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LSAT Logic Games Strategy for When You're Out of Time
LSAT Logic Games Strategy for When You're Out of Time
Let's say that you're doing a timed logic game section on Test Day. You've done the first 3 games, and you're down to the 4th game, when you only have 5 minutes remaining. What should you do in this scenario?
I would recommend, first of all, read the paragraph, read the rules, and try to get a general sense of what's going on with the game. See if you can make any major inferences, then do the orientation question, because that's gonna be a gimme (I hope).
Then you could do the local questions, and then finally, if you have time, which you probably won't, you would go on to the global questions. And you'll notice here, that this isn't any different at all from my actual LSAT logic game strategy as a whole. Do the questions in the order that makes sense for you within a game.
So, if you never get to those inference questions, or the global questions, or the rule substitution questions, that's fine. Those are the hardest questions anyway.
If you made some major inference upfront, then you might have wanted to tackle a global question sooner, but if you don't, that's okay, too. You're knocking out the easiest questions first.
Why are they easy?
Well, the orientation question, that's just kinda like a main idea question in reading comp. It's a general warmup question, that is meant to acclimate you slowly. All you're doing for orientation questions is process of elimination, going rule by rule, through all five answer choices.
And then, the local questions, those give you a jumping off point, because they say, "If L's in three." or whatever it might be, you can automatically, in most cases, draw a diagram, and go from there.
So, overall my recommendation, if you have five minutes left for the fourth logic game - is just, proceed as you normally would. Don't panic, and trust that you'll be able to knock out, at least a few of the questions just using your basic structure / approach.
However, my goal for you is that this *doesn't* happen to you and you're better prepared.
Check out my Logic Games articles and YouTube playlist for more.
And reach out with any questions at all.
- LSAT Steve
Let's say that you're doing a timed logic game section on Test Day. You've done the first 3 games, and you're down to the 4th game, when you only have 5 minutes remaining. What should you do in this scenario?
I would recommend, first of all, read the paragraph, read the rules, and try to get a general sense of what's going on with the game. See if you can make any major inferences, then do the orientation question, because that's gonna be a gimme (I hope).
Then you could do the local questions, and then finally, if you have time, which you probably won't, you would go on to the global questions. And you'll notice here, that this isn't any different at all from my actual LSAT logic game strategy as a whole. Do the questions in the order that makes sense for you within a game.
So, if you never get to those inference questions, or the global questions, or the rule substitution questions, that's fine. Those are the hardest questions anyway.
If you made some major inference upfront, then you might have wanted to tackle a global question sooner, but if you don't, that's okay, too. You're knocking out the easiest questions first.
Why are they easy?
Well, the orientation question, that's just kinda like a main idea question in reading comp. It's a general warmup question, that is meant to acclimate you slowly. All you're doing for orientation questions is process of elimination, going rule by rule, through all five answer choices.
And then, the local questions, those give you a jumping off point, because they say, "If L's in three." or whatever it might be, you can automatically, in most cases, draw a diagram, and go from there.
So, overall my recommendation, if you have five minutes left for the fourth logic game - is just, proceed as you normally would. Don't panic, and trust that you'll be able to knock out, at least a few of the questions just using your basic structure / approach.
However, my goal for you is that this *doesn't* happen to you and you're better prepared.
Check out my Logic Games articles and YouTube playlist for more.
And reach out with any questions at all.
- LSAT Steve
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