Difficult LSAT Logical Reasoning Questions

Here's a list of several Logical Reasoning questions in recent LSAT PrepTests that my students often ask me to explain.

The number of questions listed per PrepTest/section should not be taken as an indication of the PrepTest's/section's overall difficulty. The questions I've listed are simply those that jumped out at me when flipping through each of these exams.

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PrepTest 43 - June 2004 LSAT

S2, Q15 - government prevent cigarettes advertised, fatty foods
S2, Q16 - natural beauty, older local industries, regional economies
S2, Q18 - health education, propaganda
S3, Q9 - lecturers, effective teachers, eccentric, good communicators
S3, Q13 - sun dimmer, oceans frozen
S3, Q20 - computer microprocessor design flaws


PrepTest 44 - October 2004 LSAT

S2, Q11 - Euclidean geometry
S2, S13 - environmental problems, government mismanagement, consumer habits
S2, Q17 - hummingbird, goose, ostrich, eggs
S4, Q17 - ice ages, cosmic dust clouds, sun's orbit
S4, S18 - happiness, desires, compulsions, consequences


PrepTest 45 - December 2004 LSAT

S1, Q12 - dioxin, fish, reproductive abnormalities, river
S1, Q21 - geological record, meteor impacts, mass extinctions
S1, Q23 - morally right, best consequences
S1, Q24 - DNA samples and tests, exoneration
S4, Q18 - decentralization, large institutions function autonomously
S4, Q20 - 9-year-olds, major cigarette brand logos
S4, Q22 - jazz recordings, CDs, radio
S4, Q25 - vague staff review regulations


PrepTest 46 - June 2005 LSAT

S2, Q19 - babies, musical intervals
S2, Q20 - difficult exams and questions comparison, professors
S2, Q23 - kind, happy, love
S3, Q17 - computer professor evaluations
S3, Q22 - increase in # of old people, average age
S3, Q24 - money doesn't really exist


PrepTest 47 - October 2005 LSAT

S1, Q19 - live vs. inactivated polio vaccine
S1, Q22 - pesticides banned in U.S.
S1, Q26 - 1st-graders handwriting/composition skills
S3, Q21 - fitness consultant, cigarettes, clients
S3, Q23 - TV, paranormal, public's scientific understanding


PrepTest 48 - December 2005 LSAT

S1, Q19 - biology professors, bias, administrative positions
S1, Q24 - voters, join, donate, party viable?
S4, Q21 - community succeed, face unpleasant realities
S4, Q23 - managers, time management seminars/skills
S4, Q25 - psychological problems, behavioral therapy sessions


PrepTest 49 - June 2006 LSAT

S2, Q18 - nature, organic, holistic, nonlinear
S2, Q25 - public disclosure of investments
S4, Q16 - beauty, truth, most realistic art
S4, Q24 - Compujack computer programmer salaries


PrepTest 50 - September 2006 LSAT

S2, Q18 - toddlers, prefrontal cortex, rules
S2, Q21 - seafood, restaurant, illness, bacteria
S2, Q24 - acid rain, pollutants
S4, Q19 - smokers, heart disease, caffeinated beverages
S4, Q24 - asteroid, Yucatan peninsula, triceratops


PrepTest 51 - December 2006 LSAT

S1, Q20 - experienced salespeople, quota
S1, Q21 - sliding glass doors, summer vs. colder months
S3, Q12 - environmental articles, newspapers, orthodoxy
S3, Q18 - bacteria, flagellum, survival advantage


June 2007 LSAT (Unnumbered - Free PDF)

S2, Q17 - computer experts, significant threats
S2, Q19 - Land Party, rural, economic problems
S2, Q23 - morally right, wrong, well-being
S3, Q19 - candidates, governmental intrusion
S3, Q25 - human species, diverse array of environments


PrepTest 52 - September 2007 LSAT

S1, Q16 - extraterrestrials, UFOs
S1, Q21 - Iliad, Odyssey, Homer
S1, Q24 - intensive pasteurization of apple juice
S3, Q16 - hospitals, recovery rates, length of stay
S3, Q25 - studying distant past


PrepTest 53 - December 2007 LSAT

S1, Q8 - children, night lights, nearsightedness
S1, Q18 - salesperson, successful, client base
S1, Q21 - trees blossom, April/May rainfall
S3, Q18 - preserving nature, beauty, moral value
S3, Q25 - short meetings, relevant issues


PrepTest 54 - June 2008 LSAT

S2, Q23 - Southgate Mall, Mattress Madness
S2, Q26 - government, new severe weather sirens
S4, Q20 - TV Meteorologist, weather forecast, reliable
S4, Q21 - witnesses, inaccuracies, cross-examination


PrepTest 55 - October 2008 LSAT

S1, Q15 - Zack's Coffeehouse, free poetry readings
S1, Q21 - TV shows, funding, advertisers
S1, Q25 - 20th-century art, great art, influential, original
S3, Q18 - children's cognitive development
S3, Q19 - ideal bureaucracy, regulations
S3, Q25 - mathematics department, course


PrepTest 56 - December 2008 LSAT

S2, Q14 - overconfident entrepreneurs
S2, Q19 - literature, physics ,art, rhetoric
S2, Q24 - Byzantine Empire, lead seals
S3, Q16 - trust, happiness, meaningful emotional connection
S3, Q23 - summer day, temperature, humidity


PrepTest 57 - June 2009 LSAT

S2, Q12 - criminal organizations, generate profits
S2, Q24 - poem, contradictory ideas, author
S2, Q25 - mayoral campaign contributions, Weston
S3, Q14 - nonfat food labeling
S3, Q20 - moral action, securing mutual benefit
S3, Q23 - mitters, brushes, car washes


PrepTest 58 - September 2009 LSAT

S1, Q24 - bear population, preserve, valley
S1, Q25 - wig, handmade components, human hair
S4, Q23 - linear craters, volcanoes, meteorites
S4, Q24 - genuine creative genius, popular viewpoints


PrepTest 59 - December 2009 LSAT

S2, Q20 - quality control investigator, defective samples
S2, Q25 - luminous Sun, carbon dioxide, oceans
S3, Q19 - understanding word, knowing definition, babies
S3, Q20 - peppered moths avoiding predators
S3, Q21 - QWERTY keyboard, typewriters


PrepTest 60 - June 2010 LSAT

S1, Q13 - financial rewards, incentives in choosing jobs
S1, Q16 - buying old cars, reducing air pollution
S1, Q23 - laws against libel, public figures' reputations
S3, Q12 - labeling "miniature" fruit trees
S3, Q19 - sea butterflies, predation, compounds
S3, Q24 - sales of underground rock group's recordings


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