Category: Logical Reasoning

LSAT Most Strongly Supported Questions

Most Strongly Supported and Must Be True are different LSAT Logical Reasoning question types, even though prep companies often lump them together. A Most Strongly Supported answer is simply the…
7 Logical Reasoning Tips and Tricks

Logical Reasoning is 2 of the 3 scored sections on the LSAT, which makes it worth more than any other section type. These 7 strategies cover pacing, time management, reading…
5 Hardest LSAT Logical Reasoning Questions

5 Logical Reasoning questions consistently trip up students: a weaken question about dioxin and fish abnormalities, a sufficient assumption question about trust and confidence, a necessary assumption question about a…
LSAT Logical Reasoning Vocabulary Words

The words that trip people up on LSAT Logical Reasoning aren't usually rare, they're common words used in a less familiar sense, like "phenomenon" meaning "event" or "advance" meaning "to…
Negating Conditional Statements in Logical Reasoning

To negate a conditional statement on the LSAT, you don't negate the individual variables or take the contrapositive. You say the sufficient condition no longer guarantees the necessary condition: if…
5 Steps to Solving Weaken Logical Reasoning Questions

What do you do when you see a Weaken Logical Reasoning question, aside from hiding under your bed? Weaken questions don’t have to be tough, although they can seem that…
5 Steps to Solving Strengthen Logical Reasoning Questions

When you see a Strengthen question, find the argument's main flaw, an unstated assumption bridging the evidence and the conclusion, then look for the answer choice that patches it, often…
Necessary Assumption Question: The Rattlesnake Folktale

The rattlesnake folktale question is PrepTest 30, Section 2, Question 22, a necessary assumption question built around the claim that you can age a rattlesnake by counting rattle sections. The…
How to Ace LSAT Logical Reasoning | 7 Habits

1. Analyze the stimulus for structure, NOT content.Break apart stimulus into evidence, conclusion, filler, counterpremise, etc. It’s about the stimulus’ structure and whether or not it’s valid, not the stimulus’…
Informal Logic by Douglas Walton | Excerpt

The following excerpt about the correlation-causation fallacy is from Professor Douglas Walton's Informal Logic: A Pragmatic Approach. The night-light and myopia example A study published in the journal Nature on May 13, 1999,…