The Deal With Weaken Questions
Knock a hole in that argument. What does it mean to weaken an argument? A lot of tough weaken questions will be much easier if we clarify what, exactly, it takes. Let’s start off with an argument. Randy is planning…
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The flawless LSAT taker knows her flaws.
Embrace the flaws. Embrace them, I say! Flaw questions on the LSAT are many things, but unpredictable they ain’t – LSAC loves to use variations on the same flaw, over and over. (That’s one of the reasons why the LSAT…
Quantify this!
Some? Most? All? Quantifiers. Some LSAT students think they’re the enemy. Blueprint classes cover quantifiers (some, most, all, and the valid inferences that can be drawn from those claims) in lesson 3 and it’s a lot of new material at…
The LSAT is all about analyzing arguments. Here are some shortcuts.
The folks at LSAC are very good at making a tricky test that (in combination with college GPA) correlates to some degree with first-year law school grades. But creative, they ain’t. As you continue studying for the LSAT, you’ll notice…
Go quantify yourself.
Some LSAT students fail to learn quantifiers. No one who fails to learn quantifiers has mastered the LSAT. If you’re scared already, fear not. It’s worth knowing your way around some, most, and all statements and the inferences you can…
Your Final Weeks of Study, Logical Reasoning Edition
Yesterday, we covered how to brush up on the Reading Comprehension section in the final weeks before the June LSAT. Today, we’ll talk about how to handle the Logical Reasoning section in the coming weeks. The first thing you’ll notice…
How to Diagram Conditional Statements
Note: As of August 2024, the LSAT will no longer have a Logic Games Section. The June 2024 exam will be the final LSAT with Logic Games. Learn more about the change here. Conditional logic can be found all over…
5 Quick Tips to Supercharge Your Logical Reasoning Performance
During my time writing for this blog, I’ve repeatedly vented about my hatred for logic games. Fortunately for everyone, I won’t be talking about logic games this week; instead, I get to talk about a section that is near and…
Negate your way to LSAT dominance.
Let’s say I was trying to prove that every time you drink Fireball, you puke. If you wanted to prove the opposite, you’d have to find a way to show that there has not been a single instance in which…
Skip smart on LR.
With the February exam so painfully close – ack! – you should now be doing a whole lot of time-pressure practice. But just hurrying isn’t going to get you where you need to be. You have to hurry in a…