LSAT 29, Logical Reasoning II, Q3, LSATHacks

LR Question 3 Explanation, by LSATHacks

QUESTION TEXT: Physical education should teach people to pursue…

QUESTION TYPE: Most Strongly Supported

FACTS: 

1. Physical education should teach people to pursue healthy, active lifestyles.
2. But the focus on competitive sports in schools causes non-competitive children to turn away from sport.
3. These children then learn to think of themselves as unathletic and do not exercise enough to stay healthy. 

ANALYSIS: It sounds like physical education sometimes causes people to become unathletic. This defeats the aim of physical education. 

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1. CORRECT. This will help the non-competitive children learn to become active. That will help physical education fulfill its role. 
2. We don’t know if most students turn away from sports. We only know that some do. 
3. Who knows? We’re only told that non-competitive children don’t exercise regularly. 
4. Hard to say. We know that the mental aspect is important but we don’t know if it is as important as the physical aspect.
5. Maybe? The whole stimulus is about physical education and how competition turns some children off sport. This seems off topic. 

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