LSAT: Reading Comprehension Case Study.

Section Strategy - correct 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 - correct answer • Identify the topic • Scope • Purpose • Main idea Question Types - correct answer • Global • Detail • Inference • Logic Function • Logic Reasoning Global Questions - correct 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 • Do global questions first • Global questions are usually the first and next to last questions Detail Questions - correct answer • Identify the question type: "According to the author", "The passage states", "the author mentions" • Task: Research the relevant text Inference Questions - correct 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 - correct 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 - correct answer • Identify the question type: Will mimic LR question types, including o strengthening / weakening - "supports" / "undermines" o Principle - "principle" o Parallel Reasoning - "analogies" • Task: Use the appropriate LR strategy Common Logical Reasoning & Reading Comp Wrong Answer Types - correct answer • Extreme Language