tiramistudy

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2027

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LSAT · Regret

tiramistudy

Just now

Hey! Sorry this isn't working out for you, but knowing why the other answers might be correct will help you figure out why the other answer choices are wrong or could be correct for another question type. This will allow you to make your mind malleable ergo, making you think more analytically!

Lessons · Lesson 1 - Fishing in Eagle Bay

tiramistudy

Yesterday

@ThomasMunnia What I tend to do is ask myself, "why" when I find a conclusion.

Why should the bill be enacted? Because there's toxic levels in fish. Because continuing to permit fishing in Eagle Bay could thus have grave effects on public health.

Yeah, that's why the bill should be enacted. That makes sense!

Why should continuing to permit fishing in Eagle Bay have grave effects on public health? Because there's toxic levels in fish. Because the bill should be enacted.

Now, that ain't right...

There will be trickier stimuluses than this one with convoluted language and full of referential wording, but it's just practicing. There's also early modules in the core curriculum that talks about this. That's my two cents. I hope this helps!

LSAT · Necessary Assumptions

tiramistudy

3 days ago

@joegav1 Ooh thanks, I'll look into that class. Yeah, if my brain is hurting, it means it's working

LSAT · Necessary Assumptions

tiramistudy

3 days ago

@JCSamson11 Thank you!! I'm sure you'll soon get all of them right, and then the NA questions will fear you :D

LSAT · Necessary Assumptions

tiramistudy

3 days ago

@DanielBednar Thanks for this! I'll be sure to check this out!

LSAT · Necessary Assumptions

tiramistudy

3 days ago

@PeytonMiller Hi, thanks for replying! Yes, I do pick out the conclusion confidently. I think you're right that I'm struggling to find the comparison (if the negated sentence makes the conclusion impossible, has no impact, or strengthens). I think I get tripped up because sometimes the negation feels like it has no impact, but maybe I'm not thinking hard enough TT

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4 days ago

tiramistudy

😖 Frustrated

Necessary Assumptions

Hi all,

I just finished the NA module and am doing some drills but it's going horribly. I know these questions are really difficult, but I just can't seem to get a grasp on it.

I know that these questions depend on your making your own assumptions based on the information given, but it's annoying when the explanations make it seem like you're supposed to get that one specific assumption. I guess I'm frustrated because you can come up with so many assumptions, but the right one is like the 3rd one you came up with and it's said in a very convoluted way in the answer choice, and on top of that, you also have to do the negation test, which for me is also a bit confusing...

It's making me feel like I'm not good at making assumptions and then also the negation test frustrates me as well because it wants me to negate (which I am good at, all my negations match up) but I can't seem to figure its relationship with the argument...

I don't really know what the point of this post was, maybe partially to rant, but I think I just would like your guys' input on what you did to overcome the difficulty, frustration and feeling like nothing in the NA makes sense because I feel like I'm about to start tearing out hairs..

Lessons · Review (SA)

tiramistudy

Wednesday, Feb 11

@arieatsoranges This helped so much, thanks!

Lessons · You Try - Confidence and Success

tiramistudy

Edited Wednesday, Feb 11

@Susie Also, if you want to enhance your WAJ, you can also write why you chose the wrong AC, and so when you look back at your journal before studying, you can actively try to avoid the same mistakes you made before -- just putting in my two cents!

Lessons · You Try - Extrasensory Perception

tiramistudy

Sunday, Oct 12 2025

@Sunday_Blues13 OMG SAME, 4 seconds over,-- I had my jaw on the floor and took a picture

Lessons · Lesson 1 - Children's Stories

tiramistudy

Friday, Oct 10 2025

@JackFoley No, this was mainly to break it down for you, to see the foundation. I feel as though this is still important as in the future, if I'm stuck or doing a BR at a PAI question, I think this would be a good way to break it down. Hope this helps and good luck!

Lessons · You Try - Ecological Hot Spots

tiramistudy

Friday, Sep 26 2025

@goodluckonthelsatguys I don't think you should be reading the answer choices first -- forgive me if I missed it, but we weren't told to do that (the only thing I can think you're referring to was last lesson where JY looked at the AC first, but that was just to prove a point)

It's usually stimulus or question stem first, and then AC.

Lessons · Placebo, Blinding, and Other Issues

tiramistudy

Friday, Sep 26 2025

@Mikeorona619 Yeah haha, honestly, that's so true. But I think what we need to get from this is if we stumble across a LR and it is in an experimentation setting, we can think about these examples here!

For instance if we come across a weaken problem, there might be an answer choice that basically boils down to 'the participants are actually affected by the placebo effect' or something like that.

Hope this helps and good luck!

Lessons · All Before Most

tiramistudy

Tuesday, Sep 16 2025

@QarimatOgunneye

I think one of the primary reasons that this section uses A B and C is so they can do less hand holding. So instead of them actually writing out like you did, they just substitute it for letters.

That being said, you're Lawgic is right! So is the one listed in this section!

If we translate their Lawgic to your Lawgic, and let's use NEG, for "not exceptionally good" to substitute 'C' (since EG is exceptionally good in your Lawgic):

Their Lawgic becomes this:

NYP -> PV -m-> NEG

NYP <-s-> NEG

If we want to negate your /EG and their 'C', which is NEG, we get:

Yours:

/EG -> EG

which is exceptionally good

Theirs:

NEG -> /NEG

which is not not exceptionally good,

but the 'not's cancel out! which means;

which is exceptionally good

So it's the same! You got your Lawgic right! I think they're going simple with the letters to make us just understand the basic flaws.

Hope this helps, and good luck studying!

Lessons · Skill Builder - Rules and Exceptions (Embedded Conditionals)

tiramistudy

Saturday, Sep 06 2025

For question 4, if you change

"A pet adoption center with at least ten years of continuous operations will be supported by the Mittens Foundation if it shelters more than fifty animals."

"A pet adoption center with at least ten years of continuous operations will be supported by the Mittens Foundation unless it shelters more than fifty animals."

would the answer be different (or I guess opposite)?

The reason why I'm asking is I don't know if I'm understanding after reading the explanation because I have the explanation, or if I am truly understanding it...

Lessons · You Try - Inspired Musical Performances

tiramistudy

Thursday, Sep 04 2025

@JeremyK Hi! I don't know how useful this is anymore, but D states:

I choose 'do not understand their musical roots', negate it and put it as the sufficient:

Understand musical roots -> good show

I choose 'treated to a good show', negate it, and put it as the sufficient

~~good show~~ -> ~~understand musical roots~~

Either way, because the argument states

inspired musical performances -> good show -> sophisticated listener -> musical roots

(i negated the good show because of the unless and put that in the sufficient)

OR the contrapositive:

~~musical roots~~ -> ~~sophisticated listener~~ -> ~~good show~~ -> ~~inspired musical performance~~

AC D and the linked conditionals don't match, and so it isn't D. It seems like you just swapped the sufficient and necessary, but I hope this answer helps you out! Good luck!

Lessons · Group 3 - Negate Sufficient

tiramistudy

Saturday, Aug 30 2025

@gevver Memorize the indicators

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