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GMATNinjaSajjad1994I chose E for
Q1. The passage is primarily concerned with discussingHowever the answer is B,
When I feed the passage to chatGPT and ask the same question that also results in ans E
This happens a lot to me, I chose a passage summary which is wrong, but when I feed it to GPT, that comes with the exact same answer. What am I doing wrong every time?
Which version of chatGPT are you using? GPT-4 is a serious step up on these kinds of questions -- you can check out the graph on page 6 of
this document for details. GPT-3.5 is at about the 40th percentile on the LSAT, while GPT-4 is at about the 90th percentile.
Basically, don't trust GPT-3.5, and even with GPT-4 you should remain a bit skeptical. And sometimes,
GPT-style AI models can actually get worse over time.
For broad questions: the way to get an accurate sense of the passage overall is to ask yourself why the author wrote each paragraph, and how those paragraphs connect to one another.
As an example, this is how you could articulate the "why" of each paragraph for this passage:
Quote:
[*]Paragraph 1: The author gives us an "accepted view": Luminists were spiritual/transcendentalist.
[*]Paragraph 2: The author critiques this view: Luminists weren't transcendent. They actually muted emotions.
[*]Paragraph 3: Provides an example of the view in P2.
[*]Paragraph 4: Discusses the example in depth.
Then, use the process of elimination to move through the answer choices.
Here's (E):
Quote:
variations in the artistic treatment of light among nineteenth-century landscape painters
There are a couple of issues with (E). First, the author tells us that "the Luminists are distinguished by their focus on atmosphere and light." So, he/she isn't talking about a whole bunch of variations in the treatment of light from
different painters -- the only people that really care about light are the Luminists.
Second, while the author does briefly offer a (non-light-related) contrast between the Luminists and other painters, we don't know that those painters were around during the 19th century, as specified by (E). We just know that they painted "earlier" than the Luminists.
Eliminate (E) for question 1.
I hope that helps!