Blueprint LSAT Blog: Advice on Logical Reasoning
Understanding causal relationships results in a better LSAT score.
Causal relationships are big on the LSAT. Failure to understand them causes problems. Causation comes up all over the place — in reading comp and in a bunch of logical reasoning questions. But causation is especially important in logical reasoning questions that ask you to strengthen or weaken arguments. A high proportion of these questions
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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 on asking Sandy out next week. Randy has a luscious, flowing mullet (the hairstyle, not
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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 is such a learnable test.) Obviously, in order to effectively tackle Flaw questions on the
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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 once. It can be scary. But it’s worth getting it down. You’re likely to see
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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 that the test uses the same argument structures over and over. This is good news
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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 and can’t draw from them. And while it’s worth just memorizing what you can and
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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 is that the basic strategy is the same: First, identify weaknesses; then work on your
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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 the LSAT, from Logical Reasoning to Logic Games and even occasionally in Reading Comprehension sections;
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