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LSAT · 26.3.17 (Flaw Questions Problem Set 18)

wongawt196

Thursday, Oct 29 2015

I rushed this response so hopefully this is correct.

The argument states that people who wish to provide a strong musical foundation NEED TO ENSURE that their children receive formal instruction, using the fact that formal instruction is often a part of a good musical education as support.

Stating that they "need to ensure" means that formal instruction is necessary for a strong musical foundation.

However, if formal instruction is sometimes not a part of a good musical education, then there's no reason for them to ensure that their children receive formal instruction.

General · Just PTed, Aiming for February: What to focus on?

wongawt196

Wednesday, Oct 28 2015

Personally, I would focus on reducing the errors in LG until you drop to a -0~-1. This shouldn't take more than 1-2 weeks I would think. Focus on your LR next, until you get down to at least -3 per section. This will bring your score to at least 165+. After that, it's really up to you (I would aim for -1~-2 LR at that point but maybe you would want to focus on RC).

Each point of RC is a larger struggle than the other two, but as you close in on a perfect score for a section each point of improvement becomes harder. Personally I despise RC because I'm just plain horrible at it (and improvements take time), so I focus on the others since improvements come faster.

General · Ooooooooooold PT's

wongawt196

Wednesday, Oct 28 2015

I would use PT 1-38 for drilling question types that you are unfamiliar with for LR.

LSAT · PT 53, (Dec 2007), Sec 1, #3 (Please help me understand this)

wongawt196

Tuesday, Oct 27 2015

There wasn't any reason to map this out.

The science columnists states that the reason humans and cats have so many diseases in common is because cats are genetically closer to humans than any other mammals except nonhuman primates and that many human diseases are genetically based.

To weaken/defeat this argument, you have to prove that the diseases common between the two aren't genetically connected.

B states that most diseases common to both have no genetic basis, and is the answer we're looking for.

C states that they have more diseases in common with nonhuman primates than with humans. However, this doesn't defeat the explanation that genetics is the reason human and cat diseases are similar. C doesn't affect the argument at all, and is therefore a wrong answer choice.

LSAT · PT38 S1 Q9 Some scientists believe that..

wongawt196

Tuesday, Oct 27 2015

I think you're a bit confused about the stimulus. The discrepancy in this stimulus is that the asteroid wiped out all of the dinosaurs, but the debris settled too quickly for food sources to disappear and for the dinosaurs to freeze.

From this discrepancy, we know that we have to identify a reason why the dinosaurs were driven to extinction, and that reason must be caused by the asteroid.

B actually doesn't resolve anything, since the stimulus states that the asteroid caused the extinction of dinosaurs. If B were true and there were dinosaurs around the world, the question of how they were all wiped out still exists since their food sources are still there and they have not frozen to death.

E states that the dinosaurs were killed from fatal respiratory problems resulting from contamination of the air caused by the asteroid debris, which would solve the discrepancy.

Also, since the asteroid debris would have been in the atmosphere for 6 months and blocked out sunlight to kill off all dinosaurs, you would probably assume that the debris is able to cover every location with dinosaurs. As a result, you would also assume that contamination would spread to every dinosaur as well.

LSAT · PT1.S3.Q7 - game ducks at a western lake

wongawt196

Tuesday, Oct 27 2015

"The greater the disparity in overall sex ratios, the greater the percentage of older male ducks in the population."

The western lake contains 55% males, 45% females

The eastern lake contains 65% males, 35% females

A states that the percentage of adult males in the western lake is lower than the eastern lake, which is correct because the disparity in overall sex ratios is greater in the eastern lake.

B is not the answer because the passage doesn't say anything about the percentage of young male ducks.

C states the total number of male ducks is higher in eastern lake than the western lake, which is not necessarily true. There could be 100 ducks in the eastern lake and 500 ducks in the western lake, which means the eastern lake has 65 male ducks, and the western lake has 275 male ducks. A higher percentage does not equate to a higher number when you don't know the sample size.

D discusses something that isn't even in the passage at all.

E states that adult female ducks outnumber young female ducks, but we do not have information about this. Passage states that there are only slightly more males than females in the young population, and number of males in adult population greatly exceeds females. We need to know the proportions or size of the adult population compared to the young population in order to answer this question.

General · 33.1.18 (Principle Questions Problem Set 5)

wongawt196

Monday, Oct 26 2015

For me, I thought the key is ">It is no wonder< environmentalists fail to consider both that spacecraft may damage the ozone layer, and that this damage could be serious enough to warrant discontinuing spaceflight". "IT IS NO WONDER" is important, because the author is obviously not surprised by the result.

If it is true that problems can be observed long before they would be noticed, allowing for intervention before the crisis stage, there must be a reason for why environmentalists still fail to consider the damage.

So why is the author not surprised at the fact that environmentalists fail to consider the damage even though the damage can be avoided?

A would provide a reason for why environmentalists fail to consider the damage of using space-based satellites, which is that people tend to ignore possible objectionable consequences of actions that support their activities.

General · PT 60 Section 1 Q24 WTF?

wongawt196

Monday, Oct 26 2015

The key is that in choosing A you assume that in order to obtain beneficial health effects you must be able to digest the cellulose to obtain glucose, and there is no beneficial health effects other than the glucose.

Mastication is part of "eating", so your mentioned example works because there is some way that it can provide a beneficial health effect. Also, even if you are unable to digest it, it could have the effect of destroying harmful bacteria in the body, which would be considered a beneficial health effect, or by being able to get constipated people to poop (dietary fiber).

A would only be true if the passage specifically stated that glucose is the only thing in cellulose that would offer mammals beneficial health effects.

General · Advice for Dec 2015

wongawt196

Monday, Oct 26 2015

For LR, it would just mostly be finding out what question types usually stump you and drilling some of those questions to find out what tricks are catching you. BR is definitely what you need to do for LR, because being able to determine why an answer choice is wrong on a question can help you avoid similar traps in the future.

Also, get familiar with argument flaws. It cuts down a lot of time on the flawed reasoning question types.

General · PT difficulty?

wongawt196

Monday, Oct 26 2015

Easy/Hard is extremely subjective. Not everyone is equally skilled in each question type. For instance, one person might do extremely well on Weaken Questions, and another person is very good at Strengthen/Justify questions. If the LR sections were composed of 40% Strengthen/Justify and 10% Weaken questions, the second person might end up performing better even if they are the same in all other aspects.

Also, putting "weights" on scores might show some significance at the start, but after 15-20 PTs you'll have a pretty accurate range that you score in.

General · Advice for Dec 2015

wongawt196

Monday, Oct 26 2015

1) Try finding some other people in your area writing the LSAT and see if everyone is willing to meet in an empty classroom to do a mock sitting. This might help with being in an unfamiliar environment.

2) Get a bubble sheet, and make sure you practice with that (I didn't practice with a bubble sheet before, so it really threw me off the day of).

Also, older PTs are fine to do, and you can redo a few of the recent PTs closer to test day.

General · Advice on December Retake

wongawt196

Sunday, Oct 25 2015

Thanks for the advice.

I guess I'll retake it in December, then once more next October if I don't get in.

General · NEW! 7sage Webinar: Reading Comprehension (All levels), "It's Hammer Time"

wongawt196

Sunday, Oct 25 2015

I tried a couple RC passages based on the webinar and I already notice that it's now significantly easier for me to eliminate wrong answer choices. Thanks so much Nicole!

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Saturday, Oct 24 2015

wongawt196

Advice on December Retake

After receiving my score for the October LSAT, I am both happy and sad at my result, which is likely to allow me to enter the law school of my choice through the wait list, but it is heavily dependent on the grades in my current term. I'm currently taking six courses, as well as juggling some extracurricular stuff and a job so I haven't studied for the LSAT at all throughout October and I'm unlikely to have any time until the second week of November (I'd probably get a couple weeks of infrequent drilling/PTs). As a result, I'm not sure if I should retake the LSAT in December.

The fact that my 180Watch broke 10 minutes before my LSAT really threw me off for the actual LSAT (I actually ended up writing the whole thing without being able to check time) but I'm worried that if I retake without practicing enough then I'll have wasted my second attempt. I ended up going -8 on both LR sections and -10 on RC which is well outside of my usual scores (generally around -1~-4 for LR, -10 is actually normal for my RC) so I feel the 160 is really not indicative of my actual LSAT ability.

I was PT'ing 163~170 (quite a wide range from what I can tell) prior to the October LSAT, so I'm not sure if waiting the extra year would be worth it. This is the final year of my degree and I'm not sure if I should find work for a year before law school.

Any ideas/advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks :)

LSAT · Or, Not Both (LR And In-Out Games)

wongawt196

Saturday, Oct 24 2015

I don't have the lessons but here's the definitions:

"OR" means at least one is selected (both can be also selected)

"Not both" means only one or none is selected

"Either A or B, but not both" means one must be selected, and you cannot have both nor neither

"At least one, but not both" means one must be selected, and you cannot have both nor neither

The last two definitions are pretty much the same, but questions might word them differently like that.

General · Grey? Help me find it

wongawt196

Thursday, Oct 22 2015

There's six icons at the bottom that used to be green. The icons are of page with a grey circle with a line through it.

General · GRAY

wongawt196

Thursday, Oct 22 2015

LSAT scores coming out. I'm gray too.

The LSAT status is the gray thing we're all talking about.

LSAT · I made a big mistake

wongawt196

Sunday, Oct 04 2015

@.janson35 thanks for the tip! I'm definitely going to try that out.

LSAT · I made a big mistake

wongawt196

Sunday, Oct 04 2015

I think I need to practice with a scantron, as I don't normally do that and it really threw me off today. Time to pray I didn't mess up too much

The thing is that I jumped around on the questions a lot, so I don't think I should have made errors in bubbling since I had to check the number constantly. And double bubbling should have only messed up one question since I jump around, so I can't even tell if I messed up or not

General · does it look bad if your second score is lower?

wongawt196

Sunday, Oct 04 2015

Depends on the school

LSAT · I made a big mistake

wongawt196

Sunday, Oct 04 2015

I'm really afraid of double bubbling now, since I think my LR sections were both at 25 questions... Which I don't think is right

General · .

wongawt196

Sunday, Oct 04 2015

For scoring, don't count questions you remember answers to, multiply the number you got wrong by 50% and subtract that number from the # questions in the PT. Might result in a slightly lower score than your usual average though.

Edit: I meant add 50%

General · How did it go? October 3rd 2015 LSAT 7Sagers?

wongawt196

Saturday, Oct 03 2015

I really hope they count this test as extremely hard so I can get a higher score. Because it was absolutely horrendous for me

LSAT · I made a big mistake

wongawt196

Saturday, Oct 03 2015

I hate scantron so much. Waste time filling it in, waste time correcting errors. Worst thing in existence for tight time constraints

General · How did it go? October 3rd 2015 LSAT 7Sagers?

wongawt196

Saturday, Oct 03 2015

Theft at some place with lights going off, two naked people prancing through the building and people making noises. (one game)

It was all similar game types.

General · How did it go? October 3rd 2015 LSAT 7Sagers?

wongawt196

Saturday, Oct 03 2015

The mention of misbubbling is putting me on edge right now. The thought never occurred to me.