Logical Reasoning Basics
This part of an argument expresses the author’s main point.
A. Premise
B. Conclusion
C. Evidence
D. Assumption
Answer: B.
What is the conclusion?
Logic Games mainly test these skills.
A. Memorization
B. Diagramming and rules
C. Vocabulary
D. Grammar
Answer:
What is diagramming and rules?
This is the single most important thing to identify in a passage.
A. Vocabulary
B. Minor details
C. Main idea
D. Length
Answer:
What is the main idea?
Something an argument takes for granted without proving it.
A. Premise
B. Assumption
C. Flaw
D. Conclusion
Answer: What is an assumption?
A wrong answer that sounds right but isn’t supported.
A. Core Answer
B. Trap Answer
C. Valid Answer
D. Counterexample
Answer: What is a trap answer?
This type of statement provides support for a conclusion.
A. Premise
B. Conclusion
C. Flaw
D. Tone
Answer: A. What is a premise?
If a rule says “A must come before B,” it means this cannot happen.
A. A comes first
B. A equals B
C. A comes after B
D. B comes after A
Answer: What is A comes after B?
A passage’s tone refers to this aspect.
A. Topic
B. Author’s attitude
C. Structure
D. Font size
Answer: What is the author’s attitude?
In MSS (Most Strongly Supported), the right answer does this.
A. Is extreme
B. Follows logically
C. Restates the passage
D. Adds new info
Answer: What is follows logically?
Answers with words like “always” or “never” are usually this.
A. Great choices
B. Wrong
C. Right
D. Neutral
Answer: What is wrong?
Words like “therefore” or “thus” usually signal this part of an argument.
A. Premise
B. Background info
C. Conclusion
D. Counterargument
C. What is the conclusion?
This is the first thing you should do when starting a logic game.
A. Read answers
B. Draw the base diagram
C. Skip rules
D. Look for flaws
Answer:
What is draw the base diagram?
A question asking “According to the passage…” is this kind.
A. Inference
B. Tone
C. Detail
D. Flaw
Answer: What is a detail question?
An example that disproves a general statement.
A. Analogy
B. Counterexample
C. Summary
D. Conclusion
Answer: What is a counterexample?
In Strengthen questions, answers about unrelated issues do this.
A. Strengthen
B. Fail to strengthen
C. Prove the conclusion
D. Provide the assumption
Answer: What is fail to strengthen?
In weaken questions, you look for new information that does this to the argument.
A. Supports it
B. Undermines it
C. Restates it
D. Ignores it
Answer: B.What is undermines it?
A rule saying two variables cannot be together is known as this.
A. Either/Or rule
B. Linear rule
C. Not-both rule
D. Conditional rule
Answer:
What is a not-both rule?
Words like “however” and “yet” signal this shift.
A. Summary
B. Agreement
C. Contrast
D. Definition
Answer: What is contrast?
An argument is valid when this is true.
A. Premises are true
B. Conclusion follows logically
C. Topic is simple
D. Author is credible
Answer:
What is conclusion follows logically?
Answers that introduce totally new topics are often this.
A. Correct
B. Best inferred
C. Wrong
D. Necessary
Answer: What is wrong?
This type of mistake occurs when an argument’s reasoning is flawed.
A. Premise
B. Logical fallacy
C. Correlation
D. Necessary condition
Answer:
What is a logical fallacy?
This is the most common type of game, where items are placed in a sequence.
A. Grouping
B. Neither
C. Hybrid
D. Linear
Answer: What is linear?
Wrong RC answers are usually wrong because they are this.
A. Too short
B. Unsupported or extreme
C. Too similar
D. Too long
Answer:
What is unsupported or extreme?
This concept explains why two things happening together doesn’t prove one caused the other.
A. Linear reasoning
B. Flawless logic
C. Correlation vs. causation
D. Strengthening
Answer: What is correlation vs. causation?
In inference questions, the right answer is this — but not extreme.
A. Strongly supported
B. Wildly new
C. Opinion-based
D. Always true
Answer: What is strongly supported?