7Sage- LR Strategies by question type

3. Assumption

they are premises that the author has left out. • When looking at the answer choices find the answer that support the conclusion

10. Argument Part Questions

- The question stem will directly quote a section of the passage and ask you to identify what role that section plays in the stimulus. - The role can be many things: Main conclusion, major premise, sub conclusion, context etc.

18. Point at Issue/Disagree Questions

- You are tasked with determining what the speakers agree or disagree on - It is important to note that if a speaker has no opinion on it than you cannot say that they agree or disagree

14. Flaw Descriptive Weakening Questions

- You don't point directly out the flaw, you say the argument fails to do something, fails to account for something - The wrong answer choices will be correct for other questions, make sure you understand what each answer choice is saying.

2. Most Strongly Supported Questions

you must locate the conclusion then find the answer choice that provides support conclusion is removed from the stimulus and placed into the answer choices

9. Must Be false Questions

• Rare on the LSAT, are the opposite of must be true. • The Stimulus will provide you with a set of outlines/rules etc and then give you answer choices

1. Main Point/Main Conclusion Questions

Take a label and slap it on the sentence that you think is the main point Its written in the stimulus

16. Necessary Assumption Questions

A necessary assumption does very little to help the argument, but without it—the argument falls apart , for example "you are alive"

17. Resolve-Reconcile-Explain Questions

Answer is an alternative explanation for why the contradiction is simply an appearance of a contradiction.

13. Parallel Method of Reasoning Questions

Identify the method of reasoning used in the stimulus and then find the answer choice that parallels it

12. Principle Questions

They are SA questions in reverse. You are provided with an argument with a gaping whole in them, but if you take the principle supplied in the stimulus and insert it you will have a valid argument

11. Method of Reasoning Questions

This is a descriptive level question. You are being asked how the argument proceeds

• Weakening

YOU DO NOT ATTACK OR CONTRADICT a PREMISE, EVER YOU DO NOT CONTRADICT OR DENY a CONCLUSION, EVER • A correct answer choice will show, despite the premise being true, with the consideration of the additional premise (correct answer choice) the existing premise(s) are now, way less supportive

15. Parallel Flaw Questions

stimulus is flawed and then read the answer choices to find a similar flaw

5. Strengthening Questions

• The answer choice you choose will introduce a new idea that increases the support from the existing premises to the conclusion • You are tasked with exposing and affirming and assumptions made by the author • You make the premise(s) more supportive of the conclusion

8. Must Be True Questions

• The definition of a valid argument: If the premises are true, then the conclusion must also be true. So choose the answer choice that considering the info provided, MBT

7. Pseudo-sufficient Assumption Questions:

• Very similar to sufficient assumption questions in that they rely heavily on logic. The difference is, they LSAT writers are leaving a small window that says the answer choice may not make the argument valid but it is ALMOST valid. • Do NOT try to prove that the principle itself is true - i.e., do not try to prove or justify that in a debate every argument must be confronted. • The question stem does not ask: which of the following principles must be true?

6. Sufficient Assumption Questions

• You are looking for the answer choice that provides the stimulus with the missing information that will help the argument to reach the holy grail status of validity • Your goal is to bridge the gap between the premise