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The Outrageously EASY Way to Ace LSAT Logical Reasoning
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One of the biggest insights I had on my journey to increasing my LSAT score from a 152 to a 175 on test day Came down to recognizing that it's not all about the type of question that you're dealing with on the LSAT But rather it's about the method of reasoning in the stimulus or the passage I found that far too many LSAT prep resources Overcomplicated the LSAT with their trademarked terms Over-categorizing LSAT question types when in reality if you actually took the time to Understand the argument to understand the method of reasoning things became a whole lot easier Surprise surprise if you actually take the time to understand what you're reasoning things become a lot simpler And so I found that I could help students break into the 170s by Helping them translate an LSAT question from one type into another based on the method of reasoning in the stimulus So for example, let's say you love flaw questions But you hate weakened questions with a little manipulation of the question stem and the stimulus You can transform a type that you don't like into one that you do like and it becomes a whole lot simpler To solve the question with just a little bit of manipulation and if you understand the argument in depth This kind of translation is actually pretty easy to do you understand. What's the conclusion? What's the evidence? What's the gap? What's the method of reasoning? This holds across roughly three quarters of logical reasoning questions since roughly three quarters of them contain arguments rather than fact sets This technique is just one of many that I cover with my students using the Socratic review method where we help you Understand the argument understand the question and understand the answer choices Specifically you want to understand what makes a wrong answer choice tempting for you and what ultimately makes it wrong You want to understand what might have made a right answer choice seem unappealing and what ultimately makes it correct because you have these traps of encouragement towards the wrong answer and traps of encouragement away from the right answer and until you understand which tricks and traps you personally are Uniquely prone to falling for you run the risk of making those same mistakes again And so at else and unplugged what we do for our students in our one-on-one coaching programs and our small group programs Is we demonstrate the Socratic review method for you and with you live in our classes in our coaching the classes are recorded for any Students who can't make them live and we have literally hundreds of them organized by topic and by difficulty level since we've been doing this for several years Even since before the pandemic if you're interested in finding out more You can check out the links below this video to book a call with me and my team We'd be glad to help you out and the cool thing is no matter what you're struggling with on the LSAT this strategy works Regardless of the question type that you're dealing with of course Sometimes you got to work on the basics before you even get into question types And so you want to look at your conditional indicators for example for necessary insufficient conditions You want to look at your indicators for evidence and conclusions. This will carry you far And of course if you don't know them you're in trouble now I mentioned there are roughly 15 different types of logical reasoning questions But some are more common than others for example You're gonna have roughly four flaw questions per section of logical reasoning and you might not even have a single Evaluate the argument question and so you want to focus on what are the most common types They are necessary assumption inference and flaw master those before you tackle the less common types that hardly ever show up And of course going forward logical reasoning is doubled in importance Since it's now two-thirds of the scored portions of the LSAT any gains you make there are gonna be automatically doubled Across those two sections of the test. So I'm gonna share with you three quick wins for logical reasoning You can implement right away You want to make sure that you are crystal clear on the difference between necessary assumption questions and sufficient assumption questions I often find that after a student joins our program We discover that if they were using one of the big corporate outlets like Kaplan They were not clear on this difference because some prep companies like Kaplan don't even distinguish between different types of so-called Assumption questions. There is no such thing as assumption questions on the LSAT There are necessary assumptions and sufficient assumptions and they are asking for very different things Necessary assumptions are far more common as well So you want to make sure you're focusing on those to start with you also want to make sure that you're clear on different types of inference questions Distinguishing must be true versus most strongly supported subtle nuanced differences Incredibly important to make sure you're recognizing those distinctions because the difference can help you get a question right or It can make the difference and you potentially getting it wrong Which of course you don't want to do the other thing you want to make sure you're aware of is that we getting an argument Does not mean that you are necessarily destroying the argument you are just making the conclusion relatively less likely given the evidence Now if you have already mastered the most common types of LSAT logical reasoning questions like necessary assumption inference and flaw There are a couple of paths forward available to you You can focus on the less common types of logical reasoning questions or it may be that if you're scoring 165 or above maybe you're not getting questions wrong because of the questions stem type But you're getting them wrong just because they contain harder methods of reasoning And that's where that socratic review method comes into play You also want to make sure that you're clear on the more difficult methods of reasoning that may show up more frequently going forward Now that logic games are no longer on the test based on early indications and experimental sections administered over the past several months It seems that LSAT may increase the relative proportion of certain types of reasoning involving numbers and percentages Absolute versus relative values and formal logic stimuli if you'd like my help with those again You can check out those below. We'd be glad to help in the meantime. I wish you all the best and take care