LSAT: Reading
Comprehension Questions and Answers Section Strategy - Answer: The most effective and efficient order approach the section: choose your passage # of questions and degree of difficulty Read the passage strategically Identify the Question Type Research the Relevant Text Make a Prediction Evaluate the Answer Choices
Approach - Answer: • Identify the topic
• Scope • Purpose • Main idea
Question Types - Answer: • Global
• Detail • Inference • Logic Function • Logic Reasoning Global Questions - Answer: • Identify the question type: "Main idea", "Purpose", "Organization"
• Task: Think big picture, Review T/S/P/MI, Consult you roadmap
• You should be able to predict an answer to most Global questions 1 / 2
• Do global questions first • Global questions are usually the first and next to last questions Detail Questions - Answer: • Identify the question type: "According to the author", "The passage states", "the author mentions"
• Task: Research the relevant text
Inference Questions - Answer: • Identify the question type: "the author implies", "the passage suggests", "likely to agree" • Task: Read between the lines, Perhaps combine statements, Identify what must follow from the passage • Inference means "must be true". It's a statement that must be true if everything in the stimulus is true.• Inference questions require you to paraphrase the relevant text or make a deduction • Common wrong answer choices; 180, faulty use of detail, extreme, out of scope • Answer inference questions after you've already picked up points with Global and Detail questions • The correct answer to an inference question doesn't require any information that isn't included in the stimulus • Valid inferences aren't necessarily mind-blowing • Beware of extreme wording in inference answer choices • The correct answer doesn't have to take the entire stimulus into account Logical Function Questions - Answer: • Identify the question type: "the author...primarily in order to", "primary purpose of the first passage", "best describes the function of" • Task: Looks at the context of the detail or paragraph and ask why the author put it there • Common wrong answer choices; 180, distortion, faulty use of detail Logical Reasoning Questions - Answer: • Identify the question type: Will mimic LR question types, including
- strengthening / weakening - "supports" / "undermines"
- Principle - "principle"
- Parallel Reasoning - "analogies"
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