LSAT 122 – Section 4 – Question 01

LSAT 122 - Section 4 - Question 01

June 2006

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PT122 S4 Q01
+LR
Flaw or descriptive weakening +Flaw
A
0%
138
B
0%
152
C
99%
163
D
0%
163
E
1%
160
120
120
125
 +Easiest 146.485 +SubsectionMedium

J.Y.’s explanation

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Editorial: Clearly, during the past two years, the unemployment situation in our city has been improving. Studies show that the number of unemployed people who are actively looking for jobs has steadily decreased during that period.

A
presumes, without providing justification, that the government is at least partly responsible for the improvement in the employment situation
The author never makes any claims or assumptions about whether the government is responsible for the improvement in unemployment. In fact, she doesn’t say anything about the government at all.
B
relies on data from a period that is too short to justify an inference about a general trend
The author relies on data from a two-year period to support her conclusion about that same two-year period. She doesn’t use it to justify an overly broad conclusion.
C
fails to take into account the possibility that many unemployed workers who still desire jobs may have stopped looking for jobs
This points out an alternative explanation for the decrease in the number of unemployed people actively looking for jobs. Perhaps there are still many unemployed people who want jobs, they just stopped actively looking.
D
fails to take into account that the sorts of governmental efforts that reduce unemployment may not be effective in creating more high-paying jobs
The argument doesn’t address governmental efforts at all, nor does it address whether certain jobs are high-paying.
E
ignores other economic indicators, which may not have improved during the past two years
The author may not discuss other economic indicators, but her conclusion is specifically about unemployment in the city, not about the economy in general. (E) fails to address why the author’s cited study doesn’t support the conclusion that unemployment is improving.

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