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I'm up to the part of the CC that discusses how to approach Argument Part Questions.

From what I understand, after reading the question but before reading the stem, we should label the sentence/phrase that the question is asking us to describe, in order to keep the goal in mind.

I have 2 questions about this.

  • Sometimes (usually in bigger stems), it takes me at least a few seconds to find the sentence/phrase and mark it. I'm worried about the time aspect of doing this and was wondering if it's still worth it to always find and label the phrase?

  • With the the new Digital Lsat, is there even the ability to underline a phrase in the stimulus?

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      16guitar123 OP
      Thursday, Jul 25 2019

      That's interesting, I haven't thought of trying that approach.

      I will try it out and see how it goes.

      Thanks!

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      kim329
      Wednesday, Jul 24 2019

      I approach the question similarly. I read the argument and map the conclusion and premises first and then look at what part of the argument is being asked about and try to have a good idea of what part the statement is playing before I ever look at the answer choices.

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      8835
      Wednesday, Jul 24 2019

      Hey,

      A strategy that has worked well for me for AP questions is to actually not read the part the question is asking about first. So I recognize that the question is AP, but I focus on just mapping out the structure of the argument when I read the stimulus. Once I think I have a good idea of the structure of the argument, I return to the stem and see which part they are asking about.

      My reasoning behind this method is that I am able to understand the argument and not get too distracted or thrown off by trying to see what the statement in question is functioning to do, during my first read. I find this to be more time efficient as well.

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