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Cheat Sheet - LR question typesFor LR reasoning is there a cheat sheet out there that summarizes all the strategies by question type?
... observes co-variance: CORRELATION DOES NOT IMPLY CAUSATION
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"Neither Nor" LG Conditional RulesAs I've been taking practice tests, I've come across several LG rules that use "neither...nor" language as a conditional. For example: if X then neit…
I believe it would be translated: If X then not Y AND not Z. The neither/nor language means if you have X you cannot have y AND you cannot have Z. -
Splitting GameboardsI often have a difficult time determining when I should split gameboards. Are there any indicators you guys rely on? Sometimes JY does it and other t…
... to do so or to not. But as far as more ... no-brainers. If you have two or more "if X, then Y" statements ... that may not have otherwise been an issue. I cannot think of ... offer a near-complete but not entirely complete representation of where ... -
PT58.S1.Q25 - if a wig has any handmadeI have a question on negation. On prep test 58 section 1 question 25. the line Handmade foundations are never found on wigs that do not use human h…
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You cannot just simply negate the clause ... would diagram this as "if Cat, then not dog". That is, you ... be incorrect to say "if not cat then dog" which is what ... second.
If handmade foundation, then not not human hair.
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Letters of Rec -- who to ask?How's it going. One of the people that I plan to ask for a letter from does not have his PhD. He's taught two of my classes; he's a grad student wher…
... reason why it's not advised is because the ... with cliches and platitudes then it's going to ... academic/work ability that cannot be gleaned from your ... GPA much hardwerker" then it's largely (if not entirely) going ... level of academic work then you'll have yourself ... -
PT18.S2.Q23 - teachers are effective only whenhttps://7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-18-section-2-question-23/ Here is my conditional reasoning: teachers are effective ------> when they hel…
... (because Y cannot occur without it, hence the not until). And ... it also means that if C doesn't occur, then ... Y cannot occur either! Because not ...
Not until TPIC can they ESMD. So, if /TPIC then /ESMD, or ... -
Why are LSAT scores given so much weight for admissions decisions?Dear JY, I love your website. The explanations for the logical games are carefully thought out and well presented. I wished I knew about your web…
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Not true. They will review it and then ding you if there ... ) as late as the week if not the day before classes start ... . If you are a URM then this can shift down slightly but not ... this griping is not going to change anything. You cannot change the ... -
Trying out something new... thoughts?Hello All: Quick preface: 1. I am taking the Dec. 2015 LSAT. 2. I started at 132 3. average PT score is 152/154 4. Target Score: ANYTHING over…
... strategy. You cannot improve at RC if your skills do not improve, ... just as good as, if not better than, what he ... do 3 passages, and then 4. You can't ... well. If the goal is the December LSAT, then of course ... be doing this. But then again, if the goal is the ... -
76.4.11: A person who knowingly brings about misfortune...From the stimulus, I got two conditional statements: 1) knowingly brings about misfortune --> should be blamed 2) not knowingly brings about misfor…
... ’ve got #1 right…If one Knowingly brings about misfortune ... the example ”if the person could not have reasonably foreseen ... “realized” when “thought about” then that “something” is “reasonably ... whether she is or not. We cannot logically conclude anything. Wrong ... -
How long did it take to master the fundamentals?Been going through the curriculum now for roughly 4 weeks. A lot of people want to know how long does it take to improve their score by X amount. S…
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If so, then will only getting to PT ... score?
If you simply cannot get caught back up ... accuracy to a comfortable level. Then start speeding it up. ... The caution that goes into not PTing before you're ready ... -
What to do when you can't find an answer on BRSo today, for what might be the first time, I could not even guess what the answer to a question was on BR. It's PT 60, S1, Q21. I've gone over the q…
If you have exhausted every method, then take an educated guess. ... certain to certain are incorrect. Then, provide your best guess for ... find the correct answer. If you still cannot pick the correct AC ... correct AC. More importantly, do not stop until you are able ... -
PT18.S2.Q23 - teachers are effective only whenhttps://7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-18-section-2-question-23/ Here is my conditional reasoning: teachers are effective ------> when they hel…
... if we translated the until statement in the other way and then ... an AND, but we could not then return to an all arrow ... learned through experience that it cannot be then returned to an all ... negative, which others noted above. If we read the sentence leaving ... -
LSAT - Where to start<b>Background</b> Just a little background for a moment, I am about to enter my third year of undergrad at a school with an 85% acceptance rate ( D:…
... if you’re aiming for a 180, you really cannot ... determine your test date, not the other way around. ... Harvard (and everywhere else if you bang out a 180 ... 5.5 months, then great. If you’re not, then that’s fine ... any kind if you aren’t ready by then. For the ... -
Sufficiency and necessity vs Premise and conclusion.What is the overlap between these two concepts? It seems like answer choices need to be on a certain side of the arrow to be correct.
... i.e. "if P, then Q" is valid if and only if "P. Therefore ... then. Only that it has not occured. And we cannot conclude something if ... it is not in ... **** about something but im not exactly sure what. ahaha. -
Sufficient Assumption QuestionsSo overall, I either suck terribly at the SA questions during the PT process where I spend too much time on mapping out the lawgic or when I go over …
... to map a question or not. If your eyes don't ... shorter amount of time. If it does not, then I recommend being relentlessly ... question because skipped it. If I cannot point to the exact variables ... I map only because I cannot understand the reasoning from looking ... -
Chart skeptic's challenge: show me a game for which a chart definitely saves timeI've just gone through the "Grouping Games with a Chart" lessons, and for each of the four games -- two in the lessons and two in the problem set -- …
... JY did is a chart? If so, then indeed, let's use ... ) to indicate that they cannot contain anything; no? If not, what's the ... -
Q. 5 of Quiz on drawing valid conclusions with translation 3In JY's breakdown of this statement: <blockquote>All dinosaurs that hunt its prey can run, swim and fly. Dinosaurs that cannot run, cannot swim or ca…
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Dinosaurs that cannot run, cannot swim or cannot fly are easy to ... />
Hey, so I could not find the lesson you were ... . But consider this scenario. If "C" then D. And lets say I ... you, that "D" does not exist. So if we take a look ... -
PT20.S4.Q25 - marianne is a professional chess playerDespite reviewing JY's explanation (https://7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-20-section-4-question-25/), I don't understand why answer choice (C) is …
... . So then why can't answer choice (C)s "Not all" ... of things which "A" cannot help us make a conclusion ... Involuntary
Conclusion: Therefore not responsible for it in future ... :
our premise says if unaware then involuntary (/A ------>/V)
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... here do not apply. If the fire alarm IS NOT QUIET, then the conditionals ... a sufficient condition indicator (unless = if not). So even before this conditional ... QUIET, then we are missing a piece of sufficiency and cannot trigger ...Logic Games : [Never Together/Always Together] v. [Not Both] Rule ConfusionHello, During In-Out Games, I am consistently getting confused between the Not Both Rule and the Biconditional (Always Together/Never Together) R…
... second rule states "Bill 1 cannot be paid on the same ... exactly once. Then they tell us 1 and 5 cannot be paid ... contrapositives, if not B2, then it's not A1, but what does not B2, not A1 ... & 5 cannot paid together in the same day, then it's ...Does anyone else think that the recent PT LR Qs punish prephrases?Ok, I might be exaggerating when I say "punish prephrases," but I noticed that the prephrases, especially for the flaw/ assumption type questions, do…
... to the actual question and then I realized that I ... relationship that ONLY volcanos (and not meteors) can cause craters ... contrapositive of my prephrase. If it can cause craters different ... ; must be volcanos. If not a volcano -> cannot cause them. Therefore, ...Does anyone else think that the recent PT LR Qs punish prephrases?Ok, I might be exaggerating when I say "punish prephrases," but I noticed that the prephrases, especially for the flaw/ assumption type questions, do…
... to the actual question and then I realized that I actually ... relationship that ONLY volcanos (and not meteors) can cause craters ... ; must be volcanos. If not a volcano -> cannot cause them. Therefore, ... the end then keep doing it. If it doesn't, then it might ...PT37.S2.Q12 - one cannot prepare a good meal from bad foodI don't get the explanation for why A is right. All we know is that do produce a good meal you can't have bad food. That would seem to imply that you…
... food with bad soil. And if so, you can possibly produce ... and "not good" (i.e. bad).
Good meals cannot be ... produced from "not good" food, you are ... conditional chain above right? If so, then you just need to revisit ...What Must be True, Could Be True, Cannot Be True - Conditional ReasoningHi! I have been working in the core curriculum for some time and there is something that I am not quite clear about conditional reasoning and its …
... something that I am not quite clear about conditional ... a word?) to **IF NOT** B **THEN NOT** A. I know ... about **IF NOT** B **THEN** A? Is this a cannot be true ... If we conclude that if you are not a B then you must not ... be an A (only B's are A's), then if ...Separation principle?The definition is "if two variables cannot be next to one another, there must be at least one space separating them", and the equation is Total slots…
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So I am not sure where the definition is ... do not know what w/i might mean. But if two variables cannot ... /> If Strawberry went in spot 2
Then we know that Butterscotch cannot ... this helped answer your question. If not, I would be happy to ...PT June 2007.S2.Q22 - editorialist: news mediaSharing this because while eliminating AC E, I was forced to question the difference between causation and sufficiency as well as the danger of using…
... one sentence: If A causes B, then you know that if you don ... , then you won't have A, but you cannot infer that not having ... B will _cause_ not having A ... cause B, then you can't even infer that if not B, then not A.]" i only work on tuesday " in lawgic**only** is a group 2 indicator. So in lawgic it would be T->W ?
... in this fashion. It's not truly ambiguous -- the actual meaning ... cannot fairly read "I only work on Tuesday" as "If Work -> then ... Tuesday" if we follow the rules ... drills, too. But I have not seen this error on the ...Valid vs. Invalid ArgumentsSo I think i'm confused at how these are different. I completely understand the definitions of valid and invalid arguments. I'm just confused at how …
... structure that says: If A then B. A **_valid ... are given If A then B, we are then provided with ... a foundation that does not support the conclusion provided, ... a mammal therefore...? We cannot work backwards after we ... that orca whales are not cats) but rather by ...PT34.S4.G4 - each of exactly six doctorsI've watched the explanation for this video...but one of the conditional statements still has me confused. Basically, J.Y combined a /J and a J, to m…
... ). If not in 'S', then in 'J;' If not in 'J' then in 'S'....etc. They cannot ... to imply if not at 's' then at 'r'; if not at 'r', then at 's ... /> to represent: "If J is in (s) then, K is not in (s ... />
to represent: "If J is not in (s), then O is in ...Question on validity of arguementsIf the conclusion does not HAVE to be true, then the argument is invalid?
... not follow from the stated premises. If a conclusion is stated which cannot ... ,
"If the conclusion does not HAVE to be true, then the argument ... ., if the conclusion is not entailed/cannot be inferred from the premise(s), then ...
