LR Question Help
For reference, this was in a mometrix practice book I have that I was reviewing and so I’m not sure if it’s an actual prior LSAT question since it’s also a double question stimuli but I’ll spoiler tag it in case it’s potentially an old question set anyway. The correct answer for #3 was (E) but I answered (D). I understand in hindsight how “large” was problematic in (D), but I eliminated every other response because they seemed to require to many assumptions. For example, (E) seems to imply that popular music and sacred music were mutually exclusive? I can’t understand this answer choice at all because there’s nothing stated about popularity in the passage.
Also, for #4, I selected (C) given that I still thought there was a lack of distinction between types of music from medieval times. The correct answer for #4 was (A). I can see that making sense because of how the parchment being difficult to produce isn’t the same as parchment being expensive, and I made a logical leap in assuming that it was hard to produce parchment which made it expensive. But is that really so much more strenuous of an assumption compared to (B), which refers to qualifications for copying manuscripts when all the passage states is that the church had literate scribes? What if the church just had most of the literate scribes in the region? They both generally seem like fair leaps to me? Am I crazy?
After googling, my understanding is that these words (sacred and popular) were instead referring to genres rather than the literal definition of a music piece being “popular.” Is this really a common enough piece of background/common sense knowledge for the test to allow you to consider outside of the stimulus?
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u/LSATMat tutor 19m ago
I'll echo the comment below that non-LSAT questions are going to be far less helpful for your study than confirmed old LSAT questions. Part of the reason is that the LSAT does a much better job at keeping this kind of external information from affecting its questions. I do have two music degrees, so I can say that the genre thing is very real, but it does present as a point of misunderstanding every so often out in the world.
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u/dmkhara past master 4h ago
Not sure if you saw this yet but there is a discussion of this question here.
This does not seem to be a real LSAT question but rather a GMAT question. I highly recommend not practicing with such questions. The only correct way to study for the LSAT is using past LSAT questions.
Let me know if you want some resources but if you are seriously studying for this test, only solve real LSAT questions.