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If you want to rock the Logical Reasoning, you'll need to answer the questions correctly.
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To consistently answer the questions correctly, you have to understand what the
questions want from you. To understand what a question wants from you, you need to
be able to identify when it's being asked. Thus, if you want to rock the Logical
Reasoning, you must study this chart.

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IDENTIFICATION QUESTIONS
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Main Identify the claim the argument is trying

Which one of the following most accurately expresses to prove.
Conclusion the main point of the passage?
Which one of the following most accurately expresses
the conclusion of the passage?
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Inference Identify any claim that is proved by the
Which one of the following judgments most closely passage.
conforms to the principle stated above?
Which of the following is most strongly supported by the
information above?
If the statements above are true, which one of the
following must also be true on the basis of them?
Which of the following can be properly concluded [or LSAT Question Types
properly inferred] from the statements above?
Which of the following follows logically from the
information above?

Point of Identify what the arguers disagree

Ronaldo and Cho disagree over whether... about.
Disagreement Olivia’s and Geraldina’s statements provide the most
support for holding that they disagree about... Which one
of the following most accurately expresses the point at
issue between Claude and Kenji?

Point of Identify what the arguers agree about.

Octavia's and Massimo's statements provide the most
Agreement support for holding that they agree about...

ANALYSIS QUESTIONS
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Flaw Articulate how the argument failed.

The reasoning above is most vulnerable to criticism
because it...
The argument’s reasoning is flawed because the
argument...
The argument contains which one of the following
reasoning errors?
The argument’s reasoning is questionable because it...

Necessary Name a piece of evidence the argument

Which one of the following is an assumption on which the needs but does not have.
Assumption argument depends [or relies]?
Which one of the following is an assumption required by
the argument?
Which of the following is a necessary assumption of the
argument?
The argument assumes which one of the following?

Sufficient Choose a response that will prove the

Which one of the following principles, if valid, most helps conclusion is true.
Assumption to justify the reasoning above?
Which one of the following, if assumed, allows the
conclusion to be properly drawn?
The conclusion above follows logically if which of the
following is assumed?

Strengthen Make the conclusion more likely to be

Which one of the following, if true, most supports [or true.
strengthens] the argument?
Which one of the following statements, if true, provides
the strongest support for the argument?

Weaken Make the conclusion less likely to be

Which one of the following, if true, most seriously true.
undermines [or weakens] the argument?
Which one of the following statements, if true, most calls
into question the argument?
Which one of the following, if true, would cast the most
serious doubt on the conclusion?

Evaluation Choose a response that would help you

Which of the following would be most helpful to know in decide whether the argument was strong
evaluating the argument above? or weak.
In order to evaluate the argument above, it would be most
useful to know whether...

Resolution Pick an answer that will solve the

Which one of the following, if true, does most to resolve problem in the passage.
the apparent paradox described above?
Which of the following, if true, contributes most to an
explanation of the seeming contradiction in the claims
above?
Which one of the following, if true, most helps to reconcile
the experts’ belief with the apparently contrary evidence
described above?

DESCRIPTION QUESTIONS
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Method Describe the structure of the passage.

The argument proceeds by...
Which of the following is a method of reasoning employed in
the argument?
Which one of the following most accurately expresses the
principle illustrated above?
The argumentation conforms most closely to which one of the
following principles?

Role Describe the way one sentence fits into

The statement that <yadda, yadda, yadda> [where <yadda, the whole argument.
yadda, yadda> is a reprinting of some sentence from the argument]
plays which of the following roles in the argument above?
The statement that <blah, blah, blah> functions in the
argument in which of the following ways?

Parallel Describe the argument, then identify

Which of the following best illustrates the principle illustrated another argument that fits that same
by the argument above? description.
Which of the following is most similar in its reasoning to the
argument above?
Which of the following exhibits the same pattern of reasoning
as the argument above?
Which of the following exhibits the same pattern of flawed
reasoning as the argument above?

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