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Tackling the LSAT by Sections instead of as a whole???Hey guys just wanted to see if anyone has thought of this strategy or is doing this. Lately Ive just been focusing on Logic games. Since I'm retaking…
... anyone has thought of this strategy or is doing this. Lately Ive ... . Since I'm retaking the test in April, I ... hitting one section hard instead of trying to improve on the test ... figured out the LSAT doesn't give you an increase in ... What do you all think of this? -
PT59.S3.Q23- Can someone give me an example of (C)I can understand why (B) is correct - but not sure why (C) is wrong. I think I'm not understanding (C) correctly. What does it mean to "indicate the …
... to "indicate the falsehood of the implications" of a hypothesis? Doesn't the author do so ... in the stimulus, by showing that predicting an invention ... according to the hypothesis necessarily entails inventing it (the ... -
"The passage provides the most support for inferring______"I came across a question (PT58, S2 Q19) that had a question stem like the one above and JY's explanation raised a question for me. Does a passage onl…
... had a question stem like the one above and JY's explanation ... provide support for the *author's* arguments? In this passage, the author is refuting a ... would've asked under the passage, but the last comment was ... . I guess I'm the only one with this problem lol. -
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…
... patterns, one for the left eye and one for the right one. The author then infers the conclusion ... . an assumption that must be true for the conclusion to follow from the ... only scanned one of this person’s two retinas beforehand but not the other ... -
PT12.S4.Q6 - Chronic Fatigue SyndromeThis necessary assumption question discusses the treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) with a newly developed drug. CFS is associated with thre…
... one virus or of multiple different ones. Tests of the new drug indicate that this ... it to the other parts of the argument.
As an NA answer ... a sort of appeal to simplicity behind the author's reasoning. The author seems to ... -
Color Coding PassagesWhen working through an RC passage, do you place an emphasis on the color of the highlighter you use when you're highlighting certain pieces of infor…
... an RC passage, do you place an emphasis on the color of the ... do you always highlight the author's opinion, purpose of passage, opposing views ... tell them apart quicker? One of my biggest weaknesses in RC ... do this? Which parts to you think is the most important ... -
PTC.S2.Q2 - In any country, inflation occurs when the money supply...I'm really thrown by this one. My thought process: a country with a stable economy is less likely to experience inflation or deflation. That is the a…
I'm really thrown by this one. My thought process: a country ... inflation or deflation. That is the assumption the author relies on. I thought ... depends on according to the author) specifically apart of the assumption?
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PTC.S2.Q22 - My notes on reaching the correct answerThis question was doozy. I wanted to share with others my notes on how I got the correct answer during Blind Review. During the timed test, I would m…
... During the timed test, I would most likely skip this one and ... the conclusion of the argument. I had to ask myself what the author ... and arrive at the correct answer looked like this:
the truth or falsity of the conclusion = This is a ... -
RC Plateau (-8 ish)I have one month until my exam and am consistently performing the worst on RC. Usually -7/8. My problem is, I don't know what I'm doing wrong. From e…
I have one month until my exam and am consistently performing the worst ... completing an analysis of where the authors voice is. I am doing this in ... me to make an inference or decide what the author might agree/disagree ... -
Main Idea Confusion (please respond. This topic gets lots of ?'s but few responses on discussion b)Help with RC 'main idea' q's I know I'm wrong, but I look for answers that would nicely summarize the passage. PT10 passage 2 for example is compari…
... that only mention one or the other style as this didn't seem ... ] something to the effect of the author's main complaint about an art critic's ... to distinguish between the two. I missed the subtlety of the author's viewpoint-- that ... -
Test Taker Instructions for the October 2023 LSATHey everyone! LSAC has provided final instructions for the October 2023 LSAT that can help you ensure that you're ready for test day. ◉**Stude…
... /dont-update-your-mac-before-the-lsat-this-fall/).
**Make ... with what to expect on the day of the test.
**On ... . If test takers already have an LSAT Writing sample on file ... need to submit a new one. -
LR sections one score always better than the otherHi everyone, I know this has been mentioned before and I even commented on a post about this but is it normal to score better on one of the 2 LR sect…
... about this but is it normal to score better on one of the 2 ... section and -8 on the second. Is the second section generally harder ... on the real test isn't guaranteed to be LR? At this ... point I am kind of hoping two LG ... -
Re-taking the LSAT after 1L dismissalHey, everyone. I never thought I'd be back at square 1 again to redo this exam. I took it in 2021 and got a 154 which was a huge jump from my 137 …
... the start of the Fall 2023 semester with no permission for an appeal, though the ... school was aware of my financial ... one]. Have any of you been in this kind of situation?
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PT94.S1.Q18 (G4) - Help "If the collector purchases exactly two books, which one must be true"I think I understand why D is the correct answer choice. However, I am curious as to what you guys think is the best way to approach this question? C…
... approach this question? Clearly using an in an out game board is the best ... choice. However, this question ... question that required a lot of trial and error, which obviously ... -
Are we seeing eye to eye on this? Hi, Since this has no video explanation for it, I want to know whether I fell in line with the rest when I reached that conclusion. In this qu…
... reached that conclusion. In this question, the author argues that butter manufacturers ... fat butter, projecting an image of authenticity,instead of phonier butter substitutes, ... with the regular ones. Thus, one of the ramifications was supposed to bear the ... -
Argument Part - Answer Choices w/ AssumptionsIn the new version of the core curriculum, the way JY teaches Argument Part questions, he tells us to beware of answer choices that use language like…
... in the stimulus, it by definition cannot be an assumption or implicit. This ... made a lot of sense to ... /> The question says "which one of the following most accurately describes the role played in the dispute ... -
PT82.S01.Q22 - This one really confused meThis one really confused me because I thought we were always supposed to assume that the premises are automatically true. So the author saying "origi…
This one really confused me because ... assume that the premises are automatically true. So the author saying "original ... " would be a statement of fact rather ... please use the format: "PT#.S#.Q# - brief description of the question."** -
Struggling to make the connection between the premises and the conclusion. Please help!So, I can identify the conclusion and the support for the argument, but I'm having a hard time understanding the relationship between them. For some …
... to two answers, either the right one and the wrong one, or two wrong ... wrong on an LR section, at least one of them is from the assumption ... at the advanced level.
I really want to master this ... -
PT10.S1.Q23 - No one knows what purposes, if any, dreams serveHello, I'm trying to understand why answer choice (a) for this question is incorrect. I chose answer choice A and am struggling to understand …
... why answer choice (a) for this question is incorrect.
an anteater. However, I would think that we are talking in the ... . So, facts about one species of animal (spiny anteater, the specific facts being ... -
Question on an potentially broken/incorrect unofficial LR question.Let me preface this by saying I know I should be using official questions, but I bought this book in a rush for a trip where I wouldn't have great in…
... short of supply, Chinese production of grain should increase dramatically. Which one of the ... following principles most helps to justify this reasoning?
the author connects market-driven methods with ... -
PT17 S3 Q12 - ad's effect on cigarette smokersHey! I am having trouble understanding why A is incorrect. I do see how and why D works but I can't understand why A doesn't. Here, we are given …
... The flaw here is that the author overlooks all other alternate causes of the ... out an alternate explanation for a given phenomenon automatically strengthens the proposed ... Denying this alternate explanation increases the likelihood of ad causing the drop ... -
June 1997 Digital LR2 8, How to approach Strengthen questions?Early in the development of a new product line, the critical resource is talent. New marketing ventures require a degree of managerial skill dispropo…
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Which one of the following, if true, most strengthens the author’s argument?
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• Early in the development of a new product line, the critical ... someone please explain why this is an incorrect way of thinking? also please ... -
Great in Str Questions. Bad in Weaking QuestionsSo i'm going through the LR practice questions and I get about every Strength question right. But, I do awful in the weaking questions. And I know bo…
... this is done by negating an assumption made by the argument's author.
this argument would state something along the lines of "Tom is the leader of ... , there's one that says "Tom is the nickname of Jabba the Hutt.", "Tom ... -
Causation ,condition, premise and conclusionAfter going through all the courses in 7sage, I found myself still confused about causation and conditional logical, especially how to know the relat…
... correlation-causation types fall under phenomenon-hypothesis framework). These primarily rely ... -incidental), X is the cause of Y. And with this assumption, LSAT will ... : the author assumes that an incident related to another must be the cause of the latter ... -
Identifying question "stems" for R.C.?Hello anybody, I just recently started studying for R.C. In LR, I found "identifying" question stems extremely helpful. It helped me tunnel mind f…
... an LR analogue. For example, "the passage leads to which of the ... , usually in the form of "Which of the following strengthens the author's argument that ... Structure questions ("Which of the following best describes the format of the passage?").
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No idea how to identify an answer in harder flaw questions.SO it seems to be easy to own easy flaw questions but the harder ones...the answers are so vague! And I've been getting everyone of the harder flaws …
... in the author's argument. The flaw being the presumption that a necessary assumption of the ... look for an answer that asserts the presumption of its truth in one of the two ... ways described above. Hope this ... -
how to attack questions on rc under timed condit?can someone remind me of the strategy for attacking Rc questions under timed conditions. When we see an answer we think is right are we supposed …
... . Focus on when the AUTHOR "speaks/has an opinion". This usually leads to a ... is not if one is not used to this type of test.
one, or the weaken one, you know the one I am talking about. These type of ... -
PT 36.S3.Q26 - four universal forceshttp://7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-36-section-3-question-26/ Could anyone be kind enough to explain why is the correct answer choice "B". I fai…
... this is the whole point of this stimulus.
By identifying what the author is ... the opinions of scientists that say the fifth force is just an aspect of gravity. The ... believing in the fifth force not only explains one small error in ... -
pre-reading questions on reading comprehensionI was under the impression that, on reading comprehension, reading the questions before you read the passage was a bad idea and a waste of time. How…
... the scale at the end of your passage read like this:< ... central subject of the passage. If it's a phenomenon observed ... of the point clearly and see where (if at all) the author resides. Where the author ... the passage for an A1 or A2 in the margin around the ... -
Averages, Percentages, and Math!!(no offense to math majors)Non-math major here. So I found out that one of my biggest weaknesses in LR questions is the question type which deals with percentages and averages.…
... would like an excellent resource that puts all of these issues ... read (will take you an afternoon to complete it, ... current news reporting). Some of the examples the author presents are exactly what ... chapters are relevant (there is one about graphs) but some ...
