5/5. I used to be terrible at MSS, recognizing the fallacies in each response helps to rule out improper responses in process of elimination.

Getting there. I started out at 149. After 2.5 months I'm at 158. Planning to take the LSAT in August and hoping to test at 165 before then. Let's do it. 😌

I had the right answer, and I talked myself out of it. sigh

I was able to narrow it down to A and D. I think I was confusing familial environment with genes. In the end, I was able to parse out A as the correct answer, but I took double the time I was supposed to target. Tricky...🫤

Following the lessons, this one wasn't too bad. I got it correct, but it took me nearly 4 minutes of thinking it through and diagramming (and going through individual answers, though that part was relatively quick). It will be something of a challenge to learn the speed, but I think I'm getting the skill down.

I liked this question. Your explanations of the incorrect answers was really helpful here.

Prior to your explanations of how to attack "weakens" question, I was horrible at them. I'm much better now. This explanation was better by the way. Showing how to determine the weaken answer, and THEN showing relation/conversion to RRE flowed better. (IMO)

I understand why it was done this way, but I have to say it adds a deep level of confusion to keep restructuring the question into different types. It does help to deepen our understanding of the differences between question types, but having that be the very beginning of the video generates needless confusion. It might be better to save that restructuring for the end of the video, to be used for comparison sake, once everyone understands what the correct answer is, and why.

Another one I managed to determine the correct answer but pretty sure it took me 3 times the suggested time allotment. Oy...

RRE is the hardest question type for me thus far. I managed to quick view this one and get it right, but I really had to slow down, read, and think things through. I won't have the luxury of this time during the exam, so I'll have to figure out whether it makes more sense to try to parse out the answer, or skip and come back...

Not kill all the pandas! 😭

This one was interesting. The explanation on induction logic made perfect sense to me as that is how I understood the stimulus as I read it, and as such speculated that answer A was indeed the conclusion. The wrong answer reasoning is that the author accepts it to be true automatically and then provides an example which is not justification for her belief. But i find it hard to wrap my head around this. If someone makes a statement (ie a rule), and I ask them to convince me that the rule is true, would not their best chance of doing that be to provide examples (ie evidence)? I interpreted the piano example as support for the conclusion statement of how musical instruments are classified. Im glad to have watched this lesson however, so I know how to apply this rule moving forward.

Thus far, Main Conclusion questions seem to the most straightforward for me. Using the foundations lessons (indicators, parsing our arguments), I've been able to consistently get right answers. I'm paying close attention to why answers are wrong however, so that when I do come across questions that have 2 answers I feel are potentially correct, I can break them down such that the incorrect one makes itself known. So even tho I'm getting these practice questions correct, im still going through the lesson and explanation.

Q3 was a trick! I suppose that's where the under-inclusive/over-inclusive comes in...

Yeah, I am not good at these RRE questions. Maybe I'm too stuck in support spectrum mentality. That makes it difficult to go through POE because I think I'm ruling answers out for the wrong reasons. It means I'm going through the list of answers looking at each one as a possible explanation rather than accepting as true and determining how they help explain the stimulus...🫤

This is the first time I've gotten an answer incorrect initially, and then found my error on blind review and gotten the correct answer.

I had my setup on scrap done correctly, with both most arrows and everything, just got turned around trying to figure out rules and contrapositives so I came to the wrong conclusion. If the setup is right, at least I'm halfway there!

Definitely had the WHO THE FUCK IS PAT reaction. 😒😂

Got it 😊

I was able to POE down to B and C. I ended up choosing B (i see now why it's wrong, I'm just going to keep falling for that trick), but the reason I opted not to go for C, was because I over-thought it, I guess. I figured it's not really necessary for them to obtain a larger habitat, what if they just obtain an additional, or secondary habitat. Couldn't that yield the same result? As such, I saw C as strongly supported, but not necessarily MBT. Tricky...

Not sure if I agree that there are absolutely no assumptions. We assume Walt likes Disney, which must be true given he has a Genie pass, but still an assumption at its base. I guess this assumption would technically be irrelevant given the conclusion has nothing to do with his likes or dislikes, but rather is a statement of what he must have done to obtain a certain level of access to his pass.

Q5 tricky. I immediately interpreted fewer than half as 'some'. Rookie mistake...

Got it incorrect trying to hurry and reach the suggested time. But when I went back for blind review, I got it correct. More suggestive that I understand how to get to the right answer, I just take too long. Because of course.

I was able to Quick View and get the right answer, but i feel like it took me longer than I'd like to think it through. I'm glad at this point to be moving in the right direction though!