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
, • 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
o strengthening / weakening - "supports" / "undermines"
o Principle - "principle"
o Parallel Reasoning - "analogies"
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
, • 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
o strengthening / weakening - "supports" / "undermines"
o Principle - "principle"
o Parallel Reasoning - "analogies"
