LSAT Tutorials on Key Areas
Our LSAT tutorials review and highlight key skills and help students gain proficiency in some of the basic logical principles that the LSAT habitually tests. The LSAT only has four question-intensive sections, but it actually covers various areas of logical principles and analytical reasoning. Mastering these areas is the key to understanding the principles that underlie the exam. Take advantage of these LSAT prep materials today by signing up for our LSAT prep course!
Here are the LSAT tutorials we offer:
Arguments (16 minutes):
- Structure of an argument
- How parts of arguments relate to one another
- What to look for when confronting an argument
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Assumptions (12 ½ minutes):
- Concept frequently tested on the LSAT in Logical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension
- Learn how the LSAT uses assumptions
- Learn how to isolate an assumption
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Conditional Reasoning(13 ½ minutes):
- Most commonly tested logical concept on the LSAT
- Deconstructs and explains relationship between a sufficient condition and a necessary condition
- Analyzes ways the LSAT uses conditional reasoning to confuse test-takers
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Dialogue Questions (17 minutes):
- Analyzes and explains Logical Reasoning questions with more than one speaker
- Focuses on “point at issue”-style dialogue questions
- Illustrates the keys to mastering dialogue questions
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Flawed Reasoning (14 minutes):
- Highlights common reasoning errors on the LSAT, such as mistaking a correlation for causation, confusing a sufficient condition with a necessary condition, and making inferences based on an unrepresentative sample.
- Learn to identify flaws in various types of Logical Reasoning questions
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Logic Games: Assignment (11 minutes):
- Breaks down basic skills to handle logic games that ask students to place variables in different places, teams, etc.
- Focuses on symbols used to represent different relationships so that students can construct diagrams
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Logic Games: Grouping (14 minutes):
- Reviews how to diagram properly the various types of relationships in the rules
- Explains how to draw needed inferences from those relationships
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Logic Games: Ordering (11 ½ minutes):
- Breaks down basic skills to identify an ordering relationship among a given set of variables.
- Focuses on constructing accurate diagrams, combining and drawing inferences from a given set of diagrams, and identifying common mistakes.
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Introduction to Reading Comprehension (32 minutes):
- Basic overview of Reading Comprehension questions
- Highlights keys to performing well on questions, including identifying the author’s perspective and reading for structure, not content.
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The Seven Deadly Sins of the LSAT (52 minutes):
- One of the most effective LSAT prep materials
- Focuses on the seven most costly mistakes made on the most recent exams
- Provides understanding of how the LSAT tries to confuse you
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Strengthen/Weaken Arguments (18 ½ minutes):
- Illustrates common ways to support and refute an argument
- Equips you to evaluate arguments on both the Logical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension sections
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Structural Reasoning (15 minutes):
- Breaks down Logical Reasoning questions that test your ability to evaluate an argument’s underlying structure
- Learn the difference between describing the structure of an argument and identifying answers that parallel the reasoning in an argument
- Helps you understand logical principles on the LSAT as a whole
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Writing Sample (26 ½ minutes):
- Explains one of the most neglected parts of the LSAT
- Provides you with several effective tips, including two templates that can be used on any writing sample
- Proceeds through and explains an actual writing sample problem and composes a model response
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