1. Strategies for Success
LSAT EXAM
Strategies for Success

2. Logical Reasoning Introduction
TWO SECTIONS! That’s HALF of your score!

3. Logical Reasoning Introduction
TWO SECTIONS! That’s HALF of your score!
35 minutes per section

4. Logical Reasoning Introduction
TWO SECTIONS! That’s HALF of your score!
35 minutes per section
About 24—26 questions in EACH section
Usually one question per passage, but occasionally two

5. Logical Reasoning Skills
Understand how to construct or conclude an argument
Understand how to evaluate an argument
Know how to draw well-supported conclusions
Know how to reason by analogy
Determine how additional evidence affects an argument
Apply principles or rules to an argument
Identify argument flaws

6. Similarities to Reading Comprehension
Same reading strategies: read actively, visualize, paraphrase, analyze
Same attack strategies, but always pre-read the question
Always consider every answer choice
Use the same elimination strategies
The BEST answer is always the credited response

7. Differences from Reading Comprehension
Fewer factual questions, more hidden level questions

8. Differences from Reading Comprehension
Fewer factual questions, more hidden level questions
Don’t judge the actual truth; test the logical soundness of what’s presented

9. Differences from Reading Comprehension
Fewer factual questions, more hidden level questions
Don’t judge the actual truth; test the logical soundness of what’s presented
Understand WHAT the conclusion is and WHERE it is located

10. Differences from Reading Comprehension
Fewer factual questions, more hidden level questions
Don’t judge the actual truth; test the logical soundness of what’s presented
Understand WHAT the conclusion is and WHERE it is located
Understand the progression of the passage: order of premise, evidence, conclusion

11. Logical Reasoning Question Categories
1. Main Idea Questions

12. Logical Reasoning Question Categories
1. Main Idea 2. Assumptions

13. Logical Reasoning Question Categories
1. Main Idea 2. Assumptions 3. Inferences

14. Logical Reasoning Question Categories
1. Main Idea 2. Assumptions 3. Inferences 4. Strengthen or Weakening an Argument

15. Logical Reasoning Question Categories
1. Main Idea 2. Assumptions 3. Inferences 4. Strengthen or Weakening an Argument 5. Method of Argument

16. Logical Reasoning Question Categories
1. Main Idea 2. Assumptions 3. Inferences 4. Strengthen or Weakening an Argument 5. Method of Argument 6. Conclusion / Deduction

17. Logical Reasoning Question Categories
1. Main Idea 2. Assumptions 3. Inferences 4. Strengthen or Weakening an Argument 5. Method of Argument 6. Conclusion / Deduction 7. Flaws

18. Practice Test Questions and Review
Logical Reasoning
Practice Test Questions and Review

19. Verbal Section Final Advice
Practice daily, concentrate on improving accuracy before efficiency
Analyze why non-credited answers are wrong
Analyze your own “misses”
Analyze your own strengths and weaknesses
Keep practicing!

20. You Can Do It!
GOOD LUCK
ON THE
LSAT EXAM!