Hello,
I just got a 165 in jan 2022 lsat, and I want to improve from 165 -> 170 by August.
I'm an international student whose primary language is not English, so I seem to struggle a lot in RC (typically from -8 to -4).
I'm looking for a RC tutor who can help me improve my RC skills!
No. C is clearly wrong because those texts do not pointedly comment on the existence of female doctors. All of the information that can be drawn from those texts are implicit and do not directly mention that there existed female doctors.
Wait WHAT? I took it on Saturday at 11:00am and I had no connection issue or whatsoever. When did this thing happen?
I don't think it necessarily weakens the conclusion, it may well weaken the strength of the other two premises mentioned in the stimulus by introducing one more reason why it's the bird that caused spiders to decrease.
I thought this one was a particularly challenging parallel method of reasoning question so I decided to practice correcting all the wrong ACs to make them better. They may not be perfect, but I hope they help! (And also please correct me If I'm wrong!)
A) We know that children buy most of the snacks at cinemas, because popcorns sales increase as the proportion of child moviegoers to adult moviegoers increase.
-> We know that most snacks at cinemas are sold to children (or children buy most of the snacks at cinemas) because cinemas sell far more popcorns during the summer when children are on vacation than do during the time when children are at school.
B) We know that this houseplant gets more of the sunlight from the window, because it is greener than that houseplant.
-> We know that most of the sunlight goes to this houseplant because the amount of sunlight that reaches the window is far greater when this houseplant is present than when it’s not.
C) We know that most people who go to a university are studios because most of those people study while they attend the university.
-> We know that most people who go to a university are studious because there are far more studios people during the time when university students are in the town than when they’re not.
D) We know that customers buy more fruit during the summer than they buy during the winter, because there are far more varieties of fruit available in the summer than in the winter
-> We know that most fruits are sold to customers during the summer because the amount of fruits sold is far more during the summer than in the winter(or non-summer seasons).
I eliminated D) moderate commendation in Q4 because I misread commendation as condemnation lol now I know why I felt all of the other answer choices were obviously wrong
For Q14, How can I be sure that Elieen Gray is best known to the public, not to idk, some art experts, for her work in lacquer? I guess it's a reasonable assumption we ought to make to get to the right answer, but I still think the AC D is just too brutal.
I chose C because I thought the stimulus breaks down as follows:
Currently, no satellite orbiting Earth is at significant risk of colliding with other satellites or satellite fragments, but the risk of such a collision is likely to increase dramatically in the future. (intermediate conclusion) (Why?) After all, once such a collision occurs, it will probably produce thousands of satellite fragments, each large enough to shatter other satellites. (support for the intermediate conclusion) The resulting collisions will produce many more fragments, and so on, causing the space around Earth to become quite heavily cluttered with dangerous debris. (the main conclusion)
I thought, for some reason, the argument's main conclusion is that the space around the Earth will be filled with dangerous debris because of the projected increase in collisions, and that is supported by the following sentence which indicates that once one collision occurs, many more will follow.
I guess the AC B is obviously true (like how can there be living organisms before the earth came to exist? like seriously?) and does nothing to the stimulus. However, while very subtly, the right AC D suggests that bacteria, which is a living thing, could get into the Earth's crust and thrive, which makes it less feasible that the existence of biomarker itself counts as a piece of evidence against the carbon deposit hypothesis.
I got this question wrong by picking the AC B thinking that it does a similar thing with the AC D, which is the right answer.
I thought the AC B would weaken the argument by suggesting that because living organisms only emerged long after the earth's formation, it's the formation of carbon deposits that came first, and biomarkers were somehow created long after that. Since the premise is actually saying that carbon deposits date from the formation of the earth, by adding the AC B to the stimulus that living organisms came long after the formation of the earth, I thought it establishes a critical time difference that could essentially weaken the geologist's argument.
I think the system automatically shuts down Grammarly for you once you do a check-in. I also have Grammarly installed on my computer (I did not uninstall it or anything) but it wasn't activated when I took the exam. I took it a couple of days ago. As someone else said it above, there's a spell checker incorporated into the system. Not as helpful as Grammarly but still better than nothing. lol
I interpreted AC C as the columnist overlooking the possibility that the source of his/her cited claim (which is that three cars not meeting the alleged fuel economy standard -> manufacturers lying) may be biased and unreliable because he/she only tested three cars.
Am I the only one? :(
Same!
Which PTs did you take? I experienced the same thing as I moved from PTs from 60s and 70s to 80s.
I hope it's not RC. I can't take two RC sections in a single test.
Also, I found this in hindsight but (A) is talking about decaffeinated "beverages" in general. It's possible that those people that exercise regularly who are drinking decaffeinated beverages aren't drinking decaffeinated "coffee."Different teas - green tea, black tea, or milk tea, etc also contain caffeine and a decaffeinated version of them is also considered decaffeinated beverages. In that case, an alternative explanation (exercising regularly) the answer choice (A) tries to establish would become irrelevant.