Example LSAT Questions

Will you please provide me the sample questions of Law School Admission Test (LSAT) or provide me the last year question papers of this exam as I am preparing for this exam and I have no idea about the pattern and the questions asked in Law School Admission Test (LSAT)?

Can you list me some Logical Reasoning sample Questions for preparation of Law School Admission Test (LSAT) as I will be giving the exam this time?

[Neelu Bhasin]

Some Logical Reasoning sample Questions for preparation of Law School Admission Test (LSAT) are as follows:


Directions:

The questions in this section are based on the reasoning contained in brief statements or passages. For some questions, more than one of the choices could conceivably answer the question. However, you are to choose the best answer; that is, the response that most accurately and completely answers the question. You should not make assumptions that are by common sense standards implausible, superfluous, or incompatible with the passage. After you have chosen the best answer, blacken the corresponding space on your answer sheet.

Question 1
Laird: Pure research provides us with new technologies that contribute to saving lives. Even more worthwhile than this, however, is its role in expanding our knowledge and providing new, unexplored ideas.

Kim: Your priorities are mistaken. Saving lives is what counts most of all. Without pure research, medicine would not be as advanced as it is.

Laird and Kim disagree on whether pure research

derives its significance in part from its providing new technologies
expands the boundaries of our knowledge of medicine
should have the saving of human lives as an important goal
has its most valuable achievements in medical applications
has any value apart from its role in providing new technologies to save lives



Question 2
Executive: We recently ran a set of advertisements in the print version of a travel magazine and on that magazine’s website. We were unable to get any direct information about consumer response to the print ads. However, we found that consumer response to the ads on the website was much more limited than is typical for website ads. We concluded that consumer response to the print ads was probably below par as well.

The executive’s reasoning does which one of the following?
bases a prediction of the intensity of a phenomenon on information about the intensity of that phenomenon’s cause uses information about the typical frequency of events of a general kind to draw a conclusion about the probability of a particular event of that kind infers a statistical generalization from claims about a large number of specific instances uses a case in which direct evidence is available to draw a conclusion about an analogous case in which direct evidence is unavailable bases a prediction about future events on facts about recent comparable events



Question 3
During the construction of the Quebec Bridge in 1907, the bridge’s designer, Theodore Cooper, received word that the suspended span being built out from the bridge’s cantilever was deflecting downward by a fraction of an inch (2.54 centimeters). Before he could telegraph to freeze the project, the whole cantilever arm broke off and plunged, along with seven dozen workers, into the St. Lawrence River. It was the worst bridge construction disaster in history. As a direct result of the inquiry that followed, the engineering “rules of thumb” by which thousands of bridges had been built around the world went down with the Quebec Bridge. Twentieth-century bridge engineers would thereafter depend on far more rigorous applications of mathematical analysis.

Which one of the following statements can be properly inferred from the passage?

Bridges built before about 1907 were built without thorough mathematical analysis and, therefore, were unsafe for the public to use.
Cooper’s absence from the Quebec Bridge construction site resulted in the breaking off of the cantilever.
Nineteenth-century bridge engineers relied on their rules of thumb because analytical methods were inadequate to solve their design problems.
Only a more rigorous application of mathematical analysis to the design of the Quebec Bridge could have prevented its collapse.
Prior to 1907 the mathematical analysis incorporated in engineering rules of thumb was insufficient to completely assure the safety of bridges under construction.



Question 4
The supernova event of 1987 is interesting in that there is still no evidence of the neutron star that current theory says should have remained after a supernova of that size. This is in spite of the fact that many of the most sensitive instruments ever developed have searched for the tell-tale pulse of radiation that neutron stars emit. Thus, current theory is wrong in claiming that supernovas of a certain size always produce neutron stars.

Which one of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument?

Most supernova remnants that astronomers have detected have a neutron star nearby.
Sensitive astronomical instruments have detected neutron stars much farther away than the location of the 1987 supernova.
The supernova of 1987 was the first that scientists were able to observe in progress.
Several important features of the 1987 supernova are correctly predicted by the current theory.
Some neutron stars are known to have come into existence by a cause other than a supernova explosion.



Question 5
Political scientist: As a political system, democracy does not promote political freedom. There are historical examples of democracies that ultimately resulted in some of the most oppressive societies. Likewise, there have been enlightened despotisms and oligarchies that have provided a remarkable level of political freedom to their subjects.

The reasoning in the political scientist’s argument is flawed because it confuses the conditions necessary for political freedom with the conditions sufficient to bring it about fails to consider that a substantial increase in the level of political freedom might cause a society to become more democratic appeals to historical examples that are irrelevant to the causal claim being made overlooks the possibility that democracy promotes political freedom without being necessary or sufficient by itself to produce it bases its historical case on a personal point of view



Question 6
Journalist: To reconcile the need for profits sufficient to support new drug research with the moral imperative to provide medicines to those who most need them but cannot afford them, some pharmaceutical companies feel justified in selling a drug in rich nations at one price and in poor nations at a much lower price. But this practice is unjustified. A nation with a low average income may still have a substantial middle class better able to pay for new drugs than are many of the poorer citizens of an overall wealthier nation.

Which one of the following principles, if valid, most helps to justify the journalist’s reasoning?

People who are ill deserve more consideration than do healthy people, regardless of their relative socioeconomic positions.
Wealthy institutions have an obligation to expend at least some of their resources to assist those incapable of assisting themselves.
Whether one deserves special consideration depends on one’s needs rather than on characteristics of the society to which one belongs.
The people in wealthy nations should not have better access to health care than do the people in poorer nations.
Unequal access to health care is more unfair than an unequal distribution of wealth.



Question 7
Several critics have claimed that any contemporary poet who writes formal poetry—poetry that is rhymed and metered—is performing a politically conservative act. This is plainly false. Consider Molly Peacock and Marilyn Hacker, two contemporary poets whose poetry is almost exclusively formal and yet who are themselves politically progressive feminists.

The conclusion drawn above follows logically if which one of the following is assumed?

No one who is a feminist is also politically conservative.
No poet who writes unrhymed or unmetered poetry is politically conservative.
No one who is politically progressive is capable of performing a politically conservative act.
Anyone who sometimes writes poetry that is not politically conservative never writes poetry that is politically conservative.
The content of a poet’s work, not the work’s form, is the most decisive factor in determining what political consequences, if any, the work will have.



Question 8
About two million years ago, lava dammed up a river in western Asia and caused a small lake to form. The lake existed for about half a million years. Bones of an early human ancestor were recently found in the ancient lake-bottom sediments that lie on top of the layer of lava. Therefore, ancestors of modern humans lived in western Asia between two million and one-and-a-half million years ago.

Which one of the following is an assumption required by the argument?

There were no other lakes in the immediate area before the lava dammed up the river.
The lake contained fish that the human ancestors could have used for food.
The lava that lay under the lake-bottom sediments did not contain any human fossil remains.
The lake was deep enough that a person could drown in it.
The bones were already in the sediments by the time the lake dried up.



Question 9
In jurisdictions where use of headlights is optional when visibility is good, drivers who use headlights at all times are less likely to be involved in a collision than are drivers who use headlights only when visibility is poor. Yet Highway Safety Department records show that making use of headlights mandatory at all times does nothing to reduce the overall number of collisions.

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the apparent discrepancy in the information above?

In jurisdictions where use of headlights is optional when visibility is good, one driver in four uses headlights for daytime driving in good weather.
A law making use of headlights mandatory at all times is not especially difficult to enforce.
Only very careful drivers use headlights when their use is not legally required.
There are some jurisdictions in which it is illegal to use headlights when visibility is good.
The jurisdictions where use of headlights is mandatory at all times are those where daytime visibility is frequently poor.


Question 10
The Venetian Renaissance painter Vittore Carpaccio used sumptuous reds in most of his paintings. Since the recently discovered Venetian Renaissance painting Erato Declaiming contains notable sumptuous reds, it is probably by Carpaccio.

Which one of the following contains a pattern of flawed reasoning most similar to that in the argument above?

Most Renaissance painters worked in a single medium, either tempera or oil. Since the Renaissance painting Calypso's Bower is in oil, its painter probably always used oil.
In Italian Renaissance painting, the single most common subject was the Virgin and Child, so the single most common subject in Western art probably is also the Virgin and Child.
Works of art in the Renaissance were mostly commissioned by patrons, so the Renaissance work The Dances of Terpsichore was probably commissioned by a patron.
The anonymous painting St. Sebastian is probably an early Florentine painting since it is in tempera, and most early Florentine paintings were in tempera.
Since late-Renaissance paintings were mostly in oil, the Venetian late-Renaissance painter Arnoldi, whose works are now lost, probably painted in oil.