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Delayed checkpoint: unfamiliar questions

Return after a study gap for different questions; keep this first attempt separate from earlier practice.

Paper packet. Every task here also exists on screen, where it is checked automatically; answers written on paper are not assessed by Nydus. When you are back at a device, enter your answers there.

1. What you will learn

Reserve this checkpoint until after completing the course and taking a study gap, for example one week. The app does not enforce a waiting period. Record initial answers and confidence before submitting. Review errors by task, evidence, scope and reasoning step; a small sample cannot certify mastery. Treat later attempts at these same questions as review, not new assessment evidence. No result converts to an LSAT scaled score.

2. Practice

A town attributes a reduction in household water consumption to its conservation letters. Each of the following, if true, weakens that explanation EXCEPT: Which finding is the exception?

• The billing period after the letters was shorter than the comparison period.
• Rainfall rose sharply, reducing garden watering during the same period.
• The meters were recalibrated in a way that lowered recorded use.
• Consumption fell equally in a comparable neighboring town that sent no letters.
• Households randomly assigned letters reduced use more than households receiving no letters during the same period.

3. Practice

A factory installed guards after a year with unusually many injuries. Injuries fell the following year. Management concludes that the guards caused the entire decline. Which question most directly tests a rival explanation?

• Were workers informed that the guards were intended to reduce injuries?
• Were the guards supplied by an experienced manufacturer?
• Does management plan to keep the guards?
• Did injuries remain above zero?
• Did injuries also decline at comparable factories without new guards after similarly unusual years?

4. Practice

A conservation team predicts that fencing a nesting area will increase fledgling survival by excluding ground predators. The fence will not prevent birds from entering. Which finding most strengthens the prediction?

• The nesting species is also found in unfenced areas.
• The fence can be seen from a nearby path.
• Some eggs fail to hatch for reasons unrelated to predators.
• Volunteers favor fencing over public signs.
• Ground predators account for most losses there, and similar fencing sharply reduced their access in a trial.

5. What you can do now

Keep a record of the first attempt, the error explanation and the lesson to revisit. Repeated questions are review rather than fresh evidence.