Law School Admission Test India (LSAT)

The Law School Admission Test (LSAT) exam conducting authority The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) will release the syllabus of the examination on their official website. The examination syllabus includes analytical reasoning, logical reasoning, and reading comprehension. The type of questions asked in the question paper is multiple choice questions. The detailed information on the LSAT syllabus is described below.

Analytical reasoning

• In this section, it tests deductive reasoning skills by requiring candidates to check what could or must be the case about a certain scenario based on some rules and conditions.

Topics

1. Ordering relationships
2. Grouping relationships
3. Seating arrangements
4. Inferences from given statements
5. Completing the missing piece of information from given statements

Skill test

1. Problem-solving
2. Identifying logically equivalent formulations through if and then statements
3. Drawing logical conclusions
4. Identifying two logically equivalent statements

Logical reasoning

• In this section, these questions evaluate the ability of candidates to understand, analyze, criticize, and complete a variety of arguments contained in short passages.

Topics

1. Analyse and evaluate arguments
2. Identifying cause and effect relationships
3. Identifying flaws in arguments
4. Drawing inferences conclusions
5. Provisioning explanation of given situations

Skills test

1. Critical and analytical thinking
2. Understanding and critiquing the logic given in the arguments
3. Understanding of concepts such as arguments, assumptions, premise, and conclusion

Reading comprehension

In this section, these questions measure their ability to read, understand, and insight examples of lengthy and complex materials similar to those commonly encountered in law colleges.

Topics

1. Identifying the primary idea of the passage
2. Identifying the information explicitly given in the passage
3. Meaning and purpose of words used in the passage
4. Identifying the author’s tone and attitude through the passage
5. Applying the given information to new situations.

Skills test

Identifying the primary idea of the passage

1. Identifying the information explicitly given in the passage
2. Meaning and purpose of words used in the passage
3. Identifying the author’s tone and attitude through the passage
4. Applying the given information to new situations.