Here, you will find the best advice and test-taking technologies from the
team of test experts who have all scored 99th on past LSAT exam:
- The best advice about guessing on test questions;
- Proven test-taking strategies;
- Recommended approaches to reading comprehension, analytical reasoning,
and logical game;
- Essential tips for timing yourself on each test section;
For example, in the Chapter of Analytical Reasoning (Logic Game),
you will find
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Easy-to-use 5-step procedure to solve the game problem in
Analytical Reasoning section.
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Provides you with a diagramming method for putting words into
pictures- You'll find answer easily immediately after you
symbolize the questions.
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Comprehensive analysis of and techniques for four types of
games that commonly appear on real LSAT test. You will find
solution to nearly all game problems you may encounter on the
real LSAT.
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....more
Table
of Content
Chapter 1
Reading Comprehension
Section 1: One Principle
Section 2: Two Styles
1. Presentation
2. Argumentation
3. Organizational Structure
Section 3: Three Subjects
1. Natural Science
2. Social Science
3. Business Subject
Section 4: Four-step Process of Reading
1. Dissect the introductory paragraph
2. Skim the passage and get the author's main point
3. Diagram the organization of the passage
4. Tackle the questions and correspondently refer to the passage
Section 5: Five Types of Questions
1. Main Idea Question
2. Recall Question
3. Inference Questions
4. Critical Reasoning Question
5. Difficult-to-locate Question
Section 6: Six test points
1. Comparison
2. Example & Listing
3. People, Date & Place
4. Words of Attitude and Transition
5. Counter-evidence Indicators
6. Special Punctuation
Chapter 2 Critical Reasoning
Section 1: Introduction to Critical Reasoning
1. One Definition: Argument
2. Four-steps process
3. Three-elements Rule
4. Two Traps
5. Five Answer Choices
Section 2: Six Types of Reasoning
1. Deductive Argument
2. Generalization
3. Analogy
4. Causal Reasoning
5. Identifying Assumption
6. Business Thinking
Section 3: Eight Types of Question
1. Inference Question
2. Assumption Question
3. Strengthen or Weaken Question
4. Paradox Question
5. Evaluation Question
6. Conclusion Question
7. Complete Question
8. Boldface Question
Chapter 3 Analytical Reasoning
Introduction to Analytical Reasoning
Section 1: One Principle
Section 2: Two Test-taking Strategies
1. POE
2. Guessing
Section 3: Three Types of Questions
Section 4: Four Types of Games
1. Single-Linear Game
2. Multiple-Linear Game
3. Grouping Game
4. Networking Game
Section 5: Five-step Process
Step 1. Read the passage carefully and decide on the appropriate
diagram
Step 2. Read the conditions and symbolize all of the clues
Step 3. Double-check your symbolizing and make deductions
Step 4. Use the diagram to answer the questions
Step 5. If new condition is provided, add that to the existing
diagram
Section 6. Six Logic Concepts
Practice Questions & Explanation
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Section
The following text is an extract
from the third chapter of the LSAT Prep Courses.
Analytical Reasoning questions, or
known as logic games, are comprised of three parts: the initial
scenario or set-up of the game, the list of conditions or rules
that apply to the game, and then the set of questions. The
set-up describes the basic situation where several elements will
be arranged. It may require you to schedule programs for a TV
station with various time slots, to divide a group of people
into smaller ones, or to figure out the connection ways in a
contorted network. A sample set-up in an LSAT game looks like
this:
Let’s look at a sample scenario
in an LSAT game:
Six students – Mathew, Owen,
Philippine, Ryan, Sandra, and Ted, are expected to take six
seats in a straight line, numbered from 1 to 6. Each of the six
seats is taken by each of the six students.
Immediately following the set-up is
a list of conditions that restrict the arrangement of various
elements. For example, commercial advertisements can not be in
consecutive time slots, Andy can not be in the same group as
Ted, or line AB is one-way. For the above set-up, the conditions
are as followed:
The arrangement of the seats is
subject to the following conditions:
· Owen must take a lower-numbered seat than Philippine.
· Mathew must take a lower-numbered seat than Ted.
· Sandra cannot take seat 1.
· Ryan must take the seat immediately adjacent to the seat Owen
takes.
Then, the test-maker will pose 5 to
7 questions. A sample question looks like:
Which of the following arrangements
of seats from 1 through 6, respectively, conforms to the
conditions above?
A. Mathew, Sandra, Ted, Philippine, Ryan, Owen
B. Owen, Philippine, Mathew, Ted, Sandra, Ryan
C. Ryan, Owen, Mathew, Sandra, Philippine, Ted
D. Sandra, Mathew, Ted, Ryan, Owen, Philippine
E. Ted, Owen, Ryan, Mathew, Philippine, Sandra
What does analytical reasoning test?
The analytical reasoning questions
are designed to test your ability to understand the
relationships among various elements, and to draw conclusion
based on given information. This section does not measure any
specific knowledge. A person with or without college degree can
do it perfectly. However, in order to get a high score, a
test-taker should become familiar with the LSAT game, and be
able to solve problem under time pressure.
Also, the test-takers are expected
to understand the scope words precisely. Some commonly used
scope words are exactly, immediately, only, never, etc. Keep
alert to these scope words. If you misunderstand a scope word in
the original conditions, it is highly possible that you get all
the following questions wrong.
Analytical Reasoning on the Test
Day
On the test day, you will find four
sets of games. Each game contains five to seven questions. The
section has a total of 23 or 24 questions. Here is the
instruction at the beginning of this section:
Directions: Each group of
questions in this section is based on a set of conditions. In
answering some of the questions it may be useful to draw a rough
diagram. Choose the response that most accurately and completely
answers each question and blacken the corresponding space on
your answer sheet.
These directions will never change.
Don’t waste valuable time on reading them in the test room.
However, the response “that most accurately and completely
answers each question” is always the only correct answer choice.
You should not be concerned that there is another answer choice
that could conceivably answer the question but not the correct
one. That means, after you pick up the right the answer
choice, you do not need to go through next answers choices to
eliminate all of others. This will save you much time on the
test day.
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