these lessons are heavily improving my sufficiency-necessity skills

thank god for the negation test

So basically the answer to this question (B) gives the argument the flexibility it needs to be fully validated?

First thought when reading the stim was "fake it till you make it" so I chose the answer choice that sounded most like that lol

This question lowk made me cry LOL

Do you think it would be fair to say that we aren't trying to choose answer choices that prove the premises to be necessarily wrong when it is presenting facts (like the bit about the marks being made 500 million years before the occurrence of lifeforms), but rather poke holes in the both the assumptions that the stim makes us make, and the assumptions the stim itself makes? Like should we be assuming that the stim is true and has merit in the same way we assume the answer choices to be true? Not sure if this is a stupid question lol

One thing I do that really helps me is to picture the answer choices as responses to the stim, as if they were being used in an actual conversation. This makes it easier to intuitively parse out which answer choices feel more wrong than the right one.

Got this question in 52 seconds which was really surprising. I think the key for me has been to not overthink the rules too much because that's when I tend to over complicate already complicated grammar.

@ I think that if you're 100% sure that you have the right answer, then you don't have to read all the answer choices. But I still hold to what I said like 85% of the time, because if you're prone to falling for tricks, then choosing an answer without reading all of the choices could be detrimental to you. But it depends on your confidence level. You can read every single answer choice and have ample time to complete the test, especially if you're confident. RC is naturally easy for me, so the answer choice tended to always 'glow' and I rarely read every choice. With LR I was a total mess though, so reading every answer choice was completely necessary. I guess that's where I'm personally coming from. It depends on the person and where they're at in their studying :)

Me too!! Would love to meet up

Yes yes yes. Always read every answer choice. You have to give yourself the opportunity to read the right answer, unless you're on a severe time crunch

I would say if there's not a verifiable source online that says white out is okay, I might caution against using it in the off chance that lsac gives you a hard time for using unapproved materials during the test

got this right almost 30 seconds below the target time. thank you J.Y.!!!

Getting these questions right feels so great, these lessons are awesome