Seeking Advice on Logical Reasoning Practice

avleenchawla04avleenchawla04 Live Member
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Hello everyone,

I hope this message finds you well. I started studying a few weeks ago and scored a 140 on my diagnostic test. However, I am having trouble grasping the main conclusion logical reasoning questions that are categorized as high difficulty. I've listened to podcasts and tried to understand the explanations, but I haven't had much luck despite trying multiple different approaches.

I can manage the moderate and easy questions, but I'm unsure whether I should move on to other topics or continue to focus on these challenging questions. Should I explore a different strategy or perhaps shift my focus to Reading Comprehension? I would greatly appreciate any advice or insights you might have.

Thank you for your help!

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  • SufferingfromSufficientConditionSufferingfromSufficientCondition Core Member
    355 karma

    LR question types are so intertwined, so you absolutely need to be able to identify the main conclusion of an argument for virtually all LR q types. Even if you're able to skim by not understanding the main conclusion for other question types at easier difficultly levels, it's going to catch up to you for 3+ level difficulty of all q types.

    Don't just look for the main conclusion - try to identify how all the parts of the argument work together (context, premises, conclusion).

    What approaches have you used so far?

  • natemanwell1natemanwell1 Core Member
    314 karma

    you should absolutely not shift. identifying conclusion the most important skill in LR, because pretty much every question is about the gap in the argument (except for must be true based on question basically), which you cannot do without identifying the conclusion. the conclusion is what is supported by everything else in the argument. so in essence there are two things you can do: you can translate the argument into logic (e.g. dogs lead to happiness) becomes d => h, or you can identify all the parts of the argument (irrelevant information, context, premises, intermediate conclusion, conclusion). I would suggest not looking at the conclusion when you do the second approach, and compare the conclusion in your head to the one in the problem to enhance understanding. feel free to DM me if you want to talk more.

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