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Causal Reasoning Improvement

omerporat22omerporat22 Core Member
edited December 15 in Logical Reasoning 7 karma

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.

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  • lastlsat.lastlsat. Live Member
    53 karma

    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.

  • mollyotoole9mollyotoole9 Live Member
    3 karma

    I've been having the same experience! Pretty much every LR question I get wrong is a causal reasoning question. I too have been going to Nicole's classes and it helps, but I'm still struggling with this question type.

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