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Here's a clearer example: "Some YLS students have not taken the LSAT" is false. "Some people who are not YLS students have taken the LSAT" is true. This shows that "some A's are not B" is not equivalent to "some not A's are B".
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@"Cant Get Right" said: I’d hate to think I’ve been running around saying the scientific equivalent of “Hurricane Katrina decimated the Gulf Coast.” Gross. There's nothing wrong with saying this. Technical language is different from …
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Man, the responses here are kinda disheartening (not that there's anything wrong with being pragmatic). In my case, I'm actually more excited to go to law school than I am to become a lawyer (and I do want to become a lawyer). I miss academia, taki…
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The responses here are pretty interesting. The folks over at TLS seem to think that the school does sometimes matter. Specifically, according to TLS, there's a slight boost for coming from a tip-top undergrad (Harvard, Yale, etc.) or a school known…
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@"Nicole Hopkins" said: Not much need for those here in Dallas. I'm from Dallas, but work in NYC. Dallas honestly had a colder winter this year than NYC did!
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Schools care about the LSDAS GPA. After you send all of your college-level transcripts to the LSAC, they assign a numerical value to each letter grade (A=4.0, B=3.0, etc.) and calculate your GPA based on their scale. This will usually be exactly th…
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@twssmith If it's any consolation to you, the "conditional logic" on the LSAT just isn't intuitive, past a certain point. This is because the conditional used on the LSAT is the material conditional, which is simply not how we intuitively use condit…
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@"Cant Get Right" said: I think at some point JY says something about a unicorn, the classic example of this existential fallacy, so I’m wondering if maybe we do get this somewhere, but I just can’t find the lesson. Ah, yeah, unicorns are ofte…
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@"Cant Get Right", I didn't intend my comments to harp on you or anything like that. And I don't think anything terribly important turns on this, since I've yet to see an LSAT question exploit this fallacy. However, in the interest of correctness, I…
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Quantified sentences can be problematic for "lawgic" translations, and this one is a perfect example. Here is the abridged first-order logic translation of the first proposition: ¬∃x(SpottedChileanPantherThatHuntsAtNight(x) ∧ UsesOnlySenseOfSmell(…
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@"Cant Get Right" said: Actually, if we can classify the Panthers as nocturnal predators via the “that hunt at night” clause, I guess A would be right. Even if we could classify panthers as nocturnal, (A) would still not be right. The…
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On a crude interpretation, (B) is saying that the criteria for moral responsibility and the criteria for legal responsibility overlap at least in part, but are not the same. On a stricter interpretation, (B) says that the criteria for moral responsi…
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The first sentence in the stimulus simply says that sugared beverages CAN be helpful in avoiding dehydration, not that sugared beverages are ONLY helpful in avoiding dehydration. Given this, we shouldn't presume that the benefits of drinking sugared…
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Your description of analogy strikes me as wrong. An analogy would be something like: Just as all bats use echolocation, so too do all Jedis use the Force. And a counterexample would be something like: Luke is a Jedi, but doesn't use the Force. An…
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I was in the same situation working full time. What helped me was doing half a PT every day instead of a full PT every other day. Half a PT would only take around an hour (as opposed to 2-3 hours). I'd either take my lunch break or stay late in the …
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I was also stuck in the low-mid 170s for a couple of months, and what pushed me over was drilling LR/RC on top of my PT schedule (2-3 PTs a week). I filtered by difficulty (4 and above) on LR/RC questions from older tests I didn't plan on taking in …
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I think the biggest difference from doing a game or LR question again is that you'll do it faster than you would seeing it for the first time. Even if you don't remember the details, you'll at least remember that it's, say, a grouping game or perhap…
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@MrSamIam said: However, from what is quoted above, the author is providing an opinion (his or hers) on what should happen if condition X is met. I'm not saying that all prescriptive statements are the opinion of the author. However, this one evid…
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@MrSamIam said: Yup, don't forget the should. Remember, this is prescriptive, not descriptive. The author is offering his or her opinion on what should happen, not what will happen. That something is a prescriptive doesn't imply that it's an opin…
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Your version looks right to me (maybe include the word "should" in the consequent for clarity?). I dunno where your friend thinks the embedded conditional is coming from. I suppose if you translated this into predicate logic, instead of propositio…
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@"Can’t Get Right" said: I actually really dislike the timed videos for building intuition because I don’t think 1:24 is right for most questions. I agree it's not right for most questions. I was suggesting you use it as an upper bound, which is w…
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I'm not an LSAT "master", but I was consistently PTing in the 179-180 range by the last month of my study. My time goals for LR were as follows: 45 - 60 sec per question on the first two pages, 60 - 75 sec for the middle two, and the remaining tim…
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(C) doesn't *directly* contradict the conclusion because it's not like we can say that the conclusion is false due to the information provided in (C). The information in (C) undermines the support we have for the conclusion, but the conclusion could…
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Congratulations! I also took the February test and saw a significant increase in score from my diagnostic. 7sage was instrumental in getting me out of the score-range ditch I was stuck in for a couple of months. Don't mean to steal your thread, bu…
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@"ranxu_2015" said: It happened before but it's not the case for this test. I had two LGs each with 23 questions, 2 LRs with 25, 26 questions respectively and one RC with 27 questions. It had 101 questions in total so I'd say it's quite a quite st…
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Is it possible for the LSAT to have 102 questions total? I ask because I had two 26 question LR's and one 25 question LR, and the two 26 question LR's would give me 102 questions total.
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@"Dillon A. Wright" said: @LeapsAndBounds said: It was about green and blue lights and all switches on a machine being turned on. Which section was this from? This was from LR. I remember it too.
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My distribution of sections were LR, RC, LR, LG, LR. I suspect the first LR was experimental and am wondering if anyone else feels the same way. Granted, my conjecture for this is just that I almost ran out of time on the first LR, which I rarely do…
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Merging the first sentence into the antecedent, the argument consists of no premises and a single conclusion: if we find out whether Selena has psychic powers, we will determine whether it's possible to have psychic powers. This seems very counteri…
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This is basically a conflating sufficient and necessary conditions flaw. According to the chief of police, gifts over $100 are sufficient to count as graft. But he says nothing about whether other kinds of gifts count as graft. So it might be the c…