LSAT

I had the horrendous task this morning of not only waking myself up at 6:30 (on a Saturday!) but also to motivate myself into actually getting out of bed. I almost lost the fight. The LSAT practice test was this morning and it was almost as I had expected, with the Logic Games being harder and the Critical Reasoning being easier. I know everyone complains that they run out of time, and that was true on the Games but I breezed through the reading and was actually bored since I had over ten minutes left. Want some sample questions? Of course.

A short Reasoning:

No one can deny that "This story is true" is a very different utterance from "This story is long." A potential Bachelor of Philosophy does not, at the moment in which his degree is conferred, lose one attribute (potentiality) and gain a new one (actuality). Words like 'true' and 'potential' do not denote tangible, concrete qualities. Our minds cannot then learn them in the same way they learn words like 'rectangular' or 'blue'.

The author of the above passage is making which one of the following assumptions?

(a) Our minds can only learn tangible, concrete qualities.
(b) Attributes cannot be lost and gained.
(c) Abstract qualities are more difficult for our minds to grasp than are tangible qualities.
(d) Our minds are structured according to the types of words we learn.
(e) The process of learning words varies with the types of words learned.


Now a Logical Game. I wish these were as fun as real games.

A laboratory is testing six chimps for acquisition of communication skills. The six chimps are Alonzo, Bobo, Carlo, Dingo, Elmo, and Frank. A technician will work with one chimp at a time for a single time slot - defined as an entire morning or an entire afternoon. Each chimp will be tested exactly once. Time slots not filled by chimp testing are considered free. The tests will be conducted during a single week from Monday to Friday. Alonzo is tested on Thursday morning.

Bobo, Elmo, and Frank sleep late, and can be tested only in the afternoon.

No tested is conducted on Monday morning.

Elmo is not tested on Monday or Tuesday.

The time slot immediately preceding that in which Alonzo is tested is free.

Alonzo is tested after Dingo but before Frank.

Carlo is tested on Tuesday.


If at least one chimp is tested per day, and if Elmo is tested on the same day as another chimp, which one of the following must be true?

(a) Bobo is tested in the time slot immediately preceding the time slot in which Carlo is tested.
(b) Elmo is tested on the day after Dingo is tested.
(c) Carlo is tested in the time slot immediately preceding the time slot in which Dingo is tested.
(d) No other chimp is tested between Bobo and Dingo.
(e) Exactly one other chimp is tested between Carlo and Elmo.




God, I just bored myself silly writing all that. But that's what I had five 35-minute sections of this morning. The time did not go quickly. Here's a light silly picture.