LSAT PrepTest 75 Unlocked

Exclusive Data, Analysis & Explanations for the June 2015 LSAT

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• Publisher: Kaplan Test Prep
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781506212906
• Topic: Study Aids
• Subtopic: LSAT Study Guides

Kaplan's LSAT PrepTest 75 Unlocked features comprehensive explanations for every question in the LSAC's Official LSAT PrepTest 75. Reviewing a practice test is the key to improving your score, and in PrepTest 75 Unlocked Kaplan's LSAT experts deconstruct the June 2015 LSAT to help you learn why you missed questions and how to get the right answers more efficiently. Note: PrepTest 75 is not included in this book. You'll needto purchase that separately. The Best Review

• Complete explanations for every question and answer choice
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LSAT PrepTest 75

Section I: Logical Reasoning

Q#	Question Type	Correct	Difficulty
1	Assumption (Necessary)	B	★
2	Principle (Identify/Strengthen)	C	★
3	Assumption (Necessary)	A	★
4	Method of Argument	E	★★
5	Weaken	C	★
6	Paradox	D	★★
7	Flaw	E	★
8	Main Point	C	★
9	Strengthen	A	★
10	Principle (Identify/Strengthen)	E	★
11	Weaken	D	★★
12	Flaw	D	★★
13	Inference	C	★★★★
14	Role of a Statement	A	★
15	Strengthen	C	★★★★
16	Role of a Statement	C	★
17	Inference	D	★★★
18	Flaw	B	★★
19	Paradox	B	★
20	Inference	E	★★
21	Strengthen	B	★★★
22	Parallel Flaw	C	★★★★
23	Assumption (Sufficient)	C	★★★
24	Flaw	E	★★★
25	Parallel Reasoning	A	★★★★

1. (B) Assumption (Necessary)
   Step 1: Identify the Question Type

   This is a Necessary Assumption question because it asks for the assumption that the argument requires.

   Step 2: Untangle the Stimulus

   The pundit concludes that the city erred when it sold the right to assess parking fees to a private company. The evidence is that the private company has made huge profits from raising parking fees—profits that the pundit says could have gone to the city.

   Step 3: Make a Prediction

   In order for the pundit’s conclusion to be valid, one has to assume that the city had the same capacity as the private company to raise parking fees.

   Step 4: Evaluate the Answer Choices

   (B) matches this prediction perfectly. Remember that on Necessary Assumption questions, the Denial Test is a great way to double-check your answer or to evaluate an answer choice if prediction is tough. In this case, to deny (B) would be to say that the city could not have raised parking fees had it not sold away the rights. If that’s the case, the city would never have seen that extra money, and the pundit’s argument is in jeopardy.

   (A) is Outside the Scope. The pundit is concerned with whether or not the city made a mistake to sell the rights at all, not with how many companies were willing to pay for those rights.

   (C) is Extreme. It broadens the issue to say all municipal functions “should always” be handled by the municipality. However, the pundit’s argument focuses specifically on one function, so (C) doesn’t have to be true for the argument to work.

   (D) is not necessary for the argument to be valid. Using the Denial Test, even if the revenue from parking fees is the only factor to consider when setting rates, the pundit can still argue that it was a mistake for the city to privatize parking fee collection. After all, in the pundit’s case, the only consideration was about how much revenue the private companies have been able to raise.

   (E) is Outside the Scope. The relative efficiency of private companies versus city officials when it comes to parking fees is not at issue.
2. (C) Principle (Identify/Strengthen)
   Step 1: Identify the Question Type

   The phrase “[w]hich one of the following principles” identifies this as an Identify the Principle question. Furthermore, “justify the reasoning” indicates that the correct answer will be a broadly stated principle that strengthens the argument.

   Step 2: Untangle the Stimulus

   The argument’s conclusion is signaled by therefore: popular science publications should stop trying to reach a wide audience with their explanations of new scientific developments. The evidence describes a dilemma: when these publications try to reach wide audiences, they skimp on scientific accuracy. When they aim for more scientific rigor, they succeed but lose their broad appeal.

   Step 3: Make a Prediction

   In order for its recommendation to be valid, the argument assumes that getting the science right is a more important goal to achieve than appealing to a broad swath of the public. The correct answer will be a general principle supporting this.

   Step 4: Evaluate the Answer Choices

   (C) is worded in the negative, but says the exact same thing as the prediction.

   (A) could help publications reconcile the goal of reaching a wide audience with that of staying scientifically accurate, but the author recommends disregarding wide audi...

Table of contents

• The Kaplan Companion to LSAT PrepTest 75
• Introduction: How to Use Kaplan LSAT Explanations
• Preptest 75: The Inside Story
• Preptest 75: PrepTest 75 Explanations
• Glossary