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Hi guys, can you tell me what is the difficulty level of Q4?
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Hi guys, can you tell me what is the difficulty level of Q4?

The difficulty Level of question #4 is Hard 700-Level.
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Read explanation to question #7 here in the post in the link below.

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For 7 I am unconvinced by E.
(E) illustrate a common misconception concerning an important characteristic of Lane’s paintings mode

Isn't "Lane's painting mode" the way he painted - I.E the tools, approach or technique of Lane's paintings. I would agree that he seeks to illustrate a misconception concerning the significance/or meaning. I mean you can stretch the meaning of mode to say whether Lane painted deliberately to display either spirituality/advance of trade (and not something that is subconsciously reflected) but that's not really in the passage. And even if Lane deliberately sat down to paint with an agenda, the author isn't illustrating that fact with the quote.

If I had to answer the question I would say the author included the quote to trace the origins and highlight the misunderstanding.
(D) explain why the development of Luminism coincided with that of spiritualism.
D is more aligned with that. Traditional view posits these developments were simultaneous ergo they were connected. The author attempts to diminish this by explaining why they coincide - well sure the developments coincided, but that is a coincidence because the development of spirtualism also coincided with the development of commerce which the true root of Luminism.

If someone argued ice cream consumption trends cause people to go in the pool. You might explain why they coincide by saying well people eat ice cream at the same time as it is hot, which is actually what leads people to go to the pool
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I chose E for Q1. The passage is primarily concerned with discussing

However 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:

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[*]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):

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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!
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