The core of this argument is buried in a relatively lengthy passage. The conclusion is in the last sentence (the critics were right), but it refers back to the third sentence. The conclusion is that the museum lost first-rate pieces of art. What premise is that based on? Again, there's a lot of clut...

This is an inference question that asks us to determine the opinion of someone who is not the author. The people in lines 51-55 believe that writing down traditional languages is misguided and unnecessary. (A) focuses on the idea of it being unnecessary: if we don't do it, these languages will still...

Great explanation! It's clear you really understand the problem. I'm going to do a quick summary for others who are confused. Diagram of argument core: Percentage of British people who travel has increased --> Average amount of money British people have to spend on travel has increased The gap is...

Good to keep everyone on their toes with some conditional practice. Be careful though, not all of these are conditional statements. Mary will go to the Shop or watch a movie W or S or both (could be part of a conditional - on the LSAT, or includes both unless otherwise noted) Mary will either go to ...

Tough problem, thanks for posting your question. Here's my diagram of the argument core: Heirs often publish works writers don't want published after they are dead ---> Authors who decide not to publish something should destroy it immediately The problematic term shift here relates to time. If au...

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This is a necessary assumption question so the assumption might be difficult to anticipate. We still want to diagram the core and look for a gap. Your core is right on: Organic farm requires more land than farming with chemicals --> Organic farming leaves less land as a habitat for local wildlife...

The argument core is a little tricky to pull out of this lengthy stimulus. I think this argument has two separate premises: "Fresh Thinking" proposals are the same as Tsarque's proposals + Tsarque is a polluting company --> Let's ignore the "Fresh Thinking" proposals The sassy...

It's never as satisfying to get the answer right by guessing. The core is: English poets ignore syllable count in Haiku --> English poets don't respect foreign traditions Does this argument seem a little rash? Couldn't English poets just be bad at math? Or maybe the English don't like the Japanes...

This is a classic flaw question. Your core is correct: several people older than Sullivan have gotten promotions --> Sullivan was not passed over because he was older than his competition The gap here has to do with using the experience of Sullivan's co-workers to tell me why Sullivan was passed ...

Generally speaking, correct answers to necessary assumption questions show a lot of variety. For that reason, we caution our students about dismissing answer choices as out of scope without really understanding how they might affect the argument. I don’t tell my students to focus on seemingly out of...

Thank you for asking about this tough question. The LSAT has put an Identify the Disagreement question in RC---tough break! This question just asks for our understanding of the last section of the passage (lines 50-60). The first step is to figure out what Stone is saying. The Stones have a full arg...

The trick to this question is that they are looking for a local inference and not a general inference. The question asks for the author's opinion about the definition of a refugee in the constitution of the International Refugee Organization . Lines 21-28 show that the I.R.O. was missing this "...

This is a good question that shows how answers that seem out of scope at first can still be the correct answer to Necessary Assumption questions. I think your diagram of the argument core is missing a premise. In 1519, game was played with rubber ball + Mexicans started using rubber in 1000 --> G...

It's easy to get turned around on an except question like this one. Read the question stem carefully: four answer choices will weaken the argument and one will either have no effect or strengthen it. The argument core is: Increase in workplace injury claims after the plant closed --> Workers file...

If you are often choosing premise boosters on assumption questions, it could be because you aren't fully understanding the gap in the argument before you look at the answers. While you may not be able to predict necessary assumptions (which can often seem out of scope at first), finding the gap in t...

Let’s start with the stimulus. 20% of the population has some desirable personality trait (let’s call it likeability), but only 5% of teachers do. Therefore, people with this likeability trait are being discouraged in some way from becoming teachers. For a weaken question like this one, we need to f...

From your question, it looks like you are actually asking about Q14 from Section 4. I am moving your post accordingly. Let me know if you actually would like Q14 from Section 2. This question asks us to weaken the argument put forward by the government officials. So the first step is to be clear abo...

Perhaps the problem here is that there was a typo in your answer key. If that’s not the case, see the explanation below: The core of this argument contains some big words but is deceptively simple. People have superior cognitive functions → They can only be made happy by things that involve gratif...

This is a great question. It really tests our understanding of which inferences are valid and which are not. The core is fairly easy to diagram. Not all tenured faculty are full professors + All linguistics profs have tenure → Some linguistics profs aren’t full professors The first step on Match t...