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Hey folks, I have been absent recently due to an emergency in my immediate family. I am going to restart my studies sometime in the next week or so, slowly ramping up to full speed. Let me first address the idea of a chart as a tool we can use on …
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Do you mean that you are getting 17 or 18 correct out of an LR section?
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Although outside the purview of your initial inquiry, this question is an excellent representation of a circular reasoning flaw.
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It is for my money the single hardest set in LSAT history. I've written about it before. PT C is a true test of where one is at with their LG prep. The set doesn't allow for an ounce of hesitation.
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@jkatz1488 How I do my cookie-cutter days is access 1-2 star questions through the question bank and really break them down. Some fit the mold of a cookie cutter reasoning and some fit the mold of just being really, really easy/transparent in thei…
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In my estimation, you will improve this by consciously paying attention to the stimulus through practice and repetition as well as a successful implementation of the Blind Review method. One of the pillars the LSAT tests is our reading ability. Ou…
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"Caused by" normally does not indicate a sufficient/necessity relationship. "Caused by" indicates a causal relationship. Conditional logic and causation are two different types of logic that underpin the LSAT. Please consider reviewing this lesso…
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First, a few words on the phrasing of question 24. Question 24 gives us the following: "The author mentions.." This means what we are looking for here is something explicit rather than implicit. Reading question 24 further, we are essentially as…
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You know, I once took an intensive over about 4-5 days for necessary assumption questions. One of the things I discovered and therefore assimilated into my approach is that sometimes, with necessary assumption questions: nothing is too petty for th…
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An intensive is generally when, during the process of evaluating one's weaknesses and strengths (sometimes after a PT) one decides to focus intensively on one specific area of the exam. So if you notice that you missed 4/5 of the flaw questions on …
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Yeah, these things are serious. My recommendation would be to practice PTs with the bubble sheet and have things completely finished by the 34 minute mark.
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Are you referring to the rule that if J is on team 1 then R is on team 2? The 4th rule? The inference you have listed is indeed something in which a synthesis of the rules yields that inference. 5.5 lines down in the stimulus we are given the con…
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You are correct in asserting that sometimes the arguments are so bad that it becomes difficult to put into words (especially as abstractly as some AC do so) what the flaw actually is. What I have found most helpful in this regard is to focus specif…
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The first question in attempting to diagnose what could possibly be happening here would be to ask if you have skipped around in your PT schedule or have you stayed on course along a linear path? For instance, was the -3 from the 40s or 30s range a…
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I found the stimulus rather nebulous and difficult to get a firm grasp on when I first looked at the question, but during a thorough breakdown, think I have a decent grasp on it. First, we should start with some running trends throughout flaw quest…
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This is a subject that we must be absolutely strict with ourselves towards. We should air on the side of caution and take pencils down to mean precisely that: pencils down at that moment. As was previously mentioned, stories abound about people ge…
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Just came across an excellent example of this flaw on a really, really valuable question: PT 31 Section 2 question 21.
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The terms: Main point and main conclusion are referring to the same thing. Both contain the implicit notion that there is support for that conclusion in the stimulus, meaning the argument is building towards that thing. If an argument has a main p…
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48-4-13 might be instructive here. Or at least the problems with drawing conclusions about actions on the basis of beliefs.
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My reasoning on 27 is such: starting from line 53, the author gives us the recommendations that Tollefson offers for the problems with these educational programs. The author then switches in line 59 with the word "unfortunately," to a shortcoming i…
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Anyone care to delineate what is going on with Berkley on this list? Seems like quite a drastic drop. Berkley is my #1 school and what I am working towards getting into, so I always take note when I see them.
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@"Aaron Frank" fantastic. What I would add to what you wrote in response is just a minor caveat on verbiage: (C) does not weaken the premise. (C) weakens the premise’s alleged support/relevance for the conclusion. Remember: our premise is a desc…
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Essentially, our author has said that because the fish got better and dioxin takes a long time to decompose therefore dioxin cannot be the cause. Lets look at a pretty decent formulation of the contrapositive: If it were dioxin that was the culpri…
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I will try by hand in working through this problem. I’m curious about what others think of this explanation, please let me know. We have a phenomena: immediately downstream from a paper mill, fish have a specific abnormality. The hypothesis initi…
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The material on the exam can be quite dense and therefore requires a pretty intense focus. What has helped for me is to spend whatever downtime I have reading complex and dense material. Another thing that has been invaluable to me is a good night…
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I actually didn't find this section among the hardest. I thought the fourth passage was the hardest of this set, but fortunately studied military history in school and was able to engage closely. What passage did you find the hardest?
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Hello, first thing that I should state here is that if possible, look into a 7Sage package. The explanation for this one particular question is packed with over 7 minutes of detail. The explanations are a foundation for my continued improvement on…
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This is a very difficult. We here as a community have been through the ups and downs, the disappointments, the uncertainty and together we can all help each other, so I really do appreciate you reaching out to us on the forums for advice. Many peo…
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+1 on the advice @"nessa.k13.0" gave. You have plenty of room for improvement. My recommendation would be to get the highest score you are able to get before applying.
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This is an excellent, excellent thread. It is threads like this that make this forum one of the best in the LSAT community.