The Official June 2014 Study Group Forum

[santoki]

PT17 S2 Q7

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I chose D, not sure why C is correct. The stim says "should" so it doesn't seem like its the ONLY option, which is why I thought C was off.

[rebexness]

Last nights LSAT dream included me forgetting to register, so I guess I'd better take care of that now.

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[WaltGrace83]

PT17 S2 Q7

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I chose D, not sure why C is correct. The stim says "should" so it doesn't seem like its the ONLY option, which is why I thought C was off.

Oh my god I HATED this question. I don't have too much time to break this down (my break time is almost over and I need to get back to weakening arguments). However, think about it like this...

"If we do A, then the fishing industry would cooperate. If we do B, then the fishing industry wouldn't cooperate. Therefore, we should probably do A." What is it assuming? It is assuming that the fishing industry is important - no, maybe NECESSARY.

(C) ~Fishing industry cooperates → ~Accurate count. Bingo!

[Learn_Live_Hope]

Last nights LSAT dream included me forgetting to register, so I guess I'd better take care of that now.

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You still didn't register? Need to do that now!

[rebexness]

Last nights LSAT dream included me forgetting to register, so I guess I'd better take care of that now.

panicpanicpanicpanic

You still didn't register? Need to do that now!

All taken care of!

[dasani13]

Last nights LSAT dream included me forgetting to register, so I guess I'd better take care of that now.

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lol I signed up last week- one of the 2 closest centers to me is in a school I've never even heard of and the other in the middle of south beach.

[Learn_Live_Hope]

Last nights LSAT dream included me forgetting to register, so I guess I'd better take care of that now.

panicpanicpanicpanic

lol I signed up last week- one of the 2 closest centers to me is in a school I've never even heard of and the other in the middle of south beach.

Haha i would pick the one in the middle of the south beach.

[DaRascal]

How important is it to have a mastery of conditional logic for LR? Is a basic understanding sufficient or does it help a lot more (in terms of saving time) to always think in terms of the "formal approach" as Manhattan LSAT puts it? I'm asking because I'm going through the Manhattan LR book for the umpteenth time and I'm wondering if it'll help if I really internalize Chapter 8 to the point where I'm always thinking in terms of conditional logic when it can be applied. Like most people, I've only ever used it on the exam in LR when a pure conditional logic question comes up and it would only take a few seconds to draw out the conditionals and contrapositives.

[alexrodriguez]

I'm not one to map out conditional logic for sufficient asumps, nec assumps and parallel reasoning

but that doesn't mean I don't understand conditional logic...

It's very important to understand it all and then decide whether you're the kind of person who maps it out

I prefer to let my elephant take the wheel on conditional logic q's and for the most part we get where we need to go

[mornincounselor]

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[WaltGrace83]

I think the point regarding conditional logic is versatility. Sometimes I diagram - sometimes I don't.

On inference questions I seem to diagram a lot. I'd rather get the question right and spend the extra 10-20 seconds then get the question wrong.

On sufficient assumptions, I diagram about 25% of the time.

Otherwise, I hardly ever diagram.

[Jack Reagan]

PT17 S2 Q7

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I chose D, not sure why C is correct. The stim says "should" so it doesn't seem like its the ONLY option, which is why I thought C was off.

Remember that this is a strengthen not a required assumption. If answer choice C is true (which you must assume that it is since it's a strengthen) then it lends support to the government seeking the cooperation of the fisherman. C essentially makes it so that seeking the cooperation is the ONLY option, which then makes the prescription in the conclusion seem like a very reasonable course of action. C is certainly not required to get to the conclusion, but it does help strengthen it. Strong language in an answer choice is great on Strengthen, but suspect on required assumption.

D would actually weaken the argument because then the fishing industry would not turn over the carcasses out of fear of restricted net fishing legislation.

[myoung7189]

40 days...

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw&feature=kp

[Louis1127]

I hate it when I am doing an In-Out game w/ conditional links and mess up contraposing something! EERRRRGGGHHH


Also, I wanted to let all of you know that I am going to go ahead and make it known that I will be withdrawing from June and will be taking September. I have to get alot farther than where I am now to make law school an option for me. Also, I am just going to copy whatever Waltgrace does jk.

While I haven't officially delayed from June, I most certainly will in the future. I still want to study with you all until June test day, though.
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[santoki]

louis, im similarly not feeling as ready as i should for june. however, i may end up taking both...hopefully that's not a really stupid decision haha....

[Pragmatic Gun]

Hey all! retaking the LSAT for the third time. I have a question regarding PT 71, Dec. '13:

I don't understand entirely how S1, Q20 is resovled by the answer. Wouldn't the wool sold be enough to beat the costs of the farm? I feel like it's an incomplete solution.

[WaltGrace83]

I hate it when I am doing an In-Out game w/ conditional links and mess up contraposing something! EERRRRGGGHHH


Also, I wanted to let all of you know that I am going to go ahead and make it known that I will be withdrawing from June and will be taking September. I have to get alot farther than where I am now to make law school an option for me. Also, I am just going to copy whatever Waltgrace does jk.

While I haven't officially delayed from June, I most certainly will in the future. I still want to study with you all until June test day, though.
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Well its good to have you on (off?) the wagon Louis. Law school will always be there but crushing the LSAT can only be done a few times! I'll stick around here until June 9 and then off to the September thread for me!

[Christine (MLSAT)]

Hey all! retaking the LSAT for the third time. I have a question regarding PT 71, Dec. '13:

I don't understand entirely how S1, Q20 is resovled by the answer. Wouldn't the wool sold be enough to beat the costs of the farm? I feel like it's an incomplete solution.

When you say "costs of the farm", do you mean the losses from the decreased prices of mutton/sheepskin/etc? If so, you can't just assume that the wool sold WOULD be enough to beat those losses. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. The fact that these prices fell "sharply" gives a bit more weight toward the decrease being bigger, but we don't know for sure - and that's okay.

The answer does not have to perfectly resolve the situation *for certain*. Answers to paradox or resolve the discrepancy questions merely have to raise a point that could potentially explain the apparent weirdness easily and directly. How could we possibly explain how these peeps are straight up getting more income from their wool, but not getting richer? Well, they must be losing money somehow - either by increased costs somewhere or by decreased profits on something they normally do. An example of either of these would be a great potential explanation for the situation.

Thoughts?

[Pragmatic Gun]

Hey all! retaking the LSAT for the third time. I have a question regarding PT 71, Dec. '13:

I don't understand entirely how S1, Q20 is resovled by the answer. Wouldn't the wool sold be enough to beat the costs of the farm? I feel like it's an incomplete solution.

When you say "costs of the farm", do you mean the losses from the decreased prices of mutton/sheepskin/etc? If so, you can't just assume that the wool sold WOULD be enough to beat those losses. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. The fact that these prices fell "sharply" gives a bit more weight toward the decrease being bigger, but we don't know for sure - and that's okay.

The answer does not have to perfectly resolve the situation *for certain*. Answers to paradox or resolve the discrepancy questions merely have to raise a point that could potentially explain the apparent weirdness easily and directly. How could we possibly explain how these peeps are straight up getting more income from their wool, but not getting richer? Well, they must be losing money somehow - either by increased costs somewhere or by decreased profits on something they normally do. An example of either of these would be a great potential explanation for the situation.

Thoughts?

I think you or I could have written a better question. Sorry. I see what you're saying. It is the best possible answer out of all the other ones because C is the only one that applies directly to the farmers and their situation in the stimulus and tries to resolve the paradox. All the other answers refer to domestic wool farmers or just irrelevant factors.

I picked D because it seemed like it would resolve it, but it's actually irrelevant because these particular farmers aren't in a bad position vis a vis wool.

Also, I just want to say that I was a student of MLSAT. Really happy to see a MLSAT tutor here.

[unodostres]

Hi everyone. Been studying band haven't posted in this forum since feb. Hope everyone is doing well!

[sabzdee]

Just took preptest 57 after a week off from studying.

LG: -5 (-4 on the third game which confused the hell out of me)
LR1: -2
LR2: -0
RC: -3

Score was 171. Pretty happy with these results. I want to really shape up my LG, which I think I'll have enough time to do before June. Looking to be in the 175 range, but given that this will be my first go I don't really know what to expect. Good luck to everyone!

[jk148706]

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[sabzdee]

Just took preptest 57 after a week off from studying.

LG: -5 (-4 on the third game which confused the hell out of me)
LR1: -2
LR2: -0
RC: -3

Score was 171. Pretty happy with these results. I want to really shape up my LG, which I think I'll have enough time to do before June. Looking to be in the 175 range, but given that this will be my first go I don't really know what to expect. Good luck to everyone!

Dinos

I was hoping it was one of the notoriously difficult ones... really hope nothing like that will be on ours. Yeesh.

[dardardelight]

I hate grad school so much. Can't Effing wait until my research papers are over.. which won't be until Sunday morning. I've taken pretty much a 2 week break from LSAT stuff and am really anxious to see if I've regressed, stayed the same, or if I even have a better, clearer mind going into the test.

It seems like it'll be a sprint to June 9th for me, as I'll be taking about 25 practice tests and reviewing them all with some drilling in between. Anyways, Let's Go Rangers!

[dasani13]

Hi everyone. Been studying band haven't posted in this forum since feb. Hope everyone is doing well!

How's studying going?