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Got the 6th one wrong.As always LSAT questions are really good ones.

Some help for Q6).How can E be inferred.I am lost totally on this one.
Choice E is inferred from the last line - Finally, since photography preempted painting as the means of obtaining portraits, painters had more freedom to vary their subject matter, thus giving rise to the abstract creations characteristic of modern art. In other words, Photographic technologies enabled painters to free some time from painting portraits (literal depiction of objects) and hence painters were able to focus more on other subject matters. LSAT uses sneaky synonyms to confuse test takers. :)
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Got the 6th one wrong.As always LSAT questions are really good ones.

Some help for Q6).How can E be inferred.I am lost totally on this one.
Same here. Still not very convinced. My choice was D.

Can someone tell me why is D incorrect here?
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Hi everyone,
Took 13:30 minutes and got 4/6 correct. Took 4:30 minutes to read, write down paragraphs summaries and main point.

P1: Developments in ET lead to benefits for art
P2: Critics against ET in arts and Objection to those critics
P3: Provide an example to support the objection to those critics

MP: To evaluate ET in arts/ To establish that ET in arts is beneficial


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Q1. Which one of the following statements best expresses the main idea of the passage?

Pre-thinking
Refer to main point above to analyze the answer choices

(A) The progress of art relies primarily on technology.
Primarily is wrong. Hence incorrect

(B) Technological innovation can be beneficial to art.
In line with pre-thinking. Hence incorrect

(C) There are risks associated with using technology to create art.
This is according to the critics in P2 but the author is against the critics' position. Hence incorrect

(D) Technology will transform the way the public responds to art.
This is more of a concern than a certainty. Hence incorrect

(E) The relationship between art and technology has a lengthy history.
In P3 some information of the sort is given as an example but that information is used to proven the critics wrong and to suggest that ET is beneficial to art. Hence incorrect

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Q2. It can be inferred from the passage that the author shares which one of the following opinions with the opponents of the use of new technology in art?

Pre-thinking
Refer to this portion of P2: "By Contrast, others claim that technology subverts the artistic enterprise:" Then the author talks about the musical performance so we can infer that the musical performance according to the author is important for the artistic enterprise.


(A) The live performance is an important aspect of the artistic enterprise.
In line with pre-thinking. Hence correct

(B) The public’s commitment to the artistic enterprise is questionable.
When commitment is mentioned the author refers to "us". So first the public is just part of "us" and we need to take into consideration also the performers and the people working in the artistic enterprise. Secondly the author shares the opposite idea compared to the critics on this subject. Hence incorrect

(C) Recent technological innovations present an entirely new sort of challenge to art.
Here entirely new doesn't work because it is never mentioned that the challenge at hand is completely new. Hence incorrect

(D) Technological innovations of the past have been very useful to artists.
Out of the context since mentioned in P3. Hence incorrect

(E) The performing arts are especially vulnerable to technological innovation.
Again the author disagrees on this with the critics. Hence incorrect


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Q3. Which one of the following, if true, would most undermine the position held by opponents of the use of new technology in art concerning the effect of technology on live performance?

Pre-thinking
Refer to P2 and especially focus on the critics' view. So we know that major threats that technology poses to art enterprises are a worse relation between performer and interviewer and the total elimination of live performances. So any option suggesting that technology would not lead to these scenarios will weaken the critics' view

(A) Surveys show that when recordings of performances are made available for home viewing, the public becomes far more knowledgeable about different performing artists.
This choice does not deal with the objections made by the critics to technology. Hence incorrect

(B) Surveys show that some people feel comfortable responding spontaneously to artistic performances when they are viewing recordings of those performances at home.
The critics' concern is the decrease in originality on the performer side. The public reactions are outside of the scope her. Hence incorrect

(C) After a live performance, sales of recordings for home viewing of the particular performing artist generally increase.
Sales are outside of the scope of the critics' concern. Hence incorrect

(D) The distribution of recordings of artists’ performances has begun to attract many new audience members to their live performances.
This option suggests that people would be attracted to more live performances, decreasing the belief in the critics concern that live performances could be eliminated. Hence correct

(E) Musicians are less apt to make creative changes in musical pieces during recorded performances than during live performances.
This strengthen the critics' point of view. Hence incorrect.


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Q4. The author uses the example of the SteadicamTM primarily in order to suggest that

Pre-thinking
Refer to P1 and especially to: "Such new technologies create new ways of seeing and hearing by adding different dimensions to older forms, rather than replacing those forms." Clearly this is an example used to prove the mentioned lines

(A) the filming of performances should not be limited by inadequate equipment
Never mentioned. Hence incorrect.

(B) new technologies do not need to be very complex in order to benefit art
Not in line with pre-thinking. Hence incorrect

(C) the interaction of a traditional art form with a new technology will change attitudes toward technology in general
Not in line with pre-thinking. Hence incorrect

(D) the replacement of a traditional technology with a new technology will transform definitions of a traditional art form
Not in line with pre-thinking. Hence incorrect

(E) new technology does not so much preempt as enhance a traditional art form
In line with pre-thinking. Hence correct

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Q5. According to the passage, proponents of the use of new electronic technology in the arts claim that which one of the following is true?

Pre-thinking
Refer to all passage except for the critics' view to answer this question

(A) Most people who reject the use of electronic technology in art forget that machines require a person to operate them.
ever mentioned. Hence incorrect

(B) Electronic technology allows for the expansion of archives because longer performances can be recorded.
Inconsistent because of the adjective "longer". Longer performances are never mentioned. Hence incorrect

(C) Electronic technology assists artists in finding new ways to present their material.
Refer to the first passage when the new camera is presented. That was a new way of presenting art. Hence correct

(D) Electronic technology makes the practice of any art form more efficient by speeding up the creative process.
Too extreme because of the any. The passage never says that ALL arts form will be benefitted. Hence incorrect

(E) Modern dance is the art form that will probably benefit most from the use of electronic technology.
Inconsistent because of the "most". It was never mentioned that dance was the most benefit. Hence incorrect


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Q6. It can be inferred from the passage that the author would agree with which one of the following statements regarding changes in painting since the nineteenth century?

Pre-thinking
Refer to the last paragraph to answer this question.
#1 impressionists used technology to make a more accurate painting. They could depict reality in a more accurate way because of photography.
#2 more able to convey the spontaneous element in human actions
#3 No longer static painting but painting about fragments
#4 Since photography takes care of the task of portraying very accurately a landscape or whatever, artists can now focus on the subjects


(A) The artistic experiments of the nineteenth century led painters to use a variety of methods in creating portraits, which they then applied to other subject matter.
Artistic experiments not mentioned. Hence incorrect

(B) The nineteenth-century knowledge of light and movement provided by photography inspired the abstract works characteristic of modern art.
Inconsistent because of abstract. refer to point #1 in pre-thinking. Hence incorrect

(C) Once painters no longer felt that they had to paint conventional portraits, they turned exclusively to abstract portraiture.
Okay for the first part of this choice. Inconsistent the second because of "exclusively.". Hence incorrect

(D) Once painters were less limited to the impressionist style, they were able to experiment with a variety of styles of abstract art.
I think inconsistent because of Impressionist style. The last lines of last paragraph talk about painters in general. Hence incorrect

(E) Once painters painted fewer conventional portraits, they had greater opportunity to move beyond the literal depiction of objects.
Correct as in line with point #4 of pre-thinking Hence correct



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SajjadAhmad, can you please post the Official Explanation for Q2 and Q4?
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SajjadAhmad, can you please post the Official Explanation for Q2 and Q4?

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Q2. It can be inferred from the passage that the author shares which one of the following opinions with the opponents of the use of new technology in art?

Difficulty Level: 700

Explanation

Here the key to the question is the word “opponents” — you’re not just inferring the author’s opinion of something, as you usually are in inference questions; you’re inferring in what way the author agrees with her opponents. According to Paragraph 2, the opponents of techology worry about two things: that technology impedes creativity, and that it will eliminate live performances “altogether.” The author then disagrees with this second point by saying that we are sufficiently committed to art to preserve the live performance. She would not address the worry about live performances by saying that “we” will preserve them unless she believed that they were important.

In other words, she must agree with (A), or she would dismiss the opponents’ fears by saying “Live performances aren’t important.”

(B) comes from the same sentence as (A); the difference is that the author calls it cynical to assume that the public lacks commitment, so she hardly feels that the public commitment is “questionable.”

(C) also comes from the same part of Paragraph 2, but again the key is understanding that the author dismisses the fears of her opponents. She says that her opponents act as if technology is an unprecedented challenge to art — and then calls that attitude “cynical.”

(D) is an opinion that this author holds, but her opponents do not.

(E) contradicts the spirit of the main idea of the passage — that art is not vulnerable in some destructive way to technology, but rather is enhanced by it. Worse yet, it’s outside the scope of the passage. To say that the performing arts are “especially” vulnerable suggests some sort of contrast with something “less” vulnerable, but this passage sticks exclusively to technology and the arts.

Answer: A

Q4. The author uses the example of the SteadicamTM primarily in order to suggest that

Difficulty Level: 700

Explanation

The Steadicam appears in Paragraph 1, the one that lays out the “tech is good” position. While several of the choices have a positive tone towards the relationship of art and technology, (E) is the only one that harmonizes thoroughly with the author’s basic position: Tech improves, instead of hurting, traditional art forms.

(A) is a true statement, but this question is really asking about how the Steadicam supports the author’s argument in Paragraph 1. The argument concerns the interrelation of art and technology, not the quality of the tech equipment.

(B) picks up on a detail in Paragraph 1 — that the Steadicam is “uncomplicated” — but that quality isn’t the reason the author mentions the Steadicam.

“Technology in general” is way too broad in scope for any part of this passage, so (C) is incorrect.

(D) picks up an idea from Paragraph 3 — that the camera transformed Impressionist art and painting in general — and makes it into a general principle this author allegedly supports by talking about the Steadicam. Wrong! This focus on “types of technology” is inappropriate to the passage anyway.

Answer: E

PS: This explanation belongs to Kaplan Test Prep.
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can someone please explain Q6
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can someone please explain Q6
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Q6. It can be inferred from the passage that the author would agree with which one of the following statements regarding changes in painting since the nineteenth century?

Difficulty Level: 750

Explanation

Painting since the 19th century is the subject of the long example in Paragraph 3, the support for the author’s “thumbs up” on technology and art. Read long answer choices carefully; often the wrong ones are only partly true, or repeat enticing words and phrases from the passage. For example, Choice (A) is true right up until the “which” clause, where an extraneous issue, how new methods were applied to subjects other than portraits, pops in.

Choice (B) makes a similar mistake, practically quoting lines: "Impressionist artists like Degas studied the elements of light and movement captured by instantaneous photography and used their new understanding of the way our perceptions distort reality to try to more accurately capture reality in their work.", and then suggesting that new ideas about light and movement resulted in abstract art. Unfortunately, the author says that these new ideas resulted in efforts to make more realistic art.

(C) is more or less accurate but for that one unfortunate word, “exclusively.” While the author does say that photography “preempted” portrait painting, she doesn’t say that that traditional portrait painting stopped completely. (Common sense tells us that it did no such thing anyhow.)

(D) jumbles two ideas from Paragraph 3, that Impressionist artists gradually broke away from stylistic limitations and that abstract creations resulted from the meeting of technology and art. But the author doesn’t connect these two ideas in the passage, at least not in the cause-and-effect way this answer choice does. Rather, both phenomena resulted from the collision of photography and portraiture.

That leaves (E) — which is similar to choice (D), but different in one important way. It’s right. Here there really is a cause-and-effect relationship; this choice is a concise paraphrase of lines: "Photography freed artists from the preconception that a subject should be painted in a static, artificial entirety, and inspired them to capture the random and fragmentary qualities of our world."

Answer: E
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Sajjad1994 Tag should be 600-700 level as evident from the answer stats....Only last question is difficult
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Hey Gladi, tt feels wonderful to know that you are doing LSAT RC in 5-6 mins, can you please explain your process, because it takes me 15 mins to solve these RCs?? Guide me please!!

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