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Can You Readily Handle Parallel Reasoning Questions? Or Are You Antisymmetric?


Posted by Richard Rome at 2010-09-01

Are parallel reasoning questions on the Logical Reasoning Section of the LSAT your nemesis? Keep Reading


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LSAT (logical reasoning), GRE, ISEE, PSAT, SAT-I (sentence completions)


Posted by Richard Rome at 2010-09-01

Read and scrupulously answer this commonsense reasoning sentence completion question, and the correct answer will earn you a leg up on the first tutorial of your McElroy Tutoring prep for the GRE, ISEE, PSAT, SAT or LSAT. Keep Reading


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LSAT: Critical Reasoning Acuity


Posted by Richard Rome at 2010-09-01

If the following claims are true, which one of the ensuing claims must also be true? Keep Reading


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I Have An Admission To Make


Posted by Richard Rome at 2010-09-01

I have always been a good test taker. About three decades ago, I discovered something about myself. I am also good at helping others score high on their admissions tests. Moreover, I enjoy doing so. Keep Reading


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Multiplication tables! (cue the soundtrack of Jaws)


Posted by Anne E. Clarke at 2010-08-08

Multiplication tables don't have to be that bad. They really don't. Here's why kids hate them, and the best way I've figured out to help them Keep Reading


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POINTLESS


Posted by Richard Rome at 2010-09-01

The use of stop watches, electronics and mechanical pencils are disallowed on all standardized admissions tests. Hence, you must use sharpened, number-two lead pencils. So... Keep Reading


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LSAT Analytical Reasoning; the importance of recognizing relationships


Posted by Richard Rome at 2010-09-01

The Analytical Reasoning Section on the LSAT is more commonly known as Logic Games. The following is a somewhat atypical Logic Game. If you should solve it, and scrupulously answer the ensuing questions correctly, I shall offer you a leg up on your first, McElroy Tutoring, LSAT tutorial. Here's wishing you good cause and effect. Keep Reading


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Critical Reading is thinking with the mind of a stranger.


Posted by Richard Rome at 2010-09-01

Critical Reading is a requisite skill on all standardized admissions tests. The following is a brief, one-minute, SAT-I critical-reading passage. If you can read it and answer the two ensuing questions correctly and scrupulously, you can earn a leg up on your first McElroy Tutoring, PSAT & SAT-I tutorial. Keep Reading


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Eschew Random Guessing on Multiple Choice!


Posted by Richard Rome at 2010-09-01

A question that is often posed about standardized admissions tests is : "Does it pay to guess? The following posits a definitive answer to this ubiquitous question. Keep Reading


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Euclidean Geometry: The 4th Dimension


Posted by Richard Rome at 2010-09-01

In his comprehensive text "The Elements," Euclid, the famous Greek mathematician, addressed problems like the following in the fourth dimension. If you can solve it scrupulously with the correct answer, you will have earned a leg up on your first McElroy Tutoring tutorial. Keep Reading


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