LR Question 1 Explanation
QUESTION TEXT: Everyone sitting in the waiting room of the school’s…
QUESTION TYPE: Must be True
FACTS:
- A few people are in the waiting room.
- Everyone in the waiting room signed up for a beginner’s clinic.
- Therefore they aren’t experts.
ANALYSIS: This is pretty simple. John, Mary and Theresa aren’t expert tennis players.
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- This goes too far. They might have played tennis. They just aren’t experts.
- They might have registered for other clinics as well. The stimulus didn’t say anything about this.
- The stimulus says everyone in the waiting room registered. But it didn’t say that only the people in the waiting room registered.
- The stimulus didn’t say there were no other people in the waiting room.
- CORRECT. This has to be true, since John and Theresa registered for a beginner’s clinic.
Recap: The question begins with “Everyone sitting in the waiting room of the school’s”. It is a Must be True question. Learn how to master LSAT MBT questions on the LSAT Logical Reasoning question types page.
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Hey Graeme,
The passage starts by saying “Everyone in the waiting room at 9am just registered for the tennis clinic”. The answer B goes on to mirror this (in my view). Is this wrong because we must answer what is also true rather than what is already true?
Best regards,
Amaresh
Hi Amaresh,
That’s not why B is wrong. B says that everyone sitting there registered ONLY for a beginners tennis clinic. All we know is that they had registered for the tennis clinic, but there’s no textual support that tennis is the only clinic they registered for. So B assumes something that the stimulus does not say. Hope that helps!