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by bramon.elizabeth
Thu Jan 10, 2013 1:18 pm
 
Forum: Section #4
Topic: Q11 - Beverage company representative:
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Q11 - Beverage company representative:

Hi, I'm having a problem seeing why C is a good answer. To me, we don't need to know that the animals will not get entangled before the rings dissolve - what if it gets stuck on their tails? They won't suffocate from that; he doesn't cite a one-to-one ratio of getting entangled --> suffocating. I...
by bramon.elizabeth
Fri Jan 11, 2013 11:44 am
 
Forum: Section #4
Topic: Q7 - Cumbersome spears
Replies: 7
Views: 3083
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Re: Q7 - Cumbersome spears

My concern is that choice E entails a classic LSAT pitfall: we have to assume that the arrowheads weren't already part of the spear. Can anyone help me find the evidence is that it was [b]developed[b] during the late Bronze Age? Am I reading the question wrong? I'm really cautious about answers to S...
by bramon.elizabeth
Mon Jan 14, 2013 2:11 pm
 
Forum: Section #2
Topic: Q12 - The higher the average fat
Replies: 22
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Re: Q12 - The higher the average fat

When we see "should" in the conclusion, can we still use conditional logic to express it? I think so, right? The problem is, if we express this conclusion as -c --> -f (contrapositive f-->c), answer choice C looks really attractive to me! (D) says there might be a different reason fo...
by bramon.elizabeth
Tue Jan 15, 2013 3:32 pm
 
Forum: Section #2
Topic: Q20 - Until about 400 million
Replies: 3
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Q20 - Until about 400 million

Hi! Could someone please help talk me out of answer (E)? I'm very partial to it because of the first sentence. Classic pitfall, I know, but here's my thinking: Bob turns to Joe and says, "Until four years ago, I was a banker!" Smarty pants Joe surmises that Bob is no longer a banker. LSAT ...
by bramon.elizabeth
Tue Jan 15, 2013 3:37 pm
 
Forum: Section #4
Topic: Q7 - Cumbersome spears
Replies: 7
Views: 3083
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Re: Q7 - Cumbersome spears

Thanks, guys!

Especially for going the extra mile to clean up that Strengthen/Inference train wreck I had going on there, tommywallach:)
by bramon.elizabeth
Sat Jan 19, 2013 10:08 pm
 
Forum: Passage #3 - Carbon Dioxide
Topic: Q21
Replies: 3
Views: 1243
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Q21

Quick question: When the passages uses "may" in its hypothesis, should we assume that Q21 is interpreting this as "will"? Otherwise the hypothesis as written gives lots of wiggle room, ie, it doesn't say for certain that the high photosynthetic plants will lose the advantage to l...
by bramon.elizabeth
Sun Jan 20, 2013 6:20 pm
 
Forum: Section #2
Topic: Q17 - A safety report indicates that
Replies: 8
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Re: Q17 - A safety report indicates that

I know this is an old post, but I'll give a crack at the explanation. Hopefully here we can see why (B), (C), and (D) contribute to an explanation. (A) is suspicious because it requires us to assume that driving faster is more dangerous, and that drivers are not all following the old speed limits. T...
by bramon.elizabeth
Mon Jan 21, 2013 1:26 pm
 
Forum: Passage #3 - Historical Sociology
Topic: Q17
Replies: 3
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Q17

For this question I chose (B) because (E) didn't seem directly supported by the passage. In line 30 or so it specifically says "partial determinant of an individual's actions," but it's not directly referring to contingencies, it's referring to the structures formed from these contingencie...
by bramon.elizabeth
Tue Jan 22, 2013 2:19 pm
 
Forum: Passage #2 - Countee Cullen
Topic: Q11
Replies: 4
Views: 1446
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Re: Q11

I'm testing out a theory that actually worked for this question, so I'll share and I'd love to hear some MLSAT feedback :0) The previous poster's reasoning for eliminating (E) is terrific, but I came at it another way. My theory is that when you have two really attractive answer choices but reading ...
by bramon.elizabeth
Tue Jan 22, 2013 6:19 pm
 
Forum: Section #1
Topic: Q23 - Perception cannot be a relationship
Replies: 19
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Re: Q23 - Perception cannot be a relationship

The answer has a mistaken reversal though, right? Whereas the original doesn't. That's the kind of thing that would normally be a red flag on the LSAT, so why is it ok here?

Sorry to resurrect another old post...i just don't want to get questions like this wrong again;)
by bramon.elizabeth
Wed Jan 23, 2013 11:45 pm
 
Forum: Passage #1 - Thurgood Marshall and Public Interest Law
Topic: Q4
Replies: 4
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Q4

I chose (E) because the way in which Marshall chose the plaintiffs was necessarily subjective - he had to evaluate their emotional appeal, etc., which I can't picture anyone doing objectively. What am I missing?

Thanks!
by bramon.elizabeth
Thu Jan 24, 2013 2:32 pm
 
Forum: Section #2
Topic: Q15 - Kendrick: Governments that try
Replies: 10
Views: 5645
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Re: Q15 - Kendrick: Governments that try

Can you show how (E) violates the first sentence? I pictured restrictions as rules (like "must include surgeon general's warning"), not as limitations on where and how often the ads occur. If restrictions actually refer to the latter, and exclude the former possibility, it would make sense...
by bramon.elizabeth
Sat Feb 02, 2013 2:21 pm
 
Forum: Section #2
Topic: Q24 - Over 40,000 lead seals from
Replies: 14
Views: 15065
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Re: Q24 - Over 40,000 lead seals from

M problem with this one was maybe similar to chike_eze's. If I think of "authenticated" as distinct from sealing a document, everything makes sense. Authenticating (say, notarizing) something would mean using the seal over and over again, or maybe keeping the seal in a museum because of th...
by bramon.elizabeth
Sat Feb 02, 2013 7:59 pm
 
Forum: Section #2
Topic: Q13 - Administrators of educational institutions are
Replies: 11
Views: 3977
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Re: Q13 - Administrators of educational institutions are

Would someone mind posting the argument core?

Thank you!