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Infamous/ hardest RC passages of all time

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 12:26 am
by paglababa
I've seen something similar with LG (dino, Juarez/Rosenberg, Snakes/Lizards) but which RC passages really did it in for you? I have yet to do those in the 60s, but am interested to hear about those as well as ones from 30s, 40s and 50s.

Re: Infamous/ hardest RC passages of all time

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 12:29 am
by Clearly
paglababa wrote:I've seen something similar with LG (dino, Juarez/Rosenberg, Snakes/Lizards) but which RC passages really did it in for you? I have yet to do those in the 60s, but am interested to hear about those as well as ones from 30s, 40s and 50s.
I have no idea why Juarez and Rosenberg would be on the difficult lg list at all, but to answer your question personally the only rc that ever truly stumped me first time through was Riddled Basins of Attraction for some reason.

Re: Infamous/ hardest RC passages of all time

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 12:34 am
by magickware
Clearly wrote: I have no idea why Juarez and Rosenberg would be on the difficult lg list at all, but to answer your question personally the only rc that ever truly stumped me first time through was Riddled Basins of Attraction for some reason.
Some people fail to make the single game winning inference because the basic diagramming of the game itself screws them over

=(

And that game is just about impossible to do in under 9 minutes without said game winning inference.

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Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 12:37 am
by 10052014
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Re: Infamous/ hardest RC passages of all time

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 12:40 am
by paglababa
magickware wrote:
Clearly wrote: I have no idea why Juarez and Rosenberg would be on the difficult lg list at all, but to answer your question personally the only rc that ever truly stumped me first time through was Riddled Basins of Attraction for some reason.
Some people fail to make the single game winning inference because the basic diagramming of the game itself screws them over

=(

And that game is just about impossible to do in under 9 minutes without said game winning inference.
This. Same with New/Used CDs, maybe the bus game, Hired/interviewed....

But let's get back to RC. I still haven't done Riddled Basins but I've heard about that one multiple times. Can't wait to get to it :/

From recent memory: I think group think was semi tedious as well as the one about legal positivism.

Re: Infamous/ hardest RC passages of all time

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 12:43 am
by magickware
To be honest, I don't remember a word about any RC I read until I go back and do it again.

At first it was a burden, but now that I recognized something about RC, it's actually a plus.

RC is literally about just finding view points, breaking the passage down into little summary chunks so that you don't have to reread everything, and notating where the relevant examples are so that you can find them easily when/if you run into a question that asks for it.

It's quite stupid, really.

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Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 1:02 am
by 10052014
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Re: Infamous/ hardest RC passages of all time

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 1:44 am
by jrsbaseball5
Clearly wrote:
paglababa wrote:I've seen something similar with LG (dino, Juarez/Rosenberg, Snakes/Lizards) but which RC passages really did it in for you? I have yet to do those in the 60s, but am interested to hear about those as well as ones from 30s, 40s and 50s.
I have no idea why Juarez and Rosenberg would be on the difficult lg list at all, but to answer your question personally the only rc that ever truly stumped me first time through was Riddled Basins of Attraction for some reason.
Riddled Basins of Attraction was pretty frustrating. That was on the first test I did timed after studying and the first time I had looked at RC since my diagnostic and I was worried all RC would be that way.

Does anyone have a link to those hard LG games?

Re: Infamous/ hardest RC passages of all time

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 3:00 am
by Clyde Frog
jrsbaseball5 wrote:
Clearly wrote:
paglababa wrote:I've seen something similar with LG (dino, Juarez/Rosenberg, Snakes/Lizards) but which RC passages really did it in for you? I have yet to do those in the 60s, but am interested to hear about those as well as ones from 30s, 40s and 50s.
I have no idea why Juarez and Rosenberg would be on the difficult lg list at all, but to answer your question personally the only rc that ever truly stumped me first time through was Riddled Basins of Attraction for some reason.
Riddled Basins of Attraction was pretty frustrating. That was on the first test I did timed after studying and the first time I had looked at RC since my diagnostic and I was worried all RC would be that way.

Does anyone have a link to those hard LG games?
Lol riddled basins was one of the first I looked at and it freaked me out quite a bit, thinking they were all like that.

Re: Infamous/ hardest RC passages of all time

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 8:39 am
by mhaas
Anything regarding literature puts me to sleep.

Re: Infamous/ hardest RC passages of all time

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 9:47 am
by SteelPenguin
PT 36, passages 2 (Renaissance England and Latin) and 3 (homeostasis). For the first time ever, I read 2 consecutive passages and had no idea what I had read after a first read.

Re: Infamous/ hardest RC passages of all time

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 10:03 am
by vuthy
If you're talking passages, none. If you're talking questions after passages, the Dutch agricultural experiment thistle thing from somewhere in the 60s.

Re: Infamous/ hardest RC passages of all time

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 10:58 am
by crestor
mexican-american literature about corridos; missed 4 on this passage and 2 on the rest

Re: Infamous/ hardest RC passages of all time

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 11:33 am
by crestor
vuthy wrote:If you're talking passages, none. If you're talking questions after passages, the Dutch agricultural experiment thistle thing from somewhere in the 60s.
ceteris paribus?

Re: Infamous/ hardest RC passages of all time

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 11:37 am
by vuthy
crestor wrote:
vuthy wrote:If you're talking passages, none. If you're talking questions after passages, the Dutch agricultural experiment thistle thing from somewhere in the 60s.
ceteris paribus?
Oh my god. Seriously?

Re: Infamous/ hardest RC passages of all time

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 12:23 pm
by goldenboy514
I recall the one about ancient Navajo weaving pattern trends to be pretty shitty
Idk about the difficulty but it was pretty tedious and boring

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Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 12:51 pm
by 10052014
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Re: Infamous/ hardest RC passages of all time

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 7:06 pm
by Jeffort
jaylawyer09 wrote:
goldenboy514 wrote:I recall the one about ancient Navajo weaving pattern trends to be pretty shitty
Idk about the difficulty but it was pretty tedious and boring
yeah, i remember that one
Amsden thought the chief white antelope blanket was really important historically so I made a point to remember that fact forever and even googled it one night when bored to see what the big deal was. It turns out it really was a pretty important blanket in the scheme of things. Who knew?
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=chief+white+antelope+blanket

Re: Infamous/ hardest RC passages of all time

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 7:35 pm
by Kimikho
I'm an econ major. I've read David Warsh's book describing the Pin Factory/Invisible Hand paradox. I still missed five on the Pin Factory passage from PT 68.

I know the LSAT's not a knowledge test but that was a pretty sobering moment to say the least.

Re: Infamous/ hardest RC passages of all time

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 7:42 pm
by SteelPenguin
I've decided that RC 35-39 is harder than RC 60-69. I'm getting about 50% more wrong in the 30s than I did in the 60s.

Re: Infamous/ hardest RC passages of all time

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 8:12 pm
by wtrc
I really don't like the dental decay passages in PT 62.

But PT 62 was a tough test in general, I would say the toughest of any modern one (even though the -14 is the same as a few other tests).

Re: Infamous/ hardest RC passages of all time

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 8:43 pm
by jrsbaseball5
Jeffort wrote:
jaylawyer09 wrote:
goldenboy514 wrote:I recall the one about ancient Navajo weaving pattern trends to be pretty shitty
Idk about the difficulty but it was pretty tedious and boring
yeah, i remember that one
Amsden thought the chief white antelope blanket was really important historically so I made a point to remember that fact forever and even googled it one night when bored to see what the big deal was. It turns out it really was a pretty important blanket in the scheme of things. Who knew?
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=chief+white+antelope+blanket
Sometimes I feel like I learn things from the LSAT. Then I think that its just full of logical flaws and made up arguments and I feel like I'm being tricked.

I need this to end.

Re: Infamous/ hardest RC passages of all time

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 9:09 pm
by Jeffort
jrsbaseball5 wrote:
Jeffort wrote:
jaylawyer09 wrote:
goldenboy514 wrote:I recall the one about ancient Navajo weaving pattern trends to be pretty shitty
Idk about the difficulty but it was pretty tedious and boring
yeah, i remember that one
Amsden thought the chief white antelope blanket was really important historically so I made a point to remember that fact forever and even googled it one night when bored to see what the big deal was. It turns out it really was a pretty important blanket in the scheme of things. Who knew?
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=chief+white+antelope+blanket
Sometimes I feel like I learn things from the LSAT. Then I think that its just full of logical flaws and made up arguments and I feel like I'm being tricked.

I need this to end.
ha ha ha :P kinda like how you feel when in a love-hate relationship?

I've learned a ton of things I'd never otherwise have read about except in LSAT questions and find some of the stuff to be pretty interesting. I've come to the conclusion that the LSAT writers must watch a lot of the Discovery and related science channels. Frequently when I watch older Discovery channel shows there is stuff in them that I remember reading about in recent LR questions and/or RC passages.

Re: Infamous/ hardest RC passages of all time

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 9:28 pm
by crestor
what this thread is still missing is the asian-talk passage.

Re: Infamous/ hardest RC passages of all time

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 9:32 pm
by Jeffort
crestor wrote:what this thread is still missing is the asian-talk passage.
and the one about maize