The Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) is a nationally recognized test that you must take before you can begin applying for graduate programs at law schools. This test has many different parts that will test your abilities, including a section on logical reasoning. If you received low scores on the logical reasoning section of the test, it could prevent you from getting into the school of your choice. You can improve these scores by studying and preparing for your next test.
Instructions
1. Obtain a copy of an old LSAT exam or purchase an LSAT practice test to help familiarize yourself with the language and questions you will see in your exam. Copies of tests can be found at your local college or university library, while practice exams are also available through your university or local bookstore.
2. Study and understand the basic concepts you will need in order to improve your logical reasoning score. The questions and examples you will find in the test will use conditions called necessary conditions and sufficient conditions. A necessary condition is a condition that must be met before a result can occur. For example, air must be blown into a balloon before it will expand and is a necessary condition. On the other hand, a sufficient condition is a condition that could cause a certain result, but wasn't necessarily met.
3. Study the idea of causation -- the thought that every action is caused by something else -- before you take the test again. There are many questions in the test that will require you to determine whether an event caused an action or if an event was caused by an action. There are study guides available at your university or bookstore that can help you study this concept.
4. Take practice tests. The more practice tests you take, the better prepared you will be. Time yourself during the test to make sure you can finish the logical reasoning portion in the allotted amount of time. Try to take the practice tests in an environment that will be most like the one where you will be taking the actual test.
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