please, need urgent advice on Logic Games

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• lsat8709 Member

  February 2020 78 karma

  @lexxx745 I would watch a couple of the videos JY posts of himself taking actual logic game sections. My advice is to be very organized and write down each rule vertically from the first rule to the last rule. Sometimes you can incorporate a rule directly into the diagram. It is often worth spending more time upfront making additional inferences and incorporating those in your diagram. This often leads to increased speed answering the questions and saving you time overall in completing the game. One more bit of advice. Avoid paralysis. Know when rules trigger and when they become irrelevant. I hope some of this helps.
• lexxx745 Alum Member Sage ⭐

  February 2020 3190 karma

  @lsat8709 said:
  @lexxx745 I would watch a couple of the videos JY posts of himself taking actual logic game sections. My advice is to be very organized and write down each rule vertically from the first rule to the last rule. Sometimes you can incorporate a rule directly into the diagram. It is often worth spending more time upfront making additional inferences and incorporating those in your diagram. This often leads to increased speed answering the questions and saving you time overall in completing the game. One more bit of advice. Avoid paralysis. Know when rules trigger and when they become irrelevant. I hope some of this helps.

  Im sorry if Im unclear. Im very familiar with conditional logic and when rules trigger and stuff. Im asking about literally understanding a rule. Like the english of it. Im not referring to conditional logic.
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  taschasp Alum Member Sage ⭐

  February 2020 edited February 2020 796 karma

  Ay, I remember when I was mainly just missing points on making mistakes like this! Totally feel the struggle. Honestly, I just had to force myself to read the stimulus more carefully. I'd read it a second time after I thought I'd comprehended everything just to make sure I wasn't comprehending anything wrong. Because those extra few seconds to double check pay off when you don't realize halfway through a game that you've been doing the whole thing wrong because of misreading one word.

  There isn't any quick trick beyond that. Just keep yelling (politely) at yourself when you make these mistakes, and try to force yourself to be more meticulous. But hey, I scored a 179 and I was still making these kinds of errors once in a while by the end of my studying... virtually no one can avoid the occasional silly error. It's just a matter of increasing your odds, so you want to focus as much as you can so that you avoid these errors as much as possible!

  But, ultimately, I wouldn't memorize specific rules, other than the rule of not rushing itself.

  "...worth it to spend like 10 seconds remembering** these basic rules to not rush, just so i make sure I dont screw up the entire section..."
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  danielbrowning208 Alum Member

  February 2020 531 karma

  It has really helped me to use the acceptable situation question to check my rule representation. That is, after creating your board and writing down your rules, as you go into the acceptable situation question, take each rule at a time, check your representation, then eliminate relevant ACs on the question. I used to consistently mess up rules and shoot myself in the foot. Even if there's no acceptable situation question, you should still simulate the process. This way, you're reviewing rules, mitigating mistakes, and answering a question, all at the same time!

  Credit to @"Cant Get Right" and @Sami for this strategy. I would recommend working with either of them if you have more trouble.