Nearly all American Bar Association-approved law schools require their applicants to take the LSAT®. To help you prepare for the Logical Reasoning section of the LSAT, this page contains everything you need to know, including what topics are covered, how many questions there are, and how you can study effectively.
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What’s on the LSAT Logical Reasoning Section?
This section of the test provides short passages that you must read and then answer one or two questions about. These passages, or arguments, are taken from sources including:
- Magazines
- Newspapers
- Scholarly publications
- Informal discourse
- Advertisements
These mirror legal reasoning both in their complexity and types of arguments. The questions will test your ability to evaluate, analyze and complete these arguments. These skills are essential to law and legal analysis as a law student.
You will need to identify parts of arguments, deciding what is most important and how any evidence presented in the future may affect it. You will need to be able to use arguments as a persuasion tool and to resolve contrasting positions.
You will not be expected to have prior knowledge of certain terminology or the topics in the presented passages. Your job will be to understand and evaluate the reasoning found in them.
LSAT Logical Reasoning Practice Questions
One of the best ways to test your knowledge is by taking a practice test. Evaluate your logical reasoning skills by trying your hand at the three practice questions below!
Answer each question and read through the answer explanation, whether you got the answer right or wrong. This will help you ensure you’ve got the topic mastered.
Whether you struggled with these questions or aced them on your first try, be sure to take the full practice test to get a better idea of how prepared you really are!
1. Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the argument below?
2. The answer to which of the following questions would be most useful in evaluating the strength of the argument below?
3. An underlying assumption of the argument below is that a movie based on a novel should ________.
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FAQs
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How many questions are on the LSAT Logical Reasoning test?
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There are between 24 and 26 multiple-choice questions on this test.
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How long is the LSAT Logical Reasoning test?
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The time limit for this test is 35 minutes.
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What is the passing score for the LSAT Logical Reasoning test?
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There is no set passing score for this test.
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