From time to time, I help people prepare to take the LSAT. There are a lot of things a person can do to improve their LSAT score, but one of the most straightforward is mastery of the ability to diagram and evaluate conditional statements.
Diagrams of conditional statements (also dubbed “formal logic” statements by some) are truly powerful tools that can be used to rake in points on the Games and Logical Reasoning sections of the LSAT. Diagrams help students of any level clearly grasp the valid conclusions that can be drawn from premises. Happily, the ability to create diagrams can be reduced to the near-mechanical with sufficient practice using, first, simple examples and then more complex prose from real LSAT questions.
While it’s easy to get your hands on real LSAT questions these days, folks sometimes have trouble finding a concise set of straightforward examples of the types of conditional statements that most commonly appear on the test. If you’re one such person, please feel free to make use of a simple review page that I recently created (click here to access via Google Docs).
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