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LSAT Question Types
This will help students identify LSAT Question Types
Question | Answer |
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The dialogue provides the most support for the claim that Albert and Yvonne disagree over whether | Point at Issue / Disagreement Q |
Which one of the following, if true, would most help to explain the researchers’ surprising finding? | Paradox / Explain Q |
The reasoning in the letter to the editor is most vulnerable to the criticism that it | Flaw Q |
The claim that the most environmentally sensible thing to do is to buy food from local farmers whenever it is available plays which one of the following roles in the argument? | Role of Statement Q |
Which one of the following most accurately expresses the conclusion drawn by the argument as a whole? | Main Point / Conclusion Q |
The reasoning in the argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that the argument | Flaw Q |
Which one of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument? | Weaken Q |
The argument is flawed in that it | Flaw Q |
If the statements above are true, which one of the following must also be true? | Inference Q (must be true) |
Which one of the following is most strongly supported by the information above? | Inference Q (most likely to be true) |
Which one of the following most accurately describes the role played in the researcher’s argument by the claim that only warm-blooded animals could survive temperatures below freezing? | Role of Statement Q |
Which one of the following can be properly inferred from the psychologist’s statements? | Inference Q (must be true) |
The conclusion drawn above follows logically if which one of the following is assumed? | Assumption Q (Sufficient Assumption, "follows logically") |
Each of the following, if true, would help to explain the situation described above EXCEPT: | Paradox / Explain Q (EXCEPT) |
Which one of the following arguments is most similar in its reasoning to the argument above? | Parallel Reasoning Q |
The argument’s conclusion follows logically if which one of the following is assumed? | Assumption Q (Sufficient Assumption, "follows logically") |
Which one of the following exhibits flawed reasoning most similar to that in the argument above? | Parallel Flaw Q |
Which one of the following is an assumption the argument requires? | Assumption Q (Necessary Assumption, "requires") |
Which one of the following, if true, provides the most support for the argument? | Strengthen Q |
Which one of the following, if true, provides the strongest basis for criticizing the reasoning in the advertisement? | Weaken Q |
The argument above is flawed in that it | Flaw Q |
Which one of the following would, if true, most strengthen the argument above? | Strengthen Q |
Which one of the following principles, if valid, most undermines the reasoning in Meade’s argument? | Weaken Q |
Which one of the following is an assumption required by the argument? | Assumption Q (Necessary Assumption, "required") |
Of the rulings described below, which one conforms most closely to the principles stated above? | Principle Q (Apply the Principle) |
The statements above, if true, most strongly support which one of the following hypotheses? | Inference Q (most likely to be true) |
Which one of the following principles, if valid, would most help to justify the literary critic’s argument? | Principle Q (Justify ≈ Strengthen) |
Winona responds to Inez by | Method of Argument Q |
The argument proceeds by | Method of Argument Q |
The reasoning technique employed by the psychologist is that of attempting to undermine an argument by | Method of Argument Q |
Which one of the following most accurately describes how the scientist’s argument proceeds? | Method of Argument Q |
Which one of the following, if true, most helps to account for the response of auto safety experts to the popularity of SUVs? | Paradox / Explain Q |
If the information above is accurate, then each of the following statements could be true EXCEPT: | Inference Q (must be false) |
Each of the following statements follows logically from the set of statements above EXCEPT: | Inference Q (must be true EXCEPT) |
Which one of the following, if assumed, allows the conclusion of the therapist’s argument to be properly inferred? | Assumption Q (Sufficient Assumption, "properly inferred") |
Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends? | Assumption Q (Necessary Assumption, "depends") |
Which one of the following, if assumed, enables the essayist’s conclusion to be properly drawn? | Assumption Q (Sufficient Assumption, "properly drawn") |
The consumer’s argument relies on the assumption that | Assumption Q (Necessary Assumption, "relies") |
The argument is vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that it fails to consider that | Flaw Q |
On the basis of their statements, Price and Albrecht are committed to disagreeing about whether | Point at Issue / Disagreement Q |
The statements above provide the most support for holding that Graham and Adelaide disagree about whether | Point at Issue / Disagreement Q |
Which one of the following is most strongly supported by the information above? | Inference Q (most likely to be true) |
The statement that there is no evidence that Bosch was a member of the Brethren figures in the argument in which one of the following ways? | Role of Statement |
Marsha’s claim that it is possible for governments to manipulate people into thinking that they have a say when they do not is used to | Role of Statement |