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@bananabo Is it possible you're confusing (1) "The less X, the less Y" with (2) "If we reduce X, we will reduce Y"? Statement (1) is not making a causal claim. Statement (2) is, however, based on a causal assumption (that X causes Y). Using your …
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In addition to the points made earlier, I'd add that you should be careful not to assume that "the more X, the more Y" implies a proportional relationship. A doubling in the amount of X implies an increase in the amount of Y, but it doesn't have to …
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People who are completing 4 passages and maintaining high accuracy are usually spending about 2.5 to 4.5 minutes on reading each passage. If you're very accurate but only getting to 2 passages, it's possible that you're spending too much time looki…
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@1230_sunny I think "positive" is equivalent to "sure". See definition 1.C here: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/positive
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More info released today: https://www.lsac.org/blog/imagine
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The short answer to your question is yes, everything the argument assumes is a necessary assumption. I think the confusing issue you're running into is one of the big downsides to calling something a "sufficient assumption." In the LSAT instructio…
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@moonstars5678 I think it’ll be helpful to get a more full picture of what’s going on, as well as clarify our job on this question type. And to do that, let me develop your M&M example a bit. Let’s say we’re measuring how many blue M&Ms yo…
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The first sentence says that people notice and are concerned about "only the most obvious public health concerns". This is like a rule that governs what people notice and are concerned about. We are then told that ozone is dangerous for some people…
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You're right that the sentence is susceptible to multiple interpretations. In addition to the one you spelled out, I think there's another interpretation under which the "frequently" could modify "consume", which would then make the sentence about i…
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OP, I think you confused the first part of the answer. "A factor that need not be present in order for a certain effect to occur" - this means "a factor that is not necessary for a certain effect to occur". So putting the whole answer together, it'…
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@rgs42250 If you understand that Some As are C would be an invalid conclusion, how could All As are C be valid? In other words, if we can't be sure that there's even one A that's a C, why would we be sure that all As are C? I think your question r…
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@emmorens I don't see the benefit in targeting specific question types, since you'll be wasting time scanning question stems hunting for the 3-5 types you're looking for. But it may be worth experimenting - I'm always in favor of trying a new test-…
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@kareenarsatia I'll echo the advice to do more (difficult) outside reading. Not only will this improve your reading ability, but it will also give you familiarity with a broad range of topics, which is surprising helpful throughout RC and LR. I thi…
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@ledkarly "As my momma always said, life is like a box of chocolates." "Life is like a box of chocolates, since my momma said so." What's the difference between 1 and 2? In 2, I'm asserting that life is like a box of chocolates and citing my mom…
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@fatmaalazazi The best way to learn when and how to split is to try games over again in different ways. Take a game that you solved without splitting and try it again while looking for an opportunity to split. And maybe try it again while splitting…
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@yminelik It's not exclusive to Strengthen/Weaken - they also commonly appear in Flaw questions and Necessary Assumption questions when the underlying flaw in the argument is assuming causation from a correlation. As a general matter, if you're foc…
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@"Lime Green Dot" Regarding whether (A) is too broad because we only know about thermal radiation as opposed to all types of radiation, the second paragraph says that physicists can be confident that they are observing "thermal radiation and not si…
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@yoojin2782 Check out PT72 Section 3 #11 and PT86 Section 4 #16
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@HopefullyHLS The premise you're pointing to says "Today, all fast-breathing animals are warm-blooded." If this argument were using this principle to "draw a conclusion about a particular case", the argument would then bring up a particular kind o…
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@Leon-on-the-Lsat In addition to @canihazJD 's point, you should note that the idea of something being "irrational" is arguably both descriptive and prescriptive. If you say that a particular response is irrational, you're saying that it doesn't mak…
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@chickenislove Feel free to reach out to me and send me some recent RC results and your own explanations for RC mistakes (if you keep a wrong answer journal). I might be able to provide some (free) advice. While I would never guarantee that you'll g…
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OP, #1 is the correct negation, since you can negate anything by adding "it is not the case that" at the beginning. As you noted, however, it's not particularly helpful in understanding the negation. This would be the better way to understand the ne…
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@natal310 said: @KevinLuminateLSAT said: OP, I think there are two issues that may be causing difficulty for you. Sentences are made up of a subject and a predicate (which is basically the thing that the subject does or th…
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OP, I think there are two issues that may be causing difficulty for you. Sentences are made up of a subject and a predicate (which is basically the thing that the subject does or the fact that we are getting about the subject). Generally, unless th…
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The issue is that LSAC accidentally included in Lawhub all of the items they had removed from scoring. This affects not just PT86. Take a look at PT60.LR1.19, PT52.RC.15, PT46.RC.9, PT45.LR1.5, PT66.LG.17. It's all there. There's also one test where…
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@"ahnendc-1" said: @KevinLuminateLSAT... Mind blown.. really awesome explanation of this - I find these examples super fascinating. It seems that this happens because we split up the components of "only if" across the sentence; similar to…
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This is a pretty common and confusing issue! The problem is that the sentence you're trying to diagram is not grammatically precise (and arguably not grammatically correct). Your understanding of the sentence is accurate. The LSAT would write this s…
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Here's a series of questions that might help guide your decision: Do you need to start law school in Fall 2020 instead of Fall 2021? What are the downsides of taking a year off in order to go to a higher-ranked school? What are the benefits of goi…
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You won't achieve a score over 160 if you cannot reliably understand the contrapositive of a conditional relationship. But if you're asking about whether you can score 160+ without drawing conditional diagrams in LR or their contrapositives, the ans…
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This is what you're looking for: https://thelsattrainer.academy/logical-reasoning-breakdown/