Causal Reasoning Improvement

omerporat22

A trend I'm noticing on my recent practice tests (in the last 2 months) is that most of the LR questions I miss have the Causal Reasoning tag. I've been working my butt off to try and improve on this type but for the life of me I can't seem to get any better. I've reread the Loophole's chapter on CausR, the PS Bibles, gone through the 7sage lessons, and have been drilling 5* causal reasoning questions multiple times a day with thorough reviews of the answers and yet I keep missing these questions when it comes to a practice test.

Has anyone been in a similar situation or have any advice to offer?

This is causing me a headache.

lastlsat.

Hi, I’ve been in the same boat for a couple of weeks too. Something that really helped me was attending live classes with the Causal Reasoning (Advanced) tag, usually taught by Nicole. I learned an acronym that I found useful:

Cats Rarely Eat Asparagus:
• C - Chronology: Make sure the cause comes before the effect.
• R - No Reversal: Ensure it’s not the case that the effect caused the cause.
• E - Evidence: Look for direct or similar cases or predictions from the real world. (When there’s a cause, there’s an effect; when there’s no effect, there’s no cause.)
• A - No Alternative Cause: Eliminate competing explanations.

This framework has helped me a ton with causal strengthening, weakening, and NA questions.