hey there!

I love LG with a passion... and usually tend to be good at it, though I'm trying to solidify my knowledge. I tend to work intuitively, which can have a margin of error. If you have a problem with any specific questions, I'd love to go over them with you as study buddies. I think it can be helpful! :)

Nonetheless, overall, my technique is to just map it out if I'm not easily finding an answer - I just start writing out all the possibilities and that can help. Symbolizing the rules efficiently is super important imo and sets the base for how well you do later. Divide your time effectively - sometimes that can mean spending loads of time to make inferences as good inferences can save time in the long run.

This is super random, but before I even thought of going for law school, I did the Einstein's Riddle (which took me a longgg time to do), but it was lowkey similar in structure to LG games. This just made me comfortable to the ways of thinking in LG and making tons of inferences. There's a high chance it's totally not helpful for you, but that showed me a lot of different types of inferences that can be made. I think spend as much time as needed to do it if you do attempt it, it just wires your brain right haha!

PrepTest 1 S3Q4 I narrowed it down to C and D but chose the wrong answer

TBF, I haven't developed a general approach, but I was literally attempting PT 1 S3 right now and teaching my mom as I went lol! I see that you had a doubt about Q04, so pertaining to that, I'll try explaining what steps I chose to come up with the answer. I found options A and C to be fairly similar. The "only if" in option A connected to C saying that C also showed the fear of retaliation as the only reason for not retaliating. However, I was quick to eliminate C as there may be many reasons why a nation does not attack.

This is why I eliminated C, now why I chose D :

I paraphrased D as: "a nation with a lot of power that doesn't want war should show other nations its power."

This seems like the right choice as the original passage could be read as "theory of military deterrence = show your power to avoid war."

So, for someone to avoid war, it follows that they should show their power (when following the theory of military deterrence).

Finally, connecting this to D, it became a nation that has power should show it. D is ideal because it does not negate other possibilities. Ex. It does not negate countries that don't have power from pretending like they do.

That's super long I'm sorry, but to sum it up, I eliminated C as it was overly specific and chose D because it directly related to the passage as well as didn't hone down on anything.