PT1 S4 q6 Forum
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HeirCroc
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PT1 S4 q6
I reasoned out why A,B,C and E are wrong but I don't see why D is the correct answer. In fact, it seems wrong. Why does Europe NEED to train people in order to become economically more successful? Couldn't they become economically more successful some other way? This seems like a classic LSAT trick of using too strong of a word (need) for it to be a proper inference, but it's TCR
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Christine (MLSAT)
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Re: PT1 S4 q6
Interesting question, HeirCroc. To be honest, I think this question suffers a great deal from EarlyPrepTestDisorder.
Here's what I think they originally meant for the question to highlight:
The first sentence tells us that the [most successful economies] are those that [train as many peeps as possible in new tech]. This is a conditional relationship, at its heart: If [one of the most successful economies] --> [train as many peeps as possible in new tech]. We then find out that Europe is not training as many peeps as possible in the new tech ("shortage"). So, that must mean that, at the current moment, Europe is not one of the most successful economies.
What we can absolutely infer here is that in order for Europe to become one of the most successful economies, it would need to train more people in new tech.
We can't, strictly speaking, prove that it would need to do so just to become vaguely 'more successful'. If we had read the original sentence more loosely though, we might have come up with something like "If success --> training", or a correlation relationship "the more success a country has, the more training it must have". If we'd used one of those (poorer) lenses, (D) would have seemed more attractive.
The real moral of this story is that all the other answers are wildly, egregiously wrong. If you're ever faced with this kind of situation on test day, you just pick the 'not egregiously wrong' answer and move on. In terms of studying now, I wouldn't take a funky question from PrepTest 1 too much to heart in terms of pattern recognition for the future.
Here's what I think they originally meant for the question to highlight:
The first sentence tells us that the [most successful economies] are those that [train as many peeps as possible in new tech]. This is a conditional relationship, at its heart: If [one of the most successful economies] --> [train as many peeps as possible in new tech]. We then find out that Europe is not training as many peeps as possible in the new tech ("shortage"). So, that must mean that, at the current moment, Europe is not one of the most successful economies.
What we can absolutely infer here is that in order for Europe to become one of the most successful economies, it would need to train more people in new tech.
We can't, strictly speaking, prove that it would need to do so just to become vaguely 'more successful'. If we had read the original sentence more loosely though, we might have come up with something like "If success --> training", or a correlation relationship "the more success a country has, the more training it must have". If we'd used one of those (poorer) lenses, (D) would have seemed more attractive.
The real moral of this story is that all the other answers are wildly, egregiously wrong. If you're ever faced with this kind of situation on test day, you just pick the 'not egregiously wrong' answer and move on. In terms of studying now, I wouldn't take a funky question from PrepTest 1 too much to heart in terms of pattern recognition for the future.
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HeirCroc
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Re: PT1 S4 q6
Christine,
thanks for the help. That makes sense. I got really caught up on the 'more successful' thing because I'm very used to the precision of the LSAT and normally wording like this is intended as a trick. As you noted, though, the rest of the answers are just wrong. I was wondering if it was an early PT thing. Also, I think you're right about their intentions for the question.
Thanks!
thanks for the help. That makes sense. I got really caught up on the 'more successful' thing because I'm very used to the precision of the LSAT and normally wording like this is intended as a trick. As you noted, though, the rest of the answers are just wrong. I was wondering if it was an early PT thing. Also, I think you're right about their intentions for the question.
Thanks!
