For some students, the mere thought of a logic game is as terrifying as the anthropomorphic creeping death presented by Anton Chigurh in the Coen Brothers’ classic film, No Country For Old Men. Javier Bardem brings Cormac McCarthy’s world-class literary villain to life. In my mind, the best scene of the whole movie involves a […]
Logic Games Frequency of Appearance 2007-2018
Anyone preparing for the LSAT is well aware of the unique difficulty presented by the Logic Games section, but what is occasionally overlooked is the fact that certain concepts are far more critical to success than others! That is, specific game types and ideas routinely appear and regularly serve as the basis for the entire […]
LSAT Test Archives: The June 2017 Logic Games… What Really Happened Part II
In my post yesterday I provided complete explanations of Games 1 and 2 from the recently-released June 2017 LSAT, and today I’ll complete the section by deconstructing Games 3 and 4. If you missed the first article in this set however I encourage you to give it a read before proceeding here, as I also provided an overview […]
LSAT Test Archives: The June 2017 Logic Games… What Really Happened Part I
With the release of the June 2017 LSAT on Wednesday, July 5th, test takers everywhere have been in performance review mode, analyzing what went right and wrong and trying to make as much sense as possible of their results. To assist in that, we’ve released detailed discussions of the Logical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension sections, and even the Scoring Scale, so […]
A Comprehensive List of Rarely Tested Logic Games (Outliers and Oddballs)
A tutoring student of mine prepping for June asked me recently if I could put together a list of Circular, Mapping, and Pattern games that have appeared over the years, hoping to ensure that if the next test continues recent trends of LG weirdness he’ll be ready. So while it’s always a reasonably safe bet that you won’t […]
Killer Games: 12 of the Hardest Logic Games of All Time
When preparing for the LSAT, students inevitably run into the Logic Games section (also known as Analytical Reasoning), and for many, this is the toughest section on the test. If Logic Games are generally difficult, why then would we choose to write about the hardest LSAT games ever to appear? The short answer is that there […]
Computer Virus Logic Game: Video Explanations (September 2016 LSAT Game 4)
We’ve put together comprehensive video explanations for the hardest game on the September 2016 LSAT, the dreaded Computer Virus game. Over on our LSAT Forum you’ll find three detailed videos: one for the setup outlining how to approach the rules and the key inferences, a second explaining each of the six questions and analyzing each […]
Last Minute Logic Games Tips
Today’s Forum Post of the Day stems from a student still struggling with Logic Games about a week away from the test. While we certainly recommend a more thorough conceptual understanding of the Logic Games section as a whole, Senior Instructor Nikki Siclunov helps this student by providing some rapid-fire last minute tips in order to get […]
Certainty vs Uncertainty in Logic Games
We focus a tremendous amount of time and attention in our courses and books emphasizing the importance of inference making in Games: determining the truths of the relationships between variable sets. In making inferences, what we’re really focused on is establishing notions of what I’ll refer to here as positive and negative certainty. That is, […]
How to Approach a Nested Conditionals Statement
If you come across a Nested Conditional statement, you cannot completely ignore it unless, of course, you don’t care about that one extra point. Oh, and by the way, you just came across a Nested Conditional statement. See how easy that was? In today’s LSAT Forum Post of the Day, LSAT expert Nikki Siclunov offers some tips […]