Ben’s Class

Lesson

What is Logical Reasoning?

Logical Reasoning

Set 1

Test 12, Section 4, Q10 — Household debt

Test 141, Section 4, Q21 — Amanda’s songs

Test 12, Section 1, Q26 — Natural methods

Set 2

Test 12, Section 4, Q12 — Fossil-fuel emissions

Test 12, Section 4, Q13 — Fugitive

Test 12, Section 4, Q21 — Global warming

Set 3

Test 141, Section 2, Q10 — Bertolt Brecht

Test 141, Section 2, Q24 — Concert hall

Test 141, Section 2, Q25 — Research paper

Highlights

Today’s class tackled three sets of Logical Reasoning questions. One level-5 Parallel Reasoning question stumped the majority of students. Ben reminded them that the order of the premises and conclusion is irrelevant to the underlying logic. He demonstrated that, even on the hardest questions, one answer is indisputably correct and the others definitively wrong. We also discussed how to distinguish between intermediate and main conclusions, how to predict a sufficient assumption by identifying the gap in the argument, and how to read and decode convoluted sentences.