I assumed that answer choice D was correct because the addition of 2 crimes to the violent crimes list would mean that more criminals would serve time in prison which means that there are fewer criminals out and about. Though I realize this would come with a lot of assumptions.

Ok, so I assumed that athletes who need to improve their muscular strength was a SUBSET of athletes, but I guess the comma before the modifier makes this a general claim of all athletes rather than breaking apart athletes into a subset??? If I had written the question, I would have added "ALL athletes need to improve their muscle strength" but hey that's just me ...

manipulation, well-thought-out, these are very strong terms.

weaken EXCEPT. facepalm.

Missed the could. :/

So wrong = /right?

@sexyandsmart This is exactly what I thought. Now I'm thinking that plowing the seeds at nighttime is not a "brief" exposure to sunlight, since the light of the sun gradually increases on Earth as the sun rises. This is not talked about as the "never plowed at all" scenario is not talked about as well.

All three right, just need to work on the time. Rookie mistake.

1/3 right, but I know what I did wrong! For the first problem in the first sentence, I goofed and switched the necessary and sufficient conditions in my implies statement, which led me to pick A. Then for problem 2, I forgot that with the unless, the SUFFICIENT condition is negated, not the necessary. These would have been such easy fixes if I had thought for longer, but I figured I should try to stay under time. However, I'm thinking that it's best to nail the concepts near 100% before speed-runnning through practice problems like these.

I really appreciated this section, especially as a reminder that sentences can be incredibly wordy and complex-looking, though once broken down are actually just the skeletons of simple subject and predicate with a lot of modifying muscle added on. Of course, there are big, purple words whose meanings we can only infer from the sentence, but once a sentence is fully parsed out, these words become easier to understand, or better yet, their meanings become moot to understanding what the rest of the stimulus or the prompt is trying to say/ask! Once I broke down these sentences into their constituent parts, I was better able to understand and speed through the practice LSAT questions!