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Khan Academy: Conditional Reasoning and Logical Equivalence
How do we recognize logically equivalent conditional statements? Conditional (or "if-then") statements can be difficult to master, but your confidence and fluency on the LSAT will improve significantly if you can recognize the various...
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Khan Academy: Necessary Assumptions Learn More
Necessary assumption questions ask you to determine what has to be true - but was never explicitly stated - in order for an argument to work. Stated differently, if a necessary assumption were discovered to be false, the argument would...
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Khan Academy: Match a Flaw Learn More
Match a Flaw questions are nearly identical to Match the Structure questions, but with the added information that the argument in the passage is flawed (and therefore, the argument in the answer will be as well). They can sometimes be...
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Khan Academy: Match Principles Learn More
How do you match the principles of two arguments or situations? "Match principles" questions are similar to match structure questions in that the passage represents an argument or a situation, and each choice also represents an argument...
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Khan Academy: Match Structure Quick Guide
A quick guide to approaching LSAT test questions that ask you to match the structure of an argument in one of the answer choices to the structure of the argument in a passage.
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Khan Academy: Match Structure Learn More
"Match the structure" questions on the LSAT test your ability to determine how an argument goes. It begins with an argument in the stimulus and then asks you to choose another argument from among the choices that is structurally the...
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Khan Academy: Introduction to Arguments
The Logical Reasoning section of the LSAT assesses your ability to analyze arguments. This article introduces you to the components of an argument and how to recognize them. If this is new to you, it's a good idea to spend quite a bit of...
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Khan Academy: Identify the Technique Learn More
"Identify the technique" questions will ask you to describe the reasoning of an argument - the way it uses support to justify a conclusion. These questions focus on structure, method, and technique. They're not concerned with what the...
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Khan Academy: Clarifying Meaning Quick Guide
In a given text, words and phrases do not appear in isolation but are embedded in the context of a narrative, an argument, an explanation, and so on. Accordingly, clarifying meaning questions test your ability to identify contextually...
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Khan Academy: Strongly Supported Inferences Quick Guide
A quick guide to approaching questions that ask you to identify something that is "strongly supported." On questions that ask you to find the choice that is most strongly supported by a stimulus, the answer does not have to be...
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Khan Academy: Strongly Supported Inferences Learn More
How do we recognize what is "strongly supported?" Some questions on the logical reasoning section of the LSAT ask what additional information is supported by a stimulus. These are similar to questions that ask you to identify the...
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Khan Academy: Inferences About Information Quick Guide
Some questions in the Reading Comprehension section will ask you to make an inference about information in the passage. The answer may not be explicitly stated in the passage, but it will be supported by the content of the passage. In...
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Khan Academy: Getting Started With Reading Comprehension
Explains what to expect on the Reading Comprehension portion of the LSAT test and how to prepare yourself.
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Khan Academy: If X, Then Y Sufficiency and Necessity
In this lesson, you will learn how to recognize arguments that contain conditional statements, and learn the difference between sufficient and necessary conditions.
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Khan Academy: Necessary Assumptions Quick Guide
A quick guide to approaching questions that ask you to find an assumption required by the argument. This question asks you to identify the claim that must be true or is required in order for the argument to work. In other words, there is...
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Khan Academy: Identify the Role Learn More
Some questions ask you to describe the individual role that a statement is playing in a larger argument. These questions require you to understand the statement in question, but even more important is your understanding of its context...
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Khan Academy: Purpose of Reference Quick Guide
Purpose of reference questions ask you to identify why the author referred to something in a certain part of the text. In other words, what was the point of including the reference?
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Khan Academy: Principles and Analogies Quick Guide
Analogy questions ask you to identify a situation that is analogous to the one described in the passage. Principle questions ask you to identify the principle that is at work. This guide offers tips on how to recognize and respond to...
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Khan Academy: Recognition Quick Guide
How do you approach Recognition questions? Perhaps the most basic task of Reading Comprehension on the LSAT is that of recognizing things that the passage text states on a literal, explicit level, so these types of questions may seem...
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Khan Academy: Primary Purpose Quick Guide
Primary purpose questions ask us to identify why the author may have written the passage. As you read through the passage the first time, it's a good idea to always be asking yourself: "So what?" "What's the point?"
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Khan Academy: Organizing Information Quick Guide
Organizing information questions ask you to understand and analyze how a passage works to make an argument. What is the progression of ideas in the passage? or What is the purpose of a specific paragraph?
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Khan Academy: Main Point Quick Guide
The first question in most Reading Comprehension sets will ask you to identify the statement that best expresses the central idea or the main point that the passage as a whole is designed to convey.
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Khan Academy: Strengthen and Weaken Quick Guide
A quick guide to approaching test questions that ask you to identify info that would strengthen or weaken an argument.
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Khan Academy: Strengthen and Weaken Learn More
How do we identify information that would strengthen or weaken an argument? Strengthen and Weaken questions ask you to find info that would make the conclusion of an argument more or less likely to be true, based on the evidence that's...