Into to Logical Reasoning

Question 1

The stimulus is the only source of information from which basic deductions can be made.

Answer 1

Implication Family

Question 2

Facts must be stated outright or must be true based on what’s known from the stimulus

Answer 2

Implication Family

Question 3

Most will begin with some version of: If the above information is true.

Answer 3

Implication Family

Question 4

Properly Inferred means

Answer 4

Must Be True

Question 5

For this type of question you should:

Choose the answer choice that aligns with the level of certainty in the prompt!!

Answer 5

Implication Family

Question 6

Accept everything stated directly in the stimulus as true

Answer 6

Implication Family

Question 7

Answer choices are taken as true and the correct answer if true will affect the stimulus.

Answer 7

Operation Family

Question 8

Example: The reasoning in the advertisement would be most strengthened if which of the following were true?

Answer 8

Operation Family

Question 9

Example: Which one of the following can be properly inferred from the technician’s statements?

Answer 9

Implication Family

Question 10

Prompt asks you to pick an answer choice that accurately describes something about it or mirrors it.

Answer 10

Characterization Family

Question 11

Example: The reasoning in the argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that the argument?

Answer 11

Characterization Family (Flaw Question)

Question 12

The principles above are, if valid, most help to justify the reasoning in which one of the following?

Answer 12

Implication Family

Question 13

Conclude something from the information in the stimulus

Answer 13

Implication Family

Question 14

Find an answer choice that would do something to the information in the stimulus

Answer 14

Operation Family

Question 15

Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain the surprising findings?

Answer 15

Operation Family

Question 16

the conclusion drawn above follows logically if which one of the following is assumed?

Answer 16

Operation Family

Question 17

Describe an aspect of the information in the stimulus

Answer 17

Characterization Family

Question 18

The pattern of reasoning in which one of the following arguments most clearly parallels that in the argument above?

Answer 18

Characterization Family

Question 19

The reasoning in the argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that the argument?

Answer 19

Characterization Family