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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: 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: 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...
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Khan Academy: The Sat Reading Test: Rhetoric
Details about Rhetoric on the SAT Reading Test. One definition of the word rhetoric is "the study of writing or speaking." Rhetoric questions on the Reading Test assess how well you understand the choices that authors make as they...
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Khan Academy: The Human Footprint in Mexico
This is a four-problem practice question for the CARS test using the article "The Human Footprint in Mexico".
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Khan Academy: The Honest Truth About Dishonesty
This is a four-problem practice question for the CARS test using the article "The Honest Truth about Dishonesty."
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Khan Academy: The Happy American
This is a four-problem practice question for the CARS test using the article "The Happy American."
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Khan Academy: The Ethics of Drug Induced Happiness
This is a six-question quiz on the ethics of drug-induced happiness based on the passage "The Ethics of Drug-Induced Happiness."
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Khan Academy: Additional Evidence Quick Guide
There are two kinds of additional evidence questions on the LSAT: strengthening evidence and weakening evidence. This article describes strategies for answering these types of questions along with examples.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Compare and Contrast Claims Across Texts
Compare and contrast claims across texts from the argument understanding tool.
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Learning Enrichment:reading Skills in the Social Studies
Discussion of the critical reading skills needed in Social Studies, although the skills discussed can apply to a variety of areas. This is part of a larger site containing numerous lesson plans for Social Studies, and this page is really...
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Khan Academy: Match a Flaw Quick Guide
A Matching Flaw question type is asking you to find a choice containing an argument that exhibits the same flaws as the passage's argument. It's important to focus on the flaws, and not get distracted by the content of the arguments in...
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Khan Academy: Match Principles Quick Guide
These types of questions are very similar to match structure questions, in that the stimulus is made up of an argument or situation, and each choice represents an argument or situation. Your job is to find the choice that exhibits the...
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Khan Academy: Identify the Technique Quick Guide
A quick LSAT prep guide to approaching questions that ask you to "identify the technique" where you are being asked to describe the reasoning of an argument: the way it uses support to justify a conclusion.
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Khan Academy: Identify the Role Quick Guide
A quick guide to approaching questions that ask you to "identify the role" a piece of the argument is playing. This question asks you to describe the individual role that a statement is playing in a larger argument.