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I don't think your translation is incorrect. Those are just two different ways to express the same idea. "[It is rational not to acquire such information] unless [one expects that the benefit of doing so will outweigh the cost and difficulty of do…
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Solely does mean only. But the issue is a single statement can express more than just a conditional relationship. The statement is saying (1) he got sick due to peppers; and (2) there was nothing else besides peppers that made him sick. You're fo…
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@"camille.chabot" said: Hi everyone, I just took LSAT 57 - Section 3 - Question 23 about "brushless car wash" and I really don't understand how C can be correct. To me all of the answer choices were wrong and C seemed to me like a big inf…
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@MTreigys said: So last night when I was in bed I randomly thought of a statement and tried to decipher whether or not it could be translated into logic in a traditional LR question. The statement is: Excessive yelling and/or screeching t…
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@"J.R. Bagneris" said: Can someone please explain this to me: “‘or’ does not, in and of itself, exclude the possibility of ‘both.’ Thus, if a rule states, ‘F or G will be assigned to Y,’ it is entirely possible that both F and G can be assigne…
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@theo1106 said: For conclusions that are along the lines of "this theory/explanation is wrong", I have a tough time keeping the entire idea in my head. For most questions, I will highlight just the conclusion. However, when I just highlight "t…
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I think it's important to distinguish between the "view" and the "argument [the stimulus] cites" in answer choice (D). What is the "argument it cites"? Well, do you notice that PT76 S2 Q19's conclusion is "We should reject this argument."? That a…
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Could you describe a bit more your own process for reviewing logic games? Exactly what do you do when you sit down to study/practice logic games? Do you re-do games that you've found confusing or solved inefficiently? Also, can you write more abo…
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This isn't the first time we've seen that kind of question stem! Check out PT35 Game 1.
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Have you tried coming up with parallel arguments and parallel correct/trap answers for the questions that you got wrong or flagged? That can be a great way to solidify your understanding of the exact issue in the argument/answers that the LSAT was t…
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I don't know if this take is one that you've seen in the video explanation or the comments, but I've always viewed this question as centered on the way that the ranking is done. The stimulus states that the World Bank "assesses how difficult it is f…
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@u______u said: Thank you for the detailed response @KevinLuminateLSAT. If you could further spare some time to answer a couple more questions, I'd be very grateful. 1) Unless directly specified, shouldn't we always assume that …
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@dzxu88 @u______u @"J.Y. Ping"(tagged for his thoughts on the issue) Interpreting the conclusion as a statement about "some" pizzerias would solve the OP's issue. But I actually think there's another resolution that's better and addresses multiple…
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@dzxu88 Can you go into why you're doing the first sentence as "Restaurants that record -> Pizzeria". This is the underlying issue - there may be an additional meaning contained in this statement that you're overlooking. If you're solely thinkin…
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The best way to learn when and how to split is to try games over again in different ways. Take a game that you solved without splitting and try it again while looking for an opportunity to split. And maybe try it again while splitting based on a dif…
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@AJamal22 said: This is a great. Are there any weaken questions you know of throughout our practice where you have seen it be displayed and the correct answer is demonstrating inconsistency as opposed to weakening the support structure? I vi…
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@crustychikn said: The thing that always gets me is that for weakening questions I remember seeing that we shouldn't attack the premise / conclusion but for this example I feel like it's doing just that in a way. Can anybody please clarify thi…
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If you want a great example of the LSAT asking us to infer positive opinion even when, strictly speaking, the exact same passage seems consistent with a neutral opinion, check out PT48 Passage 2 (Louise Gluck) #12. I think this passage shows that th…
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Before I get into why passage A arguably does provide textual support for the author’s agreement with the duty of judicial sincerity, could you go into why you think PT52 rewards you for not viewing the author as implicitly endorsing the view they a…
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@paulpyrex One thing you might not have focused on is that in PT73.4.11, the second sentence, which describes the view of other people, refers to the entire first sentence with the language "this problem". So the other people's view is a comment on …
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The best way to improve at your level in LR and RC is to teach the exam. Perhaps you could start offering tutoring or find study buddies whose weaknesses are your strengths and try to answer every point of confusion they ask you about. Through teach…
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@"Cant Get Right" said: @KevinLuminateLSAT said: Can you elaborate? My view is that a particular statement can be necessary for the argument to be valid, sufficient for it to be valid, or both. But the word "assumption" has a parti…
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@"Cant Get Right" said: I’m not getting all the hating on sufficient assumptions. They are totally real assumptions which were identified as far back as Aristotle. They are a staple of formal logic, and necessary assumptions rely on their rela…
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I like these for science: Quanta Magazine - https://www.quantamagazine.org/ Nautilus _ https://nautil.us/
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In addition to the advice above, consider whether you're doing the easy/average games quickly enough. It's normal to feel overwhelmed by game with lots of variables or games that seem to require a lot of brute forcing - it's easier to manage that if…
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I think it'd help to reframe how you are thinking about success when you re-do games. It doesn't matter whether you know the correct answer from memory - that shouldn't detract from the value of doing the game because your goal is not merely getting…
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Check out Arts & Letters Daily: https://www.aldaily.com/ And the NY Review of Books: https://www.nybooks.com/
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One thing that I would add to your plan that I haven't seen is building in time to regularly re-review old mistakes. Take one study session every two weeks (or even every week) to review a collection of problems that you made mistakes on or had trou…
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This might be a bit nitpicky, but I think the term in the middle should be "Valid Argument" rather than "Conclusion". This is because when talking about whether a statement is a sufficient assumption and/or a necessary assumption, we're really speak…
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I suppose I really was just wondering mathematically what was going on. Seems like the averages must be done by people who go -0/-1 on the individual game, but not necessarily the whole section? Or something like that? If it's based on people who go…