lsatadam.bsky.social
LSAT Instructor, dog lover, coffee drinker, Star Trek watcher. Looking forward to living in a van down by the river.
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But that doesn't mean you should just reject it out of hand! Sometimes, albeit rarely, it's exactly what the argument did. Just be careful about that answer choice. Be skeptical when you read it, especially when it isn't what you predicted. And rethink that prediction if that's what you think it is.
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Too many students leap at the overgeneralization answer on reflex, as if every argument is bad because the conclusion is too general. Don't make that mistake. There's usually something else wrong with the argument, and it isn't actually generalizing at all.
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This is frequently confused for a part-to-whole flaw, where the evidence is about all the parts and the conclusion is about the group as a whole. All the members of a group are good, so it must be a good group, etc. That's not an overgeneralization.
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I hang out in just one subreddit, and literally nobody is talking about Bluesky or X. They just all hate LSAC and want an inexpensive tutor.
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Very snobby institution. No President has ever spoken at their commencement. No Supreme Court Justice has been invited to speak to the student body. They don't even allow visitors to sit in on their classes!
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Very exclusive, extremely hard to get into. I've had dozens of students admitted to Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, Chicago, etc., none of whom even got a response from Princeton.
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Interesting! That's the opposite of what someone once told me. The only Bubba I've ever known personally was the second child in his family, so I figured that matched my understanding and had to be correct.
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My brother-in-law, Chip, whose actual name is a II instead of a junior, would endorse this.
Since you seem to know fun stuff like this, do you know if it's true that "Bubba" is generally a nickname for a male second child, aka Baby Brother? That's what I've always heard.
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Twinning!
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Been there, drank that, took the nap.
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If the passage didn't address the issue, it's a wrong answer.
If the author discussed it but didn't take a position one way or the other, it's a wrong answer.
And of course, if the author would clearly agree with it, it's a wrong answer.
The right answer conflicts with what the author said.
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That's exactly what we did after our first dog passed years ago, and our other dog was depressed. She did not appreciate the new addition, and still only barely puts up with her.
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Yes, but not just that one. There are a lot of questions just like it! There are common patterns, and this is one of them. Learn the patterns, and you'll be prepared the next time they ask one!
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A report says something should be true, but it's not true? What caused the report to be wrong?
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Something supposedly good happened, but things got worse? What could have made it worse?
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Predators showed up, and the prey species flourished? What did the predators do to help the prey?
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My favorite pic of Coconut, who has now been gone for more years than I had her. Some dogs are just a little more special, aren't they?