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How do you read an LR stimulus?

beezmoofbeezmoof Alum Member
in Logical Reasoning 555 karma

I'm realizing I'm reading the stimulus too quickly and therefore stupidly losing points on fact-based questions (RRE, MSS) and missing key assumptions that are made in the conclusion (scope, subset, etc).

So how do you all read? What do you focus on? Underline? Where do you slow down? When do you pause? What are you looking for?

Right now I'm really focusing on taking in every single word of the conclusion bc that's often where the errors are made, but I would love to know if there's anything else that I can/should be doing.

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  • beezmoofbeezmoof Alum Member
    555 karma

    Other tactics on my mind: pencil touches each word and stop and think after each sentence

  • JustDoItJustDoIt Alum Member ⭐
    3112 karma

    One thing that really helped me was figuring out which questions require a critical mindset and which ones don't. The LSAT Trainer was really good for this. If there was a question where I had to be critical, I would make a conscious effort with each sentence I read to try and figure out where the stimulus went wrong. If I was required to be objective, I would read the entire stimulus before trying to digest what I needed to look for in the answer choices.

    P.S. RRE require a critical mindset while MSS do not.

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