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How to Improve at LSAT: Dissecting Arguments
In this lesson on the Logical Reasoning section of LSAT, we define the various ingredients of an argument, as well as extraneous ingredients meant to obscure the argument. We model the process by which we skeptically evaluate arguments, and we discuss a number of recurring reasoning patterns. Some of the lesson is aimed at improving automaticity with lower-level tasks, and some of the lesson is aimed at improving higher-level awareness of argument archetypes.
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Видео

8: Analogy / Application
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Continuing our series of how to study LSAT Reading Comp, we delve into Analogy and Application questions.
7: Opinion / Attitude
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We continue to discuss how to prepare for LSAT Reading Comprehension with this lesson on Opinion and Attitude questions.
Rebuttals
Просмотров 1,9 тыс.Год назад
Within the Logical Reasoning section of LSAT, many questions have a rebuttal structure. This lesson covers how to deconstruct rebuttal arguments and discusses common rebuttal-related patterns with certain question types.
6: Inference
Просмотров 12 тыс.Год назад
This LSAT Reading Comp lesson discusses Inference questions, different styles of implied correct answers, and common forms of trap answers.
5: Locate Detail
Просмотров 9 тыс.2 года назад
In this lesson on how to improve at LSAT Reading Comprehension, we look at detail questions that test "what's stated", not "what's implied".
4: Author's Intent Questions
Просмотров 11 тыс.2 года назад
In this episode we'll look at three question types from the LSAT Reading Comprehension section, all of which test our ability to understand the author's meaning and rhetorical strategy.
LSAT Lab Tour
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See what happens when you combine learning science, technology, and the best instructors anywhere. Reach your potential with LSAT Lab.
Hard LSAT RC passage (in-depth walkthrough)
Просмотров 6 тыс.2 года назад
This video reviews a lot of the RC process, while working through the Science passage from Test 65, Passage 4, about trying to restore the soil of overly farmed land. Please let us know if you see any mistakes or have any questions.
In/Out Grouping | LSAT Logic Games
Просмотров 25 тыс.3 года назад
In/Out Grouping games are a tricky game type designed to measure if-then reasoning. Properly notating conditional relationships and quickly linking them together is key to success in this game type. 0:00 Intro 0:14 Frequency 0:39 Agenda 1:02 Example Game 1:37 Gameboard 3:01 Rules 4:57 Inferences 6:53 Question 1 8:29 Question 2 10:59 Question 3 13:09 Question 4 15:10 Question 5 18:04 Closed vs. ...
Standard Grouping | LSAT Logic Games
Просмотров 27 тыс.3 года назад
Standard Grouping games ask you to assign a set of elements to several teams. Learn how to create an effective game board, notate the rules, and create frames for this game type. 0:00 Intro 0:14 Frequency 0:28 Agenda 0:47 Example Game 1:25 Gameboard 2:35 Rules 3:59 Inferences 5:53 Question 6 7:27 Question 7 10:13 Question 8 12:41 Question 9 15:07 Question 10 17:54 Question 11 19:41 Closed vs. O...
PrepTest 65, Passage 3 (Comparative, "Blackmail")
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This video walks through a Comparative Reading passage from PrepTest 65, while introducing a strategy some people like to use in Comparative Reading, which is to read only one passage at first, and then do some answering/eliminating based on that passage, before returning to read the second passage. 0:00 Strategy 2:55 Passage A 8:06 Question 15 12:31 Question 14 15:17 Question 16 17:03 Passage ...
3: Big Picture Questions | How to Improve LSAT Reading Comp
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In this 3rd lesson in our series, we look at big picture question types such as Main Point, Primary Purpose, and Primary Concern, while refining our big picture reading skills from the first two lessons. 00:00 Video Series Info / Read-a-long Option 01:09 Big Picture Question family 02:07 Read 1st Passage (PT65, psg 2) 02:40 Breakdown of 1st Passage (archivists) 08:30 Review Main Point question ...
Stacked Ordering | LSAT Logic Games
Просмотров 28 тыс.3 года назад
In Stacked Ordering games a good organization reveals hidden inferences which are the key to quickly solving this game type. This lesson looks at how to spot one of these games, how to set one up, and when to use frames. 0:00 Intro 0:14 Frequency 0:41 The Process 1:32 Game Board 3:20 Rules 5:12 Inferences 7:19 Question 12 11:39 Question 13 14:24 Question 14 18:45 Question 15 21:22 Question 16 2...
2. Find a Framework | LSAT Reading Comprehension
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Get to know the Top 5 frameworks for RC passages. Practice using early clues to pick a framework and then using that framework to focus yourself on the 2 or 3 biggest ideas. 00:00 Recap of Lesson 1 01:07 Limits of Human Memory 03:00 Meet the Frameworks 06:00 Revisiting June 2007, P4 10:02 Reading PT65, P1 16:29 PT65, P1, Q1 20:15 Lightning Round PT71, P4 23:18 Lightning Round PT71, P3 25:21 Sum...
1. Big Picture Reading | LSAT Reading Comprehension
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1. Big Picture Reading | LSAT Reading Comprehension
Standard Ordering | LSAT Logic Games
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Standard Ordering | LSAT Logic Games
Tree Ordering | LSAT Logic Games
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Tree Ordering | LSAT Logic Games
Causation | LSAT Logical Reasoning
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Causation | LSAT Logical Reasoning
Conditional Logic | LSAT Logical Reasoning
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Conditional Logic | LSAT Logical Reasoning
Comparison | LSAT Logical Reasoning
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Comparison | LSAT Logical Reasoning
Must Be False | LSAT Logical Reasoning
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Must Be False | LSAT Logical Reasoning
Evaluate | LSAT Logical Reasoning
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Evaluate | LSAT Logical Reasoning
Method | LSAT Logical Reasoning
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Method | LSAT Logical Reasoning
Role | LSAT Logical Reasoning
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Role | LSAT Logical Reasoning
Famous Flaws | LSAT Logical Reasoning
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Famous Flaws | LSAT Logical Reasoning
Parallel | LSAT Logical Reasoning
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Parallel | LSAT Logical Reasoning
Parallel Flaw | LSAT Logical Reasoning
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Parallel Flaw | LSAT Logical Reasoning
Principle | LSAT Logical Reasoning
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Principle | LSAT Logical Reasoning
Main Conclusion | LSAT Logical Reasoning
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Main Conclusion | LSAT Logical Reasoning

Комментарии

  • @victornajera6559
    @victornajera6559 6 часов назад

    For 28:49 it didn't seem like the variables listed were said to contribute to ethnic consciousness? It seemed as if it just stated such as "patterns of bilin..." then said AND the variations in ethnic consciousness. It didn't appear as if the previously listed stated variables were said to contribute to ethnic consciousness. Is there something I'm not seeing, so far inference questions seem to be the brick wall I'm running into :( I love the lessons though, they're incredibly informative and helpful.

  • @francescacolby6513
    @francescacolby6513 13 часов назад

    How is D for the last question negation. To me it seems to be reversal and negation.

  • @victornajera6559
    @victornajera6559 13 часов назад

    On 15:50 answer choice A says ".... are influential thinkers". How can we derive the sentence "central to this type of critique..." to imply "influential thinkers. That part didn't click on me, is there any way to simplify the statement? I see how the rest of the sentences connect to answer choice A but i's the "influential thinkers" portion that messed me up.

  • @francescacolby6513
    @francescacolby6513 14 часов назад

    What if conditional statements don’t link. What do u do then?

  • @francescacolby6513
    @francescacolby6513 14 часов назад

    I hate these questions. They have cause me so many breakdowns. I’ve watched and read everything and done so many practice questions and test and still don’t understand it. Does that mean I just can’t understand them ever? I’m losing hope.

  • @jonlicata4815
    @jonlicata4815 20 часов назад

    I love how much you hate consultants

  • @r.p.8906
    @r.p.8906 21 час назад

    26:41 There is the term " beneficial native plant" that made me hesitate to pick C. We have beneficial fungi, but no " beneficial native plants." I picked D as a result of this term switch. Of course "all types" is too strong but the alternative is a term that does not exist in the passage. Any suggestions? Thanks! What a wonderful video this is!!

  • @victornajera6559
    @victornajera6559 2 дня назад

    These videos are sooo helpful its crazy how much information I've retained due to the humor and simplicity of the information provided!

  • @victornajera6559
    @victornajera6559 2 дня назад

    2024 and this video was still very helpful! Made learning the steps enjoyable as well, considering I've been dreading studying RC.

  • @user-xv5ol9fd4w
    @user-xv5ol9fd4w 2 дня назад

    this series is gold. thank you so much

  • @jj7495
    @jj7495 7 дней назад

    Anyone else here for the MCAT 👀👀

  • @eddy-fw7hv
    @eddy-fw7hv 8 дней назад

    I got one wrong but that’s cuss my reading comp sucks but I mean I just need more practice lol

  • @AKelly-ij6hx
    @AKelly-ij6hx 10 дней назад

    Hi! Just a quick question. Is main conclusion the same as main point?

  • @marlenmillan7819
    @marlenmillan7819 12 дней назад

    THANK U SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO!!!!

  • @jessica7276
    @jessica7276 13 дней назад

    Many thanks for this video

  • @AKelly-ij6hx
    @AKelly-ij6hx 13 дней назад

    Extremely great video!

  • @LizardBec
    @LizardBec 16 дней назад

    Everyone is so hyped up about the power score books. What they should be hyped up about are these free courses that teach more about logical reasoning than any book.

  • @georginaaduasare8322
    @georginaaduasare8322 16 дней назад

    One question, when I was doing the last passage of this video, I put New Vs. Old as my framework. Why would this framework be considered incorrect? Thank you. Great video by the way.

  • @As_Sulay
    @As_Sulay 17 дней назад

    8:01

  • @ihazotherchannel
    @ihazotherchannel 17 дней назад

    For #5, "Unless you apologize, I'm going to quit the game" I initially answered: - If quit --> NO Apology - If Apology --> NO quit I see how the first one doesn't work, because the person could still quit in another situation, therefore "No Apology" is not REQUIRED for quitting. But the contrapositive, which translates to, "If you apologize then I don't quit," is something I'm snagging on. Is it because not quitting is not necessary for an apology? Thank you!

  • @ihazotherchannel
    @ihazotherchannel 17 дней назад

    could number 8 also be written as: - If BS and NOT M --> Cool - If NOT Cool --> NOT BS or M or is it better if breath strips and mints are kept as a single entity in the exercise?

  • @hwinbb3969
    @hwinbb3969 22 дня назад

    I’m not even taking the LSAT but this video has been so helpful for me improving in CARS for the MCAT

  • @willjensen5595
    @willjensen5595 26 дней назад

    Thank you for discussing the heuristics you use to tackle these kinds of questions. These questions I find easily the most time-consuming in LR. Every shortcut is helpful!

  • @laurenwilder9606
    @laurenwilder9606 Месяц назад

    My favorite lsat videos are LSAT Lab videos and I've paid for courses.. Patrick you are heaven sent. Thank you.

  • @mollygiven489
    @mollygiven489 Месяц назад

    Did I just get called a sugar booger?

  • @haritharaghupathi2544
    @haritharaghupathi2544 Месяц назад

    If ANC A read " If politicians were less isolated from their electorate then there is a chance that any particular acts of resident participation will elicit a positive response" ; then would it be an ANC supported by the given facts?

  • @devanshisharma2580
    @devanshisharma2580 Месяц назад

    Thank you sm it's just amazing way

  • @lraoux
    @lraoux Месяц назад

    12:54, got tricked by D. With all due respect, the 2nd sentence can absolutely be said to form a hypothesis. Saying “This indicates that X depends on Y;” while referring to premises made in an argument falls under the category of “presenting a hypothesis.” What threw me off is the health aspect. It seems as though the hypothesis says “Therefore, the better off/more successful/healthier everything else is, the healthier/heavier the newborn.” If common knowledge were to play a role here, his would make it more specific than A! However, the stimulus never establishes attributes lush food to a healthy ecosystem, nor does it link heaviness in a baby to its overall heath. The 2 are completely independent phenomena of each other.

  • @devanshisharma2580
    @devanshisharma2580 Месяц назад

    18:27 v well explained!

  • @savinajoreva9516
    @savinajoreva9516 Месяц назад

    It is visible in the rules that k can not be 5 it has h and j after itself and the films are six.

  • @ryanfrizzell736
    @ryanfrizzell736 2 месяца назад

    This video is a great study aid for the LSAT.

  • @charmis7254
    @charmis7254 2 месяца назад

    Using this to study for the MCAT😭😂

    • @eo7274
      @eo7274 Месяц назад

      lmao same came here from Reddit

    • @Chuwy888
      @Chuwy888 25 дней назад

      ssameeee

  • @devanshisharma2580
    @devanshisharma2580 2 месяца назад

    14:30 how they both can be out ?

  • @anirbanmukherjee5240
    @anirbanmukherjee5240 2 месяца назад

    2007, S2, Q6: answer choice A is not a negation. Question stem gives us executive board -> undergraduate + no felony. This is because felony -> no board, so the contrapositive combined with the first condition gives us that. Option A specialises this condition to board -> masters + no felony. This is because eligibility conditions are necessary conditions. Ie it’s not no felony -> board as shown in the visual but rather board -> no felony. Eligibility does not imply board membership. It simply means this condition must be present for the board members. Of course it could also be that there are multiple alternative eligibility criteria in which case it is not even a necessary condition but regardless it’s not a sufficient condition, and so not a negation.

    • @anirbanmukherjee5240
      @anirbanmukherjee5240 2 месяца назад

      In fact, the argument for why option B is correct, interprets the word eligible as leading to a necessary condition.

  • @anirbanmukherjee5240
    @anirbanmukherjee5240 2 месяца назад

    (1) K or L -> M. (2) NOT K -> L. Taking the contra positive of 1, NOT M -> NOT K AND NOT L. But NOT K -> L (as given in 2). Contradiction in the setup?

    • @LSATLab
      @LSATLab 2 месяца назад

      Great observation! It's not quite a contradiction, but there is the potential FOR a contradiction. If M were out, a contradiction would ensue. So one of the things you can infer from those three rules is that M must be in. (I'm using in/out as a proxy for yes/no, but same difference) Another way to think of the same thing is that the last rule looks like this: ~ K --> L ~L --> K That guarantees that at least one of L and K is in. They can't both be out, because either one being out would force the other one in. So since we know that at least one of L and K is in, we know that the trigger of the first rule is going to happen no matter what, and thus we know that M will be IN no matter what.

    • @anirbanmukherjee5240
      @anirbanmukherjee5240 2 месяца назад

      Yep. That makes sense. Thanks!

  • @dadequalcustody8350
    @dadequalcustody8350 2 месяца назад

    Question #2 did not make sense to me at all.

  • @lunaaksoy
    @lunaaksoy 2 месяца назад

    Assumption with evidence, function and inference👍

  • @SenseiLlama
    @SenseiLlama 2 месяца назад

    The only thing left is repitition

  • @IGleeker
    @IGleeker 2 месяца назад

    Thank you so much

  • @lamarcuusbuckner7156
    @lamarcuusbuckner7156 2 месяца назад

    This entire playlist during test week and gave me so much relative information for test. I feel even more confident in my approach for the test day! These videos are amazing and very informative. THANK YOU!!!!

    • @alysedianecan
      @alysedianecan Месяц назад

      How’d you do?! I signed up for a subscription on the website. Testing in September

    • @lamarcuusbuckner7156
      @lamarcuusbuckner7156 Месяц назад

      @@alysedianecani had a seven point increase.

    • @alysedianecan
      @alysedianecan Месяц назад

      @@lamarcuusbuckner7156 that’s awesome.

  • @francescacedeno2030
    @francescacedeno2030 2 месяца назад

    Thank you so much for this. It cleared up so many things!

  • @inherentemptiness7431
    @inherentemptiness7431 2 месяца назад

    Great job.

  • @reignelover7222
    @reignelover7222 3 месяца назад

    I can not say enough how helpful you guys at LSAT Lab have been for my studying for the LSAT! Genuinely great videos all around. Thank you guys so much!

  • @user-dl6hf1ul8w
    @user-dl6hf1ul8w 3 месяца назад

    Where does he explain that B is wrong?

    • @LSATLab
      @LSATLab 3 месяца назад

      This video doesn't attempt to teach that question you're referring to. It's just to show people an example of an LR question, so that we can name the parts like Stimulus, Stem, Answers. It gets brought back later to make a quick point about how understanding conditional logic relationships can be crucial to differentiating between two answers that are otherwise saying the same thing. but fwiw, here's why (B) is wrong. we're told that selling noncoffee products would lead to decreased profitability. we're also told that if coffee sales decrease it would lead to decreased profitability. But that doesn't mean those are the only two things that lead to decreased profitability. I could tell you: Jumping off a tall building will kill you. Drinking lots of poison will kill you. That doesn't mean those two are the only things that kill you. So I can't logically derive a claim like "If you died, then either you jumped off a tall building or you drank lots of poison". Similarly, it's possible that profitability decreases, not because they started selling noncoffee products or because coffee sales went down but for some other reason: for example maybe expenses went up. Maybe it costs them much more to buy beans or pay rent or meet payroll. Any increase in expenses could decrease profitability.

    • @justafella69
      @justafella69 Месяц назад

      @@LSATLab I see, that makes sense now. Thank you for writing that all out, and replying to a comment on a 4 year old YT video. Makes me want to try your service.

  • @alenafu1812
    @alenafu1812 3 месяца назад

    The best!

  • @alenafu1812
    @alenafu1812 3 месяца назад

    very good! Clearly stated the point of each question

  • @pattyodonnell
    @pattyodonnell 3 месяца назад

    I am wholeheartedly depending on you to save my LSAT score

  • @shanayaranashetty
    @shanayaranashetty 3 месяца назад

    Very useful and entertaining video! You know you found something awesome when you walk away laughing and more prepared to take on LSAT RC

  • @myatsan3694
    @myatsan3694 3 месяца назад

    THIS VIDEO IS SO UNDERRATED!!! This is the best video that I have ever seen for reading comprehension. I am studying for MCAT and CARS is killing me but this video is literally gold and I am so happy that I found this before my exam. Thank you so much!!!!!!

    • @rocky2balboa
      @rocky2balboa 2 месяца назад

      Congratulations @myatsan3694! How are you doing now in CARS?