Reading Comprehension Questions | Inference and Main Point
You’ve probably noticed much of the LSAT is about presenting simple things in a confusing way. The LSAT is all about hiding what’s staring you right in the face. Reading Comp is no different. If you’ve done more than a few Reading Comp passages, you’ve probably noticed by this point that RC passages tend to […]
The Best Answer Choice to Guess on the LSAT
Because there’s no guessing penalty on the LSAT, you should fill in a bubble for every answer. I recently analyzed the LSAT PrepTest Answer Keys from several different angles. This blog post contains my findings. I’ll start off with my most-significant findings, which you will find useful. The rest of the blog post is the […]
LSAT Logical Reasoning Vocabulary Words
UPDATE: If you want even more help with LSAT vocabulary than the words below (and don’t want to have to memorize hundreds and hundreds of words), check out the LSAT Vocabulary Builder: Words You Need to Know. You probably know the meanings of most words in the Logical Reasoning section. However, if you know what […]
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 way at first. Unless you frequently engage in structured debates, you’re probably used to fixing things and making them better – not breaking them and […]
5 Steps to Solving Strengthen Logical Reasoning Questions
What do you do when you see a Strengthen Logical Reasoning question? Remember that Logical Reasoning makes up half the exam, and Strengthen Logical Reasoning questions are common. Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you solve them. 1. Recognize that it’s a Strengthen question. Some strengthen question stems: “Which one of the following, if true, […]
Necessary Assumption Question: The Rattlesnake Folktale
Let’s look at one of my favorite Logical Reasoning questions: the Rattlesnake Folktale question. It’s PrepTest 30 – December 1999 LSAT, Section 2, Question 22 – page 60 in Next 10. We know this is a necessary assumption question because it says “which one of the following is an assumption the argument requires?” I can’t […]
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. A study published in the journal Nature on May 13, 1999, found that babies who slept with a night-light on had an increased chance of developing myopia (nearsightedness) later in life. A subsequent study, co-authored by Professor Karla Zadnik of the […]
Princeton Review LSAT Logic Games Workout – Exposed
Why shouldn’t you use books containing fake (non-LSAC-written) LSAT questions? How is this possible if the questions are fake? The Princeton Review’s new LSAT Logic Games Workout book fails to mention that, in a way, it does use real LSAT questions. In fact, it implies that it doesn’t at the end of the second paragraph on page 1. However, this book […]
LSAT Logic of a Spam Email Scam
In this post, I analyze two similar emails as if they were Logical Reasoning arguments. Both ended up in my spam folder (with good reason). Here’s the first, edited for brevity: It is understandable that you might be a little bit apprehensive because you do not know me, Please forgive this unusual manner to contact […]
LSAT Logic and Law School Spam
I hate spam. I even wrote an article making fun of spammers. I send emails on a schedule and sent out automatically- and that’s only if you’ve chosen to subscribe via email. I don’t do anything at all with them, and I have trouble just reading all the emails I receive, let alone responding to as many of […]
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