Mark Zegarelli

LSAT Logic Games For Dummies

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Produktbeschreibung

Learn to: * Create game boards to answer each question * Determine answer profiles and avoid common mistakes * Gain confidence by solving problems on three practice tests * Build your speed and accuracy The 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 board * Approaching the questions -- face down the two main types of logic games -- line games and sorting games * Bringing your A-game -- learn to tackle open line games, open sorting games, repeated chips, multiple chips, orphan chips, and empty boxes * Improving 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 games * Practice, 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 solutions Open the book and find: * Coverage of line games and sorting games in all their common variations * How to read the story, search for clues, and set up your game board * Advanced games and techniques * When to trust your instinct, when to guess, and when to bail * Things to remember on test day * How to avoid the two most basic logical errors * Three practice tests with solutions

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 275mm x 209mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780470525142
• ISBN-10: 0470525142
• Artikelnr.: 27135657

Autorenporträt

Mark Zegarelli is the author of Logic For Dummies, Calculus II For Dummies, Basic Math & Pre-Algebra For Dummies, and several logic puzzle books.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
Part I: Opening Moves 7
Chapter 1: Logic Games: Fun or Frightening? 9
Chapter 2: Game On: A First Look at Logic Games 17
Part II: Let the Games Begin 31
Chapter 3: Ready to Order: Line Games 33
Chapter 4: Walking the Line: Line Game Practice 63
Chapter 5: Sorted Affairs: Sorting Games 81
Chapter 6: Divide and Conquer: Sorting Game Practice 107
Part III: Moving Forward 123
Chapter 7: One Way or Another: Using Split Charts 125
Chapter 8: Keeping Your Options Open: Open Line Games 137
Chapter 9: No Limits: Open Sorting Games 159
Part IV: Black-Belt Training 179
Chapter 10: Repeated Chips and Empty Boxes 181
Chapter 11: Extra! Extra! Multiple Chips and Orphan Chips 201
Chapter 12: Another Dimension: 2-D Logic Games 223
Chapter 13: Advanced Considerations 243
Chapter 14: Strategic Maneuvers: Merging Speed and Accuracy 265
Part V: Practice Tests 275
Chapter 15: Testing Your Logic: Practice Test 1 277
Chapter 16: Thinking Positive: Practice Test 2 287
Chapter 17: All the More Reason: Practice Test 3 297
Chapter 18: Solutions to the Practice Tests 307
Part VI: The Part of Tens 329
Chapter 19: Ten Frequently Asked Questions about Logic Games 331
Chapter 20: Ten Ways to Become a Logic Games Ninja 335
Index 339