How to Attack Logic Games
Logic Games are an important component of our Blueprint curriculum at all of our California LSAT locations. While the section only makes up one-fourth of the scored sections on the LSAT, we find that our LSAT students in California end up initially stressing about logic games more than any other section because it is so seemingly foreign.
Never fear. In the next chunk of paragraphs, we’ll briefly go over our logic games techniques so you can see what we’re all about in our California LSAT classes.
Types of Games
The first step when staring at a logic game is to console yourself that the section will all be over in just 35 short minutes. But the next step is to figure out what type of game it is. At Blueprint, we figure there are four distinct types of games (ordering, grouping, combo, and neither) and we teach our California LSAT students the language to look for to determine what type of game each game is. If the introduction asks you to sequence the order in which cookies were eaten, then, as you’ll learn in your California LSAT class, it’s an ordering game. If the introduction asks you to figure out the colors of various dinosaurs (don’t ask), then you’re looking at a grouping game.
Once our California LSAT students figure out the type, we figure they’re ready to tackle the next part.
The Rules
After our California LSAT students have perused the introduction and found it to their liking (or not), they must move onto the rules. These are what dictate the parameters of the game. If Bob can’t go to the movie before Susie, and Susie must go at the same time as Jill, then those stipulations start to define the boundaries of the game. At Blueprint, we teach our California LSAT students how to effectively diagram these rules using a consistent methodology.
It’s important to note that the rules are what make or break the majority of our California LSAT students. If a student misunderstands or miswrites a rule, then that will cause a veritable apocalypse of wrong choices on his answer sheet. But, slightly more nuanced, if a student fails to make all of the proper deductions from the rules, then that can also lead to serious problems in the next section.
The Questions
By the time our California LSAT students get to the questions, their work should mostly be done. If our students have made every deduction, and have written all of the rules correctly, the questions themselves shouldn’t take too much time. As with the other sections on the LSAT, we teach our California students that logic games are won and lost long before you are staring at answer choices.
So if you plan to take one of our California LSAT classes, that is a very basic look at how we attack logic games. If you do the necessary preparation, this seemingly foreign section of logic games could end up being one of your main strengths come the LSAT.
