December 2010 LSAT Logic Games Thoughts

[Pheezer]

Anyone have any speculation on what types of games will be on the test this Saturday?

[Scooter14]

What do you mean? Isn't that pretty much impossible to speculate about? Or do you mean general trends from recent tests?

[lawdog]

I bet you can plan on seeing some grouping games w/ conditional reasoning. You could probably rely on seeing some linear and sequencing concepts as well.

[Pheezer]

I meant kind of what lawdog responded with...what's most likely to appear?

[LSAT Eliminator]

Linear and Grouping are the two things that appear the most, so study those two ideas as much as possible. Don't worry about outlier/exotic game types at this point because chances are you won't see one of those. 

[Dr. Troy]

I've noticed a lot of sequencing on recent exams....that is, closer to pure sequencing than just sequencing rules in linear games. Both June and October had a game that was more or less pure sequencing (no blocks, no specific variable placements...just variables ordered relative to one another). They also seem to be mixing grouping and linearity fairly frequently (game 3 from October is a great example).

Aside from the odd, pattern-ish mulch game in June, 7 of the last 8 games have been:

2 Grouping
2 Sequencing
2 Grouping/Linear Mix (game 1 from June and game 3 from October)
1 Basic Linear

Note: "Sequencing" falls under that Linear category, but I've noted it separately here to draw attention to the fact that there seems to be an emphasis on it of late.

[lawdog]

  Good points: it does seem like they're putting an increasing amount of effort into mixing distinct concepts like linear and grouping 

[Gerri]

Well,  it's over!   That was interesting.    The stained glass and police interview games killed me.   I hope that section was the experimental one;  otherwise,  I'm afraid I'm in trouble.    Thoughts?

[Pheezer]

Well,  it's over!   That was interesting.    The stained glass and police interview games killed me.   I hope that section was the experimental one;  otherwise,  I'm afraid I'm in trouble.    Thoughts?

Police interview...was that the 4th game?

Same feeling overall. LG = Death

[jay]

what was in the police game?  i dont remember it.

[Greg]

   Logic Games were Killer.  What do you guys think was the experimental section?

[greg]

     Rather which logic games section do you think was experimental?

[jay]

did anyone take a logic games section without the stained glass problem?

[truemoss]

I had RC experimental. Stained glass and Employees/Conferences games were real.

[peregrina]

did anyone take a logic games section without the stained glass problem?

Seems like the stained glass game had to be real, and it SUCKED!