LSAT PrepTest 44 Section 3 Question 1 Explanation | Logic Games

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Here's a Logic Games question from the October 2004 LSAT.

We don't need to diagram; we'll just look at the rules and see which one of the arrangements follows all of them. So let's start looking through the rules:

A is out right away because it doesn't have the required 3 meetings with F. B is out because F can't be right next to F, as the second rule says. D is out because T doesn't immediately follow S as the third rule requires. E is out because the last rule says that M can't be first or last. That leaves only C, so C is correct.

Remember:

There's no need to diagram when the question gives a bunch of possible arrangements and asks which one could work under the rules. You just need to apply the rules to each answer choice. Also, notice that we went in the order of the rules, not the answer choices (rule 1, 2, then 3, not choice A, B, C, etc.). This is more efficient and accurate, I think, since you aren't looking back at different rules all the time but just apply one rule at a time.