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Necessary Assumption QuestionsNecessary assumption questions are kicking my ass. If anyone has any resources or a way of teaching it to me I would be forever thankful. I understan…
Necessary assumption questions are kicking my ass. If anyone has any resources or a way of teaching it to me I would be forever thankful. I understand it in concept but when it comes to the questions I struggle a lot. -
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We will be following the schedule below, (This ... list, topics may be added depending on various ... Must be True
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Quick Could Be True Question A --> B -B --> -A Is the following possible (could be true)? -B --> -A --s-- B So basically, is it a possibility (could be true) for the n…
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-B --> -A ... possibility (could be true) for the necessary condition to sometimes be the logical opposite ... ; -A --x--> B could be true. ( --x--> meaning not necessarily ... -
Necessary Assumption Guaranteed Wrong AnswerThe video accompanying PT 73 S4 Q26 ruled out answer choice B because it included the conditional, "if." Will any necessary assumption answer cho…
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PT16.S3.Q12 - Retina ScannersPT16.S3.12 – Retina Scanners This argument deals with retina scanners, machines that scan the blood vessel patterns in people’s eyes and stores th…
... a necessary assumption for this argument, i.e. an assumption that must be true for ... I took this to be necessary for the conclusion to follow ... To make (B) a necessary condition, the conclusion would have ... However, (B) is not necessary for the way the conclusion ... -
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…
... the necessary assumption question stem. Necessary assumptions are assumptions that must be true if ... necessary assumption questions are asking us to find an assumption that must be true ... ) --> necessary assumption answer choice
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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…
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Validity and Must Be True Questions 11 lessons, 51m ... /> Sufficient Assumption & Pseudo Sufficient Assumption Questions 28 lessons ... 1.8h
Harder Must Be True Questions 5 lessons, 42m ... , 2.1h
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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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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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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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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…
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• In English ... we can say that it must be true that counting the number of ... horse will be the one to win the race. The necessary assumption here ... -
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…
... premise. There may be many potential sufficient assumptions. In Necessary assumption Qs, you ... are looking for what must be true.
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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 ... questions. Negation only works on necessary strengthen questions types, which I ... assumption depends on
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NA question typesI was wondering if anyone has found a way that works best to approach these question types? If so, PLEASE share.
... that properly and accurately solving Necessary Assumption questions requires the negation test ... they match with what could be true. But we don't know ... proposition that could be true or a proposition that must be true. And that, I ... -
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 necessary assumption, you must find the gap in reasoning ... and find what NEEDS to be true ... looking for what needs to be true in order for the ... you are showing that it must be true in order for the argument ... -
Necessary AssumptionsSomeone please help, I still do not know how to do these question types. I have reviewed the curriculum many times, but it is still not sticking. A…
... necessary assumption doesn't have to strengthen an argument, so you may be ... are) a bunch of necessary assumptions that must be true for an argument to ... also a bunch more necessary assumptions that must be true for this argument! For ... -
Dat Inconsistency Doe.Hello everyone. So I've been studying for the LSAT daily since the beginning of May. I plan on taking the October 3rd LSAT, and my diagnostic was …
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For ... each argument has multiple potential necessary assumptions, and once you ... understand what necessary means then it will be easy for ... them. Think of what must be true if the argument has any ... -
Prep Test 48 LR1 #20Researcher: We have found that some cases of high blood pressure can be treated effectively with medicine. Since it is generally accepted that any il…
... why this isn't a necessary assumption is because the conclusion is ... medicine not being able to be treatable through the reduction ... stress. Because HBP can be treated by something other than ... some HBP must not be caused by stress. But, it must be true that the ... -
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... big leap to make the assumption that just because someone ... for this question would be somewhat understandable if it ... according to the LSAC it MUST BE TRUE, from above, that:
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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…
... the particular collection of paintings must be by a wide satiety ... tricky. We only know what must be true for a writers' first ... t think is a safe assumption to make. What if ... because those conditions would only be necessary for the novelists' first nonfiction ... -
Flaw questions masked as NA questionsI was just wondering how I can automatically pick up on when a flaw question is really a necessary assumption question in disguise. Do arguments with…
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Necessary Assumption questions ask "which of the ... must be true in order for the conclusion of the argument to be true. It must be ... something that is necessary for ... looking for the flaw to be articulated.
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…
... mislabeled as a Sufficient Assumption. It's a Necessary Assumption all day long ... question where they use both "must be true" and "be properly drawn", and fell ... that "must be true" makes it by definition a "necessary" assumption - don't be tricked by ...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…
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Necessary Assumption: What must be true if the ... it is a necessary/required assumption)
Sufficient Assumption: What must be true in order ...NA totally wrecks meWhat is everyone doing to conquer NA? I have a really difficult time on these questions...I'm thinking maybe I need to go back to the curriculum, bu…
I think of Necessary Assumption as "subtle and weak missing ... 's compare NA to Sufficient Assumption (SA). SA are usually ... not have to be true (it is not a MUST be TRUE) answer choice. It ... that is required, needed, absolutely must be true. If not, it will wreck ...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…
... to make the conclusion a necessary assumption in a conditional and then ... affirm the sufficient then the necessary must be true (Woah, that’s a really ... “only if” introduces a necessary assumption. That’s why those two ...PT66.S2.Q04 - traditional "talk" therapyAre "pharmacological intervention in the brain's neurochemistry" and"chemical changes in the brain" meaning the same thing? They are interchangeable?…
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The "tried and true" method for Necessary Assumption questions is negating the ... the answer choice must be true. Remember a necessary assumption by nature must hold if the ... based on this, physicians will be able to improve patients behavior ...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…
... another example of a necessary and sufficient condition ... conclusion that the necessary bridge that must be true is also something ... br /> A necessary and sufficient answer choice would be something like " ... over 1-3 star necessary assumption questions to get a ...Do you guys draw in the margins during LR?Recently I have been having a lot of success during exercises for LR. This, to me, is a miracle since it was my weakness and what hampered me from br…
... and doesn't have to be done for every stimulus with ... , the comfort of knowing what must be true by reference to a diagram ... effort.
There might be some people that can do ... mind before I answer a necessary assumption.
Keep up ...How to Improve My Logic ReasoningHi everyone, I'm taking the LSAT on Feb 19 and I'm start to panic a bit. For each practise LSAT I've taken my Logical Reasoning scores hover aroun…
... an LR section can be immensely fruitful as well. ... should be aligned as such 'this is a necessary assumption question, ... to guarantee success on these questions I must ... or 'this is a must be true question, to guarantee to ...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 ... an NA is not true, is a world where ... What a profoundly subtle, yet necessary assumption on that question..
... to be so simple that the necessary assumption will be the sufficient assumption. For ...
