Treating LSAT Reading Comprehension Like Logical Reasoning

One piece of advice I often give students while they are doing #lsatprep and which seems very helpful is to treat Reading Comprehension passages like Logical Reasoning question stimuli. In that sense, thinking of the flow of logic from the premises to the conclusion and seeing how everything sort of leads to the main point is one way of conceptualizing the passages to make them less daunting. It may not seem intuitive at first, but is something I have noticed has been very helpful. The main point can be thought of as the conclusion and the reasons can be seen as premises.

If you can break down a question to where it seems like a longer version of an LR question this helps. It also allows you to get away with not knowing the full details of the passage. If you can tell what the author's stance is and the logical flow, you can have references for questions by knowing what part of the passage is serving what logical role in the larger argument. Then you can learn the terminology.

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