Blueprint LSAT Blog: Advice on Logical Reasoning
The Keys to Becoming an LSAT Diagramming Master
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. Diagramming is an essential skill on the LSAT, but it’s also a bit like speaking a foreign language. At first you will
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Permissible Assumptions on the LSAT: Part II of II
Last week, we took a look at non-permissible assumptions on the LSAT. For Part II, here’s a breakdown of what you CAN assume… Permissible Assumptions Part II: What you CAN assume on the LSAT Let’s contrast Part I’s ulcer question with Question 6, Section 4, from the February 1995 LSAT. Outside knowledge is verboten on
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Make Quantified Logic on the LSAT Easier By Simplifying It
During Blueprint LSAT Prep courses, few subjects are more vexing for students than quantified logic. Shoot, it even sounds scary. But it doesn’t have to be. On every LSAT, there are a handful of Logical Reasoning questions that test a student’s ability to combine all, most, some, and no statements. The problem is that there
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Add Points to Your LSAT Score by Chewing Gum: Study
A recent study found a correlation between chewing gum consumption and test performance, and concluded that mastication-induced arousal causes improved performance — especially in the latter stages of a sustained task along the lines of, oh, say, an LSAT section. Before any LSAT students shout that there’s a causal flaw, note that the study eliminated
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Tackle These 8 Manti Te’o Hoax LSAT Flaws
There are two main interpretations of the Manti Te’o hoax. The first is that he was involved in it all along, creating a sob story to drive national attention and a Heisman Trophy bid. The second is that he fell for one of the longest cons of all time. I’ve long been in the latter
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Cycle Through Some Lance Armstrong LSAT Flaws
Last week, professional cyclist and hall-of-fame liar Lance Armstrong surprised no one when he admitted to longstanding doping allegations during an interview with a sleeping Oprah Winfrey. What’s to be gained from all this? Well, aside from a healthy dose of schadenfreude, the whole ordeal highlights some commonly-found LSAT flaws. You may have seen the
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Family, Fun, and Flaw Questions: How to Best Spend your Christmas Vacation
Congratulations! If you’re reading this, you’re part of the select collection of humans who survived the apocalypse. You must be the best of the best; simply the most resilient and fittest creatures on the planet. It’s time to start repopulating. Although the dust is beginning to settle, the chaos and torment isn’t over just yet.
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To Succeed on LSAT Test Day → Learn to Diagram
If you want to have a successful LSAT test day, you need to learn to diagram. There are lots of ways I could say the same thing: Only if you learn to diagram will you succeed on LSAT test day, for example. Or: no one who succeeds on LSAT test day doesn’t learn to diagram.
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