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PT149.S4.Q15
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sman54948
Tuesday, Jul 31 2018

#help

I understand that E is wrong because the conclusion is a hypothesis, not a phenomenon. However, like the question other question here being posted, is it possible to have an explanation of a conclusion not support that conclusion?

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PT149.S4.Q11
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sman54948
Tuesday, Jul 31 2018

I hate myself for having picked D.

Argument: Most users won't litter.

D) Infers that since a few won't litter, most won't litter.

Descriptively inaccurate. We already know that most won't litter. Closer reading next time.

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PT149.S4.Q7
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sman54948
Tuesday, Jul 31 2018

On the timed test I eliminated B immediately, and chose A.

On BR, I eliminated A pretty quick and chose B.

Kinda funny how that works.

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PT137.S3.Q22
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Sunday, Jul 29 2018

My problem with this question lies in the difference between "indirect" and "unforeseen" .

You can indirectly cause something without intending to cause it. This implies that they intended to cause it, which the argument itself never makes clear.

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PT129.S2.Q24
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sman54948
Sunday, Jul 29 2018

How I see this question:

Sometimes a reader BELIEVES a poem expresses ideas that contradict each other.

Therefore, the author of the poem clearly didn't mean to express that idea.

Assumption: What the reader BELIEVES is actually the case. The reader(s) could be crazy people who believe everything is a contradiction. Water is good? Contradiction! The sky is blue? Contradiction! If these are the readers we're talking about, then what do their beliefs matter?

I'm also pretty sure another necessary assumption is "great poems usually don't express contradictory ideas".

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PT113.S4.Q19
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sman54948
Sunday, Jul 29 2018

100% process of elimination for me on this one.

The other answer choices weren't even close.

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PT150.S3.Q22
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sman54948
Friday, Dec 28 2018

If you aren't aiming for a 175+, please do yourself the favor of skipping questions like this within the first minute.

It's not necessarily difficult, but it's so vague, so hidden, so complex, that questions like this simply aren't worth the time spent for the single point. At the 170 level, you're looking at -9 to -12, and you can easily have a question like this take up one of those wrong questions.

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PT125.S2.Q16
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sman54948
Friday, Sep 28 2018

Is "Good hunters can kill prey that weigh up to half their body weight" a conditional statement? I think the "can" threw me off.

So if I say "Becky can play basketball", would it be "IF you are becky, then you CAN play basketball"?

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PT142.S4.Q24
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sman54948
Friday, Sep 28 2018

Here's my main question about D:

Let's say that we assume it's true. It costs $10 to ship, but they charge a $100 handling fee, thereby making $90 in profit.

Here's where my question comes in. What if the product itself costs $500 to produce? So, you're making $90, but also giving away hundreds of dollars in the free product. In that case, D falls apart, because they're losing almost $400 in offering a free product, but only making $90. Can anyone reconcile this?

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PT150.S3.Q19
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sman54948
Thursday, Dec 27 2018

Me during this question:

40 seconds in: chose (A)

Then I stared at the paper for another 1:40.

Chose (D) and moved on.

Me during Review:

:/

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PT150.S3.Q7
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sman54948
Thursday, Dec 27 2018

I'm curious to know how the LSAC views a question like this. I found it to be immensely difficult, however 7sage considers this question 3/5 difficulty. At the same time, I've done questions 7sage considers 5/5 difficulty with ease.

Does the LSAC consider a question like this 5/5 difficulty, but the 7sage population got it right enough to consider it 3/5?

I just hate it when you struggle on a question, stare at it for 30 minutes straight, finally figure it out, go on 7sage to see how other people felt and it's only a 3/5 difficulty question that most people seemed to not even struggle on. Yet, with all that being said, this question still has the characteristics of a harder LSAT question, even when most people didn't find it that difficult.

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PT140.S3.Q22
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sman54948
Thursday, Jul 26 2018

Isnt it funny how one single word can make a question exceedingly difficult?

LSAT is a detail driven machine. One word missed = 90% increase of getting the question wrong. Word accounted for = 90% increase of getting the question right.

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PT140.S3.Q19
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sman54948
Thursday, Jul 26 2018

I hate it when you spend almost 3 minutes staring at a question and choose the wrong answer choice. Then you come back in BR and get it correct within a minute, and wondered "why was this even hard in the first place?"

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PT128.S3.Q15
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sman54948
Tuesday, Jan 22 2019

This question boils down to two words in answer choice A: "adversely" and "most".

Notice: if you remove those two words from the AC, it would make the answer choice on equal footing with the other ACs. It would read:

"Pesticides that affected wildlife in North America have been banned since the 1970's."

The powerful thing about "adversely" and "most" is that it removes assumptions you're required to make. "Adversely" indicates a sure degree of harm, while "most" covers the idea of only a minority of animals being affected. So now we know, without having to assume, that this pesticides were in fact harmful, and it in fact affected most animals. That's a small assumption away from "the Deer used to be affected by the pesticides", a much smaller assumption than is required for the other ACs.

(D), for example, is baiting you with assumptions. For instance, "wolves raised in captivity" doesn't necessarily mean the wolves are less dangerous, for all we know they could be even more dangerous to the deer population due to being raised in captivity.

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PT132.S4.Q24
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sman54948
Saturday, Jul 21 2018

When I read over C, I was like "yeah that sounds about right - these people must be going crazy or something".

Then I thought... That's way too simple for the LSAT. Answer choice C: They're crazy (basically). So I was like.. I need to complicate this like the LSAT would, so my mind convinced myself that B was the answer choice I was looking for.

Sadly, B just suggests that you're crazy yourself for drawing such a conclusion. This was an odd question for sure, kind of a dirty trick in my view by the writers but what can you do. Guess it can teach you that anything goes on this test. If they're crazy, and it's an answer choice, then pick it.

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PT139.S4.Q21
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sman54948
Friday, Jul 20 2018

If answer choice A read:

If well written, then it will be published

Would this also count as a sufficient condition? Meets one of the qualifiers, but not the other?

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PT139.S1.Q5
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sman54948
Friday, Jul 20 2018

Another reason why A is wrong:

It says: Decaffeinated BEVERAGES (doesn't specify if its coffee or not, could be either, but the study is about coffee).

Answer choice A could be talking about decaffeinated coke, or pepsi, or root beer, in which case it doesn't really apply to our study.

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PT145.S4.Q20
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sman54948
Thursday, Jan 17 2019

This is where lawgic takes a back seat. If you think about this in normal terms, as if your friend told you this, I feel like you'd more quickly realize the meaning than if you neatly wrote it out and unpacked its meaning.

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PT135.S4.Q20
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sman54948
Friday, Jul 13 2018

I'm a little bit confused. JY says there's only one premise in this argument. So the information about why we shouldn't use paint ISN'T a premise supporting the conclusion? Why is that the case?

#help (Added by Admin)

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PT135.S2.Q17
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sman54948
Tuesday, Sep 11 2018

#help

JY claims that answer choice A is wrong because it's not a premise.

This is where I have a bit of trouble... It certainly seems to be a premise for the philosopher's argument, but not a premise for GRAHAM'S argument.

If A was switched out to say: "It's a premise of the PHILOSOPHER'S argument", would A be correct? (assuming B was not present)

Even if it is an example used to show that Graham's premise is false, isn't that a premise in itself?

Hope that makes sense!

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PT143.S1.Q23
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sman54948
Monday, Nov 05 2018

(D) is the LSAT writers having fun. It's pretty hilarious if you think about it

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PT145.S2.Q20
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Saturday, Jan 05 2019

#help

Here's how I saw this argument:

C: To distinguish between interpretation and easy enjoyment writing is a specious distinction

Major Premise: Why is the distinction specious? - Because neither should be interpreted.

Minor Premise: Why should neither be interpreted? - Because it cuts you off from the emotional impact of the work.

I saw this as a conclusion, sub-conclusion, minor premise argument. So, when I was looking through the ACs, I didn't find "minor premise"; but I did find "support". In my thinking, a minor premise is support, so I picked B.

Is my reasoning here right? It seems JY didn't make the sub-conclusion argument, he just saw it as a normal premise.

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LSAT · Search for speed tips.
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sman54948
Saturday, Nov 03 2018

To echo what NotMyName said, speed certainly is a function of ability. Speed issues are a result of not being familiar enough with the material. Trust me, that bar is VERY high to finish with enough time to go back.

However, time is also a consequence of strategy. In that sense, I never really try to be 100% sure of every answer choice I pick. I usually go for 70 - 80% per question, lowering that bar for harder questions. Try to look at it like that, hope that helps!

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PT140.S3.Q26
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sman54948
Wednesday, Oct 03 2018

Rate.

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PT131.S4.P3.Q16
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sman54948
Friday, Aug 03 2018

Damn 37 minutes, I better get some popcorn

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Monday, Jan 02 2017

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Full Proof Method Question for LG

I've been studying for the LSAT for almost a year, will be taking the Feb. Test. My biggest struggle by far is LG, strictly due to time. I finish with a good score, but always with one game left. I've been looking into the full proof method, and I have just a few general questions, if you could help me out that would be very appreciated!

1) The method states that you should make inferences by memory with speed and control on 10 clean copies of a game that gives you trouble. Does this mean I just have to make the inferences, and move on? Or does it mean I have to do the entire game 10 times, with speed and control? The main issue here is that I memorized the answers for each question, so doing the actual questions is unfair. So is it just to memorize the inferences up front so you can reproduce them quickly on a different game?

2) Does this method work for weird games? I know generally it does not, seeing as how the inferences are supposed to be reproduced. Just wondering if I should apply it to "weird" games also.

Thank you! Good luck on the LSAT, whenever you find yourself taking it.

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