Structure and Technique Questions

A difficult aspect of these questions is the difficult language used in the choices. As such, a key part of doing well on these questions is to always determine the argument's structure in your own words before going to the choices. Doing so will allow you sift through the choices much more easily. If instead, you read the argument and then jump to the choices, you will likely find yourself justifying incorrect choices rather than eliminating them.

Try the following: After you have completed five full-length tests, go back through all those tests, locate the argument structure questions, and only read the choices, working on understanding the difficult language presented. This may seem tedious and boring (and it is), but after doing nothing for an hour reading LSAT argument structure choices your ability to read those choices will likely improve.

 

 

Role Questions

These questions ask for what role a particular statement plays within an argument -- you may see the phrase "figures in the argument in which one of the following ways?", such as in LSAT PrepTest 47, Section 4, Question 5. Keep in mind that the question asks about a statement, which may not be an entire sentence. For example, LSAT PrepTest 50, Section 2, Question 15. The statement asked about is only one line of a four-line sentence. Focus on that particular statement -- you might even want to highlight it both the question stem and in the passage -- and determine precisely what role it plays. In this case, treat the "when" as a "because". So, the statement serves essentially as a premise for the claim in the next line that travel writers face greater challenges. For another example, see LSAT PrepTest 50, Section 2, Question 19.