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How to improve based on LR wrong answer patterns?Hi, friends!! Hope you are doing well. I have a question regarding LR study methods. I have done about 50+ PT, got the question type basics, and foun…
... your scoring vs goals and a ton of other ... around 10-15 PTs, and settling comfortably in the low ... weakness you can find, and a equally specific plan to ... cause issues across the board, most noticeably where? In flaw ... order to fix this, and Y criteria is how I ... -
Now why in the lawd’s name would the LSAT people do that?PT81.S2.Q22 Older tests actually tested logic. These new tests just rewards your ability to weed through a pile of sh!t and narrow it down to the …
... the needle ever so slightly and it weakens.
... can barely weaken at all, and it still is absolutely, without ... is it weakening? By showing effect without cause. Very loosely... it is ... 's the weakens the most and is therefore correct.
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Now why in the lawd’s name would the LSAT people do that?PT81.S2.Q22 Older tests actually tested logic. These new tests just rewards your ability to weed through a pile of sh!t and narrow it down to the …
... the needle ever so slightly and it weakens.
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and it still is absolutely, without ... is it weakening? By showing effect without cause. Very loosely... it is ... 's the weakens the most and is therefore correct.
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148 to 169-170 PTs - 20 point increase is not Impossible/some adviceI just got 169 and 170 back to back after plateauing for a while after my previous 169. Do not give up folks, you got this. When I started in January…
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and its almost always a parallel structure/flaw question.)< ... Pay attention to subjective language and definite vs indefinite claims. A ... to subjective language (Some and Most relationships in the Core ... -
PT15.S3.Q23 - Asbestos is a silent killer (Still in need of second opinion!)Could a kind 7sager double-check my logic? After reading the argument, I thought it was well-supported. If it is in fact a poor argument, could someo…
... gap in the logic and asked myself: "who ... an AC that eliminated that flaw. In that sense, ... B almost helps patch that flaw but clearly falls short. ... easily wear safety gear and the government could tear ... doesn't that cause a health risk? and should I understand ... -
PT15.S3.Q23 - Asbestos is a silent killer (Still in need of second opinion!)Could a kind 7sager double-check my logic? After reading the argument, I thought it was well-supported. If it is in fact a poor argument, could someo…
... down, gas station sushi... no effect.
B - Asbestos ... without protective gear. Obvious, and sure this strengthens under the ... it.
> And does D weaken the argument ... the time cause the asbestos to be disturbed (and thereby cause a ... -
PT15.S3.Q23 - Asbestos is a silent killer (Still in need of second opinion!)Could a kind 7sager double-check my logic? After reading the argument, I thought it was well-supported. If it is in fact a poor argument, could someo…
... down, gas station sushi... no effect.
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> > And does D weaken the argument ... the time cause the asbestos to be disturbed (and thereby cause a ... -
PT10.S4.Q23 - What is answer choice B saying?I thought the flaw in the argument was assuming that because half the total population was wiped out, that meant a good percentage of able-bodied peo…
... are given seemingly conflicting premises and tasked with identifying 4 answers ... br /> >
> Yes, and also just because something was ... ... it doesn't have to cause a resolution. It just has ... B only talks about one effect of emigration on the labor ... -
LR pattern of getting 2nd half of section wrong...Please help me understand why?!I've noticed that when I practice questions on LR I consistently get the harder half wrong and the easier half right. Does any one have advice for ho…
... subtle the assumption and how abstract the language and topic. However, ... between the premise and conclusion still holds and picking an answer ... phenomenon is not present the effect is not present. these are ... where they repeat ACs is flaw they repeat ACs there a ... -
PT2.S2.Q23 - NA QuestionHi guys, I've been using the negation test as I go through the answer choices. I've been able to pinpoint why E is correct and why most of the ot…
... is it? Unsafe enough to cause asthma? or maybe just ... " has different degrees and "unsafe enough to cause asthma" is only ... frequently, especially on the parallel flaw questions (from my view though ... to parallel flaw). You asked a fantastic question and it has ... -
What made LR click for you? struggling.I take the November test and I'm still missing -12 to -15 on every LR section.
... stimulus, identify conclusion and support and if there is a ... argument type (like case effect argument) I label that ... dissecting/translating complicated arguments, and translating confusing answer choices. ... some question types (like flaw), it made it INFINTELY ... -
PT58.S1.Q11 & PT62.S4.Q19: Come on, where's the 7sage community! My post is getting ignored!I just couldn't anticipate the flaws with either of these questions and would like to know how people who got these correct went about doing them. My…
... hard to show NO connection, and the evidence just shows imperfect ... what I call a "structural flaw;" the terms will match up ... you are connecting.
And 62 is somewhat similar - because ... get pain, it couldn't cause pain in other people. Like ... -
How to distinguish minor flaws from major/main flaws?One of my biggest weaknesses at Flawed Method of Reasoning is distinguishing between a minor flaw and a major flaw in a stimulus that has multiple fl…
... including a less obvious flaw as the answer. But ... or righty is to cause an accident. The problem ... of the population but then cause 49% of accidents, they ... , because there is a flaw question asked, so you ... four wrong, and therefore there is ONLY one flaw in the ... -
ARC AC's -- Causal ArgumentsI seem to be confused on which questions types to expect Alternative-Reversal-Coincidence answer choices when dealing with a causal argument. Is thi…
... also commonly appear in Flaw questions and Necessary Assumption questions when the ... />
If it were a flaw question, the correct answer could ... confident that A doesn't cause B. And the correct answer could ... -
Do you hunt for specific question types in LR?While keeping track of my errors in LR I notice I'm more prone to making errors in questions that I would typically get right (PSA, SA, PF, PR) when …
... skip the Parallel Reasoning/Parallel Flaw questions and come back to them ... can be wordy and huge time sinks, and I never want my ... time on these questions to cause me ... -
⚖ Official March 2022 LSAT Discussion Thread ⚖Hey 7Sagers, Here's the official March 2022 LSAT Discussion Thread. REMINDER: Under your Candidate Agreement, you may not discuss the details o…
... issues? they kept disconnecting and connecting throughout my exam < ... />
Yes mine disconnected and cost me time. Also the ... has no effect on their life. They interrupted and cost me ... and retake the next one which would cause missing deadlines and ... -
Inferrences based on "the more Xs, the more Ys"Hi All, My question is: from "the more Xs, the more Ys", could I infer "the less Xs, the less Ys"? This inference seems neither a valid nor a…
... with or without the underlying cause, the statement establishes the relationship ... claims as to the underlying cause. It is simply saying ... C causing A and B style causation flaws, the flaw is mistaking ...
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Questions Similar to PT92 (#23/25)?Hi everyone, I just finished reviewing LR questions for PT92 and I had a really hard time with questions 23 and 25. After reviewing the video expl…
... in response to prep companies), and more on complex language/descriptive ... Mars, or more specifically the effect of a terrestrial environment on ... real issue with these questions and the later tests in ... good opportunity to revisit the flaw list to see if I ... -
PTB.S2.Q19 - Which one of the following could be..Hello, can someone please explain how answer choice C supports the conclusion and how D does not?
... have picked out is a "flaw" question, not a "support" ... It does not address the flaw in the argument; that is ... recognizes the possibility that computers and humans play chess differently. ... playing computer would have any effect on conceptions of human ... -
PT93.S3.Q12 - Columnist: Vagrancy laws are supposed to reduce criminal activity, but they don’t.Why is the correct answer E and not C? How is the answer not attributing vacancy laws to that increase when they say "...increase crime while purport…
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Here's the new and "improved" argument:
> ... as a more "cookie cutter" flaw: shift in meaning of a ... in criminal activity (idea 1) and the reclassification of certain occurrences ... in fact have the opposite effect. Last year alone, there ... -
Help: Time IssuesI know mine is not a unique problem, but I am wondering if anyone has advice. When I have the time to slowly go through each question, I have great a…
... about the relationship between sloppiness and your decision-making. When ... of speed, it's a cause. Good decision making makes for ... be something like a parallel flaw question where you're really ... means making reliably accurate assessments and then choosing to do ... -
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... possibility that B could instead cause A? In other words, would ... br /> Crying must have the effect of reducing stress
effect." Does "must have the effect" mean that crying ... /> Sorry for the lengthy questions and thanks in advance! -
PT F97.S3.Q18 - new record has been set for the number of murders committedCould someone help me understand how AC E counters the city officials response? On another note, I have a tendency to want to set off either the …
... could rectify the inductive flaw that the citizen originally made ... .
(C) Murders and violent crime generally are more ... here we get an alternative cause: Medical services improved, such ... between subsets like murders and supersets like violent crimey? ... -
PT8.S4.Q11 - a distemper virus has causedI don't get how (a) can strengthen the argument. It says "several species of shellfish and seabirds in the North Sea waters.." but how can being in t…
... a certain effect, on the grounds that only one cause would have ... been insufficient to bring this effect about ... to have a truly dramatic effect (reducing the seal populations by ... in the case of shellfish and seabirds. This makes it more ... -
The word "tends"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 traditi…
... statement is: Excessive yelling and/or screeching tends to ... flawed reasoning or parallel flaw statement. I have trouble ... correlation between liking mushrooms and enjoying watching movies, because ... that may have even introduced cause. That may be true ... -
Posting on Behalf of a 7Sage User: PT88.S4.Q24 - How is answer B correct?Hi, just got really confused on a particular LR question and hope I can get some help, thank you. The question I am talking about is the LR question …
... , and #2 developing PTSD) so it becomes less clear what the cause ... is vs the effect.
But ... being less stressed and less susceptible for PTSD and the biological function ... -
Help with identifying some flaws and necessary assumptions in an answer choiceI would like some help in identifying some ways in which the following passage could be flawed: both if it were to be modified and also as it is curr…
... the fungicide was not administered, and the infection went away on ... . nothing else can explain the effect
- insects who feasted ... /> 3. the cause is not being confused with the effect
PT1.S4.Q12 - A recent study found that snoring...Hi, I am still confused on how choice D doesn't weaken the argument? Choice A seems like a weak answer choice doesn't it?
... br /> - The cause is not being confused with the effect.
and the cause is not being confused with the effect.
and snoring is actually indicative of a common cause ... fact that smoking could cause snoring. Just because most ...PT F97.S1.Q14 - I am confused here as to why AC E does not workPrepTest February 1997 - Section 1 - Question 14 - AC E #help I am confused here as to why AC E does not work. Although I have my own reasons, I a…
... the effect observed in part 1 could have an alternate cause -- maybe ... are just more cautious drivers and, thus, they get in fewer ... and (2) happened the way it did. It's the real cause ... when it was made mandatory and, presumably, more people started doing ...Causal v. Conditional Logic (or Lawgic if you prefer)Can someone explain the difference--if there is one in fact--between causal and conditional relationships/statements? Seemingly, A causing B is the s…
... cause can reasonably lead to the absence or less of an effect ... 4-4 about air pollution and plant diseases (from the ... pollution during the Industrial Revolution and two plant diseases disappeared. ... diagramming that answer choice correctly, and if so, is that ...
