You’re invited to LSAT Lab’s live online class. We’ve flipped the traditional classroom. At LSAT Lab you learn the fundamentals with video lessons before you take on more advanced concepts in class. Taught by Matt Sherman and Patrick Tyrrell, who together have 35 years of experience in helping students achieve amazing LSAT scores.
Highlight Noteworthy
Instructor: Patrick Tyrrell Wed Jul 28 5:00 PM (PT)
Hybrid games combine ordering and grouping for an extra special challenge. In this lesson, we cover how to spot one, how to set one up, and what to look for when creating frames.
Hybrid
Instructor: Matt Sherman Thu Jul 29 3:30 PM (PT)
Question stems that use wording like "according to the passage / the passage states / the passage indicates / the author says / the author mentions" are asking a pretty literal retrieval task, although the correct answer still disguises that it's regurgitating something by using synonyms and different syntax to present the same idea in a novel way.
Inference (Must Be True)
Instructor: Patrick Tyrrell Thu Jul 29 6:00 PM (PT)
In this lesson we look at the organizing framework in RC that centers on a problem and typically ends with a solution.
Problem/Solution
Instructor: Matt Sherman Sun Aug 1 2:30 PM (PT)
Learn how to manage Reasoning Structures and Trap Answer patterns on Most Supported questions in the Logical Reasoning section.
Most Supported
Instructor: Patrick Tyrrell Sun Aug 1 5:00 PM (PT)
Some passages zoom into "a case in point", or an example or two, in service of illustrating a broader thesis.
Illustrate General Claim
Instructor: Matt Sherman Mon Aug 2 5:00 PM (PT)
Parallel questions ask you to match reasoning between the logic presented in the question stem and the answer choices. It is a rare but important question type to recognize and tackle.
Parallel
Instructor: Matt Sherman Tue Aug 3 3:30 PM (PT)
In/Out Grouping games are a tricky game type designed to measure if-then reasoning. Properly notating conditional relationships and quickly linking them together is key to success in this game type.
In/Out Grouping
Instructor: Patrick Tyrrell Tue Aug 3 6:00 PM (PT)
In a lot of Most Supported questions (and some Must Be True), there is a Pivot word (e.g. but, yet, however, nevertheless) that introduces the final claim and creates some tension with what came before that pivot word. The correct answer tends to address that tension.
Reconcile the Pivot
Instructor: Patrick Tyrrell Wed Aug 4 5:00 PM (PT)
When logic games get tough, it's often because they have Non 1:1 correspondence between the number of players and positions. Learn how to use frequency distributions to make key inferences.
Non 1:1
Instructor: Matt Sherman Thu Aug 5 3:30 PM (PT)
Local Purpose questions say that the author brought up X in order to / primarily to. Trap answers like to focus on the sentence X is in, whereas correct answers usually sound more like the Bigger Idea that came right before the sentence with X (or in some cases, right after it).
Local Purpose Questions
Instructor: Patrick Tyrrell Thu Aug 5 6:00 PM (PT)
Many RC passages employ a framework in which a phenomenon is explained. This framework not only applies to RC, but also to LR, so it's an important framework for you to know.
Explain Something Puzzling
Instructor: Matt Sherman Sun Aug 8 2:30 PM (PT)
A huge subset of LSAT thinking revolves around being able to complete the comparison when two things are meant to be similar cases, or being able to object to comparative arguments by pointing out meaningful differences.
Comparisons
Instructor: Patrick Tyrrell Sun Aug 8 5:00 PM (PT)
Learn how to manage Reasoning Structures and Trap Answer patterns on Most Supported questions in the Logical Reasoning section.
Most Supported
Instructor: Matt Sherman Tue Aug 10 3:30 PM (PT)
Hybrid games combine ordering and grouping for an extra special challenge. In this lesson, we cover how to spot one, how to set one up, and what to look for when creating frames.
Hybrid
Instructor: Patrick Tyrrell Tue Aug 10 6:00 PM (PT)
A lot of the questions on Comparative Passages are essentially asking, "Which of these answers is true for both passages?" In order to pick them, we have to have support from each passage. Thus, even if we've only read one of the two passages, we can still make eliminations on them (and sometimes we can even get our answer just by reading one).
Dual Support
Instructor: Patrick Tyrrell Wed Aug 11 5:00 PM (PT)
Frames can be a powerful tool for setting up some games, but not for others. Discuss how and when to frame, and when to just move on.
Frames
Instructor: Matt Sherman Thu Aug 12 3:30 PM (PT)
Question stems that use wording like most supported, most likely to agree, suggests, implies are asking us to derive a safely worded truism from the material presented. Trap answers are often too strong, bring up something unmentioned, or present a causal or comparative relationship that was never discussed.
Inference (Most Supported)
Instructor: Patrick Tyrrell Thu Aug 12 6:00 PM (PT)
On Must Be True questions in Logical Reasoning, the right answer is something you can prove. Learn how they rely heavily on conditional logic and comparative reasoning.
Must Be True
Instructor: Matt Sherman Sun Aug 15 2:30 PM (PT)
When logic games get tough, it's often because they have Non 1:1 correspondence between the number of players and positions. Learn how to use frequency distributions to make key inferences.
Non 1:1
Instructor: Patrick Tyrrell Sun Aug 15 5:00 PM (PT)
Main Point questions in Reading Comprehension are common. We'll look at where to find the main point in the passage and the types of ideas that tend to serve as the main point.
Main Point
Instructor: Matt Sherman Tue Aug 17 3:30 PM (PT)
Flaw questions are more common than any other type in Logical Reasoning, and nearly half of all answer choices refer to ten Famous Flaws that you need to know.
Famous Flaws
Instructor: Patrick Tyrrell Tue Aug 17 6:00 PM (PT)
One specific form of Non 1:1 situation we see a lot is that there are more variables than there are available slots. When this happens, we want to make sure we add an out column, and potentially use placeholders and frames to better manage the out column's possibilities.
Add an Out Column
Instructor: Patrick Tyrrell Wed Aug 18 5:00 PM (PT)
The rules all come together in Tree Ordering games. Connect the rules to build trees that help you see implicit relationships within the game.
Tree Ordering
Instructor: Matt Sherman Thu Aug 19 3:30 PM (PT)
Science passages most commonly lend themselves to an Old vs. New organizing framework, with the author's implications coming at the end.
Old/New
Instructor: Patrick Tyrrell Thu Aug 19 6:00 PM (PT)
Sufficient Assumption questions in Logical Reasoning are all about finding the missing link in the argument.
Sufficient Assumption
Instructor: Matt Sherman Sun Aug 22 2:30 PM (PT)
This lesson covers Reasoning Structures and Trap Answers common to Necessary Assumption questions and looks at how the correct answer creates a linking or a defending relationship.
Necessary Assumption
Instructor: Patrick Tyrrell Sun Aug 22 5:00 PM (PT)
Purpose questions are about what the author intended that part of the passage to accomplish. These questions will typically ask about the purpose of a statement, of a paragraph, or of the passage as a whole.
Purpose
Instructor: Matt Sherman Tue Aug 24 3:30 PM (PT)
Stacked Grouping games are about organizing your game board well. Learn how to pick a variable for the base of your game board and make inferences before you answer the questions.
Stacked Grouping
Instructor: Patrick Tyrrell Tue Aug 24 6:00 PM (PT)
Standard Ordering games are the most common game type in Logic Games. This lesson will cover how to set up a logic game, how to notate rules consistently, and when to use frames.
Standard Ordering
Instructor: Matt Sherman Thu Aug 26 3:30 PM (PT)
This session will focus mainly on Main Conclusion, Role, and Method, three question types in which we're essentially reading arguments and being tested on our ability to categorize the various roles each claim plays as well as to categorize the type of evidence or type of reasoning being used to reach the conclusion.
Function Family
Instructor: Patrick Tyrrell Thu Aug 26 6:00 PM (PT)
This lesson covers Reasoning Structures and Trap Answers common to Necessary Assumption questions and looks at how the correct answer creates a linking or a defending relationship.
Necessary Assumption
Instructor: Matt Sherman Sun Aug 29 2:30 PM (PT)
Opinion questions in Reading Comprehension require that you keep track of who believes what and to what degree do they believe it.
Opinion
Instructor: Patrick Tyrrell Sun Aug 29 5:00 PM (PT)
Opinion questions in Reading Comprehension require that you keep track of who believes what and to what degree do they believe it.
Opinion
Instructor: Matt Sherman Tue Aug 31 3:30 PM (PT)
LSAT authors frequently present a Curious Fact and then pose/assume some Causal Explanation for that idea, leading us to ponder the plausibility of that explanation and the possibility of other explanations.
Causation
Instructor: Patrick Tyrrell Tue Aug 31 6:00 PM (PT)
In/Out Grouping games are a tricky game type designed to measure if-then reasoning. Properly notating conditional relationships and quickly linking them together is key to success in this game type.
In/Out Grouping
Instructor: Matt Sherman Thu Sep 2 3:30 PM (PT)
Two of the more challenging question types in Logic Games are Possible List and List of Possibilities. We'll discuss telling them apart and how to deal with each.
Lists & Possibilities
Instructor: Patrick Tyrrell Thu Sep 2 6:00 PM (PT)
Labor Day
Instructor: Matt Sherman Sun Sep 5 2:30 PM (PT)
No class for Labor Day.
Labor Day
Instructor: Patrick Tyrrell Sun Sep 5 5:00 PM (PT)
No class for Labor Day.
Labor Day
Instructor: Matt Sherman Mon Sep 6 5:00 PM (PT)
Flaw questions are more common than any other type in Logical Reasoning, and nearly half of all answer choices refer to ten Famous Flaws that you need to know.
Famous Flaws
Instructor: Matt Sherman Tue Sep 7 3:30 PM (PT)
Flaw questions ask you to describe the error of reasoning within the argument. Learn how Reasoning Structures and Trap Answers play a role in this important question type.
Flaw
Instructor: Patrick Tyrrell Tue Sep 7 6:00 PM (PT)
Standard Grouping games ask you to assign a set of elements to several teams. Learn how to create an effective game board, notate the rules, and create frames for this game type.
Standard Grouping
Instructor: Matt Sherman Thu Sep 9 3:30 PM (PT)
Most questions in comparative passage sets require that you understand how the two passages are similar and how they are different. This lesson covers how to adjust your reading process for this type of passage.
Comparative Passages
Instructor: Patrick Tyrrell Thu Sep 9 6:00 PM (PT)
Parallel and Parallel Flaw questions ask you to match reasoning between the logic presented in the question stem and the answer choices. For most of them, it's worth diagramming the logic of the argument, but for many of them we can get away with just reducing the argument to a principle or common reasoning move (including Famous Flaws).
Parallel
Instructor: Patrick Tyrrell Sun Sep 12 5:00 PM (PT)
Substitution
Instructor: Patrick Tyrrell Tue Sep 14 6:00 PM (PT)
Knowing how to correctly interpret, diagram, and manipulate conditional logic only impacts about 20% of questions, but it often impacts 50% or more of students' most fixable errors.
Conditional Logic
Instructor: Patrick Tyrrell Thu Sep 16 6:00 PM (PT)
Some of the hardest and most time-consuming questions in RC can be the ones that go beyond the passage: Analogy, Application, Strengthen/Weaken, Last Sentence, and Title/Audience.
Beyond the Passage
Instructor: Patrick Tyrrell Sun Sep 19 5:00 PM (PT)
Welcome UC San Diego students. In this class, we'll discuss, What's on the LSAT? How to improve on the LSAT? And what resources are included in your LSAT course?
Welcome to LSAT Lab!
Welcome UC San Diego
Instructor: Matt Sherman Tue Sep 21 6:00 PM (PT)
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