LSAT 112 – Section 3 – Question 03

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December 2001

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Question QuickView	Type	Tags	Answer Choices	Curve This gives you an idea of how this question is “curved”— in other words, what level of scorer is likely to get this question right. It shows a model of scaled LSAT score vs probability of getting the question correct. It is based on student test results for each question. The gray bar extends from the score for a 25% chance, to the score for a 75% chance of getting the question correct. The black line in the middle is the score for a 50% chance of getting the question correct. The percentage at the right is the expected chance of someone with the same score as you on that PrepTest getting that question correct	Question Difficulty	Psg/Game/S Difficulty	Explanation
PT112 S3 Q03	+LR	Main conclusion or main point +MC Conditional Reasoning +CondR	A 4% 151 B 9% 154 C 81% 160 D 1% 151 E 6% 153	126 140 153	+Easier	144.548 +SubsectionEasier

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Muscular strength is a limited resource, and athletic techniques help to use this resource efficiently. Since top athletes do not differ greatly from each other in muscular strength, it follows that a requirement for an athlete to become a champion is a superior mastery of athletic techniques.

Summarize Argument

The author argues that for athletes to become champions, they must have a superior mastery of athletic techniques. To support this, the author tells us that high-level athletes have similar muscular strength, so strength alone doesn’t make a champion. Instead, athletic techniques help athletes use their strength more efficiently. That means that mastery of athletic techniques can act as a differentiating factor between top athletes and true champions.

Identify Conclusion

The conclusion is that “a requirement for an athlete to become a champion is a superior mastery of athletic techniques.”

Only champion athletes have a superior mastery of athletic techniques.

This confuses the necessary and sufficient conditions of the conclusion. Just because champions must have superior mastery, that doesn’t mean someone who isn’t a champion cannot; there may be additional requirements to be a champion.

Superior muscular strength is a requirement for an athlete to become a champion.

The author never actually states whether or not superior strength is required to be a champion. It may be a tempting assumption, but the argument is focused on superior mastery of techniques. Strength may or may not be required.

No athlete can become a champion without a superior mastery of athletic techniques.

This is a good restatement of the conclusion. The rest of the argument leads to this claim by showing that raw strength isn’t the deciding factor, and that technique can increase athletes’ efficient use of strength.

The differences in muscular strength between top athletes are not great.

This is not supported by anything else in the argument, so cannot be the conclusion. Instead, it is used as support for the conclusion by eliminating differences in strength as a factor in who becomes a champion.

Athletic techniques help athletes use limited resources efficiently.

This is not supported by anything else in the argument, so cannot be the conclusion. It is used to help explain how mastery of technique can improve athletes’ performance, thus making technique a factor in being a champion.

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