EARLY BIRD STARTS - SMALL GROUP LSAT TUTORING - PREP FOR THE PREP!
Richardson - LSAT Preparation Course - Toronto, Canada
Workshop 1: LSAT Logic Games - Your analytical reasoning toolbox
Workshop 2: Logical Reasoning - How the LSAT argument goes
Workshop 3: LSAT logic and language |
We are frequently asked “how early
should I begin my LSAT Preparation?” There is no answer. Some people want to start early. Others want to concentrate their prep over a shorter period of time. Our “official
courses” begin in January, April, May, July, August, September, October and November. In order to allow
for “early bird” starts, we have created a series of shorter
(4 hour tutoring sessions) to allow you to start well in advance of your official course start date. Take advantage of our "Early Bird" starts.
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Workshop 1:
Logic Games 1
- Your logic games
toolbox

S. 1 Saturday October 25/14
10:00 a.m - 12:00 noon
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First, the bad news:
When people begin their LSAT Preparation, Logic Games (it's really
called "Analytical Reasoning") scares people the most.
Now, the good news:
This section is highly susceptible to short term improvement. For many
people Logic Games starts as the hardest section of the test and the
ends as the easiest. Some of the reasons for this are:
- most of the games that appear on the LSAT are based on a surprisingly
few number of patterns;
- one approach to diagramming will handle almost all of the those patterns;
- the questions focus on only three inferences - determining what: must
be true, could be true, or must be false;
- a surprisingly small number of rules of reasoning will allow you to
make those inferences;
- adjusting the order in which you tackle the individual questions will
both improve your accuracy and save you time.
There is no one approach to answering logic games questions. In fact
there are number of approaches. For any given question, some approaches
will work better than others. But, you do need to be able to apply different
approaches.
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Workshop 2:
Logical reasoning 1 -
How the argument goes

S. 1 Sunday June 24/12
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
S. 2 Sunday July 22/12 -
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
S. 3 Sunday August 19/12
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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How the argument goes:
Once you have identified the premises and the conclusion, the next is
to get clear about exactly how the argument is meant to go; that is,
how the grounds offered for the conclusion are actually supposed to
bear on the conclusion. Understanding how the argument goes is a crucial
step in answering many questions that appear on the LSAT. This includes
questions that ask you to identify a reasoning technique used within
an argument, questions that require you to match the patterning of reasoning
used in two separate arguments and a variety of other question types.
Determining how the argument goes involves discerning how the premises
are supposed to support the overall conclusion.
- page 16 “The Official LSAT SuperPrep.”
You will notice that this is very non-technical language. That is
deliberate. LSAT cannot use language that would require a specific academic
background to understand.
How The Argument Goes – A Three Dimensional Analysis
Dimension 1: The Argument or Passage;
Dimension 2: The Questions;
Dimension 3 : The Answer Choices
Every question involves analyzing the interplay among these three
dimensions.
This tutorial will focus on understanding exactly how the argument
is intended to go, the basic question types and how LSAT obscures the
answers.
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Workshop 3:
LSAT Logic
and Language

Sunday March 28
9:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
The LSAT is a test of reading and reasoning in context.
Your best performance on the LSAT will be depend on your ability to
recognize how:
- language and logic interact; and
- how LSAT uses language to obscure simple ideas.
This seminar will focus on:
• the rules of inference needed to make quick deductions;
• the specific vocabulary of the LSAT (sometimes words don’t
mean what you think);
• how to separate background context from primary information
• conditional statements and reasoning
• does one sentence always equal one thought?
• how the order that information is presented changes the result.
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