Sufficient Assumption Questions | Tips and Categorization

I’ve talked in another article about how Sufficient Assumption (Justify) questions are generally based in formal logic. This time, I’m going a bit further with this idea. I have analyzed every Sufficient Assumption question from LSAT PrepTests 19-58. I found the vast majority of these questions fall into one of the following 6 categories:   […]

Logical Reasoning | Sufficient Assumption (Justify) Questions

Many of you dislike formal logic Logical Reasoning questions, particularly Sufficient Assumption (aka Justify) questions. In this blog post, I’ll demonstrating my technique on a few of these questions. Unfortunately, the folks at LSAC are very strict about their intellectual property and wouldn’t allow me to post their LSAT questions online, so I’m only posting […]

Formal vs. Informal Logic in LSAT Logical Reasoning

As we saw in my interview with Dr. Deborah Bennett (author of Logic Made Easy), both formal and informal logic are necessary in everyday life. Here are some examples of both formal and informal logic for those of you who haven’t had a chance to get your hands on a copy of Logic Made Easy yet. Formal logicFormal […]

Logic Made Easy by Bennett | Interview

I interviewed Dr. Deborah Bennett, author of Logic Made Easy, via email. Our discussion follows. 1. How did you first become interested in logic, and why do many people find it difficult? I first became interested in logic as a child, when my father used to bring logic puzzles to the dinner table. The whole family discussed […]