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Thursday, Jan 12 2023

tmtmaas643

PTB.S4.Q3 - A study revealed that although most adults estimated their diets

I got stuck on this question between answer A and answer E. I went with A knowing that the 'every' in the answer would most likely be wrong. I almost selected E because it says 'they (men) fell short in all other categories' meaning men would have fallen short of fruits and vegetables like answer E says.

Can anyone give an example of how they solved this question so I can clear the smoke a little more in my thinking?

#help

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PrepTests ·

PT117.S3.Q24

tmtmaas643

Tuesday, Jan 10 2023

Apart from the question, did anyone else hear the bird noises in the video explanation, or is my studying for the LSAT actually driving me mad?

LSAT · Parallel Method vs Parallel Flaw

tmtmaas643

Tuesday, May 09 2023

Parallel method questions are like the previous answer above in that they are analogous to the stimulus. The logical reasoning in your AC must match that in the stimulus. I tend to pay close attention to stimulus with and/or statements because those must match the AC. For example, if the stimulus presents two ideas joined by 'and' then the AC must present two ideas joined by and. Keep in mind contrapositives though, as the and flips to or and or flips to and. Diagramming helps with these, but they're not always diagrammable.

Parallel flaw is only matching the flaw. So, unlike parallel method it doesn't have to be exactly the same in structure. Only the flaw in the argument has to be the same. These are also heavily diagrammable, but the order in which conditional relationship flaws appear in the stimulus will often be rearranged in the AC. Ones that are not diagrammable are more tricky. I still struggle with those.