LSAT Logic Games For Dummies 1st Edition by Mark Zegarelli (PDF)

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Improve your score on the Analytical Reasoning portion of the LSATIf you’re like most test-takers, you find the infamous Analytical Reasoning or “Logic Games” section of the LSAT to be the most elusive and troublesome. Now there’s help! LSAT Logic Games For Dummies takes the puzzlement out of the Analytical Reasoning section of the exam and shows you that it’s not so problematic after all!This easy-to-follow guide examines the types of logic puzzles presented on the LSAT and offers step-by-step instructions for how best to correctly identify and solve each problem within the allocated time.Coverage of all six question typesDetailed strategies for quickly and correctly recognizing and solving each question typeComplete with loads of practice problemsWhether you’re preparing to take the LSAT for the first time or looking to improve a previous score, LSAT Logic Games For Dummies is the logical study companion for anyone looking to score high on the LSAT!

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Editorial Reviews: From the Inside Flap Learn to:Create game boards to answer each questionDetermine answer profiles and avoid common mistakesGain confidence by solving problems on three practice testsBuild your speed and accuracyThe fast and easy way to improve your LSAT score!If you’re like most test-takers, you find the infamous Analytical Reasoning or “Logic Games” section of the LSAT to be the most elusive and troublesome. Now there’s help! This friendly guide takes the puzzlement out of Logic Games and gives you step-by-step instructions for how best to correctly identify and solve each type of problem within the allocated time. LSAT basics — get an overview of the LSAT logic games and discover how to organize information with a game boardApproaching the questions — face down the two main types of logic games — line games and sorting gamesBringing your A-game — learn to tackle open line games, open sorting games, repeated chips, multiple chips, orphan chips, and empty boxesImproving your performance — kick it up a notch and solve the toughest logic games and logic game questions, like working with 2-dimensional charts and focusing on the time element in logic gamesPractice, practice, practice — put your training to the test with three practice tests that are designed just like the real LSAT logic games, complete with answers and detailed solutionsOpen the book and find:Coverage of line games and sorting games in all their common variationsHow to read the story, search for clues, and set up your game boardAdvanced games and techniquesWhen to trust your instinct, when to guess, and when to bailThings to remember on test dayHow to avoid the two most basic logical errorsThree practice tests with solutions From the Back Cover Learn to:Create game boards to answer each questionDetermine answer profiles and avoid common mistakesGain confidence by solving problems on three practice testsBuild your speed and accuracyThe fast and easy way to improve your LSAT score!If you’re like most test-takers, you find the infamous Analytical Reasoning or “Logic Games” section of the LSAT to be the most elusive and troublesome. Now there’s help! This friendly guide takes the puzzlement out of Logic Games and gives you step-by-step instructions for how best to correctly identify and solve each type of problem within the allocated time. LSAT basics — get an overview of the LSAT logic games and discover how to organize information with a game boardApproaching the questions — face down the two main types of logic games — line games and sorting gamesBringing your A-game — learn to tackle open line games, open sorting games, repeated chips, multiple chips, orphan chips, and empty boxesImproving your performance — kick it up a notch and solve the toughest logic games and logic game questions, like working with 2-dimensional charts and focusing on the time element in logic gamesPractice, practice, practice — put your training to the test with three practice tests that are designed just like the real LSAT logic games, complete with answers and detailed solutionsOpen the book and find:Coverage of line games and sorting games in all their common variationsHow to read the story, search for clues, and set up your game boardAdvanced games and techniquesWhen to trust your instinct, when to guess, and when to bailThings to remember on test dayHow to avoid the two most basic logical errorsThree practice tests with solutions About the Author Mark Zegarelli is the author of Logic For Dummies, Calculus II For Dummies, Basic Math & Pre-Algebra For Dummies, and several logic puzzle books. Read more

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⭐This book is AWESOME. Coming from someone who did not understand logic games at all, this book easily taught me. The book goes very slow and takes you step by step each kind of logic game that the LSAT offers. It even has sample games with answers in the back of the book. I really actually grew to enjoy solving the games because of this book! Highly recommend!

⭐This is the only LSAT study book I’ve purchased, and I’d say it’s worth it to buy a used copy. I really just wanted to learn the diagramming strategies, and it gave fairly clear explanations of those. I also thought that the pace at which the question difficulty increased was good. I worked through the whole book in about 4 days (maybe 14-16 hours). I think I made a good selection, and don’t plan on buying another book (just previous tests for practice). However, there are several outright errors in the text as well as some things I thought were very poorly explained. Details follow:First, if-then statements are introduced in Ch. 5 (pages 85-6 in the 2010 edition), and the author makes several explicit references to formal logic. However, it isn’t until page 254 that the author notes in an aside that if-then statements on the LSAT are not actually treated the same way as they are in formal logic. (In formal logic, the truth-value of an if-then is automatically T whenever the antecedent is false. I still don’t really understand how if-thens are treated on the LSAT, because the book’s explanation leaves me confused as to how if-then is distinguished from iff. I’m not sure whether that’s entirely the fault of the book or if it’s because I’m so accustomed to formal logic.) This lack of clarity made some of the examples and the corresponding explanations of the answers extremely confusing; for example, on page 90, formal logic would dictate that all of the answers could be true, though apparently only one is.Second, I’m fairly certain that the “Rank and File” game on pages 208-210 is not set up properly. I worked through the second question (top of 210) multiple times on different days and arrived at the same answer each time, but that answer wasn’t one of the options. I then guilted my older brother (a math prodigy, pretty much, and also familiar with formal logic) into spending 10 minutes of his Christmas break working through the whole problem. All I told him was which question I was having trouble with, and he arrived at the same conclusion I did: the reasoning in the walk-through of the answer is simply flawed (specifically, “If Ursula were the fifth of these, then Violet also wouldn’t be ranked, which is a contradiction.” First, Ursula would be the fourth, not the fifth; second, neither of us could see anything that would make that a contradiction, even with the different if-then meaning). Again, we both identified that same line as the issue independently.Finally, while I didn’t happen to note the page (or even the chapter), there’s at least one question that has a typo in one or more of the answers (one of the “chips” is listed twice, and it wasn’t intended as a trick to disqualify the answer; it’s simply wrong).All that said, I found the book to be very helpful overall, and I’m glad to have the three full practice sections to work through in addition to all the examples. If you want to be really optimistic, you can pretend that the errors in the book are a source of fun, extra practice as you second-guess the explanations the author provides. If that rings too hollow for you, comfort yourself with the fact that most of it seems accurate, and there are always actual LSAT questions to rely on for practice instead of the ones the author came up with, so it’s still worth it to buy a used copy.

⭐The methods this book teaches are not the easiest to use in my opinion. The Manhattan prep books are the best. This book is all right but will leave you only partly prepared and when you use another book to supplement, the methods will be different and confuse you even more. So just start out with a good and exhaustive book from the start.

⭐The book itself is good. But I bought a new one and definitely received a used book… I don’t usually complain in reviews but I’m trying to study and someone already selected and crossed out answers in pen.

⭐The book gives very logical and clear explanations. The author presents the material in an easy-to-follow format. Be aware that the book has several typos, but these are fairly easy to see. There is one error worth mentioning:Page 155, Solution to Game 3(MISTAKE 1)First H is (correctly) attached to B; suddenly it’s (incorrectly) attached to P.(MISTAKE 2)On the continuation of explaining this game on page 157, the answer provided says that the possibilities are:FBPSHDGBFDPSHGBDFPSHGDBFPSHGThe problem clearly states that F always comes before B (“He goes to the bookstore sometime after the florist…”), so this is obviously incorrect. The correct answer is:FBPSHDGFBDPSHGFDBPSHGDFBPSHGOther than that, the book is actually very well-written. It breaks logic games down for you. Other books I’ve seen just give examples and explanations, but seem to not really give you a set of tools for solving the games. This book will give you a method to solve every problem.

⭐After reading “LSAT for Dummies” and trying a few official LSAT prep-tests, I knew that I needed an organized strategy for solving the Analytical Reasoning questions. This book was exactly what I had hoped! The author categorizes the games into two basic forms and then develops the strategies by adding more complex rules in subsequent chapters. A section at the end of the book is devoted to possible games that are less common. I highly recommend this book because it is incredibly helpful for a reasonable price!

⭐A joke

⭐I bought this book because I am awful at logic games and wanted a way to improve on them without paying for a class. I found that the book is inconsistent in some ways, such as how to symbolize facts about each game. Further, the author does not sufficiently explain how he arrives at his conclusions and makes the deductions that he does. Either my logical skills are really subpar or he does not explain thoroughly enough. I ended up buying the ExamKrackers Analytical Reasoning book and have been much more satisfied. I would highly recommend that book instead.

⭐well laid out. clear explanations. a must for logic game preparations!I actually had fun doing the games and learning new strategies. he makes the games fun and challenging.well worth it!

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