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Answer choices with sufficient/necessary confusionI always freeze when I read answer choices that say "takes a necessary condition to be a sufficient condition". I know in the abstract what they eac…
I always freeze when I read answer choices that say "takes a necessary condition to be a sufficient condition". I know in the abstract what they each are, but thinking through applying them as flaws is very difficult for me. Any tips? -
Sufficient AssumptionCan someone please help me with sufficient assumption questions. I’m really struggling with them.
Can someone please help me with sufficient assumption questions. I’m really struggling with them. -
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…
... plan to finish all the question at Week 4.
Sufficient Assumption & Pseudo Sufficient Assumption Questions 28 lessons, ... 42m
Sequencing Games with a Twist 20 lessons, ... , 2.1h
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Improving on LR tipsHi guys, June 2014 LSAT test is a month away, and many of us probably still need to improve on all of the three LSAT sections. I have noticed f…
... difficult questions (basically any question later than #15 in ... choose an assumption that is sufficient when the question is asking ... us for an assumption that is necessary ... can't do something with them because we have ... -
The Hardest LR Question of All Time - Preptest 29 Number 17 LR Studies of the reliability of eyewitnOk, I am joking about this being the hardest LR question of all time. Of course, there have been harder questions, but for some reason, this one took…
... argument has a conclusion with a relatively weak ... that often function as sufficient assumptions (PT 54 S2 ... />
In answering your question "Why would police officers disallow ... strengthening, or providing a necessary assumption, simply makes it less ... -
Cheat Sheet - LR question typesFor LR reasoning is there a cheat sheet out there that summarizes all the strategies by question type?
... 7. Pseudo-sufficient Assumption Questions:
- Very similar to sufficient assumption questions in that ... being asked to engage with the question and describe where the ... a similar flaw
16. Necessary Assumption Questions
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Will an answer choice in Assumption Questions ever repeat the conclusion or a premise?I suppose the title is self-explanatory, but I ran across a question in particular (LSAT 58, Section 4, Question 21) regarding lottery winners and te…
... you have a question that asks for a necessary or sufficient assumption of the ... . This is easy to see with sufficient assumption questions that "bridge the gap ... work. Drilling a bunch of necessary assumption questions should help illuminate exactly ... -
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…
... necessary assumption, no argument.
• Necessary Assumption questions present you with ... a sufficient assumption, it’s not a necessary assumption. Given ... necessary assumption questions protect your argument from being wrecked.
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Freaking Out with Later PTs!Hi All, With the October test fast approaching, I've been doing the PTs in the late 60s (think 65-69). Before that I had done every test from 35-5…
... of chapters dedicated to Assumption questions, so it clarified ... with the 7sage enrollments, you get a ton of question ... per question. I haven't missed a Necessary or Sufficient Assumption question in ... common (the most common?) question type. Hopefully this is ... -
Making Progress in LR before December LSATHello everyone! I am desperately looking for advice on how to improve my LR score. I have been studying on and off for my LSAT over the past 2 yea…
Some question types are more foundational than ... that you have to do with probably 90% of questions is ... have a feel for the assumption that the argument is making ... on main point questions and sufficient/necessary assumption questions. The other questions use ... -
Doubt in necessary assumptionI was reading the Trainer and I came through a simple example "She does not consume too much caffeine because she only drinks one cup of coffee a da…
... you are giving is a Sufficient Assumption. With the two premises, ( ... It's not a Necessary assumption because, while the negation ... answer for a weakening question) it doesn't destroy ... " limit.
A necessary assumption always destroys the argument when ... -
PT5.S1.Q12 - impact craters causedHey gang, I’ve been working through the Sufficient Assumption question bank, trying to turn my Level 3 and 2 questions into Level 1 questions (for…
Tough question, and I do think answer D is a necessary assumption due to ... of craters. Therefore, D is necessary because if you negate it ... sure that answer D is sufficient, though. Geophysics is the ... old question, but that seems like a cop out. I agree with ... -
Advice on BR scoreHey guys, so I am having trouble with logical reasoning. On every section at this point I get at least minus -10, more like 11 or 12. However when I …
... have an issue with performing under pressure, ... that would be consistent with your pattern).
question is asking - if it's asking for a Necessary Assumption ... , one of the wrong answers might be a Sufficient (but not necessary) assumption ... -
PT32.S4.Q03 - Traffic AccidentHi all, Link to the lesson: https://7sage.com/lesson/traffic-accident-principle-question?ss_completed_lesson=1135 First of all, C can be eliminat…
... the sufficient assumption and conclude with the correctly corresponding necessary assumption. So to trigger the sufficient assumption ... taking the time on this question to really understand it. Anytime ... -
Negating the Conditional Idea to Existential IdeaHello all, I was wondering what type of questions we’ll see that require us to pick an answer choice where we are negating the conditional idea or wh…
... question, this is exactly what that means. Of course, denying a Necessary assumption ...
The other major issue with negation is that if you ... ’re not fluent with it, you won’t ... begin with. You can know that “unless" means to "negate sufficient" ... -
Logical Reasoning "information/stimulus retention"..? HELPHello all, I need some advice on how to improve on "retaining" information; specifically for LR. What I'm finding is that with all LR questions…
... helps to read the question first. This will ... Necessary assumption (identify the one assumption who's negation would destroy the argument), Sufficient assumption ... don't necessarily deal with an argument.
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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 ... sufficient attention, but think I've only encountered one other question ... it by definition a "necessary" assumption - don't be tricked ... " into 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 slightly irrelevant to your question, but I thought PrepTest ... br />
I agree with everyone here that the LSAT ... You can test the answers with the negation test (if ... know the difference between sufficient and necessary assumption questions until I read ... -
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…
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So with the answer choices, "if" introduces a sufficient assumption and “only ... if” introduces a necessary assumption. That’s why ... won
So with this statement, we’re not ... -
Question About Sufficient AssumptionWhen you see a conditional statement in either the stimulus or the answer choice, do you always translate to the contrapositive to check if it matche…
... has a lot to do with the preferences of the reader ... to add difficulty to a question.
For practical ... both translations to get the question correct in a time ... diagramming out a really hard sufficient assumption question really is necessary. -
PT72.S2.Q12 - humans' emotional tendenciesOk so I'm doing my blind review, and when I initially did the test I chose the correct answer even though I wasn't happy with it because it seemed mo…
... an exception zone of necessary assumption questions. Meaning, that ... simple that the necessary assumption is actually the sufficient assumption. I am ... What interests me about this question is that the test ... (D) tells us that with or without (regardless) a ... -
PT72.S2.Q12 - humans' emotional tendenciesOk so I'm doing my blind review, and when I initially did the test I chose the correct answer even though I wasn't happy with it because it seemed mo…
... another necessary assumption with an SA correct answer choice is question ... outline how I interpreted this question:
... irrelevant, this is not necessary and when negated it ... /> E: this is a sufficient assumption answer choice:
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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…
... problem with negating the conclusion in sufficient assumptions is the sufficient assumption is ... technique should be used for Necessary Assumption questions. In NA questions, if ... is a sufficient assumption answer choice we could see for a question like ... -
PT68.S3.Q23 - art historian: this paintingHi everyone! For this question, I understand how answer choice B wrecks the argument, making it a solid necessary assumption. It was my original an…
... are asking a very good question:
There are ... gap and its both a sufficient assumption and necessary assumption. It's an NA ... apart, and its also sufficient to make our conclusion true ... that Mr. C was experimenting with. So although this needs to ... -
PT63.S1.Q10 - ms. sandstrom's newspaper columnHi all, Blind reviewing the aforementioned Prep Test and having trouble with PT.63.S.1.Q.10. I almost never have these kinds of very basic questio…
... that have something to do with why A is the right ... together. So this is a sufficient assumption question. Our task is to find ... our sufficient we talk about expectation of damage and in necessary about ... -
PT24.S3.Q10 - all material bodies are divisibleI'm having trouble understanding the translation for the conditional logic to this question. `All material bodies are divisible into parts,` Ma…
... issue here. This is a sufficient assumption question. What this means is ... necessary for this job are in my estimation: 1.comfortability with ... , we can fail either necessary condition for the existence of ... is a failure of the necessary condition of MB. Which ... -
I suck at assumption questionsHey 7Sagers, I've been studying for at least a year now But for some reason I have so much trouble trying to correctly answer Assumption, Suffici…
... trying to correctly answer Assumption, Sufficient Assumption and Necessary Assumption questions. I have ... if I got more Assumption questions correct. Any thoughts ... you're looking for with NA/SA questions? ... of curiosity, what other question types are giving you ... -
I suck at assumption questionsHey 7Sagers, I've been studying for at least a year now But for some reason I have so much trouble trying to correctly answer Assumption, Suffici…
... trouble trying to correctly answer Assumption, Sufficient Assumption and Necessary Assumption questions. I have gone ... what you're looking for with NA/SA questions? For instance ... out of curiosity, what other question types are giving you trouble ... -
Asked about this the other day...Sufficient/Necessary....and when it mattersI asked about what types of questions rely on the understanding of sufficient and necessary conditions the other day. I got a lot of really good answ…
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This is a sufficient assumption question which reads:
... of sufficient / necessary conditions.
Right now with this ... be mapping will come with time. Ultimately, the ... logic isn't always necessary to understand or arrive ... -
Asked about this the other day...Sufficient/Necessary....and when it mattersI asked about what types of questions rely on the understanding of sufficient and necessary conditions the other day. I got a lot of really good answ…
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