Some Right Answers Aren't Worth It

This week's LSAT myth, never choose a strong answer.

Strongly worded

answers are always wrong.

Yeah, what do people mean?

What do people mean when they say that? You're talking about LR?

People have literally brought that up as advice that they've gotten all over the test.

Never, ever, ever choose a strongly worded answer, which I think is just some of the worst and silliest advice I've ever heard.

Now, I have some empathy for where it comes from.

I think there's plenty of different questions that they might be asking you something of what's most strongly supported or implied or an inference you can make from the text.

And In general, weaker wording, things like can, might, may, sometimes, it's easier to support than stronger wording like must, should, never, most, always.

However, even for those questions, right answer could very much be strongly worded if we have evidence from the text that, you know, we can go back to and point to.

So really bad advice.

Never use that as a heuristic all over the test.

There's also plenty of questions that are literally asking you for a strong answer, like sufficient assumption.

We're looking for the thing that has, I mean, a high level of logical force to be able to link the premise to the conclusion.

And so people are getting rid of answer choices that are right, left and right on those sufficient assumption questions because they're like, well, that one seemed too strong.

I was scared of it.

I'm like, but it's... good if it's strong the question some tells you to assume the answer choice to be true and see if it absolutely guarantees the conclusion and especially if the conclusion is strongly worded we got to be able to fill that gap entirely that's my rundown anybody have any thoughts on this did you guys ever get that advice when you were studying or you hear about people talking

about that all the time yeah even 10 years ago all the time

and did it work for you did you follow it did

you try it You're like, no, I was better than that always.

I was like, what is the flaw of that reasoning? Right.

I mean, it's insane.

I mean, I think it's just like, you need to understand what these questions are asking you.

And if you do, it's like, well, there's definitely a way that strong language could fulfill, you know, could answer this question correctly.