Trouble Identifying Assumptions

cweyhofen

Hey everyone,

I'm having trouble clearly identifying the assumptions in logical reasoning questions. I understand the difference between necessary vs. sufficient assumptions, overlooked possibilities & mismatched concepts. But, during my timed practices, the assumption is not clicking in my head. Any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated. Maybe even a new way of approaching the stimulus?

DumbHollywoodActor

@cweyhofen said:
Hey everyone,

I'm having trouble clearly identifying the assumptions in logical reasoning questions. I understand the difference between necessary vs. sufficient assumptions, overlooked possibilities & mismatched concepts. But, during my timed practices, the assumption is not clicking in my head. Any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated. Maybe even a new way of approaching the stimulus?

A helpful route if you're not going to go with 7sage's curriculum is LSAT trainer, specifically the chapters on flaws (which really should be called "assumptions"). There's a lot of drilling in those chapters to help you see some very common LSAT assumptions.

nessa.k13.0

Yeah I'll second what Dave said^ definitely review the lessons on assumptions and come up with more examples of what sufficient assumptions and necessary assumptions are. Also yes the Trainer has a ton of examples and drills that you can practice assumptions with

tjphilbrick

I'll add that this kind of thing just takes time. It took me a while before things started to click, and I just had to keep drilling assumption questions with the AC's covered up so that I was forced to think through all the possibilities for assumptions. Keep up the good work, you'll get there!

Pi031415

Wow props peeps. The LSAT trainer flaws section was king!!!