LSAT: Logical Reasoning 2024/2025 exam with 100% correct answers
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What are the basic steps to approaching a question? correct answers1. Stop to consider what the question is really asking
2. Decide how I'll approach the question (ex. organizing info in a table)
3. After deciding how I'll approach the question, skim through the answer choices and eliminate any t...
What are the basic steps to approaching a question? correct answers1. Stop to consider what the
question is really asking
2. Decide how I'll approach the question (ex. organizing info in a table)
3. After deciding how I'll approach the question, skim through the answer choices and eliminate any that
are obviously in the wrong "direction"
4. Use the approach you picked
When is the adversarial approach used? How? correct answersWhen you've narrowed a question down
between two equally good choices.
1. Attack the choice that seems the most likely to be true
2. Try to defend the answer choice you think is not true
3. Defend the answer choice I like
4. Attack the answer choice I do not like
Should I always look through all the answer choices? correct answersYes
What is the question stem? correct answersThe sentence that states the question
LR:What are the four things I must do to succeed with logical reasoning questions? correct answers1.
Understand the structure of logical arguments
2. Understand the types of questions stems ask
3. Understand the types of arguments that logical reasoning questions test
4. Master the strategies for narrowing down the correct answer
LR: How should I pick questions for LR? correct answersFirst, go page by page picking the easiest
questions, then start over again on the first page and pick the second easiest questions. Cold guess on
the remaining questions
,LR: What must all logical arguments include? correct answersFacts that are accepted as true by all
parties and some new facts derived from the established facts
LR: What are the established facts that both parties agree on called? correct answersPremises
LR:
Choose the premise(s), assumption, and conclusion. Also, explained whey Geroge's argument is flawed:
Geroge: All white cats are deaf, right?
You: I guess so
George: And Little Binky is white, right?
You: Yes
Geroge: Then Little Binky must be deaf
You: Okay, I agree correct answersPremises: Little Binkey is white; All white cats are deaf
Conclusion: Little Binkey is deaf
Assumption: Little Binkey is a cat
Why its flawed: Although Geroge uses a correct form of logic, it is applied incorrectly because, given the
assumption that Little Binkey is a cat, it does not establish that he is a white cat.
LR: If a question says, "which of the following IF TRUE..." should I automatically accept all of the answer
choices as ture? What if it says "If the above is true.." should I accept the set up as true? correct
answersYes and yes; Accept the answer choices as true and consider how they affect the argument and
accept the premises in the set up as true
LR: What is an assumption? correct answersA premise that is necessary to make an argument work but is
not stated.
LR: Can premises stated in a question be assumptions? correct answersNo
LR: What is an inference? correct answersThe process of making a logical argument and arriving at a
conclusion.
, LR: If a question ask: "Which of the following can be inferred?" , what is it asking? correct answersWhat
can be concluded based on valid logic through the given premises?
LR: Does an inference have to be the main conclusion of an argument? correct answersNo, only a
conclusion.
LR: What are the two ways in which a logical argument may be flawed? correct answers1. It may use
valid logic but do so incorrectly
2. It may use invalid logic
LR: What are the two broad categories of logical arguments? correct answersDeductive and inductive
LR: What are deductive arguments? correct answersArguments that present absolute rules. Ex: "If you go
to the store you will be late for school" or "All dogs named Cinnamon are red."
LR: What are characteristics of deductive argument? correct answersIt deals with an idealized universe in
which certain things are absolute. You have to understand and apply absolute rules in a logical way.
LR: What are the two types of deductive arguments? correct answersSet and if/then
LR: What are characteristics of set deductive arguments? correct answersIt places people and/or objects
in sets (established groups) and states certain characteristics about that set. Ex. All baseball players have
red sports cars.
LR: If I were to use a circle and arrow diagram to help me with this set deductive argument, what would I
circle and what would the arrows point to? :
"Any small business is an entrepreneurial venture. All entrepreneurial ventures are risky. John's business
is a small business. Therefore, John's business is risky." correct answersJohn's business is the smallest
circle; around it is a circle for small businesses; around small businesses is a circle for entrepreneurial
ventures, with an arrow pointing to risky.
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