I am really confused on strengthen LR questions (assumption family). So I learned that if you attack strengthen questions fhe same way as "must be true" questions it will screw you up. Makes sense, but sometimes the right answer to strengthen questions seem like a must be true. So I'm confused.
For example, February 1996 LR 1 Q. 11 about space stations correct answer seems to be a must be true even though it's a strengthen question type.
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For both strengthening and weakening I follow the same method:
Identify the Conclusion.
Identify the Premise.
Find the answer choice that makes the conclusion more likely, or strengthens the relationship between the two. For me, I know if I tried to attempt it in a different way (like using the MBT), I might get confused as I went through the question set....
After I grasped that concept 3 LR question types still got to me, SA, PF, and PSA.
Hmm I never said that strengthen questions should be attacked the same way as MBT. I said, "I learned that if you attack strengthen questions the same way as 'must be true' questions it will screw you up. Makes sense..."
Screw you up meaning you shouldn't approach it like that because it will confuse/mess you up
Looks like some of you need to practice must be true and careful reading while I practice strengthen hahaha
@jdawg113 you cannot always use the negation technique on strengthen questions. Negation only works on necessary strengthen questions types, which I call 2N (N = negation). The question stem for N would be:
The argument assumes that
The assumption depends on
The assumption requires
The conclusion can validly be drawn only if
It's not exactly phrased like that but when determining if it's necessary or sufficient you're looking for important words in the stem like "requires, depends, only if, etc."
It's been 2.5 weeks since looking at anything LSAT-related so maybe some of us are rusty. :P
2. Never said it was a perfect technique, just it is a good one. (also not sure if I have seen a strengthen that it didnt really work on)
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1) it's funny you mention people yet you wrote,
"I have never hear anything about the same approach for MBT and strengthen... they are very different questions."
Regardless of whether or not you said people in your original statment, you still said that you have never heard of anything about the same approach for MBT and strenghten questions, when in fact I never said anything about using MBT on strengthen questions
2) I never argued that you claimed it's a perfect technique. In fact, I never said anything about you claiming it's "good technique" or "perfect technique." All I said is that you cannot use the negation technique on all strengthen questions. Only necessary ones.
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Oh sorry. Blame my 6/7AM brain for this misread!!!!
It seems like people are confused about my post. Let me clarify,
So for strengthen questions you do not approach it like a MBT ( I repeat, do not). However, it seems like sometimes the correct answer on Strengthen questions is a MBT.
For example, February 1996 LR 1 Q. 11 about space stations, the correct answer seems to be a must be true even though it's a strengthen question type.
Question: can that happen on strengthen questions or am I making some mistakes?
NA answers will always be true (if the argument in the stimulus is true), but not in the same way as an MBT. The difference is too much for me to explain in a quick post, so I would encourage you to refer to the specific 7Sage lessons on the two question types.