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Flaw Questions are the most common single question type on the LSAT. They also happen to be my favorite question type. I love pointing out people’s flaws, but people don’t always appreciate it. Like this one time, a guy at…
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Last Minute Tips: Logical Reasoning
With less than three weeks until the June LSAT, it’s time to buckle down on studying. This week we’re offering one important last-minute tip for each LSAT section. In the last two days, we’ve looked at Reading Comprehension; today we’re talking…
Mistaking the Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
A question on the Top Law Schools message board caught our eye this week: Is there a difference between ‘mistaking the sufficient condition for the necessary condition’ and ‘mistaking the necessary condition for the sufficient condition’? I can sort of see a…
Exclusivity Fallacies: Either You Read This Post or You Flunk the LSAT
You might’ve been here before: you’re trying to explain to your deluded Bay Area friends that Colin Kaepernick is not – and will never be – an elite quarterback. “He throws when he should run. He runs when he should…
Learn to Identify the Ad Hominem Fallacy, You Jerk
Everyone knows you should never take health instructions from an overweight doctor. Don’t go see the new Tom Cruise film — he’s a Scientologist. And never, but never, take lawn-upkeep advice from one of them Libertarians. Each of these arguments…
Reader Question: How to Drill LSAT Logical Reasoning
A blog reader writes: “Is it better to drill Logical Reasoning questions by type or do full, untimed sections?” This is an incredibly important question. Step 1: Learn The Method Because there is a unique method for each LSAT Logical…
Common LSAT Logical Fallacies: Composition
Have you ever heard that inane little riddle, “Which weighs more, a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?” It’s gotta be bricks, they’re way heavier. Right? The crux of this pissant’s play is the “ton,” of course; we’ve…
LSAT Logic Flaws: Correlation vs. Causation
Ever had this experience? Your gooberish buddy stumbles up to you, a couple drinks too deep, and spouts out an epiphany that (to him) rivals Einstein’s Annus Mirabilis. You and your LSAT-prepped mind, however, are not impressed. Something about the…
LSAT Logic: If You Read This, Then You’ll Be Awesome At Conditional Statments
No discussion of conditional statements would be complete without a thorough review of sufficient conditions. Luckily, and entirely coincidentally, that’s the topic of today’s post in our ongoing review of diagramming LR questions. Simply put, the sufficient guarantees the necessary.…
A Necessary Skill for Acing the LSAT
In case you hadn’t already noticed, understanding and manipulating conditional statements is key to success on Logical Reasoning questions. If you don’t master this skill, then your target score will elude you (ya see what I did there?). In our…