LSAT Question Answers Flashcards

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What are you looking for in a Strengthening Question?

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The powerful thing that strengthens the argument

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What are you looking for in a Weaken Question?

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The powerful thing that destroys the conclusion

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What are you looking for in a Sufficient Assumption Question?

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The powerful thing that proves the conclusion 100% valid

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What are you looking for in a Counter Question?

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The powerful thing that the first speaker would say to destroy the second person’s argument

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What are you looking for in a Contradiction Question?

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The powerful that contradicts literal words from the stimulus

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What are you looking for in an Evaluate Question?

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The powerful thing that you can ask to determine the validity of the argument

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What are you looking for in a Resolution Question?

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The powerful Resolution

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What are you looking for in a Conclusion Question?

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The provable Conclusion

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What are you looking for in an Inference Question?

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The provable Inference

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What are you looking for in an MSS Question?

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The provable very, very, very likely to be true thing

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What are you looking for in a Fill In Question?

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The provable thing that finishes the author’s argument

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What are you looking for in a Controversy Question?

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The provable Controversy

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What are you looking for in an Agreement Question?

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The provable thing that speaker 1 and speaker 2 agree on

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What are you looking for in a Necessary Assumption Question?

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The provable thing that must happen to prove the conclusion true

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What are you looking for in a Method Question?

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The provable process of arriving at a conclusion

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What are you looking for in an Argument Part Question?

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The provable use of the statement in the stimulus

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What are you looking for in a Classic Flaw?

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The provable Classic Flaw

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What are you looking for in a Loophole Flaw?

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The provable description of how the argument overlooked the Loophole

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How do you find the answer to a Strengthen Question?

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Whatever plugs the Loophole

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How do you find the answer to a Weaken Question?

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The Loophole

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How do you find the answer to a Sufficient Assumption Question?

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Whatever extremely plugs the Loophole

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How do you find the answer to a Counter Question?

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Use the Controversy to find the Loophole that speaker 1 would respond with

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How do you find the answer to a Contradiction Question?

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Find something that can’t exist in the context of the stimulus, while crossing out anything that sounds like an Inference

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How do you find the answer to an Evaluate Question?

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Find the answer that asks about the truth of the Loophole

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How do you find the answer to a Resolution Question?
The Resolution
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How do you find the answer to a Conclusion Question?
Find the translation of the conclusion
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How do you find the answer to an Inference Question?
Find the Inference or something very similar to it
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How do you find the answer to an MSS Question?
Find the thing that is most likely to be true, much like the Inference
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How do you find the answer to a Fill In Question?
Use the guiding words to infer something
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How do you find the answer to a Controversy Question?
The Controversy
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How do you find the answer to an Agreement Question?
Find something that both speakers can agree on, while crossing out the Controversy
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How do you find the answer to a Necessary Assumption Question?
The negated Loophole
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How do you find the answer to an Argument Part Question?
Bracket the mentioned phrase, then decide what that phrase is meant to do for the argument
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How do you find the answer to a Classic Flaw Question?
Use the Loophole to determine a Classic Flaw
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How do you find the answer to a Loophole Flaw Question?
Find the Loophole and determine what overlooks it
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How do you find the answer to a Method Question?
You have a Loophole or Controversy, so you know what happened, find it
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Strengthen Back-Up Plan
Does this make the conclusion more likely to be true?
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Weaken Back-Up Plan
Does this make the conclusion less likely to be true?
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Sufficient Assumption Back-Up Plan
If this is true, is the argument 100% valid?
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Counter Back-Up Plan
Is this something the first speaker would say and does it hurt the second speaker's argument?
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Contradiction Back-Up Plan
Does this contradict the stimulus?
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Evaluate Back-Up Plan
Is this crucial for the argument's validity?
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Resolution Back-Up Plan
Does this make the Paradox make sense?
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Conclusion Back-Up Plan
Is this a translation of the conclusion?
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Inference Back-Up Plan
Does this have to be true?
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MSS Back-Up Plan
Does this pretty much have to be true?
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Fill In Back-Up Plan
Does this have to be true?
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Controversy Back-Up Plan
Does the first speaker have to believe this is true/false? Does the second speaker have to believe this is true/false?
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Agreement Back-Up Plan
Does the first speaker have to believe this? Does the second speaker have to believe this?
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Necessary Assumption Back-Up Plan
If the conclusion is true, does this have to be true?
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Method Back-Up Plan
Did this happen?
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Classic Flaw Back-Up Plan
Is this what's wrong with the argument?
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Loophole Flaw Back-Up Plan
Was it bad that the argument overlooked this?
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Argument Part Back-Up Plan
Is this what the phrase is doing?
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Popular Destinations for EXCEPT
Weaken, Contradiction