Quick Tip: Attack the Gap, Not the Premise

If you see an argument that has a premise that seems absurd, this isn’t the real issue with the argument. Remember that in LR questions, we always assume the premises to be true, and attacking the argument won’t hinge on falsifying a premise. Keep your focus on the gap between premises and conclusions, and don’t attack the premises themselves! Keep this in mind when dealing with Sufficient, Weaken, and Flaw questions. 

Discussion: Is it really worth it to repeat logic games in practice?

In short, yes!

I get why some might be hesitant to do so, however. It is pretty common to see students who instinctively try and replicate testing conditions as much as possible. For instance, not wanting to go slower while learning material, not wanting to repeat material, only taking full prep tests to study, etc. While this approach is understandable, it can frequently lead to a plateau. While replicating exact testing conditions is key to getting the most out of your prep tests, you need to do more if you want to improve your score.

So why repeat logic games if you’ve already seen the answers? 

We suggest that you do the same game multiple times when you get questions wrong, or take too much time on a game, in order to make sure that you really understand the inferences involved and how to set up that game. Simply seeing the result and understanding the explanation is just not the same as being able to reproduce those inferences on your own. Watching J.Y.'s explanation video for how to solve a logic game is like watching a skateboarding tutorial online: you might be able to understand how someone does a kick flip, but you won’t be able to do it until you practice for yourself!

When we repeat particular games, we enable ourselves to see the same types of inferences across different games, and to do so quickly. Mastering logic games is really an exercise in pattern recognition. Once we understand how to see those inferences independently through repetition, it makes it much easier to see those same patterns in new situations.