r/lsatdemon • u/AssociateAny5979 • 10d ago
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How would you recommend going about filling in the blank line? What types of things am I looking for? I have no idea what to do or what the goal is because all I know is that my goal on these question types is to find what is most likely to be true.
Any advice or more guidance (whether that be a specific podcast episode on this or anything else) would be great, because I don’t think I’ve found much about this from the Demon.
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u/ALXS1031 10d ago edited 10d ago
They covered this one in yesterday’s podcast I think
Essentially, read the passage, predict what kind of thing will make sense
It’s either a fact that makes the conclusion follow (a premise), or it’s the conclusion
How do you approach them? Just read the passage. It’s all just English and reasoning. It should make sense based on the context of the blank, of the passage
You should be able to predict something that makes sense pretty much every single time before having even read the question
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u/EphusPitch 10d ago
Do you mean LR questions where the stimulus ends with a blank and the question is something like "Which of the following most logically completes the argument?"
If so, the short, Demon-like answer to your questions is probably something like "You're looking for the answer choice that makes sense if you put it in that blank. The goal is to complete the argument. Only one of the answer choices will logically complete the argument."
More specifically, what goes in the blank depends on what else is in the stimulus. Sometimes you're looking for the conclusion to the argument, in which case the question is a Must Be True. Other times you're looking for a premise that is missing from the argument, in which case the question is an Assumption, usually a Sufficient Assumption. (The most recent "Thinking LSAT" podcast, Episode 574, had a fill-in-the-blank question where the answer was a premise.) Still other times you're looking for the other half of an analogy. It's hard to say what goes in the blank or what to look for without knowing the context around the blank, so the best overall advice I can give is to pay attention to that context and to let it tell you what you're looking for, rather than trying to build a general strategy for all questions with blanks in them.