Q26

[mornincounselor]

I thought for sure this was a trick question. I didn't think the passage actually says a person who consumes this drug is "unlikely to crave" carbs, rather the passage says that it "selectivally suppresses" carbohydrate snacking.

The passage doesn't tell us these people stop craving all carbs, further the word "selectivally" suggests to me that some carbs are still craved.

Combined with the question number I was sure this question would refer to a two layer deep inference. I eliminated (A), (B), and (D), eliminated (C) for the above reasons and went with (E) without checking.

[ohthatpatrick]

Wow, that's pretty bold: I don't think I've EVER picked an RC answer choice simply by eliminating the other four. In Games, sure, but not in LR or RC. I need some confirmation that I like the answer I'm picking because it's too easy to be fooled into missing the correct answer in our first four eliminations.

I'm not sure what you think the question number has to do with the difficulty. There's not a difficulty curve in RC that says "later question = harder". In general, the earlier passages might be somewhat easier than the later ones. But for each passage, there will be easy/medium/hard questions, and there's no preset order to how you get those.

Most of the time with Inference, it's super helpful to just remind yourself that you're stuck with the available information.

What do I know about d-fen? I know it selectively suppresses carbohydrate snacking in people who crave carbohydrates.

You said:
I thought for sure this was a trick question. I didn't think the passage actually says a person who consumes this drug is "unlikely to crave" carbs, rather the passage says that it "selectivally suppresses" carbohydrate snacking. The passage doesn't tell us these people stop craving all carbs, further the word "selectivally" suggests to me that some carbs are still craved.

It's an Inference question, so the correct answer isn't a direct or equivalent rephrasing ... it's just the most supportable inference.

The one piece of info we have about d-fen says NOTHING about "gaining weight" / "sleepiness" / "insulin secretion". So although (C) isn't perfect, it's way more supportable than the others.

The "selectively suppresses" isn't saying it suppresses cravings for some carbs but not for others. It's saying it suppresses cravings for carbs, but not for other types of food (like protein ... based on the context of the 3nd Paragraph).

I understand your paranoia about picking (C); it DOES seem like it might be a trap (or too easy to be correct). But what's the alternative? We only have one sentence of information about d-fen and the only supportable answer choice is (C).

One of our teachers has a great saying that "sometimes we have to let the easy stuff be easy." So much of LSAT involves trickery, that when we see a somewhat obvious correct answer, we want to second guess it. But sometimes it just IS a pretty straightforward question. (And you probably would have forced yourself to come to that conclusion had you considered E without blindly picking it)

Hope this helps.