Russian MLAT 2025/PhilAT 2025???

Did Anyone do the Russian MLAT 2025 as well? Personally, I thought it was very difficult there were about 6 words I didn't know on the translation. I managed to translate the sentence about the boyars (though mistranslated 'expelled' as 'sought'), but its crazy how you had to actually know about Russian history to know what a boyar is and thus how to translate the sentence correctly.😭😭😭
I think I got about 42/60 overall on the translation section, and like 36/40 on the MCQs.

For the Philosophy section: I thought that the comprehension was much easier than the other years.
I talked about how although he conceptualises a universal of the values of a civilisation, he acknowledges that not all societies have the same values. This is because the values that comprise this universal are contradictory, and thus, different societies prioritise certain values over others, which means that not all the same values can be found in every civilisation.
I gave the example of family values and individualism, these two can be considered contradictory because societies with higher emphasis on individualism have a lesser emphasis on family values.

I did a pretty stupid thing for the essay questions and I didn't really include any counterarguments, but I did this in the logic section so hopefully this won't be awful. Do you reckon the fact that I acknowledge the fact that he does mention a universal could be considered to be countenancing a counterargument?

For the second question, I talked about how an advancing society is one where lots of individual liberty grows without degeneracy, because it means that the civilisation has inculcated a strong enough ethical code in its citizens that they know how to be moral and live in a group without punitive measures forcing them to do so. This means that they have strongly developed ethical and rational faculties, and the attitudes of the citizens reflects the nature of the civilisation. I noted that 'without degeneracy' is important, because if individual freedoms descended into a Hobbesian state of nature, this would not be an advancing state whatsoever.

I then differentiated this to a regressing civilisation where individual liberties decrease and there is governmental degeneracy. I also linked the idea of individual freedom to 'freedom to' , which includes access to basic amenities like healthcare and food- if some can afford this and others can't, it means that there is a system of degeneracy which means that the society is regressing.

In the logic section, I think I'm quite well drilled on linguistics, so I talked a lot about the difference between abstract, conceptual uses of 'the' (when it corresponds to a definite article), and physical, immediate objects. We can understand whether something is referring to an abstract or physical concept based on its relational quality, in the sense that in the 'the last Jane Austen book' example, there is physical relational quality when it described in relation to a bookshelf. This is not the case when its date of publication is discussed, since it has purely conceptual relational quality.

I didn't actually put this and I should have, but all the logic things are different, because you can take a Leibniz's law approach (I 100% should have mentioned this I'm such an idiot for not doing ts).

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