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@"Dillon A. Wright" Could you add me as well? Thanks!
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@cal6005 said: I'm going to miss the grind of studying and constantly striving to improve. I'm in the same boat. I have a full time job, and there were many days of work, LSAT, sleep, repeat. I kind of got used to and maybe "liked" the routine, b…
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Thanks @hlsat180 and @quinnxzhang!
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@quinnxzhang said: the conditional is either unsupported or else subtly irrelevant. Ah, there's the rub. The key problem is the assumption: Micro Depleted --> No Micro, because "No Micro" could mean "long enough to harm health" or "for a seco…
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@quinnxzhang said: The stimulus doesn't allow us to conclude this. Thanks for the comment. I thought the last sentence covered this? "micronutrients...which are depleted when grass clippings are raked up..." Another way to say that is "when gras…
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@runiggyrun Thanks! I was wondering what PT-A meant...Was more expecting a number, but this makes sense.
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@runiggyrun said: Nope. That's still the same mistake; only now you applied erroneously only it once, so you arrived to a different conclusion. If many=some, then C, being "NOT SOME films from the earliest years have already been transferred" wou…
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@runiggyrun said: you actually arrived to the right form of the negation of answer C: "no movies have been transferred to acetate". Thanks for the comments, but let me take my words back. I was lazy and didn't reference the actual language of C, b…
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"Not many old movies have already been transferred to acetate" If many = some, then this should be the same as "SOME old movies have NOT been transferred to acetate" (logically equivalent to above). The negation of this second sentence is "ALL old…
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I think a better way to represent this is: many --> some but, some --> many is wrong.
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@stepharizona I think the point of this thread is to say that they are NOT the same. Because if you treat them as the same, you will probably run into trouble. An example is PT62 S4 Film Preservation question, in which one of the trap answer is "…
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Conceptually. If curriculum is limited to true literary text, then "true literary text" becomes the necessary condition: Curriculum -> True Literary Text (All materials in the curriculum must be true literary text) But, the argument says the cu…
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Nice dude!
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Thanks all for the comment. @BackoftheEnvelope and @quinnxzhang I also begin to realize that many is not the same as some in the LSAT context. PT 62 S4 (towards the end, the film preservation question) also relies on the many and some distinction…
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As a sidenote, what is the negation of "few"? ...many?.... lol
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Thanks all for the comments, but I'm still not sure. First of all, I'm pretty sure I read somewhere (possibly on 7Sage) that many = some. If I think about it, it also makes sense. What is the definition of "many"? It's not zero. It's at least one a…
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Hey thanks for the comments @"Ron Swanson" and @runiggyrun, that's exactly my mindset. Anyways, will be BRing in the next two days. The raw score should be pretty bad, but hopefully the BR score is promising. Thanks!
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I wonder what's the rationale for this strategy? I always mark, and it helps me to 1) understand the passage and the relationship of sentences, and 2) find the relevant section if I need to re-read for any particular question.
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@quinnxzhang, @"Jonathan Wang" Great comments. I absolutely agree. I think Jonathan nailed it with the "all the information is in front of you." If you get it wrong, it's really because you still got to sharpen your skills. Having that realization …
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@quinnxzhang said: I would certainly not tell someone PTing in the 174-175 range that there's nothing more they can do If I may, what would you tell them? I think most people progress linearly, i.e. from -10 to -6 to -4 to -1 on any given section…
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@quinnxzhang said: Consistently scoring in that range suggests that the person has room for improvement on the subtle, curve-breaker questions. This is the point of the thread - how do you improve on the curve-breaker questions? Is it just a matte…
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Thanks! Yeh my GPA is higher than 3, but still lower than the top school's median, so still a chance! @runiggyrun - this is exactly what I was looking for. I think you hit the nail on the head. I'm gradually coming to the conclusion that I still do…
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@"Nicole Hopkins" - Thanks! I know, I'm not actually aiming for a perfect score, just above 175, which I'm not at yet. For me, most of the questions I miss are the curve-breakers (level 4-5 on 7Sage), which to me means that I'm missing something abo…
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@Serveded Absolutely! Tell me more about your pain points: 1) where are you missing most of the questions? LR? BR? or LG? 2) Within that section, what's the most prominent problem? (e.g. for me, it was recognizing the flaw in LR for awhile). And 3…
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Actually, an even better question is: how exactly did you move from -1 and -2 to -0? Did you realize something new about the test? Were you able to see the flaw in LR more clearly? Or was it simply repetition (most of the new questions you see appea…
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Thanks @quinnxzhang! You're probably right - I do need a change of mentality. Based on your experience, were you able to miss less simply by doing more PTs, BR, and review?
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Many thanks! This is a great example to illustrate the point.
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Thanks for the inputs! That settles it then. I was afraid that one LSAT question would have in answer choices: A) Confuse a necessary condition for a sufficient condition Confuse a sufficient condition for a necessary condition
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Awesome. Many thanks for the clarification!
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Precisely my thoughts. Thanks!