LSAT 152 – Section 2 – Question 01

LSAT 152 - Section 2 - Question 01

November 2018

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PT152 S2 Q01
+LR
+Exp
Flaw or descriptive weakening +Flaw
Analogy +An
A
0%
143
B
1%
148
C
0%
149
D
98%
162
E
0%
152
126
132
139
 +Easiest 147.463 +SubsectionMedium

Student: My university recently enacted new penalties for drinking alcohol in on-campus student housing. But the university has attempted to curb on-campus drinking many times in the past, and these attempts have never been successful. Thus, these new penalties are bound to be just as ineffective.

Summarize Argument

The student concludes that the new penalties for on-campus drinking will be ineffective. He supports this by saying that past attempts to curb on-campus drinking were ineffective.

Identify and Describe Flaw

The student draws an analogy between the new efforts to stop on-campus drinking and the past efforts, claiming the new efforts will be just as ineffective. He assumes that the new and past efforts are relevantly similar, ignoring the possibility that there may be important differences that could make the new efforts more successful.

A
fails to specify what new penalties the university enacted for drinking alcohol in on-campus student housing

The student doesn’t need to explain what the new penalties are. Instead, he needs to explain why they’ll be ineffective. Even if he did specify them, his argument would still be flawed because he assumes the new penalties will fail simply because past efforts did.

B
overlooks the possibility that many students did not drink alcohol in on-campus student housing even before the new penalties were enacted

The student doesn’t overlook this possibility. Many students at the university may not drink at all; the penalties only target those students who do drink in on-campus housing.

C
presumes, without providing justification, that students’ preferred location for drinking alcohol is on-campus student housing

The student doesn’t assume that students prefer to drink on campus, just that some students do drink on campus. Whether students prefer to drink elsewhere is irrelevant; the penalties only target on-campus drinking.

D
overlooks the possibility that the new penalties are relevantly different from the university’s past attempts to curb on-campus drinking

The student assumes that the new penalties are relevantly similar to the university’s past attempts to curb on-campus drinking. If they’re relevantly different, he can’t conclude that the new ones will be ineffective simply because the old ones were.

E
fails to consider whether the new penalties will have any other positive consequences besides reducing drinking in on-campus student housing

It doesn't matter whether the new penalties have other positive consequences. The student only addresses whether these penalties will effectively reduce drinking in on-campus housing.

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