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Would /F and /J be an "or" sufficient condition or an "and" sufficient condition for /M?M → F /J → /M _______ /M I took the contrapositive of M > F which got me /F > /M Then I inferred that /F **or** /J would net me /M. Which me…
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Difference b/t sufficient and necessary assumption questions (formal logic)It really helps me understand the concepts of assumption questions by looking at it formally. Could someone check my logic? So say we have a premi…
... asking us to find an assumption that must be true so that the existing ... out, sometimes, the sufficient assumption is also the necessary assumption. Often, that happens ... /lesson/how-to-find-the-sufficient-assumption/
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For October test just 100 days left really panicI feel great pressure and can't even sleep well at night. My aim is above 170 and now I am around actual 155, BR 165. Can I really reach my goal on t…
... br /> Validity and Must Be True Questions 11 lessons, 51m ... .1h
Sufficient Assumption & Pseudo Sufficient Assumption Questions 28 lessons, ... .8h
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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?
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Must Be True answers must be based on information in ... /> SA
Sufficient assumption questions contain an argument that ... and sufficient assumption for the conclusion to be valid. ... /> 1. That, if true, would definitely, 100%, ... -
Cheat Sheet - LR question typesFor LR reasoning is there a cheat sheet out there that summarizes all the strategies by question type?
... questions should be “gimmies” on the LSAT
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what order do you watch the videos and is Coursera helpful for LR?Hello everyone! I'm curious the order you watch the videos. I prefer to watch all Reading comp, then all Logic Reasoning, and finally all logic…
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k. More MBT and Must Be False ... Advanced Logic
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Necessary Assumption fuck-upsSo in my mind I attack NA questions pretty methodically: negating each answer choice and determining which one wrecks the argument, while also taking…
... , we can say that it must be true that counting the number of ... year.
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Necessary AssumptionsHello! I feel like I ask a LOT of questions, but oh well. Necessary assumptions. I'm having trouble with them. I've been through how they're explain…
... an assumption which is sufficient to allow the conclusion to be drawn ... . There may be many potential sufficient assumptions. In Necessary assumption Qs, you ... are looking for what must be true ... -
Valid vs Invalid Argument formsI was wondering what's the purpose in memorizing all 9 valid argument form and all 7 invalid argument forms? Is it mainly for Parallel and Parallel F…
... anything needs to be diagrammed. It certainly can be useful for Parallel ... be more time-consuming than others, but other question types like Must Be True ... (MBT) and Sufficient Assumption (SA) often use such ... -
To Lawgic or not to LawgicThat is the question. I have found that JY will sometimes ignore logical indicator language in a stimulus (always, the only, unless, etc...) for no r…
... ) Parallel questions
3) Sufficient Assumption questions
For ... need to know what must be true, meaning you need to ... br />
For sufficient assumption questions, you would use ... answer choices to fulfill the sufficient gap.
strengthen questionsI am really confused on strengthen LR questions (assumption family). So I learned that if you attack strengthen questions fhe same way as "must be tr…
... questions the same way as 'must be true' questions it will screw you ... assumption depends on
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The conclusion can validly be ... if it's necessary or sufficient you're looking for important ...Weekly Goal-Setting & Accountability ThreadHi everyone, I'm taking somewhat of an LSAT hiatus for March (school, it happens) but I'm going to start a goal-setting/accountability thread here…
... 's a Monday, this would be the perfect time to start ... )
- Move onto Validity and Must Be True Questions + do Cambridge packet after ... Forms (Fri/Sat)
- Start Sufficient Assumption & Pseudo Sufficient Assumption Questions (Sun)LR: Strengthen, Sufficient, or RequiredI am really struggling on making these distinct. I can recognize the stems, but the answers are gnarly for me. Any advice? I am going through the…
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-For sufficient assumption, you need to figure ... be sufficient to guarantee that the argument would work.
-For necessary assumption ... , you must find the gap in ... are showing that it must be true in order for the ...Diagramming Conditionals without indicator wordsSo I'm two months into studying for the Oct. LSAT and am working on improving my accuracy regarding necessary assumption questions. I encountered 2 p…
... of all, this is a sufficient assumption question, not a NA, so ... a software is successful, it must be true that it does not DMU ... and 2, along with a sufficient assumption, to prove 3:
< ... /PPBS-->/S, is out sufficient assumption! It allows us to prove ...Most strongly supported vs Most helps to justifyHello all, Something I'm having a little difficulty with is differentiating "most strongly supported" vs "most helps to justify" questions. I …
... are more closely aligned with Must Be True (MBT) questions. Both of these ... as JY calls them, "Pseudo Sufficient Assumption" questions and are more closely ... your run-of-the-mill Sufficient Assumption questions. These types of questions ...Conditional Answer Choices for STRENGTHEN/WEAKENHi thanks in advance if anyone can help. How should I deal with conditional answer choices in strengthen and weaken questions. Does it matter if the …
... argument valid in Sufficient Assumption questions or necessary with Must Be True questions.
... discipline subscription decisions should be determined solely by a ... . If that statement is true, then the number of ... but I wanted to be thorough. I can get ...Are these valid arguments, and how do I properly diagram them? (Please help)1. People with long legs make good runners. Everyone in Ashley's family has long legs. Therefore, Ashley would make a good runner. (I think it's a ba…
... particular collection of paintings must be by a wide ... We only know what must be true for a writers' first ... think is a safe assumption to make. What ... those conditions would only be necessary for the novelists ... first novel. The sufficient condition is not about ...PT 61.S2.Q3 - political administrationI did not understand the explanation in the video. I diagrammed the following based on my understanding. ES and PIL ---> OS PIL ---> OS/e …
... must be true question, and I think you thought this was a sufficient assumption ... /> Since this is a must be true question, and we only have ... choice C says. It must be true given our conditional statement ... way there. Why must it be true that we are ...PT3.S2.Q04 - a work of architectureI'm having a hard time understanding how this answer choice follows logically from the premises.
... realized that this is a must be true inference question, and so you ... in line with how a sufficient assumption question is done, where you ... is a MBT not a sufficient assumption, and the way you are ... solve is a method for sufficient assumption I think.Narrowed down my weaknessHello everyone, I have narrowed down my weakness in LR section to Flaw, PFlaw and SA questions. Mostly getting these questions wrong. I was wondering…
... answer) then C (conclusion) must be true.
Example. Birds have ... the conclusions, so you must be able to correctly identify which ... they are not. The sufficient assumption will bridge that gap.
must be buying fewer SUV's ...PT8.S4.Q21 - so-called environmentalists have arguedThis is a sufficient assumption question but one of the forums I read to understand answer choice (A) explained that NEGATING (A) would demonstrate i…
... as a Sufficient Assumption. It's a Necessary Assumption all day ... I might not have paid sufficient attention, but think I've ... "must be true" makes it by definition a "necessary" assumption - don't be tricked ... confusing it with a sufficient assumption.Assumptions and a peculiar patternOkay let me just start from the start. My cold diagnostic was a 145 (June 2007). Since then I've studied for about a month and a half taking a PT sco…
... is a necessary/required assumption)
Sufficient Assumption: What must be true in order for ... the argument in the stimulus to be ...Logical ReasoningI used to be great at LR getting anywhere from 3-4 questions wrong per section. Now I have actually been getting worse at it and improved drastically…
... answer choices clearly.
Assumption questions are definitely up there ... for the LSAT. Be able to differentiate NA vs. SA question types ... /> For NA, that answer choice MUST BE TRUE to make the argument VALID ...LR Question Justify the conclusionAn argument states that: Maria won this year's sailboat race by beating Sue, who has in each of the four last years. We can conclude from this that M…
... a necessary assumption in a conditional and then affirm the sufficient. If ... we affirm the sufficient then the necessary must be true (Woah ... answer choices, "if" introduces a sufficient assumption and “only if” introduces a ...PT55.S1.Q12 - Example of NA answer choice that is also SufficientJon's conditional breakdown shows an example of how the answer choice has to be sufficient based on the argument... https://7sage.com/lsat_explanati…
... example of a necessary and sufficient condition within a single ... that the necessary bridge that must be true is also something that ... A necessary and sufficient answer choice would be something like "No ... over 1-3 star necessary assumption questions to get a ...Tips for Quickly Eliminating Answer Choices (PR, Strengthen, Assumptions)Hey All, Over the past few months, since I began my LSAT journey, I've accumulated a few tips on how to quickly eliminate answer choices for Paral…
... if the goal of a sufficient assumption is to bridge the gap ... location (Negated Conclusion) then it must be true that AC is incorrect. So ... you think this strategy can be fruitful given the time constraints ...Does anyone have any NA advice to make it clickI am scoring somewhere between -4 to -6 on LR now (yesterday I had a -11 but I was frenzied and used the "5" setting on the 7sage proctor when I alre…
... Something that as given must be true and apply to the argument ... where an NA is not true, is a world where ... simple that the necessary assumption will be the sufficient assumption. For an example ... that has an assumption that is also sufficient, an application ...Conditional vs CasualHi, I am having a hard time differentiating between a cause and effect and a conditional statement. Would anyone have tips or tricks?
... , this might explain why Must Be True, Most Strongly Supported, Sufficient Assumption questions, etc., make ... than what it takes to be deductively true. Again, think science. How ... that would have to be done would be to provide repeated instances ...Struggling with Necessary Assumption QuestionsOk, so I am almost done with the NA portion of the CC and I am lost. I am hit and miss on the "assumption" made in each question. While understanding…
... assumption. It's not like Sufficient assumption where you have to be ... with questions like Nec. assumption where there are a ... will not always be the case and it ... Must Be True questions. If something is a necessary assumption, then you know it must be true ...is that if A, then not B, and A or B, but not both the same thing?is that if A, then not B, and A or B, but not both the same thing?
... most), you're attaching an assumption (that "must" is a necessary part ... is true, but not both". There isn't an assumed "must", ... = It must be true that we "can" have one, and it must be true that we ... but it must be true that we "can" have one. The can vs. will ...
