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LSAT October 2008 - PrepTest 55 Better Scores. Better Schools. *LSAT is the registered trademark of the Law School Admission Council, Inc. Copyright © 2008 by Princeton Review, Inc. All Rights Reserved. * 1 1 1 -10- SECTION I Time—35 minutes 25 Questions 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 commonsense standards implausible, superfluous, or incompatible with the passage. After you have chosen the best answer, blacken the corresponding space on your answer sheet. 1. The editor of a magazine has pointed out several errors of spelling and grammar committed on a recent TV program. But she can hardly be trusted to pass judgment on such matters: similar errors have been found in her own magazine. The flawed reasoning in the argument above is most similar to that in which one of the following? (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) Your newspaper cannot be trusted with the prerogative to criticize the ethics of our company: you misspelled our president’s name. Your news program cannot be trusted to judge our hiring practices as unfair: you yourselves unfairly discriminate in hiring and promotion decisions. Your regulatory agency cannot condemn our product as unsafe: selling it is allowed under an existing-product clause. Your coach cannot be trusted to judge our swimming practices: he accepted a lucrative promotional deal from a soft-drink company. Your teen magazine should not run this feature on problems afflicting modern high schools: your revenue depends on not alienating the high school audience. 2. Soaking dried beans overnight before cooking them reduces cooking time. However, cooking without presoaking yields plumper beans. Therefore, when a bean dish’s quality is more important than the need to cook that dish quickly, beans should not be presoaked. Which one of the following is an assumption required by the argument? (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) Plumper beans enhance the quality of a dish. There are no dishes whose quality improves with faster cooking. A dish’s appearance is as important as its taste. None of the other ingredients in the dish need to be presoaked. The plumper the bean, the better it tastes. 3. Durth: Increasingly, businesses use direct mail advertising instead of paying for advertising space in newspapers, in magazines, or on billboards. This practice is annoying and also immoral. Most direct mail advertisements are thrown out without ever being read, and the paper on which they are printed is wasted. If anyone else wasted this much paper, it would be considered unconscionable. Which one of the following most accurately describes Durth’s method of reasoning? (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) presenting a specific counterexample to the contention that direct mail advertising is not immoral asserting that there would be very undesirable consequences if direct mail advertising became a more widespread practice than it is now claiming that direct mail advertising is immoral because one of its results would be deemed immoral in other contexts basing a conclusion on the claim that direct mail advertising is annoying to those who receive it asserting that other advertising methods do not have the negative effects of direct mail advertising GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. 1 1 4. Among the various models of Delta vacuum cleaners, one cannot accurately predict how effectively a particular model cleans simply by determining how powerful its motor is. The efficiency of