Diagram the following game rule: “If Bryan finishes before Amay, then Carlos finishes after Amay.” Answer This rule sort of combines normal ordering rules with conditional statements. But, they both work the same way. To write out this rule, we…
Diagram the following game rule: “The sculpture ranks higher than either of the two paintings.” Answer This is a strange rule because the word “either” usually refers to a situation where you pick one of two things. But in this…
Diagram the following game rule: “The paella is exactly three dishes to the right of the borscht.” Answer Often people mess up rules like this. It is a bit weird since the number three is included in this rule, but…
Diagram the following game rule: “Saakshi must perform either earlier than both Quentin and Yelena or else later than both of them.” Answer For this rule, we write out both possible options. One places S before Q and Y and…
Diagram the following game rule: “The red truck arrives before either the orange truck or the blue truck, but not both.” (Assume that all of the trucks arrive at different times.) Answer For this rule, we will write out both…
Identify the flaw in the argument: “The producers did not cast Meryl Streep for this movie and they also did not cast Viola Davis. So, they must have cast Helen Mirren.” Answer This is an exclusivity flaw. While we definitely…
The end of 2019 fast approaching. If 2019 were an LSAT, we’d have just finished making our frantic, final answer selections in the fifth section, and would now be listening to the proctor drone on about some final instructions before…
Interrupting everyone’s holiday festivities, scores for the November 2019 LSAT were released last Thursday. These scores brought holiday joy to some (those who were satisfied with their scores; LSAT instructor dorks, such as yours truly, who get a shiny new…
November test takers, it finally happened this morning. As promised, the icons on your LSAC account turned gray, and then around 9 am Eastern Standard Time, the scores from the November LSAT began trickling out. Whether you waited for the…
If there are people in your life who are studying for the LSAT or in law school, you almost certainly haven’t seen them in quite some time. They’ve been totally occupied by conditional language or promissory estoppel, and haven’t been…