Dear Patrick, Regarding this aspect of your written answer "Choice (C) is saying that the author had no evidence of opposition to the bill, so he concluded that people must support the bill. The actual argument said that there is evidence of opposition to high taxes, so people must support this...

Dear Lsat gurus, A lot of answer choices have reversals (Mistakes sufficient condition for necessary condition). Is there ever a situation where an answer choice reverses the order of the sufficient/necessary within the reversal, and therefore became a wrong answer? For example, the stimulus in actu...

I think there's a really quick way to solve this question, and I would like your opinion on this. A, B, D, E have uncertainties in its concluding statements; "I Guess or I expect" is a degree of uncertainty shown by the answer choices, whereas C has a definitive concluding statement. The s...

I am currently taking a 1L law school class as an undergrad. I will be getting law school grading (Honors, pass, etc). Will the grade I get in this class be factored into the numerical LSAC GPA? For example, will a pass be considered a "B" in the lsac gpa or a 3.0? Thank you for your input.

Aren't mistaken reversal and mistaken negation the same thing? They seem to be contrapositives of each other. This is why I am puzzled with question 7 from PT 16. I'm not really trying to ask the answer to a specific question here, but I'm curious about why the explanation on the board says that AC)...

Causal relationships, by its nature, I believe indicates their biconditionality. my question is about alternate causes. Say that A causes B. But it can also be that C causes B. Does this fact, that C causes B, necessarily rule out the fact that A can also cause B? That is, if C and A do not necessar...

I think that you can say two things are 'connected' if they are both symptoms/effects of the same underlying cause. On LSAT test day, Marcia experienced both a higher heart rate and sweaty palms. Were those two phenomena connected? Yes, they were both the result of feeling stressed that she didn't ...

Just to make sure I'm on the right footing for in/out games. There are two biconditional types. One is where both are in or both are out, like A <--> B. The other, is where A and B simply switches places, like A<--> Not B. By switching places, I mean A is in B is out, and B is in and A i...

There are some questions that say, A can only be attributed to B. For example, a sentence might be constructed like the following: being good at sports can only be attributed to one's genes. Logically thinking, would this be the equivalent to A only if B (If you are good at sports, then it is due to...

Dear lsat gurus, I've noticed many questions in the lsat that have complex conditional/formal logic structures. An example would be this statement: "If there are sentient being on planets outside our solar system, we will not be able to determine this anytime in the near future UNLESS some of t...

I realize this is an old post, but I wanted to ask something that I may not be quite grasping just yet. The criteria for determining whether we should choose the computer translation program over human translation seem to be: 1. speed 2. stylistic uniformity. Accuracy doesn't seem to be a criteria,...

Dear Mary, I have a question regarding the flaw of the argument, not the answer choice. In analyzing Most A-->B, Most B-->C, therefore AL one A must be C, would the flaw be something along the lines of: If there was a sufficiently small pool of A, and a very large pool of B, to the point where...

Dear Noah, I had an inquiry over solving this question. How I solved it was: A: approx age, B: comfort. Premise: A--> B Conclusion: ~A--> ~B. The problem with this is similar to confusing the sufficient condition with the necessary condition. Essentially the flaw is negation. But in order to s...

Dear Patrick, In explaining implied causality, you mentioned the following example "chewing gum increases your score on geometry tests." If causal statements can be represented with conditional statements, then would chewing gum --> increasing score make sense? If you chew gum, then it ...

Rina, if I may, I think there is a flaw in the explanation that you have supported. There is no information about the northern region, but the important thing is that answer choice D says Dinosaurs DID NOT inhabit the northern region. It's not that dinosaurs could've lived in the northern region. Ra...

Is it safe to conclude that Or encompasses more than And, in the sense that And is included in Or? For example, in PT 25 S4 Q14, the stimulus says "...books will almost certainly contribute to the intellectual and emotional enrichment..." Answer D says "blah blah blah... either intell...

I'm having trouble identifying what's the sufficient and what's the necessary in certain unclear/complex sentence structures that use the word only. for example: The only risky projects undertaken are those for which a single individual has decision-making power. The 'only' here definitely modifies ...

How is B unsupported? second sentence says "claimed that any given individual molecule of substance can activate at most one sweetness receptor..." B says that in sufficient quantity, the molecules of any substance can activate a sweetness receptor. Is the given molecule different from mol...

I have the same question as the above poster. The RC passage specifically mentions both individuals and groups.

When an answer choice directly contradicts what is mentioned in the passage, how is this seriously undermining something? Isn't it falsifying a given information?