LSAT 153 – Section 3 – Question 01

LSAT 153 - Section 3 - Question 01

June 2019

You need a full course to see this video. Enroll now and get started in less than a minute.

Request new explanation

Target time: 0:50

This is question data from the 7Sage LSAT Scorer. You can score your LSATs, track your results, and analyze your performance with pretty charts and vital statistics - all with a Free Account ← sign up in less than 10 seconds

Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT153 S3 Q01
+LR
Point at issue: agree +Agree
Value Judgment +ValJudg
A
84%
162
B
2%
153
C
9%
161
D
3%
160
E
2%
156
120
120
141
 +Easiest 146.755 +SubsectionMedium

Minh: This film director’s newest works are very predictable. He’s pillaging his own catalog, but with diminishing returns. Each film is simply a repetition of his earlier ones.

Natalie: You mistake the films’ startling sameness for evidence of a lack of creativity. It would be more accurate to say that he ultimately creates strong new works from the same core elements, and these works are thus original.

Speaker 1 Summary
Minh believes that a certain director is “pillaging” his past work, but not getting much value from doing so. In support, Minh points out that the director’s recent films are very predictable, and in fact are nothing more than repetitions of his past films.

Speaker 2 Summary
Natalie argues that the director’s recent work is actually original, despite their similarity to past films. How so? Because the director is using the same elements to create new works (rather than just repeating past works).

Objective
We need to find a point of agreement about the director’s recent films. Minh and Natalie agree that the recent films are very similar to the director’s previous films.

A
They share many features with his earlier films.
Minh agrees with this, and so does Natalie. Minh says that the new films are simply repetitions of the director’s earlier films. Natalie doesn’t go so far, but does say that the films have a “startling sameness” and use the same elements.
B
They constitute evidence that he is pillaging his own catalog.
Minh agrees with this, but Natalie does not. Natalie thinks that the recent films do not show a lack of creativity that amounts to just pillaging past works, but in fact are original.
C
They are nothing more than repetitions of the director’s earlier films.
Minh agrees with this, but Natalie disagrees. Natalie thinks that even though the new and old films use the same elements, the new films are original works.
D
They are less original than his earlier films.
Neither speaker directly compares the director’s newer films with his earlier films. Each speaker expresses an opinion about whether the new films are original, but neither talks about how the old films measure up.
E
They provide evidence of the director’s creativity.
Natalie agrees with this, but Minh doesn’t. Minh thinks that the new films are evidence that the director is just repeating his past works rather than coming up with original new films.

Take PrepTest

Review Results

LSAT PrepTest 153 Explanations

Section 1 - Reading Comprehension

Section 2 - Logical Reasoning

Section 3 - Logical Reasoning

Section 4 - Reading Comprehension

Get full LSAT course

Leave a Reply