Intro to Logical Reasoning
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Summary
The Logical Reasoning section is a critical component of the LSAT, designed to assess critical reading and thinking skills rather than specific knowledge, making up 66% of the total score.
- Logical Reasoning tests skills in critical reading and thinking, not specific knowledge, with some benefit from understanding formal logic.
- This section constitutes two scored parts of the LSAT, each with 25-26 questions, representing the most significant portion of the exam.
- There's a wide variety of question types within Logical Reasoning, though many share similarities allowing for a unified approach to tackling them.
- Skills measured in Logical Reasoning overlap significantly with those assessed in Reading Comprehension, focusing on argument breakdown and deduction.
- The section includes 35 minutes per part, with a total of 50-52 questions across the exam, and features a difficulty curve that increases towards the end of each section.
Chapters
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Introduction to Logical Reasoning
00:43
Scoring and Structure
01:02
Question Types and Strategies
01:26
Overlap with Reading Comprehension
02:16
Section Timing and Difficulty
This video has been updated for the new LSAT starting in August 2024, which has 2 scored Logical Reasoning sections.
However, for the current LSAT, that exam has only 1 scored Logical Reasoning section. Hence, in that case, LR makes up ~33% of your overall LSAT score.