated listeners and not from understanding musical roots #help
silkiestangel850
Thursday, Mar 13 2025
Does describing method of reasoning take precedence over describing the argument's assumptions? #help
silkiestangel850
Tuesday, Mar 04 2025
Talked myself into E even after being convinced by D. Although it said the right things, D seemed incorrect because Davis did not say anything explicit about time. In my mind, the disagreement will be rooted in what the first person said explicitly. This is still true, but remember assumptions (things that are implied) are real too and part of the argument, and so can be a point of disagreement.
For E, I now know to be careful about how I define ambiguous/referential words, especially in closed record questions. "Case by case" really could mean anything and that's the speculation LSAT writers effect for added difficulty. Their definition may not be the same as mine.
I also hate when I get to answer choices and start speculating when I feel the correct answer is looking at me right in the face. #BanSpeculating
silkiestangel850
Tuesday, Mar 04 2025
OOP you did not have to snap like this now say it again for the ones in the back
silkiestangel850
Monday, Mar 03 2025
Is set logic and causal logic at play here?
silkiestangel850
Tuesday, Feb 25 2025
Someone please explain how C is wrong over D. I feel like they make the same assumptions, #HELP
silkiestangel850
Friday, Jan 31 2025
A platypus? ....... Perry the Platypus
silkiestangel850
Thursday, Jan 30 2025
Not physically dangerous is the same thing as physically benign in LSAT land #thankyounext
silkiestangel850
Thursday, Jan 30 2025
What made this question difficult for me was questioning who the cost-effectiveness will benefit, the people or the researchers. I assumed it would be cost-effective for the researchers, who are helping the people, since they are the ones who would be using the funding, which is why I rejected C.
I totally did not internalize the time aspect of the question and yeah that assumption of cost-effectively helping people by asking for more money just flew over my head. Onwards.
silkiestangel850
Wednesday, Jan 29 2025
The contrapositive of walter's conclusion suggests so.
silkiestangel850
Tuesday, Jan 28 2025
So basically we are given a definition and need to apply it/infer as we read about these other things that could be or could be not similar/related to the definition.
It is wise to keep in mind that although these are facts, there is still a main point--not a conclusion--but a point trying to be put across. When I first saw the question, I thought they were a bunch of different facts which made it even harder to create the "link". Now I can see that set logic was at play here but only after accepting that the first sentence is a definition/biconditional.
I chose D without asking myself whether "type of poetry" was supported and solely clinging onto the "non-artistic" part. I also lazily did not pick C because I did not want to break down the conditional elements of the sentence especially the "while standing as a work of art"-- I hoped another answer would feel more intuitive. Answer D did. It felt good to pick. But of course, it was not supported.
silkiestangel850
Sunday, Jan 26 2025
I agree, I couldn’t find any support for the objection and its in that last sentence. The question definitely led me astray by having me focus on what the critic’s criticism was instead of the author’s criticism
silkiestangel850
Wednesday, Jan 15 2025
Im in RI also looking to take June
silkiestangel850
Tuesday, Jan 14 2025
I understand the answer as being in defense of Y's research, something his lawyer would say to remove doubt about his innocence
silkiestangel850
Tuesday, Jan 14 2025
Why is it not reasonable to assume that the aunt could be someone who is harmed? #help #help
silkiestangel850
Friday, Jan 10 2025
I always use A B C or X and it works perfectly. I just have to make sure that all the conditions are represented if we have conjuctions or disjucntions in the passage.
silkiestangel850
Friday, Jan 10 2025
Stop in the middle of the first sentence and digest. I did not understand what balancing a budget meant and that tripped me up as I went along.
silkiestangel850
Sunday, Jan 05 2025
Sameeee I’m glad you pointed this out
silkiestangel850
Sunday, Jan 05 2025
It weakens the idea that the individuals income has a deeper relation with the increasing average prices other than the correlation in the premise. The “individuals who spend on new cars” also through me off too because I assumed that we were talking about the same sets throughout the passage. The answer definitely does not resolve the correlation because of the subtle but strong assumption between individual income and individuals themselves, to pick it almost feels like denying the premise.
silkiestangel850
Tuesday, Dec 31 2024
Just Understanding causal reasoning more. The wrong answers will read terribly wrong if you’re on board with what the causal link is. Additionally Never move to read the answers without really getting the main point, that’s how you get even more confused with POE
Spend more time/days on singular passages. If you have not reached 180, only go to new material when you fully understand why you failed all the past ones. For example, I spent a couple of months intentionally racking up mistakes/drilling and then spent another month, all of April, going over approx. 100 LR qns I failed before I attempted anything new, meaning I have plenty of new material to last years only if I spend most of my time with my mistakes. When I fail a qn, I try to also think about what exactly were they testing here that I failed in another test, which definitely extends my review time. Essentially you will make fewer mistakes than the ones you're getting right but you need to create some structure so you're not compensating for lack of understanding by always doing new passages. Same thing for RC. Remember why you're doing this, for passing 70 qns testing 70 things over and over, it's not a hobby.