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What is the most important thing to remember not to do from here on out?
When identifying the conclusion and premise of the stimulus stop using your own words.
What is a stimulus?
The stimulus is whatever passage/content we are evaluating
How is the conclusion defined?
A conclusion is defined as a claim or a statement supported by at least one other claim or statement
How is a premise defined?
A premise is defined as a claim or statement that provides support to another claim or statement
How can you identify an argument?
You can identify one argument is by identifying the conclusion and premise
Can you have a conclusion without a premise?
No.
Can you have a premise without a conclusion?
No.
In order to identify one argument is what are the two other factors that need to exist in the stimulus?
The two other factors that would need to exist are a conclusion and a premise.
How do we deconstruct the structure of an argument?
Precisely identify what the conclusion and what the promise is.
Is everything in the premise part of the argument?
Not always
What do we call information that exist in the stimulus but itās not the premise, nor the conclusion?
Extraneous information
What should be done with extraneous information?
Nothing. we should ignore it because it does not determine what the argument is.
If we donāt ignore extraneous information, what could happen?
It will mislead the reader and take them down a false path.
What is important to remember when it comes to extraneous information
When you come across extraneous information, it is important to remember that it will deter us from seeing the argument
When presented with a logical reasoning, question, what is the next step after identifying what an argument is?
The next step would be identify is the argument is valid or invalid.
Are most arguments on the LSAT invalid or valid?
Most arguments, on the LSAT are invalid
What is a valid argument?
Valid argument is a perfect argument. It is an argument where the premise definitively, and absolutely, 100% proves the conclusion. Itās an argument where if the premise is true then the conclusion follows logic. This means you cannot weaken it nor can you strengthen it.
An sample of a valid argument isā¦
Awesome people do well on the LSAT. Sarah is awesome. Therefore, Sarah does well on the LSAT.
Valid arguments are ___ in the real world
Rare
Approximately 20 of the 26 logical reasoning questions on the outside will beā¦ the other sixā¦
Invalid arguments. Might not even be arguments at all.
In logical reasoning, the goal is to find outā¦
How an argument is invalid
What does it mean if an argument is invalid?
Is an argument is invalid. This means that there is a gap in the reasoning.
what are the two characteristics of an assumption?
It is a premise, and something that supports the conclusion
What is an unstated claim. It is not explicitly stated in the stimulus.
How can we figure out if a part of a stimulus is a premise?
It is a reason to believe that the conclusion is true.
The premise makes a conclusionā¦
A little more likely to be true than before.
If you understand that a premise makes a conclusion more true it should be clear that if a piece of information is relevant, that the opposite versions of that information should have the opposite effect on the conclusion. In other wordsā¦
If a premise strengthens the conclusion that the opposite of that promise weakens the conclusion
Strengthening questions test whether you can
Whether you can read an answer choice, and determine whether it is a promise for the conclusion.
The correct answer of a strengthening question will beā¦
A premise. The other ones will not be premises.
In a week and a question, the correct answer isā¦
The counter of the premise.
An invalid argument could make sense, butā¦
Thereās weakness or an error in logic. In other words, it requires us to make an assumption within the argument for it to be valid.
in an assumption question when looking over answer choices one must ask the questionā¦
Does this have to be true for the conclusion to be true?
Since it is an indicator to what part of the stimulus?
The premise.
When going through questions, it is important to _____ rather than look for the correct answer
Look for the wrong answers
Although this language is used in the directions it is important to remember that
There is no such thing as a fast answer because thereās only one answer
It is important to remember that _______ arguments can exist on the exam
Conditional. Meaning, the argument is dependent on certain factors existing.
If the stimulus has extraneous information in it, it is important to rememberā¦
Any answer that mentions the extraneous information is incorrect
what is a contender answer?
A contender is an incorrect answer that meets 90% whatās the correct answer is
Well, every question on the LSAT have a contender?
Yes.
When looking through each answer option it is important toā¦
Not look for the correct answer. Rather we want to look for all of the incorrect answers.
If you narrow down your option choices to one of the five answers remaining, but you are not confident that the answer you are choosing is correct this would indicate.
You did not use enough precision when evaluating each answer option and it is likely you are choosing the incorrect answer
On the Allysa, usually you are able to narrow down the answer choices to the contender in the actual, correct answer. This is becauseā¦
Often times they use confusing and ugly wording in the actual correct answer to cause confusion. This would push the examiner to pick a contender answer rather than the correct one.
If you fail to look at each answer option through the lens of disproving them, this would imply that you are looking for the correct answer rather than the incorrect answers. This framework of thinking will lead you toā¦
Select a contender answer, rather than the correct one
Looking for the correct answer rather than the incorrect answers, not only increases the likelihood that you will pick the contender option meaning lose points. But it also increases ____
The amount of time youāre spending on answers. Which is what is leading you to run out of time. There are only 26 correct answers in the logical reasoning section however, there are 104 incorrect answers the last time you spend analyzing 104 incorrect answers the more time you have to focus on Completing the section with precision.
Always well, especially when you narrow the answer choices down to two options it is important toā¦
Look for what is wrong in the answers
When looking through each answer choice, you should also cross outā¦
What portion of that answer choice makes it incorrect
Every sentence hasā¦
A subject, a verb, and a predicate
In the sentence, Sarah, walk to the library, identify the subject, the verb and a predicate
The subject is Sarah. The verb and his walks. And the predicate is to the library.
In the portion of a wrong answer that we cross out (a.k.a. the portion that indicates that that answer choice is incorrect) is the portion of the language thatā¦
Begins with and follows the verb of the answer choice.
What is the operative part of an answer choice?
The part that begins with, and follows the verb.
The operative part of an answer choice is where we determine
If that option choice is incorrect aka is the argument is dependent on that assumption
When determining if an answer is incorrect focus onā¦
The verb and the predicate
Generally, speaking time, spent on the stimulus is timeā¦
Well spent
If you want to get faster on the exam without sacrificing accuracy, the key is to get better atā¦
Identifying what makes a wrong answer wrong
the word so is aā¦
Conclusion indicator
The word because is aā¦
Premise indicator
The word requires indicates a question is ______ question.
An assumption
The word assumption can appear on many different questions but it does not necessarily mean that the type of question is ______ question
An assumption
Allow yourself to cross off ____ questions before you pick one you donāt think is rugby after evaluating each option
All
When eliminating an answer optionā¦
Focus on the VERY specific section/language of each answer option that makes it wrong
Note 
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