Reasoning Strategies/Test Day Tips

Question 1

Reasoning Strategy #1

Answer 1

If you approach every question using the 4-step method, you will never have to think, “Well, what do I do now?”

Question 2

Reasoning Strategy #2

Answer 2

Think of an assumption as a missing piece of evidence

Question 3

Reasoning Strategy #3

Answer 3

Identify and summarize the conclusion first if you can. Arguments are easier to think of as “Conclusion, because evidence.”

Question 4

Test Day Tip #1

Answer 4

Start to recognize wrong answer types. “Extreme” means that the statement goes FURTHER than the author needs to go in drawing the conclusion. “180” is a choice that asserts the OPPOSITE fo what the author believes or is assuming.

Question 5

Test Day Tip #2

Answer 5

Taking deductions far enough is the single most important factor in your Logic Games Performance.

Question 6

Test Day Tip #3

Answer 6

Making Deductions often translates into quick and easy points on Test day

Question 7

Test Day Tip #3

Answer 7

Logic Games usually come with a mix of “If” and Non-“If” questions

Question 8

Test Day Tip #4

Answer 8

Logic Games questions are rarely printed in the most helpful order, that is, low, medium, then high difficulty

Question 9

Test Day Tip #5

Answer 9

Logic Games-Acceptability type questions-Because the right answer is the only one that follows all of the rules, the four wrong answers MUST VIOLATE AT LEAST ONE RULE EACH

Question 10

Logic Games Strategy #1

Answer 10

At any given time a statement is either

1) Definitely True
2) Definitely False
3) Possible
* COMPLETELY Cross out a choice if is it wrong
* If you are not immediately sure whether a choice is wrong, come back to it.

Question 11

Logic Games Strategy #2

Answer 11

Hold off on answering “complete and accurate list” questions until you have tackled the other questions in the game, the skteches you make for other questions in the game will help you answer questions like this one.

Question 12

Logic Games Strategy #3

Answer 12

Take a moment to review your master sketch to make sure you understand which entities do and do not have a set relationship in Loose Sequencing Games

Question 13

Test Day Tip #6

Answer 13

When the “if” clause gives you multiple pieces of information, be sure to take these rules through the steps 3&4 of the Logic Games Method