Before continuing with Part Three of our Flaws in Logical Reasoning series, let’s review the importance of understanding argumentative errors. Here’s how I began the series when we looked at Source Arguments: The majority of LSAT Logical Reasoning questions have an argument in their stimulus and most will contain some sort of flawed reasoning. In […]
Flaws in Logical Reasoning Part II: Circular Reasoning
Before we continue examining common flaws in LSAT LR questions, let’s review the importance of understanding these argumentative errors. Here’s how I began the first post in this series, where we looked at Source Arguments: The majority of LSAT Logical Reasoning questions have an argument in their stimulus and most will contain some sort of […]
Flaws in Logical Reasoning Part I: Source Arguments
The majority of LSAT Logical Reasoning questions have an argument in their stimulus and most will contain some sort of flawed reasoning. In this series, we will address a variety of the flaws that tend to appear with some frequency. I’ll examine common mistakes that authors on the test make. This should prove useful for […]
LSAT PodCast Episode 8: Logical Reasoning Outliers – The Black Sheep
The episode begins with a quick rundown of the latest news—from Dave’s current Vegas adventure for March Madness to an update on the college admissions scandal and finally a look at the week in the LSAT World—before turning to the night’s central theme: using the final week before an LSAT to prepare for outlier elements […]
What to Trust and What to Question in LSAT Logical Reasoning
One of the most common questions asked by test takers when considering LSAT Logical Reasoning is “how do I know what information I can accept as fact, and what information I should be questioning or skeptical of?” In fact, this came up very recently on our Forum as a student considered a question from the February […]
Resolve The Paradox Questions
Today’s LSAT Forum Post Of The Day contains a recent question from a student about a Resolve The Paradox question from the September 1998 LSAT (LR section 1, #7), and an answer from Dave Killoran providing helpful tips on what to do when you encounter Resolve questions with relevant similarities and differences. If you’ve never checked out […]
Understanding LSAT Justify the Conclusion/Sufficient Assumption Logical Reasoning Questions
One of the common questions that comes up with students studying for the LSAT is how do Justify/Sufficient Assumption questions work, and how do they differ from regular Assumption/Necessary Assumption questions? The mere fact that there are different types of assumption questions is part of the problem, but the unique way that these questions work […]
Common LSAT Question Types: Must Be True vs. Weaken
When approaching Logical Reasoning on the LSAT, I think most students clearly recognize the importance of (1) understanding the unique properties of individual question types, and (2) having dedicated strategies to consistently apply when faced with a particular type of question. That is the value in knowing how to recognize, say, a Parallel Reasoning question, and then […]
Killer LR: 15 of the Hardest Logical Reasoning Questions of All Time Part I
Below is Part I of our discussion of the 15 hardest LSAT Logical Reasoning questions of all time. This Part contains 5 of the 15 questions, which will be presented in chronological order (In Part II we will discuss questions 6-10 on the list, and in Part III we will present questions 11-15, and then talk about some […]
Killer LR: 15 of the Hardest Logical Reasoning Questions of All Time Part II
Below is Part II of our three-part discussion of the 15 hardest LSAT Logical Reasoning questions of all time. Here we discuss 5 of the 15 questions, presented in chronological order. In Part I we discussed questions 1-5 on the list, and in Part III we will present questions 11-15, and then talk about some of the interesting […]