September 2009 LSAT Survey
Compiled by Brad McIlquham, Knewton’s Director of Curriculum. This past Saturday, September 25th, more than 45,000 aspiring law students across the world took the LSAT. Many of these test-takers spent more than two months preparing. Before they got down to their well-earned celebrating, we asked Knewton students to fill us …
Knewton Knews and Knotes
-Natalie is at the University of Wisconsin-Madison today. Give her a high-five in person, or follow on her Twitter. -Check out this new LSAT logic game, written by Alex K. -Faculty Manager Dave Ingber and his play Fantasy Football: The Musical? are featured on CNBC.com. -Knewton is posting all sorts …
Watch out for passage wording
Chris Black is a Content Developer at Knewton, helping students with their LSAT prep. He’s also into barbecue. Many answer choices on the LSAT are written to be tempting. Some answers will be blatantly wrong, but most will only be slightly wrong. That’s why you have to pay close attention …
Jumping to Conclusions
Emily Holleman is a Content Developer at Knewton, helping students with their LSAT preparation. As the name suggests, the Logical Reasoning section of the LSAT tests your ability to digest and understand different forms of reasoning. For this very reason, the majority of LR prompts are presented as arguments. The …
Thoughts on "Unless Statements" from Alex K.
A conversation with a good friend this morning got me thinking about LSAT prep when she announced: “I will move out of my apartment, unless my rent is lowered.” As any good friend would, I translated her announcement: P unless Q. Her intended meaning, I thought, probably implied two conditions: …
Positively Contra
It is practically impossible to prep for the LSAT without understanding conditionals, which are statements in the form “If X, then Y.” Throughout the test, you will be asked to interpret these statements and draw valid conclusions based on them. Consider this statement: If something is a bird, then it …
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